skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I tried switching to it it was slow as molasses on the command line. Easily several times slower than GitHub. So I went back to GitHub. I still have a GitLab account, but I only keep my dotfiles there.

I keep hearing they've improved performance, and maybe they did, but that's also what I heard last time I tried it, so now I'm kind of reluctant to give it another try. Unlike before, now it doesn't just have to be "as fast", for me to switch to it, it has to be noticeably faster. Feature-wise it's easily on par already, but performance is also an important feature, and I don't think codebase being primarily in Ruby inspires a lot of confidence, especially if scale is growing. You're basically running it at 1/10-1/30th the speed it could run if a proper language were used.
I’d be curious to hear from the folks at Particle.io on the offering/competition.
Also worth a mention, the Swarm architecture:
https://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/papers/2015.swarm.micro...
The index-based approach can be refined to guarantee that the index is in the heap and avoid the bounds check, or even updated to directly use raw pointers if you use an arena. The main disadvantage compared to garbage collection is that it's not moving, but for many workloads the whole graph will die before a more mature GC would do a major collection anyway--all the movement is in the young generation. So, the main advantage of GC at that point is mostly about memory consumption since most objects die young (and you don't have to trace them if they do). Rust could get back almost all performance against state of the art GCs even for graph workloads by just using an arena for the old generations and focusing on young generation optimization.
Did it work? Page Speed existed for a long time, and over that time, a huge portion of websites became bloated as hell and ridiculously slow. Hackernews is just about the only website I can think of that didn't.
One thing about helium: once its released to the atmosphere its gone forever. Because it is so light it not only heads upwards, the velocity of the atoms is high enough that some exceed the Earth's escape velocity and don't come down. The only helium on Earth is either in tanks or still underground.

Its a finite resource, we are using it up, and we can never make any more until we get to the outer planets.
There are people on this very website who have vehemently defended software that decides whether some person needs to be killed with a missile from a drone. That have defended and encouraged companies like Google to help military kill foreigners, countrymen and countrywomen of many people visiting this site.

And AMP, a restricted web standard, is that's "worth of contempt"? Please, please, take a step back and think of it for a moment.
Not SHow HN. Please read rules
The meaning of your experiences is what you make from it. It is the reason why I suggest you reading this book. A similar experience through different eyes. A psychologist probably might say about a therapeutic effect of this, but I'm not a consulting psychologist, so I rather say in a technical terms: it is hard to find meaning having just one point of data. You need at least two to draw a line.

By the way, did he disliked you because of your desire to be a woman, or for some other reason?

> I plan to act on suicide in the near future because of the torture.

It makes hard to me to speak with you. It feels like a minefield, one wrong step, one wrong word and I became a cause of someone's death.

I'll try to ignore that. Why are you suffering now? If I understood you right, torture ended at least a few years ago. Some kind of "flashbacks"?
I think it's better than the phone company, but as discussed, someone could force steal your number. Secondly, if someone hacks your gmail, they can access google voice themselves but just logging in as you.

My freaking gmail is my main barrier against the world. I sure as heck use a yubi key (I have multiple) plus password. If my gmail is hacked, I'd be in trouble like a lot of tech people. I think that's the ultimate - break into gmail and you'd have endless things to steal.
So basically the skyscraper version of a McMansion [1] or even, given the talk here of money laundering, an example of Narcotecture creeping into America [2].

[1] https://mcmansionhell.com/

[2] https://stephanierogers.typepad.com/stephanie_rogers/2007/07...

Also:

https://www.google.com/search?hs=MvG&channel=fs&q=Narcotectu...
Perhaps it's worth noting that this is from 2018
That's why I said buses. This issue has been studied many many times. The dirty secret is that dedicated 'bus only' lanes, with lots of full buses using them, move more people across a point per minute than most any other ground option.

100 people per (large) bus at 10 busses per minute = 1000 persons per minute. That rivals a runway full of a380s for shear people-moving power.
Idk if I would say taxing. Like I find myself much more engaged than with "read pages 30-60 by next Tuesday".
Totally. Language learning is all time spent practicing. I’ve been learning a second language, while my two year old is learning his first. All day, he’s surrounded by people speaking with him and listening. Granted, he has other core concepts to pick up at the same time, but it’s essentially his job. Meanwhile, I can grab an hour here or there.

Plus, he has no embarrassment, hesitation, or fear of failure.
What an absurd and tiresome article. IOS is significantly easier and more intuitive than any PC ever was, including the Mac. Most gestures are so intuitive you don’t even realise they are gestures, 2-year olds scroll and zoom without being told how. The only people who could possibly find iOS unintuitive are those whose minds have hardened in a PC shaped mold.
The article explains clearly and at length why the author wanted to write it. But the best thing you say here is "The content is interesting". That's why it belongs on HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quite possible -- was just pointing out what the poster had claimed was a differentiating factor, as requested
This[0] is one of my favorite websites ever. It’s by Apple’s first HCI engineer (long before such a title existed). He has some great articles on HCI as well as a bunch of critiques of Apple’s missteps after he left.

I find I agree with pretty much everything he says.

[0] https://www.asktog.com/
Yes, they will be able to do so (this is called a transfer in Exchange parlance). We support this in addition to dual listing.
Exactly! If you don’t want to integrate, go back to your own country.
Articles 'a/an' and 'the' are simply the hardest thing to learn for me (polish native). I've spent so much time trying to figure them out. There are no rules honestly, almost every text in english has a counter-example to what english textbooks say about whether to use definite or indefinite one.

Maybe that's because we don't have such a distinction in polish or maybe there is something I am missing. Interesting thing though is that I don't seem to ever misinterpret the meaning of the text I'm reading and I'm not sure if I'd even notice if articles were missing or not
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Hudson Yards has little to do with the rest of NYC, as stated in the article. Many of the residences were sold to foreign owners. It did succeed at extracting a billion dollars from foreign investors.
I haven't tried serverless, but shouldn't that be Java's cup of tea?

The JVM can load code dynamically and adapt the runtime to the work load. Maybe there is a framework missing, so those that provide serverless starts a new JVM per function call, but they shouldn't really have to do that.
Combine them with this announcement, I think your pretty much correct.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/09/google-creates-dedicated-...
Can someone provide a simple explanation of Graal for those of us who are completely oblivious of all of the concepts of Graal?
https://calculuswithjulia.github.io/derivatives/taylor_serie...
> I picture it as automatically specializing or "templatizing" (as in C++ templates), on a use-site basis, and doing so speculatively, even when proving that the transformation is correct is impossible

In isolation, this sounds like a description of how HotSpot works, no? (For the uninitiated: HotSpot's JITs make dangerous assumptions, optimise accordingly, and discard compiled objects if those assumptions ever break.)
Hmmm, from the title I thought this was going to be about how people exploited the weaknesses of these reward programmes to get more stuff for free.
Children learn phonetics much better though. For an adult an accent is darn near impossible to fully overcome, even if they speak for hours a day. For a child it goes away in a few months.
So true! I think the problem is particularly bad in high-school and first-year undergraduate textbooks, which are "padded" with useless extras, non-sense boxes, and lots of blah blah to the point of being literally 5x thicker than they need to be. Let's face it, nobody is going to read a 1000+ page PHYS 101 textbook.

Textbooks for graduate level courses are usually much better, as are textbooks outside the North American educational system, and best of all are old math textbooks from like 100+ years ago...
Ironically, I find the worst offenders to be people who throw around the term "techbro."
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Is it just me or does there seem to be some strange societal stigma around adult education/learning?
I can't speak for gitlab, but there is a strategy to not competing with higher salaries, even if you can afford it in some cases.

You aren't necessarily losing the top talent because not all the top talent cares only about the money. And by not offering the highest salaries, you are naturally selecting for employees that care more about the culture and work/life balance than having the highest possible salaries.

So if you do hiring right, you are more likely to get employees that stick around rather than jump ship for the first offer of a 10% pay raise.
I have a few Symbisa and Particle units that work like this.
Since you say "No one else can read your private notes.", does this include your developers and sysadmins too? What's the end-to-end encryption mechanism have you utilized here?
It's easy to go read Popper. Look for his discussions of Adler.
For the majority of the universe's existence, the Earth didn't. Not exactly a helpful data analysis.

So, no. It isn't rational. It is, at best, distractions. And, honestly, folks that peddle these sorts of arguments don't exactly have a history of good faith debates.
That's just the common mistake of incorrectly encoding one's beliefs in logic and then complaining logic doesn't work. If you think there might be a glass pane between you and a colored ball, your true belief is (No glass pane implies green ball), not (green ball).

If you don't mind me getting on my soap box, it kind of seems like the recipe for coming up with a renowned counterargument to a technical tool goes like:

- Find a technical device that you don't understand.

- Misuse it because you don't understand it.

- Notice that it isn't working.

- Conclude that logic doesn't work, math doesn't work, science doesn't work, the bug is in the compiler, take your pick.
One of the lessons learned is that the FAA is no longer a credible institution.
Your bias is showing ;)
This is also the idea behind the Pixel Planes rendering architecture from the 80's, they called it "logic-enhanced memory chips". It's not a "universal CPU" on the memory chips, but each chip can "process" and store 128 pixels, where the processing is implemented with a hardwired linear expression.

Here's a video on Pixel Planes 4 from 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mzpZ861wEw
>>> ... we can never make any more until we get to the outer planets.

We can. It isn't easy/cheap and may never be totally practical, but it can be done for less than the costs of getting it from the outer planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

There are also replacements for helium. They aren't exact replacements and do come with their own issues (liquid hydrogen = fire). With effort, they can be used. Hydrogen under vacuum pressure can be made to boil at temperatures close enough to helium for most applications.

Helium can also be recycled, which today rarely happens. It is not generally collected as a gas and re-liquefied. Maybe if its availability goes down, driving its cost up, people might make efforts to recapture the helium they boil.
Check out the "MACE" function of Private Internet Access VPN as well. It may work out well. I've recently started it on desktop and mobile, and disabled any other blockers. There may be other VPNs with similar functions but I don't know yet.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/kb/articles/w...
Although I'm sure that the NSA do their best, I would bet that Facebook and Google have a much more accurate profile. Not sure if there is a point in making this distinction, though.
I don't want the internet involved either, so we agree on that. Can we also agree that some people want internet enabled devices?
Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1121186334243213314
It's not clear what you mean or are complaining about. Feel free to provide your own example. Just come up with two empirical claims (A and B) such that you think A contradicts B. It should then be relatively easy to come up with a C that, if C were true, A would no longer contradict B. It's obvious once you start laying things out carefully.
I am not a GitLab user, so I'm not speaking from personal experience, but I've read more than a few comments here on HN that GitLab stability and performance is worse than GH. For a mission critical system like source control, stability and performance are more important than any other features.
> I do find it disappointing that some (b)leading edge JVM and Java features don't support Windows yet

Seems understandable though. Java is primarily a tool for heavyweight Unix servers, after all. (This is of course an empirical claim, and I have no source, but I'd be surprised if I turn out to be mistaken.)

Makes good sense to go with the strategy of building an industry-strength technology before investing the time to handle Windows.
BBC News tends to do a better job of showing related articles which provide context to the given article.

Its helpful for geo-political news since I don't always have encyclopedic and historical knowledge of every region of the world.
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Anyone else looking to respond to this innocent sounding and highly reductionist question should just have a peek at the account’s comment history.
That is not a commute. That you can do what you describe on holidays and weekends when the weather is fair and there isn't much traffic is not a good reason to create traffic, destroy the climate and the local environment, waste your own money and being frustrated in traffic jam.

People are buying cars because they believe in the commercials where the car means freedom. But people use cars to waste their lives in traffic.
Basically, you are vilifying the parent who bothers to stick around because it is usually a woman.

Sadly, as I write this, it's the top comment because this is an overwhelmingly male forum, so an awful lot of members are all too happy to upvote anything that spin doctors problems to make men look good and women look bad without thinking any deeper about the problem than that.

For the record, it's actually a problem that so many men in the US don't give a damn about their own children, can't be bothered to show up and also don't give a damn about how that negatively impacts the woman who had children by them.

We need more family friendly policies that help parents do right by their kids. Most developed countries do not take the attitude that "You fools who had kids are on your own and we aren't going to lift a finger to help you raise your kids. No, we don't care that this actually comes back to bite us once they are grown and the problem is being handled by the police and the penal system. We just aren't that bright and can't see the cause-and-effect obvious connection there, never mind the existence of studies that show it."
Maybe it should be scary. From the anecdotes I heard KGB had very good language schools.
I have no idea how credible that is.
In my anecdotal experience, Polish people are especially gifted at picking up languages. I know several Polish people from different contexts that acquired a very good level of Spanish in a ridiculous amount of time, even some that picked it up from TV without any formal education and could speak with me just fine.

I think it may have to do with their language having a quite large inventory of phonemes (I have the feeling that learning new phonemes is one of the main factors in making a new language difficult to learn), but who knows.
You can actually gain a lot from investing in "poorer" Eastern European countries, like a lot of tech outsourcing occurs there because the intellecutual labour is much cheaper yet the quality of work is comparable to Western European standards.

A lot of products or scientific research can be made at a much cheaper price in East Europe and maybe even at a higher quality. The issue for Western European countries is that they don't need to and likely don't have the huge budget that China has to put into foreign investment. Also although China may seem like it is investing a lot, it's not much in terms of its budget so it seems much more affordable to China.

Also China is also investing in Western Europe as well, they are more or less doing a scattershot approach as can be seen by the German acquisition. Its probably just that Western Europe isn't as receptive and doesn't need as much.
"In this section we’ve seen that, like lectures, non-fiction books don’t work because they lack a functioning cognitive model. Instead, like lectures, they’re (accidentally, invisibly) built on a faulty idea about how people learn: transmissionism. When books do work, it’s generally for readers who deploy skillful metacognition to engage effectively with the book’s ideas. This kind of metacognition is unavailable to many readers and taxing for the rest. "

Well, maybe taxing your brain is exactly the point. It's like training your muscles - no pain no gain. It actually reminds me of an Asimov's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is literally a 100% chance the world, AS YOU KNOW IT will end by the time you go to bed tonight.

Would you want it any other way?
"Around going public we want to become the most popular SaaS solution for private repositories (a complete product that is free forever is competitive since network effects are smaller for private repositories than for public ones)."

I honestly believe that whoever wrote this probably has a way of looking at it that is not "buy expensive, sell cheap, make it up on volume" but... oh well, seems to be working for the ride-sharing companies.
@dang, can we edit the title? It's inaccurate. This post is about how the CRDT didn't work for asynchronous editing by automated tools like syntax highlighting, automatic bracket balancing, etc. The post explicitly contrasts those use cases with collaborative editing as a use case that the author didn't implement, but where they think "the CRDT is not unreasonable".
I wonder if that is why Americans have so much trouble. It is really hard to immerse yourself when everyone speaks (or tries to speak) English.

I went to South Korea for a business meeting and spent 6 months prior trying to learn Korean. Funny thing is that when I got there everyone I met wanted to take the opportunity to speak English with a native speaker and I rarely got to use it. Good thing too... I would have sounded like I have the literacy of a small child.
It's a for profit company, but they still not only give away the source code, but offer a great deal of hosted functionality for free.

So contributing helps the community whether your contribution also helps the company or not.

Seems kind of like asking "Why would you give money to the Red Cross? They have employees that get paid a salary for running it."

If it's a good cause and you benefit from it, I certainly wouldn't avoid supporting it simply because someone else might profit indirectly from my contribution.
I live across the street from the Shed (and Hudson Yards).

1) Since opening, the mall has added a ton of indoor seating. The place is so popular that sometimes people still sit on the floor. This is success not sour grapes.

2) The escalators seem purposefully designed to make you wander around the mall. If you want vertical speed, there are many elevators, which the author neglected to mention.

The place is very popular. I’m certainly happy to have world class dining, shops and arts instead of a rail yard.

The article is basically a hatchet job.
Noone puts up cameras to count the visitors. They put them to monitor their activity.
Most of the time when people make comments like that, they don’t actually mean “impossible” — they mean within the realm of reality. No one is going to be fusing helium in quantities high enough to run MRI machines. It would greatly add to the discussion if we didn’t have to address these red herrings.
I wrote a lot of TypeScript just using Express, and it pretty much always ended up looking kind of like this.

Today, though, I think this is reinventing the wheel for little benefit. I've moved my own projects to NestJS (https://nestjs.com/) and have found myself paying a lot more attention to logic and application behavior rather than structuring code around a too-thin web server.

NestJS uses Express or Fastify under the hood--because both are great web servers!--but serves to make life a lot more pleasant when using them. The way it strongly encourages the decoupling of application logic (services) and the serving of data to clients (controllers) is a good one and, to me, does a much better job of creating an "enterprise NodeJS and TypeScript" environment than rolling one's own.
>Since when has "needs internet access to function" become a selling point?

That is a good question. I don't know. But I'd say it became a selling point after the internet became ubiquitous and reliable enough in the eyes of consumers. Otherwise people would be complaining about 'needs internet access to watch a movie/make a video call/play a game/push source code/order food/call a taxi/etc/etc/etc".
What other on premise lifecycle development solutions are there?
Corrected now. This is an unfortunate wave-particle when it comes to casing, which HN's software tries to autocorrect in titles.
it really depends on what languages you already know, but i think you need to use both, and not starting with a book would probably be the most inefficient way to learn a new language.

if you already know spanish or italian, learning french is a lot easier because a lot of the verbs are the same and conjugations follow the same patterns

i know english, italian, a decent amount of french now, and if I am trying to learn arabic, starting with just radio and tv seems backwards to me
I have an idea, but don't have the time to check :-/
Using online CSR generator I succeeded to sign a CA certificate.. So maybe we can use the signed certificate to sign another certificate for admin user on behalf of the root certificate?
I just booked a plane 220 miles from London to Paris. Ticket was £38 vs £135 for the train.
I never understood this either.

Why not simply lock the file automatically when someone types and unlock it after a few seconds pause.

What do I get from parallel edits? When I finish my stuff and my collaborator isn't finished, we will end up with broken code until they have finished editing.

Sure it is nice to be able to write comments at some place while someone else edits code at another place, but then row-based locking would do the trick too.