skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run ads - I really, really don't want to advertise to kids so I have an exclusion list of hundreds of kids-oriented apps and youtube channels where Google insists on placing my ads; I believe this is because parents own the phones and log into things and Google thinks it's within the 25-64 demo I chose.

It's exceptionally annoying, because kids click on ads CONSTANTLY - that makes Google more likely to show the ads there and has me paying for absolutely useless clicks over and over.
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I've just started implementing a website which would look like an ideal fit for a non-SPA (online library), but since I am using my own spare time on it, there's no way I will go back to the old non-SPA development.

Most of the problems are solved by using Haskell+Elm+Generating the API types (sharing the code for their encoding/decoding). Testing the backend is way easier through API, and testing UI is better done with hands/eyes.
> "One kilogram of steak needs up to 25 kilos of grain and 15,000 liters of water"

The argument is that in order to produce 1000 calories worth of meat, more resources (e.g. land, water, greenhouse emissions) are needed than to produce 1000 calories worth of plant-based food.

> "Meat just makes up 18% of our calories humans eat"

Same argument: even though meat makes up only 18% of calories in our diets, it produces 58% of agriculture-produced greenhouse gases and takes up a whopping 83% of currently farmed land, compared to overall agriculture [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
My phone, Sony camera, battery bank, and now laptop are all usb-c. I welcome this with open arms.
> I don't like ads, but it's a pretty big stretch to say that it is abuse. Are you talking about ads on the web or on television or in app in particular, or are you talking about print ads or billboards or radio ads as well?

I think he's talking about all of those and the "attention economy" they represent.

Keeping up to date with what's relevant is already difficult enough, it only becomes more difficult if you got ad-interests constantly trying to perform tricks to steal your attention and time.
Not to mention the last time I needed a specific dongle, it had 5 stars and thousands of review.....but the reviews were clearly for a different product.
amazon does not have a product that competes with this. they don't have a low-latency network. Without that, you're limited to coarse-grained parallelism. Supercomputers like this are built for getting near-peak performance across the entire machine by using a low-latency network to accelerate tightly coupled codes.

Modern supercomputers aren't particularly expensive- in the several tens of millions for the capital cost of the machine, several tens of millions for the storage system, several tens of millions for the space, several tens of millions for the power, and a few million for the support staff. In this case, Sierra probably cost $100M for the base machine and storage services.
Yea that's a really good point. The best way for Amazon to deal with the problem is to curate the reviewers, not the reviews, in my opinion.
Website says the RAM is "Configurable to 16GB"
Failing that, just press all the buttons you can find that don't immediately look like they'll cancel your transaction. I've found them all over the place. And I've found pumps that don't have any apparent mute buttons. But not very often.
He means that locals will be kicked out from their homes - or if they are luckier/smarter - will be living as animals in a zoo.

Mass tourism is dystopic. Living in a touristic area is like living in Disneyland: everything is fake. Did you ever wonder why 'experienced' tourists (we like to call ourselves travellers) don't like touristic areas?
Seems like it. Between the tariff fiasco and the unfortunate events in the last week, there is plenty going on which they would want us to not focus on.
Noble sounding but actually a foolish recipe for hyperpolarization. Both sides think the other side is irredeemably evil and therefore they do not need to engage with them or treat them civilly. Yes, that's right, your opponents think you're evil too; shocking, I know.

And if that isn't persuasive enough, bear in mind that if people are forced to choose sides by hyperpolarization, one side is eventually going to win and it might not happen to be yours...
The Obama Administration's "CTO" office pushed for more laws to include working/testable Python code as artifacts to work through conditional logic in the law. A very small selection of Federal laws did get that added, I don't recall which ones.

Exploring the boundaries between legal code and programming code is a fascinating subject, and one of these decades maybe there will be the right combination of nerds in government to see something systematic attempted.
It's true in East Asia as well.

In fact, where is it not true?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
2 experiment on feedback loops
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Discussion from another time this quote was brought up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8408870
We're inching ever so gradually toward idlewords's 2016 piece "Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro".[1]

[1] https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
The remainder of the headline is ",setting up a constitutional battle."

It's not much of a battle. Someone will sue and this will almost instantly be overturned in federal court. The Trump administration knows this.
Nice... but still the same dual core? Shame!
So, the model that AGPL was designed to combat, right?

Under the AGPL, Amazon would be free to do that, as long as they released the code for their managed deployment systems.

(This doesn't get you any money, but it saves you from the sense that your FOSS-work has been exploited by a commercial entity that doesn't give anything back, so long as it's actually enforceable.)
I’m guessing they are subsidizing it. On the how it works page it says

“Any message, regardless of its original size, only generates a 32 byte content hash and costs about $0.03 to submit to the blockchain.”

Also

“CrypoProof is free to use because instead of sending each content hash as a separate transaction, CryptoProof combines all the hashes posted during the same hour into a Release. The release simply contains all the content hashes posted that hour.”
What if part of the reason is the fact that the new tech isn't better enough to justify switching - yet?
Any info on whether the 2018 keyboard update fares much better [1]? I’m seriously considering buying this MBA, but I’m happy with the travel and durability on my 2011 MBA keyboard and primarily spooked by the butterfly keyboard complaints.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macbook-pro/#keyboard
Another option is to setup a FUSE mount for a case-insensitive virtual FS. I remember having to do this to get Civ5 mods to work.
Encouraging the poaching of keystone species like the tiger is bad for the ecosystem and by consequence any advantages humanity gains from the ecosystem are lost.
Agreed. Discord is also what got me off of Facebook entirely.

Discord today feels like how Facebook used to feel when it started: I'm actually friends with everyone on there, and we're having real conversations.

There's also 100% less politics, moral panic, virtue-signaling, outrage, ads, "fake news", Farmville invitations, and similar garbage.

It's nice.
The articles (and report) says pages, not sites. It might just be different URLs of a handful of sites.
It’s about the stages of brain development, and providing choice and education to kids at the level they’re ready for. The hope is that by the time they are exposed to things on their own, you’ve equipped them with the skills and habits they need to navigate the world.

The reason for my gray hairs is that the kids are always ready for the next level of freedom before I am :) Whether it’s the taller swing set, climbing that tree, etc.

It’s a fine line between helicoptering and protecting. And the line is always shifting. My two year old isn’t ready to climb a tree on her own; but soon, she’ll be able to.

So, you can’t protect forever — nor should you. But you can continually stretch their personal responsibility and prepare for what’s coming up on the horizon.
> Although practical, this experience would be humiliating, annoying, and would probably be extremely beneficial for those who truly need it, and might be an eyesore for the rest of us.

i don't think it's inherently humiliating to wear an advertisement. plenty of people pay to do this today (eg baseball hats and branded clothing). now if the advertising is tasteful/stylish enough that people actually want to wear it, probably no one will pay you to do it. perhaps a middle ground exists where people can get paid to wear moderately tasteful ads. for example, the livery of a formula one car is a bit garish, but they do seem to make some effort to make the colors work together.
I suspect the difference is that they still "see" you there. So my friends can't see me, even if they're looking for me and maybe that triggers a reminder in their minds that they need to call/text/whatever me.
No joins? Its a bit trivial then. Otoh, explaining joins is pretty complicated compared to the basics.

This 'Late Payment Email generator' by same person is pretty good : ) I hate figuring out how to write those

https://app.bytescout.com/generate-payment-reminder-email/ge...
This was back in the windows 95/2000 days when it was mostly pop-up malware.
I think this is a "piling problem".

Lot's of good faith actors putting up lots of reasonable ads still results in a massive ad flood for the individual on the receiving end.

After some point the quality stops mattering, it's the sheer quantity that feels overwhelming.
>We do the same here, but there is no proprietary software, only FOSS.

Are you also vegan? ;)
I thought a lot of traditional Chinese culture got run over by the cultural revolution, but this stuff never did. I wonder why.
Is it possible / does it make sense to use this as a Debian machine?
I find the author forget that those problems arise with each new paradigm and each time tools evolves to resolves those problems.
A lot of what is said in the article is true. However the condescension and limited viewpoint are jarring.

Extreme metal is much more than ‘plain old’ death metal bands like CC. There is black, thrash, grindcore, doom, post-metal, industrial and hybrids therof. Just like with any other music (think Leonard Cohen vs U2), there is vast difference in subtlety and sophistication of lyrics in metal. And just because the lyrics are a certain way it doesn’t mean the folks who wrote them aren’t smart - it is hard to ponder the meaning of life while headbanging to the blast beat of a Cannibal Corpse song!
There's a lot of interests in the plants and fungi, or even some animal extracts, used in traditional Chinese medicine because they often do contain active chemicals that may be used.

It's like traditional remedies in the West: The plants used usually really do have medicinal properties.

(I'm not saying that a rhino horn has any useful properties, though...)

Edit: What's wrong, guys?
Yeah, I get the sold out/mainstream/commercial thing but that phrasing has always to me felt like a criticism of the band, when actually I'm resenting the presence of an increased number of fans - about which I should be feeling vindicated and smug.
"We" can maintain a high standard of living if the "we" is sparse enough. If you think as a nation-state citizen, a solution could be restricting immigration. If you think as a globalist, the solution is reducing population.
Like all good arguments, this one comes down to semantics!

I'm not going to argue about what a word or phrase "should" mean, but I am going to say that I think the FOSS community could benefit from being more open to different views in this area.

I think this is a case of dogmatism (that might not be the right word here, in this case i mean overly adhering to definitions) that is causing the entire community to
be worse off.

Similar to how you said many people see the unwillingness to adopt a new term as "infringing on the ideals" of the original, I am seeing an attempt to be more honest and straightforward about the intent and ability to use a product.

GPL and friends "blackmail" companies into wanting to choose the proprietary license. It may not mean to do that, and there is normally no ill intentions, but it does in my experience.

Contrasted to Apache 2 + Common Clause, it's upfront about what you can and can't do. You can use this under the apache 2, unless you want to sell it, and then you can't. There's no need to dance around the fact, or try to play games where you don't "technically" restrict the right to sell, but in practice you do, or you introduce technical complexity to avoid triggering rather arbitrary parts of a license. The "official definition" is causing users to be in a worse position in some cases.

We can argue over semantics until the end of time, but at the end of the day "fair licensing" means nothing to me, but "open source" or "open source with restrictions" does. If the concept of the term "open source" changes, I feel nobody will be really impacted for the worse. Debian won't start suddenly allowing less-free software in their core, they will just continue to use the definition they do now and the list of licenses which are acceptable that they do now. But what will happen is we will see more experimentation with monetization methods that don't rely on loopholes or technicalities in existing licenses to achieve the same thing in practice.
amazon's 'freetime' for their kindle is close. No games in there have any additional cost or ads. the problem is, finding decent games/books/etc, targeted to your kids age. The search/navigation is pretty hit or miss.
Be aware this is an SMR drive, so your writes are going to be heavily limited.
We need (very) high fidelity virtual reality to save the planet, making traveling superfluous. I'm afraid we're still far away from that development.
USB-C is cool but there's no reason they couldn't make a MagSafe USB-C port.
Human's are changing the environment faster than animals can adapt via natural selection. Your philosophy boils down to lining up all the animals, shooting them in the head, and expecting some of them to evolve bullet proof heads. That's not how evolution works.

Human's are part of the ecosystem and we're slitting our own throats by ignoring the damage we're doing to it.
Theres not really any place "too small" for systems like that that I can imagine anyway. we only have 15 people here and we implement filters like that. or in a rough pinch, use one of those free external DNS servers (opendns maybe?) that already have porn filtered out.

The other side Ive seen is "we're all adults, we don't need any filters here" coming from the higher ups. from my experiences, that usually means someone with significant say wants to look at that shit, or more rarely, feels that filters aren't a good use of ITs time.

just CYA on everything in those situations because it usually will end with fingers pointed at IT
Just wondering, in what ways are you different from Front (I’m not too familiar with the space)?
We've reached peak HN, everyone: ads are abuse, breaking and entering, and rape. I guess we're lucky no one has compared them to murder.

I feel bad if any actual victims of these horrific crimes are here; I imagine they wouldn't feel too good about this comparison.
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People who like to make custom collections.
I never really understood fingerprint scanners on phones. Is it really more useful to you than e.g. a headphone jack?
All it said is they've deployed power. That could be 1 server or 1000. I think the fact still stands that of IBM doesn't have them in their cloud, who will?
The OKEx cryptocurrency exchange is delisting over 30 trading pairs this week
when you read this all in one place, it's interesting how many serious open source contenders for MongoDB are around... with solid project histories and a weight of users behind them. Worth checking out this list and then challenging yourself to add some more...
Apple Just Introduced Its New iPad Pro Models–And They Don't Have Home Buttons
Love 'em, hate 'em, miss 'em. 4chan was amazing for years, somewhere until about 2011 where things started going downhill. 2012 was the last year where the "good" content outweighed the bad. There were some cool/niche/offshoot boards that were fun in their own ways, like 7chan, 420chan, Krautchan, Fighting Amphibians. That's where I learned all sorts of power user and computer stuff over the years. Even got to play in a site-famous tournament at one point. I still keep in contact with the people I've met on some of those imageboards. I lurk a few boards that are worth tolerating these days on 4chan, and use other ones merely as resource/content aggregation, like /mu/ for new music.

Places like 8chan, Lainchan, Postbox, etc. are awful. 8chan was cool for like 6 months because it had all of the tinges of old 4chan, but it got co-opted by different groups until it became the alt-right hugbox. Lainchan is just filled with a few different caricatures of previously-underage or mentally unsound 4chan /g/ posters. One thing they all seem to have in common is pretentiousness and a burning need to constantly participate in actual - not humorous - one-upsmanship; they must always be better than the "normies" (an irony here being that they use the new-school "politically correct" version of the parent word) and even the people they deem "worthy" of participating in discussion. They often make spinoff after spinoff, IRC channel after IRC channel, and then cry about having no place to discuss what they want despite having a wasteland of dead spinoff boards and IRC channels. Point out that they're free to discuss their topic on $theLatestSpinoff, and they'll cry about whoever isn't part of their in-group "ruining" their space. It's tiresome and they're not worth any nuggets of information they may hold.

There are one or two up-and-coming imageboards that actually have amicable content and decent users, though.
This is why legislation is necessary!
If you want a mini-ITX form factor Debian machine, you're probably better off skipping the Apple tax and building one yourself. Pros of this Mac mini appear to include: seamlessly runs macOS and high build quality. The internal components (with the exception of specific Apple chips) are commodity. So if you don't want macOS support, you can just make it yourself.
How would something like this work as a non-single-page-app:

https://www.productchart.com/laptops/

Would the user have to chose "32 GB Ram", hit a submit button and wait for the page to reload with the matching laptops?
As a player of a different game, Elder Scrolls Online, is there any similar danger? The add-on system I believe is also Lua.
They're constrained by TDP. The MacBook Air draws too little power (thus having good battery life!) for a quad-core CPU to make sense.
Thankfully there are those of us that are able to understand the difference between a C compatible ABI, and having to actually use the language.
Perhaps but why pay the Apple premium just for the case design when you can also opt for something like https://www.pcworld.com/article/3267074/computers/intel-hade...
"We only have one small planet to live on, and we are destroying it."

We're not destroying the planet, we're destroying our habitat, and the habitat of those animals unfortunate enough to live at the same time as us. The planet is going to be just fine, it's us who's going to suffer.

I love this quote from George Carlin:

"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas."
The article also mentions stack parties in the first paragraph. I believe those to be a common problem with tourism in European cities. That's to me an obvious and extreme case of unacceptable behavior by tourists. People who do things like that are running it for everyone else, the locals and other tourists. Maybe it would be appropriate of those people can stay home and learn how to behave respectfully in a different country before they get to travel again. I see it as every travelers duty to learn about different cultural norms in the destination country and to follow those and of course follow basic decency you'd follow at home. If we don't all do this, we cannot have nice things.
If you work at Google and you really, truly believe that Google's overall work is good, good for you! I suppose I have more self respect to say that if a company is going to push me far enough to walk out, I probably need to move on in general.
I didn't say "faster", I'm not claiming lisp is faster than C++, that's factually wrong. C++ is investing VERY heavily in metaprogramming since they finally figured out metaprogramming is important. Guess what, we knew this since 1960s and had an even better and elegant way of doing metaprogramming. It took ~60 years for us to realize the importance of a key feature of lisp and now we decided to make a hacked-on implementation of it. I'm personally pretty ok with C++, and it's not like this is community's fault given C++ originated from C. I'm just saying that the concept of "doing arbitrary computation in compile time" has been known since the dawn of computer science, and we had an extremely elegant and efficient way of doing it.
This is where skill and experience come in.

Should huge wizards and complex forms be constantly sent back to the server and rendered as each bit is filled in? Of course not.

But if you have a basic CRUD app with a big dashboard, create route, edit route, view route, etc., it's a hell of a lot cleaner to break up each one of these main features into mini SPAs that cleanly refresh the state on the server when moving from one function to another.

Otherwise, you're constantly making duplicate calls to ensure you've got the data you want as you really can't be sure if some previous click from one of dozens of in-memory widgets has stale or incomplete data.

At least that's been my experience working on a few legacy apps written in AngularJS and, God forbid, JQuery. At that time, an Asp.Net or GWT app would have probably been easier to maintain as the duct tape increased over the years.

Maybe React and Vue allow for cleaner architectures, but older apps were a pain.
The "extreme hostility" is not against alternative development/licensing models, but against doing X but saying it's Y.

It's obviously everyone's choice to pick whatever license / licensing model you want. The Commons Clause is getting all the flak merely because it pretends to be OSS-compliant, which it (pretty obviously) is not.
They never do. I think the attitude of a lot of pols is "we can pass the laws, let the courts decide if they are constitutional". But if you know for a fact that a law is not constitutional, I don't see how you square that with the oath of office.