skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that drives me crazy is when you have a form that tells you to enter the date, so you go MM/DD/YYYY and when you hit submit it comes back and tells you that it wants MM-DD-YYYY.

That's something the parser could just as easily do itself and avoid making more work for the user. Ideally you would use a parser that's smart enough to figure out 95% of the cases and do the right thing and only return errors if it's completely unparseable or ambiguous.

A date field should be able to accept all values like:

2018-12-13

12/13/2018

Dec 13 18

December 13, 2018

12-13-平成三十年

13.0.6.1.3

1544677200

In cases where the input is ambiguous the parser can make its best guess and toss a warning. Preferably allowing the user to inspect its guess to see if is right.
The budget from advertisers is already credited to Google - if such tactic becomes popular, advertisers would get lower returns (bounces would be way higher than now), and move their budgets elsewhere, harming Google's business.
Cool idea and implementation.

Question: If the “initial render” of client side code involves JavaScript mounting nodes on the DOM, how is this transformed into static HTML that can be rendered without JavaScript? Does headless chrome offer a way to “snapshot” the DOM in its current state (basically like copy pasting the “elements” pane in dev tools)? Just wondering if there is a term for this, and/or where it’s documented.
I wish I still had it. There was a lot of my blood, sweat and frustration in that code. :)

I lost everything I had archived in a series of hardware failures and stupidities...

I've repeatedly asked the co-founders to let me have some of the stuff and they still refuse. They didn't think I should have had it to start with.

It really was simple in concept though. Basically a queue server on each machine, memory mapped files and containers/string class/bignum class etc using placement new. The hard part was finding machines that weren't steaming piles of crap. Compaq was the only company we found that had server class machines we could rely on. We also had to stick to IBMs C++ compiler due to all the bugs in Borland and Watcom at the time.
https://refactoringui.com/

Just came out yesterday, doesn't necessarily teach 'from scratch' UI, but a great aide.
I just looked up .io, and Wikipedia lists it as a British territory but also says that its in dispute and the only thing actually there are military bases for the US and UK. I wonder why it got a tld?
I think the best actionable UI advice is: https://refactoringui.com/

If you like the design tips, they just released their full-length book a few days ago!
The Spyder3 ide might be worth looking at. It won’t be as nifty with graphs and charts but its great for iterative data wrangling and debugging.
They pulled at least once, historically, but don't seem to pull on a regular basis. Anyone who wants newer tools than the few they keep updated installs homebrew.
So now society is frustrated because it’s data isn’t being analyzed and used to serve ads effectively enough? We’ve officially come full circle.

How about this- if you are uncomfortable with the prospect of ads potentially shown to you that may upset you based on recent history that’s now changed, lay off the platform for a while.
People do the same thing in the states.

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/abandoned-nuclear-missile-s...
FWIW, I find AWS limits confusing and seemingly random. Also, the fact that you can't limit total spending is _very_ unfriendly to (at least indie, as you point out) developers. I have no experience with DO though, maybe that will change with this offering.
What I mean by this is that I suspect that telcos are drafting this sort of legislation, and promoting articles to "Business Friendly" news publications that call surcharges "tax" in order to deflect blame. That is more or less what I think happened with the MTS surcharge.
Glad I'm not the only one who did that to get rid of the annoying co-worker! Ah, those days were great!
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Thanks for that! I've occasionally thought a feature like this would be possible and helpful, but hadn't encountered it until your mention.
Does the individual gate get that much hotter than the rest of the device?

If I keep my SSD 40 degrees cooler with a freezer, will it last an indefinite number of write cycles?
> To put it bluntly, I don't understand the tone of entitlement people have when they demand FB/Twitter/etc fix their individual problems.

Individual problems caused by the platform. If something or someone is causing a problem for me one method to rectify it is to simply ask them to help. It's a pretty standard thing in society.

> What I don't understand is why they think they have a right to demand that a platform they aren't even paying for should cater to them.

For the most part, they do have a right to demand the platform do whatever they want. And depending upon the request, the platform has the right to say "no" to those. The users then have the right to continue using the platform or not.
What is transfer learning and why is better for customer feedback?

On a side note I'd love to see another head-to-head diagram of the transfer learning against AWS and GCP.
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Hold off concluding that until you have a situation where you think you absolutely know the right answer and someone else also thinks they have the right answer, and your answers don't match.
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Distributed Objects in Obj-c was all about this in the 90's I believe.
The applicability of ex post facto constitutionality to taxes aside, the effective radius of the US Constitution appears to sometimes fall just short of the California legislature[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG5xWcV412E
Serious question: Is this a special 64-bit edition, or is it just version number 64?

I wondered this yesterday because suffixing with "64" is a common way to denote such a thing. I looked into it and as far as I could tell, no, it's just version 64 of Firefox, so I mentioned that in an attempting-to-be-helpful comment here, but it got downvoted. So now I'm wondering if my research was wrong. Can anyone clarify, please? I'm really confused about this now.
Yes, but the level of detail requested for the audit would be dictated by Super Micro. For example, if the request was to audit boards against the design specs, the audit would never catch something inserted during the design phase. Nor would it catch malicious functionality inserted as part of a legitimate chip. It seems like the potential number of attack vectors is extremely high if the design &/or manufacture process has been subverted.

Alternatively, if there was no attack, it becomes exceedingly difficult to prove the negative. But that also leaves us with the perplexing situation of multiple sources-- 17 from different companies and NSA-- deceiving Bloomberg reporters. Or Bloomberg reporters themselves deceiving everyone. In the later case the motives are clear. It's a career-making story that can't easily be disproved. In the former case the motives are less clear: a desire to smear Super Micro? Who benefits? A desire to stoke anti-China fear? It's all very strange.
I think a lasting effect of the crypto craze is that it showed enough gamers were willing to pay higher prices that nvidia shifted the prices of its card up by a few hundred bucks.

The RTX 2xxx series has been really disappointing from a price/performance aspect.
For Grafana folks: I got all the way through sign up and sending logs from k8s cluster + setting up logging data source to Loki hosted instance, but could not find a way to actually explore the logs in the hosted grafana instance :)
But can it save the image under the cursor? I'm currently using foxy gestures despite the brokenness.
Politicians love to earmark tax revenue to specific projects that people will support. I call it the "puppies are great excuse".

The reality is that all revenue is part of giant slush bucket. Some expenses are discretionary and some not, but the bucket to pay is what it is.

This is just the way politics and false promises work.
Aren’t there ways to set up a bet that a particular price will move, where you profit if it goes up or down but lose out if it stays the same? If you can cause instability then that could be used to profit from it even if you don’t know which way it will go. Some quick searching tells me this is called a “long straddle” but I could be way off.
What is the difference between this and multi-die stacking? NAND memory packages typically have up to 4 (8?) dies stacked together. Is this something beyond that?
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> Is private sector waste a big thing?

As anyone who has ever spent any time working in the private sector will tell you:

Absolutely. Large companies routinely piss millions, and billions of dollars away on ego projects, inter-department fighting, building things that are counterproductive to the company's goals, bloating their bureaucracy, and other corporate politics bullshit.

Not to mention that any income that's left is skimmed off the end, by shareholders. I get that they want a profit on their investment, but from the customer's perspective, dividend payments are a great example of waste.
If a specific 400 people had changed their mind in 2017 there would be a tory majority government rather than a minority with dup backing

If a specific 800 people had changed their mind the tories wouldn't have been able to form a government even with DUP support

However the exit poll in 2017 was pretty much dead on
You're right. I've written that comment haphazardly and quickly, and forgot the authors of both books. Someone (like me) can archive this thread and get confused later. Worse he/she wouldn't be abe to find the intended books.

Hyperion Cantos is written by Dan Simmons. It's 4.5 books.

- Hyperion
- The Fall of Hyperion
- Endymion
- The Rise of Endymion
- Orphans of the Helix (a novella in the same universe)

Bad Blood is written by John Carreyrou. It tells the story of Theranos' rise and fall & everything in between.
Interesting story, not sure if it's very actionable.
Do you really mean you pay both the telecom subscription + some kind of state/federal tax that depends on how much did you speak/download?

I certainly don't and never did, this probably differs between countries.
> Have their costs unexpectedly shot up on their two-year-old manufacturing processes?

The price doesn't reflect what it costs them, it reflects what they believe they'll make the largest profit margin on.

> Or did they just bank on the crypto bubble...

It's investors that were banking on that. Share price doesn't say anything about the success of a company (except for ability to raise money), it's just a consensus of estimates about future value.

NVidia are still very successful in their original niche of making graphics cards, and haven't sacrificed this in favour of crypto.
Yeah, going through the comments, its pretty clear how many people didn't actually read the article and are just making knee-jerk reactions based on the clickbait headline.

I thought HN readers were better than this.

> Honestly, cell carriers are probably making tons of profit off of text messaging

And calls, for that matter.

I pay $35/month to Google Fi just for text/phone. You know how many SMS messages I send per month? Probably a couple dozen. Most of my messaging is through Facebook, and it's rare for me to actually make phone calls. It's all data.
>It's incorrect to characterize this as "treating people as lesser" in a blanket fashion by virtue of their work agreement.

It's really not. The work agreement is precisely what expresses how you are treating people. If the work agreement provides less to the worker, the worker is being treated as lesser.
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I tend to agree, but I think they should be a last resort after regulation and other means have failed to improve working conditions.
well off topic, but anyone know what blog engine/style this is done in?
Oh, I see. I was thinking in terms of calling it a “tax” to kill it, since people generally hate that word. I guess they’d rather keep it quiet but that may not be an option.
Love it - good work. For me, this will serve as a nice shift from YT fitness content to more written content. I like the idea of creating community around it, whereas YT or IG is more transient.
I remember when another traveler (Ralph Mirebs) posted this expedition on his own website after the first trip. Amazing to see.
https://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/219949.html

I would also highly recommend visiting De Rueda's website for a number of remarkable post-soviet and other ruins.

https://www.davidderueda.com/explore/
I think these guys just put out a book which I'm intrigued to read: https://refactoringui.com/book/

If you're looking for something more bite-sized, I offer a mini course on getting the bare bones established for modern UIs: https://anonconsulting.com/ui-crash-course/ (pardon the SSL cert issue I need to resolve)
If there is a company behind the "cryptocoin", they can fall back on their primary business of releasing another “cryptocoin”. The sells are revenue. They haven't sold any equity yet, and if they did it would still be a growth story and nobody would care about how they actually made money. They have no debt, have sold no equity, and they have revenue from their zero cost basis crypto. They experience a slowdown from sales but are immune from the "bear market".

The "cryptocoin" itself functions more like a commodity, a market which was never for the passive retail trader because there is no expectation for commodities to increase in value indefinitely, only in ebbs and flows based on supply and demand. So the prevalance of the retail trader in the cryptocoin market explains the misaligned value ideas, which are mostly analogies to a stock market. Oops. Although stocks are the only capital market prevalent amongst retail, try not to get the asset classes confused.

"Cryptocoins" typically have a more transparent supply than non-digital commodities, and upgrades to their utility are also typically in open source projects which means these provides advantages in determining price targets in the future value and the scale of the addressable market participants. As in, how much any future market participant will want to own to access a provision provided by the network. As open source projects, and freely fungible, you can create utility for a new market until your positions are profitable, with near zero overhead costs.
"I got raped in college and need cash for an abortion".

Sends money.

YAAY!
mdma/analogues and lsd/rc analogues are mainly what dnm are used
This reminds me of when I used net send to flirt with women in the computer lab. I thought I was so cool.
Please notice that there also are requests to suspicious Western sites like Google as well, which were caught for collecting data before.

I have examined network traffic from my Chinese noname phone, and it also sends data to Chinese servers and to Google.

Also when you visit most websites, there will be a request to Google's data collector service.
Saw Tony Robbins' face and immediately closed the page.
The "Search with Bing..." feature will open in whatever the default browser is.
Whether or not it's accurate matters a lot less than whether or not it's kind.
I'm horrified that anyone shares anything about their child, unborn or otherwise, on a social media platform. Shouldn't that child have the right to choose for themselves if they want literally their entire lives archived by advertisers?

Yes, she shouldn't have posted about her pregnancy on social media sites.

*Edit to add - There are a lot of other ways to share with friends and family about her pregnancy that aren't social media.
The older I get, the more I just settle on nutritional advice that goes something like "the more processed it is, the more likely it's not good for you" and "everything is fine in moderation" and "eat what you want, just eat less".
How many times do you think the same face needs to be on one infographic?
In general none of this is really the case though. The people who tipped you well were probably just good tippers. Now maybe you do make objective judgments about the quality of service that you receive, but the general population doesn't.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tipping-doesnt-reward-good...

https://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
These are some interesting tips. And as a bonus, the page is giving me serious flashbacks to Fravia's Web Searchlores! http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm
>It’s unclear how much individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal. But it likely would be billed as a flat surcharge per customer — one of those irksome fees at the bottom of your wireless bill — not a fee per text.

It's potentially unavoidable as carriers currently bundle text messaging w/ voice plans.
You always get some fanboy showing up and say "I have been using DDG for <X> months and I love it. Notice no difference." The biggest lie keeping them solvent - there is no way their advertisers are benefiting from advertising on their site if they can't target the right people. I'd be surprised if they didn't think they were living a lie.

Google probably gave them the domain because they don't care about it and see them as a mild annoyance. DDG has had years to improve and failed.
That reminds me of my younger days in Champaign-Urbana, which had a hopping BBS scene in the 1980s. I had a FidoNet node and I was going to make a file request from a BBS in Québec. I queued the file request, went to sleep... and was awakened by the sound of cops bashing on my apartment door at about 2 AM.

At the time, E911 wasn't a thing, and the local PD had the number 333-8911. Guess what the local number was for the BBS? I had FUBARed my nodelist processor configuration, and it was stripping off the 1-819- [I think it was 819]. Oooops.

Needless to say, the node didn't get restarted until I fixed the problem.
Which options have you seen are a better deal than KitHaus?
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25 years doesn't seem like a bad lifespan for an independent organization.
You may be interested in "computational typography"[1], "mathematical typograhy"[2], and "variable fonts"[3].

[1] http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/lecture-typography/ [2] PDF: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~millerpd/docs/501_Winter08/Kn...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_fonts
Market cap is a predictive valuation of future income, more or less. The fact that it has gone down reflects negative investor sentiment about future income, not that they had a warehouse fire.
I recently deleted facebook and instagram in an effort to take back my privacy. I really miss the stories feature on instagram. Stories don't have a concept of engagement besides views. People actually post what they're doing throughout the day in small, bite size pieces. I think it's a fantastic way to keep up with people.
Hopefully a book that describes how terrible it is... ;-)
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Pretty sure that was an urban legend.
I've had enough doctors that my viewpoint is different. They are human and can absolutely be wrong. Challenge them if you don't agree with their recommendation, a good doctor will tell you why they gave the advice, what the probable consequences are for ignoring it, and how confident they are. If your doctor reacts negatively to being challenged, find another.
> You have no idea what you are talking about and clearly have never headed a company.

I actually have but whatever. I do not have to run a company to have opinions about a loophole in modern labor laws. Also, the aggression isn't necessary.

Maybe having empathy and wanting better benefits for the people you take advantage of is an "Unknown World" to you. But for me, the rise permatemp has an effect on the people around me.

> The issue is that if you hire temporary contractors and treat them like your employees, then you have to extend the status of employment to them, including withholding payroll taxes, otherwise the government will come after you.

> Google doesn't give two shits about giving people t-shirts and access to their gyms. The issue is, if they do these things for temp contractors, then the temps become employees.

A lot of these workers are permatemps, who they keep on as temps in order to not have to give them full employee benefits.

So yes, what you say is exactly correct but does not refute my assertion that these policies serve to dehumanize the parts of the workforce Google considers expendable.

> You hire temps in situations where you don't actually need a full-time worker for a long period of time. If you are not allowed to hire temps, the choice then becomes should we hire anyone at all?

Except for the fact that they do hire them as long-term full time employees, but they keep them on as independent contractors hired through an external agency to abdicate responsibility for providing them with benefits.

> If you have a problem with the casteism developing between full time employees and contractors, go see your Congressman and ask them to change the laws that make it so companies have to distinguish between temps and full-time in their hiring.

I clearly do have a problem with the casteism developing between full time employees and contractors. And what else should I do?

Oh, maybe advocate for workers right's on social media and tell the other side of the story. Which is what I am doing and apparently have triggered you. The founder doth protest too much, methinks.
A couple of billions of debt (which could be paid easily with the cash in hand) are completely irrelevant relative to the change in market cap.
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It's just CSS based on the LaTeX defaults, written by Andrew Belt as a style for Wikipedia [1,2].

[1] https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX

[2] https://andrewbelt.name
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If the in-game hard-coded AI just follows the ball, how do you ever beat it? I’d like to see the logic behind that 1970s opponent paddle AI, especially as it ramps up difficulty.
“California just doesn’t stop trying to get money out of you,” Gutierrez lamented. “What’s next?”

Stop encouraging them!
"I'm already conditioning myself to pursue engagement."

We are all brand managers now.
They may not solve the problem, but they do you allow you to solve the problem.
I hadn't heard that bit of history, found it interesting. Though apparently they spent $10mm in cash and $90mm in stock to acquire the company.
You posted this last week, which already had a good amount of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18620814
Calc is a metro app now, or whatever that style of program is supposed to be called.

I like when it starts fullscreen, with just a small button pad in the middle and an enormous obscuring border, like 99% of the time we aren't firing it up to so some calculation about an article we're reading on the web...

The best part about notepad is that it's always there. Hop on a Windows box and you know it will have notepad. The same can't be said for Notepad++ or GVim or whatever else, especially if the machine you are on doesn't have Internet access. I'm totally behind modest improvements to Notepad to bring it into this century.
A Scanner Darkly is a great book. Too bad Keanu made that stupid movie.
This thing on the neck, even when naked - goiter band -
iodine deficiency.