skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a bit extreme to say it's exploitative but it's certainly a philosophical dilemma. At what point does improving user engagement become a bad thing? People _love_ to gamble and play games of chance.

Buying random drop rolls does seem in poor taste. Though I never understood why you would pay to not play the game.
https://openbsd.amsterdam/setup.html

this was posted here. I was intrigued but have not tried it (because my software relies on java 11, which is not on OpenBSD)
iOS development costs only $99 a year.

Of course if Spotify is able to win its suit, iOS development will become far more costly, Apple won’t be able to distribute free apps at no charge anymore, like it does for Spotify.
Bad News for Egg Lovers
"a"+"b" != "b"+"a" already.
What advantages does cloop have over squashfs? Quick search revealed only that cloop is slower and has a bit worse compression than squashfs [0].

[0] https://elinux.org/Squash_Fs_Comparisons
This might be an out-of-nowhere question, but seeing how we're discussing Rob Pike and Plan 9 here, why does Plan 9's rc shell need the $path variable, when you could just bind all binary directories onto or behind /bin/?
Anti-Gravity Wheel?
Ah, six days later I notice your reply. You're right- I couldn't find the article posted below.

It may be a little conspiracy theory, but it's got to be the most innocent one I've ever believed could be true.
Are there any commercial versions of this?

I can imagine a big market for these devices for installing in warehouses, churches, walk in fridges/freezers, outdoor venues etc.

The total power use to keep a few people warm with a directed IR heater is far lower than the energy needed to keep an outdoor space warm!

The IR heaters could be directed to gimbals which can scan between all people in a scene rapidly (say 10 Hz), so everyone feels warm.

Multiple devices could be installed in the same building so even if you don't have line of sight of one, you still get heated by the rest.
Can you please add blocking of "Please agree to use cookies" hollyguacamolle?
So enjoy your great western liberties and chaos.
None of these links are about anything Google did. I understand how many of the things Facebook have done have harmed people, and how governments can harm people, but these things seem not to apply to Google?

I'm not into guilt by association.
Show HN: Embed your Google Sheet as nice widgets anywhere
Poverty targeting excludes 44–97% of those it aims to reach
> People buy crap like Amazon echo left and right, and have been carrying little computers with microphones and an internet connection around all day for even longer.

Consent. The difference is consent. You may get laid ten times a day for a week, but the time it happens without your permission is still a problem.

I have trouble believing folks that “don’t get this” aren’t being purposely obtuse. Consent isn’t that complicated an idea.
> Although I gotta say, I think the criticism of 100% uptime is an ideological position, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. In this case having their website always up

The web site is a mirror of a conventionally-hosted web site: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/

I see a lot of links to https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ on hacker news, and there's always a link in the corner of the screen to the solar server.
Yes, but I still want this for combining dictionaries. Python already violates this property, I don't find it confusing.

Python 3.7.2 (default, Dec 30 2018, 08:55:50)
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 'foo' + 'bar' == 'bar' + 'foo'
False
>>> ['foo'] + ['bar'] == ['bar'] + ['foo']
False
I'm sorry, but I think even saying 0.1% of users use a clipboard manager is way overestimating it.

The top clipboard manager apps have like 500k installs. Android had 2.7 billion users in 2017. If we assume that the Android install base hasn't grown and that the total base of clipboard managers is 10x larger, we still only get to 0.18% of users...
Me right now, so a human that's able to help with pretty much any query. I can understand how having to use a chat widget with someone unhelpful replying would be a bad experience though e.g. a sales person when you had a support request, or a bot that can't help with your support request.

Most chat widgets are set up to forward chat messages via email if there's nobody around and both sides can jump back on the chat widget later if they're both available at the same time which is still an improvement over just email in my opinion.
Feel free to disregard this advice, I don't do anything in javascript.

Whether or not it's worth becoming good at jQuery is essentially determined by your goals in life, and whether becoming good at jQuery in particular, is in alignment with those goals and also of high importance.

Any time you spend honing one skill is time not spent honing another. You want to be sure to spend your time on the most important things. Figuring out what is important itself becomes a skill to learn.

Pinging HN on whether it's worth learning jQuery is one way to assess importance. But keep in mind, if the people who answer have different goals than you, their answer may not be relevant and may actually be bad advice for your case. This answer included.

Figure out your goals. Find people who have accomplished them. Talk to them directly about what they did and how they did it. Adapt what makes sense to your life.

Finally, be careful of learning something just for the sake of learning. It feels great, but it can actually be procrastination in productivity's clothing. Make sure you are clear on why you are spending the time learning X right now, and be clear on why you are not spending time on learning Y right now.
Soylent is way more complicated than potatoes.
These people are building an archive and telling you about it. Numerous other entities have built archives and are not telling you about it. Furthermore, they have archives of everything you made "private" on Facebook/+.

Hopefully you now better understand security and will not compromise information you wish to remain private in the future. But what's done is done. You can't revoke it once it's out there in plain text.
Oh no, the way they avoided NCAA sanctions was specifically because the fake classes were available to the general student body and NOT taken predominantly by athletes.
EDIT: in your daily delivery
I don't see what any of that has to do with using cash vs using a prepaid debit card.

Are you thinking about credit checks to stop poor people getting phone contracts? Because that already happens and cash existing hasn't stopped it.
That would be interesting, I wonder if there would be nanobot-like "pipes" (or some other framework) built into the physical structure of homes?
Kara Swisher regularly bitches about how tech execs aren't into humanities enough to comprehend the level of responsibility they have. But from the outside, I observe that Duchamp, other humanities types of figures, and humanities related articles show up on the HN front page every week.

To those who live in SV: is this because the HN audience is an odd crowd, or is there a lot of merit to Swisher's criticism?
Apple Watch can help identify atrial fibrillation: Stanford University
Nice read. It’s always enjoyable setting up a new machine, regardless of the OS or platform you’re using.

I’ve never used BSD or any of its derivatives - is the main difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD just the focus on security?
Once you get over that hurdle, he really is a valuable resource. Like, we all kind of have that problem with him I think, but the guy still earns his seat at the table. In fact, buddy sorta set the table...

I just don’t see him as the type that needs to be publicly polished. Why does he have to be? He’s a character, I like it.
DNS Timeline
Admittedly I've not lived in London for 5 years or so, but I never went to single place that wouldn't accept cash. Name one.
As tragic as this story is, let's not pretend that it's commonplace. A disabled single mother of a disabled child? She won the reverse lottery.
Not sure why downvoted, the problem with free toilets is that maintenance/cleaning costs money and often there isn’t enough budgeted for it. Pay toilets at least allow users to fund more frequent cleaning.
Commutatitivity does not need to always hold. Multiplication is not commutative on matrices, but we still use it often and write it as a product nonetheless
In that case are transaction fees for credit cards also tax? Or PayPal fees for that matter? Or fees for using platforms like eBay and Aliexpress?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19390757
Saying "google doesn't care about privacy" and giving examples is being divisive? This is starting to border on parody. You're doing a terrible job.
Obviously not now. But the choice to start with PHP and not quickly migrate away did have something to do with the fact that it was easy to find people familiar with it, and easy for people not familiar with it to pick it up.
You could take some time to understand jQuery it is not that big or complicated. It might be on its way out, but it will be around long enough to be worth the effort in my opinion.
Before the Internet (2017)
The first paragraph of the article mentions that Camacho was traumatized by a kidnapping that involved torture and a mock execution. That made him a victim of PTSD that made him put on weight. It's not clear how relevant this is to the rest of the story, but to an amateur like me it seems obvious that treating the PTSD directly would be a better approach than solving the problem by counting calories. Of course it's still trivially true that calorie balance completely determines weight stability, so it would be stupid to dismiss calorie counting if you have trouble with keeping your weight stable, whether it's too high or too low.
This argument was made in the Battlestar Galactica tv series as well. Nicely put.
This is something I always ask people with those little "camera blockers" attached to their laptops: "How do you block the microphone?" and "Which is worse? Recording video of you all day, or recording audio of you all day?
The title is to broad imo.. This is clearly only about Event-Driven Architectures for the web.
Many of those 7 points are specific to web.
Newsletter signup modals. The company I work for discussed doing that for our site and I died a little on the inside that day.
There was a perfectly good reason for the microphone to be there, and there was a good reason why it wasn't mentioned (though it probably should have been). I'd hardly call the event "trust shattering".
I accidentally stabbed myself in the finger while cutting open a package using a knife. Stupid, I know.

The would was small, maybe 1 centimeter, but deep enough that it wouldn't stop bleeding on its own. My girlfriend insisted we go to the ER (urgent cares around here are closed on Sundays), so we did.

I was the only one there that day. I was ushered in to see a doctor. The doctor looked at the wound, and said, "this is way too small for stiches, let's just use glue." So the ER nurse handed him a skin glue, and he used it to close the wound. After a few minutes, the wound was closed. I was prescribed antibiotics (kitchen knife, in case it had salmonella etc.) and sent my way.

Three months later, the bill arrived: $2,600.

That isn't a typo. Two thousand six hundred god damn dollars for skin glue on a small cut on the finger.

My insurance successfully negotiated it down, but still, the audacity of charging four figures for five minutes of medical care is just absolutely insane.

We desperately need single-payer healthcare in this country.
the difference that i find valuable is that cloop is not a file system, whereas squashfs is. this means that i can use cloop to compress _any_ file system at the block level. very useful as a sys-admin.
I much prefer lightning to USB, it’s cheap and easy to become a Mac or iOS developer, and also greatly prefer the security of a closed ecosystem.

And when you use your computer 2,000 hours a year the extra cost of Macs per hour of work is trivial and the benefits are great.
Interesting. I agree about the MOOCs. It takes a lot of willpower and even then, it just doesn’t feel the same. There’s something about being forced to show up and sit through two hours of intellectual rigor and at least try to understand as much as possible. I guess it’s the same reason people go to the library to study.

Btw did you ask the profs if you could take the exams , and did you? Were they willing to? They are usually a little averse to extra work lol.
in firefox > options > privacy > permissions > notifications > settings, you have "Block new requests asking to allow notifications"
Dogs that protect little penguins (2015)
Lots of times. Banking questions through my banking app. Looking for a certain kind of cable. Figuring out how to apply a coupon that isn't the right length of numbers.
Hey guys, VP of Engineering & Product here at Nabis. We're hiring engineers! Email me dillon@getnabis.com if you'd like to learn more. :)
And it is entirely because the powers that be have rigged the market so that they can charge whatever they want.

How have they accomplished this? First, they set strict quotas on who can be a doctor. Then, they set strict quotas on who can offer what medical goods and products. Then, they strap everyone up with student and business debt.

I'm not saying it is the correct way or not, but there's a reason that in other countries you can buy over the counter things that you can't in the USA.
That site is from 2012. It defaults to IE9, and the latest version of IE listed is IE10, which was EOLed in 2016. replaceWith() and prepend() are included in Edge 17 (released Apr 2018).

A modern version of youmightnotneedquery with, say, features currently supported by 90%+ browsershare would be even more concise. The AJAX JSON request in the first example, for example, is just:

fetch('/my/url').then(response => response.json())

The Request example is:

fetch('/my/url').then(response => ...).catch(error => ...)

The fadeIn example is (CSS3, not JS):

@keyframes fadeIn {
from { opacity: 0 }
to { opacity: 1 }
}
#el { animation: fadeIn 1s linear; }

(It gets even easier if you're fading in on hover or other user action, because you can use a CSS transition instead of the animation and then just use .classList.add()).)
A Study of the Great Recession of 2008
Yes, but believing in chemtrails or the danger of vaccines is quite different than race, legally and essentially.
How Have the Treatments for Sickle Cell Disease?
What I find really frustrating about this is that the whole premise is supposed to be about how using older technology can be more environmentally friendly, yet they used a newer codec that simply wasn't appropriate to the task they threw at it to give the impression of "old" while wasting more resources.

And to throw one final nail in the coffin, if they used a modern, but reasonably mature codec like VP8, they could have done even better on resource usage while retaining the same quality.

If you want to build something to demonstrate that using older technology has advantages, that's fine. But you should make sure that you're actually demonstrating what you intended. And I'd pick something other than energy efficiency to target, because the last decade has seen a ton of technological progress improving energy efficiency because of its importance to mobile devices running on tiny batteries.
> For starters, majority of philosophers never make a stable ground for absolutist statements ("turned out to be false“).

Standards of evidence for HN are lower. Calling something false needs a preponderance of evidence, not a formal proof. Centuries of challenges attempting to show an inconsistency have all failed.

> However, it still may sound unconvincing when one believes that the criminal's mind contents was predetermined aeons before he was born.

Anything can be made to sound unconvincing when it's completely divorced from its context. The point in context, is that bad behaviour felt justified in the moment, and holding a learning agent responsible is the moral feedback needed to correct that error in judgement.
> The National University of Singapore study's findings were based on 663 Chinese adults, aged over 60, whose diet and lifestyle were tracked from 2011 to 2017.

What concerns me is how many variables were tracked.

Every year, come Superbowl Sunday, we hear about all the patterns: no team that had an under-32 coach from West of the Mississippi has ever won (I've no idea if that's true, but that's an example). The problem is that there's so many variables compared to data points that it's easy to find a pattern.

663 adults sounds like a lot of data, but this wasn't a study about mushrooms, it was tracking many different variables in diet and lifestyle. Maybe the mushroom pattern is random chance.

There's also correlation vs causation. Perhaps mushrooms are eaten more in a region where mild brain decline is less common. Maybe mushrooms taste better to people with genes that also make brains not decline.

All that said, as a guy who loves eating mushrooms I fully support further studies.
There is also the option of using a much smaller, lighter weight library to handle ajax (where the standard based approach still has some limitations) and using standards for everything else.

jQuery was an amazing step forward but it's almost always better to use standards based options and those are now available for much of jQuery's functionality.
Because of Obamacare and federal health care, there is no longer true competition to drive down prices.

Heck, I've got health insurance, I always go to the most expensive places. Why not?
We’re already there; I think the only paper bill I’ve received in the last 3 years has been my council tax bill, and that’s only because I’ve never been offered an e-billing option.
I use intercom to provide support for my service. Yes, it pops up and asks if you have questions on the homepage. Yes, it checks in on you after using the site for a week. But I get almost a hundred support requests and questions a week through it, and most weeks I get zero through Zendesk email.

For most small businesses like mine these chats go straight to the phones of the founders. You've got a direct line to the most knowledgeable person about the service.

So to your question, many people use them successfully.
You are correct, that phrase as stated would mean no matter how little impact you think 45RPM had, you estimate would not be too low.

The author surely meant 'impossible to overestimate.'

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I don't know if this is a common mix up, like, for example:

"I could care less." (which means you have not reached a minimum of caring)

vs

"I couldn't care less." (which means you have reached minimum of caring)

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Or the more pernicious (in my opinion) and pervasive:

"Not all X are Y" (some X might be Y, but at least some are not)

vs

"All X are not Y" (There are no X that are also Y)
90% of commercial programming, is really invoking somebody else's APIs.

In my experience, most problems and frustration comes from working the APIs (or somebody else's interpretation of the business need) -- not programming language.
I don't own one :-).

Edited to add: A bold move by Google would be a public announcement that you may return the device for a full refund.
Can't uBlock Origin already solve this problem?
Many times when I had to use a dev platform in projects. It's super fast to ask a simple question and having someone pointing you to the right documentation page.

I guess the annoying part is the widget opening by default but I actually like having the chat, because you know something is serious when a company devotes time to support.
The 1978 Swedish GP in the BT46B.
Replete Is a ClojureScript REPL for iOS and Android
> Due to the proliferation of many advanced JS libraries such as React and Angular, do you think jQuery is on its way out?

Absolutely.

> Is becoming good at jQuery a waste of time?

Unless you are going to be maintaining legacy code, yes.
Don't fall for the 'yes, but countries that have cheap healthcare pay for it with taxes'. The US pays more than most from taxes[0].

In Sweden we pay less per capita than americans do (from taxes) and my total _maximum_ healthcare costs for _all_ treatments, medications, surgury etc, that in the US would be paid by your employer or yourself are:

$125/year max for all visits and procedures [1]

+ $250/year max for all prescribed medications (with up to 75% discounts before reaching those $250)[2].

This makes treating my Crohn's + MEN-1 an issue of going to visits, doing surguries and scans, and picking up my medications at the local pharmacy (I order in their app since my medications are rare) every three months.

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-hea...

[1] https://www.1177.se/Stockholm/Regler-och-rattigheter/Hogkost...

[2] https://www.apoteket.se/mina-recept-inloggad/mer-om-hogkostn...
There are some things very wrong with the American education system, but I suspect a focus on "signalling" and a desire for job training over general education is going to miss all of the important ones.

In the first place, the concern only with reading, writing, and 'rithmatic along with standardized testing are probably destroying most of the value of the public education system. Thanks, everyone. Good job.

Secondly, the belief that any bachelor's degree is as good as any other, along with the corresponding rise of for-profit educational institutions (along with not-for-profit ones which behave like for-profit institutions) leads directly to this whole signalling flap.

A degree from Joe's Diploma Mill is a bad signalling indicator because the education Joe provides is crap. A degree from Stanford is a good signal because Stanford provides a good education. Don't go to Joe's; it's a waste of money and time.

Back at UT, many students and the occasional visiting job recruiter complained that the classes didn't cover "job-relevant" skills. (x86 assembler, anyone?) On the other hand, those same recruiters kept coming back, and showering money on recent grads; something they notably didn't do at, say, ITT Tech or DeVry, in spite of the fact that those schools taught nothing but "job-related skills."

Sure, a degree from Stanford is a signal that you are smart and hard-working. That's because Stanford is hard to get a degree from unless you are smart and hard-working. Some of that is simply jumping-through-hoops-ism, but most of it is because Stanford requires you to learn hard shit. And that's why smart and hard-working students go there.

(End of part 3; see part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19409381)
The examples are web based but these points can still be adapted down to any scale, really. Things like staleness are still a concern in something like an event driven UI ie user input disrupts the current action.
Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions).

Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.
“No, internet companies shouldn’t have to pay you for your data”
how do you explain why Uber invested tons of money for automatous driving technology?
A lack of anonimity has not notably improved the discourse on YouTube, if anything the real name policy has silenced many that would push back against the verbal diarrhoea, as the person who wrote said insane post might easily hunt you down now.
Are you indian? Do you poo in loo? Try that first.
A true coloured vinyl probably lasts just as long as a black one, but I've seen a few that look coloured but are really picture discs. The pictures discs really are crap because the groove is cut into a thin layer of clear material that is layered on top of the printed picture.