skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see a need of replacing the DOM. It has some problems, but nearly everything around has at least as many problems, just different ones. Indeed, that's the reason I want to see WASM interact well with it.

The largest problems of the web programming are lack of componentization and Javascript, we may be able to solve that last one soon!

The thing with JS is that it is a no batteries, no novelty, no shortcut, not very productive language, that manages to be both old-school and novel on all the bad ways. You can't just carelessly gather code and use it, because there are no safety boundaries; most code that is not at the frontend (yeah, like Apollo) have no consideration about security, so you can't simply expose it; the entire ecosystem is a house of cards; and the language itself is a pile of WTFs just waiting for you to discover another one.

Besides, the web stack is pretty much controlled by Google nowadays. Yes, they manage development resources better than Microsoft, but I would prefer working on a stable and free environment.
> It sounds like he willingly quit his jobs at Oracle and Dell.

After ~five years. We should be able to change jobs occasionally and not have to hold on to our current one for dear life. Sounds like once you hit fifty you'll never be hired again, so must do anything to avoid a layoff.
There is nothing weird about that. It's just Kohnen Station. They even have a website[1].

[1]: https://www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/kohnen-station.htm...
According to the Galactic Cap website[0], they're looking for $500,000 to go through clinic trials. ...although they're taking orders on their site? That seems... weird. Each condom is $20. Hopefully the price will go down.

Also, careful of that video. I never would have thought I'd see a Fleshlight and a dildo together, but: there you go.

[0] http://galacticcap.com
Anything from Chandlery on C++ performance is worth gold.
I agree. I find it a bit disturbing that people are sort of quick to defend this. I don't see this as being any different, other than scale, from what John Deere is doing.
~510 million - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=...
Not just a small plane. Even an Airbus A320 could handle a mile-long runway.
Nice, was just reading your issue [0]. I spent a bit of time the other day thinking how I could implement these thread ops on the JVM (JVM rambling henceforth, skip if not curious)...

First, my project's output requires no runtime/dependencies, so I am restricted to JVM libs only. Memory is implemented as a ByteBuffer which does not have atomic access. I didn't quite understand the threads spec wrt data init on mem so I'll have to get clarification there (lock all mem? just go and pray?). The implementation will create four synthetic methods in the class: lock, unlock, wait, and wake. The class will have a field that is ConcurrentMap<Integer, int[]> where the key is the mem offset being locked, and the value is an array of mutable int refs size 2, the first being lock ref count and the second being wait ref count. Imports of shared memory pass that around along w/ the ByteBuffer.

Lock will create/incr ref count and secure the lock via monitorenter on the int array (or fail if ref > 0 when just a try). Unlock will monitorexit and decr the count (removing from map if both ref counts are 0). All ops are done between this lock/unlock. Wait/wake is via wait/notify on the JVM, but JVM has no construct to say how many or if any threads were woken up on notify, so I have to keep the wait count. Incr/decr on the ref and wait vs notify (in a loop if > 1) is done as expected using wait() and notify() on the array itself. The lock, unlock, wait, and notify are done w/in concurrent map's compute making them atomic. Lock/wait lazily create the refs in the map. Unlock/notify, upon reaching 0 for both refs at the end, clear the refs out of the map.

I have looked into existing JVM constructs and this seems to be the best way (I wish I could use Guava's Striped or the like, but I have no dependency/runtime requirement on outputted class files). Countdown latches, other locks, conditions, etc were all runtime overkill. I could have better performance than a boxed-int map with some extra code but wanted to keep it simple. Granted this is all pie-in-the-sky thinking, the impl will change it for sure.

I am afraid to start an implementation because the proposal isn't further along yet (I really need some test cases in the suite to make me feel better).

0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/106
I just set up a pixel 3 and it didn't ask anything about text size?

Onboarding was like 3 steps, including "plug in your old phone".
Who here is pre-ordering these, and why?
They share a bit of commonalities with IHOP. I think they might mean their "internship" program is a scam. Look into how IHOP is a cult / scams young people. Its a lot of fluff. My cousin too joined one of the internships but for her own reasons and thankfully she knew better so by the time she got out she just knew we were right about them, except she knew the whole enchilada.

In the case of IHOP they have sexualized lyrics which they front as worship music by over emphasizing being the Bride of Christ. This leads sexually frustrated / confused (in a Christian viewpoint / sense) youths even more confused about Jesus and their relationship with Him. Its a lot to take all at once so research it and pray about it and take your time. I just personally avoid IHOP / Hillsong for multiple reasons. The other thing to remember is they are not all at fault some are just there genuinely or misled into being there.
I also see slow downs on Chrome.

That mail loading icon just halts at times, it seems random ish.
I have an iPhone X, and use an inexpensive Samsung Qi charger. It doesn't do the fast charge, but I also only ever charge my phone at night. It's sitting there for 8ish hours anyway, so the fact that it takes like, maybe two hours to charge is a non-issue.

I imagine many Pixel 3 owners will experience the same thing. A wireless charging pad is pretty naturally a "leave it sitting there overnight" spot. Doesn't really matter that it doesn't do the fast one.
OK, so build detection of that into the phone and disable charging if the source is unsuitable. Apply to all charge bases evenly. I have no problem with this.

The problem is in saying you can only use theirs, even if you have another perfectly spec-compliant source.
I understand why stablecoin's are useful to the end user. I also understand how Bitfinex is cashing in on Tether. However how is Coinbase making money with USDC? They clearly will have considerable expenses (keeping reserve, legal team, development etc. etc.). But if I give them 1USD and get back 1USDC, which later can be exchanged back to 1 USD, where are they making money?
Unfortunately savepoints live only in transaction and ACCESS EXCLUSIVE will be released only on whole transaction commit/rollback, so look like no benefits with savepoints for schema migrations to compare with plain transaction.
Closing a Delaware C-corp that never conducted business
Anyone able to advise on the cheapest way to dissolve a C-corp which was opened through Clerky but which never opened a bank account or conducted any business?

I've seen some folks online recommending to call the registered agent, ask them to resign and delete all records of the company.

Alternative seems to be paying at least $400 in taxes and then $200 for a dissolution certificate. Which is quite a hit given that the business has failed.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.
An opt in program to improve the ability of people who don't want children to reliably control their reproductive choice is wildly different from forced sterilization.
The American "The Office" ran about 2 seasons past its sell-by date. Losing Steve Carrel was the point when the show should have ended. There were certainly good episodes after his departure, because he was far from the only thing that made the show good, but we often say, when watching Seasons 8 and 9, "When did this show become a cartoon?"
USD is already digital, the vast majority of dollars in circulation are not bills/coins
Why does there need to be a digital US dollar? Almost 20% of the US is underbanked, and 6.5% is unbanked. A digital dollar seemingly would be even worse and work to concentrate wealth among the educated/wealthy.

https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/
Thanks Matt, very appreciated. On the other hand I somewhat feel like if I had put forth my opinion on why I was excited, I would have been even more downvoted. I suppose no comment at all is really what they want.
MongoDB was a subpar product that rode the "nosql" document-store hype, but people following hype don't know about technical quality and this lead to it being used in a lot of places where it shouldn't, with marketing plastering over all the downsides. They've slowly made it better and now it's a rather smooth experience but overturning a poor reputation is extremely hard.

Meanwhile other database systems have further developed and the need for a pure document-store with weak aggregation and not much else just isn't very enticing. It's still good for data where schema is on-read or in your application, and needs completely flexibility like document and media management, low-volume logging, user profiles and sessions, etc.
“This has happened in the past,” Wada tells NHK, “but I don’t remember seeing anything on this scale.”
Blockchain-based stablecoins seem like a really convoluted and environmentally wasteful way to implement centralized, cryptographically secure USD based account transfers.

Why not just use Chaumian ecash [0] - which is perfectly suitable for this purpose and doesn't require mining?

[0] - http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurity...
Sounds a lot like you're saying blindly, that Apple is without any design flaws because look what they've introduced to the world.
If I'm reading this correctly the study tested people's athletic ability at some point in time and tracked when they died.

The article conflates athletic ability and exercise. Sure a person that has great athletic ability would likely exercise a lot. But not necessarily and certainly not for the remainder of their life.

Good athletes might have good genes. Maybe over exercise actually hurts your fitness and you would scores lower on the initial fitness test. Either way, I don't think the study even remotely supports the claim purported by the article
I don't care about the glasses.

The ring controller though - I have been looking for something like that for a while. I want something small and hands-free to control the slides while giving presentations. I had a Creative Ring Presenter but it died and I just really need "next slide / previous slide" buttons.
And if that's how the Bloomberg article had ended, with well known and previously reported firmware issues, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
This is a really interesting point.

I think there's some truth to the claim that Family Guy cut in on the "cartoon family relationships" and "cartoon family slapstick" markets, but I'd never quite grasped why the attempt to branch out failed so badly. Now that you point it out, Family Guy even did politics and current events (or at least picked at South Park's scraps), but it never really went in for the sort of quieter, knowing satire you see in The Onion.

That was something the Simpsons had gotten huge acclaim for (e.g. "Marge Vs The Monorail", "Last Exit to Springfield"), so it was an obvious place to look for a niche. But that's also really hard to maintain. The Onion itself has always had a lot of mediocre content, but that doesn't need to animate it's content and doesn't ask you to stare at one bit for 30 minutes straight. Heck, SNL has one of the best comedy writing teams anywhere and it has some seriously weak moments that need to be offset with celebrity guests, music, and rapid sketch changes.

The other thing that strikes me is that the near-realism of the Simpsons constrains the satire. Futurama's take on the 'eyePod' was hilarious, but the reason it worked so much better than the 'myPod' was that the sci-fi setting let them take the topic ludicrously far. "You Only Move Twice" (the supervillain Simpson's episode) was excellent and arguably satire, but it was also at the upper edge of how wacky the Simpson's universe ever gets. By Season Eight or so, it feels like The Simpsons had done a first-rate episode on almost every piece of small-town and nuclear-family life worth parodying, and couldn't break out of their constrained focus or their realistic setting far enough to find new fertile ground. Meanwhile, Futurama got to play around with Nixon and Mom's Friendly Robots and alien invaders and anything else that came to mind - plus with no one else in the sci-fi cartoon space they could save the satire for when they had something excellent to do.
I used to use a Moto G2 as well and I second this. My volume-rocker keys were super wobbly, and literally popped-out in my finals days with the device.
2011-2016ish. I had the following devices, all of which could be charged by micro-USB:

- HP Touchpad

- Samsung Galaxy SII

- HTC One (M7)

- Nexus 7 (2013)

- HTC One M9

Some had quick charge, some didn't, some could be charged wirelessly via proprietary or Qi standards, but they all could fall back on Micro-USB when they needed to.

Now I'm on a GS8, which means I need a USB-C cable and a micro-USB to keep my phone and tablet charged, but luckily they both support Qi charging, so I can usually get away with just tossing the wireless charger pad into my bag and be good for the day.
I guess here's a followup:

https://mic.com/articles/128850/bill-and-melinda-gates-found...

It just says getting FDA approval is a gatekeeper in terms of upfront costs.
Adulthood? I realized I hated pork chops at age 8.
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So if Google has some standard that has to be met, can't they just make it public and let the third party companies get certified? Or sign some kind of agreement that they promise to adhere to the standards.. something
I thought I was doing something wrong! It NEVER defaults to the one I am expecting.
Tat was a show that did a pretty good job of not overstaying its welcome. Seasons 6 and 7 weren't as strong as the previous seasons, but the show was still good. Ending when they did was a good idea, even though we fans were sad to see it go.
My guess is that the implementation is not good enough, and fast charging generates a lot of heat in the handset. Only with their own charging can they guarantee enough heat dispersion in the charger. Wireless charging is a bit lossy and can generate a lot of heat - I know this from experience designing devices, although everything else is guesswork.

Whether it was always intended to be incompatible,or they had to put the hacky handshake in late in the process to prevent the device being 'a bit fiery' I don't know.
Before anyone clicks the bait:

> What is this TWO KILOMETRE long secret city unearthed by melting ice in Antarctica?
> A TWO kilometre long series of 22 sinister-looking structures have been revealed by thawing ice in Antarctica - prompting claims the installation is a World War 3 fall out shelter for the global elite or even a landing pad for incoming aliens.

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.
It's actually a completely different database between version 2 and 3.

They acquired WiredTiger in 2014 and MongoDB has never looked back since. Sure there is a lot of hate on HN but they are doing very well out in the real world. And actually it's a pretty good database if your domain model fits.
Your church is also passionate about alienating its members from non-believers, and oppressing LGBT folk. All while ignoring the actual message of your deity. Keep you help to yourself buddy.
I have a lot of examples :)

I once felt the same way, that there’s always a good way to give criticism. The shit sandwich really works well in even the mist dire situations (“this is great,” “this is garbage,” “but this is great too”).

But I once had a co-worker who had an opposing development philosophy. It was in a bit of a weird, anarchic environment where there was little supervision, but steady budgets.

There was an algorithm made and after reviewing it, it was just really, really bad. It was for improving health, but it used the wrong population, it inferred from data inappropriately, it made broad recommendations, and it did so I consistently. It was garbage, but it’s not helpful to say that as that never really helps and is not constructive and not accurate. Basically what you’re saying.

I got the merge request and sent it back with a thoughtful commentary, adding in another peer for input, asking for test cases, asking for user story requests, etc. Pretty polite.

They resubmitted it unchanged saying “no, I know it’s right. Just take it and we’ll fix it later.” (There’s no we, it’s just this one person).

I spent more time and sent more detail, showing similar, valid changes.

Same thing back. I spent probably a few hours between the two responses and they were resubmitted within seconds.

I figured I’d chat with the person so based on work schedules sent an invite for two days away.

Person said they couldn’t wait, had to go now. I tagged the other two maintainers, one was on the initial reply, and asked for a review. They pointed to response #1 and said “no, refer to reasons.”

Submitted then went to boss land and asked boss to approve the merge. Boss can’t do that, etc etc.

Boss and I meet with submitter. Submitter asks us to read original submission and gives nothing further.

Boss asks me to reconsider, I point out comments for improvements, submitter says they won’t change them. So request stays at no.

Lots of HR madness takes place over the next few weeks. Merge request never made it.

I probably spent 40 hours, plus peers and submitter added on.

Obviously, I’m not skilled enough to communicate why the merge request wasn’t sufficient. I’d love to learn, and am always trying. But I sometimes wonder that I could have saved a lot of time by just saying “this request is a garbage fire and a waste of time to discuss further. You are unworthy.”

It wouldn’t have worked to make the submission good, but would have cut directly to HR and skilled all the well intentioned attempts that ate up time. If this were OSS, it might be good for the community to prevent future stupid stuff.

I’m not sure what the solution is as you have folks who are good in one thing (algorithm design), but bad in another thing (conflict resolution / mentoring randos). Hopefully you’re lucky and have leads with both skills.
It looks like the needle has only moved slightly over time, although, there's a lot less left to the imagination or relegated to tin-foil hat territory.

Pew research gives a good lay of the land for the US [1]

The tldr: 70% believe it's for a purpose other than stated, 25% have changed the way they interact with technology, 27% believe content is being snarfed, 57% disapprove of use on US citizens.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/04/how-american...
Stablecoins seem like they would achieve most of the goals of the original cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin:

- Decentralized transactions

- 24/7 access

- Low fees

- Store of value

I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority. That said, for practical purposes the vast majority of Bitcoin holders didn't mine their own coins either.

Despite this, no one on Twitter[1] seemed excited. In fact they seemed upset that Coinbase didn't announce support for their cryptocoin du jour (mostly Ripple or Cardano). This is a recurring theme on all the subreddits I've visited: People rarely care about the usage of their cryptocurrency, they're only interested in its price.

A cryptocurrency that stays the same value is not very interesting to traders and therefore most of the cryptocurrency community.

[1] https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1054764504259543041
At one time there were a lot of industry specific tools to calculate various things (usually made out of cardboard) that were effectively slide rules or slide rules combined with lookup tables.
I don't think chicha is fermented directly after chewing — saliva contains too many other microorganisms to do that and have something at all tasty. Give it a nice boil though, and then ferment it, and I imagine that it'd be just fine.
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> I think it should be consumers call as to what device they are using

If the sketchy charger bricks the phone but the customer is dishonest about using the sketchy charger at time of RMA, do you expect Google to engage in he-said-phone-said arguments with customers? "Ah but your big-brother device says it was plugged into a toaster oven last week."
Presumably they'll charge you a fee to buy, sell and trade it just like any other asset. If coinbase is involved in keeping the reserve, they can invest it various assets and keep the earnings - think money market fund, but you don't earn any interest - coinbase/circle keep the interest.
Don't they charge purchase fees?
I'm very interested in this question as well. How can a developer use ones skills to make a positive change?

If you search on HN you'll find a few related postings. There's also a very good writeup on worrydream.

But so far I have not found anything concrete about what the current technical problems are that can be solved.

I started to reach out to a few companies in the cleantech space. My first impression is that it seems it's a rather secretive group not very open to (clueless) outsiders.

I'm pondering the idea to create a website where devs and companies fighting climate change could come together. I'm not aware of anything similar.

Obviously, you could try to get a job in that space and learn the industry from inside.
So I've been thinking about this a little bit and I'm not sure if I'm the outlier here but when I really want to focus on something, I'll turn off social media completely. The medium is the distraction in itself, no matter who I follow. With that being said, I think that this tech has a ton of potential.

One use case off the top of my head would be for fantasy football. I'd love to see some sort of mode where I can get high quality news for my chosen few players or teams. I run into an issue right now where there's a ton of noise around "is this player injured or not" and it'd be great to have some sort of AI that could do a better job than I can in filtering what's fake or not.

Plenty of other interesting use cases for this tech, this is just one that jumps out for me!
Android: a 10-year visual history
Sorry, I wasn't speaking in absolutes. I'm not a pollster or statistician, so I was relaying my anecdote. I think your comment's sibling, and one of mine, elucidate why I have that anecdote.
One of my favorite Futurama jokes (spoken by the haunted robotic future-teller arcade machine):

Look, do you want false hope or not?

Hope is all some people can afford.

On the other hand, money is not the solution to all life's problems. What I would literally wish for my worst enemy: you win that Mega Millions drawing tonight.

Recommended listening from This American Life:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/329/nice-work-if-you-can-ge...

He's talked with thousands of lottery winners, and the vast majority, he says, wish they'd never won.
This is awesome. It's not a silver bullet and won't solve all case. You'll still need to design in degraded modes for your application for when parts of it become unusable (that's you should be doing anyway), but this covers a lot of your likely needs.
"politics is something that can and should be kept separate from many aspects of life."

The Trump administration had plans leaked this weekend that stated their intent to change the definition of "gender" so that trans people would not exist to the Federal Government. I'm sorry, but being able to keep politics separate is a privilege.