skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The former has happened a number of times, for example with Kelly Johnston and Lockheed martin's Skunk Works, or many other institutions with charismatic dictatatorial engineers at the helm (Tesla, Linux, Microsoft). I'm definitely not saying that their respective leaders don't make bad decisions, but rather that a suboptimal solution, consistently implemented results in a better outcome than an inconsistent solution "optimised" by individuals along the way.
I'd say Clojure has just the right amount of syntactic friction to calling into java, that encourages people to write Clojurey libraries (or wrappers for Java libs) and keep the Javaisms at bay from your code.
The ability to ask our TV for a movie

... isn't that reliable. For example, there is a Comcast commercial that has a woman saying very clearly "show me Jurassic Park" to her remote. The film that is actually pulled up is the Jurassic Park sequel "The Lost World."

Wrong film. And that's right in their own commercial.

Even once 911 AI exceeds humans in routing speed and accuracy, the first time a life is lost because the AI drops, misroutes, or misprioritizes a call, there will be an uproar.
This also crosses into personal attack, which is also not ok here. If you would also please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN, we'd also be grateful.

Basically (and this goes for both of you as well as the rest of us), when you find yourself unable to keep from replying as irritation mounts, it's best to wrest oneself away from the internet for a bit.
>but the guidance of a course / expert is pretty helpful.

From my peers I get the feeling that this is underappreciated in the tech world where many successful developers skipped college.
When scroll-wheeling through a KDE/Qt scrollable form, if your mouse cursor happens to land on top of a slider/numeric/dropdown widget, the form will stop scrolling and all scroll inputs will instead scroll the widget.

I reported this at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399324, and several Reddit posts have complained about the same thing.

This issue may also apply to GTK.
Can you expound on your third point? I'm having a hard time parsing it.
Does this mean free accounts cannot have private repositories?
Terribly ineffective plug.
Ask HN: Something Like 'Firebase for SQL'?
Is there something with a dead-simple UX (like firebase) for SQL databases? Something where I can easily type in a query with autocomplete and look at the database as a series of spreadsheets? Would love to find an alternative to GCP's ugly cloud-SQL platform if it exists.
Unfortunately that's pretty much the only way not to confuse the majority of your users. It depends a bit on your target audience of course.

At work we have a lot of embedded Google Maps and any content below the map was rarely viewed. Once we disabled auto focus, we saw more and people scrolling to content below the embedded map. Suggesting that people got confused by it and simply left the page. For us, it was the right thing to do.
They can have private repos - it's just branch protection rules which are no go.
I think he meant 5" without bezels. That way you'd get to utilize more screen space within the small form factor.
You crossed into personal attack here, and incivility elsewhere in this thread. That's not ok on HN. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here from now on, regardless of how wrong someone is, or you feel they are?
Regarding what is available in the Java/JVM ecosystem, here are some Maven Central stats[0]:

Total number of artifacts indexed (GAV): 3,566,566
Total number of unique artifacts indexed (GA): 272,507

0 - https://search.maven.org/stats
50 years ago it was possible to buy a house and raise a family on a single working class income, this is rare now and becoming rarer. We've got bigger TV's and smart phones, but we've gone backwards where it counts.

> But somehow we've managed to lose the other kind of social safety net... strong social ties to the community.

When you're renting and don't have employment with long term stability it's a lot harder to put down roots.

> I believe this latter thing is the root cause of the disease of despair, and I don't believe any check cut by the government

A lot of that community comes from things like sports fields, scout halls and the like that governments pay for. Another thing that builds them is bars, but government is taxing the small community bars out of existence, at least around here.
Isn't type=number not at all suited for phone numbers? It might work for local numbers, but the common E.164 recommendation allows for a leading `+`.

type=tel [1] seems a lot more suited for this.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
Like many other comments, if they give bezel-less display, in screen touch-id, I think a lot of people would buy it. Not really sure what stats they're getting saying that the SE isn't profitable, but I still use it to this day and think it's a tank of a phone.
Please don't break the site guidelines, regardless of how wrong you feel someone else is. We've had to ask you this multiple times before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I tried the included demo a bit but it seems the code is fairly unstable. A couple of clicks here and there and the program crashes. But it looks really promising!
This is why I went with the SE a few years ago.

I figured I’d put my money where my mouth was: I wanted a premium smartphone with a small form-factor and all the Android-vendors were failing to deliver on that.
So why is there an iPad mini then? Mac mini? Your argument is completely on the marketing side of things, but maybe it’s an production issue? Apple is spending large capital expenditures each year, no one exactly know why, but probably they buy all the tooling in the factories. Another form factor will cost them money to produce.
I just wish they would sell an iPod touch with cellular.
The keyboards seem to be getting better. I can’t stand my 2017 MBP, but the 2018 MBP is noticeably better, and the 2018 MBA (which was refreshed after) is noticeably better than that. My hope is that the next generation MBP continues this trend. As for the touchbar, I’m not so sanguine. I can get by on the base machine though, so probably I’ll just stick with that and avoid the TB that way.
The satellites of the swarm don't have be at the same distance from the star and the orbits can overlap.
Use Firefox, it supports extetensions.
Would you please stop posting snarky comments about divisive topics on HN, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are?

You've done it a lot, and the site guidelines ask you explicitly not to. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd appreciate it. You'll notice that they also include the following guideline, which your comment also broke:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
They improved the top SE-model to be 128GB over a year ago. Not news.

Source: bought it for my wife.
Interview: Chinese-made devices pose risk to security
You've received a lot of recommendations for software, but one of the most important things to bear in mind is that software cannot ensure accessibility. It can discover some problems with accessibility, but it has a lot of blind spots. If you care about accessibility, you need to incorporate manual human testing. This is a highly specialised field. The best thing for you to do is to fix the low-hanging fruit by plugging automated tools into your CI system, then get an expert to do a manual test so that you're aware of what other issues there are.
Ellsberg Paradox
> The algorithms that create filter bubbles are disturbingly good at teaching

Are they really though? I have found that when I start probing people’s weird conspiracy theories picked up from blogs/facebook (or even more mainstream partisan disinformation picked up from newspaper op-eds or think tank whitepapers), they are quite shallow and unsophisticated, typically papering over gaping holes in basic knowledge.

“Teaching” a bunch of made up bullshit has much lower standards and requires a lot less effort (for both teacher and pupil) than teaching about complex real-world structures even to a level of basic competence, let alone serious expertise.
Even after the security updates stop, the phone is fairly hardened. I’ll probably keep the phone and disable JavaScript on Safari.
Well it’s two different things. This paper is, in fact, useless in the tech world, since the algorithm is not practical. The paper does, however, has value in advancing academic CS as an intellectual pursuit.
...recaptcha, adwords, youtube embeds, the Chrome permanent login and a dozen others?

Simple, they‘re being used to restore the main cookie. Stuff like this, just as the Chrome adblocker, are just a fig leave for plausible deniability. If you want reasonable protection, use Safari or Firefox with that Origin adblocker and the Multi-Container plugin against first-party tracking.
Hey! this looks like something within my wheelhouse. Let me know if you need help with content/design/development. I'd love to be a part of this story.
> He contends that there likely isn't a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable.

Or that making a dyson sphere is harder than FTL, or it isn't economically viable to build one. There's no reason to assume a Dyson sphere would be a logical step after achieving FTL
I guess we would have to believe your empirical observations and ignore the facts:

- Clojure has been noted as the most payed language in dev surveys of the past few years

- Again, different surveys (e.g.: stackoverflow, state of javascript) shown that Clojurists overall are more experienced devs. This kinda makes sense - usually people try Clojure out of curiosity and not for dogmatic reasons and not for the points in the resume.

- Someone did a data analysis of github repos for bug density and Clojure was at the top. https://dev.to/danlebrero/the-broken-promise-of-static-typin...

However, I can say the similar thing: I have seen many clusterfucks in my career. And the worst of them I've seen in C#. Why C#? I don't know, probably because I was inexperienced, young and stupid, and anything (even slightly outside of norm) could've interpreted by me as a clusterfuck. I have no reasons to go back to C# and re-evaluate my opinions about it, I'm sure part of me will be forever biased about it.
I'm all for a clever snark, but you're posting this using the medium invented by an European computer scientist, Tim Berners Lee. Whatever they were doing turned out to be pretty valuable, too. Like "the backbone of the information age" grade valuable.
> I mean, it ought to be possible to use a text editor to specify exactly what I want in a text file.

I agree. But for me a text file that does not end in newline is badly formed. It is not a text file, it is a binary file that happens to contain some printable characters.
Let's not go into the rabbit hole of "Scala has no problems"
Where to Find a Ssbbw for Dating
I'm really enjoying his blog.

Another link with some good conversation from this entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089 (The Bullshit Web)
> From my peers I get the feeling that this is underappreciated in the tech world where many successful developers skipped college.

I agree that most developers probably underestimate the value of a guidance from a course/expert, and I feel that is largely do to the shear amount of resources available for learning programming.

I have found that as I get into more and more advanced topics the amount of resources available has decreased and has made me want guidance a lot more. Published papers really aren't a great way to learn advanced topics unless you are already an expert in that field.

Mathematics gets hit harder by this than computer science does. I think this is because it is incredibly interconnected and in each topic is very deep; there has been lots of time for the cutting edge to grow.
Tangential question: how does single cycle multiplication works in arm cortex processors? Do they just run the ALU clock fast enough that the multiplication finishes in one visible core cycle or is there a binary trick?
Not all models are wrong, since some may be modelling exactly the aspects of importance and not modelling exactly those which are incidental and of no consequence.
The article was written in 1981...I assume that is the "now" they refer to.
Well neurotransmitters are a kind of hormone and they certainly play a direct role in the computational processes of neurons.
> So why is there an iPad mini then? Mac mini?

The iPad mini is neither the smallest nor least expensive current iOS device. The Mac mini starts at $800 and the entire Mac desktop line seems to be something Apple has discontinued caring about because they make all their money from iPhones now.

> Your argument is completely on the marketing side of things, but maybe it’s an production issue? Apple is spending large capital expenditures each year, no one exactly know why, but probably they buy all the tooling in the factories. Another form factor will cost them money to produce.

This does cost money, but if there is demand for the product (which isn't just diverted from your other products) then you make it back. And if it was a major factor, would they have existing products like the iPad mini?
What apps do you have that you've spent over $500 on?
How much space does all of humanity's knowledge take up?
is it back, or they are clearing refurbished stock? it was on clearance page.
Western Digital’s Open Source RISC-V SweRV Instruction Set Simulator
In Jordan the Uber cars I've used are always cleaner than Careems. The Careem app also used to send me annoying notifications about deals.
Thank you so much! I'll definitely be looking into courses in these subjects. I can learn a language on my own, but theory is something that I personally need someone to help walk me through.
It's not just a keyboard preference issue for me. The reliability is shockingly appalling.

I buy computers for my startup and it feels painful to buy a MBP seeing that 50% of newer MBPs that we bought had issues with their keyboard. On a professional machine, a visit to the service centre is time and money wasted.

Also I travel a lot with my computer and just thinking about all the dongles that I will have to carry means that I am going to nurse my 2014 Macbook as long as I have to.
Thank you! I'll look into finding a copy soon
Been using an SE since Jan 2017, hope to continue using it a lot longer. I bought two more refurbished ones in case I break it, and the cost of doing that was still less than one of apple's newer offerings
Even if someone with personal experience is better I would still highly recommend testing these tools as it's not always clear how they work if you haven never used them.

I was really surprised the first time I tested one of these tools and now I know a few dos and don'ts when developing web apps.
Running uBlock on Firefox.
I don't really see how JSX informs us about readability of s-expression vis-à-vis Python et al.

Disregarding that, and in my opinion, properly formatted JSX might be a bit worse then s-expr for shorter stretches of code, but if/when you have a longer stretch, the visual symmetry in JSX would seem to tip the scale the other way. If there is a point to JSX, I would claim it's mostly that it looks different than the surrounding code that is the point, as it potentially makes it easier to parse and to clearly separate roles between code and design.

While I'm frankly not a fan of either of the above-mentioned, I do find some of the arguments around the brilliance of s-expr to be perplexing. The most confusing argument is the one that s-expressions are good because everything looks the same, which to me sound like arguing that the best way to paint is to only use one color, which I vehemently disagree with.

I think the easiest explanation of this conundrum boils down to a rather simple fact. Visual regularity is as confusing to some, as the lack of it is to others. People are different, sometimes shockingly so.
Recently tried learning how to get WebKit to render pages as mobile. I’d say there is a conspiracy to induce product obscelence, but maybe it is just web developers with the latest computers being told to add as much features on a single page as possible.
For someone familiar with HTML/XML, so any developer in the last 30 years, yes it is. Your point being?

I like the ideas behind clojure, I really do. I even wrote a non-trivial personal project with it. However, coming back to that code after two months was basically like the plot of Memento. I ended up rewriting it in JavaScript instead.
Not my intention. But yours was a bold claim, and I wanted to hear your thoughts.

I do not agree with you. Scala is a mostly functional language, and Kotlin is mostly imperative. How is that fixing Scala? They are two different languages, and Kotlin being newer, is inspired by, among others, Scala.
I've talked to them a little bit about Eta and it sounds like there are some concerns about the stability/maturity of the JVM FFI interface, among other things.
The problem is, the rest of the world decided to settle on UTF-8. We have some normalization disagreements but it's UTF-8 anyway.

Now we have surrogate pairs and the IVS, there is no advantage of using UTF-16 at all.

I will not surprise the Microsoft someday convert everything including kernel to filesystem to UTF-8 someday... or more likely they lost the market share.
Any binary operation (subject to the usual "well behaved" caveat) can be split up into any number of steps; this is called pipelining. In fact there's not really a reason why multiplication isn't a single cycle step, other than speed and energy efficiency.

The maximum clock speed of an operation is limited by how fast a change in the input can be propagated into the correct change in output. You can get around this by splitting the operation into multiple mini-steps (pipelining) and clocking it to as fast as the slowest stage will go.
Slightly offtopic, I have always considered a strange failure of git that branches are second class citizen in git, not worthy of the same versioning mechanisms as files. It is not unreasonable to expect a versioning system to be able to track the history of branches. And if I don't want to loose a file, just because it was deleted some time in the past, surely I also don't want to loose a branchjust because it was deleted. I don't buy the 'I want to be able to hide f-ups' argument.
I genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

The JSX looks immediately intelligible to me because I'm used to looking at HTML. The Clojure looks unfamiliar but it's not so strange that I can't imagine it feeling just as natural a way to represent the same data structure. It would just take a little while to get used to.

The major issue I suppose is that this example is supposed to render to XML, which is closer to JSX than Clojure. But by that standard Vue (or XSLT) is even closer.

I've done a little professional work in Clojure and wasn't a huge fan, but it didn't seem particularly bad (syntactically). It just seemed like something you had to get used to.
As an end user of Careem, I'm waiting for the impending doom of price increase and bad service.

Uber and Careem are the only two service providers in my country (Pakistan); before Uber entered, the prices were quite high because Careem had no competition and they cashed in their monopoly. Uber entered the market and caused a price war driving prices per km down significantly and causing both providers to add new features to cater for the local market as well. However, Uber is usually thought to have a low quality of service here; drivers on their network quite literally abuse the platform; they will refuse to drive to the destination if they don't want to go there; they will use tactics to get the ride transferred from them if it's not profitable enough for them. The end result is that the customer receives a slightly cheaper but vastly inferior service from Uber. Compared to this, Careem's quality assurance and customer care is a winner.

With Uber buying Careem and eliminating competition, I can't imagine how much pain it is going to be to call a ride now, if they absorb Careem's customer-base completely and close its app. I thought there were anti-competition laws that prevented this from happening; I guess they don't apply if both the companies are foreign and the deal is happening overseas.
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Ask HN: Critique my potential flow drag prediction model [pdf]
When we go from 2 pairs of rabbits to 3 pairs of rabbits, we see a brother and sister rabbit mating to produce a pair of offsprings. This does not sound realistic and could also be disturbing to kids.

But for some reason, I have seen this example cited in many places. Why is this example so popular despite the implication of siblings mating while going from 2 to 3? Surely, we can come up with better illustrations if we try!
Nice. Can you make one for us, please?
This very recent paper shows a matching (conditional) lower bound of \Omega(n\log n): https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10935 (the hardness is from a conjecture in network coding).
BTW they don't refuse to bring updates to old phones because it seems like a "herculean task" but to get people to buy new phones. Welcome to our economy.

The nice thing about Apple (though I hate the fanboyism and many other things the company does) is that they managed to do what nobody else did: keeping that 5s running until today (!)

I've never seen an Android that would get updates for more than 2 years (can anyone beat this with 3?) so just using an iPhone as long as it lasts is better for environment.

Some statistics about supported software on iPhones: https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...

Guide to Greener Electronics (Greenpeace):
https://secured-static.greenpeace.org/austria/Global/austria...
Or the probably bad reading of Clayton Christensen that concludes that big businesses simply can’t innovate.
Doesn’t the reflog serve that purpose though? Branches are just labels for a commit, and all commits (and names) are visible in the reflog.
I've had an iPhone SE for about 2 years now and I dread the day that I will have to replace this phone. Is it possible to buy a couple more right now and just store them in a cool dry place for the next 5 - 10 years? Would the battery life, etc, still be good?
It's funny, I thought the opposite. I was happy to read an explanation by an eminent and respected systems neuroscientist on hierarchy of computation, rather than the musing of an undergrad computer scientist on their first encounter with nature neuroscience.