skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty is that many of those examples are also doing useful things that the more open/free alternatives aren't.

We are developing an unfortunate dichotomy between commercially supported, closed ecosystems with lock-in and rapid update cycles that provide superior functionality and more community-driven, open ecosystems with standards and future-proofing but inferior functionality.

If the open versions aren't too far behind the closed ones in functionality and performance, that's just another form of competition and perhaps a healthy one. But if we start to get too much lock-in, which is inherently a one-way process favouring the closed systems in this situation, and in particular if important data or external systems become accessible only from the closed systems, then we have a more serious problem, as we're seeing ever more clearly with the worlds of mobile devices, IoT and "evergreen" software.
It may be worth observing that the window when teenagers and younger were messing around with config.sys files and routinely building DOS computers from parts was actually pretty narrow.

I'm a bit older and didn't touch a computer keyboard (actually a teletype) until late in high school and didn't even do much with computers in college. (I'm an engineer by training but not CS.) I was working when I got into PCs, initially as a way to do some engineering calculations and project tracking on my job.

I agree that although consumption is the norm, the options and information available for those who want to go under the hood is pretty amazing today.
As far as working out, first I realized that taking time out for my own health is worth sacrificing time with my wife and my son. I’m no good to my family if I’m not healthy or dead.

I’m not an outdoors person for a lot of reasons, but I do have a bedroom set aside in our house for a home gym. My wife and I will spend time together talking, watching TV, etc while we are working out together. Also having a gym at home means I can be at home with my wife until she goes to sleep and then work out.
> What's the difference between polyfill or some framework, and something like Qt or SDL?

As a user, I usually can't even tell when they're using a polyfill on the web (except when they stop, like GitHub did with type=date). (As a developer, I often can't tell the difference, either. Some of them are that good!) So long as you generate HTML/CSS/JS, it doesn't matter to me how you do it. That's as 'native' to the web as you can get.

I can spot Qt a mile away. A lot of the visuals look wrong and a lot of the controls don't behave right. It's frustrating to use, and I always slow way down and double-check my work because, e.g., popup menus show the 'accept' animation even when you cancel them.
As someone going through a divorce right now I can say that these claims are wildly overstated, and in quite a few places completely incorrect.

Permanent alimony is only awarded in 7 US states, and I know that at least in one of those, NJ, it's certainly not guaranteed and can be negotiated around. In the state I'm getting a divorce in and the state I'm currently living in the cap is 1/2 the term of the marriage.

Additionally divorce is a complex process that is largely about handling the cases where the two parties cannot agree. If both parties agree a divorce can be finished in an afternoon and the outcome can be whatever both parties agree to pay. But even in a highly contested divorce there is still a lot of room for negotiation. Even in states that allow permanent alimony this can be negotiated. It's pretty rare that your divorce won't settle before the final court date.

Furthermore, even if your ex-spouse is awarded permanent alimony, you can always go back to court if your earnings is severely limited. No court in the world is going to make you pay alimony based on a $100k income if you end up being forced to make $40k.
well maybe the reason it's growing in popularity is the fact that generally accepted medical and regulatory advice has been idiotic, focused on reducing fats and replacing them with sugars and carbs which resulted in obesity and diabetic epidemic?

that fad lasted for 50 years, taking that into account it's probably too early to call keto a fad - i barely meet people who even know about it, let alone practice rigorously for any prolonged amount of time.
That’s to be expected, we’re not a ‘bloc’ ala USSR and its satellites.
when it impacts. You want your missile to reach the ground in one part, and you want it to have low air resistance, so that most potential energy goes into the kinetic energy at impact, rather than say, heating or melting your projectile or the air.

Also, the density of tungsten is about 75% larger than that of lead. Iridium and osmium are about 15% heavier still, at about twice the density of lead (osmium is heavier, but by only 0.12%)
I am using Waterfox,it can use all XUL extensions,and keep update with latest security fixes.

I love Firefox because all its old extensions,can't living without those great things.
While I'm excited about WASM and .NET on the frontend, I don't think Blazor is quite the solution I want. (Getting there though!)

If Evan You, Anders Hejlsberg, and two computers were all locked together in a room for a month or so, whatever emerged from that room is what I'm looking for.

Razor syntax has always felt clunky to me, and I tried very hard to like it when I first started with branching into web development from .NET.

I'm hoping that someone will use WASM very effectively to create some XYZ framework that's revolutionary. Then, Microsoft can do what they did with Java and make a version of it improved by hindsight. I don't think that Razor syntax would be the basis for whatever that is.
> What has happened is people used to rely on material way back in the past to teach them how to mend. Today our products are constantly being upgraded / changes in real time.

When I was a kid, my Dad and I rebuilt a 1945 Ford 9N tractor from the ground up, including a complete engine teardown. Pistons, rings, valves, carburetor, distributor, points, plugs, the whole shebang. He'd undertaken a similar project in the 70s with his father, and it had served him well, allowing him to do his own maintenance on his used cars, keeping his TCO extremely low. They never had to worry about a car payment, and considered a lease to be for suckers.

Now, though, my car is somewhat more reliable but also hugely more complex. When something goes wrong, I don't need to remove a casting and clean some passage, I need my oscilloscope and some eBay spelunking for the dealer's computer manual.

It used to be reasonable for a home mechanic to be able to keep up with trends in auto manufacturing and be competent at every task they needed to do. Now I'm not sure a professional can keep up, without specializing.

Likewise, I'm an EE, and could probably repair a VCR -certainly done a few stereo recievers in my day. But when my dad (as mentioned above, of the repair mindset) sent me a picture of the PCB from a $30 kitchen appliance, showing an epoxied flip-chip controller and LCD zebra connector, I walked him through checking the batteries and that was reasonably all we could do to fix it. Knowing how to do electronics manufacturing profitably at scale is at cross paths with repairing those electronics.
[2013] (article is from 30 Dec 2013)
lol yes that's called "local junk man"
are they capable of metabolising the toxin ?
I think they'd just get very strategic about the direction they launch it from the satellite. They mentioned 15 minutes in the article but that would require multiple satellites in the sky. The idea of putting rocketry and guidance systems omboard seems plausible too.
The Internet Archive is a not-for-profit that deserves your support. Not only do they archive the Internet, they are involved with several projects that will help make it better and even more useful.

They have an informative blog about donations: http://blog.archive.org/donation-faqs. Or just go to http://archive.org/donate and make a donation.
Meh. We live in a world where text and images are completely untrustworthy. Why is video such a big deal?
Agree that we've never seen anything like current surveillance capabilities, but there have been big jumps before. For example, IBM famously supplied equipment that made it possible for WW2 Germany (did I dodge Godwin's law?) to collate evidence of ethnicity at a scale not known before, with disastrous results [1].

I think that to some, surveillance often looks like a way to get the efficiency of distributed decision making while keeping central control (which has definitely been the philosophy behind China's economic experiments of the past 30y). But historically, it has arced towards enforcing centralized organization for reasons that have nothing to do with the efficiency of the tech involved - and that pattern has proven both bad for a population and self-defeating for regimes.

[1] http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html
You're just externalising the time you save as a cost to your users.
Perhaps increased developer productivity provides more developer hours for performance tuning.
The article mentions that incorporation is a protection against loss. The best protection are successes like these. Like what you do, and like helping other people even more.

Do anything you can to stay out of court and everything you can to leave on good terms. Having an LLC is not a license to mess up. If anything it raises the standards, and people will still come after you, sometimes even if you did a good job!
Except for people who won't put up with advertising in native apps.
Fair enough, I guess there's reasons, especially from a PR perspective. It just seems like a useless gesture to me.
My main point was: if someone is trying to be specific with their words, they start using scientific terms and take the romance out of the intuitive thinking, focusing on chemistry and physics. Food safety, nutrition, production is hugely complex, and therefore isn't intuitive.

Chiding someone for trying to be scientific as being pedantic and then complaining that it's so hard to communicate is really a contradiction of needs. I wish there was a middle ground , but to me OP wasn't even being all that geeky scientific or pedantic. He was stating fairly basic facts. Maybe a more gentle exposition is needed?

I'd suggest Googling "Dr Sarah Taber", she has some great twitter feeds and a podcast on the food industry, very eye opening stuff.
> Yet the model herself (right, now 67) remained mostly a mystery—until now.

Not exactly, there is even a web site about it -- http://www.lenna.org/ -- and both she and the image have Wikipedia entries.
You said that we "all" benefit from Facebook. The vast majority of us are not marketers.

Even for marketers, somehow they got by in the ~5,000 years of civilized history before Facebook began. They still made money without it.
Can you tell me what the affect of dietary ammonia are on folks suffering from IBS/IBD? Food spends time in your body before it makes it to your bloodstream.

(I’ve got a kid that already avoids hard cheeses because it upsets him and bread for celiac reasons, so...).
The funny part of it to me is the cognitive dissonance of people who both believe that a change of less than 1 degree in global mean temperature over a century will destroy the Earth, but also that we'll be terraforming Mars by then.
I understand the toolchain juuust fine. I have been making HTTP and browser applications for two decades.

The technology landscape is absolutely ridiculous if you want to do things for the web.

Each browser has its own standard, chrome is the new IE6, the industry is hacking together assembly languages to port from other technologies, preprocessors, minification, state and what have you not.

The web today had been tweaked beyond recognition and while the industry is doing so, most of us forgot the beautiful platform that resides underneath.

I love HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, I really do, but I really believe there is a huge tendency of amateurish approach towards making the web a better and more standardized place.

Back in the day, we had much less choice, and that made working with the web a lot more joyful.
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Isn’t this the whole premise of The Millionaire Next Door?
Thanks for making this reddit 2.0, I am laughing so incredibly hard at that insightful comment. Wow. How "punny" and fantastic these comments are! They're all the same.

You remind me of a snot-nosed idiot spitting at his computer screen laughing about these dumb memes. Go back to reddit, boomer.
Surely the tensile strength of python is insufficient for this.
Is a prescription for loneliness on the horizon?
I'm not entirely sure you and the parent poster are necessarily disagreeing. Imagine we are watching a 10 man marathon about to start. And you and I see that of the 10 competitors, 3 have a ball and chain strapped to their legs, 5 are just somewhat weighed down, and then 2 of them are somehow riding scooters. Yet from the perspective of each of the competitors they all look pretty much the same to one another.

I'd fully agree that telling the 2 that they should just try their hardest is definitely the right thing to do. Letting them know their advantage, especially prematurely, would be only likely to drive hubris and create a story of the tortoise and the hare. But if they apply themselves, the sky's the limit. Yet at the same time, what of the 3 with the ball and chain? They're not going to win, or even be able to compete in this field, regardless of how hard they try. Trying to convince them that they can do anything they want with hard work might make us feel better about ourselves, but I doubt is going to make them feel great as they find failure after failure regardless of the amount of effort they expend.

Maybe the best solution is indeed to just pretend, but I think that would only be because it is a least awful solution. I certainly cannot see any argument to be made that this is a desirable or ethical idea as it relates to the three we're talking about.
>But why would you want to do the credit card company's work for them?

I'm not sure I'm following. The reason you'd do it is because you want to pay for a small purchase with your debit card. Like if you run into a gas station and buy a soda and a bag of chips but don't have cash on you.

>That regulation is in place purely because of political bribery by the credit card industry.

It's in place because it was determined that people shouldn't be subjected to a minimum purchase amount for paying with their own money through their debit card. (As opposed to paying with borrowed money through a credit card.)

>The consumer-friendly thing to do is to charge proper rates for things with higher processing fees, like credit cards, and not subsidize them by punishing everyone else.

Again, I'm not following. We're talking about minimum purchase amounts. What's punishing someone else?
Meant to delete this comment, saw why I was wrong. (Can’t delete it now that I’ve edited it, oops)
There is a simple natural permanent solution for this problem, just introduce an Apex predator - the majestic Jaguar.
Jaguars used to inhabit the southern parts of North America - they seldom attack humans but they will happily eat snakes and alligators. They could restore health to the ecosystem, also make it more interesting, thus also benefiting the tourist industry.
Independence requires more than the ability to “drop rocks” it requires total self-sufficiency. Without that you’re bombing the people who can kill you just by withholding essentials like food, water, and air. No one is even pretending that a colony on the moon or Mars could be self-sufficient to thst degree with anything like our current technology.
I had this exact problem on mine. I took a panel off from back of inside freezer compartment, and there was a solid block of ice below coils. I didnt own a hairdryer, so used a turkey baster and hot water to melt it. Spray hot water in, wait 30 sec, suck it back out, get fresh hot water, repeat till you get drainage.
> I can spot Qt a mile away. A lot of the visuals look wrong and a lot of the controls don't behave right.

You mean it has no respect for your native toolkit... just like the web?
Part of working with humans and managing humans is understanding they're human and not machines. And keeping those humans happy does very much impact the bottom line. If spending 20% more effort on a project retains engineers that speed up projects by 30% then it's a net gain for the business. Bad companies and managers don't understand that and then wonder why all their engineers are bottom of the barrel (or rather why their projects end up such disasters while those of their competitors don't).
I agree.

Microsoft did a terrible job not having one framework for every path, like it did with the original .NET framework.
Google is about to start selling .dev domains
We will get better protections against deepfakes etc. at a much slower rate if we limit their public visibility. We need better counter-tools.

Human ingenuity will not be contained like this. I'm almost certain that somewhere between 10-100 people who saw the OpenAI censored release saw it as a challenge for them to recreate it on their own.

This is fine. Maybe this makes things significantly more chaotic in the short term. But we have to take the long view on this. Ten years from now this tech will be seen as a joke compared to whatever they will have. It's time to start preparing for that.
The consequences can be even more serious if you're looking for aircraft parts. A few years ago there was a discussion about Chinese made crankshafts for Corvairs on HackerNews, covering this exact issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788861.
If the team structure is the problem, you should disband the team
and rearrange the structure so that it produces the result what you want. Trying to fit your product to the existing organization is not a good idea.

Conway's law: "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
Yeah, credit assessment is .14, debit is .13.
My wife learned that youth shelters/foster parenting agencies need suitcases to help the children move their clothing and stuff around. The usual alternative children get: garbage bags.

We collected up suitcases off the curb that in theory need minor mending (no smells, certain problems left behind), and over time the backlog has built up. Time is also an ingredient, here; in the best case it takes fifteen minutes to prep a curb suitcase, in the worst (cleaning stains, etc.) the suitcase might need to sit around in a ventilated area for days over the course of treatment.
Serious question:

At https://qbix.com/platform we wanted to stick closely to the Web standards so we built a hybrid - although new pages would be loaded with AJAX, out of the box we made the “easy development path” cause every to page load from the server. This was because back when we started, search engines and other crawlers didn’t execute Javascript very well.

We always kinda felt bad that we didn’t “fully” embrase the “new and best” SPA trend, but also felt good we were giving people choice and were more compatible with Web Standards. And now as time goes by I see more and more of our choices vindicated. Is this anti-SPA backlash just another fad? Or were we right to give people two ways to render the same page - one on dynamic navigation and one on refresh?

https://qbix.com/platform/guide/pages
I think dictators have learned a lot and technology has the possibility to be a real game changer. A few years ago I watched The Red Chapel which is a documentary on which the director and two comedians visit North Korea under the pretence of performing a comedy show there. At one point it got clear that people there even have to keep their basic emotions secret. How do you overthrow the government if it had become that controlling and good at monitoring? I'm afraid it might not be possible.

Even more terrifying is the thought that if my above fear that this now might be a one-way road is true, is eventually every country going to become a oppressive dictatorship? On top of that we've seen the last year or so that we now have propaganda warfare on social media. Having free speech and little internal propaganda is clearly a weakness...

Edit: formatting
its quite a stretch to say that CS does not have reproducibility ! .. probably want to define that a bit
Agreed with everything but the last sentence. It is certainly a problem, as it ends up in using up more resources, more energy and creates trash.
Even if so, you agree? Acceptable? Silly statement.
Tridactyl has something missing from a lot of its competitor extensions (latest generation vimperator remakes): a native component that allows you to run native commands, such as running mpv or youtube-dl on a hint-selected url.
Worth mentioning that all participants were firefighters - so not randomly selected individuals with variety of jobs.
Cache is disabled in chrome when dev tools are open.
I don't get 'SEO for free' argument. You don't SEO application, you SEO landing page and you don't want crawlers to crawl your app.
There's a single file that's 584KB of javascript from hangouts.google.com in the "full experience" Gmail. Blocking that seems to help, a lot. I imagine there's probably some configuration to turn off hangouts that provides the same benefit.
Probably written by GP2.
He looked at me like I had 3 heads to even consider a fridge repair

People look at me funny when I say "corporate propaganda", but in case you needed evidence that corporate propaganada is a real thing, here it is.
Just a few drinks can change the way memories form, leading to cravings
React requires too much incantations, rituals and ceremony. You have props and state, context, error boundaries, refs, keys, you have to figure out where state should live, etc. You make a component that contains state. Then you want to use it in a component hierarchy -- now the component is supposed to have props not state. You make a component that has props, now you want to use it at the top level -- now the component is supposed to have state, or have an otherwise unnecessary wrapper.

You don't have to deal with any of that crap.

The best part of React is DOM diffing and incremental screen update. Obviously this is only useful if your application needs to update screens it previously rendered. In fact I'd argue that React is only useful if you need to incrementally update complex screens, because simple screens can be re-rendered completely and no one will know the difference. Very few applications need to incrementally update complex screens. If your application doesn't have this need you can use simpler technologies that don't have the same "Care and feed" requirements of React, such as UIBuilder: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
I wonder if nvidia could even compete with a high-end ARM cpu. Windows runs on ARM these days. Server software runs on ARM. So it would "just" be a matter of getting the performance right.
My impression from the article was that the doctor stating those opinions has no idea how ML works and how to apply it properly, leading to statements like that. "ML gap" is real I guess...
Exactly. In many places slow networks are the problem, and quick spa's give a great user experience comparatively. The biggest lag in Google Docs is when it has to refresh from the server, and then it's like using windows on a 386.