skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unintended consequences are going to be interesting. Right now we're in going full on with introducing far more technology than we can reasonably ascertain the consequences of. When you get into genetic modification of things, a big issue is that you can't just see whether or not somebody drops dead to determine the safety. What happens in the longrun, what happens to their children, what happens with their children's development? And that issue follows similarly for their children's children.

And then there are consequences that don't even manifest in an immediately critical way. For instance testosterone levels and fertility rates are already plummeting and there's no entirely solid understanding of why. And of course people are also getting much fatter. Is this because society has lost self control or is it because of other factors? Or perhaps other factors are having an impact on self control. Even psychological issues seem to be spiraling out of control which again results in one asking the exact same sorts of questions.

But I think suggesting this as a filter is generally hyperbolic for a simple reason. So long as people are allowed to have a choice in what they consume or otherwise put into their bodies, natural selection will work. You'll always have people that, for reasons good and bad - intentional and unintentional, will choose to abstain from various things. And such is the population of earth today that even if you knocked off 99% of the world's population there'd still be around 76 million people left which is still about an order of magnitude greater than the human population at most times in our species entire history. And as an interestingly useful coincidence there seems to be a disproportionate overlap between the abstainers and the sort of people that would be fully capable of surviving even given the collapse of society.
"At the time of the accident, van Zanten was KLM's chief flight instructor, with 11,700 flight hours, of which 1,545 hours were on the 747." - Wikipedia. Meritocratic thinking was a major cause of the worst air accident ever.

With doctors, I think it's well established that the academic hurdle is pointlessly high. I.e, instead of picking the top 10 applicants to med school, you could shortlist 50, pick 10 at random, and the doctors who graduated would be indistinguishable. I couldn't cite any of the evidence for that.
> They made it a standard. Phones currently work with two different ones.

Which 2? If you mean GSM and CDMA, they're effectively dead (yes, I am aware legacy 3G networks are still in use some places). LTE killed them both.
Extreme optimization that can be achieved without AMP.

Performance of web pages is heavily dependent on the amount of assets and their size. Hacker News loads extremely quickly without AMP, and the same can be achieved for other sites. HTML/CSS (with a small amount of JS if really needed) can achieve the same thing as AMP regarding the web page size and rendering time.

CDNs are well established and can be used to serve content from a nearby server, and HTTP/3 will reduce the number of round-trips needed.
After they serve the page from their cache, they learn which which link you clicked on. That first click is tracked similar to a /redirect?url= tracker.
Equally important but often overlooked concern is the risks it will pose to our health given 5G relies on much higher energy radio signals than 4G.
The experience on iOS remains profoundly buggy. The URL bar doesn't hide properly, scroll-to-top doesn't work, rotation is busted, text selection is wonky, reader mode is disabled. How I wish I could disable this monstrosity.
But people's nasty, hurtful opinions are a-okay. Thanks for your garbage site, Uncle Jack!
> If AMP is federated, that's a lot less disturbing to me than my first impression.

AMP is federated. Anybody who wants instant loading of AMP pages linked from their own pages can run their own AMP cache, as Bing and Baidu (among others) do.

> If you use a different AMP cache than Google's, does it affect your search ranking/carousel positioning with them?

Bing and Baidu running their own AMP caches doesn't affect their Google ranking. Why would it?
pitchforks and torches is also democratic. Just because something is democratic, doesn't mean that it is unassailably good. Democracy is another name for mob rule and provides zero protection for minorities against the majority. There is a reason we are a republic and not a democracy.
Because it's cheaper than having an actual support hotline and easier to ignore than having email.

And in the US especially, companies hate having to support users, which is why they are also pushing for AI support instead of actually having a human there.

Think about it, when is the last time you had an issue with some Bay Area Saas company and could call them on the phone to get support, like you'd do with a bank?
At what point will Apple start innovating again rather than playing catch up?

I can think of only a couple of truly useful and unique things they have on their phones currently: iMessage and Airdrop.

Meanwhile you have companies like Google & Huawei leveraging both cloud and on-device AI to improve things like Camera ability and battery life.
T-Koa: Node.js Koa Framework Written in TypeScript
Hi, everyone, I created the T-Koa framework, which presents Koa in TypeScript.
Here is the Github Link: https://github.com/tkoajs/tkoa

Can you give me some advice or comments? Or help me spread it (T-Koa will get better and better!). Because this is my first time writing a framework using TypeScript, thank you very much for your help!

:)
The Zippads paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/poantsai/papers/2019.zippads.asp...
No, people don't argue about stuff on web forums. That's crazy.
Speed is not the only computational constraint - the tremendous memory required for very large data sets is often a severe limitation especially within R (and I actually enjoy R).

This is Julia's native, in-language approach (no delegating to C/C++):
https://juliadb.org/
I think the more charitable interpretation would be "We have realized that Qualcomm's licensing, that we agreed to, isn't legal." From what I understand Apple's argument has essentially been that they don't need to license the technology from Qualcomm due to having an implicit license via extinguishment at the level of their suppliers. Put that way it becomes "Qualcomm has lied and tried to trick us into paying for something we already had rights to." There's still an outstanding court case to settle this and from what I understand the pretrial judgement is not favorable to Qualcomm.
What is the point of a country/province specific arxiv?
English, Spanish, and Chinese. They'll be around forever.
So we killed RSS feeds for this? I think it's time to bring back the RSS feeds.
I respectfully disagree, some do.
You don't have to imagine, you can use it for 30 minutes yourself, it's wild west.
Excited for Zstd getting into browsers, Brotli is great for static assets, but it doesn't really outperform gzip by much at dynamic compression scenarios.
AMP pages loaded through Google search with hot cache load slower than some of the websites I've developed when loaded with cold cache.

It's absurdly slow, uses tons of unnecessary JS, and it is a privacy nightmare because now I can't just use server-side GDPR and ePrivacy guideline compliant analytics anymore, but either have to give up analytics entirely, or have to use privacy-obliterating Google Analytics.

And if a user ever loads the page with JS disabled (which all my sites are designed to support), AMP breaks and just shows nothing at all for over 8 seconds.
...thanks for reminding me of my advanced relational db exam I just had today!

But in all seriousness, the fundamentals of how relational DB's work and physically execute queries should be at least in the back of the mind of any engineer who writes SQL for a living. Great article!
Instagram is significantly better at filtering out content featuring minors.
So can I now watch Netflix on incognito?
I was a Filmstruck + Criterion subscriber still when they closed down. I was planning on subscribing to the new Criterion Channel that looks ready to fill that niche. But it seems that I should try Kanopy first, based on other comments here.
This is an application of the W3C's Extensible Web Manifesto (https://www.w3.org/community/nextweb/2013/06/11/the-extensib...)
They mention they're not trying to be the biggest code editor, and I think they have a fighting chance against Webstorm.

Also they can create a plugin system similar to Sketchapp that exposes a JavaScript API.
Thanks. IIRC the site I saw was from a few years ago, before the spec was drafted. (I updated my post to be more clear). Pretty sure there was a few photographs on the page out in the flat grasslands.
wow no one said Java yet!
Me want this in Firefox Focus (my default mobile browser these days).

Maybe I'll check the road map / feature requests and see if there's any movement in this direction.
There is no evidence that Seth Rich was a Bernie supporter at all, forget about being an upset one. Him being an IT person means nothing because did not have access to all DNC emails. Snowden had high level access.
I really don't want another game in my life to micromanage my behavior. Diet and exercise are their own rewards.

I got a rewards program for everywhere I eat. A miles program got every airline I fly. A tax code with a million subsidies and loopholes. Auto insurance companies who want to stick telematics in my car. Now I have health insurance companies gamifying literally what I eat and how I spend my free time.

Just fuck off already.
You forget the nature of technological developments. In the 60s nobody would ever imagined that those room-sized and extremely expensive 'computing machines' would become a regular and extremely affordable part of basically everybody's daily life, and even something people would often carry within their pocket, within just a few decades. It'd have sounded quite ridiculous.

Look at future predictions from any era and people always make the exact same mistake. The extrapolate the future to be the present, with some new currently imaginable toys. For instance 19th century predictions of the future included cities with giant domes over them so you don't wet as you walk. In reality the future is always radically warped by frequently unforeseen technologies. And now technology is evolving at a faster than ever rate. So a general guideline would be that if your prediction for the future doesn't sound absurd, you're probably wrong.
I've praised several other CRDT implementations here on HN, but this one seems a bit odd - asking the author for more explanation behind their reasoning:

- a time series CRDT is... just an append-only log, sure you can call it a CRDT, but it doesn't really have any meaningful properties. So what's the point of calling this a CRDT?

- LWW Last Write Wins is also an odd choice, because the notion of "last" doesn't exist in a distributed system - last according to who? When? What about clock drift? If who, then do you rely upon an authority? Then you aren't a CRDT.

Finally, regardless of CRDT stuff, what benefits does this give over just using timestamps series into Redis directly?

I applaud and have called for more people to build databases and distributed systems tools, so please keep it up. But I'm a tad worried this is just trying to cash in on the emerging hype (finally!) around CRDTs. Could you explain yourself more?
Unless one day you could charge your phone once every two days? Or once a week! Like back in the day of the 3310, which had 22 hours of talk time and 31 days of standby. Or you could make the phone smaller/lighter/faster with the extra efficiency. I'm having trouble believing someone here on HN is arguing against improving technology.

I sometimes forget to plug my phone in, maybe after traveling, maybe after drinking haha. I'm already super glad my phone will make it through a second day. Back in the iPhone 3G days? Not so much.
Can epigenetics help us grow food more efficiently and combat global hunger?
They WERE at 5k. But this week they beat og.
Would be interesting to read about tools used and more technical information on RE process.
Has anyone gotten any results back...good or bad?
To use most user-data-serving Facebook APIs, you need both authorization from the user whose data you’re reading and approval from Facebook itself for your app. Facebook has been accused of bad behavior when approving and denying apps, but they haven’t (as far has been reported) released any APIs to get user data without first asking the user.
What would you say the "dark horse" second or third-tier tech cities are in the US right now, the ones that still have good infrastructure and quality of life but aren't suffering from a housing crisis?
Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root
Users love it so unlikely.
Just don't agree to any crime, whether verbally or in textual communication. If you are talking you can be overheard or recorded. You just need one or two witnesses to testify they heard or saw you discussing the crime.

Its still okay to nod and wink, though.
AMP URLs are ugly, so cleaning them up is good for users.
Amplify Framework Announces Aurora Serverless, GraphQL Transform Features
The bigger issue is the diversity of the pool, more so than the size.

True, any given team will tend to strongly favor a subset of heroes, but that subset by necessity must allow for a wide range of play styles and strategies.

The limited pool for OpenAI largely favors 5-man "deathball" tactics, which OpenAI plays fantastically well (an amazing achievement in its own right), but also excludes all the heroes best suited to countering that strategy. Sniper, for example, is an extremely strong hero in just the right circumstances, but is generally considered fairly weak and readily countered (in the current patch) by heroes such as Phantom Assassin or Spirit Breaker, neither of whom are present in the OpenAI pool.

Aside from anti-deathball specific counter picks, heroes that favor a wildly different approach to the overall strategy (split push/"rat" dota) such as Tinker are also excluded.

Most importantly, being able to work out what kind of strategy the enemy team is going for during the draft and adapting your own picks and bans accordingly (and luring your enemy into useless bans or counter-picks) is a huge part of the game. Once the draft is over, teams then have to be able to adapt their desired strategy to the reality of the team composition they landed on, and the best approach may change several times over the course of the game. I really want to see an AI that can realize that something isn't working in its current deathball strategy and that it needs to switch to playing both sides of the map at once by keeping the enemy occupied in once place while taking objectives in another (or vice versa).

To reiterate, I am incredibly impressed by what OpenAI has already shown, and I look forward to seeing where they go next, but I do think there are some very interesting problems in the full game that OpenAI has yet to demonstrate a solution for. I have similar slight disappointment with the recent AlphaStar StarCraft II project, which was a similarly amazing piece of work but also seemed to indicate that each agent (swapped out after each match with the human player) was only really able to execute one strategy and had no ability to recognize that something wasn't working and adapt (as seen in the final (and only) loss to the human player).

So, do I think that human pro players would defeat an OpenAI trained on the full unrestricted game in a best-of-three match? No, almost certainly not, but I do suspect that the humans would win in, say, a best-of-seven, if they had the full suite of tools available to allow them to discover and adapt to what I see as fundamental shortcomings of the AI.
Even if I don't plan on using this anytime soon, competition is always welcome.
My companies entire backend is Common Lisp.

We have quite a few of these books laying around, along with Practical Common Lisp.
Place the employee parking lot a mile away from the office.
> Showing the name of the "signer" in the address bar, instead of the server where the content is actually hosted goes against decades of browser UI design

Does it though? If you use Cloudflare or Akamai or Cloudfront or Netlify or etc. etc. then what shows up in the URL bar is not the server where the content is actually hosted. Well, it is the server where it is hosted, it's just one of the many domains hosted by that server.
It hasn't burned to the ground or suffered structural damage to the walls, so no one in their right mind is going to tear the whole thing down. They'll restore it.
It is political problem. Currently using my unlimited 4g plan which cost about 15 euros and fast.com gives 49mb/s and I live literally middle of nowhere.
So, when will Google roll out signed exchanges for plain HTML content? That's much more interesting, and if combined with e.g. a restriction such as a Lighthouse speed score of > 60, it'd be in all measurable ways better than AMP.

Faster than AMP, more open than AMP, and all the benefits of AMP.
The readme does clarify a bit regarding timestamps:

>Client timestamps are assumed to correctly represent the physical order of events coming into the system. Incorrect client timestamps might lead to values of a client either never appearing or always overriding other values in a set.

So basically, the clients provide timestamps that are treated to be true. There's probably a lot of use cases where this is still useful, though I agree regarding wanting to hear more about what advantages from CRDTs this is meant to gain.
> The mean of black household wealth is $138,200—for whites, that number is $933,700

I think these numbers are inflated, for both African American and European American households, by including the 1% in these numbers. If we just use the upper middle class and below the number would likely be more like 175K for whites and 45K for blacks with home ownership and higher wages (even for the same jobs) being the big differentiators.

The article does a good job recounting the devastation that unchecked derision and segregation can cause - a us vs them frame of mind. In Tulsa Oklahoma the wealthy black populous was envied by the white community, and they were looking for reason to lash out given the rich black community shattered their conception of reality. As a black software developer I can tell you that shattering someone conception of the world is a very dangerous thing. I've faced insults and diminution of my work, everything from the rare few who hold certain concepts. Its hard to say anything because those in the workplace who aren't racist will still aid and abed those who are because that person may be a long time friend and ally. Such was the case in Tulsa.
There are many other countries in the world.

I personally have noticed that in the UK the Mac is more of a "fashion computer" to be seen with in the oh-so-trendy coffee shop. Like a handbag.

I'd also question who those people sitting in the coffee shop on a weekday are? Are they a representative sample of professional coders, or are the professional coders actually at work - you know, at the office - rather than hanging out at the coffee shop?

I use a Linux and Mac professionally for coding, and a Windows machine personally for coding. Particularly with Linux running natively on windows now, there isn't really any difference these days apart from the OS's UX IME. Mac laptops are physically nice machines I agree (there is that fashion again!) but I personally find OSX to be a nightmare to use for real work as it seems designed to make multitasking difficult (hiding multiple windows under one icon in the dock, every app sharing the menu bar, beach-balling, touchbar and F- keys, no escape key, no native window layout/arranging/snapping etc etc). It's great if you are just doing one thing at a time, but start to need to have multiple windows/apps at once and I find it frustrating as hell to deal with, while Win10 and photon or cinnamon on Linux are just fine.
"Inertia revenue" "inertia rentals"

eg 3 year lease that's a decent deal but if you don't cancel and take a 4th the lessor makes a large profit. IT equipment leasing is frequently like this.

I mention by name it in case anyone wants to dig deeper with this idea w.r.t their own business...
Do you suggest we should stop making new languages? There are a lot of problems with current languages.
Why is that the only way? Seems like they could easily have achieved the same result by significantly penalizing sites based on load time and number of external requests.
Grace Hopper Laid the Foundation for the Information Age (2018)
Hi project owner (Mark) here. It is a bit late in the evening for me but I will try to answer any questions when I can.

The Bosque language is currently in a very early state with lots of work to do and not ready for practical use. However, I am very excited by the potential in the concepts and wanted to make the project a collaborative endeavor, including both other academics and developer community, from the start. At this point the goal is to explore interesting options in the language design space – whether the Bosque language becomes mainstream or just provides useful ideas for other languages to adopt. So, please take a look, expect plenty of rough edges, and we would love comments, suggestions, and PR’s on the GitHub repo.
This is incorrect. From their post - they beat OG at 17 heroes in the pool. At 25 heroes in the pool they max'd at ~5k.
3 day weekends. Solved. 50% longer, 100% better. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.
Why care if data frames are built into python or not? In R, I use tibbles anyway.
I really loved the part where Lady Gaga explained multitasking.
Remember the talk about how the Chrome team was going to "rethink" the navbar, and what domain and site identity really mean? And people were a little worried about this?

Turns out people were right to be suspicious. This is hot garbage. You can no longer ask a user "What URL does your navbar say you're at?". It is no longer a source of truth. They will actively be lied to.
I think you underestimate just how much people truly hate Comcast...
SpaceX keeps rockets other customers "paid" for after they've landed (the customer pays for the flight, not the rocket). They've amassed a fleet they never had to pay a dime to construct.

I believe they have eight block 5 Falcon 9s that landed successfully. More if you count previous generations, but those likely won't be reused.
That's a technical feature. The user outcome is fuzzy because you don't know really how weather prediction interference and increased RFI will play out for users.
Ssh, terminal, git integration etc sounds precisely like what vscode offers to me.

Good luck to them, but I don't think vscode is doing well because it is free. It is genuinely a very good editor.
Every single comment you've written on this subject closes all discussion on it. So what is there to discuss? Or shall I remain silent in the ignorant darkness of my status as a (physics) layman?

Even Einstein inserted an anthropomorphized frame of reference into the thought experiments of the celestial objects he contemplated, to explain to others. If we can't ask questions about photons in relation to spacetime as we know it, then what questions can we ask? We certainly don't know spacetime as photons "know" it, since its not "well defined."

Interestingly still, you use the term worldline to describe the totality of the temporal-spatial existence of a photon, so clearly there are concessions to be made and all this is more defined than you assert... and you're lightly reproving us for not using the same dictionary as you...

I'm interested in this subject but not interested enough (or rather, have the time and energy) to become a physicist to understand, if that's what you're going to ultimately suggest to get even a dim, but accurate understanding of the nature of light.
A project language with a reference implementation written in...TypeScript?

O.o