skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But They Need Ad Revenue

"Local" online news in a lot of the UK has all but died a death. We have a couple of big news outlets that basically publish a little local news in practically no depth and then fill the rest with clickbait "news" items of no value other than to generate clicks. There seem to be practically no real journalists and readers are "invited to send in their pictures" - without payment of course. Hopefully these dumpster files will die out soon..
I am surprised that some comments state that it "has to be linux". Since they can't magically reduce the time it would take to develop something that complex nowhere near their time constraints, it obviously has to start with something that already exists. But Linux is not the only open source OS out there, folks. If I were charged with this task, i'd start with OpenBSD, given its focus on security. The fact that most of base is BSD licensed also helps because no changes would be legally required to be opensourced. It also can run modern web browsers and libreoffice, which is a significant part of what goes for "desktop" computing these days.
FMM modulation?
The bundle size is now much better, and will only get better with Ivy. Also, I don't think it makes the most important comparison point although it certainly is one to consider.

Most websites on the internet load several megabytes of Javascript.

For a full-size SPA, I think Angular is a great choice, but for incremental use cases like adding some interactivity to a mostly static page, it's still not the main use case, although that will change with Angular Elements.
That's ridiculously awful.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...
Huawei is allegedly opting for an android based OS. which takes off the biggest drawback of alt OS, android app compatibility. you can just side load via apk a normal app and you are good to go (given zero dependency on GS etc...)
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000

inet 192.168.101.12/24 brd 192.168.101.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.1.25/32 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.1.32/31 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Seems to work fine, added a /31 just for fun.
It is an excuse. Formatting (should) add virtually nothing. 102kb is a lot of text. There are pdf books that are smaller than that.
Churches label themselves as charities, so by this reckoning donations that swell a property portfolio and a pastor's impressive lifestyle are considering "charitable". (Never mind that some churches lean heavily towards barely-disguised political activism.)

The amount of money spent on genuine good works is rather lower.

I'm sure genuinely giving people exist in religions, and they may even be encouraged by belonging to them.

But the standard rhetorical implication is that all religious people are like this and all non-profit spending falls into this category - when the reality is very different.
Feedback about the online demo, after a very quick visit:

* The UI is a bit confusing, in the sense that it is not directly clear whether the displayed panels are preview of the tool, or documentation about the feature being previewed.
* Then, the charts and tables featured in the demo didn't look easy to understand/interpret, neither actionable. The impression I got was that the promised solutions to well described problems are not yet there in the tool.

Positive points:

* nice UI
* fast and responsive site
* the problem you are describing and focusing on are definitely important pain points for business websites, and it is worth investing time to provide solutions to these

Keep up :)
Maybe you could argue that they provided a better service to the community when they had better representation. Now they are in a recession and people flight to put it in economic terms.
"Profitable enough" isn't really a thing. The owners/share holders will always happily accept a bigger dividend payment landing in their bank accounts and then reward senior management for it. Everyone within the company will also happily accept the budget increases and job security that are more likely to happen when profits are growing.

So when someone comes into a meeting and says "here is a way we can bring in extra money" no one is likely to say "no thanks, we make enough money."
The author is considering the wrong context.

Services get more fine-grained every year, and composition of these services is where the money will be made in the future. AI might resolve some of the issues with finding the right services for the right use cases & even integrating them.

Custom, home-made services will be a conscious choice, and might be composed of other services that are publicly available or not. Everything else will use off-the-shelf services.

My .02€
This title is terrible, it's meaningless to 99.9% of users. It doesn't even mention Chrome!? How is anyone supposed to know what this post is about?
Is it still a clickbait if it's true?
fyi that works for me at 60fps in chrome 74 on a 2018 macbook pro
Whoa, never thought I'd even see a Shai Linne song linked on HN. Nice.
I'm afraid this time we'll need to switch before things start breaking, or otherwise less and less devs will bother testing on alternatives.
Depends on budget so also were in the world the device is brought.

768 panels are cheaper than 1080 panels so are often found in the lower end devices.

While the gap between 768 and 1080 is slowly decreasing 768 is still the dominate screen res in the worldwide stats [0].

But in Europe[1] and US[2] 1080 has overtaken 768, but 768 is still widely used. We will be coding for 768 panels for a long time to come (esp as the mobile vs desktop race seems to be tied for now[3]).

[0] - http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/wo...

[1] - http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/eu...

[2] - http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/un...

[3] - http://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobi...
I've made a grand total of 3 edits to Wikipedia in my life. All were reversals of blatant falsehoods that somehow made it into articles (Such as one Dr. Zero attempting to weaponize the semantic internet to enable Chinese hegemony). In all cases, my edits were removed due to lack of attribution for the change, nevermind that the original changes didn't have attribution. At that point, I decided it wasn't worth the aggravation and didn't bother trying to contribute anything.
Just wanted to add a +1. I use FF with strict content blocking enabled which means that things like YouTube videos and captchas are often randomly missing from pages, as are images hotlinked from third-party servers. I see this as a feature rather than a bug and it's easily temporarily disabled if it causes an issue.

Of course, I use uBlock Origin as well.

Performance-wise I have no complaints and the sync across devices works just as well as it does in Chrome.
Show HN: Fist – An in Memory Full-Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C
Considering the number of times someone has knocked on my door with information I need (hey, noticed something of yours was on/open/etc.), something I want (this was delivered mistakenly to me, here you go), or offer for assistance (Hey, it's me, a kid from the neighborhood. I'll shovel your driveway for $$), sure.

If you live in an area that regularly has people literally trying to con you door to door, that's an issue with where you live. It's not normal for many people.
Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host Filesystem
Yes, that is absolutely fair. I was indeed talking about Angular in the context of a full SPA, not a tiny component in a banner.
> Breaking up a monopoly requires that said monopoly be bad for society

This has not been true historically. Standard Oil was not "bad for society".
> Counting everyone born to Muslim parents as Muslim doesn't make any more sense

That is, in fact, exactly how it’s defined within that religion. Also, using Egypt as an example is deeply ironic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIqdrFeFBk
I can promise you the police in Canada work the same way.
'Nineteen Eighty-Four' at 70
A few off the top of my head: juggling packets between userspace and kernel resulting in poor performance, tacked-on hacky features (hmac authentication), fragmented and often outdated documentation (the community wiki is a mess), homebrew key generation helper tools with hardcoded openssl versions, no native support on Windows/MacOS, autostart services on Windows are a mess (OpenVPNService, OpenVPNServiceInteractive, OpenVPNServiceLegacy), faffing about with socket buffer sizes on windows to get any sort of throughput and so on...
This reminds me of that image of how to draw an owl. People forget that everyone starts somewhere and there is no magical jump from beginner level code to production code. Having good, well-explained examples of the beginner and intermediate were incredibly beneficial to me.
One doesn't need to be too old to be responsible of his own actions
Sounds like email might not be the best medium for them.
Every email client sanitizes email a bit differently, and images are often omitted, so I cannot imaging how anything but the most basic layouts can work.
In addition to the reasons listed in the article, I also notice (as someone relying on accessibility) that the overall readability of news sites has gone down dramatically in the recent years, especially considering accessibility. With all this pop up ads and "we need you to accept cookies" nonsense, it has become increasingly hard to just read a news bite. I notice in my own behaviour, that I less regularily click on links that go to news sites, since I dont want to waste my time unnecessaryil.
Sure, I still wouldn't call that "upgrade early, upgrade often".
> In the blue zones, clearly the biggest factor is the diet which is almost 100% plant based.

Clearly you are extremely biased and refuse to look at things in any other way but life doesn't revolve around "I eat animals or I don't".

Vegans aren't immune to cancer or heart diseases (they only have a small reduction of these in some studies) and they don't live 20-30-40-50 years longer than omnivores. And the reason vegans weigh less is because they're more aware of how much they eat compared to the mostly uneducated (in terms of nutrition) population.
This may not be totally relevant but it's always bothered me that he lied about being a chess Fide Master (FM) and then doubled down on his lie in a reddit ama
Or, you know, have your federal government implement self-filing online which covers 80% of the population

And what about the other 20%, which could be upwards of 75 million people?

It's so very SV/HN to reduce every problem to a numbers game, and anyone who doesn't fit into the larger figure is marginalized as an "edge case" to be ignored and discounted.
It’s a bad sign when your “what’s the solution?” section starts off by admitting you don’t have one.

Not to be deterred by this, though, the piece suggests a couple of shopworn ideas anyway:

> Switch over to a monthly subscription plan

For this to work you have to put up a paywall, and according to HN conventional wisdom the only thing worse than ads are paywalls, otherwise known as History’s Greatest Monster.

> Partner with brands to create sponsored articles

Which is a nicer way of saying “just get out of the news business and go into marketing.”

> Place a larger emphasis on user donations or promotions

So, pledge drives! Hope you like tote bags. Public broadcasting already does this, of course; it doesn’t come near to covering all their expenses.

Look, here’s the thing. It’s true, news websites are dumpster fires! But they’re dumpster fires for a reason, namely that nobody has yet come up with a reliable business model that allows them to not be dumpster fires. They’re dumpster fires because that’s what happens when the only choices available are all bad ones.

If you’ve got an actual way to cut this knot, lots of people in the news business would be very interested in hearing it. But just telling them to stop sucking so hard, man isn’t particularly helpful.
Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates
This graph is based on influence relations retrieved from Wikidata, which is the central storage for the structured data of Wikipedia. I'm sure that some relations are debatable and that there are missing relations. That said, just like Wikipedia everyone can help improve Wikidata by adding, editing or removing information and by adding references. Would love to get your feedback und suggestions for improvements.
Fortunately, you only have to pay the low price of $20K to get wrongful charges thrown out, or $500K + years of your life for wrongful convictions.
At least we got croissants
> The government can't fund newspapers without the perception of state bias.

The government itself can not do this, but it could demand that there is a neutral news organisation which is allowed to collect the necessary money to function from its citizen, like the public broadcasting system in several countries. This would help as a somewhat trusted ground source, IMHO.
The best and the only true format :)
Searches are sent as you type, so it's not really that simple.

Firefox already does what you suggested when hitting enter in the default URL bar - if it's not a valid URL, it gets used as a search.

FWIW, I now see search bar has been off by default in firefox for the last 2 years (still grandfathered in for legacy users like me), so I think mozilla gave up on this. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/09/firefox-57-search-bar-off-...
The EU is based on the free movement of goods, capital, and people. America has essentially open borders for the first 2 but not the third. I wonder if it had picked a different 2, what would've happened?
> Religious people are happier than non-religious people.

Dumb people are happier than smart people -- pick your own causality.

> This replicates fairly well across many countries.

In some countries you'll likely be killed if you express your non-religiosity.

In (as far as I know) no countries would you be killed by atheists if you're non-atheist.

> This should be a fairly convincing argument all on its own.

Of what, pray tell?

> It is entirely possible to be religious without rejecting rationalism ...

This is clearly not true, even if (as you suggest) attempt to morph capital-G god into a metaphor.

> Religious people are also more charitable.

I believe this has been debunked, but in any case if the motivation is 'not spend an eternity being tortured' it suggests it's self-interest, not altruism at play.
"Apple outsourcing Maps' business info to Yelp, they really should hold their partners to a much higher standard given all of their privacy rhetoric."

I could not agree more. I cannot stand Yelp and was pretty bummed when they integrated Yelp into Apple Maps.
I’m interested in this question too, but here’s what’s worked for me. Mostly it’s about being completely up front and honest about what you want with clear deadlines for the next step from them for you to keep them around in your sales pipeline.

- be explicit about your strong desire to work together, but it’s ok if the other side doesn’t share the feeling

- ask the potential client early on to let you know ASAP if it’s no longer worth it for you to

- give clear timelines to keep a commitment on an engagement. If they don’t make progress by X date you’re moving on to other engagements

- if they disappear send a firm “thanks for your interest, sounds like the timing won’t work right now, we’re moving on...” email
Fedora 28 Is EOL
Pantry ingredients can help grow carbon nanotubes
What is the legitimate argument against this, besides knee-jerk fear of government?

Fear of government is engrained in American culture. It is literally what the nation was founded on, and enshrined in the documents which established the country.
Religious upbringing installs backdoors that these scammers exploit.
I don't think we are too far off and AI will be the key. Sometimes I like to remember that anything a computer can do can be done by thousands of people in an office. Take a program you've worked on and think about how you would have implemented it with people instead of code, where each person is a function and the data gets passed on a piece of paper. The designed workflow would be easily described to people, and any exact processing would need to be demonstrated to the worker. The super fine details of processing are usually pretty easy to understand as well as the high level. It should just take some AI assisted translating to find the appropriate processing models for the high level requests, with the ability to learn by demonstration for the edge cases.
Did you mean "Chrome"?
The awk version does not order it. If your output was ordered the way you wanted, it was because the input already was.
How do I participate in pioneer.app ?
Tried logging on and it did not work.
And thus the Google News Initiative, its journalism outreach program and $300M Digital News Fund [1], which launched last year...

* Gooole News Initiative https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com

* Google Digital News Fund https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/dnifund/

* Google News Lab (2017) https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiat...

* Subscribe with Google (2018) https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiat...

* The Google News Initiative, One Year In (2019) https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiat...

[1] "Google announces a $300M ‘Google News Initiative’ (though this isn’t about giving out grants directly to newsrooms, like it does in Europe)" https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/google-announces-a-300m-go...
SquareSpace would like to have a word with you.

The truth is, this space just gets better every year. You can get more and more done with less and less. Sure, you still can't build arbitrary programs without at the very least a general-purpose programming language, but if you can constrain the solution space just a little bit you'd be very surprised at just how far you can get without needing to break out a text editor.
Front-end development is inherently chaotic right now, doesn't matter the framework. Things will get better.... I'm intrigued by Svelte.
There's research on nudging behaviours, and that being told you're being nudged doesn't negatively impact your decision vs not being told you're being nudged, which could be considered synonymous with advertising transparency [0] (although there are caveats at play that might make that unsound).

[0] https://www.coglode.com/gem/transparency-effect
there's a lot of very educated people doing those crappy, low-skilled, low-paying jobs
I occasionally think about starting $$Profit$$Coin$$ - crypto traded explicitly as the next bubble - and seeing how far it gets before the bubble pops.
Police aren’t all out to get you.

But some are. Some will plant drugs on you.

The one knocking on your door now, is it a good cop or a bad cop?
Obviously there are many other factors for happiness. To say anything about the effect of religion on happiness, ideally you would compare people in the same region, in similar circumstances.
Why people don’t use it in a) would be an interesting discussion. And I fully agree on b): HTML (+ CSS) is wholly inadequate for app development.
Nice article :)
Well, private persons/corporations can't fund newspapers without bias either, so I'm not sure why the focus on government is relevant ?
heard of vue?
I think the point OP is making is that they won't even click the link in the first place.
The Asus Prime Utopia is a radical concept for the future of motherboards
I've seen the exact scenario mentioned in the article play out, "the moment you need to create something in a domain that does not fit existing tools, you are already into the domain where you will eventually need programming done, and in that domain, you need a programming language, not a drawing tool."

I worked somewhere with a team of engineers who worked in LabView. They used LabView mainly for customized test equipment controllers and recorders and it worked well. They then branched into FPGAs for some straightforward dataflow signal processing and that also worked well. They then decided they were sick of how long it took software engineers to write device drivers for custom hardware and decided to do that in LabView with some tool that could generate C code from LabView. I got pulled into a meeting about it. I asked a couple important questions: how do you insert memory barriers and how can you write code that is ISR safe? It was clear the LabView folks had no idea about any of this. So I launched into a discussion about CPU architecture. They didn't really listen and everything was a hand wave, "LabView does that for you". It was clear they didn't want to hear my thoughts, so I let it go.

Fast forward 6 months and I get a frantic call from a manager if I had "bandwidth" to write a device driver in C for the same card where the LabView team was supposed to have written the driver.
It's also important to note that you don't need religion to be charitable or help other people.
There isn't a single "good" that church does to other people that couldn't be done by secular means.
There is no difficulty.

The BBC news.bbc.co.uk
and
theguardian.co.uk

are both examples of well funded, non biased news sources.
Even if making the connector reversible would have ended up costing too much money, why not at least make it (more clearly) asymmetrical to reduce the guesswork involved in plugging in the cable? Yes, I know the USB logo is supposed to face up and the seam on the connector is supposed to face down, but those seem like half-measures at best. At least they seem to have figured it out with later iterations of the connectors.
Certainly as a Scot I would not naturally associate "religion" and "happiness"....

Edit: I'm talking about my experience of religion in Scotland, which is a bit grim and dour, not the rather cheerful kind that they seem to have in the US :-)
> Optimizing for happiness would logically call for denying unpleasant truths because pointing them out would make people unhappy

Not if you take the long term into account. Denying unpleasant truth might make people happy -- though I don't think this works if your subconscious still knows the truth -- but then you cannot deal with the issue and it makes you unhappy.

> if the depressed commit suicide it would drive up the average happiness.

If someone's life is so unpleasant it isn't worth living and they cannot be treated, suicide isn't inhumane.

> Even if given tighter constraints it would still have disturbing ignorance is bliss promotion.

Something being disturbing doesn't mean it's actually bad. Reactionaries find homosexuality disturbing.

Do you have a reason for considering ignorance is bliss promotion disturbing aside from lack of familiarity?

> I disagree - especially since optimizing for anything blindly/without constraints can lead to horrific outcomes.

I don't think an outcome that makes people happy, including in the long run, can be horrific.