skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of maybe 3 regular-old gay men on the whole site.

"regular-old gay"??? Would you care to articulate what this even means? What is 'regular' gay? Is there a 'regularity' of being gay or are you applying YOUR presumptions of sexual orientation to a group of people you've never met?

I feel like this probably says much more about how you're using the site than you (probably) intend to give off, and further belies what your associations with the LGBT and kink communities are even to begin with describing things so lackadaisically and I'm not sure I'm inclined or convinced by anything you're really countering with as to what the Fetlife community even is.

It seems limited, surface-level, and full of projections that reduce a spectrum of experiences, desires and wishes for the site down to some personal hangups that really aren't worth discussing here.

And if this comment seems inflammatory to you, then I'll point back to the very beginning of my apoplectic response to your "regular-old gay" comment as an example of exactly how it feels.

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Anyhow, that aside I'm leaving the discussion to rest with this: Fetlife isn't a 1:1 replacement for EVERY disaffected Tumblr user out there, but it is a good alternative for some, has good features for some, and can be a good and enjoyable community for others.

The gay leather community, which literally invented BDSM, is bearly represented at all.

This is patently false to the point of almost being humorous, but also and even so, the Kink world is several times larger than the "gay leather community". It's mdae up of more people with more varied interests than whatever outmoded idea of Kink you have from the 80's.

I probably did a poor job phrasing that from the start, here-admittedly, or getting the point across that it has features some may find attractive to use for the type of content they want to publish, but to be honest I find your particular characterization in response as a counterpoint to be missing a lot of nuance of the platform, and one that dismisses and completely erases entire social-groups who use the site successfully to create their own local communities, groups and networks based on a few cherrypicked features.

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If you'd like, I would be MORE than willing to share with you some of the groups and events on the site that (1) aren't about "white heteronormative sex" or (2) full of stupid rants, because contrary to what you're putting out here: they are NOT that hard to find, they are NOT that hard to join, and they are ABSOLUTELY welcoming to all sorts of flavors, identities and orientations. I really suggest you take a much closer look at the site than someone who made an account ten minutes ago and decided their mind is made up
Work in progress!

The linked graph are in PDF, and should update every hour soon.

The website is made to be fast to read, and give essential information. It should load very fast. No ads. No metrics. No bullshit.

The JSON API is similar to the deprecated CMC API. But no need of API key and you get not just the last price, but bid and ask.

Feedback is much appreciated!
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Everything old is new again. Popular High-Level Synthesis compilers like to generate systolic arrays, because they map so well to FPGA architecture.
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"Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none." (From Hamilton)
What makes you think that? I don’t think a college degree is strictly necessary to be an intelligent person.
Nuclide is just a giant “Let’s reinvent everything” add on from FB add on Atom. Frankly, it has a bunch of very weird and hard to configure functionality that’s already provided (or can be provided) as separate plugins for Atom. It’s really awkward and painful, reaks of FB.

All that said, the remote code editing has the best editing UX, but at the same time, super sucks because it requires a special nodejs server to run on your remote system, and that requires yet another watchman daemon, and all this needs to stay version compatible with your Nuclide plugin.

I don’t recommend it, unless you currently work at Facebook. Otherwise, just use Atom.
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I have no CS degree. I've been developing professionally since 1999. (I had no degree of any kind at the time - I've since picked up a couple of non-technical associate degrees that really have no bearing on my career)
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I use Firefox but I disagree with them that MS switching to chrome is a bad thing.

It eliminates from the equation a browser implementation that never really was that popular and at best sort of did what other browsers did without actually doing much different.

You have to ask what the point for MS would be to continue to fund that. It wasn't buying them much positive differentiation. They had a little, mainly in the form of some performance benefits. But mostly people ended up using Chrome or Firefox, even on Windows 10. Mostly it was differentiating negatively for them in the sense that it had its own sets of unintentional compatibility bugs that most web developers did not prioritize working around.

Several years into the windows 10, it's been largely a success for MS. Edge is the exception however. They made a few strategic mistakes with it (still under Balmer), the primary one being to make it windows 10 only. This made some sense when the plan still was windows 10 on every device but that went out of the window when Satya Nadella unceremoniously killed off windows phone. So while windows did well, Edge did not. Worse, MS now had to support pretty much everything they did on Android, IOS, and Mac OS as well. So, having their own browser engine just made that more complicated for them without offering any benefit. Porting it to other platforms would have been a serious investment, without any clear benefits or a path to success.

Arguably, already at the time you could have questioned the logic of putting vast resources into duplicating the efforts of several open source browser engines with the explicit goal to do exactly the same functionally. IMHO it was largely the not invented here syndrome that drove Balmer/MS to do this. The new found pragmatism under Nadella produces different decisions. So, they keep the UI but they swap out the internals for of the shelf OSS that works perfectly fine. Happy users, happy developers, less cost. Not the hardest decision he's had to take I imagine.

As to Firefox, they have an ongoing project to re-implement their engine in Rust that is producing clear benefits in addressing pain points in their old implementation that are also common to other C++ based implementations. They've been doing a great job staying on top of web standards and are a good contributor to them, often pioneering features such as wasm or webauthn in Firefox first. So, their implementation and focus on privacy adds value and they have lots of users that appreciate what they do and how they do it.

I get their frustration that Google is gaining more power here where MS used to provide some independent voice in e.g. standards committees. But lets be fair here, MS wasn't doing a whole lot on that front and was basically just struggling to keep up without adding much value. Few web developers will mourn the need of having to deal with Edge specific rendering issues. Most users won't be able tell the difference. And having MS scrutinize what Google does with Chromium and kicking their ass in the standards bodies might help in keeping them honest.
Browser Civil War in 3-5 years?

Microsoft as a big enterprise will likely push their charm to improve things in chromium. And Google as another big enterprise with good control over chromium till now will proably not like all their changes. So how good is the chance for some friction and later an open conflict of interessts to appear?
Yes in that sense AMP is a business contact rather than a technical innovation. "Follow these rules and we'll tell users that we think your site is fast and maybe prioritise it in search results".

That's why you can't have a fast news site without it - because new site owners won't follow the rules needed to make their site fast unless they get something in return other than speed. Only AMP gives that.

If Google based is lightning bolt etc. on measured page speed instead then yes you might not need AMP. But they don't.
How many people live edit shaders tho
It’s not a good solution at all; it makes no sense in the context of source control because the repository IS the undo button, and copying discarded changes to the recycle bin would just add a lot of incoherent duplication into the recycle bin for no reason. Not to mention that’s not how git works, so it’d have to be added as a git extension, and you’d end up with people who actually know how their source control tools work feeling confused and annoyed that their editor is changing how their familiar tools work.

I mean, if you point software you don’t understand at work that’s not backed up you shouldn’t be shocked if it does something you don’t like
Personal medical problem would be treated by a doctor - ie. methadone, etc. Instead it is treated as a personal vice problem - ie. dealers/LEO instead of doctors.
I just remember two strong passwords. My master password for my manager and my gmail password. My gmail can recover pretty much all my other passwords. Also I keep backup secrets for my gmail as well. This feels robust enough, but backing up my password manager might be wise too.
That is a great metaphor for how important things like Taligent seemed at the time, which is hard to imagine now. Does anyone remember the Newton OS? It was very strange and still kind of visionary. There were all these bold ideas for operating systems and we kind of settled on Unix with a GUI layer or VAX with a GUI layer. That was good enough.
Come on Japan! I expected more imagination from you guys.
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Wouldn't it be Rust or Haskell by this logic?
Being 19 isn't a free pass to do anything. At 19 you are old enough to vote, drive, serve in the army, etc — and old enough to understand that words have consequences and that calling people "dumb fucks" when they give you their SSN is pretty cruel.

I'm not much older than 19 now, maybe you can use this conversation for your purpose.
1 MB is incredibly compact by news site standards.

Try a random article page like https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/07/tech/australia-encryption...

I refreshed a few times, scrolling to the bottom of the page each time. According to Chrome dev tools even without a video playing between 6 MB and 21 MB was transferred just for me to scroll to the bottom of the page.
Performance sensitivity is a rather relative line, I understand your point but I’ve heard people argue that C was the performance sensical choice as opposed to C++, or assembly rather than C. I love python but I wouldn’t use it for everything. I really enjoy Go but the use cases for me are smaller than most people I know that use Go daily. At work we have to use Go and I’ve had to make the argument to use JVM for some services and Erlang/Elixir for other use cases. I could’ve done everything in Go, but it really felt more dogmatic than pragmatic
Reminds me of that book
> This seems like a really neat idea! I think it would be cool to use
> plain source code to completely bootstrap a system.

Technically that's what we are working towards. Idealogically, we are
working towards moving awarenes in our communities from `neat idea' to
`unbelievable that in 2018 we still used and trusted computers that
had no bootstrappable audit trail!'

> But, at the same time, this sounds like a maintenance nightmare!
> Maintaining older or smaller versions of software just to avoid
> self-hosting is bound to hit all kinds of bugs - big and small.

You are not suggesting that we stop our efforts because it will
require work and may contain bugs, rigth? ;-)

Until now, this has been the effort of a very small team. The choice
for tcc-0.9.26 and gcc-2.95.3 was a pragmatic one. We hope that when
awareness of bootstrappable software rises we can make some better
choices.

I would love for the TinyCC and GNU GCC developers (any software
developers, really) to take the lead in creating their own
bootstrappable stories; we just showed it can be done.

> At the same time, I'm not convinced this completely solves the
> problem. Maybe you can trust your C compiler now, but can you trust
> your Bash interpreter, or your sed command?

Right, doing only part of the work does not solve the problem. The
solution will be built from a number of such steps. One of those
steps may involve hardware; I'm sure it's a long path.

> What stops them from injecting things into your C compiler while
> it's building. At the end of the day, you have to trust some
> software, why not include your C compiler in this list?

Some of us have decided that is just not good enough, that we would
like our softwares not only reproducible but also bootstrappable, and
are we working towards that.

There is Stage0 and M2-Planet to take care of what's below Mes.

We have also started work on a Bash replacement in Scheme (using GNU
Guile initially) that comes with a minimal implementation of
coreutils, grep, sed, tar. I have managed to build GNU make and Bash
using that: https://twitter.com/janneke_gnu/status/1070434782973063168

> Anyway, I am much more concerned about much higher places in free
> software bootstrapping. Lots of software has switched from Autotools
> to Meson without thinking about how we will bootstrap this
> stuff. Meson requires you to have Ninja to work, but how can I
> bootstrap Ninja without Python?

Surely that the technical part of that problem can be solved quite
easily once the respective developers of those projects are becoming
aware of bootstrapping and reproducibility and decide to give it
priority?

Happy hacking!
janneke
I generally get substantially better results from engineers than from CS graduates.

If you are serious about programming as a profession, study engineering. The job has changed enormously over decades, but engineers train for adaptability.
Very fast indeed. Hard work paid off!
The deletions are made through git, and windows git does not use the recycle bin, presumably because it's a linux-first tool
YES, this is what I have been waiting for. A month ago I lost a USB with my keepass file on it. The file is encrypted with a good password but I would feel better if I could reset all my passwords just in case but that would take me days.
Can you imagine any ways in which that kind of AI can be used for good (or less bad), however unlikely?
If yes, become an AI researcher/policy shaper or donate to groups that might be able to make progress towards the better outcomes.
> I just want to do the smart thing at any given second.

I can recommend Brain Rules and if you don’t want to read the book at least watch the videos as they are so funny.
Given the amount of devs that mix gcc or Linux for what ISO C or POSIX actually are, I would say the situation is not much different on the Web.
The interview process reminded me of the theoretical exam for a drivers license. If you pick the option that sounds least crazy, you're fine.
I think a large proportion of the elderly need to be under some degree of supervision, especially in their interactions with the outside world. Ideally their relatives would assume the role of guardians, and failing that, some organization that specializes in providing this kind of oversight.
If they don't show up in the comment section they might as well not pretend to be part of the community.
> nonbiased entity (Google)

You probably meant it the other way round?
Caching is still important, but there's no point in designing a good caching strategy if the user's very first impression of the site is poor - if they don't come back then they won't benefit from caching. If you use the more advanced media query links mentioned in the article you get the benefits of a minimal first load and the benefits of caching.
The Chuo Shinkansen is also a maglev line built mostly underground; it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
That is exactly what happened, yes. Without the throttling, the battery can't deliver peak power, and the device crashes.
Similarly. People fear lack of precedent or parting with convention much more than justified.
If we learned anything from SNAP, it's that investors are still greedy. APPF is a good example of a recent IPO that has done very well since its IPO date. IMHO, hyped up companies like Lyft have all the value sucked out before the IPO.
> I'm confused about the distinction. How can a worker be forced to join a union in the absence of an agreement between the company and the union to only hire union workers?

A worker can't be forced to join a union even in the presence of such an agreement. The company simply agreed not to hire them if they don't join.
Robust autocomplete is probably the most important tool for a language there is though. It's a shame that Rust doesn't have it and I'm slightly concerned that in never will - type inference means in lots of places there simply isn't enough information to do autocomplete properly.
Sure, it's a mid-2012 MBP with the "high res" matte screen. A six year old machine is hardly an edge case in the context of a problem you've been seeing for at least five years. I've not had problems with FF performance on the handful of retina machines I've used for work either.

If the Mozilla devs aren't paying attention to and haven't remedied the problem you're experiencing, perhaps you're the edge case?
I always found it rather interesting how similar Buddhism is to Christian, and how different they are typically taught.

The teaching of Jesus and Buddha are really giving you the exact same advice. Self-sacrifice, honesty, hard work and being decent while you accept all the shit life throws at you and let it pass, because it will, are the ways to live calmly and fully in between the eternal struggle chaos and order.

I personally think the eastern approach was easier to comprehend than the western. Ying and yang are two dragons locked in eternal struggle, one is chaos one is order but within each dragon is a small piece of the other. Let too much of one dragon into your life and you will suffer, and since chaos lives within order (and vice versa) it’s also a fruitless struggle to chose one, because the other will always find a way to creep in.

You’ll find the same essence in the bible and the moral struggle between good and evil and a God who never tells you what he wants, but to me, it was much less clear. Perhaps especially because 90% of religions scholars are assholes and in the west you don’t meet the eastern assholes but you do meet a lot of shitty priests.
Jeez it's just data! Use a standard format for serialization and then use programs to format it for reading & everyone gets to read it the way they like it
If you avoid e-commerce companies you're likely to still find these jobs. And as a matter of fact; these companies struggle more and more to hire people like you, because most of your peers rely on wrappers around AWS/GCP/Azure.

A lot of trading companies for instance will be looking for people like you. (In fact; i'm hiring people like you).
Co author here - I make the API and the backend.

The numbers come from a large sample of exchanges, with several million new datapoint added every day to cover every crypto we find important.

It is more of a hobby for me, but I hope you like it!
Yes. Eventually, Li-Ion batteries will "puff up" due to chemical degradation and may even spontaneously catch fire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/55q7py/why_do_l...
I don't think its anti-competitive considering they don't need to provide any third party APIs at all. Plus it's not like to create a social app you absolutely need FB login or FB data. I think if your company can't make it and you're blaming FB for not giving you enough data maybe your business model was a little too dependent on Facebook in the first place.
Perhaps that blowup pilot from Airplane?
The HSR will be overpriced, but it may benefit the state for a long time. The BART train used to not go to SFO because the counties below SF did not want to pay for it. And then they did. Was it too expensive? I don't know. My grandchildren will probably be able to take BART from SF to the airport. What they would those counties spent on that would benefit my grandchildren?
I'm a little confused - so if the docs "just gives narcotics without considering alternatives", then that's supposed to be WRONG and encouraging addiction. But if the doc feels other potentially beneficial treatments such as facet joint injections should be tried first, then they are accused of coercing the patient into an unnecessary procedure, essentially bribing then with narcotics. Damned if you do and damned if you don't...
I would like to know how much subcutanious fat he has
The AMP Project site itself is ~500kb.

https://www.ampproject.org/ (desktop version is AMP-ified too).
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Actually nothing wrong at all. Organizations also become kind-of living entities and self-preservation becomes paramount.

Nature maintains balance because it is not invested in the future of any species in particular. Nature cannot be manipulated emotionally. No psychological tricks work.

Society is supposed to play the same role. However, society delegates this responsibility to an elected few. Neither the society nor the elected few are immune from manipulation at different levels.

Summary: The governing system has to be unemotional, like Nature. In such a system, anti-competitive (or any other type) behaviors may yield results in short-term, but over a period of time, such a system becomes a great leveler.

For example, even with all our progress and monopoly over earth's resources, we are just one great flood away from going back to stone age.
I have a colleague whose Mac has the same issue as you (2015 MBP 15" Retina). Chrome runs awesome for him, Firefox crawls. However, I have the same model and for me Firefox is as snappy as anything.
You're right that this needs to be fixed, but its lame to assume that Firefox devs do not test on Macs. You're simply experiencing a bug that is hard to reproduce, that is all.
What?

I just wrote that their support subreddit is filled with posts about performance on OSX, this thread in itself already has loads of posts with people complaining about it, and my post just is getting lots of upvotes - how is that an edge case?
Also all Firefox threads on Hackernews has these posts, every single one.

As i said before i have been following this for years. You having a 2012 computer is 100% the edge case - not that there is anything wrong in that, i love keeping tech for as long as possible.
A lot of laws are written so that you have to prove intent (for good reason) and often let’s take this offline doesn’t satisfy that requirement. There are plenty of reasons to discuss something in another forum without any intent to break any laws.
> But you do need "PWA" if you want your site to work offline.

The author addresses this point quoting the examples of the most popular apps where offline mode doesn't make sense as their whole point is to facilitate online communication (booking, chatting, dating, social interaction etc.).
What'd be the argument for that interpretation?

To note it, the article's figures are for submitted claims, not for approved claims.
If they're going through the trouble of doing a FOSH HSM, they ought to add a TCSRNG like EntropyKey -> egd.
Not necessarily, additional and subtraction just return int, but you can define other operations over subsets of ints that return nonzero.

Rust does something similar, floats by default can be NaN, but you can write a non-NaN float that just panics if it's Nan and then ignore the possibility of Nan in parts of your system.
Probably becoz of too much science fiction.