skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with the details of implementing a PWA and how much it's tied to Chrome specifics (that would certainly be bad), but I generally disagree with you.

I feel like way too many companies are making native apps just for the sake of users being able to install them and have that icon on the home screen. Most of the time the app doesn't require any native-only functionalities, it could function as web app just fine, so it's a bunch of unnecessary overhead. And mobile platform owners love this as the growing ecosystem means more lock-in.

PWAs seem to be a nice middle ground solution to this problem IMHO.
Thanks! I've noticed that there are a lot of data sets out there on the web, but there are not many that explain why the data behaves the way it does. Adding events to data was a big part of the reason I created the site.
Drunk vision/walking:

var i = 0, s;
setInterval(function(){
i+=0.02;
s = Math.sin(i)
camera.focalLength = 0.8 + s * 0.2;
player.rotate(s * 0.02 - 0.01);
}, 16);
Mux is hiring engineers and PMs to build video APIs at scale
When genius meets dysfunction.
> there's a habit of reducing the width of the text to a quarter of the screen width

This I can understand and support.

----

Intermezzo:

First off, if you're having your browser take your whole screen, "you're doing it wrong", aka here is my tip: Assuming 1920x1080px screen resolution, using 2/3 of its width (~1260px) should be enough for the most of the pages, and the remaining 1/3 of your screen you can use for other stuff you need (IRC, chat window, music player, etc.).

----

Back to the original point:

The reason why this "small width" is happening is because of readability: extra long lines (anything over 100 characters) are hard to read.

But larger font-sizes would please both general-you (people who want larger width) and general-me (people who want larger font-sizes): I would be able to read the text without zooming in, and the same amount of characters per line would now make lines wider.
Access control is not censorship.
I highly doubt it. They aren't being charged and supposedly had no idea. And they have affluenza to boot.

Perhaps the tennis admission - there's no way she could not have known.
Garden Path Sentences
Thanks for the feedback. You're right there are some good open source libraries out there. Part of the reason I created this site is so that someone with no programming experience can just paste excel data into the page to create animations (I've setup a YouTube channel with some tutorials on there). I think you make a good point about the $$$ comment. I'll have to see if I can come up with something better. Cheers
And the relevant HN link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19373216
I have that problem on desktop but not on mobile for some reason. That said, I generally use my browser’s reader mode in both contexts anyway because so many sites choose unergonomic font families.

Have you ever had a vision exam? My vision is good enough to get by without corrective lenses for almost any other activity, but they make a world of difference when reading on a screen all day, especially if you have even mild astigmatism.
Travel app presents users with a chance to win exotic trips
4D: Volume and time! Obvious!

The demonstration is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.
The change of title is, again, deliberate. This is intended to explain exactly what the video is about, rather than the original, which was a little "click-baity".
Thanks. Yeah, I'm the first to admit I'm not a front end designer. I've started talking to someone about updating the design but nothing is locked in yet so if you can recommend anyone let me know! While we're on the topic, I could do with someone who's good at social media marketing. Cheers
Foods Which Could Boost Your Immunity Process
Some Toastmasters clubs even have an ah-counter role. Ours gets a little rubber duck and makes it squeak whenever the presenter start erm-ing, ah-ing or uh-ing. Distracting as hell but on the other hands that distraction motivates to avoid it next time.
We need to drop Chrome and start using Firefox. I just switched to FF Nightly and it is really fast with GPU acceleration. Please download today!
I'm wondering if we'll see it write emoji at some point.
Somehow, the update to Chrome 73 managed to ruin Chrome Sync on my work Mac. I have to "unpause" sync every time I run Chrome and I'm logged out of every account after closing the app, although I do allow cookies and don't clear them on close. My passwords don't autofill anymore, either.

What's the point of buying into the whole Chrome Sync thing if it randomly dies for no apparent reason?
>Personally my first semester at uni was depressingly dull other than the novelty and the subjects

Sorry to hear that. What are some ways to cheat school? (waste of time)

Edit: apart from catching on your reading (listening) and scrolling on hackernews.
Show HN: Box2d with React DOM
There is no reason why a decentralized tool cannot have moderation tools, especially one like this where there is a clear owner of a repository.
Ask HN: Does HN censor 'Who is Hiring' for companies they don't agree with?
Just came across this ad for a job in the Ask HN Who is Hiring for March for a job openings at PornHub:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282520

but the same can't be found when looking at the thread under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281834 ... so I wonder has this posting been unlinked from the main thread so that people won't find it?

What am I missing? Is it offensive to people when they hear or read the word "porn"? Or is this simply a mistake or bug?

What offends me personally is job postings that point to facebook, Palantir and FAANG. These businesses are a pest to society (IMVHO). Yet I wouldn't get outraged over it and demand that they be shadow-banned.
IBM Research Releases ‘Diversity in Faces’ Dataset
Show HN: New Landing Page for Packagr.app
PWAs aren't specific to Chrome, they are also being supported by other browser vendors.

In fact, PWAs are UWP apps on Windows, having access to all native UWP apis without additional FFI, or having to deal with the likes of Ionic, React Native and friends.
Within 6 months of each other, out of only 400,000 flights!

The fact that Americans and other Westerners died onboard and US Govt is like "lalalalalalala keep flying" shows how little they care
Questioning the toughness of fellow commenters belies your effort to engage in good-faith intellectual discussion.
You can achieve that with a lot less headaches with simple Virtual Machines. Also makes backup more trivial (simply copy a file).
"Better be silent and let people think you are stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubts".
That's a good list. Pretty sensible advice. I wish all programmer would follow the README advice. With all that said was it really necessary to add the same emoji at the end of every point ?
> there hasn't been a hull loss on US soil since 2009

Until 3 weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591
If you split a complex systems into a tiny pieces, you imo just shift a locus of problems from individual modules into their more and more complex network of interactions and emergent behaviors.
Chrome’s latest update allows PWAs to be installable on Desktop
I remember many of the isometric drawn/pre-rendered games with a fixed PoV (i.e. Zaxxon etc) being described as 2.5D back in the day. We knew they weren't exactly 3D but then again, they weren't your typical 2D platformer/side-scroller either. Battlezone was considered a 3D game back in its day so the rendering technology wasn't really the dividing line. It was more a question of if the game environment being navigated was 3D and if it had a reasonably realistic spatial representation on the screen.
If you want to keep trackers out, the only real option is not to use any Web based app.

There are plenty of tricks to work around ad blockers.
The French govt threw a pretty big fit about the Concorde, unwilling to admit it was "unsafe", but eventually gave up on the plane for "commercial" reasons. Aerospatiale was literally state-owned by the French.
Oh, well that's totally different then. Still feels weird to "consume" other potential model numbers like that though :)
It seems to be that the crash situations are way too complex to blame a single party. Since a chain of events (automatic systems, pilot actions) seems the be responsible for the crashes.

I imagine that besides what is being done to make sure this doesn't happen again, a lot of time is being spent on making sure that whatever changes, the crashes cannot be blamed on them.
> if everyone who was obese in this country all of a sudden started eating a diet that was macronutriently ideal and consumed at the perfect times, but maintained the same number of calories, there would be no difference in the prevalence of obesity. I think the science really confidently supports that position, and I'd be happy to look at anything you think denies it.

Again, no. You are tautologically restating CICO. We have no evidence of this being true. You are implicitly assuming that CO will be constant and would be independent of CI... We do not know that to be true.

> I am very familiar with Dr Fung's work and don't think that any of it makes the case you are trying to make. All of his work provides proof for what I've been saying over and over in this thread: IF and Keto can be great ways to create compliance to a diet, but there is no evidence, including the work of Dr Fung, that shows these diets behaving differently from simple calorie control outside of the compliance aspect.

I seem to recall a bunch of animal models where compliance was controlled for and still showed a strong correlation between insulin and set weight.
Thank you, that's a fair point. I don't think mammograms are low-dosage radiation, are they?

>take that paper with a huge grain of salt.

Too much salt isn't healthy either ;)
They can still send the information they collected from your microphone later, when you connect to the internet ...

You want an open source solution, not just an offline solution.
That's because you are assumed to be always online, always available, you being busy implies doing something else, which isn't in their model.
I get your viewpoint. I definitely don't want to be harassed by a website to "install" their PWA on the desktop, like how websites already harass me to "install" their app on my phone because it allows them to do more tracking.

However, if PWAs allow us to ditch electron for good, I'm all for them. Each electron app shipping its own browser copy and having full access to everything on my computer is a security nightmare.
>I saw these decisions flipped frequently for students from affluent backgrounds, and rarely for students who’d applied for financial aid.

>Although our school advertised our “holistic” review process, our director typically used test scores to screen applicants. His rationale was that these were “riskier” students. The only time he didn’t? If the student could pay full price to attend our institution, or a “full pay” student.

My main takeaway from this is a reminder on how reliant schools have become on gigantic, bloated tuitions to finance a large part of, if not all, their operations. Whee you need to keep paying for pricey administrators, new dorm buildings, and other likely-not-vital-for-education pieces but your state budgets have been slashed, endowment isn't paying out as much this year, and lower income students don't have access to as many loans - of course schools are going to put a preference for students from a wealthy background.

I think if you want to keep colleges fair, you need to keep their budgets more bare bones and focused on the essentials of schools (teaching and research), OR charge those who can afford the vast tuitions out of pocket with even higher tuitions to offset the payments for more qualified, but less able to pay students.
Desktop PWA update looks promising and considering the last update, allowed many to upload PWAs on Google Play store. I feel the promises are finally coming true.
How improbable was two Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER flights crashing within five months? Should all Boeing 777-200ER airplanes be grounded? Or all Malaysian Airlines flights?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

By the way it took years to figure out how exactly these crashed.
A Coding Retreat and Getting Embedded Rust Running on a SensorTag
This is why I like Thanos. Bullshit is everywhere. Even a person doing behind a great open source software is getting criticism now. Good days!
> Without adding all that docker specific complexity described in the post:

My guess is that you never used containers at all, let alone Docker.

A Dockerfile is just a setup script that installs the needed services on an image, which you can run on any machine. That's it. There is no added complexity.
Nice edit to the original comment btw. Makes me look like a dumbass.
SXG[0] looks promising - allows signing (and subsequently caching externally) whole HTTP exchanges.

This may be useful for improving security, especially of CDNs. Binary Transparency seems to be one of the use cases mentioned in the spec[1] - perhaps someday this would be used for an unified scheme for signing application packages/updates, without reinventing the wheel every time.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/03/nic73#sgx

[1]: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...
Complexity is proportional to the size of the view distance (linearly? Or square if you do a field of view). The map size doesn't matter, assuming array lookup is instant.
Approval: Server Side Public License, Version 2 (SSPL v2)
At my current job it is "mandatory" to sign your mails with mime. We got the infrastructure in place. I have seen 3 signed mails up until now. A colleague of mine got the reply to one of his signed messages "can't read because it's encrypted".

I would really love signed mails thought...
The DevTools update is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddZX9ZK6wY

Break point like console logging is a neat idea.
I made something like this for my own amusement some years ago, I just manipulated the DOM though. Made the script so it could easily be applied to most websites as a gag, just by running the script and if you wanted you could set parameters for which elements should be static or dynamic.
Which country is this and do you have a link? sounds interesting.
This could make a good Narcos season.
I love Hetzner but you have to compare like for like. The EX42 is a dedicated machine which is great for perf and HD space but bad for maintenance, flexibility and setup fees. It’s also desktop hardware so no ECC memory.

Hetzner does have cloud vps though e.g. CX51 32 gb 8 vcpu at 29 eur ex vat. So a bit cheaper but not as much DC location choice as you get with OVH.
I think the incentive is basic empathy. Just because our fellow humans are economically worthless, does not mean they are lesser people.

If the point is that those people produce no value, they shouldn't work at all. They could just dig and fill ditches, but that doesn't produce value.
Amazon also leeches from the public goods, but that is somehow socially acceptable.
It's a generational thing; growing old and inflexible means that the enthusiasm that caused you to adopt tools 10-20 years ago is gone and you no longer jump onto new platforms and tools like you used to.

The number of programmers doubles every 5 years. So, people (mostly techies, lets be honest) using stuff like xmpp ten years ago are outnumbered by millenials dominating the scene today that never used that. They use other stuff and are chatting more than ever. Stubbornly hanging on to IRC, Adium, or other ancient shit simply means you are not part of the conversation anymore.

I uninstalled Adium half a decade ago.
-Quite different scenario. One was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile (And one can hardly fault Boeing for not providing ECM equipment as standard!), the other was (probably) wilfully flown into the great void.

Here, on the other hand, there are two eerily similar cases where the likely -mind, likely- common denominator is a new 'feature' which has been undercommunicated to the pilots flying the things.
Firefox team needs to wake up and add support for PWA.
Finally:

* Dark mode is now supported on Mac, and Windows support is on the way.
You get portability by using any provisioning system: Ansible, Puppet, Chef.

Although, it's not exactly the same thing, because with Docker you have everything already installed in the image. I've only used Ansible and I was never happy with its dynamic nature.
FastMail has been sponsoring the development of JMAP, which is a modern replacement to IMAP and SMTP.
Naturally their service supports JMAP. This is the first major step in modernizing email in a long time.

There was a recent FOSDEM talk by the author about the recent IETF standards ratification for JMAP[1].

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/email_standards/
I've been putting off buying the license for far too long, but now it really does seem like I have no reason not to!
Which reminds about the saying "Do not cross a river 4 feet deep on average". And why the average is calculated as an arithmetic mean and not geometric or using any other averages? And consider then that on average Proxima Centauri could be well father away from us then the center of our Galaxy.
These days the Astronomical Unit (AU) is defined exactly (149597870700 m), but historically AU was used to measure relative distances in the solar system because the distance from the Earth to the Sun was unknown.

The transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 were used to determine the distance to the sun and hence the scale of the solar system in a major scientific endeavor. Several expeditions were shipped around the globe to do simultaneous observations of the beginning and end times of the transit, using the positions of moons of Jupiter as a time reference.

The AU is still in modern use because it can easily communicate distances around the solar system to humans. It is less useful in computation and it's a somewhat arbitrary number given that the orbit of the Earth has minor perturbations.
Happened to me too.
Do we still need JavaScript frameworks?
I think the best browser definitely fluctuates over time. I started out with Mozilla c1995. Then have shifted through most of them at various points in time when I've become unhappy with my current choice. I went back to Firefox when they released their Quantum version and have been really happy with it. Haven't used Chrome much since then. But I'm always open to other browsers should something change in the future.
Is it actually working for you ? I installed it and it cant play videos and crashes with an error.
My main problem with Firefox is that it eats my batteries, otherwise I would have used it as my main browser.
As someone who flew a Boeing plane for a long time, if it’s true they released a stick pusher (automatic trim) that would dump the nose,[1] couldn’t be overridden by pulling back on the stick as in previous versions of the aircraft,[2] but only by disconnecting the automatic trim then manually trimming the aircraft, was tied to only one AOA sensor, and then felt this was too much information for “pilots”.[3] Wow. Seems like engineers on the ground and business leaders making decisions that ended up costing lives. Pilot error seems like a scapegoat here. Even a well trained pilot on a bad day might not handle a nose down situation after takeoff well, especially when the intuitive solution of pulling back on the stick had been disabled.

While this may not be the cause of the most recent crash, the Lion crash alone seems to indicate a problem with Boeing and the FAA’s relationship. This probably extends to Airbus and other regulators as indicated in another comment about his or her carriers safety incidents tripling due to flying two aircraft of the same “type” but not really.[4] At a minimum the MCAS changes should have been communicated to pilots and indicates a process problem at Boeing with insufficient pilot involvement and too much engineering and business input. And the FAA probably needs to be much stricter in the training and documentation requirements between models.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/u-s-p...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19077371

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18438607

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19376565
To be fair, this is extremely common, this isn't something Boeing invented yesterday. The whole series of Cessna business jets are on the same type rating. The A330/A340/A350 share a type rating. The 757/767 share a type rating. There are almost certainly more differences between a 757 and a 767 than a 737-800 and a Max.

Not that 90 minutes on a tablet constitutes a reasonable level of training though.
Very interesting. Does radicle use something like the git-remote-ipfs plugin to sync to an ipns address? Also, are objects duplicated over the filesystem, git and ipfs or have you found some way around that? I'm working a bit on a DVCS built on IPFS as a side project, but it's nowhere near usable (search for IPVC on github). The natural step after replicating basic git/hg features would be something like what radicle is doing with issues, pull requests etc.
Sometimes in the same boat. Why not self host a blog?
With Math.random you get ~50% win, with the sequence you get 85% because it's an exploit
We don't "need" to do anything.

It's nice to have choiches.
That reasoning logic is the kind of strawman that we can expect from frequentists :)

Both crashes have been explained and it's bleeding obvious that they do not relate to the plane in itself.
Isn't this what DMARC is supposed to give us? Big companies like my bank and paypal run their own domains so they can use SPF/DKIM to authenticate their communications (and TLS to protect them in transit). Individually signed emails are only really useful for individuals.
First, I generally prefer if people do not have a proof that I sent the email. Second, I'd be worried that someone stole my private keys and impersonated me in those cases when signing makes sense. Endpoint security is almost nonexistent with current PCs, no matter how hard you try to harden your system. In the end, the risk of being impersonated for malicious purposes outweighs the advantages of signing.
I don't know whether this is "the last time", but perhaps others might find this example informative.

The A320 first crashed on literally its first passenger flight "(in service for two days)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

Later, an A320 crashed less than two months after delivery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_605

These two crashes, as well as a third flight later, Wikipedia describes as "a series of crashes caused, at least in part, by what was believed to be pilots' unfamiliarity with the sophisticated computer system of the Airbus A320".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148

Different sources disagree on the causes of these flights. Most indicate "pilot error", but the pilots themselves and other organizations dispute these reports and instead claim design flaws with the aircraft. In general, most discussions of the accidents focus on the new fly-by-wire system.
Because it's an exploit (read top comment)
Probably a but underpowered for development.

Used laptops are not that more expensive, but they are beefier, the UX is better.