skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the scariest part is the demonstration that capitalism works better under an authoritarian regime.
> Web components and other modern web tech could eliminate the need for libraries like React to build complex web apps with custom controls.

But they won't, for the reasons presented here. They solve only the lower half of the problem. They're perfectly fine for building self-contained UI controls/elements, but create a top-level `<BlogArticle>` component to mimic the composability of modern frameworks and you lose all I mentioned above.
>It is also improper to ignore cost of living. House prices can differ by a factor of 20, not even counting the collapsing locations. Just the difference between San Francisco and a medium-small non-coastal southern city is that much.

This isn't correct at all; you're totally overstating the CoL differences. If a decent apartment in the Bay Area costs as much as $3k/month (I'm guessing here), there's no way in hell you're going to find a comparable place anywhere in the country for $150/month. In my experience, cost-of-living just doesn't differ as much between places as people like you claim it does. What does differ is price-per-square-foot, but no one realistically expects to live in a giant McMansion in the Bay Area or Manhattan as a middle-class person. The problem with "low cost" areas is that they typically don't have any actual inexpensive places for single people or childless couples, and your options are usually either a house that's much too large with huge utility costs, or a trailer park surrounded by opioid and meth addicts.
That won't pencil out for everyone, though. If you convert "four times a year" to "one blockbuster a season" you are going to get gaps in which the theaters scramble to find other ways to use the space and keep the lights on - the "throwback" nights, video game nights, etc.

The current value proposition of a theatrical release is primarily in the big screen and the big auditorium, and secondarily the access to content(which can be seen on screens of many sizes). This was basically also true when VCRs took hold, and it drove the wave of late-20th century blockbusters; it's only different now in that the value of the theater is more niche, and there are fewer barriers to wide distribution.

IMHO the thing that could support theaters going forward is a common 21st century theme: customization and unbundling. Keep it a primarily passive audience experience(we've seen the "interactive movie" trope before), but introduce an element of performance and "VJing", taking the emphasis off making one prerecorded film and moving it towards remixable material inside a common framework. Given that so many big releases now are CGI-centric, the production pipelines are already in striking distance of doing this, and live effects can supplement it. It just needs the intersection of technical capability against a business model open to this structuring of IP and talent - which might put it out of reach of the current studios but create opportunities for new ones.
Oh so lit-html has the incremental DOM update feature built-in? It's a full-fledged replacement for the VDOM? I thought it was just a syntax parser like HTM. (Hence my question.)

[Edit] Oooh, I see where I got mixed up: in your README, the only part where I can find mention of this feature is in the very last part of this line:

> "lit-html templates are plain JavaScript and combine the familiarity of writing HTML with the power of JavaScript. lit-html takes care of efficiently rendering templates to DOM, including efficiently updating the DOM with new values."

Specifically the "including efficiently updating the DOM with new values" part, that's the only mention on this page, and it's literally right after where I started to skim due to (incorrectly) assuming the rest of the sentence was just a continuation of the first part.

That feature should probably be mentioned more prominently.

Also, if it has the ability to re-render based on state updates (e.g. from onclick callbacks), an example would be really important to know how to make use of that feature.
Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
A 1:1 meeting template
It seems dir listing is not properly disabled https://banclist.com/app/webroot/img/
If you close the tabs and Firefox keeps using CPU, how's that Google's fault? Or are you suggesting that Google is exploiting some bug in Firefox to have it use CPU time even when the tab is closed?
I've thought about building a house in a barn to save on heating/cooling (Texas, it's dadgum hot here). But this is much much cooler (or warmer, if you're in Sweden)!
I'm sure closing the windows, and putting on their favorite video, will work well enough to drown out the noise of the jackhammer. I lived a block from Caltrain for a few years and the loud whistles of the passing trains were a minor annoyance at best.
Taking seriously the idea for a moment: you don't consume batteries one at a time, they are in various degrees of parallelism. Also the balance of the plane is affected by mass ejection.
"People Are Playing Duckhunt To Come Up With Innovative Ideas"
A captive whale is a very interesting theory. Could the different diet be the result of being fed by humans?

I found this[0] interesting story from April about a tame beluga that approached
a Norwegian fishing boat. It was wearing a tight harness, apparently meant for a camera, with markings that suggest a Russian origin.

I also found a very recent case where a Russian company illegally caught nearly 97 belugas and orcas and kept them in pens[1]. 8 of them were to be released today. This company supplies whales to aquariums.

[0] https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2019/04/29/strangely-behavi...

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/06/russia-mo...
The discovery of artificial sweeteners is rife with this,

Saccharin: Chemist working on coal tar derivatives noticed a sweet taste on his hand from contamination.

Aspartame: Chemist working on anti-ulcer drugs discovers his finger's taste sweet when he licked them to turn a page.

Sucralose: Chemist working on novel uses of sucrose and synthetic derivatives asked a coworker to 'test' a compound. Coworker thought he said, 'Taste'.
> Why should you deprive an inventor of the rights to his invention

"Rights" to inventions aren't innate, they're explicitly granted. Why should we grant an exclusive monopoly on publicly funded research?
> Beijing has limited force projection options. Rolling in the military means inviting international sanctions and possibly military aid, if not for Hong Kong then almost certainly for Taiwan.

From my limited knowledge, the US has a military base in Taiwan. It'd be hard to invade the country without conflict with such a base. And even a small incident can spiral into a war with China. So no, I think Taiwan situation is way different than Hong Kong.
The discussion is probably pretty confusing for most folks not familiar with Fortran.

Fortran compilers can set their own ABI and usually do for everything after Fortran 77. For Fortran 77 and earlier, which includes CHARACTER* 1, most compilers use the same ABI that the Bell Labs f77 preprocessor used, which lives on as f2c in the modern era. This compatbility is common enough that many packages written in C that want to be called from Fortran have this ABI directly embedded in their source code.

The problem is that the current gcc gfortran front-end doesn't do this for CHARACTER* 1 strings, and there's C code expecting that extra string length argument. And if they want to change it, any object code with CHARACTER* 1 arguments in it needs to be recompiled.
I also wouldn’t use France for an analogy here. They protest over literally everything. The politicians there must learn quickly how to ignore them.

Sounds like some sites like YouTube should take a look at how politicians in France cope with protesters.
Europe’s interconnected electricity system: an in-depth analysis
Make Fewer JavaScript Mistakes with TypeScript
I doubt it. DRC could do it because they can just get everyone to start walking, and 300k people walking as a huge group isn't that hard to do. Texas can't do it because everyone will try to load up their giant SUV and drive out on roads never designed for that much traffic, and they'll be stuck in gridlock where they'll die when the storm or asteroid hits.
Intel's monopoly handicapped Moore's law for a decade until competition reemerged.
Remember that the system also needs to remove CO2.

Severe hypercapnia symptoms are bad.
I also wonder if the increased humidity increases the chance for mold.
The thing is, I don’t want any generation at all, at least not with my actual HTML pages.
The stock market is the frontend of the whole system. Companies can issue stock to raise money to fund operations, compensate employees, etc. Companies can also use their stock as collateral to borrow money. The higher the stock price the lower the effective cost raising money.

By being correct about a stock in a trade you end up being rewarded for decreasing the cost of capital of companies that do the most with it.
I wonder how they control humidity inside the home and prevent mildew/mould? The air in the greenhouse would be very humid all year round I would have thought?
Raising the fed min wage to $15 by 2024 would lift pay for nearly 40M workers
If you're learning about mazes you'll have plenty of fun reading "Mazes for programmers". I've been reading through it and it's a nice change of pace. I've thrown a few of the algorithms on my pen plotter site https://plott.id/mazes. I definitely encourage you to give the book a look.

Here's the source for the site: https://github.com/blakedietz/plott.id
It looks great. 80k investment to go from 9 months of heating to 6 months. Expensive project, wonder if solar would have yielded more in the north.
Tangential, but I've never used a better kettle in terms of "pour" than my Hario gooseneck kettle. Never had issues with the "teapot effect" (and I do recognize the kettle is very different than the teapot in question).
Not hypothetical. A dear friend of mine lives next to a Metro station and just recently complained that jackhammering was still going on at 11:30 PM for several nights in a row.
Duplicate of the original story in the Washington Post, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20243473
Indeed. It's doubly silly, because there is a class of asteroid impact scenarios to which it could actually apply.

In the 2015 PDC exercise [1] the asteroid is also split in two by the first deflection attempt (that happens a lot in these exercises, see also 2017 and 2019) and the new bulls-eye is in India. So India plans a nuclear deflection attempt, but China vows to stop it, by intercepting it if necessary, because the second deflection attempt could result in the asteroid hitting China instead.

Meanwhile Iran, also in the new risk corridor, but not in the old one, threatens retaliation against the countries behind the first deflection attempt if it's hit: the Great Satan (aka the US), EU, Russia and China.

Bottom line: a recurring worry in these asteroid deflection scenarios is that whoever changes the trajectory becomes responsible for hitting whatever ends up being hit, and if that happens to be a nuclear-armed country, the consequence could be WWIII.

[1] https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc15/
I always thought this would be an interesting experiment to do this over a whole neighbourhood
> I can't access my hosts file

These days you don't need to. Blokada (https://blokada.org/index.html) takes over your DNS and gives a bad response when a domain on your blocklist is requested.

Other options are to set your phone's DNS server to a pi-hole or to use a VPN to a network that has a pi-hole.

> which apparently would break Android / Google / Samsung Pay

Not the case anymore. Magisk (https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk...) is able to pass the Safetynet checks that most of these apps rely on. You may need to use the "Magisk Hide" and "Hide Magisk Manager" features though.
Just because you’re terrible at documenting where you put users’ information doesn’t mean everyone is.
Can someone with access to very recent satellite photography tell me how much corn they got planted in the Midwest this year (compared to last)? Thank you.
I thought that was the first Back to the Future?
No you can't. However strong the dictatorship is. Hong Kong protest is 2million out of 7million. If you had the same proportions in France, you'd have 20millions.

At 20m in France, the president will probably resign in 2-3 days. If not from the street pressure, then from his allies pressure.
Your criticism of abstractions is very much in the abstract.

What abstractions?

What costs of these? In human comprehension, in runtime, in reliability, in mem/cpu?

Can you give examples which I can usefully learn so as to avoid?

TIA
I quite strongly disagree. My favourite languages, Scheme, C, Go, share precisely the "small and focused" philosophy, and its a big reason why I like them so much. Your point about javascript is not very strong either, I imagine the real reason is its origins as a browser-embedded language meant that the same style of imports in Node.js were not feasible. Even if this is not true, I would then shift the blame to the implementor of Node.

Scheme in particular deserves so much more attention, it is so capable and it is a joy to write.
This all makes sense to me. If you're not providing enough value to users to cover the >$15k fee, you're just an attack vector for user data.

Consistency of the process aside, I'm really not sure what people would expect.

(I work at Google, yadda yadda, but have nothing to do with this.)
I get this problem too. I'm incredibly productive when I only have a couple of tasks. But, when there's a lot on my mind, I basically shut down.

Similar to what the other user mentioned, I get moving again by focusing on the easy tasks to feel productive again. I make a simple text file with everything I need to do, sorted by month, and each month sorted with the easiest to hardest tasks.

I write every single thing on my mind. For example, I need to order something online, so that gets added to the list. I have a wedding to attend this month and need a new white shirt, that gets added to the list. I need to wish someone happy birthday next week, so I'll add that to the list. Do I need to book a haircut appointment? On the list it goes. Everything goes on the list. It really helps to clear my mind when I don't have to remember these things.

Then, when I start my day, it's not an overwhelming number of thoughts. I look at the list for this month, and I just choose a task I'm in the mood to finish. Do I want to check off a few easy ones? Do I have the entire day to myself and I can focus on a more complex one? If I'm going to the city, then I can take care of all the ones located downtown.

In short, write everything down, start checking things off the list.
US blacklists 5 Chinese groups working in supercomputing
Look up Pasadena Texas on google maps and see how big houston is. If Pasadena is about to get rocked, so would every single city "in" Houston. You're talking about over 2 million people all trying to drive out at the same time.
To a first approximation, defaults are the only thing that matter.
If they keep up that pace they'll soon catch up fully
What users would Apple truly to lure away? The only platform that has both is MacOS and iOS. AFAIK most Mac users use Safari and even if you are using Chrome on iOS you’re still using the WebKit engine.

How would winning users from a Chrome even help Apple if they did go head to head with Chrome?

While developers may ignore Safari on the desktop, they can’t ignore iOS.
I broke out of a long term video game addiction (I think we can call it that now) a few years ago. I still go back to them from once or twice a year and I'm always surprised by how hard the grip of them is even after just a play or two. Not all games grip me hard but some just suck me in and suddenly I'm burning 5-6 hours a night

Have you tried graphic novels? I've found them good for when I get restless.
AMC Metreon is pretty top notch. It has the largest-format true IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and all the seats have been recently replaced so that even the base model theater has nice recliners.

The Cinemark at the Westfield Mall also has fairly recent new seats, and their XD screens are quite nice.

So yes, I'm spoiled, but I've honestly never even given much thought about attending a showing at the Alamo Drafthouse because I'm fairly sure it can't compete.
Also I am pretty sure government can find all of your bank accounts without Aadhar, using a court order.
Fair point. Here I am on Linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-spires-66b4ba44
Believing in Consistency [of Arithmetics]
Where I live having your own house is a luxury only rich people can afford and it is usually so warm that you need an air condition
Well they did hire a guy from Apple who said he's joining Google "to bring Fuchsia to market":

https://9to5google.com/2019/01/22/google-fuchsia-poaches-mac...

But yeah my impression is that it isn't meant to replace Andrdoid, but that they want to use it in places where a full Android doesn't make sense, like in their smart display devices or other future categories. Or maybe it's really just a retainer project for engineers.

Another reason people think it's real is that there was a lot of press a couple of years ago about something called "Andromeda" that was meant to combine Android and ChromeOS into one project. This was then supposedly shelved in favor of Fuchsia:

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/13149670/google-new-os-androme...
https://twitter.com/hallstephenj/status/871456529160863745

But you'd probably know more about that than me :)
Huh yeah, I do. It's been ages since I've written C, and I didn't recall that it doesn't have overloading. Thanks for catching that.
It also does a very good job of flowing from one character moment to another. A fried of mine noticed something I hadn't, recently: "this is just a scene of some Avengers doing team-up stuff in some combination, then one of a single Avenger personally beating Loki, repeat until every Avenger has beaten Loki, culminating in the Hulk".

That could be dull but, crucially, each of these differs from the others, whether by significantly varying the setting, or the way the characters fight, or the sort of bad guy they're fighting. It's also excellent at both short and long term setup and payoff, at least in minor ways, several times completing such an arc in a single scene—which is what you're supposed to do in just about any scene if you can swing it, of course, but many filmmakers seem to forget that, especially once the CGI explosions start. It may be paint by numbers but at least they, you know, actually paint every number, as if they are, if nothing else, very good and professional number-painters.

Contrast, say, Man of Steel, where it's mostly just one or the other of two dudes getting smashed or laser-blasted through/onto something hard, over, and over, and over. Or Age of Ultron, which has more variety and setup/payoff than Man of Steel (not a high bar to top), but is still way worse—clumsier and more slapdash, might be a good way to put it—than Avengers.

[EDIT] and yes of course you're very much correct, the pacing of the final fight in Avengers is part of the variety that keeps it from becoming a slog. The plotting and editing work on that whole sequence is damn impressive. It could probably be the main subject of a whole class on modern action storytelling in film—if you for some reason can't just use the entirety of Mad Max: Fury Road as your key work instead.
NPR had a good article about the discovery: "A Chemist Accidentally Creates A New Blue. Then What?" [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...
Might want to put [2015] in the title? Certainly not a new way
Well I think it's as much about happiness as it is energy efficiency. They get to enjoy the outdoors year round.
The article mentions that the hackers stole 500MB? The number seems small given the scale of storage in modern computers but I guess 500MB could account for a large number of documents that contain confidential info.
Shouldn’t you be glad that the Washington Post is not interfering with a journalist’s article even though it’s against their business interest?
Alexa, how many dogs come to work at Amazon Seattle? 7k
I think heat exchange air ventilation systems are quite common in Northern Europe. Presumably you could just keep the windows of the inner house closed most of the time, and then have a ventilation coming from outside through the heat exchanger.
Hideous Men
National Pollinator Week: How Birds and Bees Survive in the City
This is really similar to the format that AWS uses to represent recursive structures (arrays, maps) as a single array of key-value pairs for their APIs. Your catj could potentially be used to create that if ever working with the raw API directly instead of a SDK.
It it now, by the look of it.
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This reminds me of an apartment complex I saw last year, also in Sweden (north of Stockholm, in Norrtälje). Hard to see inside, but it's practically tropical, with palm trees and flowering plants, and all doors of resident's apartments let out into the garden.

https://goo.gl/maps/C7QAYeFm4bc9X28r9
As long as we're discussing beamed power, why not have just enough power to reach cruising altitude (presumably above any clouds), then use solar panels to continue flight? This would admittedly limit long-distance flights to just daylight, but still better than what is currently possible.
Can't see much of an issue with random businesses not being able to call themselves "Bank" personally.
> However, just as a thought experiment, wouldn't total surveillance actually help stop #1?

How would it? Prosecutors decide who to prosecute based on available evidence. It's systematic societal bias (and obviously, personal bias, too.)

But it's not like video surveillance would show anything new - we already have statistics on which groups get sent to jail over minor crimes, and which ones get slaps on wrists.
You shouldn't be surprised. People all around the world are moving to the cities for a reason.
Bolton Keeps Trying to Goad Iran into War
The Crab Nebula just blasted Earth with the highest-energy photons ever recorded
This doesn't quite fit that description, but the only thing that comes to mind is The Beginner's Guide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginner's_Guide
Startup System
Hello.

The image is of a a startup system I have been working on for around 4.5 years: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t_rLOoyi8QtTIZ4UXgJtH_UcFEcbdfOv

Having gone through over 2000 sources, countless books, and working with startup clients tweaking and/or overhauling as and when. There are also a few founders who have used the Excel version and who basically shake my tree and keep me in check.

MVP v1 was an Excel file that mapped out the whole startup system that I propose, although due to the way it was made, and my own limitations, it was more a guide rather than a system. MVP v2 is currently being made in Access, I won’t be doing all of it in that, just a few steps. However as it is a database thing, I needed to change somethings, as well as take advantage of the benefits of a database system rather than a spreadsheet. It is why I created this flowchart.

What you see is not the complete version, for obvious reasons I am not going to show the whole thing, which is why after Phase 3 things are collapsed and arrows and what-not removed.

I would welcome any feedback, comments, etc.

Cheers, Ace.
Literally Robinhood’s business model