skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benchmarking should be made with a more real world point of view: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=... tries to do it ...

For me https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks is just testing the routing system (e.g. in the rails case
def user
render plain: params['id']
end
)
;)
of course, most insurers are basically running a scam operation. that was happening before irregardless of changes that were introduced to protect customers.
This may just be me being a grumpy old man, but it seems to me that part of the problem might be that most people with the job title "designer" aren't really designers they are artists. What I mean is: my understanding is that design is supposed to be a rigorous discipline based on principles such as color theory, proportions, psychology/culture, and usability. Instead it seems like the focus is on looking pretty and functionality is an afterthought.

To be fair, I think you see the same thing with "software engineers". Many don't have any interest in disciplined engineering or the principles of computer science, they just want to write code.
I'm also using Firefox 66 and it works for me. Here's a live example: https://mdn.github.io/js-examples/modules/basic-modules/

Source code and other examples are at: https://github.com/mdn/js-examples/tree/master/modules
There's actually several companies offering this service, Earny is another one.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=2fnbXJeQCImKk74Pw...
No doubt its great, but does anyone know how does it compare to django for saas apps?
That graph is quite misleading, it should be a percentage of total usage, if we wanted to show progress. Global energy consumption could have grown just as much, making progress zero.

This graph shows things more accurately:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy

From 2000 energy consumption has increased by 50%. Every type of energy usage has increased except traditional biofules (wood basically).

I think the key thing to take from this graph is that renewable energies aren't replacing older methods, simply new demand is proportionally being supplied by newer method (and even that by a minuscule amount).
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What's your deal with pathlib?
Correct. I kinda assumed the people who moved would build up domed habitats while there until it counted as “done”. Multiply by ten if you want to do it directly, I think?
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The article is basically a long exercise in avoiding repetition of the source content. For no good reason other than code aesthetics.

The webkit reflect operation can be decomposed into a CSS transform and repetition. If there was some sort of template expansion, you could avoid the repetition entirely.

But people have a hard on for doing it this way instead, even though it just means adding more special case operators to CSS, instead of designing a proper layout and styling system based on orthogonality.

Wonderful is not the word I'd use.
> Is performance that much of a big deal for most people?

For most people outside VC-funded startups, yes it is. It is also an environmental concern, imagine if 80% of the web was running on ruby.
Hehe, I was just thinking how simple it will be for Google to identify accounts using this technique from simple usage analytics. I suspect this will not work for long... but still super cool!
I hate Material Design but this looks great. Where can I find a Bootstrap version?
IMHO as a software developer, one should always keep power consumption in mind. Optimizing whatever can be optimized.
Those legacy applications won't ever be upgraded to that theoretical and slimmed down PHP anyway, so I don't see a problem.
> pea extracts like protein powder and pea-based fake meats are likely not

>> That's an awfully strong statement. Do you have any evidence or cite?

It depends. Peas belong to the Fabaceae family or Leguminosae that is a big family of creatures expert in alkaloid's design.

Sweet Peas are in the genus Pisum, that is closely related with the wild peas Lathyrus. Lathyrism is a well known neurological disease. Is a permanent damage triggered by eating too many peas from Lathyrus and related genuses. For survivalism and foraging purposes, wild peas must be put in the "not edible thing unless really fainting" category. And only in small quantitites. Not even cooked.

Thus, flour of raw peas should be a little poisonous also until cooked. Workers should have been provided with accurate protection against breathing accidentally the raw stuff day after day (and should assure to wear it). Neurological damages are permanent and not funny.

By the same reason, even if seems convenient and fast to just make a smoothie with raw pea flour you must assure to cook it before to eat it (OR that was yet cooken by the maker before to sell it).
At very least he could have its foundation desinvest in non-renewables.
Also the dark ages, but now N(ietzs +che) predicted the down fall of Christianity a century ago which was tested by all atheist ancestors.
What's wrong with case insensitive letters?

US-ABC-900-900 can be a beautiful phone number and global. 165,216,101,262,848 numbers per country.

US-ABCD-900E-900R in case we run out of numbers again.
I've been coding in PHP for almost 20 years now. I think I can count on one hand the number of times where I have had an issue regarding inconsistent function signatures. It becomes second nature, and if I forget, the documentation is available online or in worst case built into my IDE.

I can understand why people make this into such a pain point, but quite frankly it isn't for anyone who works day in day out with PHP.
Thanks for the feedback! I’m eager to make my first PyPi package but will probably do my open-mastermind project first, since it’s a simpler codebase

https://github.com/philshem/open-mastermind
> On the other hand, when they are wounded they do make chemical compounds to resist predation and to signal to nearby plants that predators are present (e.g. salicylate). This seems vaguely parallel.

When a fighter jet is hit by a bullet, it releases chemical compounds to stop its fuel from exploding, and signals nearby forces that threats are present.

The reaction to damage alone does not suggest something is capable of suffering. There are other considerations, and there's little suggesting plants are capable of experiencing suffering (or experiencing anything at all).
You shouldn't be able to compromise `prod` from the `test` stage.
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vs code typing latency is on the order of 50ms.

its more than necessary but not as bad as you are implying
I don't know Megatokyo, but I do recnogise the comment about speed and consistency of updates.

I used to read Order of the Stick, which is a brilliantly funny yet epic fantasy comic. There used to be fairly regular updates, then it dropped, came back, dropped again. At some point, he had a very successful Kickstarter, but somehow things became even more irregular after that. Eventually I sometimes had to wait more than a month to see how the story continued. And when there's no need to check for a month, eventually that turns into two months, and I think I haven't checked it out in more than a year. Years maybe? I should probably check, but chances are there's now an immense backlog and I don't know where I left off. Or there's still only a few. I don't know which is worse.
Yes, this. Cell phones in Africa are a great example. They skipped right over having land lines and went straight to cell phones.
> The organization's stated goal is to inspire the wealthy people of the world to give at least half of their net worth to philanthropy, either during their lifetime or upon their death

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

You mean that promise? Seems to be coming along as promised. How you doing?
At the very least, proving that a game is Turing complete can be as entertaining a challenge as playing it.

One case where Turing completeness was useful was in proving wrong those programmers who claimed that there were some programs that just could not be written using structured programming. Also, if we did not know about Turing completeness, there would be constant futile research trying to find alternative architectures and languages that could solve problems that cannot be solved with what we have.
Growing more seaweed sounds like it would sequester more carbon too.
So you're not a designer but somehow is an authority on the subject? No, you have opinions. Which are just subjective as any designer's opinions.
Is that and more, I mean everyone uses classes and namespaces now and structures code better so there is this improvement. Projects use autoloaders now and things again are better.

Have a look for example http://image.intervention.io/getting_started/installation how you would resize an image if you used a framework, it is much different then you would see in a code that was written 20 years ago.
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Most countries don't use the English alphabet, so I'm not sure if that would work outside the US.
Those people lose their money. I can't think of a good reason why they'd expect to get that money back, they were paying for a service that was being provided up until the company could no longer provide it.

Losing your money to a failed company is a cost of doing business sometimes, it's a risk everybody takes when they purchase things in advance. The company/owner would owe a refund for the service not provided due to company collapse, whether or not they can pay that is another matter and should be accepted as part of the risk. There's no such thing as risk free business and attempts to remove the risk inevitably remove part of the value too.
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Similar to "grob" in Russian where the "o" is pronounced like in "open".
The employer hasn’t accepted your terms because you haven’t walked away from the deal. Cut off all communication and look elsewhere. If they want you enough to withdraw those nasty clauses, they’ll contact you.
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Well, this is still true.
I've tried many alternatives to Google Maps, and ultimately came back to it.

But for it to be so relevant, I think that a reasonable level of 'tracking', even in real time, is necessary.

I am a privacy advocate, always trying new and open source alternatives (had to learn command line in the process), but sometimes the overhead for having a decent and sometimes quick service is not worth it.

My 2 cents...
They clearly said that they don't mind ads as long as it's not this click bait crap. I guess it pays really well because every newspaper web site has it :(
Agreed. Walking past random people on the sidewalk doesn't help any more than walking past random people in the supermarket (which you surely do even if you live and die by a car in the burbs).
I think the joke was that Bond is such a gourmet that he is the only one in the room who knows that "LOX" means smoked salmon.
I think GP meant that if inflammation is high, something is wrong - either with the body, or immune system itself. In your case, it would be the latter.
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This is true, a great deal of good can be accomplished supplying electricity and light and clean water to those who don't have access now. However, the carbon footprint of poor individuals is vastly less per capita than of rich individuals. Every rich person, and you are most likely rich in a global sense, must realize their luck and their lifetime carbon footprint and do their part for decarbonizing, given we are those who emit the most.
From what I understand the 5 user minimum isn't implemented.
ISDN ("It Still Does Nothing" to give its facetious full name from the time) lines were often bonded, usually to give 128kpbs though faster configurations were possible, though of course there was an increased cost for this.
Microsoft does. OneDrive for storage, Outlook webapps does email and calendar. Office online has Word, Excel, etc. All accessed with one Microsoft account. All free.

You might not want to be tied to Microsoft but Google is not the only option.

Edit: Overlooked the comment about Apps. Microsoft offers apps for mobile, but not Linux. Although even on Windows I use the browser to access the services which will work on Linux.
This. There are embedded systems running XP including sonograms, dental xray units, and the like. Not to mention dedicated patient scheduling systems. Many turn key systems that have no easy upgrade path.
As a primary PHP developer, PHP has improved by leaps and bounds in the ten years I've been working with it, however there's still a major fundamental issue that has seen improvement but remains unresolved: function overhead.

Contrived example:
- https://3v4l.org/eEtFl
- https://3v4l.org/8QMFh

Two identical ways to do the same thing, one with nicer FP-like syntax, but because of function overhead even on 7.3.x it's significantly slower.

If you're building large-scale PHP applications you have to stay away from a bunch of shiny new features in anything remotely performance-sensitive, and it causes you to write worse code in general (e.g. this monolith would be a lot cleaner as multiple sub-functions, but it's going to be called in a loop 5 million times so I have to keep it ugly).

With compiled languages you can write clean code and then have the compiler optimize it. With PHP, you have to make development-time sacrifices in legibility and maintainability in order to not make runtime sacrifices in performance, which is both worse as an any-stage dev and a huge footgun as a junior dev.
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And JavaScript is the best language in the world (with TypeScript).
Or turn that all that shit off and go full Out of Band management - ok there are some trade-offs here.
My experience is that people don't get familiar (and certainly don't form friendships) on commutes, whether it's on foot or by bike or by car or whatever.
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My experience is different from the others; maybe I don't mind the political message. But at some point it was just rehashing the same jokes over and over again. A bit like Dilbert. Still great, but nothing new anymore.
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Sygic, Tomtom, iGo, Garmin (HW) are very solid maps with good coverage in Europe and nearby countries. They have big POI databases, more or less good search, usually good UI (and optimized for driving). They primarily lack traffic (e.g. Sygic has maybe 1% of what Google has for traffic info), social info (reviews, pictures etc.) and maybe some general polishing. But if people will decide to switch then these particular features can be added and covered. But no way people will turn from ad infested spyware to pay for apps. 20$ vs 0$ - the answer is clear.
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> While I believe certain groups were marginalized in the past, I believe this was due to what were perceived as temporary and fixable conditions. There was still an underlying belief held by at least one major party that... with sufficient education / propaganda / indoctrination... any man or woman could be 'converted' to the in-group of 'American'.

Racism was an extremely widespread belief in the past - and being black is not temporary or "fixable". What's more, the early American racism was more excluding that its contemporary legacy - it was believed that the Anglo-Saxons are superior beings, as proven by their conquests and colonial dominance, and everyone else, including other whites (Germans, French etc.), are an underclass.
I have kept up with PHP since I replace my own 'PHP' which was a Perl cgi script. It is not as crappy as it was and Laravel is quite nice, but there is still so much crap in there, compared to modern languages, libraries and frameworks, that I only do maintenance on projects (upgrade Laravel, port to Laravel etc) but would never start a new project on it.
As a data hoarder myself with somewhere around 300TB on G Suite Business, please tell me more about those £1 for life accounts!
That sounds like something in an Austin Powers movie, not a Bond movie.
I'm 20 minutes give or take by train from central London.

Basically I'm a sole developer for this company - I do everything from developing the Rails app itself to managing a bunch of servers running Docker / Docker Swarm. Fun.
Yes, saw recently on HN (and often IRL) "no point recycling when industry ...", and "we'll never best 10% domestic recycling, why bother".

In UK councils quote 50% recycling rates. And that's with most supermarkets still producing food in unrecyclable packaging.
I see where you are coming from, but to play Devil's advocate:
My understanding of Design Thinking is that the entire idea is that the people using a tool know better than the designers. Designers are supposed to interview them and develop a product that better meets their needs. Instead it seems like many designers make something that they think looks cool (e.g. the touch bar and ultra-thinness on Apple laptops) and expect the tool to adapt around it. It seems like in many cases (thin Mac-books, infinite scroll, UI animations) this actually makes the tool less well suited for the person using it.
Just like growing soy to feed beef, like we do now, except that we found out that the cheapest way to do that was to cut down trees in the amazon forest, grow it there and ship it to the US.

Uncontrolled innovation may have unexpected results.
Yeah, I've been burned too badly by PHP. There are languages I haven't done in years that I would go back to if there was a compelling need to.

PHP is not that language. Far to many sleepless late nights trying to clean up some security hole. PHP is like that abusive Ex that everyone says has changed. It may be true, in which case, good for PHP

But I won't be putting myself in that position again.
"Plov" in Russian, which would have been borrowed from the Central Asian peoples.
Hmm...I fly frequently (every month) on either Boeing or Airbus planes and but for the seat pocket card I'd be hard pressed to identify one from the other.
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What ended PHP were not the worst parts of its design, but upstream's unwillingness to simply change the language for better.

See, as a commercial enterprise (begware as a business) all kinds of "foundations" and sponsorship pools surrounding the language already accumulated a big enough pool of clients who were happy enough with PHP as it was in 4.0 era. They had no intensive to progress. Especially if their business depended on "fixing brokenness"

Open source and sponsorship does not always mix well. Just as with front-end frameworks/libraries that live off sponsorships, eventually it leads to people prioritising pleasing sponsors, and working on pushing their software over improving the software itself.

The current allergy in JS world about genuinely required breaking changes is all about that as well. Any times a talk of genuine "JS 2.0" starts to entertain minds of powerful players in the JS world, there will be tons of people with commercial interest coming and extinguishing the conversation with "no, we absolutely can not ever break anything, ever, even if it is already broken"

Breaking changes in JS world do occur, but most of them being near accidental, security related, or being done as part of actual sabotage like intentional breaking of synchronous AJAX requests after they were shipped.

My logic is, if breaking changes are still unavoidable in JS, why not to do them in a controlled manner, rather than through sneaky sabotage ops like one above?
Relocalizing industry will certainly cause mass migrations (people will follow the industry).
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So you don't think IP should exist at all? And that's not what "monopoly" means.
The checksums in the left column of the listings innocuously looked to the casual observer kind of like line numbers, which may have contributed to their true subversive purpose flying under the radar.

Are you implying there's something more interesting there than just the DES source code and related data that the book already very clearly claims to contain?
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While it’s undeniably a more lucrative target, I still don’t think that is the explanation for the differences in vulnerability. Researchers have been working on the x86/amd64 family of devices for a very long time. Looking aside, many of the published exploits in the past have been against Via and AMD (older architectures).

Like others pointed out, the portability of an attack is usually tried shortly after a successful attack is found. In this case, the attacks have not been found to work elsewhere yet. I won’t count it out that it’s more effort but we’re looking at a timeline of research that spans a year after first reports were made to Intel, which is plenty of time to consider other chips. AMD’s specter problems are very real but much narrower while an entirely separate architecture like ARM shared a lot more of the attack surface with Intel, including Apple chips which you cite as locked down.

Your logic makes sense but the actual historical log of exploits I’ve seen does not seem to line up to explain the result. It only guarantees that researchers will try things against Intel chips first, but nothing about the exclusion of other chips.
I also used to read Megatokyo and then stopped, although for me was that i started losing interest in the story. But it was the first webcomic i read and for a while i was reading a lot of those (i even managed to finish one... i don't remember the name but it was about some anthropomorphic animal magicians or something - no, it wasn't erotic at all - and had insanely great quality, with fully colored pages and detail, which was very rare), although it has been many years since i followed any (i do not really like the weekly wait... :-P).
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dang has mentioned the behind-the-scenes workings of HN a few times over the years, although finding them in amongst all of the other comments might be a bit of a slog: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

There is a surprising amount of manual intervention going on when it comes to what appears on the front page, for example. This was discussed a few days ago IIRC but I can't find the relevant comments now.
As a note, typed properties are coming with 7.4.
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