skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly work in React. You can write semantic HTML up to a point. Things like article, section, header, footer, etc. are supported. But if you wanted to make up your own tag and expect it to act like a div, I think React would complain that it doesn't understand that tag.

That's what I meant by "the promise of the semantic web". As I originally understood it, you could make your own custom tags that describe the intent of the document. You wouldn't be bound by what the w3c or browser vendors blessed. Any tags that were unknown to the browser would be treated mostly the same as a div. Web components occupy a similar space.
> the alternative is sitting in high confinement most hours of the day.

Then it's not voluntary.
The SD controller has been improved somewhat from the older Pi models, this article has some storage benchmarks: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/06/24/raspberry-pi-4-bench...

Odroid has some eMMC performance numbers: https://magazine.odroid.com/article/orange-emmc-module-samsu...

Though on either board the fastest storage you'll get will likely be a USB3->SATA bridge with an SSD.
Google scrubbed natural health sites from search results; whistleblower explains
> keeping him together

But note that we too are "split" into a myriad of pieces with nothing but empty space between them.
How about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
why would it matter? I had vested a good chunk of my stocks. And it’s hard to define since they did not buy my shares.
If I'm solving a problem with Go, I will first look into solutions written in Go. If I'm solving a problem with Javascript, I'll first look into solutions written in JavaScript. If I'm solving a problem in Python, I'll first look into solutions written in Python. Etc, etc, etc.

If this project does prove to be better than something like PyInstaller, I will welcome it; I wouldn't go against the grain and would rather use a standard, de facto or official. In the meantime, I'd rather not leave an ecosystem just so I can develop for that ecosystem.
I had a couple thoughts on how you might get around Bertrand's Theorem, but I don't know if they would actually work.

1. Give up on central forces. Maybe instead of the particle being attracted to the position of another particle, it's to where that particle will be in 10 seconds if it maintains its current velocity, or to a point halfway between the two particles. No idea if something like that could result in a stable orbit, or what conditions would be required for that to happen.

2. Give up on rotational symmetry (which I believe Betrand's theorem implicitly requires, not positive). Have some defined "north" direction, and forces behave differently depending on how a particle is moving relative to it.

3. Maybe asymptotically stable orbits are enough for life, if they are very asymptotically stable.
I grew up in USSR and lived through its disintegration. That's not quite how it went, and it decidedly had nothing to do with fax machines. The bloc disintegration was the consequence of USSR losing control and rotting from inside, not vice versa.
I also wonder if its at least partly (presumably, subconsciously) the adoption of the -an suffix (as adjective marker) from English: note the noun in use is almost always nyan cat / nyancat, so nyan is serving something of an adjectival role.

It's fascinating the wash back and forth across morphologically unrelated languages.
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There are similar games on Steam. I have both of these:

1. Headliner: https://store.steampowered.com/app/680980/HEADLINER/

2. Headliner: NoviNews https://store.steampowered.com/app/918820/Headliner_NoviNews...

There is also one by Nicky Case that I've played too:

We Become What We Behold - https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

I recommend them all.
Flipping this around, who are your favorite sites that don't do this crap?

For me I can list Digikey ( https://www.digikey.com/ ), my recent experience ordering from them was flawless.
I feel like reddit ends up playing whack-a-mole with toxic subreddits because it's not like the problem users disappear - they just move onto another subreddit and slowly turn it into some flavor of the place that got banned/quarantined. This might be an unsolvable problem long-term without something like real IDs tied to user accounts, which brings its own slew of problems.
It looks like instead of making a better error handling system, they just made it easier to not type `if err != nil` everywhere. Then there's all that handler stuff that looks very much like Java's `try ... catch` in reverse order.

Pretty underwhelming for what's supposed to be a modern language.
>The hobby took off and this year, he expects to move 10,000 pairs of shoes. His anticipated take is a 25 percent profit from over $1 million in sales.

$250K profit, $1M in sales, $1B valuation. Lol. Can't wait until this useless company fails miserably. Obsession with thousand dollar "streetwear" and "sneakers" is beyond pathetic. Usually you'll find the people most interested in this dogshit are the people who can afford it the least. Obsession with consumption-based "hobbies" like this is the mark of a cookie cutter.
So what would that look like? You found some vulnerable webcam, great now you can add its IP address to your public shaming list. That'll teach that random farmer somewhere in Iowa. Listing the device name and count wouldn't do anything; the vulnerability is already known otherwise the worm wouldn't exist... And either the manufacturer doesn't care, or there's an update and nobody cares.

If otoh you brick the device in a way that requires flashing via jtag and suddenly have hundreds of people all over the country return their broken webcam to WalMart you make a little more impact. The thing is, it would have to keep happening for stores to start noticing a pattern and start caring. If it was a one time thing it might be cheaper for then to just throw them in the trash and hand out new ones or refund.
An AGI with Time-Inconsistent Preferences
Can confirm that's how it's happening in Iceland, too.

Took a tour up there a while back, and our tour guide stopped to yell at people putting themselves in life threatening situations to take pictures. Happened multiple times.
On top of people mentioning text, I'll add chat emotes to the discussion. If you use anything like Twitch chat, it's filled with custom emotes you've never seen before. I can read text without each character having an abundance of pixels. Similarly sized icons turn to blobs at that size. High DPI makes those icons very clear even when tiny. I notice a huge difference between my 1080p monitor, my phone, and retina mbp.
lets capture it and crash it onto earth somewhere in the ocean, then dig it up and boom, rich
Making Data Count – NHS Improvement
I'm sorry that my examples led you to believe that your idea was supported. I meant no such thing.

What I did mean to say was that your idea is possible among a multitude of other ideas and that the field is still very active in this area; we can neither confirm nor deny that math and writing are necessary for civilization at this time; more data is required.
Ask HN: How much data should be truly global?
My team at work has been exploring AWS DynamoDB for it's global write feature, which replicates your data globally (so it's not local to one datacenter). This begs the question - what data should be truly global? User data? Application data? TIA!
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. Those are low-quality discussions and we're trying for something a bit better here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20286990 and marked it off-topic.
I was once asked to implement a system in Asterisk to park all incoming calls in a wait queue with a random time between 15 and 30 minutes before even transferring them to a ring group to be answered.

I bailed on the project. The last thing I heard is that they were still arguing over which "your call is important to us" message sounded the most sincere...
At the risk of being pedantic, I think the free speech analogue is still valid. You would likely receive the same harassment charge if you were purposely walking up to strangers and blowing smoke in their face. Here in Canada, there are no laws which prevent you from standing on the street corner preaching whatever you like, just like you're allowed to smoke tobacco on the street corner.
I'd rather have nice command output, that could use a lot more love than this try() stuff, and maybe ditching the weird go.mod format it doesn't really add value—if anything it hurts because you can't manipulate those files with regular codecs.

When it comes to error context it would be nice to facilitate structured logging, rather than arbitrarily formatted strings.
Cache Me If You Can (Jake Loveless and Bryan Cantrill)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...

Not a single Japanese company, while the lists are dominated by the US ones. What you're saying is nothing other than the ancient TV trope about the difference between Japanese and the Americans (east vs west).

disclaimer: I have 0 ties whatsoever to the US.
Capitalist Workplaces Set Bosses Up to Be Authoritarian Tyrants
There is a revolving door between the Trump administration and Fox News today, with multiple high-profile Fox News personalities campaigning with Trump.

This is not normal. Previous presidents, regardless of political party, did not engage in this behavior.
I would be more willing to single out Hannity than Fox News as a whole. Some of the prime time shows on Fox are opinion/entertainment rather than actual news.
Preikestolen in Norway is a good example of that done right I think, a 5-hour round trip trail to take your picture is a good filter.
I'm pretty sure the story here is how 137 people died in a gas explosion in Mexico (plus probably hundreds injured for life), including some backstory as to why that explosion happened.

> The Mendoza sisters, however, say seeking out a guilty party is a low priority for them, at least for now. They’re trying to survive the consequences of the fire and get used to the idea of being alone in Hidalgo.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making?
Yeah, I had a cup of lamb soup for $17 2 years ago. It was no where special. I was so surprised.
Despite using only 1.5 major opcodes "this is by far the largest RISC-V extension". The end result may be a "design by committee", a relatively complex beast, though there is a simpler subset for small micro-controllers. Is there any truth in this?
Sadly it's because manufacturers deliberately make them loud to make it seem like they're doing their job more. It's the same with many garden tools. Lawnmowers, leaf blowers and hedge trimmers can be made very quiet but they're deliberately made loud to make it feel like they're doing their job more.
All these salty comments remind me how many bitter people in this industry take every opportunity they can to dump on other people who are actually making meaningful progress towards something.
> Having access to the actual prices paid by insurance companies helps you make your case in court as to what a realistic price should be

That's not public information. Even if that was available, that's useless.

Realistic price does not matter at all unless we are talking millions of dollars. Being in network or not does.

Let me explain why:

Have you been to court on this matter? I am interested in what your experience was.

Here is mine: the judge was tired from the previous case and really did not care what I nor the ambulance provider thought.

To her we were just sqabbling over prices: The ambulance provider wanted way more ($6k vs $600) than I thought was reasonable and I felt I had been taken advantage of when I was most vulnerable and it was not a honest way to make a living and we should not encourage it.

The judge had no interest in how I felt: it was all a matter of how to get us out both quickly and have the next hearing.

The ambulance provider said their 2 mile trip to the ER was worth $6k because blah blah blah.

Then I presented.

I had printouts that showed that ambulance providers that were in network with my plan typically charged $550 for the same exact service with the same level of staff in the ambulance.

I was hopeful that showing this and that there was no in network ambulance providers within a reasonable distance where I was injured would help me.

Nope.

I also said it was pretty unethical for the ambulance provider to have a business plan where they would be out of network by design with all insurance companies as way to extract as much as they could from people in distress.

I was with Anthem Blue Cross - they are a pretty big company, no small fish.

This ambulance provider clearly puts it on their website and all paperwork that they explicitly don't work with insurance companies because they don't get paid a fair price.

The judge asked me if I had signed the paperwork that said I would bear all expenses before I got into the ambulance.

I said yes.

Then she asked how much money I made and what payment plan I would be able to afford.

Maybe if the ambulance charged me a million dollars, then I could try with the "bill is not fair or reasonable" story, but I had the feeling the ambulance could have charged me $10k and I would have had to pay it because I'm a highly compensated individual in the top 1% income bracket in the country so I deserve to pay more.

I now always carry blankets and bags in my car so I can cover myself if I am bleeding and get into a taxi or Uber/Lyft/etc, without getting blood on the seat, to the nearest hospital if I can.
This is silly and pure conjecture. That's my opinion. I love taking photos and I love seeing my friends photos of the things they experience. Not some photo from the tens of thousands of photos that exist. People can do two things at once. Take a photo and enjoy the experience.

As already linked: https://xkcd.com/1314/
Which can be solved with a snippet bound to `e`.
Ask HN: What are good resources for learning Web Dev?
Hello,

I want to support my Husband and learn Web Dev. Is it right choice?

I find Python easier to learn.

Where and what resources can I use to learn Web Dev on fast paced?
I quite like Fastmail. I switched from Gmail five years ago and have had no complaints.
"On that topic, I was a bit sad to see that USB-C alternate mode wasn't picked up as the display solution for the Pi 4."

Forgive me, but since we are talking about DP 2.0 at the same time as the new RPi4, I am wondering:

- how many hi-res (4k@60hz) monitors can I drive from a single RPi 4 ?

I think the answer should be 4 since there are already two (mini) HDMI ports and, additionally, two USB3 ports.

The question is, can Displayport (or any display format) run at 4k@60hz over USB3 ?

Thanks.
You realize this is talking about one of the sellers on the platform right? Not the platform itself.

Looks like GMV is actually ~1.2B/year and even at a conservative 10% profit margin, they're pulling in at least $120M/year.

"The company said its revenue more than doubled in the last year, with gross product sales topping $100 million a month. It has expanded into streetwear and luxury goods like handbags and has more than 800 employees."
Try to do a spreadsheet, or just write up a document, on a touch screen.
Hey, they could pivot to selling something else. After all, eBay was started to sell to collectors of ~~Beanie Babies~~ ~~Pez Dispensers~~ broken laser pointers.
Anything a little more upscale but similar in spirit to the Pi 4?

E.g. at around $100 or $200?
It gives the prison industry an incentive to keep prisons full.
The first two numbers are for one dude using the platform to trade.
They died young.
I applied for a web dev position there after a very enthusiastic recommendation of me from a bootcamp cohort colleague. When I interacted with their recruiters, they were very polite.

I was given a few days to complete a take-home challenge, and went above-and-beyond to include persistence and real-time functionality. Weeks would go by, and when I would inquire about the status of my application, I would be told nobody got a chance to look at my code/application. I don't blame the recruiters, but it does seem like your suspicion about the place being "brutally chaotic" is spot-on. My colleague left after a few short months to work as a freelancer.
Prison is, by definition, non-voluntary.
That isn't really the sort of thing Golang is trying to address, at least, not directly. Go is very unlikely to add immutable data structures at this point. And Go is not built to prevent race conditions. There is a race detector that can detect many race conditions in running programs, but nothing in the type system.
This Week in Blockchain Research Issue #14 Is Out
Are we ready for AI-powered security cameras?
not necessarily. instead of a tube, it would be a series of "locks" like a canal.
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to the rules when posting here? Hacker News is trying to be a bit different from the internet default, and your comment broke at least these two:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The people who say "No Scaling" mean that they want to use screen to fit more things. It is not state of mind about past pixels, but about how much stuff you can fit on the screen. how many lines of code. How many sidebars in your utilities, etc.

People who say "Scaling" are a different breed. Some like it because for them smoother fonts are more readable. To others, scaling presents ability map physical dimensions to screen.

Saying this, I agree that OS and software has to support alternative scalings, and ability to make things larger or smaller. I wish we could just pinch zoom apps on Windows and Linux.
Regurgitation solves that specific showstopper.
Food may also serve as the glue.
Is Go “supposed to be a modern language”? I'm not sure even the language designers would agree with that characterization.
About time. I am looking forward to the drama.
Ask HN: Was My Post Stealth Banned?
I just posted this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287021
I can see it on the newest page when logged in but not in incognito. It doesn't show as flagged or dead when I'm logged in.

I mistakenly named the post "8 Tips for Smoother Code Review" because that was the article name. I then realized that starting a post with a number is against HN guidelines. I quickly changed the name to "Some Tips for Smoother Code Review". But the post is still invisible.

Am I doing something wrong? This post seems relevant to the HN community.

Can I delete it and repost it or will that make me look like a spammer?
This reminds me a lot of Charles Stross' talk at 34C3, where he described corporations and competition between them as "human-powered AIs" that maximize profit as their only goal, similar to how a neural network only blindly minimizes a loss function.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIgJ64z6Y4
I have two 4k monitors at 15 and 24 inches, you can pry the crisp text from my cold, dead hands.
> Sure they do. Saying that people don't have control over anything is like saying "the light switches in my house don't control the lights because the switches can't do anything without a person flipping them". Just because there's no spontaneous self-generated action that a switch can perform by itself doesn't mean that the switch isn't controlling something.

I disagree with your interpretation of control. The word is human expression and shared between one another. So you can have a different understanding of the word than mine and neither of us can truly hold power over the word. As for me control doesn't exist in reality because the light bulb doesn't actually control the outcome of the light turning on or off. The beginning of all events is really what controlled the forces to make the force of the light switch going on or off.

> Looking at this from a different angle, do you believe that a digital simulation of your brain would produce the same kind of subjective experience of consciousness within the computer that you yourself perceive?

Yes, I'll take a look at the novel you recommended.
Can we add virtue signaling signaling to the lexicon? A keyword (along with a host of others like SJW, etc) to say "ignore the topic and the messenger, it's too lefty to discuss".
Why I would switch from Perl 6?
My parents used to use the vacuum cleaner to put me to sleep as a kid, even into my toddler years.

One night they forgot to turn it off and the motor burnt out.

To this day, I sleep (and often concentrate) better with some white noise going - turning on the bedroom fan is an essential part of my night-time ritual. There's some evidence that loving white noise is linked to ADHD, but I don't think that it's predictive for a 4 month old. :P
A great podcast episode on this is Planet Money's 'Mexico Fights The Fuel Pirates'; they explain how it all led up to this

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/08/701613540/epis...
Putting aside the lens of responsibility for a moment, the parents and kids are rational if in the sum of all things the grass is actually much greener on the other side of the fence.

Of course the nation with the greener grass is also free to exercise a rational value of preservation of position, especially if scaling isn’t cheap or easy. In an increasingly disparate world nations may find themselves building more fences.
tldr: jack off all trades and master of ONE at the beginning, master more as time goes by. Fields are highly correlated.

In my opinion, i'd take the 'be a jack of many trades and a master of some' route.

CS fields are very correlated and being a master in at least __something__ will boost your overall mastery of many other subfields.

At the start of your career, exposure to a lot of fields goes a long way while simultaneously going deeper in one field. Doing this opens a lot of doors and CS changes too fast for you to know what the future holds.

Being a master in at least one field will greatly improve your income potential and help you position yourself professionally. Being familiar with other technologies will help you if you ever need to pivot so you're not too clueless. It also opens you up to what tools are out there so you can choose the right tools for a specific problem (at which point you'll dive deeper into it).
> I feel like reddit ends up playing whack-a-mole with toxic subreddits because it's not like the problem users disappear - they just move onto another subreddit and slowly turn it into some flavor of the place that got banned/quarantined.

On the contrary, at least one study found that what you describe does not happen. Rather, a quantitative reduction in hate speech was observed when Reddit banned a number of toxic subreddits in 2015.

Inhabitants either moved off the platform entirely (accounts that frequented those subs ceased to be active) or those that stayed appeared to modulate their behaviour to conform to the norms of less-toxic subs.

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
I rarely drop in on T_D but when I last looked it was kinda ludicrous. I had a head-scratching Poe's law moment with most of the comments. /r/politics does have some unreasonable frothing-at-the-mouth comments but not ones that seem like they're trolling.
Ah, that's great to know. Thanks for taking the time to reply!
This isn't limited to travel-oriented sites either. I went to Lens.com the other day to price-shop some contacts, and my price at checkout (right where you're putting in your payment info) was something like $15 more than in my cart! Even accounting for taxes. It was still an okay price relatively speaking, but I immediately left, because there's no way I'm rewarding that behavior.

Of course, I then got the "you left something in your cart" email.
How many people are going to be capable of reinstalling the firmware? I can tell you 99% of the people I know are just going to junk it.