skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github is primarily composed of public data that Microsoft could scrape without a $7.5B investment.

There are a lot of moving parts to this and it's impossible to distill it down to a single sentence or even paragraph.
Can someone explain to me what makes Wasm any better and/or different than Javascript bytecode.
find a customer and serve it well.

basically, consultancy is a high-level outsourcing biz.
That's a really good point.

Travel. I don't consistently check my E-mail while traveling. Some paid products allowed changing intervals, but that wouldn't solve that issue.

I don't have a good answer, but will consider some ideas. Perhaps allowing staged responses via different mediums is a good alternative. For me E-mail works but as I've offered this others may have different opinions.

Really appreciate the insight.
I grew up with some very wealthy people, and the richer the parents the more absentee/oblivious the parenting in my experiences.
What's the problem with immortality?

As a mortal, I'm all for it!
I don't worry about npm. I for one can't wait to move to a different registry.
> decentralization was a secondary effect of the workflow Linus wanted to achieve.

Linus didn't want to achieve a change in workflow of kernel development, he just made a tool to make which would ease the pain, Linux development was decentralized since forever.
If portals really were iframes, there would be no reason to create them.

Google is completely open about their intentions. Citation from https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/key-scenarios.md:

> After being activated, a portal opened by the news aggregator will now receive the input events. This means that it will have to co-operate with the news aggregator in order to maintain the desired user experience.

Why exactly does it _have_ to cooperate? And _how_ can it cooperate? Will it be enough to include a script from parent domain? Will analytics be part of "desired user experience"? Will parent domain ban a site from it's index for trying to "break out"?

It is essentially impossible to build relationships of mutual trust to the point when one website can freely embed another... unless one party has overwhelming power advantage. Who is the target auditory of <portal>? What "news aggregator" has enough leverage to make pages switch back to it as told to? If such "aggregator" existed, I would not trust it to make web browsers or dictate, how they should work.
Whoa! Seems like Halted was sold to Excess Solutions[1], and that Excess Solution has a retail store[2]. This is really great news! I too was heartbroken. What a great place to visit, geek out about history, and buy cool things.

[1]: http://www.halted.com/
[2]: http://www.excesssolutions.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category...
Imagine a feature length movie delivered as 300 webms.
Chrome extension or an app. I use my phone, or laptop at some point in any 2 week period.

Asking for a trusted person to confirm could also be useful
> ... if you cure aging...

That's a big if. We've spent millions of year evolving to last long enough to reproduce and care for our young. Beyond that, our bodies break down in all sorts of ways ("aging"), and "curing" all of them seems unlikely. Shortening telomeres, reduced muscle and bone mass, slower metabolism, macular degeneration, worn cartilage, arterial plaque...

The ultimately smart thing to do would be to make our current 80 or so years of life as healthy as possible.
If it reaches that point it becomes an enterprise project with a budget and resources/time. If you try to kill every excel sheet in the wild you take on those projects without the resources to support them.

Any earlier commenter said Enterprise values process over outcome. It is true at the macro level but at the micro level bosses need to make decisions or your new work will receive no credit from above and will be used against you when it fails.
Ha...when I told my wife what I was doing one evening she said, "that's a really stupid idea."

I'll show her that this comment to prove I didn't invent the idea ( which I said I hadn't ) and suddenly it'll become brilliant.

But in all seriousness: the non 'show HN' part of this is that my hope of sticking this up on my github will be that people could maintain it or continue with it if I were to 'perish or give up', which I can guarantee 100 % that one of those will happen. My day job and side gigs are all completely open source which is important to me.
You're listing values or things that are specific to your client or your understanding of the platform. For example, I didn't see "random interruptions from other users" when I read that because I know the best way to consume that content isn't on my timeline.

And it's fine not to like Twitter or not be savvy with it or not be interested in becoming savvy with it. But when you see an absolute position that one's values are the only correct ones it should set off loud bullshit alarms in your head whether it's someone else making the argument or it's you. Especially if it's you, because you have more to gain by remembering your own humility than helping someone else find theirs.
Yup check out https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-ch... and Ken Shirriff's excellent blog http://www.righto.com/search/label/reverse-engineering
I've had a lot of trouble entering the Windows serial numbers when installing Windows. The B and 8 look alike, ditto for O and 0. I've had to use a magnifying glass on it.

Apple's online documentation pages have also tended to be light grey fonts on white. My eyes would ache trying to read them. I find their choices baffling. It's like they were so focused on design they forgot about people simply wanting to read it.
Hm. Where's the actual documentation on the MIDL format, or the ABI, or how it should be translated?
They are way into debt financing and have a $25B bottom line, this is a "when you owe the bank a million dollars..." situation now, nobody involved is going to let it run out of money and throw the whole house of cards away.
All of those cases would be covered by the existing "small personal item" allowance.
I had a cat who was almost doglike in the amount of affection he showed me. I was often like, dude, don't you have cat things you can go do?

I only say almost though, because he could definitely be normal-cat-moody sometimes. The most dog-like cat I've ever known. He was a good boy. :)
WebAssembly has 64-bit integers and 32-bit floating points, which is difficult to do fast in JavaScript because everything is 64-bit floating points there. (32-bit integers are exact in 64-bit floating points, so that works.) This is the main advantage.

WebAssembly is also easier and faster to parse for now, but won't be for long, because JavaScript binary AST work is in progress: https://github.com/binast

JavaScript has better access to DOM and is superior otherwise.
"If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program instead of independent investigator driven discovery, you'd have the best iron lung in the world, but not a polio vaccine." -Samuel Broder, former Director of the National Cancer Institute
I don't know that HN is a democracy at all. I tried submitting an article, and the site posted the article on my behalf from some bot account and it never saw the light of day.

I guess having a check like that is a good thing. Take reddit for example, people usually post third hand articles because the primary source is probably a paywalled article from a proper journalism outlet, and posts are subjected to sweeping vote manipulation. It's not a cultural cross section either, the types of people who post on reddit are a vast minority; I wouldn't be suprised if it was less than 5% of users. And users of sites like reddit/HN are not representative at all of the country or the world really. These sites heavily skew towards the educated, high income, male, and white, so you miss out on a lot of valuable perspective if you only use these sorts of sites.
Yes, I am aware. But that's related to how happy Google is with it, not to whether it's standardized in any way.
> even hard to follow procedures are better than a centralized option

Sorry, I don't have nearly enough information to accept that.
Ask HN: Payment processor that remits sales taxes and accepts high risk merchant
My business is a SaaS and has customers from a lot of different countries with sales tax implications (US, Canada, EU, Brazil, India, Japan etc).

At the moment I use Paddle (https://paddle.com) for payments. They handle all sales related taxes and remit them on my behalf. The service they offer is great, but they won't allow adult content.

I've looked into other payment processors (2Checkout, Fastspring) which also remit sales taxes, but they have the same rule against adult content. This seems to be a pretty common rule.

To be clear, I'm aware that I could get a high risk merchant account and use Avalara, Quaderno or another automated service to automatically calculate sales tax and file the returns. However this is still an annoying (and costly) process as it results in signing up for sales tax in many different jurisdictions. So I'm looking for a way around all of that.

Are there any payment processors out there that will remit sales taxes and accept high risk merchants?
The first project provided by DDG to me was Radicle[https://radicle.xyz/]
Wouldn't fixed 64-bit integers be more of a memory usage issue than performance? I'd argue that having to decide between 32 and 64 would unavoidably add some slow down.
The $5B Server Vendor You Probably Have Never Heard of (2018)
I think there is big potential value in a new exchange that optimizes for cheap IPO'ing rules. Something between Nasdaq and Wefunder.

I'm not persuaded by some of the ideas they have (like adding diversity to their governing board, seems designed to be exclusive to tech-startups that already have a bias toward that "value"). But if only by competition they make listing cheaper and easier it could have a big impact.
A Vulnerable U.S. Does Need a Space Force
.NET Value types do inherit from System.Object.

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.valuetype...
I just googled pi-hole and now I'm converted. Thank you!
Data collections is only a fraction of what makes good medicine.
I find this really interesting. Care to provide some comparisons?
I use WinForms, DirectX9, and .Net 2.0. It's been rock solid for about a decade or more and no sign of that being about to change. I just ignore all the new app store, WPF, UWP, Metro style, etc. stuff.
Adam Savage's workshop is on Google maps
I think its ridiculous hyperbole to call this a global phenomenon if they are looking at tweets. Less than a quarter of Americans use the site, a proportion that skews educated/wealthy/white, and of all twitter users something like 8% of accounts are responsible for 80% of tweets.

So why is so much being written and thought and discussed about whats really just the rampant spam of maybe 2% of Americans? Probably because twitter has a ticker.
The PP has made numerous valid justifications for why there either isn't a conflict or an easily mitigated conflict. Here's another one: use separate compilation units. Include select(2) in one and include libmill in another; then wrap their interfaces and link them the way you want.

I don't know what's happened to HN these days. The sheer number of kids who have come out of the woodwork to flame this guy in different ways on different threads -- all with the same level of ignorance on a really simple topic -- is nothing short of deflating.
Windows.UI.Composition makes the UWP UI toolkit way better than anything that came before it.

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/16/animations...
> people who believe that "programming == math" seems to be mostly attracted to languages like Haskell and OCaml, not so much to Prolog

Agreed, but note Lisp also is very math-oriented (it’s a syntax for lambda calculus).
People worry that execs game the metrics investors use to evaluate stock. To give an example close to home, imagine if tech companies were evaluated by how many lines of code they produce per quarter. Now people are scared that execs will tell people to just write a bunch of whatever.

Making the company look good on paper (short term stock gains) but actually worse (perform worse in the long term as those lines don't translate to profit). But when these hidden faults are discovered the execs are long gone and their bonus checks already cashed.
This is on to something - but this isn’t quite it, and I don’t know what is.
You'd also watch a show one episode a week unless it was on reruns. It used to be almost impossible to watch TV for 4+ hours because at certain times of the day, absolutely nothing worth watching was even on.
IANAL, but in my understanding, the diver would need to demonstrate damages in a standard defamation case, but defamation per se does not require actual damages.
> "I tried submitting an article, and the site posted the article on my behalf from some bot account and it never saw the light of day."

I haven't observed behavior like this. HN does have dedupe behavior that prevents the same piece being submitted multiple times within some time frame. How this looks to the duplicate submitter is that upon clicking "submit", rather than creating a new submission, it redirects you to original. This could appear that it's getting submitted by some other account, but isn't what actually happened.
Yeah. Sometimes we use "50/50" as a euphemism when we really have no idea. 49% sounds like "I have no idea but really want everyone to think I've given this a lot of careful thought."

If I had to be charitable, maybe Diamond believes a lone prediction at 50% is actually meaningless, so he always nudges to one side or the other so people can at least score him a little. No idea though.
Honestly this reads like a solution in search of a problem. Native code will be faster in every way.

Wasm's strengths are in running untrusted code - its sandbox is quite strict. So the use case for wasm on mobile is downloading code dynamically. Wasm's competition in this space is JS, not native code.
Only one I attended, I remember this. Thank you for the fun time.
Hackerspaces still exist, it is doing OK.
> Also advertisement has huge margins with not much cost from Facebook's pov but ride sharing logistics is completely different with very little margin where the driver needs to get paid

Why is this? In both cases it seems the cost is paying a bunch of servers and engineers to run a website. So why is Facebook seemingly more efficient?
Army discovery opens path to safer batteries
They are young adult fiction, which is like saying that cars weren't built for driving. I'm not sure what you intend they were written as then, as they surely aren't literature.
Not everyone needs a language to run close to the metal. SQL is equally declarative, but still very popular.
You can also symlink the JavaScript core framework which contains the executable there without installing anything as an alternative
They explained it pretty succinctly. Grossly oversimplified: the bank is motivated to accurately price in order to preserve future business from e.g. institutional investors. Overprice and your investors bleed. Substantially underprice and you leave money on the table, less likely to be picked for future offerings. Come close and everyone's generally pretty happy.

I'd be keen to hear why you believe it's "just not right at all."
It's literally no different. Excell has APIs just like Java, it's just the code goes in cells rather than on lines.
Web Components for dynamic scripture references
This is basically impossible unless someone has figured out a way to break the laws of thermodynamics. And if that's true a whole bunch of stuff goes out the window.

Basically a Dyson Sphere is about the least subtle thing a civilization could do and would be detectable from hundreds of millions of light years away. All energy ends as heat. The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. It radiates away in a predictable way based on the temperature of the object. At any sort of temperature we're talking about this would be a massive glowing infrared cloud with the energy output of a star. It'd be hard to miss that.

Think about this: a Dyson sphere here would be absorbing the energy output of a star. That energy has to go somewhere.

Another point against it is the Elapsed Time Argument, which can be used to effectively disprove many such hypotheses. The argument goes like this: if a given phenomenon is artificial it should be less common the more distant you look. At the edge of the observable universe we're looking at a universe significantly younger than ours. Because of this something artificial should be less common further away because less time has elapsed there. If that's not the case it's almost certainly not artificial.

It's also worth pointing out that dark matter out-masses regular matter by 10-to-1 or more. That's a lot to attribute to Dyson Spheres. That would make the universe an extremely populated place where we somehow still can't detect anyone.
WebAssembly 64-bit integer arithmetics compile to machine instructions on 64-bit architectures. To do that in JavaScript, you need to pattern match on long multiplication emulated with 32-bit integers.
Seriously. I love Github but I don't know how to feel about a megacorp becoming the de facto source for packages in the open source ecosystem. It could be great but many of us thought that consolidating all of our social activities under the Facebook umbrella was going to be great
11yo tries and fails to bribe New Zealand PM into funding dragon research
> (like adding diversity to their governing board, seems designed to be exclusive to tech-startups that already have a bias toward that "value")

I do not think the bias which you think exists is reflected by the actual makeup of the boards of these tech companies, i.e., who is actually on them.
A merge of a branch with N unique commits creates one new, yet-to-be-tested commit/tree. A rebase creates N. I doubt that it's common that people replay all the new history after a rebase and test each new commit/tree.
I backed that Kickstarter too! They found it more difficult than they anticipated, but I’m still glad I backed them. They made a good faith effort to do something cool, and as I recall, they were good about communicating their efforts and obstacles.
IntelliJ has an excellent vim keybinding plugin which I use (having come from Linux/scripting/Vim background to Java). Intellij also makes setting shortcuts pretty easy so you can customize to your needs. Having used both Eclipse and IntelliJ, I prefer the latter.
Twitter's code and formatting very often causes chunks of threads to become detached, and it's not a simple matter of whether you're on your timeline.

And especially with replies, twitter has very strong opinions about what to show you and 'savvy' doesn't override that.

And defaults matter. Complaints about the standard client are valid complaints.
India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse
It's more like code than state, isn't it? The thing that changed is the implementation of a circuit for computing the result of some calculation, i.e. a function.
Doesn't it just mean that both sides have to maintain postMessage() handling? Just like host and iframe with different origins. Google will not be able to receive any events/messages unless they're sent by not-google.com. That's what I understand from it, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Receiving email is no issue on residential ISP.only issue is sending, And to get around that you simply use an external SMTP server and your problem is mostly solved.
The converse problem is that some companies end up building or rebuilding everything the most resume-driven way possible and then run headfirst into tooling and frameworks that are either unnecessary to their actual requirements, not mature enough, or was just a dumb fad all along. The actual developers get to put stuff on their resumes and leave for a new company after two years and their replacements end up wanting to rewrite their "legacy codebase" in the newest fashions, and the cycle continues. I don't know what the solution is, other than just exercising good technical judgment.
Seems very similar to parallax occlusion mapping, where you essentially use height and surface normal maps on a single plane mesh with very few triangles to simulate a very complex surface. This is accomplished by ray tracing each pixel that the plane is occupying to determine where the view ray would intersect with the height map how it would reflect based on the surface normal map. It's a very convincing effect unless you look at the surface at a glancing angle and realize that the geometry is 100% flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PpWqUqeqeQ
Personalized medicine is barely getting started. We only have data on a few drugs to determine safety, efficacy, and optimal dosage based on genotype. Much more research is needed. Practitioner tools aren't the major obstacle here.
Deploying Nanoc Sites Using an iPad
Unless it turns out that the diver is actually a pedophile, Elon is pretty screwed here.

The difference between a standard defamation (defamation per quod) and defamation per se, is that a defamation per se is something that is so harmful that the plaintiff does not need to prove actual damages.

"Traditionally, there have been four general categories of untrue statements presumed to be harmful to one's reputation and therefore actionable as an injury claim. Typically, if the statements don't fall into one of these categories, the plaintiff is required to prove their damages. If it does fall into one of these categories, damages are usually presumed.

The four general categories are:

Indications that a person was involved in criminal activity
Indications that a person had a "loathsome," contagious or infectious disease
Indications that a person was unchaste or engaged in sexual misconduct
Indications that a person was involved in behavior incompatible with the proper conduct of his business, trade or profession"[1]

Unless Elon's statements were actually truthful, it seems that his comments fall under two or possibly three of the above categories.
(depending on how one interprets the email he sent to a buzzfeed reporter)

I know that a lot of people here have a lot of respect for Elon, but come on - unless he has some undisclosed information of which everyone else is ignorant, it seems pretty clear that he did defame this guy.

The fact that his lawyers' argument is essentially "you can't defame someone on Twitter" also seems fairly desperate IMO.

[1]: https://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/what-...
Would it be best to wait to write a JMAP server until the spec is finalized? Or should I consider the current one mostly final?

I’ve had one look at it and while the protocol looks really good, it also looks like I’d rather not implement it more than once ;)
exact citation from the article where he said what I described above: "она пыталась встать и побежать, но я сказал сесть, потому что ждал, что из-за паники в проходе начнется давка."
Then what was it? I get that it holds a special place in peoples' hearts, but her best on offer was Azkaban and the transition from 04 to 06 is evidence that she started writing for the screen. She had a great idea. She had excellent response. She got bamboozled by billions and what could have been an English language epic became a pop culture touch point. Look at the desperate cloying for more bux via the continued franchise prequel, replete with woke characters and a-canonical bullshit. To top it off, she's one of the few people to become a billionaire and lose said status (and before anyone throws out the "muh charity" defense, her becoming less able to be generous doesn't help in the long run). HP was deligitimized by appealing to the LCD. To circle back, it obviously started as an appeal for attention; that is true of all art. But by trying to capture the world, she lost her frame, thereby relegating herself to the pop culture rubbish heap.