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> This limit would break, nearly, all modern SAP apps

I presume you mean SPA, and you’re probably correct. What limits do you think are reasonable?

To me, if a SPA is > 500kb of JS my assumption is it’s unnecessarily bloated.

Gzipped aren’t most modern frameworks/libraries < 150kb? With many being considerably less

Perhaps the issue isn’t proposed limits, but instead the state of most modern SPAs
Right, CMake seems like a more than adequate replacement. Then it becomes a question of why so many people are still writing Makefiles by hand.
It's crucial to remember that "DNA evidence" does not mean "DNA sequence". It's much less technical than that. Basically, you look at some set of sequences that vary a lot among populations and individuals. The choice of sequences, and the total number, varies. And it's generally increased over time.

So anyway, if they were doing a total DNA sequence, fakes would be a lot harder. Because you'd need to synthesize (or assemble from some library) the sequence for each chromosome. And that's still a lot harder than doing a complete sequence. For now, anyway.
I doubt it. Self driving cars use Lidar and high resolution cameras to spot cars and road features. You're not going to help them by clicking on a tiny thumbnail. Remember, the captcha already "knows" the correct answers which is how it let's you through.

A tip: Do your captchas more slowly, pausing between clicks, and you'll see fewer of them. Google thinks humans are dumb and only a robot could blast through them, so it gives you more pages to solve if you answer too quickly.
Wonder if this says more about the effectiveness of ads or the dominant position Chase holds in the US financial system.
Do you also store your birth certificate in your car's glovebox?
They aren't spurious lawsuits. Google is pirating content and selling ads on it.

Everyone knows that. YouTube built itself on stolen content. Any of us could go on there right now and watch any number of pirated movies, songs, TV shows. .. you name it.
Google Employees Are Fighting with Executives Over Pay
As someone who isn't in the know, I found this[1] Forbes article about the journal. Forbes portrays the opposition as opposing the fact that it's a closed access journal, but are there other points of contention that weren't reported in the article?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/04/30/tech-giant-...
Let's hope the outcomes bode better for society than blockchains.
As far as I can tell, the article isn't really of any interest either.

Formulating a proposition that is independent of standard axioms is simple. Formulating it in the language of machine learn is an exercise. The main thing is the authors didn't provide any motivation for this to matter to the overall enterprise of machine learning, because there isn't motivation for this. It's just a novelty.
I just use 'exa' with --ignore-glob option to filter out unnecessary folders as 'ls' replacement and things are clean.

It also has an option to ignore entries listed in your .gitignore.
I recently flushed years of Google history but I kept the tracking enabled. I’ll keep flushing it regularly and you could do the same.

I don’t really care that they track me for a short time, it’s not like they don’t keep logs anyway.
>“It’s only been a few days, but we haven’t seen any deterioration on our performance metrics,” Ms. Lemkau said in an interview on Tuesday.

The ephemeral "brand awareness" provided by most advertising takes more than a few days to fall off. Chase isn't going to get someone to open an account just because they saw a banner ad, their goal is to familiarize people with their name so that when someone wants to open a bank account Chase seems like an option. People are not going to forget about Chase bank...
Almond milk is still way more sustainable than cow milk. Maybe not as much as homemade but still an improvement.
Had to lookup what the boycott was about - free access and fees: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/why-are-ai-researcher...
This has sat for awhile, but it's worthy of a response.

"Buying chickens from a local farm, where you can see the treatment, is better. It's better in every way."

That's true. That's why I raise my own.

"Your defense of Tyson is puzzling to me."

I am more defending the farmers that live within a 100 miles of me because I've seen their farms and know some of them.

Processing chickens is a bloody business. It's easy to duff off that responsibility to someone else, and easy to complain about how it's done. That's a lot easier that doing it.

Those chickens farmer neighbors of mine are not processing those chickens. They are selling chickens to Tyson.

Tyson chickens feed a huge number of people everyday, many of which are poor, and of the choices they have it's among the better ones.

The notion that I should sit at my desk and complain about Tyson while not actively pursuing what I believe to be a much better way to feed all those people just isn't one I can stand on.

I can agree that farmers and companies like Tyson should to their best to raise and process those chickens in the quickest and least painful way possible but I'm not going to demonize them. They feed a lot of people and that needs to be considered too.

So, the thing to do is work on better ways. You buy your chickens from local farmers. I raise my own and help others do the same by incubating eggs. I actually hatched a couple hundred chicken last year and kept around 30. I gave the rest away.

I won't be visiting "tysontorturesanimals.com" but I will encourage you to design, fund, and build a processing plant that meets your standards and stop complaining about Tyson.
OpenWRT is designed home routers with cheap/slow CPU’s, a few MB of memory, and small ROM’s.
If you have better equipment available to use, then sure, anything else would likely be an improvement.
nobody is going to use chase bank or not use chase bank because their advertisement is on a fake news website. it’s irrelevant. they’re wasting their time and hoping we applaud them for “ethical advertising” but I will not.

use radius bank, capital one, or any online only bank. never bank with chase. I hope they enjoy this non advertisement i’ve granted them. chase checking and savings interest rates are terrible and they charge you fees for not having a minimum balance of $1500 in a checking account.
Google built an API/data standard to standardise this type of data, exactly to solve this problem.
A really good read.
Apart from the books that he has penned, I really like the videos ( available on youtube) in which Feynman explains the “why” behind many common sightings.

Just a sidenote: Coincidentally flying to Caltech today for a week of training. Wish he was still alive.
> If you eat local grass fed meat and don't support destructive factory farming

Is this actually a feasible solution if meat is fundamentally inefficient?

"It would be far easier to feed nine billion people by 2050 if more of the crops we grew ended up in human stomachs. Today only 55 percent of the world’s crop calories feed people directly; the rest are fed to livestock (about 36 percent) or turned into biofuels and industrial products (roughly 9 percent). Though many of us consume meat, dairy, and eggs from animals raised on feedlots, only a fraction of the calories in feed given to livestock make their way into the meat and milk that we consume. For every 100 calories of grain we feed animals, we get only about 40 new calories of milk, 22 calories of eggs, 12 of chicken, 10 of pork, or 3 of beef."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-bi...

"Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the food system’s impact on the environment. In western countries, beef consumption needs to fall by 90% and be replaced by five times more beans and pulses."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-red...

> Vat grown meat technology is progressing at a pretty impressing clip from what I've seen. I think that's probably the technological change that will make this a lack of an issue.

I used to think this but it seems really silly to me now. We're going to require cutting edge technology to find a solution to the problem that people are too stubborn to adapt a little to combat climate change?

There's plant based alternatives that exist today that taste somewhat like meat that don't require expensive technology and research to produce. We already know how to grow plants on a massive scale and I can't see how vat grown meat is going to compete with that any time soon.

The requirement that we must have something that's close to indistinguishable from meat for people to switch seems an impossible bar to reach. Are people going to stick to cow milk until we devise technology to make a milk like product that's indistinguishable as well?

Perhaps if meat was taxed based on its contribution to climate change people would be less picky. Waiting on vat grown meat doesn't sound like a realistic solution, especially given what's being said about the time we have to act on climate change.
what's the reason it's boycotted? appeal to authority isn't very informative for those not keeping up with this stuff
Simple test: Google "wedding ring", click the top 10 links and browse around each a bit. You'll see the ads on a lot of the web change.

I'm sure if your Twitter feed was full of automotive posts you'd see car ads. It's probably full of stuff no advertiser cares about, like your love of old British railway cars, so instead you get generic ads about spicy nacho cheese.
> Websites that Require JavaScript. When I encounter a website that absolutely requires JavaScript to function so conditioned are my reflexes that I find I've backed out and off it without me even having realizing it. I can wiz through dozens and dozens of news items on Hacker News and easily bypass any sites that will not function without JS. I've never needed to worry, as on the Web there's always thousands of equivalent or alternative websites that are more 'cooperative' from which to choose.

One of my side-projects is a solitaire based card game that I am writing a server for in Rust and a client for in JavaScript.

If I presented visitors with js disabled the opportunity to download a native client (yes, real native not just handing you a single-executable bundle of a browser and the web app), would you download it?

a) If I provided the binaries hosted on my server, served to you over TLS?

b) If I linked you to it in Windows Store / Mac App Store / an Ubuntu PPA on launchpad.net / Google Play Store / iOS App Store / F-Droid?

c) If I told you to install the Rust tool chain via https://rustup.rs/ and to run “cargo install” plus the name of my package that would be hosted on crates.io?

d) If I linked you to the build instructions in the wiki on GitHub that would tell you how to build it from source?

Please rank these from most likely to least likely that you would be willing to do if you were interested in my solitaire game.

And also, how would I best demonstrate the value to you of my solitaire game? Embedded video (plain video tag that doesn’t require js)? Screenshots and text? A link to the video on YouTube?
This is exactly the computers taking jobs from people. They could hire more people and solve the problem.

This is the ai apocalypse happening right before or eyes in slow motion.

Pretty soon the ai will make the content and humans won't be allowed to upload at all.
That's why I just let them be and create 'Data' folder at the drive's root where no one will taint and to keep the way I want organized.
Online advertising is toxic. Everything from the execution (code), the push, the presentation, the stalking, the need for isolation, and the horrid insecurity. I understand that ads are the life blood of much of the web, but so long as that is the case there are many sites I won't visit and just about everything else I will block ads.

The only site I frequently visit where I don't feel dirty and violated by ads are the video ads on YouTube because I know they are screened for in appropriate content and aren't littered with 30 spyware packages. Of course YouTube makes up for that with horrid ad/stalking behavior everywhere else.

I even bet Facebook would be an ethical company if not for all the behaviors associated with chasing ad revenue.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that the editor didn't kill this story.

The cynical thought would be that this story exists to encourage other big brands to be more choosy in the sites they advertise on, and what better site to advertise on than the NY Times?
I was a substantial PP merchant (millions of $ per year) and it was a horrible experience. We used PP and another, traditional, banking/card payment service and PP was far worse. So many people screwed us because they knew PP would just refund. PP regularly locked our money for months (we bought and sold product via PP so could not take all the money out). They threat merchants like shit generally, only protect the consumer. Many of which are just scammers using PP to get free product. We really only had a fraction of chargebacks on cards of what we had on PP and as a bonus, with those chargebacks at least noone could block our funds for months like PP did.
Eh, these aren't people who were forced out of academia because of scarce resources. They left because they wanted to work on the kinds of problems RenTec provides, in the kind of setting RenTec provides. When they left, they freed up funding for someone who wanted to stay in academia.
This is from March of 2017. I couldn't find any follow-up articles talking about results almost 2 years in.
All of Silk's milks contain calcium carbonate, which serves the dual purpose of whitening the milk and calcium fortification.

http://www.ddwcolor.com/natural-colours/calcium-carbonate/
You could not be more wrong. A lot of new employee safety training is moving to VR, backup NFL quarterbacks are practicing in VR (since the starting quarterbacks get all the actual time in practice), this is already happening. Not vaporware.
What's a UI Runtime ? The post should give that definition first before jumping into the details.
Is there any research on the effectiveness of ads? I can’t ever remember intentionally clicking an ad on a webpage. I would imagine ads are more relevant or effective on an image feed like Instagram, but does anyone interact with ads on actual webpages? Or, worse, mobile games?
Except for the folks paying content makers to do ads, as far as i can tell plenty of YouTube content makers have no problem with targeting kids with stuff that is effectively gambling.
I hate dotfiles, simply because it's not programming. It's configuration.
They've explained why it's a problem. Having an alternative viewpoint on "why programs are randomly polluting my home folder, a sensitive location with my personal data, with unwanted files without leaving any trace of their origin" isn't going to help.
Password Managers (The Password Conundrum: Part 2) – CKD3, LLC
Only in certain circumstances can Social Security benefits be garnished.
FWIW I generally take out my phone and use the Android Google Maps app, because it is considerably faster than waiting for the web version to load.
What they conveniently leave out is what % of the total traffic on those 400K comes from the 5K remaining. It's a safe assumption that they stuck with the most popular mainstream sites so this could realistically be a <10% reduction in the number of eyeballs.
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Do you offer visa support?
> they will just get a chargeback through their credit card, and you're still screwed

I am not in the US and most card sales we did were debit cards by far and there chargeback is usually far more difficult, which indeed, showed us a lot better result than purchases through PP. I would never use them again as merchant.
Why did they have to narrow it down to games? Could just go with "Saved config (and data)", so other apps could just dump small config files which can be effectively backed up.
Strictly speaking, BKK (Suvarnabhumi) is not even in Bangkok but another province, Samut Prakan. DMK (Don Mueng) is actually the one in Bangkok.
I think that's close to a truism of system design: the more things you simultaneously require a developer to be an expert at to use your system, the fewer developers who will choose to use your system.

Somewhere around 3 disciplines? Nobody's using your system.

Such was the paradoxical brilliance of SQL and Excel. By limiting knowledge scope, they greatly enhanced utilization (and thereby utility).
That isn't the advertisements. That is the actual content people intentionally request. I wouldn't confuse a casino for its billboard.
I do hope to see them picked up. I'd like to see the next Bootstrap/Foundation/Material UI framework be web components, that'd be a sight
Older people and children feed the industry
Since when every person in a house has their own gaming PC?
How Much Does It Cost to Hire Developers in Switzerland and Ukraine?
The existence of Patreon and similar services gives me hope that we can one day have a viable way to fund websites besides advertising. It seems like at present, one or two person teams (e.g. small podcasts and YouTube channels) can survive or even thrive on Patreon donations, mid-sized entities (e.g. major podcasts like Serial, most websites) rely on advertising, while large organizations like newspapers use some combination of advertising and subscriptions with mixed success. It would be great if Patreon-style donations could become a major revenue source of the mid-sized content producers as they have for the small.
How do you measure brand awareness? It’s certainly either bullshit or trivial to measure.
Yeah that is the impression I got too. Just another job to get if you're connected, but not really a good one.

The result is a bit predictable.
You cannot and should never assume that dotfiles are just preference files. They might be directories, and those directories might be chock full of big files — or worse, temp files that should really be in /tmp.
The explanation I've received was that they don't get any money from the higher dosage from insurance company and as I use it for "cosmetic" reason, I won't get the cheaper one.
Google itself could do a lot to solve this problem if it wanted to: Just deprioritize the search rankings of sites that pull in a lot of external javascript, or that do unnecessary client-side rendering (where the definition of "unnecessary" would obviously need some careful consideration).
HN discourages jokes, which may contribute to the misunderstanding.
Cloud-Based JVM Platform?
I don't know what they save but 10GB is surely not purely saved games. It's those games fault not about 'saving saved games by default'.
There’s actually a company doing automated “pay to remove Google ads and support the site” — http://subscriptions.publir.com — uses Stripe and proceeds go to the publisher.
Turn your selfies into stunning art
Other key facts:

> Surprisingly, the company is seeing little change in the cost of impressions or the visibility of its ads on the internet, she said. An impression is generally counted each time an ad is shown.

I take that to mean that the tail didn't cost very much, and didn't increase ad visibility very much.
It is easy to scapegoat the founders, but I know quite a few people, including myself, where OxyContin was the only pain reliever that really worked. In my case, took it after surgery. Not sure that Purdue Pharma is any worst or better than other Big Pharma.
Ah, forgive me. Your comments fit the profile of someone I know socially who'd worked at Edgestream before leaving to do research in communications.

Irvine leads to other presumptions, of course. That golden sunshine..
My Documents meant as /var/tmp to me ever since it existed. Never put my own files there.
> How?

Simplest scenario, the read-increment-write cycle with 2 threads. Even with a mutex, it is still possible to have data race, if the lock is on per operation level.

For the second part, yep, it is a mistake, not processes, but threads.

With GIL, the thread is given the permission to operate on certain interpreter-related data-structures, like reference counts, or free_list like in PyIntObject. What I mean the active thread is free to modify those data structures without fear of data races, and there is no explicit locking required, if it doesn't hold its own copies of those interpreter internal states.

But GIL can only guard the interpreter's own states, not any user program's states. And yes, explicit locking for operating on your own data is still required.

https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#thread-state-and-t...
>That is the actual content people intentionally request.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, but I'm not really sure any viewers are requesting content makers do ads that target kids for gambling like apps and site.

Either way they are ads, and they are on YouTube. It's hardly a clean place advertising wise.
If I were to start publishing video content I'd probably try for Vimeo first, self-hosted second. (No affiliation.)
Subscription fee requirements for access, mostly.
I look at it more in the sense of Uber's product not being a rideshare app, but being a "move you from point A to B in the best way possible app" (best = meets your cost/time/comfort needs).

Here's a good writeup on the "jobs to be done": https://stratechery.com/2018/aggregators-and-jobs-to-be-done...
With the exception of certain games, none of those other applications require JavaScript.

Form submissions and such have been part of HTML for a long time, and map viewing most certainly doesn't need JS. See this comment from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872194

Unfortunately the map images in the article there no longer work because Google has decided to "deprecate" that API, but there's absolutely nothing about serving what is essentially a large tiled image that requires the capability to run arbitrary code on the client. In fact, here's a tile URL I just found that still works: http://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=y&x=1325&y=3143&z=13

JavaScript is like Flash: useful or even essential for some things, but far too overused these days.
Show HN: An Online Artisanal Dick Butter Store
Could add: Neal Stephenson (Author)
I started shopping at American Apparel because I liked their banner ads back in the day. Same with this other apparel brand that used to be around in Richmond (Need Supply I think.) I’ve also bought things from Instagram and things advertised on podcasts, so maybe I’m the kind of person willing to buy things from ads?

In any case, the ads that appealed to me sold an aesthetic.
If you want to write your own OS and run it on the computer that you built from whalebone which you harvested from the bottom of the ocean in a submarine you constructed from graphene, well, gee, that's wonderful. But it has nothing to do with how the proverbial Man On The Internet lives his life and the internet is built for that dude, not you.

The fact that people go around on this website boasting about how they "refuse to execute JavaScript on their computers" was funny to me like two years ago but now it's just sad. Is this really the hill you guys want to die on? If so, could you please die quietly and maybe stay in the shade so I don't have to watch? Thanks.
I agree.

They would fight hard to keep that data proprietary, as certain property owners might be more aggressive about lease pricing or royalties.
For me, "brand awareness" comes from news coverage, not ads. I know that ads are biased, so I ignore them.
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Worth reading what McKinsey did in South Africa: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/africa/mckinsey-sou...

Considering they took that deal even over the objection of some of their partners seems to me that not everyone, even the top firms, are as craven.