skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't wanna get in a philosophical thicket here, but gotta note that I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that meat livestock exist for their meat. That may be the reason that humans raise them, but from the animals' perspective, they exist for their own purposes. Their lack of ability to exercise freedom and volition doesn't negate their intentionality.
In case someone wouldn't know, they are the creators of South Park.
I don't know what polymer Lumia uses, but I wonder why Apple doesn't use ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) for their budget phone cases.

This material is used among other things on artificial joints such as knees and hips, as well as the bottoms of snowboards. It's very tough and scratch resistant.
Hah, but sometimes the non-verbalized component of this communication method is a bit silly if they actually want you to consider ‘not go’ to be the only option.

“Oh, when you said you would feel alone you were actually (more or less) forbidding me from going out tonight.”

Why don’t you just say that then...
Citation on Gallowboob? The only accusation I'd heard against them was reposting too much.
I like Quang's for pho and Vietnamese food, Guavas is a new Cuban/Caribbean place that is quite good.

The fancier places would be something like Spoon and Stable and Bellecour, who have the same chef. Their quality would probably be on par with a mention in the Michelin guide but no star. I have a tendency to go with cheaper food at home and splurge when I'm traveling, so I do not have a good sample of the fine dining restaurants in MPLS.

There's a pretty good kaiseki restaurant in the north loop, but I can't remember the name. They have a very good Japanese whisky bar above, if you are willing to pay through the nose for Japanese whisky.
Yep, I agree with all of these points. Casper and Capsule also come to mind (both headquartered in New York, probably get lumped into these kind of lists, and probably aren't really tech companies).

But there are other ones that "feel" more like tech companies, just nothing quite nearly as big as DoubleClick. e.g. Songza (acquired by Google), Cockroach Labs, Vimeo (acquired by IAC but still operating independently) have not (yet) been mentioned.

EDIT: I see Vimeo was covered below.
Ask HN: What are some mordern day trends like Moore's Law?
For most major companies there existed a trend that caused some major changes in industry.

Apple and MS came when cost computing power was dropping sharply.

Dropbox and Box came when storage costs were decreasing rapidly (about 50% YOY as stated by Aaron Levie)

Alto was built taking next ten year's computing capacity into consideration.

Any general trends that you might want to point out today?

Example, increasing amount of data generated every year.
My comment is one bit of opinion in a terabyte stack. You don't need (and won't get) 100% support from every bit on every forum.

If by "us" you mean women in general, you're assuming women in general want such a place where only women are allowed. If you are successful, then a pattern may emerge where more places are set up that exclude groups based on gender or other differences.

If it were bathing facilities or medical clinics and so on, where the needs of women-only services are based on practical reasons and obvious differences, nobody would question it. When the service is "technology", there is nothing inherent to that medium that warrants gender isolated services.

I'm male, but I don't comment or code from that point of view. I wouldn't want to frequent a place mainly intended for women coders. But I wouldn't want to be stopped at the door either. It's wrong to do that, which is why we have laws protecting against such discrimination. I believe a good-faith model and honesty system would serve you better in the long run rather than official gender verification, which is quite a hard-lined approach. Good luck with it anyway.
I got the XR. I would prefer a smaller phone, but none of the extra features on the XS justified paying 33% more for them. (In fact, I didn't feel that 64 GB was enough, so if you compare the cheapest models with more than that, you're looking at closer to a 50% premium for the XS).

I had a 5S, and I considered the SE, but I had already started to see apps and websites that don't support the smaller screen size very well, and I didn't want to get a phone that I intend to use for 4 or 5 years that was already several years closer to obsolescence.

The XR is a good phone, but it shows evidence of value engineering that you don't usually see on apple products. The larger bezels, the lightning port not being centered on the bottom of the phone, the fact that is thicker and almost heavier than the XS Max.

My biggest disappointment with getting the XR was that general day-to-day tasks that felt sluggish on my 5S since the iOS 11 update . . . are still slow and sluggish. I have watched the phone take over 15 seconds to respond in any way to a tap inside Apple's pre-installed apps. I thought that iOS 11 was just too resource-intensive for my old phone, and I guess its just that Apple has forgotten how to write solid and responsive software -- which used to be one of the key differentiators between Apple and Android phones.
AV1 isn't mature enough to make it worth sinking a bunch of time into optimizing an encoder for yet. There will eventually be multi-threaded AV1 encoders but the format needs to stabilize first. There is no guarantee that a file you encode today will play on anything in the future. It is in no way ready for primetime, maybe in another 3-5 years it will be at the enthusiast/pirate stage and commercial usage in 7-10 years.

Also, do bear in mind that the primary use-case here is for Youtube to cut down their bandwidth consumption, and other similar users who don't mind doing a one-time encode that either takes a while, or needs to be run with process-level parallelism (different files at the same time). Multi-threaded encoders are not really a primary design goal here.

The format is practically worthless until there is a hardware decoder for it, nobody will software-decode AV1 on their smartphones or laptops. Nobody is going to design a hardware encoder until the standard stabilizes. Google can do all the Youtube encodes they want but they are going to have to keep developing and serving H264 for a long, long time.
The SE is already thinner than the XR by 0.7mm, and 0.1mm thinner than the XS/XS Max.
Fantastic! Does anyone know the LaTeX source of this? I want to make a translation.
Incorrect. The game is played by one player creating a finite state machine description. That player wins if they convince 4 people to follow it. The other players win if they realize they aren't playing a game.
The iPhone XR is thicker (8.3mm) than the iPhone SE (7.6mm)
They sort of earned that by gaming the front page algorithms. The mods would repeatedly sticky 2 minute old posts and encouraged all their users to upvote the stickies. This caused any post of their choosing to surge into the the front page. They would have 1/4th of the front page full of posts less than 2 hours old pre-election.
Dynamic linking isn't a problem. Rust's checking is local, and doesn't require checking things in other functions, just their signatures. Swift is the same.

There are some cases were dynamic checks are required (e.g. with reference counting/shared ownership: class in Swift, Rc/Arc in Rust). Swift will automatically insert checks in these cases, whereas they have to be manually written into Rust code (via tools like RefCell). Swift and the APIs inherited from Obj-C use a lot more reference counting that Rust does by default, plus it's more difficult for the programmer to reason about the checks (e.g. to be able to write code that avoids them, to optimise) when they're implicit.

In summary, Rust and Swift have essentially the same rules, but Rust requires manual code to break the default rules, whereas the Swift compiler will implicitly insert those necessary checks (in some cases).
I love this movement towards simpler, lighter websites. I also took huge inspiration from Practical Typography when styling my blog[0], which is all hand-written HTML/CSS with the absolute bare minimum of JS (and the site works fine with JS disabled, it just enables single-click copy for code blocks and the theme switcher).

[0]: https://lusmo.re
Does it make scientific claims? It can be a useful mental model even if it's not neurologically based - and seems to be, to many people.
Is it really that?

I've come to think that it's rather the expectation that they are expensive. It is expected by employers as well as the old employees themselves, so if they would demand a lower than expected wage it would come across as fishy (did he serve time? an underachiever?).

Another thing might be that with experience comes less naiveness. As you become more resilient against corporate BS you become equally unformable (as in "Thanks, but no 'chakka' for me please").
> Yes, but is a birth rate above replacement a good thing or a bad thing?

Well, a birthrate below replacement can have a number of negative consequences, especially in a society like ours with the way we've setup social security.

> If it's determined to be a socially good thing, then society should pay for it, rather than try to badger women out of the workplace to reduce their options and make them parents.

For what it's worth, it was my father that was the stay-at-home parent for my childhood. Certainly I wouldn't want to force women to stay at home, but I've known a number who would at least like the option.

How we pay for it is a valid question, but aside from the purely monetary aspect, there's question of emotional investment. Parents are generally only going to have as many kids as they feel they (collectively) have enough time for.
"Starting on April 2, 2019, G Suite Basic Edition will increase by $1 (from $5 to $6 per user/month) and G Suite Business Edition will increase by $2 (from $10 to $12 per user/month), or the local currency equivalent where applicable. These increases will apply globally with local market adjustments for certain regions"
I think there have been some linked articles on hn on amp pages actually performing poorly for seo
With all of the exclamation points you use, this must be a really good / excellent/ quality service.
I also saw that and a lot of other people saw that [0]. However, outside of the past 2 weeks which I have seen the service unavailable messages, it has been pretty good.

[0]: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/news/237455-problems-...
If you just need outbound email submitted via smtp try outboundsmtp.com (I run it)
Something that may not be obvious is how victims (companies, at least) frequently want to bury the story just as much as the person who conned them. "We lost 8 digits of internet money last night and have no idea who did it" just doesn't sound good to other people who are supposed to trust you.
Reddit is the most powerful psychological mass-manipulation tool every developed.
Good question! Yes, I've been thinking about making t available as open source so that other developers can also contribute to making new widgets (aka) tools. Right now, I need to clean up the code and define a workflow for collaboration across multiple developers. So I will you posted here once it is ready within 1.5 months or so.
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Show HN: Non-Hacker News – a Chrome extension to highlight non-technical stories
Memory stick found in frozen seal faeces in New Zealand
You risk raising your premiums when you make a claim
I love the fanatical approach to high speed over a bad network -- fitting messages into 1 MTU is a real protip.

This article

https://eng.uber.com/new-rider-app/

talks about their main app and the talk about architecture is fascinating because it has the "factory factory" that builds the app and then the part that interacts with the API is kept separated from the UI code. I keep converging on solutions like that whenever I write GUI code because otherwise you will lose control sooner or later.
Node bad, Elixir good but spikey on the CPU, Go best.
For me it was The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It made me see how human conflict is a part of our nature that I needed to know better, and perhaps embrace a little at times. The book of course is about how to win in ancient warfare, but it explained this in universal terms that get to the heart of how humans engage in any sort of conflict. I've then gone on to read other great books, but this began a major evolution in my thought process about many things.
Yes, the loss aversion graph is amazing!
Do we have any stats on ageism? Are there not lots of older engineers happily employed and well compensated?

I've worked with some brilliant older minds and I've also worked with some older people who truly have become useless and grumpy and harmful to the team. Is there not possibly some bias because the employed ones aren't making blog posts about it?

Maybe I'm completely wrong. I've only worked with a room full of older engineers in total.
obligatory xkcd :
https://xkcd.com/2036/
Haven't heard that to anyone in my professional circles and, yes, we all work in software.

Anything worth it is native.
How do people know if their focus increases as opposed to a placebo intervention?
My point was not to defend those working for the Nazis, but you say "[Nazi] is that country's defining characteristic" in your comment, and that has to be 'was' at the very most. You're carelessly suggesting that Germany still is defined by Nazism, hence the suggested correction.
Semantics and terminology question, how the hell are these two psychos "hackers"? By that standard , every 14 year old on Xbox live who claims to have had carnal relations with my mother is a hacker.
> The scene values quality. It's why their file sizes seem large to some.

So many groups are still releasing shows & movies in XviD so I don't think that's necessarily true, you think by now everyone would be on x264.
You have a low chance of getting any nonprofit to reach out.

It doesn't have anything to do with you, it is the administrative burden of bringing someone on. Someone that requires a large level of trust, and is going to be doing something that is outside of the boards/principles comfort zone.

I have actually connected with a dozen nonprofits over the years, and have only ever really been utilized meaningfully by the organizations that are geographically local to me, as in I can go to a board meeting.

All that being said. Go do something in person. Helping theoretical users/people will never scratch the itch you are trying to scratch. Real brick and mortar nonprofits do have real needs today for IT support, running wires, installing ram, replacing wires, getting licenses cheap through TechSoup. All the nitty gritty day to day of IT that is just insurmountable to an all volunteer novice organization.
That’s what you have managers for. The real question is why is the person in charge still employed if a critical business process depends on a single person.

I worked for a place where the CFO was diagnosed with cancer and was out for nearly 6 months. You know what happened? The Comptroller was appointed interim CFO and the CFO resumed his duties on his return.

All of these what ifs reflect a profound missing of the point. Instead of babies, think about injuries or extended jury duty or whatever. Any institution, whether a corporation, government agency or school, needs to be able to function independent of the individual employees.

If the magic mechanic or money lady is that critical, you already have a much more serious internal controls problem.
Glad someone else thought of this guy. A modern day Tarrare, I suppose.
Huh, I never seen them show up there. Will keep checking.
Oh, and Digg is in between Facebook and Reddit in terms of founding, since Digg was the original point of comparison a few posts up.

(Plus the old "MySpace is only 6 months older than Facebook" [ignoring the semi-private nature of Facebook, initially].)
"The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" by Alistair Horne

Details the battle of Verdun (France v Germany), one of the longest and bloodiest battles of WW1 with around 700000 dead, more than 1 man killed every minute for 10 months. A slaughter of men by machinery. I've read a bunch of books about the great wars and they are all affecting, some of them deeply, but this one showed me in stark relief the mindless brutality and utter futility of war. People talk of wars as necessary, of actions as heroic. It's sad that a civilized species, capable of high reasoning, can still resort to base violence so easily. It wasn't very long ago, and there's been a lot of violence since, some of it on comparable scales. We don't learn much.
Managed services killed DevOps (2016)
I am reading these two right now! Why we sleep is quite insightful
... that can be sustained.
Kernel Density Estimation: An Explorable Explanation
The owl photo has been going around the internet for at least 15 years now.
dav1d can make use of the CPU at sustained high loads if you want it to. It can do over 30 frames a second on even a single core of an Apple A12X, and over 100 frames on an A12x using multiple cores.
I think you are confusing edgelord with circlejerk.
I reckon the key word in this comment is "approximately".

I might still be able to get what I need from a site that someone believes is "completely broken", including on repeat visits, without using Javascript.

Sometimes HN commenters debate what it means when a site "does not work" without Javascript. Some believe if an HTTP request can retrieve the content, then the site works. Others believe if the content of the site is not displayed as the author intended then the site is not "working".

I would bet that the definition of "completely broken" could vary as well.

Do the people running sites try to determine how many users are actually using Javascript to make the requests, e.g., to some endpoint that serves the content, maybe a CDN?

Browser authors could in theory include some "telemetry" in their software that reports back to Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. when a user has toggled Javascript on or off. Maybe it could be voluntarily reported by the user in the form of opt-in "diagnostics".

OTOH, what can people making sites do to distinguish if a GET or POST accompanied by all the correct headers sent to a content server came from a browser with Javascript enabled or whether it was sent with Javascript off or by using some software that does not interpret Javascript?

The content server just returns content, e.g., JSON. It may distinguish a valid request from an invalid one, but how does it accurately determine whether the http client is interpreting Javascript? If a user were to use Developer Tools and make the request from a custom http client that has no JS engine, can/do they measure that?

Regardless of how easy or difficult it would be to reliably determine whether a client making a request is interpreting Javascript (i.e. more than simply looking at headers or network behaviour), the question is how many people making sites are doing that?

They can more easily just assume (correctly, no doubt) that few users are emulating favoured browsers rather than actually using them. One might imagine they could have a bias toward assuming that the number of such users is small, even if it wasn't. :)
Yeah my PC with 6700k and GTX 1080 really struggles with x265 4K playback which is an incredibly laggy screen tearing mess. On my $50 Android box which has a hardware decoding chip for it the same video files run perfectly, butter smooth.
What we can do is exercise, which is the best medicine ever.

The other best medicine ever is getting enough sleep.

Then the other last thing we can do is contribute money toward anti-aging research.

Otherwise, all we can do is wait as our body deteriorate.
According to the 2018 SBA fact sheet about Sweden by the EU commission [1] Sweden does employ fewer people in small and micro businesses than are employed on average in the entirety of the EU. Small and micro businesses in Sweden employ 46.6% of the workforce, while in EU-28 the percentage is 49.4%. If you add medium businesses to it you get 65.5% for Sweden and 66.4% for EU-28. You can also find some interesting measurements about entrepreneurship in Sweden compared to the EU average int he report.

I'm not saying this specific thing is the reason why Sweden's small businesses employ fewer people, but you can't just ignore this either.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/32581/attachments/28... (PDF)
What about Almost Zero? How does that stack up? I am dying to read that
https://inpatientpress.bigcartel.com/product/almost-zero-by-...
I find this method is more accurate for me than 3D Touch, so I actually do this instead on my iPhone 7 Plus. Basically, it takes a split second to trigger 3D Touch, and in that period of time I could have long-pressed the spacebar. The latter is very reliable for me, but the former doesn’t trigger as reliably.
An old-fashioned term for this is: selling out.
You can get rid of the heap allocation for Mutex by using parking_lot, and there is work to merge this into standard library. The rest of what you wrote sounds right to me.
In Sweden these are named Attefallshus, legally permitted up to 25 square meters.
> day-to-day tasks that felt sluggish on my 5S since the iOS 11 update . . . are still slow and sluggish.

If you restored from a backup, try setting up the phone fresh instead. If that doesn't help, just go back to the backup.
Absolutely. If enhanced privacy rights hurts someone's bottom line, that someone should choose a new bottom line.
Of course they are less likely to go on leave — they work for a guy who doesn’t hire women in non-disposable roles, because his family will starve if a female professional gets pregnant.

Presumably the female custodians and admins just get purged.
Have you hired many 40+ year olds who are both good and cheap?
My dad downloads x264 in 720p sometimes by accident and he say the 1gb file is too big so before he watches it he will open his old version of DivX official converter software and encode it into 480p with some really low bitrate 'fast encode' setting that makes his 1gb mp4 into a 300mb avi. The blocks are so huge and noticeable it makes me think he's watching .RM files from the 90s lol but hey at least he saves room on his NAS right?
> ...doesn't Atrient have the right to patch this vulnerability on their own timeline rather than the researchers?

Sure, but you can't expect a third party to just stay quiet on the subject for as long as you drag your heels.
letters to a young poet ~rilke
It's a shame Marx and Nietzche didn't make your list :)
It's weird how I see this as a failure and their surviving so long without doing this was success. It feels to me like the only reason they could be pursuing this is because they've given up on their original mission and vision. I hope all the investors have a good think about Digg to remember how fickle and transient online communities like this can be.
The Moral Animal had a big influence on me. "a 1994 book by Robert Wright, in which the author explores many aspects of everyday life through evolutionary biology" (wikipedia).

I'm not sure it's the best now but it was my introduction to it at the time.
That's how it goes 9 times out of 10. I learned that from reading Why Nations Fail. It busted the whole myth of "progress" and replaced it with "change".
Maybe he recognizes that different humans have different probabilities of being suddenly unable to work for extended periods of time, and is able to weigh various factors (rationally or not, fairly or not) instead of being a 100% all-or-nothing strawman.
Wow, calling a pregnant woman "leech-like" is one of the most misogynistic things I've ever read on HN.