skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a newspaper, magazine, or book publisher works:

1. a writer creates content (which can sometimes just be figures like a table);

2. an editor reviews the content;

3. the editor passes the content to a layout artist + typographer to fit the text into one or more spreads, manually tweak padding and add page breaks where appropriate, and style it to fit the house style;

4. and then, crucially, the editor signs off on it again, ensuring that the layout process hasn’t changed or misconstrued the meaning or importance of the text.

This is likely exactly how e.g. Apple’s keynote presentations are made. It’s likely how their website and printed materials are made. It’s how any modern publishing workflow works, in fact. So why shouldn’t it be how their financial statements are made?

To do anything else is to invite error—both brand-messaging error, and semantic error. Whoever pasted the Excel sheet into Word and formatted it probably was probably doing so with much less oversight and auditing than a real publishing workflow would introduce. They could have introduced errors, not just of formatting, but of meaning (by e.g. cutting off a column of the report in the final PDF, even though the preview looked okay, because it went past the bleed of the margin.)

Financial people aren’t supposed to have to care about things like margin bleeds, and everything else that goes into preparing a “proper” PDF; that is the job of a publishing department. Financial people have an exacting eye for ledgers, but that doesn’t make them experts on editing non-tabular data. As soon as their tabular data is on a page, a publishing editor is what is needed to ensure the result is correct. And it is much better still if the publishing department is the one who puts the tabular data on the page. It is strange, to me, that Apple is not having them do it.

(All that being said, probably Pages wouldn’t be used, since Pages isn’t really an Apple-scale desktop-publishing software in the way that Keynote is an Apple-scale presentation software. Apple, internally, probably uses “real” desktop publishing software—Adobe InDesign, or Microsoft Publisher—for all this kind of work.)
Making BDD more than tooling
If u do not need 3D, I strongly suggest moving to lxd. Using in kernel security and it is very light. Couple it to zfs and it runs 100 containers for a measily 15 GB RAM.
Agreed. I think Ronald Reagan tried to evoke something like that during the cold war asking the lines of: imagine how well we'd get along if aliens discovered us

You see this in political parties too. When one fights hard enough to take power, infighting usually divides it and weakens it enough for the next party to take power
I agree that high energy consumption is a problem, but this analysis is overly pessimistic because you're not factoring in the fact that the system is recharging during the day. As long as the average load is lower than your average power draw you can sustain it indefinitely. The battery capacity only needs to be there to compensate for your worst case scenario of bad weather/reduced light exposure. So maybe not surviving a nuclear apocalypse kind of scenario, but otherwise workable.

Also, a 100 watt LED "bulb" is ridiculously bright. That's far more light than you'd get out of a tungsten bulb, 200 W of LEDs is [more than] enough to light an entire house. Electric heating and cooling is the real problem when it comes to energy consumption.
This really looks like what theoutline.com does now.

I can’t imagine bloomberg.com would be creating this sort of web experience without whatever Topolsky did while he was there.
Every web site (or app) wants to look "cool" and wants to differentiate themselves from others based on the look. This quest to look cool leads to all the animations and images etc which leads to the increase in download size. For the most part the reason for this quest to look cool is to grab user attention as much as possible so that they can do their actual business i.e ads.
Yes, see my other comment above for a (random) single family home adjacent to the 6d ranch on .3 acres.

Texas is a low tax state if your a billionaire, or business, everyone else is fscked.
Generally, I'd agree. Contracts in big business aren't typically enforced by the letter. You sign a 5-year contract, with +1 year extensions up to 5 years, you aren't going to start enforcing things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Contracts are generally about reducing risk. Reducing the risk that you're going to steal my IP, and reducing your risk that I'm not going to pay you.

In saying that, I've seen some be enforced to the letter. So if you're a start-up, take your contracting seriously.
That spot is my favorite campsite anywhere. Here's a video pan that shows it a little better: https://instagram.com/p/Bi0dm0Tj2Vz/

Part of why I love it is the pure awesomeness of the location: it commands a view over a large part of the UT/AZ border clear down to the Grand Canyon. It gets beautiful sunrises and sunsets and it's breezy but not wind-whipped. The camping is pretty bad if you sleep in a ground tent because of the deep sand but we slept in our trucks so it was fine.

The other thing that I love about the place was how I first found it. I was combing Google Maps satellite view in a SF hotel room late one night and found the almost-invisible track out to the edge of the cliff. A few nights later, I was there, driving it. I headed out to the spot alone, well after midnight. Camping alone is always a little freaky but camping at the end of a five mile dead-end trail was really spooky. The trail is super gnarly and overgrown. There are washouts and the last half-mile is in deep sand. I went to sleep that first night on the point not knowing what lay before me. I woke up the next morning and was stunned at the incredible view that I'd stumbled upon. It will always be among my favorites.
You're thinking small. If they execute well, and are lucky, I think they'll be eating the other companies, not selling to them.
That seems like a lot of Tax?

These counties take what they can I guess?

Right now I picture the sun setting, while going to to get a money order to pay my property taxes. On the way there I get a $350 for going 40 in a 35 mph zone, and a then a $59 parking ticket, with a $15 contest fee.

"I'm paying the Revenue Squads wage too?"

Yes--I'm as bad as Hell, by Howard Jarvis

(And there's a bunch of people here who blame his Prop for CA problems?)
COM is dependent on Win32, and UWP is based on COM.
The Amazon Prime Visa gives 5% back on Amazon purchases.
I have remapped Caps Lock to Ctrl and Escape to Ctrl + ].
> HN users/voters seem habituated and predictable. What if this is applied to link titles to predict likelihood of making it to the front page? What words (or sequences of letters) are associated with popularity?

Apropos of nothing, I am working on building a model for predicting HN post performance.

TL;DR it is not easy.
> Firstly, any articles that received under 50 points were filtered out

Why? There's still a lot of information in the posts that didn't receive significant interest, and unexplained filtering here seems more suspicious than anything.
You sound like you're around here :). I'm in Regina. If you're nearby and want to grab coffee, my email's in my profile. There aren't too many SK HNers...
This is amazing and he is just 18 years old!
Or just prefix the url with https://outline.com/
Interac is for debit transactions only.
Deleting Code Is Hard and You Should Do It
This sounds very weird to this european.... but that's probably because fees here are capped at 0.3% and AFAICT there's not really such thing as a cashback card.

(I think they used to exist, just not any more)
No, you're not bad at math
>Despite the pain, I still think Walmart should’ve acquired and rebranded a bank, and offered financial products.

I just wanted to point out that this was actually significantly more difficult than the parent comment may have realized.
Unconditional Code
This is really cool! A couple things I noticed:

- You can set your public url as /me which seems like it would break your private page.

- SMS number is exposed in the api response, which could be bad for public pages.
In the EU transaction fees are capped at 0.3% anyway, by law.
A hostile mediator also sounds more fair. Hearing your faults straight from someone who is not afraid to say it as it is might convince you to accept them.
>At a liquor store, a 44 dollar bottle paid with card is 39 dollars cash

The credit card fee is not 12.8% to 15%, that isn’t even a convinence fee. That’s your liquor store not reporting sales and not paying taxes. That’s a big reason why some businesses won’t take cards.
Can you recommend apps you use for SSH'ing to the servers?

What do you use to write? I have just started with the Apple Pencil and love it, use Notability. Any recommendations here will help.
It seems like different languages top out at different amounts. For instance, a junior PHP developer may make the same as a junior .Net/Java/NodeJS developer, but the PHP developer is going to plateau long before the Java developer.

But they are all going to plateau if they don't get some architecture/team lead/full stack skills.

I think I have maybe a good three years before I plateau as an individual contributor. At a certain point, no one is going to want to pay me more without forcing me to lead a team (been there done that didn't like it) or becoming a consultant.

I'm not saying it's impossible to make at the top of your market with Ruby, but the odds are stacked against you.
Another 1987 model-M (compact mini to be precise) user here. I have never once even thought about how 'hard' it is to push down a key, hope you haven't just jinxed me! Yes, occasionally needing to unplug and replug the USB -> PS/2 interface when the keyboard is non-responsive is a pain, but I love it. It's a pleasant monthly ritual to remove the keys and clean them. In a time where everything is fast moving and development tools / environments / libraries seem to get old quickly, my keyboard is a timeless anchor that grounds my development work, and will also prove to be a handy melee weapon come zombie-apocalypse time...
If you're using WinAPI, you have to use UCS-16. Converting strings for every call would be abysmal to performance.
Right.. I would consider crap at the county level to be above the municipal level...
Oh, I recognize that Mozilla survey as actually the specific one that user was talking about! Let me see if I can track down the actual comment thread; it's probably less ridiculous than I actually remember it being.

Ah, found it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735354
It is nice to see that it is finally getting some traction and recognition in the professional space. For example, the VFX artists on the Amazon TV series "Man in the High Castle" use it for many shots.

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-...

The Python integration is truly fantastic. I bought a Perception Neuron motion capture suit a year or two back for use with Unreal Engine, and in just a couple of days I was able to write a Python addon for Blender to take the output generated by the capture suit software and retarget it to the default UE4 skeleton. And I'm no Python guru.

https://github.com/dmo9000/blender-addons/blob/master/ue4-ne...
Most of the "compression" is zero bytes due to fixed offsets of various things (e.g. the first 16 sectors of an ISO 9660 image are a "system area" not used by the actual file system).
I'm pretty sure the Oregon high desert is really good at being high desert. Does the Mojave have to be useful to humans to be a valuable thing?
they can still honk aggressively. and they can take pictures of license plates
Project Wonderful – So long, and thanks for all the hits :(
> Today about 27% of the irrigated land

"Irrigated land" is not the same as "farmed land".

The vast majority of farming is done in places where irrigation is rare.

About 53 million acres of farm land in the United States is irrigated, but there are about 257 million acres under cultivation.
when the rest of your infrastructure is already on GCP, running the database on the same cloud would reduce latency and bandwidth cost
Emirates to increase flight frequency to Toronto – Air Cargo
The problem of Docker on windows isn't a matter of the size or complexity of Dockerfiles, it's everything else. You can easily have images on windows that are tens of gigabytes and take hours to build. I'm not talking about "crazy, psychopathic examples", I'm talking about running stuff that are examples that Microsoft itself publicizes on official websites. That sort of thing simply doesn't happen when you're dealing with linux, it's just a much better experience all around.
Oh, no, I'm aware these are very much Win10 specific problems and I look at Linux people with a not insignificant degree of envy. Unfortunately, I do quite like PC gaming.
Nonsense. Have you actually lived in the UK?
If price point for Citus cloud is a roadblock, you can easily set up Citus at your environment provided you have some server administration experience. I did the same while doing a PoC for the community edition and all it took was 3 minimal size servers, which would actually be around 20$ a month but can it be used till Series A, not sure, depends on the data.

Also just a side note : The community edition is lacking some very important features like shard rebalance which is available in Enterprise edition to be fair.
Congratulations on the open source license because..

> Compared to popular >> open-source << options like Python, Javascript, and Java:

Even in your comment you can see there is still that stigma that separates .Net from the rest of the languages. .Net core has many non MS contributors. It truly is a project in the spirit of open-source.
Temperature Converter – Virtual Species
I did one some years ago (basic attempt using XGBoost) and AUC was high 0.6s or low 0.7s.

I think I treated the title as a string rather than words and each column/feature was one letter. That is, if there were 256 possible characters and each title could only be 80 characters long, there'd be 256 * 80 * 2 columns (title + title reversed).
I assume you're being sarcastic?
There's been a recent change in Australia, the Reserve Bank put a cap on the maximum interchange fee credit card companies can charge in Australia (capped at 0.8%). As a result, many of the cards that earned the best rewards have been scrapped. I had an AmEx card that was good for earning airline points, the bank cancelled the card after the Reserve Bank ruling.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/rba-chan...
That's kind of a bizarre statement, since (as others have noted) the land was historically used by grazing bison, a creature so closely related to domestic cattle that they can even interbreed with them with a substantial amount of success.

The same is true of similar grasslands elsewhere in the world. Lots of grazing animals, which support a smaller population of predators (including humans).
Harbor, a registry server to store and distribute Docker images
Flexbox’s Best-Kept Secret (margin: auto)
https://hackernoon.com/flexbox-s-best-kept-secret-bd3d892826...
I like it. That's a good set of principles and a very clean API.

I had a bit of trouble finding stuff in the documentation at first. You direct people towards Modules on the very first line of the Main Page but it's too subtle. When scanning the page looking for how to get to the list of all the classes and functions in the project, my eyes are drawn to the headings which are basically all irrelevant. It would help to add some headings beyond the autogenerated ones, and to provide a link from the struct documentation to set of functions that manipulate that struct (if possible). Additionally, the top of every page says "rapidstring 0.1.0" and I'm not sure what that number means. The version is listed on the main page as 1.0.0.

The documentation is well-written, which I think is a really good sign, and the problems I mentioned are only really an issue for the very first time somebody tries to use the documentation.
I think it's great. The pitch is a cheesy piece of art itself.

And Pepsi actually chose that logo!
When I worked in a college library in Seattle, we had a single book that was restricted so that the library patron had to read it* while supervised by a library employee: a out-of-print, full-color field guide from the 1970s to Pacific Northwest mushrooms.

*or, more commonly, photocopy specific pages.
> Unfortunately the methanogens in a cow’s gut mean that they’re an environmental disaster.

The bison that lived there before had identical gut bacteria, and it doesn't seem to have caused an "environmental disaster". Why not?
I like the look of this. Why would I use it over Taskwarrior?
Reverse Engineering A/B Tests (2009)
This is where government regulation shines - 0.3% max fee in the EU
WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
That's a pretty bold assertion. Or maybe your understanding of "basic" programming is much more advanced than necessary. I'd consider writing a slightly complex ruleset for filtering e-mail "basic" programming. I don't think that "Put that mail in this folder if the subject contains A unless it's from Jack, then put it in the Jack-Folder" a skill that only comes online at an above-average IQ.
> I don't think people actually waste three orders of magnitude more electricity by loading 10MB vs 10KB (...)

Yeah, they actually waste more in this case. The base cost is that of processing of content, which is linear with size (on a category level; parsing JS may have a different constant factor than displaying an image). But in the typical makeup of a website, just how much stuff can be in the 10KB case? Content + some image + a bit of CSS and maybe a JS tracker. In the 10MB case, you have tons of JS code, a lot of which will keep running in the background. This incurs continuous CPU cost.

> and people don't just flip the power switch as soon as a page load finishes

CPUs have power-saving modes, power supplies can vary their power draw too.

Or, for those with whom such abstract terms as "wastefulness" don't resonate, let me put it in other words: if you ever wondered why your laptop and your smartphone drains its battery so quickly, this is why. All the accumulated software bloat, both web and desktop, is why.
It’s win-win: Starbucks keeps their most loyal customers loyal and likely uses the “unspent” money to subsidize the loyalty program.
I believe so. Other organisms don't really seem to have a concept of value, which would imply they're willing to make trades. Any organism that gathers things seems to hoard at best without any idea what it would trade for what it's hoarding.
Not fully qualified to answer this but one thing which helped me select Citus over Cockroach was Citus being natively postgres and hence extensions (like PostGIS) being supported out of the box.
> different points or cash back or other such perks for the cardholder (maybe 2% cash back vs. 5x points), but we assume both are Visa Signature credit cards

Visa Signature card with 2% cash back ("A") is a different card from Visa Signature with 5x ("B"). They're just similarly branded. The text or design on the card is independent from the card itself, which is defined with an alphanumeric code within the interchange system.

In short, a merchant swiping A may be charged differently from the same merchant swiping B.
Well, sure.

I guess the broader question would be: Why use GCP? I like them well enough, but I find it easier to prototype on AWS. Why would a developer develop the MVP on GCP vs AWS and then go to scale there? (I realized that K8S has made this, recently, a moot point, and it comes down to cost ... but beside that is there anything?)

EDIT: I realize that as a neo-Luddite, I just might be used to AWS, and would be open (mostly) to arguments to move to GCP if it is better (I'm not not talking about $/Gbps)

EDIT2: As a (mostly) fan of Google - I probably would have gotten myself acclimatized to their platform if it was any good 10 years ago, but it wasn't, so I didn't, and I guess I'm asking: is there a good reason to learn how to switch?
Yeah, it's a really simple run-length encoded ISO expressed as a Perl script.
Sometimes I think the long form is over blown, but did I miss half this article or something?
The article mentions technological alternatives - what are they? There is no way blockchain can fill this void, so .... what can do electronic payment if not the giant card networks?

interesting problem
It has been asserted elsewhere in this HN discussion that Visa charges merchants higher amounts for transactions with higher-end rewards cards.

Assuming this is true, and these anti-steering provisions prevent merchants from discriminating, what prevents Visa from issuing cards with 200% fees? What's holding the cash back level at a mere 1-2%?
Are you comfortable around any people? Family, friends or some other?
True, something I definitely need to consider.
NT pretty much only runs on x86 and ARM (yes, yes, 32- and 64-bit variants of both). yawn

Almost ever other OS out there allows for more. Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, illumos, AROS... hell, even ReactOS has had ports to architectures Windows has never dreamed of :)
My first job was designing circuit boards using a software called PCAD, 30 years ago. It did a pretty good job with automatic routing for software running on a i386 PC with a couple MB of RAM.
No, it's herd mentality. Because it's what everyone else is doing, it's the standard, it's what you do and to be an outlier in this is to be deluged with how archaic you are and then be swarmed in marketing jargon that breaks down page element interactions to an atomic level.

Meanwhile, users ditch the bloated web pages for apps or if browsing from a laptop or desktop computer, for a curated view delivered by Facebook or Twitter or another service in the long tail (i.e., Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.). The effect may not even be plainly noticeable but it does work on a psychological level. All the cruft and gunk dissuades repeat visits and any desire to return to browse that internet space.

Some online spaces, and mostly in the news vein are even overtly abominable. My local news outlet (azcentral.com) is unbearable to load, with the autoplay video, the barrage of ads, both popovers and the hard elements that take space in display. Leaving just a tiny portion of the screen real estate to actual content that a reader might be interested in.
Why should it be disturbing?
For me would be far more disturbing to have a safety proven and affordable self driving car that doesn’t drive carelessly causing accidents and to allow humans to continue to drive, at cost of tens of thousands lives per year only in the US.
There are many zero fee 2% cash back cards available in the USA. Why pay fees?
The fact that you knew that really tickles my trout.

edit: that sounds dirtier than I intended, but I still like it as a cliche.
Not sure what country you live, but I live in the U.S. and I happen to have a MasterCard [1] and Visa [2] card which both offer unlimited 2% cashback with no annual fee.

[1] Citi Double Cash

[2] Fidelity Rewards Visa