skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the purpose of the article (get hands on with synths) is eliminated without JS.

If there is nothing to read, there is no way to know there is any app, let alone decide that I want it to run.

> why should web applications (beyond ones that are simple documents) work without JavaScript?

I imagine that the other kind of web app does everything with POST and forms and such like it's 2003, and I can understand that you'd prefer not to. I'm not saying they should or that they must all do without JS. I'm saying that if the article was a document that (also) documented the proper use of the web app within it then I would have liked to have been free to read it first. NoScript blocks <embed>ded things all the time and I temporarily allow them all the time. That workflow would have worked here, but if (as you seem to suggest is reasonable) the entire article was blocked because its app would be useless, then my strategy wasn't even considered, and someone is doing it wrong.

However, if a goal was to teach everyone to just run anything and everything and stop caring about privacy and security because it's a PITA, then someone is doing it right. I sure miss the good old days of Weekly_Report.doc.exe
We already know within the US that it doesn’t work though - the poorest with the worst diets (not on subsistence farming here, key point) have the most unplanned pregnancies which lead to lack of economic advancement in our current incentive structure.

The Gates Foundation is funding more education which tends to lead toward women and men setting career goals, potentially relocating, and thereby delaying childbearing to a later time. The primary exceptions here in developed countries are pretty much entirely religious (see: Duggars, most of Utah...).

Commercially produced fast food is also more expensive than cooking at home in developing countries because their marginal utility of labor is so low (much cheaper to cook at home and spend the time than to go work those hours instead). Government subsidies to make fast food nearly free don’t work that well when much of the population has no access to it either. This situation is somewhat inverted from America’s problem (healthier city dwellers that walk with fewer children, unhealthy rural population dependent upon cars that reproduce far more).
Sure they're on bushes and grass and low trees and they climb up your body to your scalp. They don't drop down from trees onto your scalp.
Analyzing the Cost of Your Serverless Functions Using Faast.js
The Brothers Karamazov. Trying to remember how to be disciplined.

If you're looking for a recommendation, I can't recommend enough "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis. I've been recommending it like crazy since I read it a couple of months ago.
Consumers and workers prefer it when it matches what they want to a high enough degree. Too much variation means too many decisions that either do not matter or you have to be careful to get right. That's less of an issue when there's less choice.

The problem is that this requires the group controlling ecosystem to accurately follow the needs of the masses. If what they provide starts mismatching what people want, more and more people begin to be unhappy, and it's very easy for the goals of the public to misalign with the goals of the controlling group over time. Just because people seem to prefer it now doesn't mean they will a decade from now, but a decade of control can cause real problems when trying to make changes. It's very easy to get into a local maxima type situation, where it takes a lot of time and resources to just come to parity with an alternative, much less capitalize on where it can exceed the status quo.

Imagine a situation where Firefox didn't exist. Since all the other major browsers have moved to Webkit (or Webkit forked) engine, what would the cost be in time and effort of highly skilled people to make a browser engine from scratch? I'm not sure any project would succeed, or if it did, it might be a decade in the making.

People like ease of use, but people also really dislike being stuck without a choice. I think people realize this, which is why even though they often vote for convenience with their dollars, they also express a preference that alternatives exist, even if they don't use them, because they recognize both the benefit of having that option as well as the pressure it puts on their preferred choice.

I think if you ask, most iPhone users would say they prefer their current phone. I also think if you asked them if they think they would be better off without Android existing, they would say no, for exactly the reasons above; it makes Apple move forward with advancements, and it provides an alternative if they ever decide they really don't like something Apple is doing.
In political science, the nation state is commonly understood as a (relatively) recent development and not a feature of medieval Europe. 15th century Spain is sometimes given as one of the first big steps toward the modern nation state, though it would take some time (centuries) for the phenomenon to spread and to develop into something like its modern form. Like anything there's not 100% agreement over where the boundaries are et c., but in common usage and ordinary context, that's what's typically meant. If you're using it some other way you'll be misunderstood unless you define your terms.
When you're trying to trick people into sending money orders over seas that makes sense but not really when you're trying to get people to click a link that exploits a zero day to install malware.
Not to mention the fact that Google constantly spams you both in your notifications pane and every single Google app for you to turn on location and web history, and even arbitrarily restricts features which would otherwise work without them, such as Google Assistant.
It was DynDNS's business too, EasyDNS and EveryDNS were both great services with excellent free options til DynDNS bought them out and shut them down.
Could use a pi to automate emailing isp staff every day nagging them about the blocked port.
Key quote from the article:

To gauge the effects of the game, players were asked to rate the reliability of a series of different headlines and tweets before and after gameplay. They were randomly allocated a mixture of real (“control”) and fake news (“treatment”).

The study, published today in the journal Palgrave Communications, showed the perceived reliability of fake news before playing the game had reduced by an average of 21% after completing it. Yet the game made no difference to how users ranked real news.

The researchers also found that those who registered as most susceptible to fake news headlines at the outset benefited most from the “inoculation”.

“We find that just fifteen minutes of gameplay has a moderate effect, but a practically meaningful one when scaled across thousands of people worldwide, if we think in terms of building societal resistance to fake news,” said van der Linden.

The original study can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0279-9
I would never consider using one of these. The annoying thing is when someone else walks into the bathroom and turns it on. Same for the disturbing, toxic – scented hand soap that is found in most bathrooms.
Putting a click element on a div is transparent to accessibility systems. And no, it isn't possible to consider an element with an onclick the same as a button, because events bubble, which means the element with the event listener isn't necessarily the element being watched for a click. IIRC there even used to be a "good practice" where people would attach a single click handler at the root and use it to dispatch events based on the `event.target` instead of attaching a separate handler to each target.
NPR this morning was essentially praising this tactic.
>Thus it should surprise no one that they are terrible tourists.

is it even them?

1 instagrammer is ok, if they have 1 million followers though and a fraction of those people follow the same path then everything get's trampled.
In all likelihood you'd just see nothing.
For one, it won't play nice with accessibility helpers... screen readers, keyboard interaction, etc.
Bloodbath is a stretch and the uptick in knife-crime isn't localised to London, it's nationwide, and almost surely the result of tory austerity.
There is a reason for this. When car drivers stop pulling out in front of motorcyclists, motorcyclists will stop fitting loud exhausts.
I used to think that getting just to human level of 9s is enough, but I've changed my mind recently.

I think we can get to human level, by pure fact that we computers don't get distracted (they only crash ;-) ) and can also pickup signals, we cannot, due to 360° sensors. But computers are still bad at dealing with cases that are obvious to humans, due to lack of context and awareness.

I don't think that public will accept technology like that. I think there'll be a lot of public backslash once videos showing crashes in cases that are extremely obvious to humans. Videos from avoided crashes, that wouldn't be that obvious to humans won't be enough to change the sentiment.

Distribution of headlines that say "car crashed" vs "car avoided a crash" will be the same as "someone does a bad thing" vs "someone does a good thing".
A lot of this was covered in "The Phoenix Project". A good read but a bit idealistic in the expected outcome. The fake company was essentially able to right the sinking ship after the band had already stopped playing, in 2 quarters no less.

However, the core tenets were valid from a general approach. My fear when reading was the potential to go overboard. We have all met over-zealous scrum masters. Same could be applied to a lot of the stuff they were essentially transferring from manufacturing to development and more specifically devops.
Discovery Institute advocates "intelligent design", a concealed form of creationism. It's worth reading up about intelligent design and Discovery Institute just to inoculate your mind, I think, but I have a grudge.
true, but when it was lycos, hotbot, altavista, google, webcrawler, aol, gopher, archy, usenet and so many other sources it was much easier to exist in many ways (harder to dominate) - people used to ‘surf the web’, join “webrings” and share stuff.. now they consume and post memes. so i blame behavior as much as monopoly
Doom translated from C to V builds in 0.7 seconds
Ask HN: What do you guys use for IT asset management?
So a customer of mine is tracking racks and racks and racks of servers, switches, disks, ram, cards, and other things like their PCs, printers etc. all through spreadsheets and custom web app that someone wrote over 5 years ago which parses their excel sheet. They track this like location, status, warranty and other notes about each item. However, as you can imagine this current setup is a usability nightmare along with the obvious lack of scalability.

I'm curious as to how other people track assets on a large-ish scale. I know there's some good software out there but many of their websites seem to have lots of marketing fluff making it hard to determine what is actually useful. What tool(s) do you use to do this?
What makes people successful is _focus_ not hard work. When you focus on something fully, eliminating distractions as far as possible, you have the highest chance of that thing becoming a success, depending on your capabilities, because you've given it the depth of attention required to make it work.

People that work hard tend to spend longer hours on a problem so focus often comes as a side effect, which in turn leads to people correlating hard work with success.

But there are a ton of people "working hard" in the digital age and getting nowhere. If you see what they're up to, a big chunk of their time multi-tasking between random push messages and similar. What's missing is focus.
Speaking EU/Germany-centric, the problem with suing a company is that the company can always make the case go away by replacing the faulty product with either a repaired product, a very similar product of equal or greater worth or refunding a customer for the product and any losses incurred. A court will readily accept this even if the plaintiff customer might not want to accept it. And it's better to just silence a single suit this way (or a few) than to get a sentence against you on the books that will encourage everybody else to demand replacements or even sue too.
if its bad for kids, imagine dogs.

I know the professional dryer my mother uses is specifically designed to put out good airflow but does so with by using a slower speed but larger vane fan. the motor and input is near the user with a long exhaust tube exiting near where the dog is, they are always mounted to allow ease of movement.
Human Error and Root Cause Analysis [pdf]
Lost at Sea: (Marine Health Report)
Because the user can't hover over it and see where the link goes. Because the click handler represents a Javascript program that has to be downloaded. Because it can't be used with Javascript turned off -- which is increasingly necessary these days since ad networks abuse Javascript.

But mostly because it's usually unnecessary and smacks of laziness on the developer's part.
Usually the math leads to putting solar on your garage and charging via grid otherwise. You get the excess for other electricity generation, can put in more panels.

Especially if you want to, you know, park in a garage.

This is an idea well ahead of its time. When solar cells become REALLY cheap after the current growth curve in a decade or so, it will be an afterthought to put on solar vs paint.
This https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilig... is probably a good approximation.
I think there is a grain of a good idea here.

As i see it - new, "free search" internet would be a specially formatted content for each page published that will make it content easily searchable. Likely some tags within existing HTML content to comply with new "free search" standard.

Open source, distributed agents would receive notifications about new, properly formatted "free search" pages and then index such page into the public indexed DB.

Any publisher could release content and notify closest "free search" agent.

Then - just like a blockchain - anyone could download such indexed DB to do instant local searches.

There will be multiple variations of such DB - from small ones (<1TB) to satisfy small users giving just "titles" and "extracts" to large ones who need detailed search abilities (multi TB capacity).

"Free search", distributed agents will provide clutter-free interface to do detailed search for anyone.

I think this idea could easily be pickup up pretty much by everyone - everyone would be interested to submit their content to be easily searchable and escape any middlemen monopoly that is trying to control aspects of searching and indexing.
Seems to me that trying to upstream is common courtesy before forking. If there is some reason it needs to be integrated with changes to LLVM itself then you might end up with an LLVM fork similar to WebKit/Blink, is that a better outcome?
> The very naive economic centric view is the same sort of logic people employed shortly before the collapse of the British empire. It's a very unreliable and short-termist metric.

The US empire collapsing is a different kettle of fish to this strange notion that Russia is a world power. Sure, Trump saying the US economy is strong isn't going to stave anything off that might happen geopolitically. But whatever happens it is unlikely that the world will be bowing and scraping to Russia in the way that China or America can demand. A huge economy is necessary to exert global power and be called a geopolitical pole.

This applies even if they do control Kazakhstan.
Trees and brush sure. And a tick can definitely climb a tree. But dropping down isn't the way they generally attach. They hold onto grass and low branches waiting for animals to brush past them.

They don't really have a mechanism to alert them to the presence of animals walking below them fast enough for this to be practical for them.
Using a button here would be more appropriate for a few reasons:

Buttons by default have keyboard support for focusing and clicking. You’d have to manually add this to a div.

Screenreaders, scrapers, and other automated tools reading your html understand buttons and treat them differently from divs.

It’s easier for other devs to understand your code at a glance if clickable elements are buttons.
You must be looking forward Ai driven legal system and having your life partner determined by an ML gizmo.
The status of Catalonia is an enormously controversial issue. In 2017 the government of Catalonia declared independence from Spain, resulting in the Catalonian government being forcibly deposed by the Spanish government, which is opposed to Catalonian independence regardless of the wishes of the Catalonians.

So it's not that surprising they would want their own, .scot is a similar situation.
That was my experience as well. For old companies and new. Yahoo was just really slow.
Can you resubmit the tool when it's launched? Right now it's a landing page asking for email address with nothing to try. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Isn't it customary to put a Chinese person's family name first?
It is hilarious seeing this problem over and over and over again when it was solved in the APL language family ... some time in the 1960s.
This would be ludicrously easy to game. Crowdsourcing would also be ludicrously easy to game.

The problem isn't solvable without a good AI content scraper.

The scraper/indexer either has to be centralised - an international resource run independently of countries, corporations, and paid interest groups - or it has be an impossible-to-game distributed resource.

The former is hugely challenging politically, because the org would effectively have editorial control over online content, and there would be huge fights over neutrality and censorship.

(This is more or less where are now with Google. Ironically, given the cognitive distortions built into corporate capitalism, users today are more likely to trust a giant corporation with an agenda than a not-for-profit trying to run independently and operate as objectively as possible.)

Distributed content analysis and indexing - let's call it a kind of auto-DNS-for-content - is even harder, because you have to create an un-hackable un-gameable network protocol to handle it.

If it isn't un-gameable it become a battle of cycles, with interests with access to more cycles being able to out-index those with fewer - which will be another way to editorialise and control the results.

Short answer - yes, it's possible, but probably not with current technology, and certainly not with current politics.
Who thought this was a good UX?
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"Work like the tortoise, not the hare."

I knew I was onto something.
I have semi-automated the process of creating XML files for podcast episodes and tagging the MP3 files for upload.

I'm using BBEdit and bash on MacOS X to do both; I have a "worksheet" which is like the old Macintosh Programmer's Worksheet, if anyone remembers those - it's a text document in which you can select text and execute it as a shell command, and the results are piped back into the document.

It's "semi-automated" because I have a block of boilerplate text for each episode, and I type out the text for a short and long title, filename, and info fields. These go into bash variables. Then I just select the lines one by one and execute them. This allows me to sanity-check the results. Then I can just copy and paste the block of generated XML for each episode, paste it into the staging feed file, sync it via FTP, test the staging feed to verify that I can download the episode and that the tags all look correct, then, when I'm satisfied with it, put the XML in the production feed file.

This saves me a considerable amount of hand-editing of the XML and MP3 file metadata, which is quite error-prone. "Fully automated" was not really going to help in this case since very likely that would just automatically publish metadata and XML with errors.
'Whataboutism!' is a relevant response when someone brings up some unrelated problem of another country. For example, you are touring North Korea, see a broken escalator, ask the tour guide about it, and they say: 'But you are lynching Africans in America.'

When you bring up something quite related to the presented problem, that's not whataboutism.
"The Machine That Changed the World" is a wonderful title on this. Kiichiro Toyoda invented the lean production model after coming to the states and studying the inefficiencies of the assembly lines of Ford. This was a process dependent on modularizing every manufacturing component due to a demand for the Toyota company to serve a market with a need for an immense variety of vehicles, and giving teams ownership of the entire production process rather than one error check at the end a lá Ford. Introducing a vehicle with a steering wheel on the opposite side might take a year to implement in lean production, while handling that kind of variation in the assembly line model could take years (generally double the amount of time); The net result of this being that Toyota could offer 2x the vehicles of GM at half GM's size. Toyota was able to make extremely reliable vehicles and modify them as consumer demands shifted. By 1990, the Japanese were making cars with 4 year product lives and 500k total units (125k per year) while the Western companies were building 2M over 10 year product lives.
Don't even get me started on leaf blowers and lawn edgers for totally unnecessary landscaping
That's because of advertising. They wouldn't buy things they don't need if they weren't being manipulated to do so.
That they managed to work the concept of "puffery" (their propaganda term for lies) into the law tells you everything you need to know about advertising industry ethics.
He'll just use 23.1 nanolibra? And why do you assume that there will be so few Libra around?
Browsers are not required to support JavaScript; in fact, HTML has a specific tag to support this case.
I really enjoyed The Phoenix Project. I agree that things come together a bit too nicely at the end--seemed unrealistic. The first half though, when everything is going wrong, seemed very realistic. I couldn't read it before bed, or else I'd get too worked up to sleep.
Mine did. My wife has permanent hearing loss from my daughter screaming in her ear. Years later she still says the best Mother’s Day present I ever gave her was a pair of gun mufflers.
No. Search is a consequence of data volume.
The Telegraph editorial position is 'Brexit' [1]

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/heres-where-britains-...
Are you suggesting there's no extra effort involved in taking a raw data feed and presenting it in an actually usable app for user?

I can get free weather details with the built-in iOS app, but I still bought Dark Sky because it's a better interface. I have no qualms with this purchase.
The average american has about five nines on a per mile basis in the US. That's in all weather conditions and including all types of accidents / road rage issues / car maintenance levels. Under good conditions, I wouldn't be surprised if another few nines could be added to that.
A family member is on Doxycyclin for another issue unrelated to Lyme. It has caused them a fair amount of nerve degeneration issues in the toes and fingers. This is perhaps the risk that the some doctors are trying to avoid.