skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing the responses to this post just further adds to my conviction that the web is dead.

You can't rely on websites being futureproof or adaptable to different situations.

You can't rely on content being accessable to everyone. Nor can you count on content being available forever anymore.

Sites are blocked or throttled by ISPs and governments. Sites are expected to censore they're content. Even search results are being censored.

You can't trust in even the most basic assumption of privacy or anonymity. Everything you do is being tracked and sold.

So many social networks require your phone number. So many sites need you to login or need your email.

It's all one big get rich quick market.
They're not making it dramatically cheaper, they are using sewer tunnel boring machines at a cost similar to that of boring a sewer tunnel.

The innovation is the assertion that such small tunnels are sufficient and safe for mass transit.
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That sounds like the market for private care isn't really as big as is often claimed, then.
Wake up; get out of bed; have a hot drink; maybe breakfast/workout; hygiene routine. It's not that esoteric, and surely you remember a time before smartphones?
Charter Agrees to $174M Deal to Settle Alleged Netflix Throttling
Hadley Wickham's book "R for Data Science"[1] does a good job emphasizing the data cleaning and reshaping steps in the analysis process.

[1] https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
An intentionally limited device like an old-fashioned pager might work. I know it doesn't make logical sense to limit functionality: one might ask, "can't you just limit phone use to urgent notification instead of limiting yourself to a device that's physically limited to notifications?" Well, yes, but people don't work that way.
It even acts as a white noise machine as a free bonus.
"The turnaround time for features is not even remotely close."

True, but turnaround time is something that is primarily beneficial to developers, as it's all about reducing development costs.
> I absolutely would if the result is that the carpenter's work is worse for it.

I don't know by what metric the work is, on average, worse for it.

I've been on the web since '91 and I've been more or less an obsessive user since then. I've seen the changes.

The web - again, on average - is better to use than it ever has been. Some websites suck. Some websites are awesome. The worst websites in '95 were unusable and had broken layouts/styles, but people act like every website in '95 was some perfect embodiment of minimalist engineering.
That is a logical fallacy. Sure a lot of things happened because of the military, but what didn't happen because we were busy on the military things. There is no way to know.

If we had spent as much on genetic research as we did on the moon landing we could have had fire breathing dragons. Think of all the spin offs from that that we are just starting to see now, we could have had them sooner.
Top 3 examples?
I would love to see this project succeed, but it seems to me that a combination of European and Asian style hi-speed trains (TGV, ICE, Shinkansen etc) with massive tunnel projects like [1] are the way to go here.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
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In VA that was $2.13/hr + tips, with tips to be declared at the end of the shift. Obviously, you could declare lower tips than what you made, but if the customers paid by credit cards then you could get nailed if/when you got audited; cash was a different story.

If your hours + declared tips were less than minimum wage then they had to pay you minimum wage. That only happened at one large chain I worked at but not at the local, one-off places. Tips were large enough on weekends that it didn't matter much, or at least not enough to risk your job complaining.

The locally run bars I worked at didn't care about tip ratios, but the corporate chains expected you to average 18% tips and would penalize you if you were pulling less than 13% for several weeks -- cuz it either meant you were absolutely terrible at your job, or else you were lying.
Recommendations + Discovery = Filter Bubble. These mis-features are exactly what we should be moving away from!
Probably not illegal to discourage but maybe illegal to ban
Yeah, those subway networks cost $2.7 billion per mile (in NYC) and take decades to complete. He managed to do it in a couple of years at an estimated cost of $10 million. Even if that number is wrong by an order of magnitude this is a massive improvement.

The "Elon Musk" persona is no doubt annoying, but is that a reason to undermine and shoot down new ideas? Don't let your schadenfreude get in the way of recognizing real achievements.
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I would gladly pay higher taxes if the money were spent on homelessness or education or healthcare instead of the military.
It's a prototype of a bold idea

It's a utility tunnel. That's been done before, for much cheaper than the $10m/mile that BoringCo spent (not including R&D, capex, or all the other costs that other boring projects include in their totals).

For better or for worse, Elon Musk has a track record of taking difficult ideas and beating all odds to make them a reality.

Citation needed. I give SpaceX credit for doing things no private company has done before, but the executive in charge of that is Gwynne Shotwell, it's COO. SpaceX accomplished nothing before she took over.

If you wanna call out Elon Musk for something, call him out for his abusive management practices and erratic/abusive behavior on twitter.

Agreed. Him forcing 100-hour weeks on SpaceX employees over Shotwell's recommendations has torpedoed their ability to hire experienced engineers.

Calling him out for trying out bold ideas (with all the trial and error that entails) is really petty and counterproductive.

People would love for Musk to try out bold ideas. The problem is that Musk is not trying out bold ideas. He's just doing things that have been done before, but with worse execution and 1000x better marketing.
And buy travel insurance any time you want to drive more than a hundred miles or so?
I agree — the current usability is still very suboptimal, and we need to work on it a lot. But compared to where we’ve been a few years ago, it’s already gotten better.

I wish I could do more, but in the end, I’m just a single developer improving the usability of a single app in my free time.

For open source non-centralized solutions to compete with the proprietary options, you need lots of devs and even more funding. Matrix/Riot.im has that, and even they aren’t close to where Slack is. Most of us IRC devs are either getting nothing, or, as e.g. in my case, the donations don’t even cover the server costs.

In the end, if people want open solutions to grow, they need to put their money where their mouth is.
Users want responsiveness instead of page reloads between every action. It’s pretty simple, and it’s what almost all customers (and their designers) ask for when getting a web app made.

The idea that there’s a mythical user out there who absolutely demands serverside rendering is a bizarre figment of HNs collective imagination.
I don't think it is the norm to have your stuff figured out by the time you reach college
Can you try to summarize how you see the thesis, then? It may actually be helpful to others if you do; if you believe that the article states a different thesis than the title, then it may be too subtle a difference for some readers to find; specifically, I personally am one such case — I'd be very interested in learning if there's something I missed!
NIST Application Container Security Guide [pdf]
That's unhealthy, you really need more than six hours of sleep.
I have an analogue bedside clock that uses WWVB to set the time. It's one of my most valued possessions, in fact. I hate digital clocks.
One of the pros of Facebook is the ability to share content with a restricted set of people, and find content easily (the feed). For example - I’m ok with my friends and family seeing my vacation photos, but don’t generally want all of you (no offense, but we need boundaries!) paging through them.

There’s got to be something more in between. I got excited by the various distributed social networks but have yet to see any of them in any non-techie context.
When asked why turning a blind eye to people being laid off was popular, the researcher said:

> Maybe it’s because we see the polar bears and the trees and the physical environment as not being agentic, in the sense of not being able to take action to defend themselves. And maybe we see human beings as being more agentic and responsible for their own well-being.

Humans are agentic! That means they can potentially find a different job after being laid off, or move to a different company if they work too many hours. However, this is mostly only a guarantee if they are high demand, and it can still be very stressful to interview.

I think the larger issue is that companies aren’t willing to train older people into learning high demand skills, which means those that are laid off can’t easily recover.
The end result of this line of thinking is software guilds. Professionals being more accountable to their guild than to their boss. And the guild deciding who can and can't be a programmer.

It gets worse. In order to deliver on those promises, the guild now has to decide what framework to use, which UI elements are worthwhile. We're politicizing our jobs, and the only way to solve political problems is with government. Enter the web programming guild.
I give Musk credit for at least mostly/nearly meeting his previously tweeted deadline of Dec. 10. Being sincere here, because I thought it likely it'd end up as late/unfulfilled as his estimates about self-driving, albeit tunneling is a safer goal than self-driving.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1054164543922823168?lang...
Maybe it's in Facebook's word2vec?
localhost? wrong redirect?
Not to get off-topic but this was one of my knocks against WordPress' new Gutenberg. Sure, it's a cool idea and ideally in time great technology, etc. But "big and fancy" layouts are mainly a __not__ mobile first ideal. Gutenberg 10 years ago? Genius. Today? In a mostly small screen world? A sledgehammer when a hammer would do in most cases. (I'm generalizing. The minutia isn't important really.)

When WP started, (self) publishing was the key. We've since evolved to where content is important but network / connections matter more. I know #duh :) With all it's market share and community WordPress was in a unique position to leverage that girth and add the magic of "network" to the content.

Imagine something like (e.g.) Disqus but as the default - as Gutenberg is - on every WP website. The general idea might not be new (i.e., Disqus has social-esque features) but the mass network would be. Perhaps adding in a RSS consumption feature for the sources I follow (and might want to share)?

That is where we are now, with a lot of small screens. God bless Gutenberg but sometimes it feels like the promise of a new & improved fax machine - too little too late.
This reminds me of the "metric cameras" that are used in photogrammetry.

Circa 1940 that field was mostly about measuring things on the ground but then it became 95% about aerial and space photography.

Cameras intended for normal photography are optimized for sharpness, metric cameras are optimized for making correct measurement. That means the lens design is a bit different.

I've been curious about the side-view camera in my Honda in which I'm not sure that the "focal plane" is really a plane. I guess some day I'll find a wrecked Honda at a junkyard and get a mirror assembly to play with.
Oh, that's what you meant by social capital. I meant things like jobs, health care, education, and most importantly, opportunities to excel.

I think any attempt to blame the underclass for their situation is simply ignorant of the problems faced by people who don't have access to those things, and the reasons why people whose best hope appears to lie outside the "norms of civil society" choose not to obey the norms of a system which is set up primarily to preserve wealth - that is, to preserve their exclusion and subjugation.
I've seen virtualized environments where every single scrap of disk is located on a SAN, because that's easier/cheaper/something-er for IT to manage.
Yes, but that just tests the connectivity prometheus -> node, which won't detect some network partitions, for example
Maybe - just maybe - that is what they want you to believe.
This x1000

We would need some sort of aggregator. Currently, you could call Facebook an aggregator of personal websites. Of course all of the personal websites are also hosted there, but it technically is an aggregator of those webpages. Let's not forget most of the people that I am friends with on Facebook would never be able to create their own personal website without a lot of help which is what makes something like Facebook so convenient and popular.
Yes. Boringco's final cost per person and km isn't known yet, but it's not obviously a major win compared to good current practice, such as what you can read about here: https://tunnelbuilder.com/metrosur/edition2pdf/page2.pdf
I'd be curious to see a cost estimate for some traffic level. I wonder if there's a way to put the pixel in s3 and process the access logs more cheaply.
And don't forget the vipassana and rolfing!
I'm sorry for the terribly not valuable comment here but best time to use "DUH" ever . . IMO.

knowing this kind of thing can be useful for various technical reasons even product management could benefit from this kind of information.

I guess my key takeaway is it's a good reminder that painfully obvious information when presented with numbers can still be kind of interesting
Free/$10 template (something like Jekyll) + GitHub Pages for hosting + Cloudflare for HTTPS
Tunnel boring has been around for longer than cars have, advanced mechanical tunnel borers predate Silicon Valley, so yes, it's an established industry that has seen continuous, revolutionary innovation. That HN and SV are unfamiliar with the industry in no way changes that fact.
Those are almost decorative though
Well, because it isn't. Tunnel boring is an established industry

Yes, but Elon's stock and trade has become:

1) look at an established industry
2) do a 1st principles analysis of how inexpensive the product could be
3) analyze where the difference comes from
4) $$$

This works especially well with overlooked industries where government regulation has thrown up barriers and established players have little competition. That is bold. Following scientific principles to the truth and profiting from it is bold, flat out.

It's more admirable than imitation of previous successes, at any rate.
All of these things are only possible for the majority in a labor constrained economy. Like the ones our parents experienced in the 50s.

We're in a capital constrained economy. Its simply not an option for most people.
Does drone need back-to-home signal when flying on a pre-defined route? I guess it only needs GPS and that is what might need to be jammed to stop it from following the course.. but how you jam GPS in the sky? hmm..

I also wonder how many drones are actually there as one would only fly for, how long, less than 1 hour? before battery is dead? If it returns to the base, it shouldn't take 10 sherlock holmes to track it?
That watercooler talk getting lost is absolutely a pain point with remote work, but there are mitigations and benefits that offset it in my opinion.

One option is to re-create that talk. At a past job we would often all fuck around before/after standup calls for a bit, but sometimes that fucking around became work and solved problems. Other times we would just call each other either one-on-one or in small groups just to shoot the shit, and that can recreate that same feeling.

A big part of that is getting over the idea that "calls" are somehow different than walking over to someone's desk, you wouldn't hesitate most of the time to walk over to a coworker and start chatting, but most people hesitate to call someone on slack. At a past job that hesitation wasn't there because the culture embraced it, and suddenly we had our watercooler talk back, just over video calls.
The famous home rental company may build homes too: AirBnb
Yes. I guess your setup is serverless as well. Big Query is one of Serverless MPP databases that shares similar concepts with AWS Athena.
Lots of people use manual alarm clocks for different reasons. Mine doubles as a vibrating alarm as I'm both a heavy sleeper and don't hear at night.

Honestly though, I'm still shocked at the number of people who are on a screen that soon. That can't be healthy for the eyes.
Easy, just cut the spending from the labor rights enforcement agencies. That should solve our workplace issues.

If we really want to go next level, maybe we can make sure that that tax cut goes primarily to CEOs, instead of workers, as well.
1) Install VSCode

2) Create a new HTML file

3) Hit ! and press tab

4) Type in some well thought out content :)

5) Sign up for Netlify and drag&drop your file.

6) Set up that domain

On the serious side, look up static site generators. Netlify covers all the complexity for you.
I've done this a few times and have found it to be an extremely effective way to do simple pixel tracking (for custom emails and the like).
Dmitri, I feel like you're being deceptive here. RELX, the parent company of Elsevier, hasn't been involved in this for over a decade, and in fact Lancet led the movement to divest! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/30/armstrade.w...

There are perfectly good reasons to criticize Elsevier - you may feel like they should have a way for patients and caregivers to access research about their condition, for example - so there's really no need to be disingenuous.
> It is not a goal of this group to enable interoperability/federation between messaging applications beyond the key establishment, authentication, and confidentiality services. Full interoperability would require alignment at many different layers beyond security, e.g., standard message transport and application semantics. The focus of this work is to develop a messaging security layer that different applications can adapt to their own needs.

From your link.
To Org and Magit, I would also add Notmuch as the third killer app for Emacs. A super mail user agent.

Its search engine extraordinarily quick and powerful. Besides, the whole architecture Notmuch has is incredibly elegant.
> The report’s authors estimated the initial cost of protecting the study area to be $78 million, based on the premise that water levels around Wilmington would rise 2 feet by 2050.

That's a drop in the bucket compared to Amtrak's $38 billion maintenance backlog or the $13 billion Hudson tunnel project.

Out of all the potential effects of climate change, this seems like one of the least worrisome -- we even know how to fix it already!
I am so thrilled to see Rust at #2.
Docker for Mac has moved from VirtualBox to the built-in hypervisor.

I have the impression that causes some pain when it starts eating away battery faster than the monitor can charge the laptop.
I can turn off the alarm on my phone without really looking at it and don't actually "check" my phone until I get to work an hour later.

The question of what constitutes "checking" your phone is probably ambiguous.
There are severe problems with the English NHS, but we need to remember that it costs the tax payer a lot less than the US system.

That's the thing I don't understand: they pay more in tax, and they pay more in insurance, and they don't get universal coverage and have worse outcomes across a range of measures.
>the idea of people mostly staying put over that time frame is demolished.

That idea was never put forward. Again, a nation is a people.

>It's about fear, where origin is a proxy.

It seems rather arrogant to tell other people what their beliefs are and what they are about. Would you tell Indians that they were evil racists for being "afraid" of the British invaders? That they just don't have enough experience, and you, being so much more wise and experienced know better than they do, and should be allowed to dictate to them who is allowed in their country?
We have universal care for emergency treatment, and only to the point of stabilization, and in a manner that basically combines all the worst aspects of various systems.

You can't get months worth of chemo or physical therapy or dermatological consults or whatnot at an ER.
Good for you! I've recently gone on a journey to eliminate smartphones from my life. I'm now on day 11 and counting and couldn't be happier: https://twitter.com/john_lam/status/1074527089569615872
You are correct, in that AI experts may not be the best predictors for AGI. For one, they spend their lives working towards the goal of AGI, so it would require a huge amount of cognitive dissonance for them to say that AGI is impossible or very very far on the horizon.

Philosophers and futurists are better suited to hypothesize an AGI timeline.

But you take it too far by saying it is anyone's game.

Game theory, security, and economic competition makes it impossible to globally ban AI. The incentives to automate the economy (compare AI revolution with industrial revolution) and to weaponize AI (Manhattan Project for intelligence) are just too big. We are already seeing that the US focus on fair and ethical AI puts them at a disadvantage against China and Russia. AGI must require pervasive surveillance of the populace, but the Luddites are holding this back.

I suggest you learn to stop worrying about the bomb, and start planning for its arrival.
"test" - crisis"; potato - potahto. The headline screams "but those plucky animals may just pull it off".
Sounds like bad code to me.
Dark Patterns in UI Design
> some abstract concept of artisanal purity

As opposed to what, some abstract concept of ordinary users? What the sales department wants? The idea of craftsmanship isn't that abstract to me. Performance and cacheability aren't abstract at all, that a website can get reloaded many times even for just one reader, and usually shares memory and CPU and HD cache with many other tabs, is also a really obvious observation. Stuff that makes a noticeable difference even in isolation makes a giant difference multiplied with a triple trillion, I've done the math.

> HN basically has a front page post decrying the state of the modern web every day...

That doesn't mean there isn't a problem. There's also articles decrying environmental destruction every day, not on HN but in general - should that make one care less? Would you say that biologists and climatologists are more concerned than the "ordinary person" means the ordinary should be heeded? I'd be surprised to see scientists in a science forum talk like that.

Web development is an "art", maybe like architecture is art, and we are the artisans. If having any sort of ideals to strive towards is "abstract" to us, that says more about the people involved in web development and how much genuine excitement and care for detail was destroyed by money and marketing, but not much about web development as an art form as such.

Does a flood of crappy action movies say anything about the state of the art in movie making, at all? And yes, the "average audience" maybe likes them, but who cares? If they got something else instead, there's nothing they could do about it, and it would be better for them. I don't care if that's arrogant, but don't call it abstract :P

> I don't see that happening though.

That is like talking about sports or the weather, even if its true, it's pointless. The question is rather, what do we think should happen, and how can we make it happen.