skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear sorry about this, it's a little too non-obvious how to see the demo! I've [pushed a small commit](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/commit/f016ae5846bf...) to update the demo to include information about browser requirements. Today this demo requires Firefox Nightly (64) and requires the `javascript.options.shared_memory` feature to be enabled. Other browsers will likely soon be able to run the demo as well!
Vultr has it but to be honest when I was considering to switch my personal server from Linux as it can be anything, I wanted to run OpenBSD for providing the leading tools like OpenSSH and I'm a fan of pf and to support them by running it but when I deployed, it just lacked packages which means you need to compile stuff from source but typically OpenBSD isn't in those deployment target and they just don't compile even though some support FreeBSD.

In the end I just settled with FreeBSD when most stuff I used to use in Linux worked fine.

I really wish I could stay with OpenBSD. I don't want to call it but it does feel like it's becoming more of a research OS.
Wow. Someone says someone can't change behaviour and I reply with sudo and it gets downvoted?! Wow. Lesson learnt. I need to find a geekier crowd who know what sudo is.
Isolated in local space yes, but thanks to games like VR Chat, not isolated in "virtual" space. I have spent entire nights hanging out with a virtual crowd who all shared each other's living rooms
> We've been interfacing C with e.g. Python without needing a garbage collector that crosses language boundaries. So why would we need one now?

Because C doesn't need garbage collection, it uses 'manual' memory management. This scenario is exactly analogous to the WASM-JS world that exists now (WASM is manual, and JS is GC).

The goal here is to have a GC that's usable in WASM, and WASM is going to be interoperating a lot with JS for many applications, so it needs to cope with that. A better analogy in this case would be IronPython which is Python built on the .NET framework rather than C. In that case, the Python GC is the .NET GC, so that objects can be passed back and forth 'between worlds'.
Causal guarantees are anything but casual
Nobody here seems to be mentioning the death of Phil Hartman[1] in 1998. The article, as well, staggeringly, doesn't mention his name.

There's a video[2], 'The Fall of the Simpsons', which is one of my favourite videos on the internet. It explains and describes with utmost clarity the issues that led to the series 'demise', which, ultimately, boils down to 'bad writing'.

However, in interviews, and comments from the showrunners and staff, it seems like Phil Hartman's death, who voiced the characters of Troy McCleur, and Lionel Hutz, as well as the voice of Lyle Lanley, from the fantastic classic episode 'Marge vs. the Monorail'.

When Hartman died, they retired Troy's character. His absence alone is strongly felt when viewing the first several seasons against the others. His voice is certainly missed. Said Groening of Hartman: "[I] took [Hartman] for granted because he nailed the joke every time," and that his voice acting could produce "the maximum amount of humor" with any line he was given.

I mean, this was 1998. Most folks consider season 8-9 to have some of the last 'great' episodes of the series, or at least the last 'great' seasons. There's absolutely no way this is a coincidence, and the affect of his death on the series has been verified by countless staff.

I often think of Hartman's death as equivalent to Brian Epstein's death in '67. Similar to the Simpsons, there are a million reasons why the Beatles went to shit (even if their output for three years after that was still phenomenal), but if you have to look at the thing that really 'started' it, Epstein's or Hartman's deaths are good places to start looking, and it's easy to see how things went downhill from there in both cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
Google just continue to prove they're a bunch of fetid, smelly cunts.
Linus Torvalds talks about coming back to work on Linux
> Apple literally revolutionised the smartphone market with the simple usability of the iPhone.

How long ago? Should they sit on their laurels and do nothing? Or what if they have made progressively worse and worse decisions with regards to UX?

What they did a decade ago doesn't matter if what they currently produce isn't that simple usability.
Shaming is education. It creates a very strong cultural and emotional tie to knowledge, motivating people to act in a certain way.

If we lived on a planet where every person was a rational, level-headed adult, lectures and books would be enough of an education. Sadly, most of the people are irrational and emotional; if you want to steer them towards better life decisions, for their sake as well as society's, shame is a very good tool.
I'd argue the opposite, which is that the future will have even more layers of abstraction, not less, since that's been the trend for quite some time.
Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Here's the Wired article about it: https://www.wired.com/story/google-glass-2-is-here/

Seems to give a huge productivity boost.
People are very attached to their cars, thus they invent reasons to keep them. If you can walk to work you do not need a car, travel to work is one of the few good reasons to own one.
Serverless botnets could soon become reality – Help Net Security
Arguably we're all betting the farm by continuing to burn fossil fuels. Electrified transport isn't a cure-all panacea, but it IS a path forward whereas the status quo is a dead end.

Some billionaires are buying estates in New Zealand because they're scared of coming instabilities and are looking for a place to hole up. Kudos to this one for instead of tackling it head on and building adaptive solutions he can sell.
Ok, point taken about it not being dismissive. It's hard to tell sometimes!

Jokes aren't against the rules but they have to be pretty good not to count as unsubstantive comments. Most people overrate how funny their jokes are. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.
The new design is very slow and does not good look on firefox at least. I am trying to use a mail client whenever I can for my primary email ID's. but if you want to check an email quickly on the browser and you see that new design, it's not very welcoming. I even tried switching between the design options that they provide, and still not helpful at all
If I recall correctly, in their Nexus phones they do.
That's a gross misrepresentation of fact.

Apple engineers slowed the CPU in the phone, in order to keep battery life reasonable, and prevent the phone from restarting when worn batteries couldn't deliver power. Windows does this with laptops.

Apple's mistake was not disclosing it. There an argument for user experience that advocates making the best choice for the user and not over burdening them with options.
They mention Qualcomm MSM8909w processor. https://www.qualcomm.com/products/msm8909w
According to its specs it supports resolution of up to 640x480 at 60fps. Kinda sucks if you ask me.
It's not screwing over customers as a slow phone is better than a phone that turns off at the same time.

At most you can say they where trying to fix a hardware issue with software which is never a clean solution.
China's going to have a hell of a time maintaining all this infrastructure they're building in a few decades. Maintaining things currently in use is a lot harder than building new, just ask the US.
That doesn't say what you claimed at all, not by the longest stretch of the imagination.
He was talking about a graphic novel set in the 30s.

There were definitely right-wing militias in the period you're talking about though. Just not what we'd call NAZI or fascist.
Does HN think the third-worlders should hate their parents for giving birth to them even if they get an "opportunity" to make it in America?
MSFT joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions
A built a framework called Lean Media for producing entertainment and informational media works (linked in my sig, for those who are interested) and did quite a bit of research on The Simpson's early years as well as other creative groups and solo creators.

While I didn't look into these media team's later development, I think the catalysts which helped them get early success may point the way to why their later output is not so consistently impressive.

The three early catalysts are:

1. Early audience feedback loops to help guide and validate media prototypes

2. Minimal business interference

3. Really strong creative core

In the case of The Simpsons, it wasn't Matt Groening (who had previously been a cartoonist, not an animator) who single-handedly made the show. Director James L. Brooks and showrunner Sam Simon built out the team of animators and writers. They had early audience feedback from the early animated shorts that appeared in the middle of the Tracey Ullman Show from 1987-1989. These shorts were bundled into 20-minute reels that were shown to Ullman's live studio audiences while there were set changes, and they laughter and cheering helped validate the idea of doing the Simpsons as a standalone half-hour show. Importantly, once The Simpsons was launched in 1989, Brooks protected the writing crew from Fox TV executives' attempt at interference.

Similarly, for the band Led Zeppelin, the same three catalysts were in place from the start. Early creative feedback came during their first Scandinavian tour in September 1968, which directly shaped the arrangements and songs that made it onto Led Zeppelin I. They didn't even have a record company when they recorded the album with Glyn Johns that October, so the leader -- Jimmy Page -- could really follow his own production instincts.

Later on, what happened with these two teams? Certainly, they continued to make great media, but things weren't quite the same. The Simpsons team broke up -- there was a lot of tension between Simon and Groening, and Simon left after three or four seasons. Other writers went on to different shows. Fox also started to exercise more control over the production, which became more corporate.

Led Zeppelin's team remained intact, but over time productions became more bloated (LZ1 recorded in 10 days, Physical Grafitti in 18 months) and I think like many 70s hard rock groups they lost touch with their audiences. After 1977 they did not tour much, and albums like In Through The Out Door and Presence are more musically experimental and influenced by the Plant and Jones than Page and Bonham.
Keep in mind the decline started over 20 years ago. It probably stopped declining a long time ago (around 15 years?), and reached what people consider its current quality level.
It's interminably slow.

Worse, I have multiple accounts – and it always defaults to the 'wrong' one, which means I have to go through the splash screen all over again.

I'm moving to Fastmail as soon as I have time to switch things over.
Yes. Most actions have become so slow that quickly closing the Gmail tab after doing something (e.g. sending an email) triggers the onunload confirmation dialog most of the time. That didn't happen nearly as often with the old version.
If radiogenic heating is so important, why are Mars and Mercury not also geologically active? Mercury is only slightly less dense than Earth after all?

Thanks for the response, btw, been waiting for a geologist ama for a while!
TL;DR: Two typhoons followed by warm weather triggered them.
I own a fairphone 1 and after I dropped it once I was able to order a new screen. With instructions made by by the fairphone team I was able to fix my phone.

I'm bitter though, because they soon switched development to fairphone 2 in a higher price class and I'm left with android 4.2.2. Many new apps on the play store stop being compatible.

I believe, something like this is only viable, if the phone maker guarantees software updates for at least 5 to 10 years. Otherwise all that talk about environment and all is just hot air.
but eventually every character is distilled to their most basic formula

So-called Flanderization
Ask HN: What are some hardware products for security and privacy?
I took no offense to the title myself.

“Hard” is obviously a definition that’s relative and varies from person to person. Maybe you could define it as some sort of objective metric where you poll people about ease of use, but then your definition of hard becomes subjective.

For a lot of people any tech is hard relative to the rest of their life, including the iPhone. My mom is very much not computer savvy and she runs into so many problems with her iPhone that would otherwise be obvious to tech users. When you really think about her problems often there is some unintuitive design choice causing it.

My point is that “iPhones are hard to use” is a very true statement for many people. I don’t think the author was insincere.
That’s the whole point! We’re not asking questions of the New York State Department of Health, we’re asking them for copies under FOIL of their e-mails, contracts, bids, evaluation materials, meeting notes, and such.

And the NYS DOH was like “nah”. Which is shady, and possibly illegal. So here we are.
I wonder if we'll see more of this from device OEMs, if only to protect against things like iffy USB-C and Qi chargers that don't conform to standards.

Standard Qi chargers don't put out enough power/heat to cause lasting issues, but a fast charger could. Similarly, Google's already seen major issues first-hand from an off-spec USB-C cable [0].

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2016/02/03/benson-leung-chromebook-...
I don't get this. What would you write in this language ?
> Or, we could give free vasectomies to people who display a total lack of empathy.

If you mean me: I have good, deep reasons why I do not even want children (these reasons shall by off-topic here). And I live by my words so that other people can follow my anti-natalist example. :-)
I suppose a nice compromise here would be to make an intelligent decision whether to bring up a prompt asking if you want to change the font size. For instance, if the FaceID detects that your face is farther or closer from the screen than normal, or that you're squinting.
Under Settings => Battery => Battery Health. The option to disable throttling only shows up if it's been applied to your phone.
The European system is better at keeping up with the evolution of crime. The US is generally a step (years) behind.
What if you can walk to work but can’t walk to a grocery store?
Strong disagree. The farther I get into my career the more Dilbert feels like exactly my current experience.
> I really dislike TV/Anime that never ends, seems to be the modus operandi for pretty much every mainstream show despite how bad the quality gets after 2-3 seasons.

Isn't this an American thing where TV/movie things are primarily for money making?

I mean the British Office had 2 seasons and 12 episodes. The US version had 9 seasons and 200 episodes.

I didn't watch The Office, so I don't know if the US version got worse towards the end, but in general in the US they keep making episodes while the series is profitable, regardless of quality and in the end they usually drive it to the ground.

They just can't stop until there is no money in it. Most of the time they can't end a TV series on a high note.
Won't it get jeopardised in some way by the central goverment, if it's not to their liking?
Deconstructing the iPhone XS, Piece by Piece
I don't think you can call a demonstration that deliberately excludes many available options a "simulator".

If you are poor, then living alone or taking on a lease is insane. The implicit assumption that you can't move and that "the rent" is as high as it is in this demo is untrue.

So what you end up with in this demo is a race against unsustainably high costs because you arbitrarily can't remove them.
It's definitely worth looking into. Although the authors of the library keep reminding the reader that blazor is not production ready I have found that it does everything I need it to. I found that it either works or doesn't at all if there is an unhandled exception in your code to you try to do something that is not supported. However, I haven't found the behavior to be non-deterministic (by that I mean flaky). I guess they may want to change the API before release. What is amazing is the ability to reference .net standard libraries.
I'm so glad that if I had a revenue generating side project, I wouldn't have to worry about that horrible twisted maze of burdensome nonsense as long as I blocked EU countries. It's nice living in the US and having some modicum of autonomy left as someone on the developer side of things.
In most areas that means paying more in rent.
> I look back at classic gmail as being really responsive.

The classic Gmail is still available and you can still use it though...

I switched to fastmail, but I honestly miss Gmail's interface whenever I for some reason log in again.

Nor can I really confirm that slow loading speed. I keep hearing about it on hn, but it always finishes within 1 seconds on my end... And is even quicker on refreshes or navigating

/edit: chrome network monitor said 5.6s. it was useable after ~1s though. firefox takes ages, however
Interesting. Back in the 80s I lived in Germany for three years and traveled all over Europe, without ever driving a car. I felt like I could get pretty much anywhere without much hassle. I spent about a month in the U.K. and didn't notice any particular lack compared to the rest. Maybe it's because I was on holiday and had no particular time constraints.

When I moved back to the U.S., that's when I needed a car.
Is $800 a year a lot? Invested for 30 years with a 8% return it will be $100k or maybe $300/month in safe withdrawals. Im not trying to beg a question here... Really is that a lot of money? $300 isn't enough to live on but it's maybe a quarter of the poverty line? I guess that would be significant when added to social security.

Is that per capital lottery spend just total sales divided by population? The more interesting statistic would be average spend by people who buy at least a ticket a month. I'm sure the $761/month is brought down by people who buy 0-5 tickets a year.
Sure. I'm all for options and pluralism.

I am just that crazy person that believes that default options should err on the safety/integrity/consistency side.

I also love abstractions, but abstractions can't change their underlying fundamental reality.
So I would like to be the one who makes the compromises and I'd like those compromises to be
explicit rather than implicit.
To use more charitable marketing speak Apple definitely strongly uses a second mover advantage, maybe with some secret sauce thrown in.
Other than the jiggling that’s the exact same method as iOS, unless I’m missing something.
"Sterilize the poor" is, historically, not a great road to start down.
I was expecting this to be interesting and was excited to play, but it's not. In fact I found it annoying. But maybe that's the point. From playing it made me thing I could get out of poverty.

"You've made your bed and now you need to sleep in it."
I don't see how programmers wouldn't be able to understand 1 based indexing.
Glad to hear things are not so bad in the UK.
> How on earth is that going to help with anything? Is it going to make their lives better? Is it going to help the kids?

You're assuming that the poster actually cares about these things, and not just shaming people he thinks are below him.
Don't forget the laser printer, postscript, etc
Because a rail link already exists.
You aren't really subsidising it, unless you're making the argument that if organisations - such as Hillsong - paid taxes the overall tax rate would be lowered for all? Ideally this might be true but the cynic in me suggests it wouldn't... well, that and the fact that their income within a given country is relatively insignificant as compared to GDP within that country.

Moreover:

1) Hillsong runs substantially on donations and purchases of their merchandise (including music). Most of the people who give or buy their merchandise are taxpayers themselves.

2) Anyone paid as an employee by Hillsong will pay taxes, just like everyone else. I don't know much about the lifestyles of their senior employees/leaders - maybe it's a televangelist-style Gulfstream-and-champagne-fest, maybe not.

3) We know Hillsong earn a lot of money but we don't know that they keep very much of it[1]. If they're anything like HTB, they quite likely don't[2]: the vast majority will be spent on staffing, ministry, along with a chunk given to support other organisations and causes. Ministry means everything from what you see on a Sunday and special events through to social initiatives such as food banks, homeless shelters, childrens' work, soup kitchens, and educational initiatives (and more) that many churches either support or run.

Point (3) is important because it's the point that makes a church a net good within society (or not, in the absence of it). If they're not a net good then I'd be more inclined to agree that, yes, they should be taxed as businesses rather than not taxed as though they're charities. Quantifying that is obviously non-trivial.

[1] It's possible they do but I don't have any information to hand on this.

[2] At a pure numbers level this is something that distinguishes a charity from a (healthy) business: one does not generate a profit (which is not to say the money shouldn't be used carefully and beneficially: clearly it should), whilst the other does.
Learning KVM – implement your own Linux kernel
I have the opposite experience. I find the Comedy Central reboot episodes, for the most part, to feel strange and 'off'. I can't even put my finger on it. Even the animation seems wonky to me.

Eh, to be honest, the movies weren't great, either. Seasons 1-4 really were kind of 'Futurama's run, I guess.
This is amazing. My conundrum is we don't use Django lol. Wish this sort of thoroughness existed in standalone pg migration tooling.
To discuss the regression of one of the main products of one of the main tech companies BTW. he is right in Firefox the navigation is like crawling through a swamp now.
Perfect timing from Motorola; amidst all the Apple iPhone and Mac proprietary repair nonsense, price gouging, and counterfeit replacement parts floating around in lieu of official ones, this is a beacon in the darkness.
Techies are sure to appreciate the shift in philosophy from a well-established player like Motorola.

The gap between various mobile phones is ever shrinking these days, this is definitely enough to get me to give Motorola serious consideration for my next device.
I know someone from Canada who had the exact same experience (homelessness/drugs/poverty) and is now a staunch conservative, believing that there should be no socialized insurance or provision for anyone.

His rationale is "I picked myself up with no help from the state, so why should I have to pay for others? If you're poor, it's because you're lazy". I was of the opinion that the help he received from his church is just a smaller version of socialized healthcare, but he disagreed.
Dyson seemed to be the Amstrad of vacuum cleaners.
Uber to introduce clean air fee to all London rides
Locking chargers doesn't seem like kind of a thing EU would approve. Considering their stand on unifying all chargers.

Let's see how this plays out.
And if you can do that much mental work, you probably don't need the slide rule. I think a slide rule graduated with "cooking fractions" (i. e. the sizes of measuring cups and spoons that people actually have) would be a good idea.
Goddamn, the frequency of Rust-related articles on the front page must be really telling something positive about this language and its community.
I guess I've fallen to the other side of the chasm (to use Geoffrey Moore terminology), because my initial reaction to this was disinterest and like it wasn't for me. Thank god for early adopters.
This is indeed incredible. My conundrum is we don't use pg :-(