skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the American Natives, when the landscape was lush and the population was low, almost all time was spent in leisure. Then settlers came and made farms which were massively more productive, but they had to work a lot more because they were feeding a city of people doing other things. In the city, people can’t farm, so they have to buy food and shelter by inventing goods and services to trade for it which previously had no value. Then in these markets too, productivity increases so that a small number of people are working very hard to provide a low-value product to a large number of people. As productivity increases, so must scale, and workers are displaced, who must then find a way to sustain themselves by creating a new product that is even less necessary to survival and well-being.

This basic economic cycle is immutable regardless of the political system or label you place on it, and I believe that Keynes was a charlatan to deny it. A time traveler from the past might assume that we are all in some kind of penal colony being forced to do absolutely nothing and stressed out about random punishments for meaningless transgressions.

There is one thing that breaks the cycle: population decline. It was the plague that broke the pointless misery of the feudal system. In our world, even voluntary population decline is considered such a crisis that leaders are eager to sacrifice all forms of sustainability for any kind of growth. Unwise.
> The french played a very dominant role as well.

As far as I've known, that largely involved a tremendous number of English channel crossings, but I will look more into that so I don't stay ignorant; thanks. ;- )
2019 JavaScript Development
This is Intel's 80-bit floating point. The reason the size is 128 is that it needs to align on a word boundary.
That's not the case either though - many users have bouncers that will sit in the channel the whole time, and you have no idea who might be saving logs or where they might be publishing them. It's the worst of both worlds.
OpenID isn't built like that...
Literally every job I've had in the last 10 years I've self-structured into 4 hours of deep work, 4 hours of everything else(meetings, randomization, etc).

Started by getting into the office much earlier(7-8am) when normal office hours started around 10-11. It's worked very well for me and I've had no problem completing significant work at a good pace.
I was surprised to learn Amazon has it's own planes. I always assumed that cargo planes carried cargo from a variety of companies.
> Humanity lucked out

Humanity didn't luck out. The Chinese communists invested heavily in solar while the US was wasting money on fracking.
This industry has been around for 60 years, and has had the benefit for that entire time of the experience from the previous several hundred years of people developing what is modern engineering. It isn't really young or nascent anymore.

There are large sectors in this industry where rigorous engineering effort isn't really applicable. It seems to me, though, that this has effectively been used as an excuse to avoid any genuine rigor. It isn't helpful that so many programmers have such huge egos.
How is webrtc handled at scale? Seems most webrtc server software doesn't perform that well, and discord I believe is using turn to proxy it all, so that's gotta be a lot of data flowing.
This challenge is one of the reasons we're so excited about pcwalton's work on Pathfinder (https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder )
CRUD Operations in Angular
>many users have bouncers that will sit in the channel the whole time

Then I know they're reading.

>and you have no idea who might be saving logs or where they might be publishing them

If I'm in a room with you nothing stops you from telling others what I've told you.
Faking an identity online for political manipulation should be a felony, full stop.
Data Is the New Oil
Those are good points, but does node fail in the scale requirement?

I mean supposing we can get past console printing issues?
Sure. This is basically the exact sort of problem Erlang is designed to solve.

But it's still cool to see it done, and a lot of people are unfamiliar with Erlang or Elixir, so the discussion is interesting.
Subpixel AA for VR/AA helps, but it's nowhere near enough. You also need better panels and better optics.
It did. Cost of ICE is adding ca. $7000 to a car's price tag. It buys 35-55 kwh of battery capacity in addition to 10-15 a plug-in hybrid requires. Getting to healthy 45-70 kwh which is typical for a full-on electric car. GM has Chevy Bolt which is a living proof to that.
Loglisp: An Alternative to Prolog (1982)
> social media/games ... hobbies ... Lifelong learning ... Consumerism/travel

It's really saddening that people bought into the false dichotomy of work VS leisure.

Lifelong endeavors in science, art, activism, politics exist[ed] outside of what we call "work".

Einstein, Maxwell, Darwin and countless others are/were doing something that is not "work" and certainly not a "hobby". Call it a purpose or a mission.

Serious volunteering and activism doesn't require you to be a genius tho. There is plenty of needs that are not addressed in this world.
I played with a HoloLens 1 briefly, which was both a revelation- AR feels like it could be useful in a way VR doesn't- and very frustrating. The worst part was the gesture recognition, which was the absolute bare minimum. The Air Tap was horrible.

Twice the FoV and with real hand tracking? That suddenly makes this thing viable in one step.
1. Your first link is broke, as it merely takes you to the Quality Contribution round up.

2. It was the second part of said two part comment that advocated any of that, which was not well voted, and provided no support for anything in there.

3. The quality contribution round up ends up being anything that anyone reports to the moderators as a quality contribution, with little discrimination on the part of the moderators.

4. Sometimes it's not the post itself that's the quality, but the responses to it that provide the quality conversation.
Uploadfilter 1933
>Thought experiment: what % of EV ownership will your country have to reach before those incentives disappear? There is this annoying issue of governments needing to raise tax revenue one way or another

Subsidies are a stopgap measure, not a permanent fixture. Economies of scale are hugely significant in the motor industry, presenting EVs with a catch 22 - they're too expensive because not enough people are buying them, and not enough people are buying them because they're too expensive.

Volumes are increasing and prices are falling rapidly, which should allow for the phase-out of incentives within the next few years. Government investment in public charging infrastructure is probably necessary until at least 2035.
I suspect it's because of the straightforward design, relatively roomy interior, and parts availability. An analogy can be made to certain mid-70s American cars with a similarly large aftermarket fanbase.
Are we to read the entire website? I'm not even sure which part you disagree with.
I built myself a Frankenpad T440 in Jan. Paid £180 for it on ebay (grade A used) about a year ago. Bought a 2018 MBA which was a pile of shit so decided to return that and make the T440 better.

I swapped the screen out for a FHD one for £39, T450 touchpad (biggest upgrade!) for £20 and new 76Wh battery for £39. New Samsung 256Gb 850 Pro disk (cant remember how much that cost). Upgraded RAM to 8Gb by recycling an HP EliteBook. Copied windows 10 ISO and keypass keychain to the built in 16Gb SSD so I can recover it offline from my S3 backup target.

It's amazing. You'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. It's not the best laptop possible but it's an excellent compromise it in total it cost less than 1/3 of a MBA which had dubious "utility" compared to it.
> If you're instead changing your argument to say that it's impossible to do _well_

What? I didn't change my argument, that's what I said in the original comment you replied to.

All of your examples are things that _don't_ happen while you're typing. If you want to dispute my statement that all formatting should happen on blur, fine; you can expand that to include any time the user isn't typing. The issue is when you format the text while the user is actively trying to enter it, you'll mess up the cursor position and easily get into a situation where you can't add or remove a character for some reason because the formatting considers whatever you're trying to type invalid. And you'll also notice that I explicitly said in my original comment that you can't get it right _all_ of the time, and those times when you do get it wrong prevent the user from completing their task because of a superfluous feature. This is terrible UX and once this happens to a user they will never trust your software again.
I think you meant C++XP.
Im annoyed how much cheaper phones cant be rooted
Wow. It's almost like humans are governed by the same rules as algae blooms and predator-prey systems, where unsustainable growth causes total collapse on a timescale somewhat longer than any individual's life.
Git 2.21 Highlights
Pshhh this is the internet, which is all about side arguments with random people!

Small sample sizes but the fact that most went into complete remission is worthy of consideration

https://chriskresser.com/aip-for-ibd-the-paleo-autoimmune-pr...

Also check out some of the anecdotes here

http://meatheals.com/category/crohns-disease/

Hope things works out for you!
I actually think I've given you all the info you need. You switch on type ID and cast to the then known type.
Is there a plugin that automatically sends me to the lighter version of a site if it exists?
Interesting I have friends and family who work at sand mines that supply the sand for fracking. The companies they work for are still expanding and they have more overtime available than they can take. I'm not sure on the long term future of fracking but in the short 5-10 year span it doesn't appear to be going away based on how much infrastructure these companies are adding right now and how much land they're buying.
Oh great, the persuit of anorexic computing marches forth.

The swappable and dual batteries on my T440 are a killer feature.
natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)
1. That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
2. Of or relating to nature.
3. Without artificial additives.
4. As expected; reasonable.
------
mechanical (comparative more mechanical, superlative most mechanical)
1. (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
2. Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
3. Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines)
4. Done by machine.

(These definitions were sourced from Wiktionary)

I hope these senses of the terms natural and mechanical help with drawing a clear distinction between what is authentically natural and what is not. If you seek further context about the distinction then search out for senses of the terms nature and artificial. Also, in response to the high regard for labor productivity, remember that efficiency can be a force for both creation and destruction.
Wow, Aptana. That's a blast from the past. I'd forgotten I used to use it.
> full-immersion app

IMHO, that's another dead end (or rather intermittent tech), like full-screen apps, or single task environments (hello, DOS).
Why a Baker’s Dozen is 13 Instead of 12 (2010)
The US has the "glorious" principle of explicitly allowing people to heckle a gay soldier's funeral.

That was a while ago, but it just goes to show that the US 1st amendment leads to equally preposterous scenarios.

> I don't condone either of these, it's just about principle

But being respectful to people at funerals is also a principle. By which I mean "it's about principle" is not at all a clear signal on whether something should be allowed even when not condoned.

Personally, over the years I've taken an interest in this, I've seen the US's extreme stance on freedom of speech hurt more often than I've seen the EU's more relaxed stance on freedom of speech hurt. But even then I suppose you could argue the principle of the thing, that the one time our "loose" freedom of speech does hurt in the EU, it's going to hurt disproportionally more. Except I'd argue against that, it's a risk that is always there and it's not strictly controlled by strict freedom of speech, that's just one symptom of things going south.
PostgreSQL on Linux fsync failure fixed
Go look at TechCrunch and you’ll see why there’s so much hate for JavaScript. That site is awful.
GPS is a military technology opened to civilians... going the other way feels different, for whatever reason.
As with all things in employee/employer relationship it is about leverage.

Why should you get paid less for doing the same amount of work? What does it matter to the employer?

The question is, how much will it cost your employer to replace you? Presumably, they will be hiring your replacement locally so your salary should be compared to local wages.

The trick, is to make yourself indispensable (or at least very, very expensive to do so). Focus on being the sole owner of crucial products and knowledge (we are after all, knowledge workers). If you find yourself in a position where redundancy is being put in place (i.e hiring someone to shadow you, etc. then it's time to move up the knowledge chain or to a different product).
A friend of mine owns it since a long time - he has always been very happy with it and never had any problems with it. I've been in it a couple of times and it felt nice while driving. It's a pity that people basically didn't understand it.
That’s actually what happens on current (as in since 2010) Apple laptops. The camera sensor can not receive power without the LED being on. Pre-2010, the design had a flaw and all the stories about “hacking the camera” that are legit, are about the pre-2010 design.
For whatever unknown reason suspend/resume was completely broken on my laptop with vanilla Debian and works mostly ok with Ubuntu. Stock XPS 9350 Dev. Edition. Trackpad driver was also the wrong one, but easy to fix.

Ubuntu feels more polished out of the box for me on a laptop but a stripped down Debian can’t be beat for servers.
These screenshots are from a consumer-oriented LEGO design tool designed to run on a typical PC.
I can't read the Web page: If I have Firefox magnify the page, then much of the text is off the screen and with no horizontal scroll bars to put it on the screen. Without magnification, I'd need a strong magnifying glass to read the page character by character.

I studied abstract algebra, including groups, rings, fields, Galois theory, integral domains, vector spaces, modules, wrote my honors paper on group representations, etc. so would like to see what benefit ring theory has for software.
> it's high market value of good businesses

High market value is based on what companies (or with goods people) are willing to pay. If there is more money floating around and there are more buyers then the price you pay will increase. And I am not talking about economics taught in school either. I am talking common sense the way anyone can observe even if they never took a course or read a book.
The app itself is not strictly needed except on mobile where it's not electron. The browser extensions are free-standing. I don't use the app.
Perhaps Pathfinder mentioned above is implementing exactly that, but I am not familiar.
I wish we did it in auto investigations.
Hybrids (or battery swaps) make sense until apartments and employers have power outlets for every parking space.
I think you may be in the first world on this one.

I saw a very interesting talk last year about how Google Maps is often useless in third world areas, and OpenStreetMaps provides the only useful coverage.

It's due to armies of volunteers mapping an area during disasters, while Google has no economic interest in mapping the area.

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2018-157-how-the-internet-has-chan...
I did some basic testing (capture an image on a warmed up macbook webcam) and the LED lights up for ~1.6s for each capture. The bigger problem is that if you are looking elsewhere / not in front of your computer you wouldn't notice the capture.

Did it using this script: https://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/03/26/webcam-photos-with-r...
That could end up outlawing Pseudonyms and fictional characters. The real problem is that the government would accept public comment through an unauthenticated web form.
The tldr is we wrote our own highly efficient SFU - and we used our own transport layer that is not dtls, but xsalsa poly over udp.
Sensor Tower: 2018 was mobile Minecraft’s best year ever with $110M earned
While WebGL 2.0 is already quite cool, having the missing features of GL ES 3.x or eventually WebGPU would be quite nice.

I still see too many WebGL demos that struggle on devices where native GL ES doesn't have any issues.
Prediction: this piece is just fearmongering, in 1-2 years we will see fracking increase, not decrease.
Agencies are required to exercise reasoned decision making. I’m not sure I’d agree that popularity is a “reasoned” basis for choosing one policy over another. Besides, the public does influence the agencies—by picking the President, who appoints Commissioners. Agencies are part of the executive. That’s who sets the broad regulatory agenda. I’m not sure it would be proper for agencies to end-run around that process and make policy based on public opinion directly.
Yes. May need to back track due to context sensitivity. A quote from the source comments:

Some C++ constructs require arbitrary look ahead to disambiguate.
For example, it is impossible, in the general case, to tell whether
a statement is an expression or declaration without scanning the
entire statement.

I am sure there must be some devilish source code examples that require an exponential search for the correct parse. Also, has anyone constructed a modern C++ parser in bison which can backtrack?
It also helps you learn to appreciate software that very rarely goes down at all. It's no simple accomplishment.
For the American Natives, when the landscape was lush and the population was low, almost all time was spent in leisure.

I would heartily recommend reading anything about the native american peoples written in this millennium, the world you’re imagining never existed.
There's potential for optimization if the code executing the query can "understand" what it means.

E.g. an SQL engine can potentially use an index to answer x<3. Your library calling your function for every item probably can't do that, or can't guarantee that it can do that.
Personally, I like the idea of doing everything of mine through a full-immersion app. But my ideal use-case for these is also to just have windows from my desktop anywhere in space, which isn't exactly the norm.
I'm tempted to make the switch myself, is there a way to permanently force this? Otherwise I'm just going to use Gmail from Thunderbird, which can be a Behemoth but it's not as damn slow as that UI at the end of the day.
Notably absent from this article is any discussion about multi-armed bandits. A/B testing only leads to finding the more optimal of treatments, where as multi-armed bandit algorithms help find the optimal treatment and exploit it during testing. If profit is involved, it seems obvious that you should be considering both exploring treatments but most importantly exploiting the treatments that currently yields the most profit.

Google has a pretty good FAQ on this:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2847021?hl=en&re...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238121
>Unfortunately, engineering rarely changes the way someone feels about a product, marketing does.

Personal experience is also hugely relevant. If a friend gives you a ride in their electric car, many of the advantages become immediately apparent - the silence, the interior space, the remarkable acceleration and the general normality of an EV. A brief conversation with an owner will reveal that many of the fears about EV ownership are just myths.

Tesla have done an important job by making EVs cool, but equally important is simply getting used to the presence of EVs. That's not an overnight process, but it's already starting to happen, at least in Europe. The sight of cars with no tailpipe or someone plugging in to a rapid charger is no longer unusual. EVs are starting to seem less like a weird option for hippies and nerds and more like the inevitable future of motoring.
Anything that they feel makes them happy? I mean, eight hour workdays are an arbitrary invention, just based on the fact that the old "eight hours of work, eight hours of leisure, eight hours of sleep" slogan made for a nice Schelling point. And people mostly didn't expect us to get stuck there like we did. During the industrial revolution, leisure mostly did not exist for the new working class. (On the other hand historically the aristocracy enjoyed a life of pure leisure.) I guess in the 1800s there were some people asking "but what would you do with all that time if you weren't working at a factory 14 hours a day six days a week". The question was as silly then as it is now. Out of all arguments for having to work n hours a day, "but otherwise you'd have too much time" must be the worst.
Not really.

Since the browsers black list GPUs and platforms where they have issues, as author you don't have any guarantee how the users will get to see your site.

Additional not all GL ES features are exposed to WebGL.
While waiting for /.well-known/change-password to happen, there's a project [1] that already enables automating password update on many web pages.

[1] https://github.com/ddevault/pass-rotate
A world where 95% don't need to work is a world where 95% of the people don't have any economic power and will be left to starve.
Scroll Is Acquiring Nuzzel, a news discovery tool
Technically there is no law requiring there to be a shutter sound, but rather a standard practice that all Japanese mobile phones implement.
I hadn't considered this. I'm going to disable all camera permissions. I'll be less lazy in the future (e.g. with WhatsApp, instead of taking a photo in app, I'll use the Camera app then switch back)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237724
You can also setup filters which are easy to do in gmail and work better than autocategorization.
Okay, but still, your pwd manager could get hacked
I might pay $5-10 one time for a browser plugin that intercepts requests and redirects me from the heavyweight versions to the lightweight ones on this list...
Why do you not consider hunting and gathering to be labor? Is tracking dangerous animals through the forest and butchering them not work? Foraging and picking fruits, vegetables, and nuts is likewise not work? A ridiculous assertion.
Speaking as an employee at one of the largest independent E&P’s, we haven’t relied on debt and equity financing in the last few years because we have had enough free cash flow. The only thing slowing us down really is things like pipeline takeaway and labor shortage.
You posit a strong opinion that things will get worse without UBI, but you’re not actually making any statement that UBI will prevent this or improve the situation.
Of course that would be appropriate (provided you also include your reasoning). Silly question.
Hopefully you're being deliberately ironic, but your comment indicates a purely anglo-centric perspective. Continental European endeavour irrelevant except when it intersects with the homeland!
It is not about tools. It is about culture and process. Look at something like how SQLite for a real example of living up to the requirements of aviation software: 100 % branch coverage, extensive testing, multiple independent platforms in the test suite etc etc.

You don’t need anything fancy – but you do need to understand your requirements and thoroughly simulate and verify the intended behavior.