skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working in Safari on iOS 12
That is a business and design problem not a programming problem. And if one thinks the functional part of a web site cannot be tuned to substantially increase the speed of a web site then one is part of that jQuery plugin crowd who does not know or understand the pipeline from browser to network to server and back.
USA is an example of raising taxes from money that never enters or leaves the country, I think. US citizens pay taxes from income abroad when they live abroad and non-residents pay taxes for money earned from US companies (like I do).
While I don't disagree that Target and WalMart are doing a good job of trying to catch up to Amazon (and in some scenarios WalMart beats Amazon), I was thinking more of all the bookstore chains, electronics chains, housewares chains, and department stores it killed.

The fact that two discounters are also riding the runaway bucket to the bottom says more about the threat that Amazon poses than their ability to beat Amazon long-term.
I still remembered when i first time used Firefox in 2004, and it's like a life-saver to me to get out of the terrible Internet Explorer. What i want now, maybe from 2020, i could use Firefox, but as a replacement for Mobile App container.
Ask HN: Have there been any serious consequences from GDPR yet?
Often times reading here on Hacker News, users are quick to point out in the comments under an article announcing a new site or service how things are "definitely not GDPR compliant," but I anecdotally see no major changes being implemented. If sites and major corporations are so often out of compliance, why hasn't enforcement happened yet?
Do you see any conflict of interest between the government appointing judges who will then, at some point during their career, probably hear civil lawsuits against the government? The independence of the judiciary developed throughout the 1500s and 1600s and then finally, in Britain, was consolidated into a formal principle with the Act Of Settlement of 1706. And since that time, the principle of independent appointees of the government carrying out government functions is an idea that has spread to other areas of government. We can certainly put in place guarantees of an independent NEA.
This is great.
I'm almost tempted to redo this with believable thermodynamics.
I guess if you count logicians as philosophers then philosophy is useful. It is probably just "ethics" that deserves my scorn. If ethicysts were really out there studying good and evil in the world, one of them would get murdered every once in a while, like policians, journalists or police.
Another benefit would be that people would pay much greater attention to local politics. You would need to make sure that the bus road goes through your neighbor's house, not your house. Whoever ignores the local democracy, loses their house; that is a powerful incentive for participation. What could possibly go wrong?
> "When you say "ship at the negotiated rates" that Amazon has access to, it's really hard to interpret that as anything but the amazon warehouse rate."

Who negotiates the rates that are available on "Buy Shipping"? I could've been clearer, and added the "Buy Shipping" name specifically, so sorry for any confusion.

My point is simply that an Amazon merchant who wants to sell with a Prime badge previously had no such access to shipping discounts. Now they do.

> Backing down to "some negotiated rate that Amazon has, but not even close to the best one", is a very different beast.

At no point did I say this. UPS has gross margins of ~8%, FedEx of ~20%. Any discount off sticker price is going to affect those gross margins significantly, so the discounts that SFP merchants have access to are very meaningful ones.

Assuming that you accept my premise that "Buy Shipping" rates are up to 20% better than the rates available to even a volume shipper, a SFP merchant now has rates that are much closer to Amazon's own shipping costs than their previous rate.

So no, SFP merchants do get rates that are much closer "to the best one". Amazon's own rate < SFP rates < "sticker/market" rates, and the delta between SFP and market is much larger than between Amazon's own rate and SFP.
It may do, but there's still a long way to go. Multi-touch gestures that use system animations (or at least approximate them), certain aspects of UI design made to fit the macOS aesthetic and workflow better, and other things. My personal hope is that once the newest UI implementation settles down, there'll be some more love added to it.

Stuff that Chrome got pretty damned fast, I hasten to add. Whether people like Safari or not, it does set the standard for browsers on macOS because, unlike IE or Edge, it's actually a very good and __very__ well-loved browser.
I cannot speak about any piano, because I had chance to tinker with only one, but that piano had springs.

Keys itself return into their normal position because of gravity, but part of key action mechanism was powered by a spring. I discovered it while trying to fix some keys which was too slow to "recharge", to return to a normal position after a soft note, so I was unable to make a sequence of a short duration soft notes from the same key. I fixed it by stretching springs long enough for a plastic deformation to occur. Loud notes worked ok, because their "recharge" was driven fully by springness of the strings.

Though it was just one piano, I do not know how different the mechanics can be between different pianos.
I guess 20 years as a sysadmin and systems programmer make me a little jaded but you wouldn't convince me to pick up a new VPN based on it being OpenSSH-alike. I'd prefer a pure TLS/SSL or IPSEC solution that fits either paradigm.

If I want ssh-alike I'll harden my ssh and PAM configuration and use ssh (+ tunneling/forwarding and socks5).
Well, now we know what trope action movies will use in the future.
Not for me (android firefox). If webGL uses facilities not available on your GPU, it well doesn't work. That's likely it, and we've just not seeing the error message.

e.g. my phone lacks float textures (i.e, to render-to-texture to output floating point calculations), so this fluid simulation doesn't work http://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/ (not a guess; I've been through the source, reimplemented some in java)
"People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices"
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Why wouldn't Safari have the same feature? I'm not a huge fan of Apple's generally closed ecosystem, but acknowledge that they have unusual respect for user privacy.
I took an executive education course a few years ago through Darden which was led by the author of this article, Jeanne Liedtka. She co-wrote a step-by-step guide called "The Designing for Growth Field Book". I've found it useful.
I've seen a few low quality VCR rips of some old shows on youtube. Anything from a VCR from those days will be pretty poor.
Seriously, bears eventually gonna be right. While I agree the stock market is certainly in bear territory, the US economy is nowhere near a recession. Furthermore if the US and China come to a agreement on trade, the fed raises Wednesday, but holds off the first three quarters of 2019, I wouldn't be surprised to see us back at early October numbers. This entire selling frenzy the last one and half months has been way overdone.
April 7 Zodiac Birthday Personality – Astroligion.com
Well... castle crusher "became" angry birds... so we've got that going for us...
It's indeed a fucked up world when we can sip soy latte from the comfort of our heated luxury cars meanwhile 9 year olds have to work in this dump selling whatever possible to make a living.
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy', Is Dead at 67
Often it’s a combination of radiocarbon dating and historical records. Though probably not in this instance, there are sometimes records found in other places that say this or that person lived at the same time as another, so that can help to date things like this. Radiocarbon dating is highly accurate and 4400 years isn’t that long ago, so it’s generally accurate at dating organic remains to within a few decades. It gets less accurate over longer periods of time, but 4400 years is well within that window.
Biometrics is a difficult-to-guess user_id and not much more.
Is it really a "game" if there's no goal or "win" condition? Or is it a "webtoy" or "simulation" (or... "sandbox". Think it's a sandbox).
SimCity
Doubtful your geocities page is around even now unless you backed it up or it got slurped by neocities.
Just one, but that's the point. Don't present the person holding my phone with a chance to enter a password or passcode unless you know it's me, by scanning my face.
You can get some interesting effects if you put a grid of one-pixel cloners, make them clone gas and put some lava at the bottom.
Although it's an interesting idea, I didn't mean to suggest only using the magnets to center it - I was merely clarifying the geometry.

Another advantage of my design is that it allows (requires, in fact) one to use many small magnets in place of a few large ones, which is safer and easier to engineer. But as for expense - I think that once you decide to replace springs with magnets in a pogo stick, you have left the path of economy anyway and might as well go for broke.
There's one thing that gives me pause here:

The single most common error is listed as DNS/URI/email format violations. There is absolutely no discussion as to what kinds of violations these break into, nor is there even a discussion as to what the paper thinks the correct formats ought to be. This is unfortunate because the format of these parameters is one thing where specifications often have a view of the world which is completely incongruent with reality. As a simple case, you will sometimes come across documentation that thinks that DNS names cannot start with a digit, which does not match reality at all.
the same way that if you lift for 3 months, it achieves nothing.

I'm probably missing the point - but that first 3 months of training is where you make the fastest growth and can double the weight you lift (from untrained to novice). Sure - you aren't going to compete at a world level after 3 months, but it doesn't seem right to describe it as 'nothing'.
Now the commercials are inside the show and make the whole show unwatchable, at least for me.
I'm waiting to add more to my Apple position, once I see some positive signs.
Drop oil on lava.

The effect is worth it.
That's... possibly the best excuse I've ever heard for a car catching fire.
> Since the last Firefox update from a week ago which disabled Symantec certificates the site doesn't work anymore.

Is this the fault of Firefox or Digg though?
People are talking a lot about how good machine learning engineers don't want to work for the defense industry. But I think the bigger problem is that defense work is really high pressure. If you're working on a radar system to detect an incoming missile and deploy countermeasures if your system doesn't work the pilot dies. So relying on a definable program is more comforting than some kind of unproven machine learning model. So even though the military has pioneered other technologies, they were pretty reluctant to try out anything close to machine learning on something that could potentially kill american soldiers. It was short sighted because machine learning does classification really well, and now nobody in the defense contracting space really knows how to do this now. And the government is forced to get help from companies that can do machine learning like google.
Meh. I don't buy it.

First of all, individual boycotts will never, ever overcome a collective action problem, so a fundamentally futile solution is being proposed here.

Plus, this is only bad if Google act destructively evil and no one steps in to change it. If the endgame is control of Chromium being passed from Google to a neutral foundation -- which I suspect it will be -- then everyone wins.

It's always seemed inevitable to me that one browser engine will win out. This is the way of all web technologies. Should we go back to competing variants of (proto-)JavaScript to prevent web monoculture, too?
Make a lake of oil, set it aflame and then pour water on it. A small amount of water causes the burning oil to flare and spread. A large amount of water extinguishes the fire. Very cool!
Some situations cant be avoided like if something falls off the car in front of you. In a real car you could swerve to avoid it and you will likely kill whoever is on the side of the road you swerve at but you will get away with it because it was a panic response and there was no way for you to properly assess what to do. This changes with self driving cars because they have all the info available and don't panic. The decision on what to do was planned and programmed in an office with plenty of time.
Markets reward useful defendable uniqueness.

Making something people want is a foundation, but no good if someone else copies it (and perhaps does it better amd markets it better through capitalization).

I think the YC playbook is if you keep improving it, it's hard for copiers to catch up (so don't worry about competitors/copiers in themselves, look fotward, not behind you). There's also a market advantage of being first - people like that, and you've have longer for news to spread about you.
Yeah, that old saw "the only intuitive interface ever devised is the nipple" kind of falls down when you see a newborn infant struggling with it. There's no such thing as an intuitive interface, only an interface which follows already-familiar conventions.
Probably nothing - but when it does go pop, you're going to open it up, and there's the world's tiniest circuit board, with 100 tiny little capacitors, and if you're old enough to remember the Amiga then they are all too small for your eyes to even see. There are 3 chips, and each chip has 700 pins, and each pin is ~0.5mm from the next. What is the difference between your laptop, model 344 revision 001, and another laptop, model 344, revision 002? - oh dear, the answer is: everything. They redesigned the whole thing. Still, at least you didn't get revision 003, which is not only entirely different again but also coated in epoxy resin!

Meanwhile, your Amiga has this enormous motherboard that's full of DIP-size ICs, many of them socketed, and even with your schoolboy soldering you can extract the ones that ain't. And it almost cetainly doesn't matter if you're hoping to get their replacements from an Amiga that's completely different, because Commodore just didn't have the money to make N different versions of their chips, even assuming you're trying to replace the custom ones in the first place.

Or was it just the disk drive that fucked up, or one of the power supply capacitors, or something like that? - well, why didn't you say! No problem. Plenty of those about!

P.S.: but, all that said: what I was thinking about, when it comes to a modern desktop, is that you'd just replace parts as much as possible, repairing things as required, then when it finally dies just buy another one and restore from your last backup. But while bench repair is more of an option with a desktop than a laptop, in either case you probalby wouldn't actually bother, and you'd just throw it away and buy a new one at the first sign of trouble. So in fact, maybe it doesn't make much of a difference overall.
> one of them would get murdered every once in a while, like policians, journalists or police

Just to set aside the fact that "being murdered" is a terrible metric (do you gauge marine biologists by their diving skills, or astrophysicists by their ability to survive in a vacuum?): a good many philosophers were either murdered or narrowly avoided being murdered in the World War II and/or the Holocaust. Any profession that includes a doctrine of skepticism tends to be among the first targeted for persecution, even if that persecution doesn't involve literal acts of murder.

Ethics involves more than just doing good or bad -- it involves figuring out what we mean by "good" and "bad" to begin with, whether these things correspond to actions, individuals, or outcomes, whether they have respective orderings, and so forth. All of these questions lend themselves better to prolonged thought and discourse rather than sample sizes and expensive scientific instruments.
Listening to this, I realized how being a skeptic as led me away from my physics background. Namely, how ER=EPR is a fact due to recent findings even though our history of science is being "correct" until we find new information to discredit past beliefs.
Solitaire too, iirc.
Not seeing vaporizing water when lava was put into it was a bit of a bummer, otherwise it's great
Let's be completely honest for just a second, the left-leaning/never-trump news sources (i.e. nytimes, wapo, bloomberg, reuters, possibly the economist) are clamoring for a recession and right-leaning/pro-trump news sources (i.e. foxnews, maybe wsj) do not see a recession in sight.

In the most recently reported quarter, Q318, the S&P 500 saw Earnings growth +28% Year-over-year (IBES) and Sales Growth +8.5% Year-over-Year. On a forward looking basis (the more important indicator), estimates for 2019 are currently at Sales Growth +5.6% Year-over-Year and Earnings growth of +8.5% Year-over-year (which is a more normalized trend, remember tax-cuts will become a head-wind in 2019).

IMO, the two biggest risks to the market, 1) China Trade Deal, 2) Slowing of Raising of Interest Rates. If you see progress in either of these, I think you'll see the market follow in suit. In terms of what's currently priced into the market, I'd say that a more pessimistic scenario is currently being priced in and thus risk/reward favors the upside.

IMO, the markets have a psychological component to them and the fear of an upcoming recession can cause a recession. So, these articles are like adding fuel to a fire, "Recessions have psychological and confidence aspects. For example, if companies expect economic activity to slow, they may reduce employment levels and save money rather than invest. Such expectations can create a self-reinforcing downward cycle, bringing about or worsening a recession." [1]

Finally, I think the following excerpt, written by a former Morgan Stanley Equity Research Analyst, does a great job at explaining how one might approach analyzing the news:

"Be skeptical, very skeptical, and even more skeptical. Great analysts rarely accept anything at face value. ... Good Analysts always challenge what they've been told or given. Over time, if a source of information proves accurate, let it into your circle or trust. If we include the financial press, and everything distributed by companies, I'd say at least 75% of the information out there for consumption is misleading or omits an important piece of information relative to the topic." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Best-Practices-Equity-Research-Analys...
It depends on if you think the immigrants deserve the social safety net the rest of the citizens have. The social safety nets of rich countries are completely unsustainable if they allow anyone to come in and receive them. There is a reason that there isn't a single country with any kind of strong social safety net that has open borders. The math isn't even close to working.

If you don't apply the social safety net to the incoming immigrants, I don't see how you hold any higher moral ground than people who want controlled migration.
Digital Data Gives Billboard Owners More Reason to ‘Love a Good Traffic Jam’
Did we really need the stupid viewpoint on non-disclosure agreements? Like cmon, don't take it too personally that a company might want to try and cover its own arse when giving you access to sensitive information.

It still shouldn't change your character with regards keeping secrets so why does it matter?
A nice bit of web programming. The smoke effects look cool. Pity solids don't conduct heat - the first thing I always try and do in these is boil a pot of water.

If you've never seen this kind of thing before, the canonical PC example is The Powder Toy, which is so amazing I wish there a 3D Minecraft-like version. But it's really CPU-heavy even in 2d.
Natural gas powered buses are already pretty clean, it’s the ones running diesel that are a problem. Though I guess NG has issues with green house emissions if not what in what we would call air pollution.
Agreed. Though re-reading it, I think the point may have been more about quitting after 3 months and not so much that you don't gain anything the first 3 months.

> 5/ if I had only worked on a startup for a year, I would've gotten nowhere, the same way that if you lift for 3 months, it achieves nothing. Everything good in life comes from perseverance, but at the beginning, you're just like "I need to be somebody!!!"

It may be more about persevering beyond that arbitrary time limit and trying to get to a certain real goal instead... maybe.
yes. any set of complete functions form a vector space and can be used in a linear sum to appropriate other functions in the same space. the dot product tells you the value of the coefficients. The fourier transform is just a special case of this.
large size brush + seeds + flame + water is also interesting
Another benefit: it is much easier for power plants to remove sulphur and nitrogen based pollutants and organic particles due to imcomplete combustion from emission. Those pollutants are much more harmful than CO2.
In order to precisely define the term useful I'd have to wade into the murky depths of philosophy, which I don't want to do.

I was suggesting that philosophers would like to reason about my scenario because it would be a lot more interesting than imagining you could build a car that would somehow be forced to choose between running over i.e. ten elderly people or two children, and speculating about who you would program the car to kill. I know my scenario leads to a lot of interesting questions -- unlike the scenarios proposed by the website.

But I reject the claim that any reasoning about the scenario is necessarily philosophy. That's just what philosophers want you to think. For example, imagine if philosophers studied the behaviour of ducks and called it duckosophy. When a duck observes another duck, is that duckosophy? I would say no. The duck would do that even if humans never existed. The relationship is asserted purely on the side of the philosophers. So, I am a non-philosopher, and I reason about things based on knowledge due to lots of other non-philosophers, I'm not engaging in philosophy, even if a bunch of uninvolved people want to assert so.
Nerd evangelism might not get something to 100%, but it can make something large enough to matter. Linux on the desktop matters, for example, because nerds like it and talk about it. The fact that some single-digit percentage of people use it means that the duopoly doesn't have absolute power.

Firefox, even in single-digit percentages, affects the ecosystem in the same way. If there weren't a choice, the browser would gradually turn into a cable TV interface.
The stations are pretty important in China since many people in the bigger cities don’t have parking spots they control for their cars where they could charge overnight (many even have to park wild). This is less of an issue in the states for daily commuters.
It is unfortunate that you're downvoted. At one point, there was an article on HN discussing games, including what made a "game" a "game" — and one of the article's requirements was that there must exist some risk of losing. Otherwise, you're just messing around or following predefined steps towards an end, but there is no challenge. Not that that can't entertain, but plenty of things entertain that aren't games. (E.g., a movie.)

The article also discussed some weird things that existed outside of the definition that the article arrived at, such as ClickerHeros and similar "grinding" "games".

(I wish I could find a link to it. Perhaps someone else here remembers and can find it…)