skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users want responsiveness instead of page reloads between every action.

Then implement that. There are much more lightweight ways to achieve this than going full react. Especially with modern JS this can even be implemented from scratch.

Take HN as an example. Inline replying, voting etc. is undeniably convenient, but there is no way there shouldn't be a full page load when going through paginated results, or opening the comment thread to a post. That requires a couple lines javascript, no bloated js-framework-of-the-month. And the page stays completely usable without JS. A lot of stateful webapps out there aren't any more complex than this, structurally. Bonus: You get a fully working, predictable back button in your browser for free.
(UKian): How can they get records without judicial oversight. Why don't they need a warrant?
I use an Echo as my alarm clock and my white noise generator. Works pretty well.
Last time I tried, reasonably recent kernels (like 4.15 or so) failed to boot under Veertu, for no apparent reason.

Have they improved?
You're right that it's a major UX hurdle. But it's not a bug in an advertised feature. Not a technical oversight, not a glitch.

Yes, vboxfs is very restrictive, but then again, the whole cross platform virtualization is a very thin curtain of magic over the nasty differences behind.
I will just quote myself here:

> The Boring Company seems to be trying with different thoughts and ideas for making these tunnels a reality and they have been quite open to the public with these ideas. It feels to me that the author is taking advantage of this transparency and using it as a weapon for his own agenda.
I don't understand why Musk is so invested in the idea of cars in tunnels. Does he really have a substantially better tunnel boring machine/tunnel boring workflow? If so, there are lots of things to use it for other than car tunnels. It's kind of like if he started making electric cars and then said, "I am launching the world's first all-electric pizza delivery service."

The O'Hare airport connector in Chicago is a better example of what cheap, fast tunneling could be used for than the car skate mechanism. This article points out how remarkable it would be if things go according to plan:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/06/for-1-billion...
Can nerds as a group please drop the "I don't get the sportsball so it's clearly a waste of time" bit?

Can jocks please drop the "nerds and their 'sportsball'" bit? That is not what parent said at all, but rather questioned why it's attached to schools. And it's a solid question given how many schools give priority to the football team over academics. There are plenty of extra-curricular soccer leagues out there, there's not reason it wouldn't work for football and basketball.
> Los Angeles gets around a cubic kilometer of rainfall a year and if they just had a place to store it, they would not need to import water at all.

Now that's a bold idea but storing one cubic kilometer of water in an artificial reservoir seems rather complicated and I'm not really sure the technology developed by the Boring company would help greatly.

If I'm not mistaken and given a diameter of 3.8m you'd need 87 thousand kilometers of tunnels to store one cubic kilometer of water. You could circle the world more than two times with a tunnel that length.
US charges 2 Chinese citizens with hacking [video]
I suppose book authors could use the same model as musical performers, in that the record company takes the lion's share from the recordings, and the band has to sell live performance tickets and tour merchandise.

You write the book to build the fan-base, and draw your living expenses from signings, convention panels, t-shirts, collector's edition packages, etc. It sounds like a perfectly awful model for promoting the arts, of course.

Perhaps a gallery model? Write just one copy of a book, sell it for thousands of dollars, and let the one that buys it decide whether to unleash it on the world or not. It'd be like that Wu Tang Clan record that Shkreli bought.

Acquire a patron? Allow a rich fan to pay all your living expenses, and in return you put their name in the acknowledgements. Or crowdfund it, and expand the acknowledgements to more pages than the story.

There are a lot of possible models. The underlying problem is that most people just don't value art enough to pay for it in 2018. There are barely even enough people that value skilled labor enough to pay for it. If art were valued more highly, artists wouldn't even need to figure out how to be paid, because middlemen would be scrambling over each other to skim off some of the cash flowing from audience to artist.
Have you considered the possibility that you're wrong and he actually does have a plan here?

Personally, I don't think a Metro system in LA is likely to work well, and I think Musk knows that. I live in LA, and even if there was a good metro system here, the city isn't walkable enough to get to an entrance easily, or if you did get to one, get close enough to your destination. Which means you'd have to drive there and park, and then Uber for the last mile. That basically makes it a non-starter for most people here. So, yes indeed his solution is not capable of transporting people as efficiently as a subway, but it is likely to actually eat into the congestion problem, by competing with the freeways for drivers.
"My approach to philanthropy is to find good people doing good work, get them resources, and get out of the way."

"Good" is obviously a relative term, and this PR piece fails to mention his continuing involvement in the cesspool of Craigslist. According to WikiP "Newmark remains active at Craigslist in customer service, dealing mostly with spammers and scammers." The site where 110 of 121 first page results are spammets & scammers in most categories. Could not care less what he is doing, what is concerning is what Dreg is NOT doing...
lookout! a strong admonishing is coming!!!

zuck's laughing all the way to the bank.

most of Congress doesn't even know how the Inet actually works commerce-wise, technically, etc. this is yet more kabuki theatre..
Can you give precise examples of the problems? As someone who tried to use XMPP in the past, I found it to be far worse than IRC in terms of connectivity and how things worked. Matrix.org couldn't really have used IRC as a protocol because IRC isn't a very extensible protocol. I've been using Matrix.org for several years now, and it's much better than my experiences with IRC and XMPP (though IRC is still quite usable, and I do still use it regularly).
As someone who does need 8 hours I can't help but be jealous of those who function on 6. If I only get 6 hours of sleep I can't even see straight all day.
It absolutely can, but in my experience, 99% of the time, choosing to make a data field JSON/JSONB ends up being a mistake.
Catalog of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms
I'm not sure where embedded or firmware would fit - developing for it's a skill but it's not a language or framework - but I'm curious what % of posts taps the skill. Going by memory it feels like roughly the same number of firmware positions are on there every month, and it's the same guys looking to fill them.
Is it hard to understand ? Whatever it its, there are always going to be people who like it and hate it.
It's a shame this isn't higher up. It's a fantastic long-read on the roots of modern outrage.
When I read a digital clock, I have to mentally translate it into a picture of an analogue clock before I feel like I "understand" what time it is.

It's probably just how I was brought up.
Sloppy regex.
Two active shooter drills on an Air Force base and a real injured jogger = chaos
Innocent man anesthetized, anal probed in Syracuse for “taunting” cops
They bought a used off the shelf boring machine.
Amtrak is hands-down the worst passenger rail service I've ever used, out of services in four different countries. I will say I've never used Amtrak in the Northeast which I understand is somewhat better than the rest of the country, but that's not saying much.
My friend and I built a service with the hopes of making Kubernetes more easily available to beginners. Currently we are primarily targeting developers who want to deploy simple web applications.

Two shortcomings that we are aware of and working on:
- Persistent storage
- Custom domains

Once we get those, we think the service will be incredibly valuable to people wanting to learn Kube or needing to deploy a web app without having to jump through the hoops of setting up a cluster on one of the big cloud providers.
You give me hope.
My problem used to be I check GitHub a minute after waking up.
> No, it hasn't. It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams. That is quite literally the only thing that matters and everything else is a means to an end.

I can't agree with this statement. It's 100% about how to benefit the company, which means satisfying the customer. And serving users up to the customers is the name of the game.

Most sites are heavy with trackers. You could argue that *one& might be in the user's interest, but can hardly make the same claim for the huge number of ad-related ones) and full of devious antipatterns. Just enough value for the user, one hopes, to get the page view.
Unfortunately no, not here. The metaphor I've heard is continent as couch cushion: the glacier was "sitting" on the upper part of North America, pushing up the edges. Now that weight is gone, the coasts are dropping slightly.
What generator and how do you time it? Just wondering.
Before I had a smartphone, I had an alarm clock set to wake me up by playing NPR at 7:00. I would lie in bed and listen to Morning Edition, just to make sure the world hadn't blown up while I was asleep.

Today the alarm clock is set to buzz. I (literally) roll out of bed onto the floor and check the Washington Post app. To make sure the world hasn't blown up while I was asleep.

Is there a significant difference here?
My time is absolutely valuable and I make it abundantly clear on any phone screens for new roles. I've established my own set hours within the office to accommodate the long commute without impeding my life more than it has to. But the reality of going from 100k -> 60k in a high COL state is quite a change. It's entirely possible, we've been there, but it def requires you to readjust. And as the cost of certain goods keep rising it's not as easy as it was for us 3-5 years ago.
Yes, there is a pretty good video of an interview with Musk and the chief engineer on the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE

From memory, the important points:
1. They want to have the drill work continuously. Apparently current technology winds up drilling less than half the time, partially because the drills stop when putting in the wall sections that make up the tunnel.
2. Switch the drill and the waste train (that takes the dirt from the drill) to electric using batteries that the train brings in. This reduces the construction of pipes and infrastructure in the tunnel during construction.
3. Work to speed up the drill head by using the materials scientists from SpaceX.
4. Make bricks out of the waster material on-site. Right now disposing of the waste material is a big headache/cost.
>Athletics at school are a good thing. Over index in one area is utter stupidity.

I completely agree - there's a huge problem when athletics become the focus of a school district, and this should absolutely be addressed. I mostly just wanted to point out in my previous post that this isn't an unavoidable end point for athletics - I was fortunate in that I attended a high school that valued both academics and athletics, and feel both have enriched my life and the idea of dropping athletics for pure academics feels very short-sighted.
Is it telling that USA Today puts this under "politics"?
Why wait for the government to get its act together? Why aren't you spending your own money on those things right now? Pick your favorite organization and write a check. Or, even better, get involved and give money directly to those in need.
It is if you're trying to derail the argument!
>The current western world order is still much more fair to the common folk than feudalism.

That's the common perception, but there's little evidence that it is true. Modern peons have no more ability to control their governments than medieval peons did, we just have the illusion presented to us to keep us complacent. We work longer hours, have less nutritious and safe food, and have an epidemic of "mental illness" stemming from our lack of social bonds and community. But because we have medicine and electronic gadgets we declare ourselves to be much better off.

>The education aspect was not as much about how much more educated the aristocracy was

Well really that is exactly what aristocracy was, as originally conceived. Some places ended up with a corrupt form where it was rule by birth rather than rule by excellence (the literal definition of aristocracy), but mostly people just mistakenly refer to monarchies as aristocracies.

>but it's way easier with our figment of a fair society, rather than if we believed social status was a fixed quantity given by the creator of the universe.

Why? The modern myth that nobility was defined purely by birth is just that, a myth. If you believe that excellence is given by god, it does not also follow that you must believe god only gives excellence to the offspring of others he gave excellence. In reality it was seen as no different than with livestock. If a good specimen is born you make it part of your breeding stock, even if its parents were not.
This is something I hear all the time about publishers, and it used to resonate with me, too, until I started to work for a publisher and realized how much goes into the system we have beyond just putting manuscripts online. The real eye-opening thing for me was talking to editors and seeing all the behind-the-scenes stuff that they do. They have to know enough about their field to know what's worth sending out for review in the first place, manage the review process so that you don't have nasty, unhelpful reviews or personal vendettas getting exercised, manage ethical concerns, deal with authorship disputes, etc, and that's just the review piece of things. There's a whole information infrastructure behind the scenes making sure that once something is published that it can be found, indexed, searched for, aggregated by author, connected to the data and code and protocols and other entities that it mentions... I mean, I've been at this for 8 years and there's still so much I don't know.

All that just to make the point that the value proposition is still very much there, though I'll agree publishers could do more to make this apparent.
There were five alerts generated due to a positive match, and five of them were false positives. We have no idea how many of the ~500 individuals on the watch list were scanned and missed, and we have no idea how many faces were scanned, but it's still a 100 percent failure rate.
> You begin with that premise: A large fraction–some estimates are 75 percent–of the disease burden in the U.S. is from chronic diseases.

> Second, there is a tremendous amount of epidemiological literature that suggests that diabetes, cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome—and many health-relevant individual behaviors such as overeating and underexercising and drug and alcohol abuse–come from stress.

> And third, there is a large amount of data that suggests the biggest source of stress is the workplace. So that’s how Chapman can stand up and make the statement that CEOs are the cause of the health care crisis: You are the source of stress, stress causes chronic disease, and chronic disease is the biggest component of our ongoing and enormous health care costs.

This only makes sense if overall stress, specifically workplace stress, is going up over time. My general impression is that workplaces today are more pleasant than they have ever been. Managers realized non-monetary benefits are cheaper and often times more effective than purely monetary benefits. This means flexible working hours, ability to work remotely and overall workplace environment.

> Job engagement, according to Gallup, is low. Distrust in management, according to the Edelman trust index, is high. Job satisfaction, according to the Conference Board, is low and has been in continual decline. The gig economy is growing, economic insecurity is growing, and wage growth overall has stagnated.

The evidence is just polls rather than more substantial evidence. Even if they serve as an accurate representation, it may be interpreted in many ways. For instance, my job satisfaction can be low because its a tight labor market and I know I can get more money elsewhere, or my standards evolved. To say that this is evidence that the workplace is "killing people" is a stretch.

> I look out at the workplace and I see stress, layoffs, longer hours, work-family conflict, enormous amounts of economic insecurity

This is just objectively false as layoffs are historically low [0] in the US and working hours are shorter over the last ten years [1] or so. It seems to me the author is being dishonest and trying to reach a preordained conclusion

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/layoffs-in-us-could-soon-d...

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
Dogs too.
I've been actively denying myself access to my phone when I wake up. I had gotten into the undesirable habit of reading reddit for like thirty minutes every morning.

Yea, that means I sometimes doze a bit sitting on the john. It does mean I'm at the point where I'm ready to do something productive in ten minutes after getting out of bed, though.
> The majority of the work that gets talked about here, by software and tech startups, will not be effectively built using HTML/CSS or server-side rendering.

The majority of work that gets talked about here is technical work which is N levels below the business use case. Without the business use case you have no idea if it can be effectively built using server side rendering. Because of that I'm not sure anyone here is really able to make this statement.
Has anyone tried? Gone back to a simpler interface, fewer "little features"? I think I would like that, and others would, too.
Yeah, that's fair, but no reason why we shouldn't do both. Unfortunately the US government is not gonna make that happen any time soon.
Uh OK. I'll ask again, what is the ostensible proof of concept. You assert that Musk/Boring has been "quite open", so it should be quite easy to describe what the proof of concept is, if it is something else besides a tunnel for cars to drive through.
There seem to be errors in geo-locations as well. No results for Zurich while it's the biggest hub in Switzerland. A suspiciously high number in Venice, Italy (I think it's safe to assume California here).
Which again are irrelevant for the common “just for Vagrant” use case.
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As Rails + Turbolinks has shown, unsurprisingly, users don't care what renders your page. As you said, they just want it fast.

Server side rendering HTML and serving it up works perfectly fast for pretty much every site which is read only content or forms. The of 3rd party scripts running on every page are the issue.

Also as a major negative against SPAs, once a script is loaded - it's going to be ever present on every page afterwards - enjoy explaining why payment details page needs 20 3rd part scripts running on it. Not possible to unload scripts.
There's fatalism about this because Elon hasn't actually proposed anything innovative. Literally everything Elon has said he wants his boring machine to do, other boring machine companies have already been doing for 2 or 3 decades.

The only remotely "innovative" thing that Elon has suggested is recovering the boring machine after tunnel digging. Even this isn't innovative--the reason most boring machines aren't recovered is because it would cost too much to extract them from the surface. Elon's proposed method of extraction (digging down from the surface) is the method the industry already uses in those situations where it is cost-effective to recover the machine.

The boring machines that BoringCo is using are used boring machines that were recovered using the "innovative" method that Elon proposed. It was cost effective to do so because they're relatively tiny, as far as boring machines go.
It's a sci-hub link; does your network hijack DNS to block it?
Real talk: Who should buy Blue Apron?
It's not worth it to gain 30% more customers by spending 10x the original development time micro-optimizing everything.
Exactly. Assuming ethnic discrimination seems pretty unwarranted.
"orangefuckface@whitehouse.gov" - that's really not necessary now is it?
Check your map, it looks like you may be matching "Remote, or XXX" with the town of Remote, Or (Oregon).
I'm sure you know about static site generators like https://jekyllrb.com/. Are those what you have in mind?
> We would need some sort of aggregator.

It could be a protocol, independent of the browser. But the browser could support it inline, so you could just click a button to follow a content stream. It shouldn't be complex, it should be simple. Really simple. Syndication.
I'm sorry, and you may legitimately consider this an appeal to authority, but I don't care what you think about this topic, because you are a random stranger, and the people who wrote those links work for some of the best scientific institutions on the planet.

If they say e-cigs are unhealthy, I trust them implicitly, even if they sound vague and defensive (Which I'll admit, they do). When these organizations say something, collectively with one voice such as they have, I take their word, because historically, they've been in chorus exclusively in my interest. Over time, if they degrade that trust I will begin to question them, but they haven't yet, and more importantly, you haven't built anything even on the same plane as them, trust and respect wise.

The fact that you think you can contend with them, arguing about their conclusions is, to me, the absolute height of Internet Arrogance. Who are you? Why do you have the facts and the people involved with creating the above linked documents don't? Why do you think your understanding of the situation is superior to theirs? Don't you think they've considered, analyzed, synthesized, and thrown out everything you've just said?

Hell, where do you think you learned this information in the first place, if not from research done by these very people?

You're punching way too far up, and the fact that you don't realize that or don't care shows you're not worth listening to on this topic, or any topic you do the same thing about.

Someone once told me that if you don't have an advanced degree on a topic, to not try and contribute to that field without the backing of someone (hopefully multiple someones) who do have advanced degrees in that field. I suggest you listen to that person.
$5 for most teenagers is what $100 is for an adult.
Most people bloviating online don't have anything interesting to say. This is as applicable to FB as it is to any contributor-posted crap on Forbes.com.

You'll have a hard time convincing these "content creators" to move off FB as they know they won't be able to attract the same audience anywhere nearly as easily.

Finally, a personal website doesn't solve the fundamental issue: people crave attention. That's why FB doesn't report likes in real time, it spaces them out so you can log back in re-check like some kind of lab rat. People crave drama too, which is why news sites use clickbait titles on their FB posts. What better way to boost "engagement" than post a headline you know will start a fight in the comments?

The flip side of that coin is that people seem to actually want a steady stream of low-quality content, and FB has more than enough behavioural psychologists and UX people on their team to ensure that keeps happening.
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