skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What current social/political climate? Moreover, the problem is that he claimed without research. And this is what bothers me. How can people be certain of something they have never seen confirmed anywhere.
I’m surprised this article doesn’t touch on Next.js at all.
As I said, nobody can ever have a definitive answer for someone's motivation for doing something. Any reasonable person knows that so the report takes the linguistic shortcut of just stating their assumptions.

Anyone reading this article and expecting some kind of falsifiable scientific proof of a human's intentions is not going to get it.
> What's causing the rise of these curated lists?

People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy.

The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless.

Sindre (original awesome list author) is one of the few who actually curates their lists.
You should never change to the Daily Mail, becuase they're fucking scum.
How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf]
I have 2 pairs of the same Nudie Jeans, in the exact size and cut I like. They offer free repairs for life and are not exactly that expensive.

Highly recommend, wasting clothes is a serious problem.
Everyone knows that AOC was worried about the residents in her district getting priced out and moving away.

It's much less certain she could hold that seat if she was forced to listen to actual middle-class families instead of the low-income group she's representing now.
Open source cloud instance type and price information (as a service)
The quality decline is real:

I'm searching for one line of text. Every click gets me 100 meg of browser-choking script that leaves me bashing at the close tab button just to get the session back.
There are better ways to build components. The problem with React components is that they are only compatible with React. What if there was a way to build components in a better way, and what if those components were compatible with all current and future frameworks? There is a way to do that. Look up W3 Web Components specification. There's sample code here: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
There's a fundamental difference between you owning your tools and somebody else loaning them to you. You can save some time in the short term. However once the company starts going in a direction that doesn't work for you, then you end up getting screwed. I've been burned enough times over the years that I'd much rather use open source tools whenever possible. The beauty of open source tools is that they're not driven by need for profit. As long as there's a community of users who want to use a tool then it's going to keep being maintained and working the way the users want. It doesn't need to be profitable or grow it's market share.

So I'd much rather be a serf to principles and have control over my life than be a serf to a bunch of companies with their own goals and agendas. That's just me though.
The bank I used has gone from traditional to SPA style, and I wish they hadn't. There is a massive load time before I can even log in with some stupid animation, and they've reduced the exporting features. As a customer I have gained nothing. But I guess it keeps food on the table for some devs.
I do. We live on a farm where they also get to do other interesting things, e.g. two days ago I was splitting firewood with my 7yo daughter - that is she did the splitting with a hydraulic press, I watched and helped where necessary while showing her where danger lies and how to avoid problems. Both daughters (7yo and 14yo) know how to sew - the 14yo got a sewing machine when she was 11. They can do many other practical things as well since we involve them in many tasks around the house and farm.

...and that is the 'secret' to raising self-reliant children: involve them in common tasks when those tasks are performed anyway. This does not take any "high-roading" as you imply, it just takes a little bit of forethought and might make things go a bit slower than they normally would.
Because you love them and want to express that?
It's funny how Google has been banging on about "just a few milliseconds of extra loadtime and your bounce-rate increases!" while in Gmail it's like they think the product is so good, people should be willing to wait 10 seconds to view their _mail_.

The reason I'm even reading this comment section is because I wanted something to do while waiting for Gmail to load.
There is a huge difference between "that's not true, it's a conspiracy theory", and "oh sure it does happen, but at a different scale and with less bad consequences [not that I would want to suffer the worst consequences in either scenario]".

> "Those things do happen" is not proper counterargument.

To "that's a conspiracy theory" it actually is, and though I still agree that it's a red herring to talk about the US when China is brought up (and China or Russia or human nature when the US is brought up), it's not a "conspiracy theory" at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/j...

> It is therefore not surprising that the increasing privatisation of intelligence has coincided with the proliferation of domestic surveillance operations against political activists, particularly those linked to environmental and social justice protest groups.

> Department of Homeland Security documents released in April prove a "systematic effort" by the agency "to surveil and disrupt peaceful demonstrations" linked to Occupy Wall Street, according to the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF).

> Similarly, FBI documents confirmed "a strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector" designed to produce intelligence on behalf of "the corporate security community." A PCJF spokesperson remarked that the documents show "federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."
Actually, I pulled down the repo and did a build. Janet is significantly larger than "200-300 kB" whether I'm counting just source, or built binaries+libs. So perhaps it's an old claim that needs to be updated.

Thanks for sharing re: MicroPython. Had a lot of fun with that over Christmas on a little ESP8266. It's a neat trick that it fits on such a tiny board.
Adapting Mobile to a Post-Moore’s Law Era
I've been making SPAs for a couple of years now and I totally agree.

Not only the complexity of development is increased, but there is no real benefit for the vast majority of use cases.

I think there is merit in using an API though and clearly separating data from presentation.

What I've been doing lately is using Jekyll with Vue components for some in house projects. It works great.

Another option I've been trying out is doing SSR in JavaScript on Zeit Now monorepos. Haven't used it in a real project, but so far it's awesome. You can keep using all your front end knowledge, but render each route on the server. No more managing state (Redux, Vuex, etc) or router.
True. But the story is still remarkable, in that simply being attacked by any apex predator is worth a listen, whether the victim survives or not.

It's interesting to see where the line gets drawn. A young lion disregards (out of sheer desperation, facing possibly what it imagines to be starvation) or fails to recognize its own capacity to bring down an adult human.

Probably its siblings, so hungry that they cannibalized their fallen kin, have learned this lesson in its stead.
The objection that people have is not to Lena Forsen having a modelling career, it's to the culture of non-inclusion created by NSFW images that make women uncomfortable.
I'd be more concerned that the name of the language is extremely hard to search for.
You can't deorbit something just by "dropping" it from a satellite. If you want to target a single "rod" they would need independent onboard guidance and propulsion.
Yeah, but $50 Levi’s will last ten years too.
The naming could be better. I think .NET -> .NET Classic and .NET Core -> .NET would be better, and maybe .NET Standard -> .NET Specification.
Pixar rendering from 1989
I'll offer the distinction is rather you're using a "web site" or a "web app".

A web site should never break your browser. A web app should be able to run in "Full Screen" mode without needing to use the web browser UI.
It's not about insecurity when seeing 'beautifuller' women, it's about getting the impression that women are objectified in the workplace.
> Can you provide some examples?

Google Dr. Robin Diangelo? She puts it best. You'll likely disagree with everything she has to say because you want to. However, I challenge you to at least listen to her. After that look for some more research into implicit bias. You'll find everything from Xbox Kinect experiments that show how the body language of White teachers can change (for the worse) when talking to minority students and more things that will change your perspective. That is if you want your perspective to align with the truth. I am guessing that you are most comfortable with your existing point-of-view.

> You are of course wrong. And I must suspect the reason you are wrong is that you are trying to mine the situation for a racial angle.

In the USA you don't have to mine. Race plays into many (if not all) situations in the country whether you want to believe it or not. This one most definitely does. The article explicitly uses certain words. Race is right there in the article my friend.

> That's exactly the problem I describe above...

I would have to agree with that statement. But I don't see this teacher as one who has the proper education and empathy to help. If she really, truly, wants to help she can first further educate herself in race relations and the mentality of the disenfranchised.
> There is an apex preditor

I thought you were joking but it's probably just a typo.
Other things outside of your career can teach you much and help you get better in your career.

My growth today in IT has very little to do with IT, I'm taking much lessons from other industries. Want to learn to build reliable systems, serious study the airline industry, how do they build such reliable systems? Want to learn how to troubleshoot and solve problems fast? How does your typical ER work?

There's much to learn from cross pollinating ideas from other fields. Most of us in IT are not just lovers of computers, but just builders. We are lucky to be born in this time in history, 100 yrs ago, we might be building cars or other sort of mechanical devices.
Hmm - I can sew on a button, and mend a seam.

The seam is an emergency repair and looks awful.

Button work is OK. My mom gave me the idea to put something, like a toothpick, between button and garment, so the button has some flexibility when you put it in button hole.
Instead of trying to quickly click the link, it's easier to just turn JS off and refresh GMail. You'll be prompted to either turn JS on or switch to Basic HTML. (You can make it the default after that, as described.)

I did this a while back, and the only real issue I've had with it is that there doesn't seem to be an equivalent to the "Check mail now" action for imported email accounts. (The 'refresh' link annoyingly does not trigger this action.)
Ha ha, "white" is relative, isn't it. It's why we have white-point controls on our cameras/software.

I suppose the physics answer is, it is the color that a black-body incandesces at for the given temperature of the Sun.

A cop-out answer now that I typed it out and re-read it....

Honestly though, my answer to "what color is the sun" would depend on the audience. I would tell the 5-year old the sun is yellow but when you get older you'll find it is more complicated than that.
Not quite. Lot's of applications have SEO for their main content. Social networks (reddit, twitter), marketplaces, shopping sites (some shops, like nike's, are quite complicated js-wise), forums (stackoverflow for instance)
Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu
In space, Nasa heard astronaut’s immune system scream
Yes, patents have been amazingly toxic for HID progress.

Commercial HID innovation seems to be bimodal, DIY and bigco, with a patent-induced desert in between. Take multitouch. Years of crippled small companies, selling kits to dodge patents, to small DIY communities (DIY historically being much less of a thing than now). Speech-to-text and Nuance. Hand pose from webcam and colored glove research, becomes of-course-unsuccessful startup, bought by bigco, and thereby unavailable to support further innovation. Leap Motion's DIY Project North Star is an ongoing example - there's software, and you can buy parts, but not devices. So while there's an active small-company ecosystem around say keyboards, that falls off really fast. Small-scale markets of oem support for exploration and innovation... aren't an interesting niche for bigcos. So they produce patents and not products, and even proven too-small-just-a-distraction-for-us markets are abandoned.

As education innovation starts overlapping ML and tech, it looks to be picking up similar dysfunction. Ah well.
Once you have the technical information, diagnosing problems is much easier these days.
Global dev population is 20M. If the global workforce is 4B people, that's 5 per thousand. Not much indeed.
Dolphins have sonar organs. Perhaps TTX effects those organs in ways we don't fully understand, and this has a mind-altering effect .. in the same way that using light-stimulus can induce altered mind states, perhaps nerve-numbing of sonar-nerves does the same.

We won't know until we talk to them. We must learn how to talk to them.
> squid proxy doint mitm. And it works for all my OSes from android to linux laptop. It is not as easy to set up as in browser ads blockers

I use Pi-Hole, but I also use uBlock Origin since Pi-Hole cannot block ads that require more advanced heuristics to block, like YT ads for example.
It's not just a question of whether it was invented at all. It's also a question of when and where.
Do you ever think maybe that most normal women walk away when they see a culture of objectification of women, of men making up all sorts of weird analogies and excuses to keep using Playboy pictures in the workplace, and that you telling them to just 'chill' might not actually fix the problem?
To do a mitm with squid you have to setup a trusted root cert on all of your machines right?
What's going on with Techcrunch's format here?

* Headline
* Hero image
* Sales pitch for TechCrunch premium
* 98 words (598 characters) for this article
* seemingly non-sequitur into next article
2000 years ago the Europe was swampy and nothing heavy worked outside of Roman roads. Climate change during the 1st millennium with Europe warming up and drying up a bit allowed for many things including heavy cavalry (which had existed in dry Asia for example long before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphract )
Could somebody please translate it to simpler English?
Performance is a business decision.

It doesn’t come for free and ultimately other things might be more important.
I have had issues with stains while wearing jeans while doing greasy work (particularly on engines) or when I got spray foam on my favorite pair. As long as I avoid grease and chemicals though, my jeans have never displayed any staining.
> “if you generate profits in the USA,

This sort of thing already gets dodged by international companies who "generate profits" in countries with lower taxes and "incur costs" in countries with higher taxes.

>" and hold the data of Americans"

GDPR? System requirements is one thing, requiring a licensed engineer from multiple jurisdictions is another. Bear in mind that because software changes constantly, this has to be a senior staff position, not a one-time sign-off like it could be for a bridge.
In most places I’ve lived in the US it’s takes a lot of work to get an old appliance to a landfill and out of the hands of someone who would repair or recycle it. Somebody buying a $2000 fridge probably had the old one taken away and somebody involved in that process would repair and resell it.
Mentioned this in another reply but for buttons put something like a toothpick between button and garment when sewing it on, so that there is some flex when buttoning up. Otherwise it's too easy to have button fastened tight against the garment and hard to manipulate.
It's not explicit but it is suggestive, and it takes on a new dimension if you know its context.
Why call it secret when "It is intended for everyone and anyone"? I can't understand the idea behind it.
Notes:

Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later.

Task Management:

Things (https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open.

By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders.

One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project".

--

I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.
Related/meta question: despite the increase in YC cohort sizes, has anyone else noticed a sharp drop in the number of Launch HNs / YC Startup Launch Announcements on HN?

EDIT: Checked the data and yep, there's a drop: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EBcI3Jm2I9Kj_JMGyRnN...

BigQuery:

#standardSQL
SELECT TIMESTAMP_TRUNC(timestamp, MONTH) as month_posted,
COUNT(*) as num_posts_gte_5
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE REGEXP_CONTAINS(title, 'YC [S|W][0-9]{2}')
AND score >= 5
AND timestamp >= '2015-01-01'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1
Julia.
Book that was so good that you bought everything published by author?
Beautiful. A wonderful tribute. And a sobering reminder that final goodbyes can come quicker than we expect.

https://seeyourfolks.com
Throwaway account because I'm originally from China.

This Chinese government is pure evil. No one should be doing any sort of business with them, period. If you have a choice, don't buy Chinese goods. If you have a choice, don't partner with Chinese government. If you have a choice, leave China. I've seen first hand how gruesome some of the actions the government levies against its citizens. If you think these don't concern you, just think what would happen if this government were to expand more of its footprint on the world.

Look into your morality and conscience. Don't do business with China.
'Hidden city' travel: why airlines are cracking down on a discount trick
This particular article link is a TC weekly summary (not unusual for tech blogs).

A better URL for this submission is: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/y-combinators-latest-batch...
would be amazing!
Flightradar24 – how it works
Anyone remember the "bad capacitor epidemic" of the oughts? I've never been Mr. Electronics Guy, but I taught myself how to buy and replace caps and brought back several items from the dead. Got a free computer monitor for the price of bus fare to pick it up from someone offering it on Freecycle, plus whatever, a buck or two for a full set of caps?

This was when I was unemployed and the time/money ratio was worth it...
In theory, but you'd need Steve Jobs or Elon Musk level of clout to get that to happen. You'd need to be at the top of the organisation and pulling the puppet strings. Might be OK in a startup, but unlikely in a medium to large sized firm.

There will be people who need to make you fail or they are out of a job - they'll care more about keeping their job and paying their mortgage than you do about SPA architecture (unless you are at the top and have the vision as to why what you are doing matters.).
and if u have to use a framework please use something like mithril
I think the general consensus was that New Yorkers genuinely wanted Amazon to come to NYC but just didn't want the city and state to pay anything. The optics for subsidies were particularly horrible - the richest man in the world obtaining billions of dollars on behalf of a company with one of the largest market capitalizations in the world. How do you overcome that? Timing is everything and had Amazon's offer been on the table 4-5 years ago the outcome would probably have been different. As it is, since 2008 there's been a festering resentment of companies and while tech companies escaped a lot of that resentment resent issues with Facebook and Google have tarred the entire sector.
I'd argue that it would actually be easier: modular, less component-level repair.

The difference is Tesla won't sell you technical manuals, which are reserved for their chain of authorized service shops.
> sewing machines today have a lot of plastic gears and other parts that do not last.

Singer hobbymatic machines from the late 70s and later also have plastic gears, but for some reason these last no problem. They also mostly use bushings for bearings (I mean obviously it would make the mechanism much larger if you had to fit roller bearings everywhere), and they also last, provided you oil it every couple years.
One of the great cons in American political discourse was convincing everyone that they were middle class.

Working poor @ 30k/year? Middle class.

Technological Individual Contributors @ 200k/year? Middle class.

Small business owner with $1M in assets? Middle class.

Nowadays, every politician can claim to be enacting policies for The Middle Class (TM), and they aren't obviously lying.
When company looks at you funny for doing this: Run the other way!
It's better to flag the article.
It seems what ML is really doing is exposing weaknesses in our scientific processes. The appropriate response here is to fix the processes, instead of blaming the latest fad and imploring people to "try harder". If the root cause isn't fixed, the next fad after ML will cause the same thing again. What feasible systemic changes can we make so that scientists can't get away with publishing sloppy results?

It's not an interesting question for many scientists, who prefer focusing on technical solutions over political ones.
Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files
Nope not at all, I'm just saying that it's not appropriate to bring sexuality into the workplace because it makes people (not just women) uncomfortable. I'm also not saying I'm standing up for anyone, but it's always fun to come across this 'they don't need you to stand up for them' as an argument tactic, because that's when I know there are no actual arguments there.

The fact that some women spoke up about this doesn't mean that only those women find it objectionable; many may have just decided it wasn't worth the grief (and rightly, given how many replies I got to my original post!) and just moved away.
Here We Go Again: 127M Accounts Stolen from 8 More Websites
At the meta level, I think using a .md to host informational documents is cool. A step up from a blog, allowing a better way to discuss/propose additions.

I've been thinking of doing a piece of doing Defcon on the cheap (harder in recent years).
How is it cheaper? In both formulations, you end up with one swap and one RNG call per operation on the vector. With the shuffle vector you pay those costs up front, with swap-with-last you pay those costs lazily. Asymptotically there's no difference there at all.