skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are all the container runtimes that CNCF is tracking: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=container-runtime&format=...
I was trying to download shareware from various freeware ftp sites (infomac mirror sites). It was painfully slow over 56K dialup.

It took literally hours to download a five minute QuickTime video clip. Streaming audio kind of worked but streaming video with RealVideo was painful.

Surprisingly enough, graphical remote access to a remote Windows computer actually worked decently well over dialup with PCAnywhere.

I think I first had high speed internet around 2002 via FreeDSL and when that went kaput, DirecTV owned a company called Telestream that offered DSL service.
There was an article about a small change in cattle diet that vastly reduced it's methane emissions. Something related to an Australian algae. Here, I found it:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/environme...
Actually, the majority of Germans are for ending coal power as soon as possible: https://www.zdf.de/politik/politbarometer/190125-mehrheit-sc...
>user smt88 offered a fabulous idea :
>Wikipedia is basically an information search engine without commerce or social media. The problem is that your results page is the article itself, and you need to scroll to the bottom to get to an external site.

Using wikipedia as a data source for a "search engine" does not fulfill gp's (jacquesm) request of "One nice solution would be a search engine that throws out anything related to commerce or linking to commerce."

For example, go to the wikipedia page for the film "Groundhog Day" and look at the external links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day#External_links

- one of the external links points to IMDB.com -- a commercial website owned by Amazon.

- another link points to Punxsatawney Groundhog Club website that's advertising a $30 beer tasting event (Hogtoberfest).

- another link points to a souvenir shop

To continue the example of commercial links, a lot of math articles on wikipedia point to MathWorld which has advertising for the commercial Wolfram Mathematica software package.

IMO, I don't believe a search engine based on wikipedia's list of external sites (even with ignoring the commercial links) is going to be useful for the mainstream audience. I probably do 50+ searches on google every single day and maybe 1% might be answerable from a "wikipedia search". For example, I needed a DIY answer to disassemble a Moen faucet and Wikipedia has zero articles with those instructions. In contrast, the Google (and Youtube) search results has the information I was looking for even though it has the unwanted ads and "content marketing" blogs from plumbing brands.
On HN, downvoting for disagreement has always been fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256420 and marked it off-topic.
>Scientists say that it is too early to see the effects of changes in environmental policy of the Trump administration, which took office in January 2017.
> Ever been forwarded one of these corporate-type emails where people reply all over the place, each using their own convention of color and typesetting and emphasis markers, with bits of "rich text" signatures and images littered throughout? That's a bloody terrible experience.

https://www.prettyfwd.com

Created to fix that exact issue.
Tesla’s are really expensive to repair which impacts insurance costs. But, some companies have self-driving car discount‘s such as: https://www.joinroot.com/blog/tesladiscount/

Suggesting a net benefit exists relative to the base model without self driving capabilities.
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of political adversaries
Ya, I believe the OP was talking about the five pages of story-telling before the recipe that requires you to annoyingly scroll until you find the recipe ingredient list. I came here for a cookie recipe, not a story about how you discovered you liked oatmeal cookies when you were 12, but then became a raisin-cookie fanatic, before moving back to chocolate chips, when you suddenly remembered your Grandma baked you peanut butter cookies as a kid. /sic
Quantum Computers Could Be True Randomness Generators
The fakes can do this too, though...

And how do you validate what is displayed on TV? Who will validate most videos they see?
Ok not link but include header.

You can do the same in rust. See the explicit section of the faster project.
Although you didn't say anything to contradict this, I'd like to underscore that "people who coasted through high school" is a problem that transcends the divide. See the vaccine problem, where much of the problem resides in affluent left-leaning communities.

What I wish the "right" would notice is that both the US military and the fossil fuel companies (that is, the highly-educated conservatives) have privately acknowledged anthropogenic climate change and are preparing for it.

[edit] lol my goodness, who is downvoting me? advocates for the uneducated?
Brand and UX have nothing to do with each other. UI and UX are barely related.
Probably aws.amazon rather than webservices. They've invested a lot of time branding the acronym AWS, I don't see them rolling that back now.

As for whether they make those the new generic addresses... I'm not sure. I think they are more likely to use the new tld for internal dns and keep their existing public names.
The article looks a bit suspicious and FUD to me: first they say "here is five reasons why AMP in Gmail is bad" and then just put out five general essays about how Google is bad.

AMP as tech is certainly good for users. Google pushes it a tad too hard and sometimes is at the edge of abusing it, but overall effect on UX is very positive. There's no monopoly here: anyone can take advantage of this tech (and I believe most search engines do). AMP in email is even more innocent: in the end, you already are inside Gmail inbox, what could go wrong from there?

Current Gmail actions[1] are very useful, and if AMP could do even better - count me in.

[1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/overview#gmail_ac...

edit: link to Gmail actions
Dang, I like your perspective. Thanks for sharing.

I want to explain digital displays in a name that exposes the idea of dynamic use. Of reading/writing/drawing while simultaneously affording computational ability, execution and simulation.
Well what is the precise, distinct problem with them using a private contractor to do this? The contractor is collecting information which is public, and relaying information which may indicate that there is a case that ICE could pursue.

As far as I am aware, ICE already did this form of OSI in-house, but probably less effectively.

> >(A)ICE is also known to be monitoring people sympathetic to enforcing immigrants’ rights, labelling them as “Anti-Trump” protestors.

ICE working with this contractor is not what would cause them to monitor "people sympathetic to enforcing immigrants’ rights"†.

† Also, I think the quoted material is a bit too reductive: although there has been a move away from the phrase "illegal alien" since people have started associating the word with space aliens or something, there remains a pretty clear delineation between immigrants generally, and illegal aliens. I suspect that ICE is interested particularly in monitoring people who are endorsing an unlawful act[0], and likely to be providing material support for such an act. I suspect they are considerably less interested in people who, for example, help lawful resident aliens gain access to legal resources or social support.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
Haskell people claim that combinators and monads are clear, but in practice the code seems to be write-only. Each combinator might be simple, but that doesn’t mean that the result can be understood easily. And monads have the same problem, except they aren’t simple.
Ask HN: How to validate SaaS MVP without writing code?
We are a team of 3 dude with a combined 30+ years in FinTech, specifically in building software for Hedge Funds, Asset Management firms and brokerages.

We've been working on a couple of SaaS products on our own, that involves SEC Filings, including Insider Trading data ( Form 4,5, 3), Holdings data ( Form 13-F) and Corporate Filings ( 10-K, 8-K etc)

We've written a lot of code, designed databases, API endpoints etc, but I'm not sure how we should validate that

1) there is a need for such a service, and

2) people will pay for this service.

I looked in Quora and reddit and a couple of quant forums, and there are questions posted asking for SEC EDGAR API, or normalized SEC filings data. But we don't have any real contacts or real target user and I don't know how to find them.

I know that your should not be writing any code and validate the need for a pain point you are solving, and I am concerned that we are coding and developing stuff for months without actually validating the MVP / finding Product Market Fit.

I hope you understand my questions and predicament. Any advice on any of this would be really helpful.

Last thing I want to do is spend months coding and building and then find out 1) no one wants this or 2) no one will pay for it cos it's not a painful enough pain-point or there are already established players (i.e. problem already solved efficiently)

Thanks in advance.

[ If you have more questions or want to advice / help me in private, my email is in bio.]
Could this kill GMail?

You can filter Google's ads from email if you're not using GMail. This is a significant negative for using GMail.
It lets you sandbox your activity - for instance, preventing google from linking your activity for a work account with that from a personal account.

It also adds some confidence that vulnerabilities won’t be used to track or crack sensitive interactions. For instance, if I log into my bank only in one container and browse untrusted sites only in another, I can be more confident that my bank account won’t be subjected to a XSS attack.

And then, some sites (AWS, I’m looking at you) make it really really difficult to manage multiple accounts from a single browser.

Finally, Safari’s extension ecosystem and developer tools kind of suck. This way I’ve got access to Firefox’s.
The urban areas have never been efficient at water use with farming.
"at the time"

Also, I see no benefit to "trying out Chrome". I use it often for a few broken webpages (blame the devs but there are really few) or on co-workers' computers and find no benefit whatsoever. Firefox has all of its features and much more. As far as I'm concerned: tree style tabs, containers, privacy and flawless ad-blocking.
Clicking an icon to start an application is absolutely a part of user experience. What’s more, my comment is about how one change can indicate a deeper and more meaningful change in organization.
Reasons: Google Optimize Can Help You Decide
I'm having a hard time understanding why this has been upvoted so much. I don't want to sound harsh but the code just looks like a ton of if-then-elses and regexes. Where is the neural network? Or did I miss that somehow?
I'll try to find the article, but there are parts of the USA where it is cheaper to drink bottled water and have a portapotty outside your house than it is to have mains water
Speaking in general about alternative systems for phones and tablets, I have a few obscure tablets I'd like to free of Android and repurpose for more useful tasks, but they're either too old or unknown to be supported. Is there any tool that would help to identify their hardware and possible more famous clones, then suggest the right image to be tested on these devices without bricking them in the process?
That’s not a generic air pollution map, just particulate pollution which often gets really bad due to dry areas. Which is why the the Sahara desert is so bad without people.
Viral crap making the rounds.
Which Nuclear Wars Should Worry Us Most?
> The damages done by global warming can not be undone no matter how much money you throw at them. I don't think spending a couple percent of your GDP for the next twenty to thirty years on preventing that is too expensive.

Your estimate of the cost is not even in the right ballpark; even if the circumstances are dire enough to call for such drastic spending, renewables are not even a moderately effective way to eliminate fossil fuel dependence.
Roughly speaking, tube amplifier goes in distortion adding pair harmonics when the solid state add odds ones. Odds harmonics aren't nice to the ear (see by yourself by listening to a Sawtooth wave) while even ones are much more flattering (see by yourself by listening to a triangle wave). This distortion relates to the entire theory that's behind the creation of chords and also to psychoacoustics.
Considering it works for other things such as actually perpetrating genocide in the name of fighting terror... how is it any different from all the other political moves made to push some agenda? And yes pesticides as used are weapons of mass destruction against the insect population on this planet. Literally.
25 years ago the grid didn't have phasor measurement units, distribution-level sensors, internet-connected SCADA systems, smart meters, demand-side management, or even computers very much. Now all those things are commonplace, and they make the grid much more stable in a world of stochastic supply.
(Some of those things also make the grid a lot more vulnerable to black-hat hackers, but that's another subject.)
The Deep Seeds of DraStic, DS Emulator (2013)
Always love newatlas.
I think the defensive aspect is underestimated.

I know from personal experience that carving out a clear online domain name is a lot harder with the expansion of tlds.

Also, I expect phishing sites will have an ever easier time registering convincing domains. So we're going to end up relying on browser blacklisting... not exactly an improvement for security.
I though purity was about having no side-effects. Or, in other terms. If you call the a pure function twice with the same arguments, you get the same output.
Amazing! This does something that I wish they would all do — allows me to block a site.

I never, ever, for any reason, want to see results from the Daily Mail. I don’t even care if it’s the most relevant content: I just never want to see that site in my results. I know I can block it in hosts or whatever, but that’s not what I want. I don’t even want to see the link.

I wish DDG would give me this option.
No not a friend just thought it was genuinely interesting
I believe this is a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu.... Open source does absolutely nothing to resist this approach.
What I can discern from your answer is that the specific type of tracking stopped is based on XSS and nothing else, is that right?

And if that’s the case, then if I am someone who is primary worried about being tracked by ad networks, then I don’t really need Firefox containers. Is that fair?
Javascript programmers seem to have no problem using a monad every day (promises), and they are huge fans of do-notation in the from of async/await. Imperative programmers do not seem to have an issue with the idea of assignment, why are monads problematic?

By "combinator" do you mean combinator as in the combinator pattern?

I have no idea what value your comment brings us except a way for people who already agree with you to give you upvotes, and what's the point in that?
The Enduring Fascination with Sherlock Holmes
Also superficially relevant recipes or just regurgitated content.
Or use one of those toolboxes to create your psychology experiments: jsPsych, lab.js, OSWeb/OpenSesame.

And to put it online: JATOS.
OK, we've added "for computing" to the title above.
Doubt it. A lot of windows laptops are made of cheap plastic. Thinkpads for example. It’s only recently when they have switched to metal. Even MacBook used to be plastic a decade ago.
Best case scenario would be the optimizer does it for you. Less optimal would be compiler hints saying 'please memoize this function'.
Thanks. I was unaware about Sandvig v. Sessions
If you are running a sort them you will need to compare each of the elements at least once which will mean you have to evaluate the whole list right?
It is career suicide for scientists to pursue technology-based approaches to climate change (geoengineering)
It amazes me how despite so much anti-immigrant sentiment, the US still admits more than 1 million immigrants each year [1]. Is there are reason only the most unpopular and least effective steps are taken to reduce immigration? Perhaps to pander to Trump voters, without jeopardizing the source of new labor and consumers demanded by businesses?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-finding...
Searching an answer to your question on the internet doesn't mean you're not talking about it to someone else.

By your logic, we'd literally be silent 99% of the time, because 'we have all the answers,' which is nonsense.
Within minutes? Seems optimistic.
Great example.
That's because those rating systems naively apply the ratings across the entire population. The average of the star ratings should be weighted by the normalized dot product of each rater's style and your rating style, or the similarity between each rater and you. A 0-star rating from someone whose preferences are orthogonal to you should not influence the average rating you see.
Author here. This is deeply amusing that among all the posts I write, the rushed half cogent Haskell rant rehashed for the billionth time gets the most attention. I guess that makes sense.
This measurability nonsense is a red herring.

Think about it, the question can easily be answered by blind A/B testing using real listeners with varying aptitude for discerning any differences and the qualities.

Over the years people have tried and failed often to show much difference, when tests were done with proper controls and with scientific rigor.

To be fair I haven't read up on the subject recently so if there's anything current that shows otherwise I'd be glad to read a link to a paper from a credible source.
The title says "general purpose language".
I think you misunderstood. I said very little about the relative performance.

I know quite well that the FPGA can be faster. The point is you have to work 10-50x as hard to get there, if you want to do anything interesting. Arbitrary FPGA application code is not a thing.

Practically speaking, by the time in your development cycle that you’ve built your custom hardware and software, got it through emissions and are ready to sell it commercially, there’s a new intel chip that is competitive with what you’re doing, using C code. (It’s an FPGA so you have to deliver custom hardware with it). FPGAs have advanced as well in this time, but you’re not using that, you’re using a 2-4 year old one.

We were picking apart tcp packets and processing the data inside of them. What we built worked, and it was faster than a CPU, but we had a lot of clever non-standard custom compilers to do it.

It was really fun, challenging and interesting work, but really hard to justify in a practical sense.

Things like signal processing are a good application mostly because they’re well understood and the code follows the same basic pattern. Novel applications are much more difficult.
An easier way to manage and launch Firefox profiles is the about:profiles page.
I agree. This is exactly why I made that distinction.
Yeah, I think so.

Curation-as-a-service could even become a viable market. It's arguably already happening to a certain extent through various platforms, creators, and aggregators; but it's not really split off as its own service yet.
Did you read it all? I wonder what your development background is that you would have that perspective.
Those two statements aren't actually equivalent.

Haskell isn't pure. A truly pure programming language would be completely useless as it wouldn't be able to actually manipulate state at all.
Thanks. This is the case the EFF article I linked in the original post also refers to.
It's Time to Rethink Wine Criticism
The only MUA where reply is complicated is Outlook because it is still not possible to quote easily.

Plaintext mail should not just continue to function. A plain text mail should be default.
Bolton is the perfect guy to give media shrills something to talk about while working peace deals in the background.
If your argument for HTML email is spam, then I think you just defeated yourself.
Thanks. I did not know about CommonCrawl
I’ve tried switching over to DuckDuckGo.com a bunch of times over the years, but this time the move has stuck.

I think one of the reasons is that I do not get a bunch of the ‘smart’ stuff that Google tries to do for me. In a way it’s like using a search engine from 10 years ago ... and it’s better.

There are things that I do miss — quick cards for things like currency conversion, flight details, that sort of thing - but the mighty Duck is getting better at those, and if I need to reach in to Google I can always just !g it.
It's a good article, but it reminds me that sometimes I feel like with protocol-oriented programming we're just reinventing class hierarchies with a new kind of polymorphism and finding a way to do things with composition instead of inheritance, just because that's the new right way to do everything. Other than value types vs reference types, what would be the downside of FileImporter being a base class with a few subclasses for each file type? The base class could have a factory method that returns one of the subclasses.

And could we achieve much of what we want with protocol-oriented programming crossed with value types if structs could have inheritance? I know that sounds strange.

In short, I totally get the elegance of protocol-oriented programming, but I wonder if for most of its applications a traditional class hierarchy would be more than good enough. I'm not sure inheritance is as bad a word as people make it out to be.
I wouldn't call haskell general purpose. He lists a couple of areas he cares about.
That isn't really the point. It doesn't make any sense to be optimistic that a factor will change when it is the overall equation that is wrong.

> Engineers need to choose to work on, maybe even for less money or less job security, solutions which are so much better that policy and implementation will contort themselves toward the new paradigms.

Not only is this becoming harder in most countries every year in recent decades, but the paradigm shift already happened with climate change. If you want to be optimistic you could be optimistic that we find a way to change the equation. In its current state your optimism is awfully close to it being someone else's problem.
Well this is “do-whatever-you-want-at-whatever-hour” than eliminating all concept of time...
First packets transmitted on Internet Down Under 30 years ago
Scientific study of historic photos shows Marshall Islands are growing
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310465
You could easily point that URL at a Google server.
It has horrible reviews (booting by itself etc.). Any better alternative?
I don't think their response time would be nearly that quick. All the stories about Stingrays would imply that this actually isn't very well policed (FCC enforcement is reactionary. The carriers could be proactive, but then would discover the Stingrays. And if carriers were complicit with Stingrays, then Stingrays themselves wouldn't be necessary).

I would also think the widespread deployment of legit femtocells would provide a decent cover.

But yes, it is generally illegal. (Though this hasn't stopped OpenBTS from being developed)