skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Facebook, after all, is a platform historically powered by prioritizing and rewarding a very simplistic idea of user engagement. You react to something, or you don’t. And if you do, you’ll see more of the same.

This again. It's another variant on the themes I discuss in "Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?" https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo.... Facebook will change when users quit or dramatically cut back using it. Until then, actual users are telling Facebook, "Full steam ahead."
I think webview is rarely enough. If you already have React experience then building React Native is only marginally more difficult than a web app but the UX is much better.
I haven’t used their app, but scaling an app isn’t actually that difficult if the backend can handle it. I don’t think that their use of RN is relevant here unless you think there’s no way that a native iOS app of similar complexity couldn’t be built by two devs? But then you’d have to explain all the counterexamples, or even where a solo dev builds an app that goes viral and gets millions of users...
Oh I absolutely agree that it can be done, I just wish the article had went into more details about how that's done...
Not really, it starts a sub-event loop that still handles all the events sequentially. What can be a problem is infinite recursion, if inside an event handler a new nested event loop is started.
Are you seriously arguing deployment should cease because of a theft risk?

I don't doubt the theft risk exists. I'm asking if you are catastrophising to "..so we shouldn't do it" or just observing a downside risk component.
It's not, but it's certainly a factor. EMU and DMUs are not manufactured on a regular basis in the US due to the different requirements and the size of the market, so each order is essentially an expensive custom order. The rolling stock that does exist here usually performs less well.

Because of the cost of (and in some cases impossibility of) buying multiple-units, passenger railroads here are operated using a locomotive and some railcars; this is very inefficient, especially for commuter or regional rail which stops and starts fairly regularly. DMUs would almost certainly be cheaper and more performant to run.
It's probably their policy or culture, not union-related. Publix (employee-owned) and Kroger (union) are in that space. Their management orders them to go out of the way for customers even with losses on some stuff. It's a customer loyalty strategy. Costco just has to do enough to keep a member. They have good service at mine, though.
I want to know what prohibits someone from going to shenzhen and ordering a line of open bootloader android phones. Seems that would be a lot easier than what librem is doing.
Minimum wage laws mean you'd have to pay them more than a one time cost of $18,000 which is the robot's price tag.
The Bloomberg editors stand with the reporters, so no apology. Besides some angry press statements, there hasn't been detailed evidence that, without a shadow of a doubt, disproves Bloomberg's story.
If you have a Raspberry Pi, you have already all the hardware to run Lisp. There is very little reason to develop special hardware. Lisp runs nicely on an ARM processor.

Actually some the first ARM processors were supposed to run a Lisp operating system. When Apple did the research&development for the Apple Newton, they originally attempted to run a Lisp-like system on mobile systems like PDAs and tablets. This Lisp dialect was derived mostly from Scheme and Common Lisp - the language was eventually called Dylan. Apple had ARM systems in their lab which ran a Dylan OS. When they at one point chose the ARM processor, Apple invested in ARM and they used a chip which was able to support a garbage collected language. Unfortunately these Lisp operating systems by Apple did not reach the market and Apple instead sold the Apple Newton with an OS kernel written in C++ and the software on top written and scripted in NewtonScript - a language with many aspects from Lisp - incl. garbage collection.
However, I could easily write the sort of twaddle that the NY times seems to consider publishable nowadays.
Would China opening businesses outside of China due much to help the Chinese economy? I would assume most of the gain will flow to the local economy and the 1% Chinese elite
“The top 5 corporations in the world are, in order, Apple-Google-Microsoft-Amazon-Facebook”

I literally can not find a criteria that would support this claim.

Market cap - no. Revenue - no. Customer satisfaction? Employee satisfaction? Contribution to society? No.
Why would he start sending patches for them? He already benefits from BBR himself. He doesn’t need to lift everyone else to enjoy the benefits, unlike the IPv4 to IPv6 transition.
> the US and GBR allied themselves with Russia

I am not sure what is the point of bringing this up. Obviously they had no choice, since they were at war with Germany. Today the situation is completely different.
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They are running the event loop recursively so it shouldn’t deadlock like an ordinary queue.
I'm not saying that they don't happen, but they are extremely slow to gain traction because of various things including OS support.
Hmm, saw this just before heading out. It's not a troll. It has nothing to do with having a boss, it has to do with knowing you are getting a guaranteed paycheck and knowing you need that to survive or maintain a certain lifestyle.
Experience the Joy and Pain of Chicago Transit, in a Card Game
You did not misunderstand: that is a new thing in Safari
'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' accused of racism over seating of Franklin
Ask HN: What are the best programmer conferences?
Perhaps in the form of whatever that 1% manages to spend at home rather than abroad, and whatever they can't hide from the local taxes.
California is a Democrat Monopoly and still the coast is riddled with Sacramento approved drilling

Jerry Brown was asked why he continued to approve offshore drilling and his response was that he refused to put so many out of work.

Downvoters disprove me or go back to Huffpost

Newsom won't end drilling either. But sure, it's all Trump's fault
It definitely made this Fitbit employee annoyed!
I would also buy a Lisp Machine, provided I could afford one. I'm really interested to see this software environment that I've heard spoken so highly of. What I've understood so far of it sounds amazing.
The smooth ride is great, but does anyone know how this is going to affect speed?

Would be very interesting to hear how much this would affect the Acela time (I know there are a lot of other issues affecting train speeds in that case, such as zoning).

Similarly would be cool if the upshot of this is that in 10 years, Metro North and LIRR are significantly faster.
”lack of legal protection could further diminish the tokens’ value, particularly if it stops financial concepts such as trusts or securities being applied”

I also see advantages. If you don’t own bitcoin, money converted into bitcoin is free from taxation, so if you do work in return for bitcoin, you don’t have to pay income tax over it, if you sell stuff in exchange for bitcoin, there’s no sales tax, if you give the keys to your bitcoin to your heirs, there’s no inheritance tax, etc.

That could make bitcoin very, very popular.

Because of these, I doubt the idea will hold in court.
Haha, I spent years running around the world with SLRs, now I have a kid I have no energy for it and just shoot mobile.
This is literally what has killed any work on sctp in my experience.
I think the best way to prepare for the coming century would be to train hard. Study agriculture, soil science, horticulture. Regularly train to build strength and endurance. Maybe learn how to fight. Feel free to work on your 401k as well, but I think a better metric of your security is "How far can you carry 60 pounds of supplies and equipment in a day?"
Juuls nicotine salts are dominating the market and other companies want in
It’s failing miserably at driving down salaries.
Generally you pull the ram before you cool it, so this wouldn’t do much.
> There's a brief with a signmaker who doesn't admit an association with Choc

Thanks to whom we're duly informed that these Choc signs are not really advertising at all, but mere graffiti.
On the other hand: if nobody is buying your product, it doesn't matter how perfectly it works.
It didn't help that the US shifted from being a third-world, low cost labour center, to a first world economy.

US farmers - ~$9.50 USD a month ~1850's
Euro labourer -~$652.44 USD a month ~1850's

Silver value in USD:
https://commodityhq.com/education/a-brief-2000-year-history-...

References -

US Labour Rate(Farmers - page 6): https://www.nber.org/chapters/c2486.pdf

Europe Labour Rates (Labourer - pages 6):
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/2150/allen-greatdiv.pdf
It's SO good, in fact, that when I was visiting Tokyo with my 12 year old a few years ago and he was bored of looking at guitars with me in Ochanomizu, I just let him take the train back to our accommodations without me.

Tokyo is so safe, friendly and easily navigable I didn't give it a second thought.
And yet that hasn't worked so far at all.
An LMI Lambda (shipped 1st gen machine that was an evolved MIT CADR) emulator is at: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
Have you seen the photos of Paradise, California? Of this year's hurricanes? Depending on where this person lives, they may already be experiencing very serious effects. Good-bye retirement savings if you have to rebuild or migrate to a less-vulnerable area.
I don't agree. Facebook has to make changes given the risk of regulation, reputational risk, recruiting challenges, and the mismatch in their own self-professed mission.

We can debate if the change will be substantial enough to truly change things (I'm doubtful), but they have already made changes due to this media coverage (hiring more content moderators as just one example).

Throughout history, media has always had to weigh the tradeoffs of informing people vs engaging people. Yellow journalism in the US was an example of when the engagement imperative overwhelmed the informing imperative, and the issues did lead to changes in media. Facebook is going through this same journey (though painfully and slowly).
No one reading HN today will ever experience it
In theory, I agree. But again, speaking from personal experience as the maintainer of several somewhat popular projects, it is actually emotionally difficult to update the maintenance status. It appears trivial from the outside, and to some extent I agree with what you're saying about being respectful of others' time, but we should nevertheless do our best to be kind to others. Calling out a maintainer in an off topic comment is not being kind.
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A Man’s Last Letter Before Being Killed on a Forbidden Island
It's a prisoner's dilemma, no wonder rational actors chose to maximize personal safety by making the problem worse for everybody else. An arms race of mechanical impulse.

An intervention to restore correct incentives would impose lower speed limits for heavy personal vehicles, electronically enforced.
It’d serve as an intro to his series.
I think it works really well: different people do different levels of investment and decisions regarding the personal health. Some to scooter, others to bike, others to walk. Some choose to live in a more crime ridden area, others safer. Some people choose to avoid gluten, others to avoid carbs.

Even on healthcare, in countries were the system is not so busted as in the us, people choose to have premium insurances over regular ones, to get better care ,and others choose not to.

> But rationing healthcare on that basis is ultimately going to benefit nobody.

Its not rationing healthcare: its bearing the burden of individual choices.
Start here: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18489967
Majority of people are not engineers. Engineers focus on engineering by definition. Altrough this is primary entrepreneurs forum, many here are still engineers who kow a lot about that and did not studied sociology.

Nothing stops you from learning about other issues and becoming activist. Plenty of forums about that.
So you don't believe the fiery hellscape that is California in 2018 is climate related at all?
You're honestly going to empty your 401k because someone else's house burned? Ok

Does everyone just want to take a breather here and ask why an upvoted subthread is claiming that it is nonsensical to save for retirement because the TV says we will all die in a fire. Seriously, this isn't even worthy of Reddit.

Come on HN, try to trend above the IQ of Huffpost, you can do it
Yes. If you're unwilling to live by the charges you are demanding others make, your credibility is weakened.

The jet travel may be justified, but if he believes what he is saying he should be flying commercial and the extravagance in the rest of his lifestyle looks really hypocritical.
90% efficient panels would have ~4x smaller area. Wouldn't be that easier to clean and secure from bird poo etc?
We also dont know what the cost of mandatory vaccinations actually is: you will need to start prosecuting people, potentially putting them in jail if they resist. Im actually shocked at how casually people throw around mandatory and forcefully in the whole vaccine situation.
I would imagine they rely on the nanotube lengths being non-uniform. Manufacturing variability as a feature!
> It's easy to think, as long as there are an even number of lonely people in an area you can just pair them up and everybody can have companionship.

That is not how human relationships and psychology works.
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It's pretty much what private equity companies have been doing with aging enterprise software firms but taken to the next level re replacing virtually everyone.
Is that even close to what I said?

[edit: but on second thought, maybe more of us should consider donating some portion of our retirement savings to those who have had their entire lives wiped out by disaster and are immediate distress. Thanks for the nudge.]
> that aren't designed to survive collisions with freight trains

They are designed to survive collision with freight trains. In Europe we also have freight trains on our passenger tracks. They're just designed to survive them in a different way - by deforming to absorb impact rather than being rigid to resist it.
ggreer: I have no grudge, hopefully ag will continue to be a success for its users but it'd be lovely if people could contribute to making it even more of a success. I believe there are some easy ways to achieve that (expanding the core team if you were ameanable or somewhere or shomehow ossasionally explaining why PRs are not getting looked at), and some not so easy ways (CI with good testsuites and benchmarks).

I apologise for my overly aggressive comments, I did not handle the fact I really hoped to help out on ag and got frustrated by the experience very well (at all).

Have a nice weekend.
Also: https://rebellion.earth/
Don’t mean to be mean (i’ve been there) but this is the money line “Re-written the code base 4 times (Laravel, Vanilla JS, React, then back to Vanilla JS).”

Is the goal to ship or play? If latter, no harm done, else that’s your resistance, nothing else.
There's something ironic about Buzzfeed advocating for content distribution reforms on Facebook. Buzzfeed owes its entire existence to gaming Facebook's engagement algorithm via clickbait.

What if the fix Buzzfeed is asking for involves less distribution for outlets like Buzzfeed? I'd support that.
Working without javascript requires money. Running old versions of HTTP requires ????.
Recently moved to Europe.

I have to say the trains are ubiquitous and frequent. They seem very safe.

It's a hugely better experience.
This is something I really wrestle with. I intrinsically care about clean architecture and clean code so much that I spend far too much time procrastinating and gold-plating. I realise I'm "doing it again" every so often, but invariably tell my self "yeah, yeah, but it won't take much longer". 4 hours later, I'm still at it :/

I don't know if it's my enterprise upbringing (been working for a megacorp for ~20 years), my love of tech, or my language of choice (C#, which I love, BTW), but sometimes I wish I could just ship a working product.
Ask HN: Anyone here deadlifts daily? What changes have you observed?
1) I think that when one of two parties is condemning the world to grave harm on the basis of corruption, graft and ignorance, it's worth explicitly calling that out as a bad thing irrespective of how that party responds.

2) The Republican Party doesn't represent the will of half the electorate at a national level—they received a minority share of the vote in the last presidential, house and senate elections, and only by virtue of the antiquated, undemocratic, and intentionally manipulated system we use do Republicans hang on to power. In a modern democracy with the electorate we have, we wouldn't be in this situation. No plan for "wiping out" millions of people needed.

3) I see the challenge facing us differently. We have to galvanize and activate the political energy and force of people who want the world to be safe and healthy as much as possible in order to forcibly extract concessions on the part of the ruling minority and set the stage for the reclamation of the government. If the large majority that support solving this crisis were mobilized, this would create enormous pressure for things to change.

To put it your way, unless you have a plan for changing the minds of millions of Republicans in the face of decades of increased polarization, a multi-billion-dollar propaganda apparatus working in concert with the president, and a near-endless supply of money from very rich corporations who benefit from our current paralysis, you'll have to settle for applying as much pressure on Republicans as we can.
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Games like agar.io and slither.io use websockets over TCP because browsers don't allow you to use UDP packets. The author of one of them (sorry I forget which) blogged about their adventure, and IIRC they still have lag issues, and there isn't a way to resolve them without switching to UDP.

I've personally worked on multiplayer game engine code and I assure you that UDP is far superior for VOIP and game state packets. TCP requires far too much overhead, requires packets be received in order, etc.

These make no sense for a game engine. If we have a sequence of player movements, lets say their X position [1, 2, 3], but we miss a packet [1, -, 3] we're fine, we only want their most recent packet. But the protocol will require acknowledgment and that packet to be resent, so it will require 8 different packets be sent, instead of 3! We don't even need the packet!

A lot of games are implementing web based technologies for their UIs (Panorama for example) and those will of course use TCP but that's not what the actual game server uses for VOIP/game state
No, I was using "amplifier" in a slightly more general sense to mean "a circuit that uses power to turn a weakly driven signal into a strongly driven signal." You are absolutely correct that a SRAM cell would drive a near zero signal closer to zero and that this behavior differs from a linear amplifier which would drive a near zero signal further away from zero.

Here was my conundrum: a more general term like "active circuit" risked leaving people behind while a more specific term like "buffer" or "driver" didn't highlight the analogy between SRAM and DRAM. I chose "amplifier" as a compromise, hoping that people who were familiar enough to worry about bistability would be comfortable with the generalized definition while people who barely hanging on would miss that detail entirely but still get my point. Sounds like I caught you in the middle. Sorry for the confusion.
It's more than a few percent improvement. 2018 car models are far more survivable than what we had 20 or even 10 years ago. Check out the injury and death statistics. For a given size the weight increase in that time hasn't been anywhere near a few hundred kilograms. And with modern high-strength steel or carbon fiber the weight can actually go down, although that drives up prices.
Julian Assange: Will embassy shake-up leave WikiLeaks founder out in the cold?
Sure thing, here: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/14/#section-1
Code in browser
Who are the bosses? How do they get chosen? Browsed around and read some comments but didn't see it.
Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years
I don't agree simply because it is very common for diy solar water panel systems to leak all over the place. There at least needs to be prescriptive code to help reduce instances of crap work. But since it is a lot of pipe in a small footprint, it just makes sense to have it made in a factory with better quality control.
Honestly I think ship now ship often deserves an asterisk by it. When you’re designing large and intricate back ends for a system that needs it, and you’re a PM who only sees things in terms of end-user features, it’s easy to set yourself up for failure trying to ship so fast that you accumulate technical debt faster than you can ever pay it down (because you underengineer the underlying platform but need to support it forever to meet SLA, and good luck arguing for a complete rewrite)

That is, no mantra above a certain level of abstraction should be adhered to too strictly. Sometimes it’s better to ship 3 months later if it means 3 years of way simpler support and scaling
My intuition is that no elevator could destroy its building even in free fall. Considerations: terminal velocity (air drag, weight, friction on the rails), mass, the surrounding part of the building, etc. Even a very heavy elevator in a half mile tall building would seem to be relatively low energy.

10,000 kg hitting at 400 km/s is equivalent to about the energy of 15 kg of TNT. The first WTC bombing was much more and the building withstood it.
> About 80% of obese people with sleep apnea would be asymptomatic if they reduced to a non-obese weight.

Where are you getting this from? I didn't see anything like it in the study you linked, it doesn't match the general impression I've gotten reading other OSA studies, and it's unusual for lifestyle intervention studies to have a large number of people lose enough weight to go from obese to non-obese. Are you sure that you're not neglecting some other qualification of the population (e.g. mild sleep apnea, bariatric surgery)?

> For this subset of people, shouldn't insurers (and often the Public) encourage the patient to use the free, safe, and natural solution (eating less) before being dependent on an expensive machine?

No, because weight loss takes time, and there's nothing particularly safe about leaving OSA untreated in the interim. Weight loss is a fine thing to pursue for overweight and obese OSA patients, but deciding up-front to do that instead of CPAP is reckless. I agree with the authors of the study you linked when they conclude that "it is clear that treatment of OSA cannot be limited to any single strategy, but rather requires a multidisciplinary approach". Not every patient will respond to or tolerate every treatment approach, and the possibility of synergistic effects should not be ignored.
‘12 Monkeys’: Why Terry Gilliam’s Movie Is Relevant Today
Kotlin strongly nudges the dev towards a more functional approach.
Also, in terms of old video games, this is a visualization of cpu instructions per scan line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ph2OVqZeM

Around 8m24s you can see how the cpu pauses while ram is refreshed on the SNES. You can see that it’s basically once a scanlije. I found it helpful to visualize how often RAM has to be refreshed (ballparked).
I guess that is why some people watch sports too