skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point in general regarding the internet, but I'm not clear at all on how Javascript would be required for any of the tasks in this website.

1. Show text content

2. Make the text content look good

3. Allow submission to a comment section

All of those things can be accomplished with some or none javascript. Why make the job harder than necessary? Why screw over screenreaders?

Oh, I see there's a graph there, that probably would use some JS. But why not just hide the graph for noscript users?
UPS will not join FedEx lawsuit against U.S. government
> assuming all other things being equal (convenience as medium of exchange etc.), an individual is always going to prefer holding currency that isn’t subject to inflation. An individual is never going to generously allow their government to erode X% of their liquid cash voluntarily.

"All other things being equal" will never happen. Too many things change. For example, maybe the world economy is on the brink of depression (2008), in which people would prefer their governments do something about the crisis, despite the risk of inflation. Or maybe you're trying to manipulate your currency to gain a trade advantage. Etc. etc. It's just not a useful thing to consider.

And although this is kind of anecdata, I'm perfectly happy for my (US) government to execute monetary policy that potentially devalues my savings and investments as long as it's justified. Hell I usually make it back with wage/benefit increases (although the same can't be said for most US workers) and interest on investments.

> This future doesn’t require any crypto ‘dictating’ its money supply policy, it just requires at least one fixed supply crypto to exist in your country that is as convenient as existing cash / online payment to make governmental monetary policy useless.

No one's saying what the future does or doesn't require. All I'm saying is that people who are extolling the virtues of a fixed currency should earnestly research why we moved off fixed currencies. There are a lot of really good reasons. No serious economist advocates for a return to a fixed supply of currency.

> The problem for governments is: the genie is out of the bottle regarding fixed supply.

This is comically untrue. It may be true in cryptocurrency circles, but it's absolutely not true in economic circles. It's an idea that's been widely considered and roundly dismissed as very bad. Its support in cryptocurrency circles is driven largely by libertarian ideology.

> Note that I’m not saying it’s good or bad that countries cannot effectively control money supply anymore but it seems inevitable they can’t in the long term.

On the contrary, countries that cannot effectively control money supply will continue to be at a disadvantage with countries that can. It's precisely because of its usefulness that countries will continue to employ it. What could possibly make you think otherwise?
Obviously bundling nearly all of Chromium with an app is inherently inefficient, but out of curiosity's sake, has there been any objective analysis of exactly what makes this use a seemingly disproportionate amount of resources? Are JavaScript runtimes inherently inefficient? Is it Electron's node.js part? Is it the huge amounts of code needed to parse and render HTML and CSS? Is it the multimedia features, like WebGL and the video and audio players? Is the problem actually just badly written code running on top of Electron? And if so, what exactly are are most Electron apps doing wrong that one could avoid? Is it, as this blog post seems to suspect, that they aren't sufficiently taking advantage of Electron's node.js integration?

In addition, once the actual bottleneck has been identified, doesn't this open the door to fix things on the WebKit/Blink engine side of things? Before, when Electron was managed by GitHub, one could say this would be unreasonably difficult, but now that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, isn't tweaking Blink to be more suitable for deployment environments outside of Chrome exactly the type of thing they would have a vested interest in doing, and the resources to actually pull off? After all, with VS Code, they are one of the highest-profile Electron users, and using Blink in Edge presumably involves working with the Blink code to some degree anyway.

It's always struck me that a lot of Electron apps likely never use a single line of WebGL, while a lot of WebGL apps likely only use DOM APIs to pretend the DOM doesn't exist by plastering everything in a huge <canvas> element, and both likely don't want their binaries to include the Chrome devtools, but Electron includes all of these things anyway. I'm not sure how much space or resources it would actually save, but is Chromium/Blink refactoring their code and build process to facilitate Electron building different Electron "profiles" that include different sets of features even remotely a possibility?
Never said anything about policing PRICES... The sales pricing is dirty not illegal. Businesses should be free to price things however they want, but that doesn't mean certain sales pricing isn't a dirty trick. And it's DEFINITELEY not in the same category as these other practices.

Dark UI patterns and deceptive tactics are definitely grounds for legislation though, and those are the particulars of the article and this discussion not a nebulous discussion about %50 sales.

It's shitty and takes advantage of people. Dark patterns and automatically raising prices and making it near impossible to cancel accounts... this is what people are talking about legislating. Ff you are defending those dark patterns and deceptive tactics from being legislated against you are basically taking the position of a con man or someone who stands to profit from that behavior. They aren't providing a better service they're providing deceptive business practices.

Why would you try to implement some nationwide educational campaign instead of outlawing by definition a deceptive business practice? That would be a giant misallocation of resources and not even guaranteed to help. How are you going to educate the old and succeptible? They are the ones most prone to these attacks.

What you're saying isn't just late night TV ads can use $99.99 to appeal to customers, no one has a problem with that. You're saying sure go ahead and use Dark UI patterns and straight up deceiving pricing contracts to my elderly grandma, and you have no issue with that? She shoulda been better educated? OK then... Do you also think Kevin Trudeau is a stand up guy who deserves to be in business?
We have solar cells which have exceeded the Shockley-Queisser limit. It's possible to exceed the Shockley-Queisser limit by having a multiple junction solar cell. In fact the world record for conversion of sunlight is 46%[0]. Of course this was with concentrated sunlight. Without concentrated sunlight multijunction solar cells have achieved 30.2% efficiency[1]. Multijunction solar cells are somewhat expensive though. Based on the current rate of advancement of perovskite solar cells it's possible we could see perovskite silicon tandem solar cells with 30% or higher efficiency in the coming months. In december, perovskite silicon tandem solar cells achieved an efficiency of 28%[2].

Still, something's fishy about this vehicle.

[0]https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...
[1]https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...
[2]https://www.oxfordpv.com/news/oxford-pv-perovskite-solar-cel...
We do know, and it is. Medical marijuana is legal in about half the states, and is commonly prescribed for cancer, glaucoma, and MS.
you are forgetting that solar cells are not 100% efficient, and charging is not either. so you MUST use charge rates cites, not consumption rates
Aha! That was the missing piece in my understanding, it all makes sense now! <3 You're the only person out of the ~5 people I asked who explained that bit.
FUCK YOU ORACLE ! I WILL NEVER USE A ORACLE PRODUCT AGAIN
Hmm I need to research more about the real estate market here
I was actually under the impression the whole thing was open source. Out of curiosity, what is closed?
Deepfakes, Blockchains, and Factom
The DOM of the loaded page clearly has the article content in it (just right click -> inspect), and is visible to a screen reader.
"I need 8 megs of Javascript and a loading splash screen to display my own blog article in the 'modern web'".

No you don't.
Interesting, but how do they assign this authority? Anything to cite?
my comment remains: if they commercialized such efficient cells, why bother making a car? Why not take the money and go buy a small-to-medium-sized country to retire in?
20.4 seconds for me, before I could see text at all.

If the SEO people are to believed, a vast majority of people would click away, what, 5 seconds into that?
My wife and I went to Paris, and in our AirBnB there was a fantastic little radio. We'd turn it on and listen to Radio FIP and just leave it going. I had forgotten the pleasure of listening to what was on, rather than picking, or worse, skipping songs.
I hooked up my raspberry Pi to a small LED header with directional buttons on it. Each button was a different french radio station's m3u stream, output to speakers. It perfectly simulated the radio.
I want to put in a delay where it would be time synched with California so the theme is more aligned (slow night time music at lunch is noticeable).
Why Is That Fish Following Me?
Why not pre-render the graph and serve the pre-rendered image?
Insurance is a pretty dirty word right now. Especially when they are for-profit insurance companies.

US healthcare is a great example of insurance companies causing so much complexity that people willingly chose death over going bankrupt.
New study suggests dementia risk is high for users of common drugs
As a lesson to anyone else hoping to do a shutdown with a migration to a different service with your company.

If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settings and then import them again, you're asking me to buy all over again.

If you ask me to buy, then I get will reevaluate the relationship, and if it's just as easy to migrate to another supplier I will move.

Migrating internally should have been "push this button to accept the new terms and pricing, you don't even need to talk with your registrar."

I've been a Dyn customer for over a decade, and now I'm moving because it's just as easy to move as it is to stay, and I do not want to have to type in "oracle.com" to manage my service.
I recently moved a MUD I host from cloud services to a little System76 box in my laundry room. I use dnsimple.com for my domains and they have an API, so I just added a little task to my MUD server to periodically check my ip address via https://api.ipify.org/ and then check what I have for my A record in dnsimple's API, if it differs I update it.
How Discount Brokerages Make Money
I used to have about ~$15/month deposited on flattr* for quite some time, and the main reason that I've been using brave is not because of its anti-ad stance but rather their anti-tracking + the possibility of a way to fund content creators.

I am also contributing about ~10€/month on patreon for different software projects and writers. I've written to more than one youtube channel producers asking them to look into alternatives so that they could take my money. The Quilette model is also something that I do appreciate.

Believe me when I say that I am more than willing to support people that create content. And depending how much you are asking for me to send you, I'd gladly take on your offer.

* story time: I got a call from an Eyeo recruiter some months ago, who was looking for people in their ad-block/acceptable ads team. It turned into a most-of-the-time-friendly discussion about how acceptable ads does nothing about the tracking of the users, so I wouldn't be interested in joining their team and me asking him to call me back only if he had some position on flattr.
The weight is saved by using in-wheel motors, no axle, no differential, and so on.

It's definitely a gimmick, but I'm not willing to dismiss them out-of-hand. I've designed and built several hybrid and electric cars with teams 1/4 of this company's size, so I don't take issue with the design or their ability to build 1 or 100 units, but rather their ability to actually bring this thing to market and be successful.
Best ways to use React Hooks for state management
If you need a background process to call Node APIs because "it's the only place where it's safe to access them", what unsafe way is this meant to contrast with? Does Electron normally (but unsafely?) call Node APIs from the browser process?
It’s on a per-account basis because Amazon is leaning heavily into multi-account setups for organizations. The release of AWS Control Tower strongly indicates that multi account is the future of AWS. Service Quotas is simply another end toward that goal.
That's the right way to think about it when choice is involved, for example smoking. You choose to smoke, you belong in a high risk pool. But if it's something that could happen to any one of us, then we all belong in the same pool. We know a congenital heart defect is going to be expensive- but any one of us could have been born with one.

I think there is a coming fight over whether insurance can pool & price discriminate based on other things too, like healthy eating or active vs sedentary lifestyle. Eating junk food & laying on the couch your whole life has always been high risk but now with technology it could be measured & priced.
Took me a while to find a current list of commits, here it is: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/commit_brows... (the Github mirror is not updated)
There is some evidence high serum levels of b12 are a risk for cancer.

http://sciencenordic.com/high-levels-vitamin-b12-can-increas...
The only way the doctor would get a $300 deduction is if they use accrual accounting and had already reported the $400 as taxable income. It's isn't a free deduction that comes out of nowhere.

With accrual, you report income when you bill for it, not when you receive it. Suppose you treat a patient on December 31 and bill the insurance $400 on same day. You report the $400 as income and pay taxes for the entire $400 in that year.

The next year, insurance only pays $100, so now you have a $300 loss to report in the new year. But you only have this loss because you've already reported the $300 as income.

If the doctor uses cash accounting, there would not be a $400 income entry on December. There wouldn't be any income to report until they are actually paid, and then the income is the actual amount they are paid, $100.
This looks awesome! Do you have any benchmark though?
That's okay. Hardware and bandwidth can catch up. FSX was released 13 or 14 years ago and it's still being sold on Steam. I didn't get into until about 7 years ago, and it still got my fans spinning on my dev laptop which had a 4th gen i7 and lots of ram.
A similar study by Harvard a few years ago found that taking benadryl increases dementia risk.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...
FWIW, HDHP+HSA has worked great for me. Low premiums and I’ve built up a significant nest egg in the HSA over the 8 or so years I’ve had plans that used them.

I know it doesn’t work great for everyone though and I’ve seen some discussion that it doesn’t bring down costs because of the lack of transparency in pricing preventing comparison shopping (which is also my experience).
>That's the point of confusion. This is not an end around.

Whether that's the intention or not doesn't matter, it has the potential to be and that is simply not acceptable.

When a developing world country like India needs to use monetary policy to stimulate their economy but those transmission mechanisms aren't working because a significant part of the economy is using Libra, that's a major threat to their sovereignty. It's digital colonialism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/31/argen...
It's a kind of mind-trick that only occurs in articles and white papers about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. I've noticed that they often end up proposing a distributed private shared database controlled by a corporate cartel and call it "freedom."
According to Kaiser, HDHPs are the second most common health insurance plan and account for 28% of all insurance plans.

> Not my "cure" thats the economic reality. Unfettered access to healthcare will give you skyrocketing costs. You cant complain about both at the same time, they are a trade-off.

Yes, if the problem is skyrocketing demand. But it isn't. Yes, if we waved a magic wand and provided unlimited free access to medical care, demand would rise somewhat. But demand is not the reason for the current high prices, and it's not the reason costs are outpacing inflation. Medical care in the US is much more expensive than in comparable countries, but demand is not appreciably different.

As long as people keep looking at this through a "market" lens, or through a "just make it single payer" lens, the problem will never be solved. The fundamental problem isn't that demand is too high. The problem is cost disease, the root of which consists of dozens of different factors. This is a decent article, albeit one that barely scratches the surface.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

Look at those graphs! It's mindblowing! Medical costs have increased ten times more than inflation, while doctor and nurse salaries were flat (actually worse, since now their salary goes to paying off educational debt) over the same time period. If there's a demand problem, why aren't salaries of medical professionals rising faster than inflation?

Lastly, I think most people would disagree that cutting costs is the most important thing. Going bankrupt is better than dying of pneumonia because you were worried about wasting money on a doctor visit.
I was under the impression that there is clear evidence/consensus that CBD is a great anti-inflammatory / painkiller.
What makes this an "AI Model" instead of just a "Model"? That is, in what way does it have "artificial intelligence"?
Cool.

You make reference to fonts. I assume this isn't font in the traditional sense, ie the look (feel?) of a character.
only tangentially related, but ableton is a personal dream job . anyone have experiences working there?
great product, excellent story
Indie Hackers is so much more than just a site with static content. There are user accounts and voting and commenting, just for starters.

The market of people who disable JS is minuscule and very likely not worth the effort to serve.

If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many sites will not work for you.
That'd be even better! I'm not sure how I'd do that off the top of my head, or if I'd bother for a blog post, but it's definitely a good idea.

I think the mouseover behavior on the graph is cool though so having both (one for javascript people, one for non-JS people) is smart.

It's completely inaccessible to screenreaders, though. I just get "Average Monthly Revenue 2012- 2018 canvas element."
Really? It's a google search away https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-most-read-books-i...
And it's in the Guinness book of world records.

Also, Christianity is the largest religion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
> Banks don't make their money or derive their power through the 'creation of money'.

A bank just opened and has $0 in the vault
You give the bank $1000
The bank lends me $800

Your current bank balance = $1000
My current bank balance = $800
Total money in the bank = $1800

You might say that the money wasn't created because they can't afford to pay out $1800, but if for some reason at this point they need to pay back the $1000 they can ask another bank for a loan, and point to the $800 they're owed as collateral. On top of that, both the $1000 and the $800 would be insured against the failure of the bank by the federal government. This is a simplified example of course, but when the banking system is working normally it's hard to say that they don't make their profits on the creation of money.
Just curious, what is your connection?
I agree, shipping a separate browser engine is also a mistake.
Yeah, I think it's a bit much to ask every single website on the internet that uses JavaScript to add a tag for the incredibly small demographic that is NoScript users.
Ugh, this is so upsetting. Stopped my music. Instantly left the page without reading it.
Don't steal from the rich
Not if the analytics companies start being contacted by hardcoded IP address, or the apps otherwise avoid DNS. May not by a common technique now, but it could become one.
That doesn’t matter as long as there is a ‘sports’ mode that sacrifices efficiency for performance. Most times you don’t need the range anyway.
Trading environment, there wasn't another solution with the lookup-and-matching performance they got out of Oracle, from what little was shared with me. I trust the source as he is the best programmer I know first-hand and never shied away from throwing together his own solution if he found benefit from it, like his own object database back in the early 80's.
> The real issue we are facing is that everything that we thought was not going to be pattern matching and tree search has turned out to be pattern matching and tree search.

Absolutely false. It just seems that way because you read biased research and articles.

There's a boatload of problems that cannot be solved with pattern matching and tree search. Even really simple ones.

One example is estimating/predicting binomial proportions adequately.
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Honestly, people just have disdain of the south.

The whole union's representative model is bent over backwards to keep consensus with the south eastern US for reasons that have little relevance this century, but are impossible to change.

The electoral college is from when there were 800,000 free white males in all the original states (US 1790 census), and the union still felt like it needed Georgia and South Carolina to agree to be a part of this contract for strategic reasons. I wonder how many of them were literate land owners!

Is that relevant today? Is ANY of that relevant today? Many other countries looked at the electoral college over the last 250 years and saw how it was a strategic compromise masqueraded as a feature. They decided not to do it and stick with popularity contests.
Connection refused? Docker networking and how it impacts your image
Also wanting to get into this... would you mind describing your hardware setup? And any other software besides Ableton?
It's a completely meaningless comparison in practice.

D's contract mechanism (i.e. in/out, and invariant blocks) can provide very strong guarantees to the compiler (as a specified part of the language as opposed to a GCC pragma/builtin), which the LLVM D compiler definitely uses.

All of the on by defaults that D has are usually there for a reason, i.e. floats are NaN initialized and bounds checking is on by default: These are very good idiot-proofing which can often be ignored unless profiling suggests there is a tangible issue.
Yeah .. that's the entire premise of Monzo's marketplace concept. Really not sure what point you're trying to make here.

Monzo offers the current account and works with other organisations to offer the savings accounts (with the same UX, in the app, just as if it were a native pot). If the ISA didn't have "provided by OakNorth" in small text next to it, the customer wouldn't know any different.
I sure know, I have chronic kidney stones and voted to legalize it in my state. It provides a great deal of pain relief for me. I utilize opiates for the most extreme cases of pain.