skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But to be boring (sorry!) it all comes down to the most approriate tool for the job.

It does. But, depending on how you look at it, either most web companies absolutely suck at picking right tool for the job, or the job isn't really what you'd think it is.

Taking your typical plain webpage done as an SPA, you could either say (as I would) that the authors picked wrong tool for the job, introducing completely unnecessary complexity both on their end and customer end - or, you could tell that the job of that website isn't to be useful to and considerate of the visitor, but to be e.g. CV-fodder for web developers, a way for the team to show off their sophisticated infrastructure, or for the marketing to play their A/B testing shenanigans, or for the company to show off to the investors, etc.

Once you account for all the "parts of the job" that are orthogonal or even opposite to delivering value to users, suddenly a proliferation of frontend complexity makes perfect sense.
No, but my understanding is that Stimulus (rails) does that.
It's waste for the business but good for you
My main two hobbies are writing and board game design right now. I've been in a local writer's group for probably going on a dozen years now, and have been designing games for about half that (although only seriously the past three years).

While I've made several pretty good friends from the writer's group, and gotten a few things published through them, some useful critiques, encouragement, etc, I don't think I've gone anywhere near as far with that I have in less than half the time in the game industry.

I think part of that is the act of writing is completely solitary, whereas game design, while it has solitary parts (working on manuals, sell sheets, thinking long and hard about what direction to take the game, making prototypes, etc), the process tends to be highly collaborative.

I.e. I'll playtest your game, then you'll playtest my game. After (or sometimes during) the game, we'll brainstorm new ideas, go over what works, what doesn't, maybe change the rules mid-playtest, etc.

Whereas in my experience with writing, you might share a passage from time to time and get some feedback on it, or recruit someone to beta read something you've written, but it's a lot slower process and a much bigger commitment (if you're writing novels at least). It could take them several weeks to finish your book (if they ever do at all), and if they suggest anything structural, like "I don't think taking the book in this direction worked here", you might have to rewrite half the book to incorporate that change and see if it makes it better.

Short stories are easier, and I've gotten some good feedback on my short stories before.

But even the heavier board games out there tend to require no more than about 3 hours of a player's time (still a lot, even to me, I prefer about 90 minutes or less), but you could still make an Saturday afternoon of it, including an hour of feedback, and get home in time for dinner.

And not only that, but you'll often get multiple people's feedback with one playtest session.

Much, much harder to get a commitment for as long as it takes to read a book. And unless you set up storytime hour where you read out the book, just about everyone you recruit can only experience it by themselves, so it's a lot more work to get that feedback from people.
The BME280 is not particular suited for ambient temperature measurements. It's for accurate and fast pressure and humidity sensing. Quote from the datasheet about the temp sensor:
Its output is used for temperature compensation of the pressure and humidity sensors and can also be used for estimation of the ambient temperature.
You will get the temperature of the sensor rather than that of the environment. The tiny BME280 is thermal coupled to the board and also heats itself up during repeated measurements. For accurate ambient temperature you could use a DTH11 or DHT22. These come in plastic housings to isolate them from the surroundings and provide better airflow.
My brother worked at Hardee’s in the early 90’s, and they had awards for cleanest location and some punishment for those that didn’t meet their guidelines. His location won a lot because they all ate there (big discounts).
If they’re too far from land, I guess they’ll drown.
Yeah, it's so much of a problem and so badly designed that the whole web runs on it every day, enriching the lives of billions of people and providing them with access to valuable software.

You know, I guess that's why I come to think more and more that I have a real issue with the attitude of some of the more deeply technical folks: You completely neglect the success of this ecosystem and what it does for all of us, because of technical details that apparently do not matter a lot to end users.

Yes, for technical people having to deal with that ecosystem, it can introduce new quirks and issues. It's your job to deal with that and create value for customers.

Do something about it instead of ranting and whining.
Yes, the greatest issue with that piece of legislation.
It works by detecting faces and using a different projection for them. How exactly would this be useful?
The disagreement can exist because "orbits" is left under-defined. If you say A orbits B if A makes circles around B and B creates a bigger gravity field, then everyone will agree; they'll also agree on the fact if both objects have roughly equal masses, then it is true to say that both A orbits B and B orbits A.
> Lastly, I can only applaud Taiwan for standing against this bill in their own way by refusing to use it even if it were passed.

It's difficult to see what's commendable in effectively approving that people may evade Taiwanese justice by hiding in HK just for the sake scoring PR points against the mainland at a time when elections are coming up.

This is the worst level of populism, frankly, and transparently insincere.

It may actually backfire because that bill was partly brought forward because of the outrage caused by doing exactly that (evading Taiwanese justice by fleeing to HK).
I've worked for a company that went bankrupt over some accounting system they'd built and used themselves. It contained a subtle bug that made them think they had more money than they had.

It's really vital to thoroughly test and verify any financial code. Any code, but financial doubly so. And do it again in production. Even small errors can really add up over time.
Did BuzzFeed news says that Mueller was gonna charge trump and grandstand about it after being proven wrong?
To be honest, I'm about 100% certain that ecoterrorism (terrorism to protect the environment) will be the next main type of terrorism. And I think it's going to start happening much sooner than anyone things.

And, truthfully, I can't say I blame the people.
Seems... tautological.
Problems can be profoundly serious and important in their own right, without needing to be ranked against one another.

Doing that just leads to emotion-charged-but-pointless arguments.
Being anti-Trump doesn't make you center-left. It's not even a question of politics. I can't even articulate all the reasons why he is bad for the country, not in a short comment - the fact that he is right-wing is least among them. Many (most?) Republicans also think this, but are unwilling to publicly undermine "their guy" (particularly at the expense of their careers).

Also, in a society with free media, surely the "dominant culture" is centrist, by definition?
We did something very similar to this and our solution was to have 2 classes of requests, those that require global ordering (creation of posts etc) and those that don’t. These second classes of requests can contain dependencies to each other to have a local ordering but don’t block any other requests.
A blockchain isn't necessary because there's no double spending to prevent. Just broadcasting signed assertions to a bunch of nodes who make all of the data available to the public should be enough for everyone to know who claimed what and when. Less like Bitcoin, more like Certificate Transparency.
Question is: how well would (the paranoid, control-seeking parts of) Stalinism have worked with today's technology?
Clams got legs!

http://albanydish.blogspot.com/2013/09/clams-got-legs.html
iOS Biometric Local Authentication of Face Id and Touch ID Using Swift
I think you have to consider how transportation activity is being disrupted. It’s being disrupted because the risk of a collision between a drone and airliner carrying many people is considered a grave safety threat to hundreds of lives. A low altitude crash of an airliner poses serious risk of a large number of deaths both of the passengers and people on the ground. A large, non violent, protest blocking the streets probably doesn’t create the same risk of large numbers of deaths.
I’m sorry for my tone in writing this.

Frankly I was rather drunk and should not have been making non-constructive criticisms like this.
Yes, changing the words of a sentence changes the meaning of a sentence. You are very clever.
That somebody thinks it’s a funny joke doesn’t cancel out somebody else purposefully using it as a hate symbol knowing that other members of their sick cult know what they really mean.
Sorry but those actions where clearly sufficient. If all countries had reduced their CO2 emissions like the EU block did, we would be in an excellent state. The reduction needs to keep happening in a steady pace, not have a sudden shift like these extremist environmentalist are calling for.

My issue with those analysis is that they are political, not environmentalist. For instance, if you look at India in those same analysis, you see they are doing great (although having increased they CO2 emissions in 300% and set to soon become the 2nd biggest polluter by a long margin).

In fact that's my issue with this all movement: It seems to take roots in contesting Western Society by using the climate crisis to force major political change in the West by disrupting the all economic output (because this will be what happens if you suddenly break the energy consumption by several %), and then build a society according to the political views of a minority that thinks they know best.

At the same time, that won't stop global warming at all, since the emissions on the West are already the minor part of the global emissions (due to china) and soon will become an even smaller part (due to India).
Ragtime is neither classical music nor jazz (2009)
I wonder if the main benefit of blogs and tutorials is for the writer, not the reader.

This makes me wonder about the damage FAQs do to a community; where once there was a continual flow of new people needing newbie explanations - and a continual flow of not-quite-newbies benefiting from writing those explanations over and over, but different people each time, and implicitly being welcoming through that interaction - there is instead an implicitly unwelcoming response with a link to a FAQ. A FAQ which is dauntingly large due to its attempt to be comprehensive, but never deleted and refreshed, so getting ever more outdated and cruftier.
My local group is open to the public and doesn't require previous publications or any fees.

It also means it attracts a lot of less serious writers. People who are more into the fantasy of writing than the actual doing of it (or at least the putting it out there in the world, which admittedly I'm somewhat guilty of myself, I only have a few short stories out there).

Basically it's headed by one stubbornly persistent guy in the area, who puts a lot of time into it, for free. He works with local libraries and municipalities to secure meeting spaces, sets up meetings, comes up with activities, etc. We tend to get an influx of new members every Nanowrimo, which he hosts the local chapter and then invites people to join the year round group (how he got me).

It has decent attendance, and can get up to 40 people at a meeting at times. The Nanowrimo-specific group is pretty strong and usually has 100+ people participating each year.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure without him at the helm, everything would have drifted off a long time ago and the group wouldn't still be there. If he ever decided to move on, I don't think the group would last more than 6 months to a year.
Having watched Shark Tank for a long time, I always wondered if Kevin O'Leary just played a ruthless shark on the show or if he really was one. The article seems to confirm he is definitely the latter: "He was the soulless businessperson who just came in and bought a bunch of companies and scaled them back and laid off all the good people.”

Moreover, he manages to sell TLC for $3.5 billion to Mattel, which is forced to sell it for just $27 million 18 months later. Of course, that was a poor decision by Mattel's then CEO, considering she was warned not to do the deal: "TLC was a “house of cards.” The business was boosting its revenue by purchasing new companies, but the significant acquisition costs weren’t reflected in their top-line earnings."

Interesting that another shark on the show - Mark Cuban - also became a billionaire by selling his company to Yahoo at its peak, and Yahoo then essentially shutting it down.
Is it? The airport is forced to block all flights, which in turn prevents danger to passengers. That's the whole purpose behind the drones.
In Australia, most cashiers will ask you if you want the receipt when paying and you can decline so that they don't print it.

I usually decline and only ask for a receipt if the total is over $100.
I grew up playing number munchers, but we had reader rabbit as well. Since I already knew how to read at that time, we just referred to reader rabbit as "Evan's game" (my littlest brother). It seems, in my memory, like the computer was a source of wonder. The games were strangely austere and left a lot more room for my imagination to take over (kinda like the difference between reading a book and watching a movie). Miss those days!
Is this about SAP?
A fanciful idea indeed. It's exactly this kind of thinking that got us into war by convincing Yamamoto that we'd be a push over because we did not have the stomach for war. War is terrible. We didn't want it. We were staying out of it despite the mass atrocities of Japan and Germany. But when it was forced on us we fought it and used the weapons at our disposal. No regrets here.
But then straight lines become curves. This maintains straight lines.
Even worse, abbreviations are terrible as there is one way to write a word correctly, and lots of ways to abbreviate it, so now you have to keep track of that too.

Was it inc? incl? incld? includ? in? incldd?

Now you have to break flow to go check. There's many ways it could be written and a chance for bugs to be introduced if you accidentally pick the wrong style. And when you read it, does the inc mean incorporated? included? includes? including? incapable? incestual?
>This quickly becomes insane, like with the 'OK' handsign, including the decades old 'circle game', neither of which has any connection to racism other than what desperate mainstream media portrays in search of clicks.

Those are also all minor blips on the cultural radar no one will care about in a few months time. What matters are the symbols with any cultural weight or staying power.
This idea about solar weather affected by the planets was just in the news

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sun-s-11-year-cycle-have-ma...
The letter x as a symbol already has widespread use and an accepted, common meaning in the Western world, but the swastika really didn't until the Nazis appropriated it. Which is why Nazis probably wouldn't appropriate the letter x because its power as a symbol had already been diluted.

Also, a symbol can be ruined locally and not ruined globally. The swastika wasn't ruined for Eastern cultures, but it was definitely ruined for everyone but Nazis everywhere else. If Buddhists decided to get together to try to "reclaim" the swastika for its original peaceful intent, they would fail utterly, even though they have a perfectly rational and defensible case.
F-35 jets: Chinese-owned company making parts for top-secret UK-US fighters
looks towards the great attractor and sighs
It is HIGHLY commendable that the people of Hong Kong came out loudly against a law with vast potential for abusive applications.

Want Taiwanese fugitives? Find a better way to get them.
One objective may be (or may at some point be) to cause enough economic damage that certain ecologically damaging activities are no longer economically Portugal. Start working on economic terms and governments and corporations start to listen.
Great work, just didn't like the key bindings. W-A-S-D is a better choice than A-S-D-F.
It's also available from the menus, of course:

Help > Search and Run a Command /

/ is also a common shortcut to invoke a quick find text entry, for example in web browsers.
Does Anyone Use Share Icons on Websites Anymore?
Do you actually believe that conspiracy theory? The Mueller report was pretty clear that the disinformation was on both political sides, and Reddit was not a part of any of the activity.
idk anything about Java but I imagine the spec could define this to be positive
There's a lot of banks in various countries whose standard “payment API” is uploading a CSV file with a list of account numbers to an FTPS or SFTP server nightly. And guess what happens if you upload the file twice by accident…
I've only shopped there once, and I wonder if this is subconciously why.

(More likely something to do with revision control I suppose.)
It doesn't help that model outputs are often put forward as the main reason for doing something. For example with climate change. But often the problem being discussed is more complex than the single dimension that the science based argument relies on. You have to consider ethics, economics, social effects, and a whole host of other disciplines. People intuitively get this.

You have to have an argument that will pursuade the uneducated, poorly informed neighbor first. And often model outputs just don't cut it.
I just tried it out, edited some code. It's alright. The problem I have with it is the graphics quality. It's very plain. No shader access. Close to no lighting.

I decided not to invest more time into it, it needs some work to be a game engine.
Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research?
I love science & tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer/entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting/contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I'm ready to work full time on this.

Ideas revolve around

* indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better; Other projects exist though: Google Scholar; semanticscholar.org, academic.microsoft.com, https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science/projects-meta

* generative design

* bioengineering (not sure exactly what, eg microbiota simulator)

* materials simulator (eg how can we get a material having a given set of properties)

I don't need immediate financial returns, but I do need the work to be used & have an impact in real life projects.

What ideas do you have on how one can accelerate scientific research?
- Thanks for sending your reply. Mine contains the same template text but does not contain a "Please review this section" bit. It only has the "does not comply" part. i.e., it says that something's wrong, but doesn't state anything else.

- I'm really sorry to hear that your extension was never reinstated...! By the way, my extension is also minified... I didn't know about this rule at all! It was never mentioned in any of the communications, but I am seeing at least one article [0] about this. Is that what this is all about?? I just un-minified and submitted it again (after getting an email prompting me to resubmit)

- Finally, when you say "If you start messing with some of the options", what do you mean? Which options? I'm particularly interested in adding more i18n languages to the extension (amongst other changes). Do you mean to not make any changes to the manifest.json & description in the store, but that code changes are (generally) fine?

Thanks a ton!

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-no-longer-allow-chro...
I thought it was an ad too, and would devalue those items compared to others because of that pretense.

Why? Because it's a similar pattern that we see on other websites: the "sponsored" content gets the top spots. The real content comes directly after.
Because single humans are busy, get bored, get distracted, stop wanting to maintain servers, stop wanting to pay for servers etc..

If the product was released by some self-sustaining entity like a business, foundation or otherwise bankrolled and staffed by parties with an interest in keeping it up then it would be much less of an issue.

The value in almost all software is the maintenance. React being good software is one thing, but what makes it so attractive is that Facebook and (and these days many others) have a financial interest in keeping it maintained.
What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (2015)
> I disagree with your assessment. I myself am certainly not a lawyer, but the way I interpret that language is for something to be considered an act of terrorism it has to meet a criteria from section [1] AND section [2]. I agree that the planned drone demonstration meets 1c, but I don't think it meets any of the criteria from section 2.

Also not a lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me that flying drones around an airport can be considered to fall under 2(d): "creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public".

The fact that the airport can respond by closing down operations to mitigate the risk does not make it OK, any more than phoning in a warning before setting off a bomb makes that OK.
"As part of his guilty plea, Hansmeier admitted that he and Steele created fictitious business entities to obtain copyrights of pornographic films – buying the rights or actually creating the X-rated movies"

Uhh. They made their own porn? Maybe they will like prison.
It's totally not fun when the landowner gets to impose rules on the land they own.

Whether the landowner (feds) in this case should own so much land west of the Mississippi is a whole other thing. A strong argument can be made that the over ownership of land by the feds is completely unfair and likely unconstitutional.
I feel like most phones nowadays don't really care about a 5mb difference considering they have multiple GB's of space. At least on my phone, the space taken by the actual app binaries is negligible compared to media.
No thanks. You try logging out and see the generic recommendations. It's the lowest common denominator, just like anything else targeted at large masses of people.
Pissing people off is not a very effective way of getting them to be sympathetic to your cause.

Also, I’m sure a good number of people flying are already worried about the climate but they still have to get where they’re going faster than a week.
Climate change has made Guatemala unlivable
In hot and humid areas an Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) should be chosen as it's able to remove moisture from the incoming air as well.

There are a number of companies that make whole house ERV/HRV kits and a good method of setup is to constantly exhaust your bathrooms and possibly other contaminated spaces, while delivering fresh air to bedrooms or common areas.

Energy recovery is in the 50% range.

Some can be balanced to slightly positive pressure particularly if there is an attached garage or other sources of contamination.

ASHRAE publishes standard 62.2 which recommends that for modern houses the ventilation rate in CFM = 0.03*ft^2 + 7.5(Nbedrooms+1)
Not directly related to the content, but: This is the second text in a short time I see where there are animated separation lines between the paragraphs.

Is this some new trend? And am I the only one who finds this exceptionally irritating?
Tesla Model 3 200kW Ionity vs. 120kw Tesla Supercharger
Ask HN: How do you improve something, anything?
Do you have any general method?
Is "improvement" a valid concept at all?