skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an example of what happens when a field is over-regulated.

You have these obtuse solutions working around a problem that is only hard because of lawyers and 500 regulations to "protect investors".

People were able to hack together exchanges for crypto-coins. The only thing that stands in the way of doing this for private stock/tiny companies is excessive regulation. I'm not saying we want the whole crypto experience of exchanges blowing up overnight, but what we have now is clearly not right either.
Into the Spiderverse is the best Marvel movie and an absolute visual spectacle.
My local public school did not have advanced placement classes, only regular and support for learning disabilities.

At least it had support for the learning disabled.
It's very useful. I once had a codebase where we wrote two (parallel) variants of trampoline called tramampoline and trambopoline, and I'm not even a little bit sorry.
They wouldn't sell it because it sucks. You can't buy Godson, Phytium Mars, HiSilicon Kunpeng, etc.
"[Moms Across America] is an anti-GMO, anti-vaccine, anti-science, fundamentalist group that cynically peddles a toxic brew of medical misinformation and completely unregulated, untested, potentially toxic quack “supplements” including $60 bottles of “hydrogen water,” coal extracts and other bogus products, ripping off customers using scare tactics and distorted “facts” about science and medicine."

From Impossible Burger's response to MAA's garbage: https://assets.ctfassets.net/hhv516v5f7sj/77NQsg1qDb6d9Hi4PB... [PDF]
I did this as well and it definitely helped. For Stack Overflow I've also removed the left sidebar entirely and upped the minimum width of the main content (so code doesn't get cut off nearly as much).

Another helpful one was removing the "next page" links on Reddit (I use the classic version). That way I can check on some things I'm interested in, but not get carried away.

I'm considering doing the same for Hacker News.
Yeah, for some reason I feel like you're not a credible source on the opinions of plutocrats: https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2016/01/robot-cultist-eliezer...
> Warehousing, inventory, service and delivery costs could easily make parts cost more than the original item.

Leave delivery costs out for a second; all that you're really arguing for is that instead of warehousing/inventorying old parts, it should be much easier to order individual parts on-demand from local boutique fabrication suppliers. Sure, that costs more per-part than the original (which benefited from the cost reduction of mass production), but as much as the whole? My gut is pretty doubtful on that.
See also, Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
200 megaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

Such a huge asteroid may be exactly what we need to slow down global warming - fighting one catastrophe with another:

"In the year following the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 °C (2.2 °F).[12] Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.[12] The record rainfall that hit Southern California during the water year from July 1883 to June 1884 – Los Angeles received 38.18 inches (969.8 mm) and San Diego 25.97 inches (659.6 mm)[13] – has been attributed to the Krakatoa eruption.[14] There was no El Niño during that period as is normal when heavy rain occurs in Southern California,[15] but many scientists doubt that there was a causal relationship.[16]

The Krakatoa eruption injected an unusually large amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas high into the stratosphere, which was subsequently transported by high-level winds all over the planet. This led to a global increase in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) concentration in high-level cirrus clouds. The resulting increase in cloud reflectivity (or albedo) reflected more incoming light from the sun than usual, and cooled the entire planet until the suspended sulfur fell to the ground as acid precipitation."
There was an article in The Atlantic with a bit more info, but the hunter that killed it initially called it a narluga. That stuck in spite of the convention being backwards: the genetics suggest the mother was a narwhal, which would make this particular combo a belwhal by the standard convention.
Slack started out as an internal chat tool by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck, which was trying to launch the game Glitch. When Glitch failed, they spun out Slack as a new company (or they renamed the company, not sure).

This is almost the exact thing that happened with Butterfield's first venture, Flickr, which was built on a web platform they wrote for a multiplayer online game called Game Neverending (which is why Flickr URLs have/had "gne" in their URLs).
The missing 0.1% is usually the most painful and the time it takes to update sucks. I love my mac but it has a long way until it improves this.

Ideally I should be able to swap the SSD and have it working 100% (besides a few software that fingerprints your machine for licensing reasons and it's another pain) in a couple of minutes, or have the machine replicated 100% (with no update process or whatsoever afterwards - besides perhaps things stored in the secure enclave) in half an hour...
As both a gmail user and developer interested in applications to help me manage my personal information, this is incredibly depressing to hear.

The idea of a verification process itself is great, and I applaud that effort. But some of these barriers seems put in place solely to kill competition and prevent startups from filling the personal data needs before Google comes up with its own plan.

These exorbitant fees of $15,000 and $75,000 are completely unjustifiable.
When I worked on a site for mutual funds years ago, we couldn't use green-color text because it could be considered as implying that the person reading it would make money.
Telemetry probes in Firefox/Gecko go through a common telemetry core that contains a kill switch. That code is located at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone.... Have fun.
Indeed. "Spaceballs, the flamethrower!"
This is exactly my point. Because guns are banned, they need to have cameras everywhere to reduce crime, which seems to be working.

I feel like I can't even have a regular conversation on HN, if it`s against groupthink, without being down voted to death.

It`s sad that a seemingly intellectual group has to be so close-minded.
Thanks, this makes much more sense. Typically we’ve used the market as a judge/pre-judge, but low inspiration me-too content in an opaque marketplace seems to disrupt this model significantly. It seems to me the value, especially for Apple, would be from having a better store UX. Tags that find users good stuff may not lead to Gems that you can pump to get more sales, but it might mean on-boarding a % more users per quarter to your service/ecosystem—especially over time as reputation builds. Conversely, if the App Store becomes too cluttered with garbage users may lose interest in the device or even ecosystem entirely if the quality of new apps they discover drops off dramatically due to a lack of tools/curation. An efficient curated store certainly improves the feeling of an experience versus one loaded with junk.
Tagging isn’t trivial, however it can lead to a much better experience.
I'm convinced that type of spatula isn't designed to last anyway. Even if they don't break, moisture gets into the joint between the wood and the spatula and develops mold. Sometimes I've discovered this when the mold spreads to the visible part of the handle; other times it's only been apparent when the moisture weakens the adhesive and the moldy black handle pulls out in the middle of being used. It's just a lousy design to begin with.
Virtual life (Not necessarily VR) game like Second life where people connect, learn and do things which they don't normally do.

Looking at Pokemon Go success, I am pretty sure a mobile based Virtual Life simulation game with chat feature can go mainstream.
People once where more up right on bicycles. I think that bicycles are to blame. The racing position most bicycles have are causing the problem not phones.
Year 10k Problem
“They also won't tell me how big the pool is and the percentage of those stocks are.”

That’s when you laugh in their face and tell them to F off.
Even for non-Gmail apps, this process is incredibly painful. I have an app that has been stuck in the process for weeks. Once you have read through the incredibly confusing and out of date documentation and submit what you think is the correct set of setting to comply with their policy, you then have to deal with the reviewer who will email you once every week if you are lucky. Usually to understand what they are asking you to fix you have to email them back and forth a few times. I love the platform, but they need to fix this aspect of it.
More info - http://www.venturenashville.com/fintech-seed-stage-banclist-...
If Yellow Vests movement taught us anything, is that you can ignore protests long term, even in the face of daily car fires.
Already in the plan by the sound of things, with the reports of police arresting the injured in hospital, and being given back door access to medical records...
No, it absolutely would.

Because then any changes require duplicating the byte code parsers, and adding translation logic to manage those changes.

You must understand: any change would be an API break, and API cannot change. Deprecating an API takes years. You also can't change/add API in security updates, which means if a security fix required changing some aspect of the bytecode that change couldn't be made.

Lets say you change numbering of registers? Thats an API change.

Lets say you change number of opcodes? API change.

Any new API in macOS and iOS requires weeks of review cycle to ensure:

* It solves a problem in a generic manner: e.g. it doesn't solve a very specific version of a general issue

* It can be kept stable: e.g. it doesn't expose implementation details that may change

* It is ABI stable: direct memory access APIs cannot expose layout that can vary based on any internal details.

Shipping API is incredibly difficult if you care about ABI stability for software.
Now with Personal Seat Licenses! For a low one-time fee you can own your seat at the Prime Cinema! Buy or sell your seat tickets using the Prime Cinema Seat Marketplace! Purchases made with the Prime Cinema Credit Card get 5% off. Alternatively you can simply add the PSL to your Amazon Prime Mortgage balance as a one-time courtesy!
It would be very interesting to see airplanes powered by Tesla towers.
Arcades and a myriad of junk food have been in theaters for 35+ years now, so I'm not sure what you mean by "newer".
Ok this fMRI study is showing something that is not quite unexpected. rewarding behaviour is likely to be mediated by reward pathways, and the authors are careful not to address digital information overload/addiction directly because they did not study that. This finding is expected and thus not very informative (pun intented) . Also the title shouldn't just say "information", but curiosity instead. The participants weren't randomly fed information mindlessly, but were actively seeking actionable information from a stream. That's not quite like how modern media does it - in fact the 99% of digital media consumption is non-goal driven. This may be applicable however to goal-directed information seeking, like search results, dating sites, financial news feeds.
> It says human waste in the highest peaks is a contamination problem... I’m not clear on why this is. Doesn’t feces break down cleanly in running water?

Human waste does not break down "cleanly", unfortunately for us all. Human waste in water especially is a giant disease vector, because most of the diseases that human waste spreads themselves are easily waterborne.

(There are also non-disease related problems, but the diseases are especially something to try to avoid spreading.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation#Diseases_caused_by_...
S. Korea battles a “beehive account” boom
Thanks for the info! Seems like a bit of a silly regulation given that major banks themselves are able to circumvent it in order to shed liability.
This is even more in the weeds, but if you turn off sync, google services, page preloading and use a non-google default search engine, what's left for them to track?
I don't have many suggestions, but I think it's great that you're making an effort to make this work for your coworker. I can tell this would be a challenge. Getting people going with merge requests can be hard even with good vision.

Is it possible for this person to do merge requests with another person present, like pair programming? It might seem counterproductive, but more eyes on the code can't hurt and it'll hopefully fill any accessibility gaps until this person finds better tooling to solve this problem.
Amazon already has big fat government contracts, was already in line for more and already had a presence in NoVa.
Do you need accessibility services? If not, I would suggest that you disable it in about:preferences.
I had a similar thought. Leaving aside the merits on the short story and how realistic it is, I think the major distinction with climate change is that there is not a large group of wealthy and influential people profiting from the existence of the asteroid.
Can you provide a source for human neanderthal mtDNA?
How feasible would replacing the battery during the flight via a flying refueler ( similar to how fighter jets operate) be?
If I remember correctly, you're running roughenough [1] for the roughtime server, right? What software are you running for NTS?

[1] https://github.com/int08h/roughenough
It's not that you can't find modern replacements for them, it's not wanting/needing to if you've got something that already works for you. Some of that crusty stuff from the 1990's and earlier works just fine and the 'modern' replacements bring nothing new to to table for many use cases. So why bother upgrading to a version that phones home and/or is tied to a subscription to accomplish performing the same task in a less streamlined way? Do I do this with most of my software? Absolutely not... generally, but not always, the newer stuff does the job better for me.

You wanted an example, so I'll provide one: I have an ancient version of MathCAD (from 1994 or so) that I still fire up once or twice a year for some computer algebra tasks. Could I upgrade or switch to another application? Sure, but why bother when what I have does the job? (I've even got a 'modern' version of Mathematica but prefer the MathCAD UI from the 1990s... ah, progress!)
I agree with the idea that availability of information is good, and that information about the context for a security-related change should be made transparent. But how relevant is it? I would think relevant enough for FAQ or other reference information. I wouldn't include it in announcements, though.

The headline is "patch available, mitigating known exploit". "Not yet widely exploited" is barely a footnote. The release of a patch can bring enough attention to make the window between release and full deployment of the patch the single worst time to be vulnerable. If I tell you it wasn't being exploited yesterday, and you delay patching based on that information, and then the storm of exploits blows through ... I'd feel bad.
Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files
Why did you create Elementree?

Elementree is really just an exercise in constraint. I am tired of spending my time in front-end framework documentation. I wanted something that didn't rely on odd templating syntax, proprietary data shapes, multitudes of library imports. Therefore I needed to create something where the entirety of the library could be held in my head, which I might note, hasn't had a memory upgrade in some time. I wanted a library to celebrate the code of the problem domain as opposed to the framework.

Why local view state?

Local state jives with my brain. I have never been fearful of encapsulating state with an object and subsequently mutating that state. I understand the pitfalls and I do my best to work around them when they present themselves. I view local state vs a system like flux/redux a lot like I view procedural vs functional programming. My brain works better with recipes than mathematics, just like it works better with state mutations than reducers.

Why Proxies?

Proxies gives Elementree objects the appearance of everyday JavaScript objects and yet perform specific semantics when mutated. This is just another case of doing my best to decrease the API foot-print, making the entire library easier to process and quickly be productive with.

Why not use a templating engine like lit-html?

I was exceptionally excited about lit-html when I originally saw it. But over time additional 'syntax' has made its way into the library for things like boolean attributes and event listeners. Don't get me wrong, the people working on that project have a whole lot more time and brains than I do, so I am sure it is for good reason. But I went with nanohtml because it didn't do anything special. It makes all Elementree's template look just like HTML with interpolated values. It is the right tool to meet the design goals of Elementree.
> what we’re they thinking?

Browsers have native, built-in components like <select>, <select multiple>, <input type="button">, <input type="date">, etc. Styling and behavior of those is self-contained, with a public API.

The idea behind web components was to provide a built-in way to build your own self-contained components - something people have been doing for a long time with tons of <div> elements. But it's always been a challenge because doing that well requires adopting some consistent approach (usually through a library) that builds its own mechanisms. And there are many different libraries, and they all have different approaches. Wouldn't it be better to provide a standard mechanism for defining custom components and abstracting their styling/behavior?

Web components and other modern web tech could eliminate the need for libraries like React to build complex web apps with custom controls.
No, because that would require exposing implementation details. e.g. the first API version of the bytecode would be the fixed API, and any future changes would require a translation layer for converting from one version of the bytecode to the other.

The bytecode is also an internal format so is consider trusted - once you expose it you have to worry about invalid bytecode.
See also also, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_dieth...
Live Updates on the Google OAuth verification process and security audit
Better tell NASA, then, which is building a design (X-57) with the same kind of wing-tip propellers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No9Rq3VE0FI

The key is that the Alice aircraft is capable of take-off with just the rear propeller. That's possible because electric motors (unlike jet engines) can operate at much higher power for short periods of time. It was addressed recently at the Paris airshow Q&A for Eviation. If a wingtip motor (not engine) fails, the other side is designed to immediately stop (electric motors such as these respond immediately to input) and flight continues with the remaining tail motor.

Additionally, electric motors are fundamentally more reliable than jet engines.
One thing to note is that AMD performed their Intel CPU benchmarks without any security mitigations in place. Actual performance numbers in some applications might be higher than what was advertised.
Why do people get to patent the products of federal grants?
I assume you mean grants. It's generally bad policy to load money to people who are unlikely to pay it back. Unless you mean the government should suppress the interest rate. And those would sort of be a form of welfare. It's ok to just admit that you like welfare.
Source? I can quote the author's book on microstructure supporting my position that it is not something else entirely.
Pinebook Pro, the $199 Linux Laptop, Gets Keyboard and Bluetooth Spec Bumps
It'd be really nice to see a site collecting all the problem descriptions over the years. That doesn't exist, does it?
> kids are a rare sight in SF

Wow that’s a dark thought when you say it out loud isn’t it?
What EE channels do you like?
Mac users are more productive?
It has started happening already.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/16/trade-war-in...
Approval of a helipad, which would not normally be a given because of the close distance to a major airport, was part of the deal.
A) Overpopulation isn't only about space, it's also about resource usage and the wastes generated (including CO2).

B) you're free to live on the Moon or on Mars once(IF) it becomes possible but
1) the ticket price is VERY expensive
2) once the novelty has faded, there's a very real possibility that you're going to be very jealous of those who can breath 'fresh air' outside.
3) these colonies are only useful for humanity if there are self-sufficient but they need high technology to just continue to exist, so how can they become self-sufficient?
How are you going to make solar panels on Mars with only what is available on Mars?
There is an excellent episode of "A crime to remember" on Hulu that tells the story in detail.
President Trump calls off strike on Iran
This is really interesting.

I would love to see something like this for other successful companies.

Too often, we see the tech stacks of famous firms, but not the stacks that preceded them.

It would be very interesting to note if, say, 80% of unicorns started their life as RoR, or PHP projects. It tells you one of two things:

1. Which frameworks were popular n years ago (where n is the average time it takes from launch to unicorn)

2. Which framework actually helps you get an MVP off the ground
That's really interesting because I've had the exact opposite experience.

I switched from Firefox to Chromium after some problems I ran into on a laptop. The experience wasn't great, but I was willing to live with most of the issues.

However, even after disabling all extensions, it still pegged my cpus and froze my machine, several times a day.

I moved back to Firefox. No amount of features was going to make up for that disruption.
bin ast is/was an attempt to make a more compact version of JS that was easier to parse.

But parsing JS isn't a significant bottleneck, it's the subsequent work to produce the stuff that actually runs. IIRC proponents also claimed it meant you didn't have to worry as much about validation, which isn't true because it's untrusted content that comes from the internet. It must be validated.

binast also is not designed to be any more readily executable that JS - so even if it were supported step one would be "produce a bytecode that is fast".
Arguments for or against HFT aside, the optics around HFT are pretty bad. Hedge funds getting rich investing millions in faster ways to trade isn't going to play well.
See this overview from MacRumors: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/20/jamf-apple-mac-employee...
I wonder if they'll consider building the Mac app off of the iOS codebase with Catalyst instead of using the web codebase with Electron.

RAM and battery abuse are the main complaints about their app and I'd think that would improve both of them.
well what happens is this site gets recommended between banks by word of mouth. When Joe Little Bank calls up Mary Tiny Union and tells her about this new website, "which looks janky but trust me, it's legit", she'll probably go sign up regardless.
Just to nitpick, the whole sentence is "Applicable models can be configured with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and will be available this month." The first part of the sentence is written in the present tense and it is not true. The second part, it may be true or not, we'll see...
> Amazon Prime Mortgage balance

Good stuff right here. Scary that all of these things are a real possibility.