skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good points. IMO the web-surfing crowd's taste for news (as opposed to their capability when it comes to work) is deceiving. Their excitement for prospective high-leverage information creates a demand that biases community sites like HN and Reddit toward novelty, and the result is this massive FOMO loop: "Read it, remember to try it, forget to try it, aw damn a new thing already came out and it's better because X! Read it..." I love that the author of the article really speaks to this situation.

I have a relative who got really into this mindset. In fact he picked the "HN's Choice" software framework of the day for one of our co-creative projects a couple years ago. Mostly a fun project, but it could have gone somewhere, maybe. He got as far as setting it up so that we had some scaffolding, then basically he flamed out. I don't blame him at all; he'd never even used it before and expected himself to be able to just run with it. And this guy was a _master_ at a certain language starting with the letter P, but he was ashamed to use it. It made me so upset to see him feel all this pressure and then collapse.

Personally I feel that pressure myself sometimes but being aware of it helps a lot. As a hobby side project, I decided to go back and do some 1990s MS-DOS programming and experiencing this FOMO stuff was part of the motivation. I needed to be free to work deep instead of thinking broad, so to speak.
I think it is incredibly fair to say that you shouldn't put data onto the servers of a company if you mind them reading that data. Why should I assume they aren't? At a bare minimum, the metadata is being actively consumed by the parent company. I don't think this is AWS specific at all.
I was there last month, looked just as full as it had ever been - Seg is getting more consumerish - the place I used to go to to get test fixtures made is now an aisle of drones - more already made stuff than just parts in places but not really all that different
Where do you think most of those project's are managing their code? And of those, what percentage are already publishing releases on GH? I'm willing to wager the migration will be much faster than you think.
Cats are not dogs which I think throws off people used to dogs.

Somehow this never occurred to me until you wrote it. And I've had both.

I think a lot of people view cats as smaller, inferior, confusing dogs. And the truth is that they are (quite literally) a whole different animal.
seeing that we know very few things about the foundations of the real world

we haven't got the slightest idea of what this "reality" is made up of

What in the world are you talking about? Setting aside unanswerable nonsense philosophical questions, we have a damn good idea what reality is made of.
If you're using JavaScript to add the pixel code, why not also include other metrics you can get easily with JS like screen resolution?
Full Stack vs. Expert: The Freelancer's Dilemma
> They are like 100x more open source than GitHub

I don't think this is a fair (or accurate) quantification.

While Gitlab's principal product probably has more open sourced code, Github makes tremendous contributions to open source. Atom is open source. They contribute significantly to projects like Rails (for example, the multiple database feature was extracted from their codebase). This doesn't even begin to address the dependency upon Github the entire open source ecosystem has. How many millions of dollars do they spend in infrastructure every month just to keep projects like RubyGems and npm viable?

I think Gitlab is a spectacular offering, and having a single source for your entire dev-ops story is extremely compelling. However, spinning a narrative that Gitlab is more open source than Github is extremely disingenuous.
I hand code my migrations for Postgres. When starting a project a create a base.sql file. Then for first database change I create db/000001-<name of change>.sql, db/00002 [...] and so forth. When I want to create a new database I just run psql<base.sql followed by psql<db/*.sql.
Very simple but extremely effective. I don’t think any tool can handle migrations better than hand coded sql. Sometimes I use PL/PgSQL to handle procedural data migrations, which cannot be solved using normal sql.
Uber is definitely not a startup ;)
20 years ago, I made the stupid comment to my wife that cats were not intelligent, just parrots of behavior for food. She argued and said "we're getting a cat!"
"Sure, whatever" I said, thinking it would be "a dumb cat" and nothing more.
Blow my mind, our first cat was a 3 month old feral, scared and pooping everywhere for the first few days. After just short of a week, my wife gained trust, and soon the cat was freely independent and appreciative. (He was scroungy, near death thin when we got him.)
Then his personality began to show: he loved my wife painting and gardening, and he loved me working on 3D modeling. He would sit next to my monitors watching me modeling. After about a year of this, I realized as a model neared completion his purring would gain volume. Renders with shadows would get him acting out. I suspected he was reading me and my satisfaction, but that reading was pretty intuitive, and I felt intelligent. Also, he liked to be fed around 2am, and would wake me with a gentle purr to my ear and once waking he'd touch his mouth with his paw take it to my mouth and meow in a unique way he used at no other time. Often we'd stay awake for an a hour after his 2am feeding, and he'd take me into the garden and show me what my wife had been working on, pointing out the new plantings and places where she's trimming. His hunting skills were remarkable too. He was a jumper, and would suddenly leap 6-8 feed into the air and eat a fly. We rarely had flies in-house, thanks to him.
Sad to say, he developed feline leukemia, hid it until his body smelled like rotting fruit and died the day we realized. After he was gone, we realized he always positioned himself downwind from us for the last year of his life. He was such an intuitive soul, he solidly taught me the intelligence of cats.
yah, that's a bit scary. 120mW infrared laser touted as eye safe...what could go wrong?

I'm guessing it has to do with how the beam is focused though. theoretically I think it could be eye safe at close range.
Ads and the post-truth society- using social media to sell beliefs
Larry Niven's known space series predicated this 50+ years ago. You'd get up every morning, put your sleeve in for a diagnosis first thing, it would treat you, tell you if there was a problem.
UWP isn’t dead??? It was demoed at build....
Tech crunch's new close to home page button is a daring move
I pressed it to see what would happen and then decided not to read the article
I came their to read the news not to be sold more news.
Since website frameworks like Bootstrap are a thing, would it make sense to implement accessibility guidelines at that level, so that designers/people who don't know are encouraged to use sane defaults?

Or is it too content/layout specific?

Eg: I might like to roll my own static blog, but I don't know how to ensure that it is accessible.
It is increasingly hard to retain respect for a billionaire who takes on "the little people" and then eggregiously defames them, and uses his personal wealth to try and avoid the easy path out: Saying sorry, or not being stupid in the first place.

Sure. he's musk. he's also (in my personal opinion) behaving like a dickwad. Man up, say sorry and pay restitution.
I set triple-click on my iphone to magnifier.

Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Magnifier -> On

Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Magnifier

(of course those settings are somewhat inaccessi... well you know...)
> I would really love it if GitHub pages or Netlify can provide some simple server-side tracking. It doesn't match GA but in some cases that's all I need.

That would be a great feature for GitHub Pages! Just a simple interface like https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io would serve most GH Pages use cases, I would think.
Microsoft's journey to becoming an open source enterprise with GitHub
I'm more worried about in the event of a vehicle collision. I had an EcoReco scooter for a time. A vehicle turned in front of me, I ran into it. It would have been much worse for me if the handlebar had not collided with the car first.
That's true, but I think there is a lot of open space in the idea of evaluating "does discovering this health issue actually help people". Discovering prostate cancer often doesn't help because most prostate cancer grows so slowly you'll die of old age before it matters - but then some people have faster growing kind.

But I'm following my own health. I have a condition which can be treated well with simple cheap pills. If I hadn't known about it in my family, I wouldn't have pushed for blood tests early in my life. For most people that blood test wouldn't have mattered.
Please don't put support questions in issues!
Yes, but I don't personally know how complete it is. The only company using it that I'm aware of is Plastic SCM.
The tickets are pricier than that. $25 for students and $40 adults...
https://makerfaire.com/bay-area/BUY-TICKETS/
Yes, I believe the inconsistencies started with Vista, and has gotten worse since then, but the parts they didn't change still have the consistent normal Win32 style.

The standard tab control looks like this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/ta...

There is a (probably incomplete) list of standard controls here, I believe the documentation for each one contains screenshots of what they look like:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/in...

That said, Chrome's tabs are (at least the last time I checked) actually bitmap images, Excel's tabs are also probably custom-drawn yet fortunately aren't bitmaps (just judging by how they look), and I believe Pain(t)3D is actually UWP.
Thank goodness for the 51% chance it won't happen. Sorry, I re-calculated. 78.45%. sorry, new data coming in. Its back to 15%, er.. hang on, 98%...

Its a microsoft 'time to complete' bar of risk. It's meaningless, and designed to stop you hitting the [cancel] button.
I think this article by Jeremy from fast.ai lays out a compelling case:

https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
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Even though the NES chips were still called "mappers" some of the later chips did a lot more, particularly on the Famicom, where cartridges could add extra sound channels. Even on the NES though you saw some minor graphics enhancements.
I agree. I just don't understand how the rules described in the article actually incentive it. I get that they're small step towards it but they don't seem enough.
I studied a very similar curriculum over ten years ago during my Physics undergrad. While it’s not strictly “useful” in a day to day sense, nor do I remember much of the details of these courses or methods, I can tell you that studying applied math has served me very well during my career as an actuary.

Studying applied math gives you the skills of being able to approach problems in a logical, analytical, and above all PERSISTENT way (because let me tell you will you ever have some late nights banging your head on the desk trying to wrap your brain around these problems). These skills are crucial in any field where you need to create mathematical representations of a system - or break apart and understand someone else’a models.

Also - partial differential equations are just cool! They are like a mathematical rubick’s cube. Solving them will legitimately make you smarter.
It's the generally condescending tone of the posters that people are reacting to most strongly, I would imagine.
You might be interested in Fossil.

Tickets and the wiki are stored as part of the repo and don't depend on a completely separate web interface.
This is quite true but it's boggling why neither Github nor its competitors haven't added a 'questions' tab to public repos where people are explicitly allowed to ask questions, and have them answered by maintainers or other users.
Fastai is also working on S4TF integration in the future.
Here's Jeremy Howard's blogpost on WHY Swift?

Edit: I apologise, just after posting this comment I saw this link had already been posted.
https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
It does take a lot of energy. By the time I got competitive with the Microsoft stack and server side rendering, the world was moving on to client side frameworks and Node (at least the smaller companies I prefer).

Instead of trying to keep up with the front end technologies I spent the last year and half moving toward cloud architecture on AWS, learned Python for scripting and spent some time as a dev lead in preparation for being an overpriced “cloud consultant”/“digital transformation consultant”.

Now I am ramping up on Node, React, and the Docker ecosystem to keep competitive as a developer. It does get tiring.

But I spent some time in semi management two years ago as the dev lead and realized that wasn’t for me and from seeing how much we were paying the “AWS consultants” who were just a bunch of old school netops guys who passed a certification, I realized where the money was.
There's something ironic about a "Maker Faire" that depends on a commercial organization with many employees.
that's not the reason. Read this link:
https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
I got involved in the IEEE Micromouse project a few years ago at the University at Buffalo. Back then, we didn't have good tools for testing our maze-solving code, so I decided to build my own. The project started out super simple - draw a box that moves around - but quickly grew complex. Especially early on, it was tremendously difficult to stop adding features. After coding myself into a hole, I realized that the only way to finish the project was to rip out most everything I had added over the years. Nowadays, it does a lot less, but it's polished, and I'm comfortable calling it "done." Let me know what you think!
From the source code it looks like the implementation is read-only though, writing to a file system efficiently is much harder (but not needed for a boot loader)
Amazon's the new Google.
The trend towards lack of physical controls in cars is absolutely bonkers. I'm gobsmacked anyone thinks the Tesla Model 3 is good design.

Same with desk phones. Anyone who deals with customers at a counter doesn't have time to constantly look at a touch screen for buttons that may or may not be there. Nothing like chucking muscle memory out the window in the name of aesthetics :p
I've subscribed to threadreader so I can save posts as PDFs, but I really wish they'd allow me to dump the underlying data as well so it could be put into archive.org.
The only people who ever bring this up are all on HN. Spotify is electron, vs code is electron, slack is electron. I have them open all day, and never even notice.
Why are you so hyper focused on products being open source? With a very very small number of exceptions, this has never mattered, and likely will never matter.

I wager GitHub will be a significantly larger company, with more users both free and paid, hosting a significantly larger portion of notable open source projects.
Doing a bit more reading and now I can clarify terminology...

2FA is a general term.
U2F is a type of 2FA.
The other type, which is what I was referring to, is TOTP (Time-based one time password).

You are right that U2F is more secure. The primary security advantage is that there is no longer a shared secret that needs to be stored on each end. But saying 2FA is useless would be like also saying that U2F is useless since 2FA is a general term.

That said, in this case, TOTP would have likely prevented anyone from accessing the OP's partners account. Therefore, TOTP is not useless per your original comment.
I'm just gonna say Pilotwings 64 is one of the few games out there that really hasn't had a ~proper~ sequel.

Come on Nintendo.
> Google will not be able to receive any events/messages unless they're sent by not-google.com

Exactly: the integration requires cooperation from both websites, and there is zero reasons, why child website would want to cooperate. Unlike, say, using Google Analytics, letting user leave you via <portal> tag is against website's best interests.
This - should be a card in the box on top of the iPhone explaining magnifier. So incredibly useful!
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Isn't "Works with Google Assistant" supposed to become the replacement API? It seems like they don't offer direct access to the data or the device but plan to allow "some" level of control?
(I don't know the space, apologize if my questions are naive...)

> As a Works with Nest developer and partner, you will not be able to access or control Nest devices once the Works with Nest APIs are turned off on August 31, 2019. Moving forward, our team will focus on making Works with Google Assistant the most helpful and intelligent ecosystem for the home, enabling all of the products in your users’ homes to work together.
We encourage all smart home developers to visit the Actions on Google Smart Home developer site to learn how to integrate your devices or services with the Google Assistant.
If you take the trouble to host everyting on a stack you actually control, raw server logs and GoAccess is a highly capable and for most cases sufficient monitoring tool. I use othing but.
Not following here. GitHub looks nothing like that. There was a point in time where Gitlab made changes to their homepage to look exactly like the GitHub Enterprise marketing page.
This was almost a thing with Xeon Phi... 57 CPU cores for 2 slots...
Most of the comments here are missing the point. Very HN.
Yeah, good question. I wanted to do that, but GoAccess is a web server log parser and doesn't support custom fields (you don't get screen resolution via web logs, so it kinda makes sense). See: https://goaccess.io/man

I could probably hack it and overload different HTTP status codes to mean different screen sizes or something, but I didn't consider device size to be important for me. GoAccess does break down the User-Agent into OS, so I can see mobile usage via the "iOS" and "Android" OS usage. Breakdown for my site: Windows 24%, iOS 22%, macOS 19%, Android 20%, Linux 11%, other 4%. So mobile usage is probably about 45%.
i’ve heard snowplow is good for this
India's most popular services are becoming super apps
> if you reduce bank lending then they will discover they can't raise the interest rate enough to make up the losses from people borrowing less money. ... it seems likely to me that reduced bank lending activity will be to the net benefit of the buyers

I agree with the first sentence, but not the second. Reducing a bank's ability to lend is similar to creating a price floor. It will certainly drive up interest rates, and this will effect each party differently.

Banks: Even though banks will make more money on each individual loan, banks will make less loans overall and it will be a net negative.

Home Owners: Obviously it will hurt home owners as the value of their home will decrease in proportion to the interest rate.

Home Buyers with Capital: The effect on home buyers is more complex. Some, that already have capital and do not heavily rely on mortgages will do better, as the value of the home decreases. The higher interest rates don't effect them as they don't need to take out loans.

Home Buyers w/o Capital: These folks would do worse. The buyers with capital will blunt the effect of higher interest rates. So even though home values would decrease, the decrease will be slightly less than it would otherwise be because those that don't require loans will be unaffected. Thus the total cost of purchasing a home with a large mortgage would increase.

Conclusion: Slowing lending will hurt home owners, banks, and those without much money. It may help people who are already cash rich. It will likely exacerbate inequality, not help it.
If you want to estimate the total # of items in a DB based on auto-increment ID numbers, you can use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

(Apparently this was used by militaries in WW2, to estimate the total number of tanks from the serial numbers printed on them.)
A 9hz microprocessor would indeed be something. Start the game up, come back 10 days later and one frame would almost be rendered...
In the UK good landlords want to rent to lawyers. Failure to pay rent would eventually compromise a lawyer's professional body membership.
I have a cat who used to like to travel. We even drove across the country for more than a week.

He would sit on the rear shelf and look out the back window at the cars and trucks and people would honk at him. Or he'd stretch out in the sun on the dashboard right under the window. Or he would snuggle in like a loaf on the center arm rest so I could pet him while I drove.

All that ended a couple of years ago when we went through a car wash. It was very traumatic for him and now he hates to even leave the house. I wonder if he thought we were under attack or something.
It is only mandatory for sellers.
In the United States:

The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

The top 1% was 1.4 million returns in 2016. The top 50% is 140.9 million returns.

How much is "fair"?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...
Is it though (a good sandbox, I mean)? A modern OS already tries very hard to be a sandbox that can run anything. What does Wasm bring to the table for iOS?

I also feel like this is just a weird year for software, because we've got Wasm making huge strides ("let's make it easy to sandbox everything like javascript"), discovered Spectre ("oops, our assumptions about javascript being a good sandbox were maybe wrong, we apparently need to use hardware-enforced process separation"), but also many other permutations of these things in other spaces (such as the WSL2 announcement of a new integrated Windows-Linux environment, vs. containers vs. VMs vs. WSL1 vs. Wine vs. micro-services).
I use https://mailinabox.email/ it does pretty much everything for you very easy just host on linode.com.
A basic gameboy emulator with terminal “Cloud Gaming” support
> So for #1 and #2, you just hand-wave your doctrine as "miracles" that defy all otherwise known and consistent laws of the universe. Doesn't seem like intellectual integrity to me.

It is not intellectually dishonest to believe that God, who governs the universe and it's laws is able to suspend them if he so chooses.

> Why don't you admit that the reason the Catholic church does not allow women priests is not because "a women's function is laborious" (a function not all women naturally can even do, otherwise why can't barren women be priests?), but rather because you take the words of Paul literally and do not allow a woman to hold authority over a man? That's the real reason and you know it.

No, that is not the real reason. The idea that men and women are complementary is rooted in Christian teaching since the beginning. My understanding is that the reason women are not allowed to be priests is partly because during mass the priest stands in for Christ ( in persona Christi ) and Christ was born a man. Women hold authority over men all the time in the Catholic church, many doctors of the Church are women.

> Also, the "faith alone" thing is a bit misunderstood to be honest, mostly caused by how protestants overload that word. They basically mean that you cannot be saved by works alone under any circumstance, and that if you are unable to produce any works but have faith, you can still be saved (the example here is the penitent thief on the cross). After that, they consider works to be a natural outcome of legitimate faith, and that if you have the chance to do works and don't you'll lose your justification by faith.

This is just a long winded way of saying you are not saved by faith alone.