skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally anecdotal story / corner case:

I was a terrible reader growing up, I had ADD before the days when they diagnosed that.

My son also has ADD and strangely, he is an avid reader. I've caught him reading two books at once (both in his lap) and swapping between them and he was comprehending them (I did some Q&A).

At least on the very surface to me that might mean that reading is not necessarily antithetical to someone who is prone to distraction / lack of focus .... or a distraction heavy world.

We've seen history full of predictions what the phone, or video games, or computers would do to seemingly related technologies, and not been good at predicting the result.
I looked it up: "Cost of revenues was $59.5 billion, consisting of [traffic acquisition cost] TAC of $26.7 billion and other cost of revenues of $32.8 billion. Our TAC as a percentage of advertising revenues was 23%." So yeah, you have to spend money to make money. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204419...
Maybe a bit unrelated but I thought of this as I was reading through the article: I think it'd be very interesting to invest in a dreams research centre and I'll definitely do so as well eventually
> Or do you want to have control over what algorithms your self-driving car runs and what actions it takes if it detects a problem?

I'd rather not be driving in a world where the other drivers get to pick the "run a family off a cliff if it prevents a bumper dint on my vehicle" algorithm.
If they could not receive any kind of payment or kickback from any company I would give it a 70% chance they pick Google. As it stands, Apple knows that it can charge Google and Google knows its worth paying so they stay in the mutually beneficial relationship.
Missing .abort() on safari is one reason. https://caniuse.com/#feat=abortcontroller
DuckDuckGo is basically a reskin of Bing search (unless you search in Russian, then it's Yandex). Their value-add is minimal, even if you trust them to respect privacy, despite not being open-sourced or audited.

DDG isn't a search engine in the same way Bing and Google are.
If governorate|governments were companies in the private sector they would quickly go bankrupt and out of business.
It's probably a licensing issue, and NY Times can't share AP articles for more than a week or something.

They link to this story directly on AP site in a followup story (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/world/black-cube-nso-citi... links to https://apnews.com/9f31fa2aa72946c694555a5074fc9f42)
On the one hand, this "journalism" really is disgusting. It is calling for unreasonable censorship. Censoring internal enterprise apps makes as much sense as expecting Apple to police pictures users take with their iPhones.

But on the other hand, Apple really should own their censorship. They decided to take responsibility stuff like this, so they really should be held responsible.
Thats probably why it was mentioned that the state could only find/allocate 30-odd billion, for a project that had potentially ballooned to 98 billion.

Sure there is the possibility of some administrative process to make this announcement, but I'm not aware of it, so feel free to find a potential problem. Legislatures often delegate wide authority to their head of state, so it could be a really old and obscure power of the Governor.
I was using pathogen and it's true that some plugins are just git clone away. But's it doesn't matter when you have to spent all evening to figure out something that simple and in the end it sill doesn't work.

>often packaged for distros...

I don't really care at this point. Vim is dead for me. And tbh most things that people describe here in the comments seem more like a form of autosuggestion. Losing context? What? All modern editors have command menu with everything you need. Fuzzy search, any command that the editor or and IDE can offer, including those provided by plugins installed. And you don't have to worry about pluging updates - it's automatic. All you have to do is to read a changelog if you are interested.
There's been more stories about layoffs, but it's hard to say if it's correlated to a specific event outside the start of the fiscal quarter.
I don't understand California but it's weird that then-Governor Jerry Brown had the authority build as much of this train as he did.

IIRC, the voters approved a train that did LA-SF in 2h40m and met some affordability criteria. The project cost and projected time from LA to SF exceeded what the voters approved, it seems like there was a court case about whether the vote 'counted' for a train system that didn't meet its obligations.

wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Leg...
> Maybe it's a west coast thing.

Well, they did just blow $77 billion dollars on a non existent high speed rail. So yeah, maybe it is a West coast thing.
A strong example of corporate double-speak:

> Meanwhile, in a press release to investors this afternoon, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wrote: “While our financial results for 2018 were the best in our history, we didn’t realize our full potential. To help us reach our full potential, we have made a number of important leadership changes. These changes should enable us to achieve the many opportunities our industry affords us, especially with our powerful owned franchises, our strong commercial capabilities, our direct digital connections to hundreds of millions of players, and our extraordinarily talented employees.”

We did great! But we can do better with the help of our "extraordinarily talented employees"! Many of whom we are laying off!
what an embarrassment. Can't escape this country soon enough .
tbh that bit sounded like a masked torturing thingy going on for him — but hey, hope he's ok
And also because every iPhone has it pre-installed. The game would be different if it was an optional download
Lockless channels when?
While the warning signs are definitely there for a new recession (especially Brexit, the whole Trump vs China fiasco and China's own economical problems), the recent layoff wave that GP alludes to was rather certain "new media" outlets discovering that their business model was not as profitable as thought.

The Activision Blizzard case here is just short-sighted corporate greed. "Best financial results in history" but the bonus coffers of the C-level executives are not filled enough it seems.
Ever tried changing the color theme in Eclipse?
Straightforward error handling both for actual http numbered errors, and for transport errors (site down/DNS/etc).
Not only this, but:

When making a full color photograph, it is often (though not always) most effective to get the lightness right first, then worry about hue/chroma afterward.

Sometimes it is helpful to hide the color altogether and look at lightness alone while producing a black and white picture which looks good as a black and white picture, then work on the full color version afterward.
Was violence actually used, or is this "violence" meaning "anything the government does that someone doesn't like"?
That just means there's a tip functionality.
Well personally I would like it if they had write up's on them, even if only after the fact, as Project Zero has always come across to me as kind of a publicity stunt to try to improve their reputation to the tech industry and show how important they value security when the truth is quite different.
The general argument now is that 95%+ of jQuery is now native in browsers (with arguably the remaining 5% being odd overly backward compatible quirks worth ignoring), so adding a JS dependency for them is "silly" and/or a waste of bandwidth.

Obviously, if jQuery is still your jam in 2019, that's your decision and no one is going to force you to stop using it. The approach Bootstrap is taking is interestingly backwards compatible in that the updated plugins will still register their previous jQuery APIs, even if their actual implementations will now be "vanilla" JS directly against the modern browser APIs.
GORTH!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
It has to be. Many people know how to write software, only few get ongoing advice from the industry's top advisors and have a line out the door to fund them. King-making is a thing, even if only a partial thing.
Don't be rude to non-skilled English speakers. The comment is wrong but not because of its poor English.
> people think the problem isn't the tooling, but the programmer

I extend it, and say that choosing a bad tool is a sing of a bad programmer (even if the programmer is so skilled that use C very well!), but the resistance of recognize C/C++/JS to be BAD, REALLY REALLY BAD, PLEASE NOT USE THIS ANYMORE (only in rare exceptions, and still not use it ok?) Make this a full circle.

We need more "good" programmers to express this, alike how say "use of carbon/fuels is bad, and the fact the WHOLE ECONOMY OF THE PLANET is not an excuse to not replace it ASAP!"

And yes, why not make a concerted effort of make real replacement to well chosen libraries? I think using the pareto principle, we can target 20% of the most popular stuff and have a huge impact.
IE itself is being "dropped" as well, so long term support commitment for new products does not make sense.
Woah, slow there.

The NTSB tries to determine "Probably cause". That's a far cry from assigning blame. In particular, on every NTSB report there's a big box specifically saying (my emphasis):

> The NTSB does not assign fault or blame for an accident or incident; rather, as specified by NTSB regulation, “accident/incident investigations are fact-finding proceedings with no formal issues and no adverse parties ... and are not conducted for the purpose of determining the rights or liabilities of any person.” 49 C.F.R. § 831.4. Assignment of fault or legal liability is not relevant to the NTSB’s statutory mission to improve transportation safety by investigating accidents and incidents and issuing safety recommendations.

Furthermore, to "ensure that Safety Board investigations focus only on improving transportation safety, the Board's analysis of factual information and its determination of probable cause cannot be entered as evidence in a court of law."
It's done with so-called value induced auctions. In this type of auction you simply bid on a voucher that's worth $x dollars, where x is different for each participant. Theory predicts that your bid should be $x (your maximum willingness-to-pay). Considering value is induced, researchers know both the prediction and the observation, and calculating the difference determines the 'truth revealing efficiency' of an auction. See for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726810...
So, notepad, then? :-)
> I want everyone's cars to follow the same rules

How would the rules be determined?

> I don't want individual people modding their cars to obey only the laws they like or to behave differently than everyone else's cars.

So basically, you don't trust the judgment of individual people. But you trust the judgment of a government that is composed of individual people?
The distinction here is actually a ruling that the defendant performed medical procedures without medical cause, and that body modification (like removal of an ear) is not the same as body adornment (like tattooing or piercing). The law there labels this assault, which may not actually be consented to.
> Newsom said the state will complete a 110-mile (177 km) high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield.

Wow. Merced to Bakersfield. I mean, why not light the money on fire instead?

The point of something like this is to essentially warp the topology regarding what constitutes "nearby" between smaller cities and large metro areas. If you can do that, you've massively changed how both labor costs, real estate prices, and even tourism/recreation work.

OK, "light the money on fire" is probably overstating the case -- there's probably some multiplying effect in making the central valley more connected, and maybe it's also the easiest segment to actually get built. But the magnitude of positive effects is also probably an order down.
Ah, gotcha. This is a really cool idea. All the best.
I think the argument for belief in God from a scientific standpoint is very possible. Science is done because we don't fully understand the world. Therefore, scientists must be humble, and open to the idea that current science paradigms are subject to change and have been constantly shifting throughout time (flat earth, tectonics). Science is all about hypothesizing, gathering data, extrapolating trends, then drawing conclusions.

I believe that the moral system, close community, and redemptive nature of Christianity preach a way of life that leads to happiness and is consistent with so many themes in philosophy, psychology (like you mentioned) and classical literature. Ultimately you choose whether or not you want to believe in God, but it was these emergent themes that turned me into a church goer.

To claim that there is no God is a very bold, untestable claim. I think it is made because of the dire implications of being wrong (hell). The way that I interpret heaven and hell is basically the end result of working towards the best or worst versions of yourself. If you agree that you are constantly met with decisions to make and typically know which choice will be better for you (eating a pizza versus working out) - then you know the basic jist of avoiding "sin". If you constantly give into your hedonistic side, doing what is easy or feels good in the moment, you'll end up with a hefty amount of self loathing. Christianity is all about saying its ok to want those things, but try to resist and it will make you feel better. Admit when you're acting in that "sinful" manner and try to to better next time.

my two cents

edit: dang.. see axlprose for references - he did gud lol
I think there's more to life than settling into a fixed set point. Life is interactive: you can improve your experience by putting in the right kind of effort and getting lucky. For example, the author wrote this article and made a strong connection with a bunch of strangers on the internet. Even if the author doesn't feel that way, I do, and that's enough for me. Agency is a muscle, exercise it!
DuckDuckGo is Bing search results.

What you're doing is seeing artifacts of different search engine technology and chalking it up to favoritism because you want to perceive a bias.
They are, and they are one of the most effective single treatments. But usually only when treatment options are exhausted.
See my response to Johnny555 just now.
Personally I believe major infrastructure projects that are an obvious public good but may not be profitable for decades are the exact things my tax money should be funding since private companies never would. The Tokyo subway just recently became profitable and it's such a major net positive for the city.
That will become Chrome, so don't worry.
Oh yeah, I've also been going self-taught route using doing it the old-fashioned way using the big books because I prefer learning books best over online courses but I've checked out a few videos on YouTube in regards to python Programming, Django, software development and etc
I'm not the original commenter, but I've heard similar things in the past. I did some googling, found an article discussing the concept: How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy, https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2013/03/25/...

Choice quote:

"Because of Chapter 11 and the expertise of US restructuring professionals who advise troubled companies, Gilson says America's economic recovery has been far speedier than Europe's, where bankruptcy laws tend to favor immediate payback of creditors.

"Many countries around the world have bankruptcy laws that primarily seek to liquidate distressed companies," he says. "The emphasis is on reimbursing creditors, or protecting particular stakeholders such as employees, rather than doing what's necessary to rehabilitate the business."
> a history of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. It is itself such a state.

Well, you tried to score an easy win there. (1)

But Israel is engaging in such oppression now, we're not talking about a remote past. We're talking about very public and vociferous support for the very public actions of a democratic state- a state on whose policies the citizens have control through democratic elections and knowledge through public opinion.

> aggressively projecting power

It's the third time you use the expression "projecting power" in a handwavy fashion, without explaining what you mean in detail.
I've linked in my previous comment the opinion of a former US ambassador, arguing that this supposed "power projection" amounts to nil. I was expecting some counter-arguments.

I'll paste an excerpt here:

"It's useful to recall what we generally expect allies and strategic partners to do for us. In Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in the Middle East, they provide bases and support the projection of American power beyond their borders. They join us on the battlefield in places like Kuwait and Afghanistan or underwrite the costs of our military operations. They help recruit others to our coalitions. They coordinate their foreign aid with ours. Many defray the costs of our use of their facilities with "host nation support" that reduces the costs of our military operations from and through their territory. They store weapons for our troops', rather than their own troops', use. They pay cash for the weapons we transfer to them.

Israel does none of things and shows no interest in doing them. Perhaps it can't. It is so estranged from everyone else in the Middle East that no neighboring country will accept flight plans that originate in or transit it. Israel is therefore useless in terms of support for American power projection."

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1- As an aside, I understand that there might be a fundamental contradiction in the minds of the freedom and independence-loving Americans: while they repeal and condemn ethnic cleansing and oppression of native populations by superior force, they also somehow must accept its eventual historical outcome, as they are themselves that outcome.
Duluth Model
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/5fbfecbb929cccdbb9fbb...
I think jQuery is a good option if you're making "rich applications"; that is, normal HTML pages with some JavaScript for better UX. For many applications this is still a good approach.

If you're making an SPA, then jQuery is a bad choice for many reasons. jQuery is just a DOM wrapper, and doesn't give you any application structure, which tends to lead to pretty messy applications.
I joined local book clubs to help combat this. The book clubs help me get motivated to read books. I don't always finish them, and sometimes work or other commitments prevent me from going out and discussing the book, but it does help motivate me to sit down and read a book again (often when I'm in line waiting for things is a good time for me to make progress on the book. I try to do that instead of checking Facebook updates, but I also read before going to bed also).

The main problem with this, is they often choose books that I'm not that interested in reading. Sometimes I plow through it anyway and sometimes I just skip that month. That's why I'm in multiple groups, so I can see what each group is reading and pick the one or two books that look the most interesting from those.

But sometimes the books I'm really into. Like I got excited when The Devil and the White City was one of them, and one of them is currently reading the Deep Work book, which I'm finding interesting and wanting to incorporate some of its ideas in my own life.
How to find website design ideas easily
And if private companies were governments, they would quickly collapse or turn into dictatorships. What's your point?
It's not a direct reduction in value, but I would think if the fee went away the value would still increase.
jQuery _did_ lots of useful stuff. It's unmaintained, has no interest/support (look at their github), doesn't adapt to modern features, is 'slow' compared to other frameworks that now use the Shadow Dom, and can be replaced with features that are native to JS - what's there not to like about that?

One less dependency, network request and more efficient code is always worth the effort.

Oh, and since the new code is vanilla and written in ES6 (it was already but transpiled) you can use modules/tree shaking, even better for performance.
How? There's always a flavour of the moment failing state inserted as a reference here. But if you can't transfer Venezuelaean currency out of the country, how are you buying bitcoins with it? How are you getting the money to that person?
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
> Meritocracy is judging by the results.

Say you need brain surgery. Are you telling me you will choose based on some criteria other than results?

I will pick a 9 headed purple alien if it will do the best job. And I won't care that it had the advantage of 7 parents who were rich doctors and harvard alumni. The place to fix inequality is upstream.

The cure for those advantages is to level the playing field.

> If you judging system by it's ideal implementation, then you should argue for Communism

Straw man. Like visiting a junkyard and concluding all cars don't move. That line of reasoning lets you conclude anything with a failed example can never work.
> If anything it serves as a reminder of why memory safety is so critical and Rust was right to focus on it from the beginning

So why did they gave up on memory safety then and ditched their GC? Relying on alloca only has limited use cases, esp. with threads with their severe stack limits.
Legacy bootstrap did ship with considerably fat set of dependencies - jQuery, popper, etc. Compare that to Bulma or something more modern, it ships without these dependencies. When the world is moving towards css-in-js and other aggressive ways of trimming unwanted code, removing dependencies is a good move by Bootstrap
I build very simple websites, I'm using a tiny bootstrap subset that's sufficient for what I do. My css files average around 400-1100 bytes of unminified css.
There are some nice benefits possible. I don't know if bootstrap actually gets rid of this already, but if you want to enable CSP headers on your website, you have to allow eval for jQuery. Enabling a stricter policy would be great.
It's because the principles of Burning Man are inherently in contention with each other and equally unachievable. People who harp on the principles generally grossly violate them to some degree. It's a big party in the desert alongside the largest installation art festival in the world. If you think it's more than that, lay off the acid.
No Paywall: https://outline.com/qp6P8w
Ask HN: What's the Current State of NLU?
Newsom said the state will complete a 110-mile (177 km) high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield

I suspected this would happen -- the project would get canceled and we'd end up with a small segment of rail that few will use. Merced -> Bakersfield is only a 2.5 hour drive and you almost certainly will need a car when you get there.

They should have started with a corridor that would see real usage, like SF (or even Oakland/emeryville) -> Sacramento (but afaik, the proposed route didn't even include a direct SF to Sacramento segment)

Then as (if?) that route demonstrated the technology and had good ridership, they could expand from there.
As a Californian for 5 years now, I'm slowly realizing something is seriously wrong with this state. I'm sure that's true of every state, which is sad. But my whole life I had this idea of California as a Utopian society, and then I get here, and all I can do is marvel at how systemically broken it is, and how completely similar it is in many ways.
My suggestion - for the future of course - save up an "FU" fund - 6 months of your current salary (gross or net is up to you). Having such a thing available makes these kinds of decisions more bearable (not easier - just bearable) no matter how long you've been at a company. The more you can save, the better.