skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't do a great job with focus states.

Hit tab and scroll through the page:

* Buttons overview - Australian Government Design System || https://designsystem.gov.au/components/buttons/

And then compare it to this page:

* Buttons | United States Web Design System || https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/components/buttons/

A lot of elements don't do a great job with lining up the focus states, they seem just sort of bolted on.

Here are a few issues I saw: https://imgur.com/a/t0iwmWi
The IRB requirement is not self-imposed by universities holding themselves to a higher standard. It's a federal regulation which is imposed on them.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888641 (500+ comments)
We're running our ERP on an AS/400. That is nowhere near to die in the foreseeable future.

I was actually trying to learn RPG mentioned in the article last week, a blast from the past!
When it tells me to “wait for assistance” if I put my four oranges on one by one instead of all at once, or if I lift an item off briefly before replacing it because I need to shift things in the bag, I tend to think they feel I am a criminal. But it does have the side effect of not being able to double scan something.
I have passing familiarity. A former client used an MCP-based system (first an A Series, then later a Clearpath system on PC hardware) to run their line-of-business system (a small bank). A friend of mine worked for Unisys right out of college in the early 70's writing ALGOL code for the MCP. She says that it has its roots in the old Burroughs B5000. From what I've read they are odd beasts, and have some really interesting hardware-level security architecture. I never got to play with the system, aside from typing a couple of commands now-and-again into the OS "shell" (called MARC-- Menu Assisted something-or-other), and a little bit of editing in the editor CANDE.
A little off topic, but the idea of a "celebrated" pizza shop in SF strikes me as a little funny... I try a different pizza place every time I'm there, and I've yet to not be disappointed.
Rust: Insta (Snapshot testing)
> They also have a (complex and potentially error-prone) way to look into .gz files and sync them extremely efficiently even without gzip --rsyncable.

FWIW, the last release of `zsync` predates `gzip --rsyncable` by about six years¹.

> People should feel free to ask me any questions

"Thanks" isn't a question, but thanks for creating `redo` and the great articles. I always seem to come out of them having learnt something new, and often end up rabbit holed in the interesting side topics that are raised too.

1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/tree/NEWS#n74
The old joke:

Two economists walk down a road and they see a twenty dollar bill lying on the side-walk. One of them asks “is that a twenty dollar bill?” Then the other one answers “It can’t be, because someone would have picked it up already,” and they keep walking.
SFist used to write about crazy offers like "rent my walk in closet" or "share a big house with 50 techies".

https://sfist.com/2015/12/31/the_worst_and_saddest_of_apartm...
+1.

After some of the initial pain of setting it up (which was educational for me anyway), it's exactly the sort of lightweight thing I was looking for after Google Reader shuttered.
Famous First Landing Pages
The closest to of Harry Potter in China are probably either Wuxia or Xianxia, in which the equivalent of "god", "magic" and "violence" are actually very common.

Harry Potter is somewhat popular in China as well, though way less than it is in western countries. "Harry Potter" style stories (and Lord of Rings, etc.) are simply too "foreign" to a lot of Chinese, and that has very little to do with the government.
> It runs some things like podcasts 'under the hood' but where does a new user get introduced to it?

Nowhere now that even Mozilla has eliminated it from Firefox.
Yep, reminds me of Survivor Bias
From a european perspective it already seems mind-boggling that chefs and service staff make 80-90k and still can't live comfortably. I don't think that doubling down on that trend will help as long as there isn't enough housing available.
I beg to differ:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
Totally. This is why both the state and the companies locating in California needs to be held accountable for improving the situation. Not the workers.
I can't speak for OP, but microsoft hasn't had the best relationship with open source in the past,[1] and they are a pretty litigious company.[2] however, their strategy seems to have changed significantly in recent years and I seriously doubt they will change how github operates. if anything, github has improved since it was acquired.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
Just run a search for '<your local hospital name> chargemaster'. I found my hospital's price sheets in xlsx format easily.

Just had a CT done a couple weeks ago for abdomenal pain, $750 without contrast according to the sheet (if I did not have insurance).

I looked into costs for past procedures I had done in high school. I had kidney stones at 16. Lithotripsy was required which alone would have cost ~$65k according to the sheets. Tallying up the other minor stuff like meds and facility fees would have brought me close to $100k.

Now you argue, 'well insurance pays less'. Of course they do. But I had experience in my mid-20's having to use hospital services without insurance. Rabies shots came to around $17k billed, I paid around $2k, and spent a year fighting to have my credit brought back to normal (hospital never applied a payment from a CDC program then reported me to collections).
You're not wrong. But that's basically dogma here. Sell first! Making a product before you sell it is bad!!
London has a way better public transit than nyc. It's not even comparable.
This. Restaurants in SF are already quite expensive !
Ownership explained for Engineers and Managers
Ask HN: What are your favorite personal, topic-centric websites?
I have a very fond memory of "specialty" websites that were halfway between a personal blog and encyclopaedia about very narrow (and somewhat random) topics.

They were/are mostly maintained by a single person or small group of people who often have very little clue on how to make a website.

Between social media and big commercial websites I have seen a lot fewer of them in recent years. What are your favorite?

Examples:

A website about diamond willow stick making: http://www.sticksite.com/

A great resource about everything around rock tumbling:
https://rocktumbler.com/questions.shtml

A wonderful website for learning piano:
https://piano-ology.com/
Mind sharing the app used?
This. You can always get cheaper food and find it acceptable. Cheaper rent in SF is often no great...
Peace lines
I'm struggling to think of a progressive tax scheme that calls for 99.9% tax rate even on the highest bracket. $1 vs $1000 is such a bad straw man I'm not sure why you'd weaken your argument with it.

> the entire point of this paper is that those 'scraps' are actually worth less than the economic gains produced by the ideas that receive these high top incomes.

I'm not convinced by this. Every successful person who has created immense value for the world stood on the shoulders of not only giants but thousands of little people contributing to society. Those top income receiving ideas mean nothing in a society with no law, infrastructure, education, or opportunities. You think taxes stifle innovation? What would Bezos have accomplished had he been born to an uneducated militant in current day Syria?
"Recent trend"? Isn't it part of the human characteristic to look at the whole person, good and bad, and not just cherry-pick the good?

Even when considering only Nobel Prize winners, look at the response to Shockley's views in the 1960s, or Philipp Lenard's views on "Aryan physics" which lead the Allied forces to strip him of emeritus status from Heidelberg University in 1945.

The act of labeling someone as part of the "black" or "white" races is a political one, as race is a sociopolitical term and not one really based in genetics. (Eg, the "one drop" rule in the US has no meaningful biological basis.) Watson's political views are certainly subject to politicizing, yes?

Nor do I believe that Watson's views are really "ordinary failings". If they were ordinary, wouldn't we be hearing a lot more about other biologists making similar claims? But we don't.

On the flip side, ordinary failings can also have negative consequences, yes? When do we let fame shield people from those consequences?
Colour me surprised. I clicked on the link expecting the usual abomination that is an Australian Federal Government website that I usually deal with, but I was pleasantly surprised at the nice design and layout.

Now, if only we can extend this to our local state government...
Java + little bit of Spring.

C + a lot of Autosar

Both for backend development.

Not planning to dive into another language or framework in 2019
Honestly the trilogy isn't that great as literature. It feels like an amalgam of all the cool ideas the author ever had forced into a narrative. The individual ideas are really interesting and cool but there is little to no character development and the plot can be silly at times. I don't think it is the worst science fiction I have read but to me it doesn't hold together as a story.
There's still a few nodes remaining in Asia.

https://tormap.void.gr/

As a point of comparison, look at the nodes for Ethereum, which, IMHO, is a even more disruptive idea than Tor.

https://team.carto.com/builder/e70677d5-1111-40a8-9e19-f27da...

Ethereum is a much younger project than Tor, and explicitly eschews the human-rights / internet-freedom branding, even though it will obviously be incredibly useful for those purposes.
I tried the site on Firefox focus and the interface is poor https://i.ibb.co/fnrk3vZ/Screenshot-20190114-083539.png
Who is actually against a great increase of housing in SF? I've never heard that opinion. It feels like it would mostly be landlords.
I really don't like these statements that so assuredly close out one possibility on some mysterious phenomenon through a fallacious argument. We don't know what these signals are. We don't know everything about the universe. How are we so sure what it is not?

I mean, it only took me 5 seconds to come up with some technically not impossible (though improbable) hypothesis. What if that is the signature of a worm hole drive kicking in? That would explain why it's everywhere.
Error words
Hello, I'm a Server Enginner, and
I need to make 3 patters error messages.
If you know any other error messages, please tell me.
I'm not good at English.

Target device is NewWork device.
The messages shows up when you login to NewWork device, and failed to login.

Pattern1: situation is you just faile to login to the NetWork device.
(The login attempt failed)
(unable to login, something wrong)
(login failed)

Patter2: You are already logined to NW device, but failed change to root user.
(Administrative Permission denied.)
(Administrator authorization is required.)
(Unable to change root mode.)

Pattern3:failed backup(backup script didn't work well)
(config backup is failed)
(config backup is unsuccessful)

Please give me some advices, I want make smart error messages.
"You can't have it both ways. Either change the city and build upwards or stop complaining about the price of living"

Yes. Here is an awesome video documenting one persons struggle to create an apartment building:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
You think google is going to send a cease and desist letter to github based on someone’s work reverse engineering google’s App in Chrome?

And if they do that, nobody will have a copy of this source code?
Yeah, it seems like the author isn't aware of how common AS/400s still are in business environments. Thankfully, I have so far managed to dodge having to learn how to use it by suggesting that the other members of my team continue to be the point people for it.
Google blocks comments on issue regarding Android call recording apps
I use a native application (QuiteRSS) as my reader but for twitter I use a modified version of the twitter_search_to_rss.pl and twitter_user_to_rss.pl + TwitRSS.pm from TwitRSS.me (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme/tree/master/fcgi). The resulting xml files are saved out into my ~/www/RSS/ directory and that URL path is used in my various readers.
Criminal activity by the powerful is a far greater problem than criminal activity by the weak.
Why can't it be in the process of happening? Is there a global on/off switch somewhere?
who would you sell to - provider or payer?
Payers should already be comparing across the providers they service.
Providers would definitely find value - the challenge here is comparison based on list price are not inherently useful, yet obtaining negotiated prices would be difficult.
I'm all ears for partnering if someone can get access to negotiated prices, even for a specific region.
AS/400 is the neatest computer system architecturally that I think has ever been made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
Sci-Fi novels are generally less impacted by censorship as they are undoubted considered as fictions. References to religion, social topics etc. are not a focus of censorship
Could you compare your approach to SoftBound (https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/softbound/) ?
I have only read "Three-Body Problem", and I found it to be atrocious writing on pretty much all levels. Language-wise, it was more cliched and wooden than many fanfics I've read. Character development is non-existent, and most of the characters are very shallow and only exist to advance the plot. The plot itself, aside from the basic idea of a three-body system with life, was also very boring - the only part of it that I actually looked forward to continue reading was the Cultural Revolution flashbacks. And then there's the whole sci-fi part of it, which was beyond ridiculous - sentient elementary particles etc.

I still don't understand how that book gets so many good reviews, and especially don't understand people comparing it with Heinlein. Those reviews were the only reason why I forced myself to read it all the way through, and it still feels like some elaborate hoax, or accidentally ending up in some postmodernist art convention by mistake.
I've never stopped using RSS as my primary means of consuming content online, and other than being annoyed at Reader being killed and having to switch to Inoreader, I haven't noticed any dip in availability or difficulty finding feeds at any point. Subreddits, new websites and blogs, all have RSS still.

This is just clickbait, plain and simple. It's fashionable these days to declare X or Y is dead/dying to bring more views in. It's tabloid media gone digital, nothing more.
Long overdue. When South Korea and Japan have super interesting Sci-Fi books and movies (e.g. Korean Bladerunner "Natural City"), why not China? I am glad China is coming along.

Since I learn Mandarin, feel free to recommend Chinese movies. (I am trying to read 三体 already, don't need more books).

I start with the first (non-scifi) movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Breaker_(film)

Please recommend more Chinese movies if you can
"But I use RSS every day!" - a Hacker News reader

I think this tweet at the end of the article answers that well:

"Who is going to tell the normal people that RSS is dead?
Wait.
Who is going to explain to normal people what RSS was?"

The articles aren't claiming the standard is dead, they're claiming that the use by normal users is dead. The RSS standard is still used to make billions of dollars of money (as a backend tech for content licensing & syndication), but users don't touch it.

This article from last year has some better examples of why RSS is dead: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead/
Landlords, yes, but also people who think that new market rate housing will destroy the character of their neighborhoods, or something.

Take it with a grain of salt because it's reason.com, but this video does do a good job of conveying a sense of how ridiculous the situation has gotten:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
I don’t recommend doing this.

To begin at the end, the standard legal remedy for violating a non compete is to enjoin you from working for your new employer. So then you are out of a job.

Yes, you can tell your new employer (in the hiring negotiation) that you have a noncompete, and tell them to clean up the mess for you. They’ll often do it, if you are valuable enough. For large employers, the common strategy is to negotiate down the time, and then stash you in an unrelated part of the business until that time is up. In the worst case, you go on “garden leave”, meaning you get paid to go home and work in your garden. You get the picture that they are not going to do this for a junior coder, it’s going to be for a senior leader or principal engineer.
I would be eternally in your debt if you uploaded that FatBoy UO track :) I had to go listen to the original after reading your comment and I can't believe how great it still is after all these years.
Ask HN: What's the problem you never solved,how much are you ready pay for that?
I'd disagree that the science was good, even for a pop audience. It reads very much like somebody got a bunch of random "cool" scientific concepts, and then proceeded to treat them as deus ex machina devices without much understanding of the underlying physics.

Just to give one example, at one point the first book features an integrated circuit somehow "etched" on the surface of a stretched-out elementary particle. And that's not just a random curiosity, but a key plot device, without which said plot collapses.

I can't in good conscience call this hard sci-fi (which is how the book is usually advertised).
Just off the top of my head for only the mission:

calle24sf for the mission:

https://www.calle24sf.org/en/

United to Save the mission:

https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheMission/
Reinforcement learning without gradients: evolving agents w Genetic Algorithms
> "The situation in this industry has created a mercenary frenzy where everyone is running around trying to maximize what they’re able to make per hour." That describes the general trend in human behavior worldwide for the past six thousand or so years. This seems like such a foundational truth that I question if the author is writing it in good faith.

I think you're missing the broader context here: employees are maximizing their take home pay at the expense of other benefits, like health insurance and retirement savings.
I found western science fictions tends to promote heroism in some way, and whatever obstacle the main character faces, they fight off their enemies in the end. Chinese novels indeed feel different in many ways.
It's a notable change that GPU instruction architectures are now stable enough for this kind of thing to happen.
Have you made any of these mistakes?
You described like 90% of Chinese webnovels.

I still read some of them from time to time, but theyre all basically the same.

Interesting to see how that translates to actual hard-copy books as well.
Demand is not inexhaustible, just pent up. On the other hand, there is a lot of pent-up demand and market YIMBYs are certainly in denial about just how much building it would take to satisfy that demand.

It would involve tremendous upheaval. Traffic would get worse. Many people would be evicted and have to find new housing before rents come down. Many people would find themselves underwater on their mortgages. We'd have to improve water/sewer/electric/gas infrastructure. We'd have to spend billions on transit. It would take at least 25 years.

I would love to see that happen, but it won't. Too many people are too invested in the status quo. Instead, they'll make SF so unattractive to tech workers that they'll leave. As you say, they're more invested in the tech industry than SF.
Back when it was new everyone was telling kids "You know you can't believe whats on the internet, anyone can say anything!", but you actually could believe most of shit online at the time, there wasn't enough audience to attract trolls or vapid popularity contest types. The people online were people that tended to ignore social and cultural convention, idealists and progressive thinkers, since the people using the internet were largely still seen as stereotypical geeks or nerds with a similar assumed social status to neckbeards or hipsters have today.

However, now that the internet has gotten popular, more people seem to just assume everything they see is real, which gives advertisers, trolls,corporations, pranksters, assholes, political propaganda, and crazies the platforms they need to spew their nonsense and get the feedback and responses they were looking for, reinforcing views and beliefs in that crazy shit no matter how obscure or unusual.
Oh man, this brings up so many good memories :)
250 hospitals plan to make own drugs and upend generic pharma business
The developer editions are US only I believe, and are unavailable to most customers.
Wow, to base such a lengthy article on a google trend search of "rss"...

Queue rekt.webm: https://trends.builtwith.com/feeds/RSS
I like https://feeder.co/ personally, although I haven’t done any exhaustive searching.
Nice idea, UI looks great as well.
This is a great opportunity for startups who does price/cost aggregation and comparison.
Not according to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One simple fact is that when margin remains, and the price goes up, Apple's absolute revenue also goes up. They are charging more money from their user.
Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
I like Merriam-Webster's first definition, which eschews any math terms and defines it as the value most representative of a set of data
Are you really saying that 100% of your time is worth 25% of your salary? And that isn't even counting work-related costs.
Absolutely. Hire the very best. The disadvantage to hiring within a specific geography is that your talent pool is limited and you are forced to compromise your internal standards to the capabilities of the available candidates.

Companies are willing to pay more for competence and I am willing to accept less pay to work with a more competent team.
What about performance art?
Why would they get to choose? The moment they 'make' you sign the non-compete, quit and take your holiday.
EURUSD Backs Off Higher Prices with Eyes on 1.1421 Zone
CA lawmaker introduces bill to require digital receipts, printed only on request
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Thanks for sharing that nugget!
Your question is the difference between marketing and craftsmanship. Are you primarily proud of your product or trying to increase your traffic?
20+ years ago when I was 16 I spent months to learn Turbo Pascal. Those were the days of reading thick books and diving into code samples you grabbed from your near BBS.
I was working on a project to predict soccer games results based on past games and help gamblers spread their risk wisely. Looking backwards only now I understand how complex and big the codebase was and not sure how I survived to tell (no coding guidelines back then, the source was huge spaghetti mass, but a working one).
Anyhow, the project got traction and a software publishing house started to sell it in computer shops nation-wide. Boxed software, 1.44" floppies. The good old days. It also earned me a decent money.
--
Since then I've wrote thousands of code lines and stretched my expertise to leading development and product teams. I consider this project and those days to be my best tech-school, where I gained much more than in my BSc. Looking at the kids these days copy-pasting StackOverFlow solutions makes me think something is missing in their foundations.
Oversimplifying, but the majority of the particles created are massless particles (usually photons), and a photon outside the event horizon can, by definition, escape.

For a more detailed answer with references, see the last answer here at https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/89983/how-many-o... .