skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I think there should be a browser extension that rewrites links for various new sites from the bloated pages to these simple pages.

Second, I think it is ironic that one of the major justifications for javascript on web pages is that itcan be used to optimize the page. For example, javascript can be used to reduce the need for a full page reload, reduce roundtrips when interacting with the page, only update the parts of the page that actually change, etc. [Edit: I think a good example of this is Hacker News itself, where upvotes initiate a full page reload if javascript is disabled, but simple send an asynchronous request and update the page otherwise.] This justification is trading off additional complexity and violation of the simple application model provided by html and the related concept of Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State (HATEOAS) where clients are dumb and simple allow users to follow links and submit forms in a standardized way, for micro optimizations. However, these micro-optimizations are basically nullified by the hundreds of kilobytes of tracking software and visual gizmos that content providers are stuffing in their pages, and the ever increasing internet speeds and bandwidth. Make web pages dumb (and fast) again!
One thing I haven’t seen much discussion of is the value of the data that fleets of these cars are going to throw off.

It’s possible that the value of this data could subsidise ride costs. They basically become a ubiquitous street level surveillance system and for this to be effective you want a lot of them driving around.

Some examples:

Detailed local weather mapping.

Potential for near real time street view.

Very detailed sensing of traffic flows and trends, can also estimate pedestrian traffic.

Could use the sensors to track non self driving cars by alpnr. Locate stolen or wanted vehicles.

Automated reporting of traffic infringements, dangerous driving or accidents.

Can estimate patronage of almost any business, via rides to destination, counting carparks, local foot traffic etc.

Can sell data on infrastructure conditions (pothole location, missing signs, etc) to cities.

Lots of other detailed profiling on riders, consumers, businesses. For example can automatically distinguish between blue collar bars and cocktail lounges.

Almost certainly lots lots more I couldn’t imagine. It’s the data!
Correct. The fee will vary within a network based on all sorts of things. There are low-rate carve outs for low-margin products (eg gasoline), discounts for "card-in-hand" transactions, and higher fees for premium cards.

https://www.helcim.com/us/visa-interchange-rates/

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents...
How is it similar? I mean, we aren't even talking apples and oranges here. We are talking apples and toilet paper. One is public infrastructure run by a pseudo independent non-profit, the other a page on a private website. It's like the difference being banned from a city vs being banned from shitposting on the bulletin board in a Starbucks. Which, when we talk about free speech on FB and Twitter is really what we are talking about. Is there a constitutional right to shitposting and trolling on someone else's website? Like, really? Smh.
If you put down your loss due to clerical errors, theft, etc. of handling cash at around 1%, increasing the amount of cash will also increase your loss. Credit cards and other electronic payment methods, won't have that issue.
I seriously doubt the retailer pays different fees depending on th card. That sounds bizarre.
An interesting example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsgjhecHus
Perhaps it is more "speaking" to give what that distance means in terms of area. A radius of 50 mi. would mean an area of approximately 7854 square mi. Doesn't that sound like a lot now?
You can always console yourself with the knowledge that you* can rent a car and buy a beer in any state and he can't.

*I'm assuming you're at least 26.
So it's more like elm then?
I don't care about saving $1k or $2k when it comes to a device I use that much.

I said nothing about price. You don’t want to know the eye-watering numbers attached to that iMac I sold. And it’s great that you and I can get such life out of our machines. But in the context of the topic at hand, its not great that you and I sit on five year old machines because Apple makes nothing so compelling so as to make me say, “Shut up and take my money.” Because I own shares of AAPL, too.
Yeah, fair point. I do agree there is a fundamental issue there.

But the second class shares do have board voting rights etc, so they do have some degree of control. And even Zuckurberg can't ignore his board completely.

Travis Kalanick had a 2-class share system working for him too.
Free markets can lead to shortages, if by shortage you mean quantity of some good or service available at a particular price that is less than what is socially (normatively) desirable.

Japan implements complex price controls on healthcare and many would argue they provide much better healthcare. But many would argue otherwise. Between those viewpoints lie the reasons why a price control strategy might not work well in the U.S.
Isn't that largely because of the Section 179 tax credit?
You may notice that nearly half their funding was gained in the last year, well after the existence of their current product.
Have you been outside North America recently??
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I know about that one where the source was taken down. My favorite is Skype however where they used to use SYSENTER directly and read your BIOS using NTVDM: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

Not a bug in Skype, but still interesting: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2007/11/21/64566...
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How "easy" is it to grow poisonous mushrooms in one's coffee waste? What sort of care do enthusiasts have to take?
Guess your H.S. optimized for student fitness?
Your definition of "extremely densely developed" is very different than mine.
Lots of confusion over this device, which can be chalked up to all the FUD spread around about it. Nearly half the 2 billion they got was in the last year alone. Investors like Google have been there since day one and not left.
It's not subsidized by people who make interest payments?
Please help me understand by substantiating the statement. Thanks.
What if the Internet stopped working?
What really blocks me is... Windows? Ubuntu?... I’d pay 300$ per year for a decent linux (with iMovie and Keynote), maybe even more at the beginning. A good Linux would really double the value of those XPS, I wonder why Dell doesn’t do it. I even wonder whether Apple isn’t trying to hint to the market that it’s looking for a replacement. But no-one’s getting the hint.
Complimentary. Mobility at destination. You can't easily walk to much of Walnut Creek from Bart. Nor Berkeley's hills. Take a ride to the station and everyone wins
> Writers have workshops and critiquing circles. They have editors. Review, review, review. Draft, draft, draft.

Sure, that is probably how "professional" writers get good. But we've had good writers before there were all these tools , didn't we? I find it hard to imagine e.g. Bukowski attending a writing workshop.

Some people just have the talent. Others are mediocre and get better with effort.
I will have to disagree with the author’s characterization of these floor plans as irrational.

As pointed out by commentator from the r/ML subreddit, the plans resemble biological arteries — which intuitively make sense given that the objective was to minimize distance to nearest fire exit. The analog is that arteries try to maximize surface area to volume ratio to ensure blood flood.
Not if you can get 3% cashback on a transaction while paying a 2.5% fee.
Sony does not make it's own display panels.

They have been buying LCD panels from Samsung of South Korea in a joint venture:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344101&page=1

And their new OLED TV is mostly the work of LG Display:

https://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/10/14222986/sony-bravia-...
> will be perfectly happy to come and get you at no cost.

There is a cost. If you were lost or injured due to negligence, they may charge you for it. Even if they don't charge you, rescues cost money. Some states have cheap insurance policies you can buy (in the range of a few bucks a year), which go towards the costs of search and rescue, but one way or another, money is spent. More than one might expect.

It is also not a way to "meet some cool folks". Needing a rescue is not something to be taken lightly. Not all rescues succeed, and people die in the wilderness every year, despite large rescue efforts when they go missing. Be safe. SAR may be a safety net, but don't take that for granted.
There's an explanation that makes a lot more sense:

Wikileaks leaked the emails of the campaign manager for a candidate that's official stance on Assange was "can't we just drone the guy?"

Or, perhaps, as you seem to suggest, everyone is a Russian agent
Wow, how low is your monthly download cap?? What ISP and where?
Your iPhone or iPad probably indicates you're well off
Ohh.. so it's saying Visa CPS Retail vs. Visa Rewards Traditional vs. Visa Rewards Signature vs. etc. are different. Interesting, thanks, I didn't know that. But if I'm buying two of the same product (obviously -- I'm not talking about two gas vs. groceries here) with two different cards, both of which are from the same network and the same "kind" (by which I mean the categorizations listed above, like two that are both "Visa Rewards Signature"), then the merchant will pay the same fee, right? i.e. it's not like the mere fact that one pays 1% cash back and one pays 2% cash back could possibly result in a different charge to the merchant by itself if they're both (say) lumped together as Rewards Traditional?
I like the GP's point that you should also show how hard it is to crash the plane. Otherwise, people won't really have an idea of the margin of "weird noise" they have before getting to an actually threatening situation.
Offtopic, the print version of the page is so much more readable:

https://www.itprotoday.com/print/24541

It'll automatically bring up the print dialog, though, which you'll have to dismiss.
The keyboard fails are double the rate of the old model, which elevates it from "very rare" to "rare." The problem is that the repair was $700, so the folks to whom it happened (including myself) were very, very vocal.
Having a highly trained, standing army is part of what keeps us out of war. Without it, we would soon be invaded and taken over. Historically, every time America shrinks its military, it winds up dragged into a war and having to ramp back up rapidly.

There is no similar need for driverless cars. I'm American. I've lived without a car for over a decade.

I don't see why we can't do more testing before putting lives at stake. I don't see why driverless cars killing people as part of their development is a thing we need to accept.

Your assertion in no way clears up for me why we should shrug at the idea of people dying for this thing.
Amazon should buy Fakespot and integrate into their reviews.
The merchant absolutely pays different fees depending on the card. A Visa platinum card will cost more for the merchant than a basic, non-rewards card. Regardless of scale, different types of merchants also pay different fees.
It's going to depend on how the retailer's contract with their merchant account works. Your mom and pop store may just pay a higher rate, and a high txn fee and call it a day. Simple contract.

For a large retailer like Kroger, there's no way in hell they're leaving all the interchange discounts on the table.
I disagree: the issue isn’t with the expressivity of the model, but with the objective problem and constraints set by the author. You can quickly adjust the algorithm to product floor plans resembling modern buildings by penalizing construction materials.
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Three things are being erroneously conflated here.

* The Julian calendar, which actually has nothing to do with this field on the panel.

* The Julian day number, which is actually a day count since a point in the 48th century BCE, and again nothing actually to do with the panel.

* The day number of the year, which is sometimes colloquially, but erroneously, referred to as the "Julian day".

The panel is making that very error. It used to be a fairly common error, and you can see its echoes in the likes of "j" being a format specifier in various systems that expands to the day of the year. It is not so common, now. But it still happens occasionally.

* http://hannahlab.org/semantics-julian-day-vs-day-of-year/

* https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-19/srfi-19.html

* https://www.science-emergence.com/Articles/How-to-convert-MO...
U.S. bank regulator allows fintech firms to seek federal charter
There is some indication of that - gas stations have seemed to be leading the push here, with "cash-only" prices, but you'll also see places with CC fees or minimums (as much as the providers try to crack down on this).
Come to think of it, what does pay arXiv's bills?
Oh, it is. Very much so.
I mean, these analogies are so bogus. Malls take up physical space that could be used for other things. They turn public land into private land in many places. They require enormous amounts of money to create.

A website takes up no real space, doesn't take away from any kind of public good and effectively costs nothing to create. Anyone can create a website and have a voice and build an audience. Yeah, you don't get an audience and advertising for free. Sucks.

Do you really want to advocate for a constitutional right to trolling and shitposting on someone else's website just because it's, "so big and default."

CNN is pretty big and "default." If I send them an article, can I demand they publish it? FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH! Can I spam their comments with nonsense and then sue them if they ban me or delete them? FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH!
> training for that marathon to take over your life for, probably, about a year

Nowhere near that long. There's actually a great book ("The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer") which takes you, quite conservatively, from "I can run a few miles" to your first marathon day in 16 weeks.

With runs on only 4 days a week -- only one of them a long run -- it hardly "takes over your life", either.
The limiting factor of phone performance though is mainly modem quality though, and to a less extent RAM. A 1.75x increase in some CPU/GPU-bound benchmark is nice, but it's not going to make your web pages render that much faster in practice. Whereas the performance is going to increase dramatically once we get access to the new 600MHz spectrum, 4x4 MIMO, etc.
You can pay your federal income taxes via credit card for 1.87%
I just watched exactly that last weekend. Not even all that remote (Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness). Guy came down with appendicitis overnight, a 10mi hike in from the nearest road/trailhead.

He was fortunate enough to be able to get out to a major trail and someone with a PLB passed by and called it in, so they could get a helicopter out to him.

But had he been on a slightly less popular trail, he might not have had that luck, and it could easily have been 10 hours for someone to come across him and then speed hike out to a cell signal.
They do.

https://www.helcim.com/us/visa-interchange-rates/
I agree. I used my 2013 MBP heavily for compiled programming and music production. Just upgraded to the 2018 MBP and am very happy with it.
Consider the other way around. Would Apple want to buy a decades-old consumer electronics company? Sony has been stagnant in my eyes, even before the NKorea hack.
Buried in a slide @ https://youtu.be/qBQtbkmURiQ?t=766:

You can try an in-development version of the GC with the 'shipilev/openjdk-shenandoah' Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/shipilev/openjdk-shenandoah/).

Run the contained Java executable with -XX:+UseShenandoahGC
I have a policy of disabling javascript on any article based website.

Its worked out well, most news sites load lightning fast, better viewing experience, no videos, the only downside is companies like the new york times that embed low res images then load full res in the background using javascript.

Here's a funny concept, if disabling javascript makes your website better, you failed.
Not really. Banks really dislike creating systems where it is possible for them to lose money. And by law, if you pay your credit card statement in full on or before the due date, you get charged zero interest.

The interchange fees charged to merchants roughly covers rewards. It's why Visa et al charge higher fees to merchants for processing higher-tier rewards cards. Interchange fees don't cover all the other overhead of running a credit card system, but they do cover rewards.
Or just work the system - I made around $6000AUD from points in the last 12 months. Its pretty minimal work. Sign up for card. Fulfil requirements to get sign-on points then cancel and move onto the next card. Your credit rating takes a bit of a hit but recovers over time.
Swipe fees are not a problem that the average consumer cares about at all.
>> ... to convince this 17-year-old to put off an American rite of passage: getting her driver’s license. As Kyla puts it, “What’s the point?”

Get the license. Driverless tech or not, a driver's has use for all sorts of things. A 17yo looking for a job?
Get it and don't use it. Don't wait until you are in your 20s and you loose out on an opportunity for or at work because you don't have a valid DL. Same too for passports.
> The legend is that the first to run a marathon died of exhaustion on its completion.

He died because of exhaustion from running 150 miles in the preceding days, then running to Marathon.
they stole from Stac / Stacker Technology

Did they really? I thought MS just implemented their own version of the tech and was accused of violating patents. Did they actually steal IP?

Reading the Wikipedia article, it's not really clear what happened. Looks like MS review Stac code during licensing talks, but there's no mention of accusations of code theft. Then there's discussion of patent violation lawsuits and payoffs going both directions.
You credit rating can actually in some cases get better, believe it or not.
The problem with pictures and modern websites is that they aren't there. Instead the pictures are only potential pictures which will only be loaded if you load the JS loaders that load the loaders that load the pictures (and all the tracking stuff).

With JS disabled you have no pictures or a super low resolution placeholder at best. Or a blank page showing nothing at worst (ie, nasa.gov).
Imagine if you ran a $1B/year business with 10% profit margins and Visa took 2% of revenues.

Profit before Visa is $100M, profit after Visa is $80M.

If you negotiated Visa’s fees down to 1.5%, profit after Visa would be $85M. This is a 6% improvement in operating profit which is a lot.
Interest payments cover the fixed costs of running a credit card system (and then some). Payroll, marketing, offices, return on capital, etc. An additional marginal purchase usually generates enough in interchange fees to cover the rewards earned on it.
Uh... so what's going on there? Something that breaks the error correction algorithm, or what?

It is likely "weak sectors", the bane of copy protection decades ago and of which plenty of detailed articles used to exist on the 'net, but now I can find only a few:

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/magia-chisel/index.html

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,50365.0.html

http://archive.li/rLugY
Ask HN: Why is your job hard?
When Java was first available on the AS/400 (ported by a man at IBM UK - I have forgotten his name), I tried to use SEU as my editor (me being a PC programmer). OMG worst experience ever.
This is the second time this week I've seen someone note that ISO standards are expensive - are they copyrighted or something? Why doesn't someone just publish them online for free?
I agree with the duplication issue, but I think I might prefer to keep it declarative, and put any looping logic above that. So maybe something like EDN or JSON for the input notation, and then libraries (if needed) for making it easy to generate that notation.
See the sibling reply, the statement led me (probably like you) into thinking that merchants can be charged differently based on every minor aspect of the card, where they seem to say it's only different depending on the broad classification of the card in that interchange (regular "Visa" vs. "Visa Rewards Signature" for example).
Web hosting is cheap enough that Wikipedia runs entirely on donations.
Yes, “shaming” would be a relatively easy improvement too. Browsers should feel free to display big, red, scary-looking logos like “this page load has consumed an unusually-large portion of data/battery/whatever”.
But why not 15”?! :(
No need for cryptocurrencies, this has been a solved problem in various countries for literal decades. See Interac in Canada, Dankort (as mentioned by another poster) in Denmark, and presumably others.
An alternative like you said is with payment apps. One example I have seen in public is with Venmo, although there are drawbacks like no fraud protection and delay in bank transfer. Latter is solved if you solely use your bank as a settlement layer and Venmo as the application layer — that is, conduct all internal transactions on the app and only settle when you need to trade with a person outside the app.
> Which is great, except the vast majority of companies are using that 33% for stock buybacks.

That’s certainly a popular talking point, but I think frankly it’s impossible;

“Publicly traded companies constitute less than 1 percent of all U.S. firms and about one-third of U.S. employment in the non-farm business sector.”
It is a very convenient side effect and yes, users care a lot about load times as well, as multiple case studies show, eg. https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2015/09/01/mobile-web-perf...

The reason users care is the reason people hop on amp.
hmm...It sounds like a very challenging problem to solve with the "passive" approaches you have tried, and others have suggested.

I think maybe moving onto an "active" strategy might be the way to go. You can easily devise a device using an Arduino, a mic, and an air horn. Anytime people are being loud and annoying, and the decibels exceed a certain threshold, you automate the system to sound the airhorn.

I guarantee within a week everyone in the office will be trained to keep quiet. Either that, or you won't be allowed in the building. In any case, you won't need to deal with the loud office environment anymore!
Quite possibly, outside of a post every two weeks or so on HN I have never met anyone else who uses it.

Though I have met a few people who use org mode as an organizer/planner.
Having highly trained autonomous vehicles will keep us out of car crashes, currently we just sort of lie down and take it. As though we had 10 9/11 scale tragedies every year and just kind of threw our arms up and said "whatever, nuthin' we can do"

And for the record I don't drive either, haven't since I was a young man.
Sure, some people have more natural talent (and upbringing, background, etc.) But I suspect you're underestimating how hard talented people still have to work to produce quality output.
How does Shenandoah compare to ZGC? Aren't they in direct competition with one another?
^^ Comments like this continue to be stunning in how easily someone can toss out basic critical reasoning like knowing where the burden of proof lies when it comes to politics.
A good example of the Jevons Paradox
Seriously, dealing with cash is a hassle, especially on a self-checkout. Arco has tried the same nonsense and I avoid them at every turn, because it requires me to a) have cash and b) stand in line to pay , rather than it taking a moment to swipe a card.
Wait, seriously? I only ever saw a bank account option. I'd totally do this.
I think instead is better to title this as "maybe the fastest ascii string library"