skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess: it is all about culture. I guess asian people are more likely to choose 8 (lucky number) and avoid 4 (unlucky number).
In JavaScript I don't know. In Python, there is still django-admin and a similar library for Flask. Generating the frontend is another story.

> VulcanJS, but it's not clear to me if there's still an active community/active development

DIY!
And if you don't tend to read the books again, you've made out like a bandit.
Cherokee Syllabary
Are you being forced to pass students who are not meeting the qualifications of passing the class? Or do they just not like you?
Well, Dah...?

In discussions with friends I always say "Imagine all the old books would have been e-books, and all the old DRM servers are gone. Now what?"

I have never (and will never) owned an e-book, unless it is a free of DRM.
What I said has everything to do with Bitcoin. Things like anonymity and resistance to government control are central to the purpose of Bitcoin. I have no idea what the basis of your claim, that "Satoshi's Vision"'s anti-Bitcoin ethos don't matter to its categorization as Bitcoin, is.
Yeah, the point is to encourage creation; I agree that there should be some requirement that you must distribute a work to keep that copyright.
The author of that paper was the thesis advisor of many faculty in the Cornell Physics department when I was there in the 1990s.

He is a Colossus of condensed matter physics and was thoughtful about the "complex systems" work around condensed matter that later fell out of fashion.
Sometime I get upvotes from old post, I can not tell which one because there is no notifications.
> they seem to always become anti-competive to keep growing.

They also tend to sort of merge with government. At some point they figure out there is better ROI in buying government influence and using it to insulate themselves from competition than in investing in a better product.

Libertarian idealism says that economy and state should be separate, but I don't think that's entirely possible in practice. The trouble is that sufficiently large concentrations of wealth are able to easily buy access to state power or even tend to become indistinguishable from the state.
In a similar example that is closer to the topic at hand, I recently had an issue where if I turned on a certain setting it would cause my ç key to become a ć instead, as an unwanted side-effect. Since everything on Linux is free and open source, I was able to find and read the source code that was responsible for my problem, which allowed me to figure out how to workaround the issue for now, and to file a bug report with the upstream developers.
> But in any situation, there are winners and there are losers.

The usually trotted-out theory of comparative advantage claims there are only winners.
Is there a site that talks a bit more about the technical aspects (aircraft, modifications, how he made it across the oceans, maybe a route map) than the article?
The actual answer appears to be that you can sell add-on digital content which is licensed only for sale with the physical item, and that’s OK. But you cannot add license terms to the physical book itself, the book can be resold freely. That’s recently been affirmed by the Supreme Court.
I am blind and depend on the sound of cars a lot. When crossing busy streets I listen for traffic patterns to let me know what light is green and red. On less busy streets I listen for individual cars. There are not a lot of electric cars around me so I don't have any first hand experience on if tire noise is enough.
Are there not public records of these things that we can verify from?
Sunday Sermon
Previous discussions include 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877908

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6961018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6194553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845435

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515519
Wouldn't stop the sirens.
Show HN: GitRecruit – Source Candidates from GitHub
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"Soros is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal"

Soros is a guy I don't understand. He talks about an "open society" but finances the refugee crisis in Europe, bringing in the people that are enemies of an open society.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1546/thomas-barnett-i...
I think you may have it backwards -- it was trivial to download and listen to music and movies (Napster, Popcorntime, etc.) -- which provided pressure to produce low cost, high availability media sources. People in general want to support artists/creators and be law-abiding. Once the media corps provided easy, reasonable cost, ways to get enough of the media then people shied away from the copyright infringement that had otherwise become the easiest way to consume such media.
So now we can finally see some real power struggles at hand: The military-industrial-banking complex against a few powerful industry figures. My tip goes to the former.
I never heard of that, can you point me how to google it? I am really curious to read about it
Based on mroe than just this comment, have a serious talk with yourself

Procrastination is often not about being lazy, but a deeply embedded or burried fear of failure. That being said, being overwhelmed can also stop you from taking action of any kind, and a part of fixing that pattern (which has usually already developed once you start to recognize procrastinating is a provlem for you) is indeed cutting everything into bite sized chunks.
NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn
Someone pointed out that it would also make sense to wear helmets while riding in cars.
RocketSyntax is talking about representing graphs with geometry too, right?
The problem is ecology isn't run by facts anymore, it is run by feelings. The French government will have spent 120 billion dollars to fund intermittent energies. All that money will reduce the nuclear part of the mix to replace it with another source that won't provide more than 10% of the electricity yet will pollute more. Even the Cour des Comptes is complaining that this is absurd and that money should have been spent elsewhere to have actual results (https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/huet/2018/04/19/la-cour-des-comp... in french, didn't find other source).
From your 'death tractors' example, now I understand why people are debating changing 'master-slaves' to 'leader-followers'.

Thais wouldn't want to call their machines (or anything or anyone) 'slave' with serious tone. It sounds offensive.

Thinking about it, native English speakers might have internal struggle about many programming words.

As a non-native english speaker, rude/strange/crude/offensive words don't really cause me emotional impact.
This happens every week for people using some SaaS product that gets cancelled.

DRM is content as a service, and by definition, all DRM will either be cracked or will become inaccessible eventually with probability approach 1 over time.
> All nouns start with an uppercase letter, so your loop index must be "I" or "J". We could have user-defined qualifiers (like const) which are distinct from variables because they start lowercase. So where you have to use @ in Python, we just use lowercase.

Yeah, but i and j come from math. I've never seen a math paper where people summed a variable using a capital subscript.

I think it might be more interesting to think about how you write a German version of a language that is meant to be English-like. Something like SQL or Cobol.
Bonus if you can use Subspace-BB (Barzilai-Borwein) on what is left after activating your constraints.
That stuff is magical. Also because you can throw it at linear systems that are actually FFT-based time/space variant convolutions or similar things where you never, ever want so much as touch the sparse matrix of that linear system.
My understanding (which is different from most worldviews) is that the long-term military campaigns are actually a structural component of the geopolitical order and not just "policing" or "profiteering" as they are often portrayed.

Actually I see it as not only a multidecade effort but spanning all the way back to the parent hegemony of Britain and continuing the tradition of empire that goes back thousands of years.

I'm all for a new paradigm but I think you would actually be making a break with history in general.

And then the practical side of this. The dominance of American currency and relative wealth of America has not so far been made possible by some superior ideology as it is often believed but rather by regular deployment of the most high-tech, massive and deadly weaponry ever created.

You would need to get everyone to agree to the new paradigm of peace. Do we expect China to stop building out it's navy, cyberwar, AI defense, etc.? Or just maybe everyone agrees to not use their weapons? Because if not then what you are actually talking about is not a new paradigm but rather letting a new hegemony take over.
Discounted? Ebooks cost more than paperbacks in many cases.
Ok so you're actually saying that we should not only approve of those, but also pay to change a working grid ? When there's a perfectly vlaid and working solution ? If it ain't broke, shouldn't we not fix it ?
Has anyone tried Catalina with an Nvidia eGPU?
There is also some crazy stuff going on that the citizenry engages in. The ghost cities are mainly caused by a custom of families with a daughter requiring suitors to own two and three homes before being eligible to court. Most of these extra apartments owned by single men are not even furnished or finished. [1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19967740
This is a "whataboutism," the point was that we could have much less noise in towns and cities, which would be nice.
Gyro facts: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-pros-and-cons-of-a-gyroc...

I heard from a private license pilot that these are very unsafe, but he told me that in 1990 but it sounds like things have changed.
The example they gave is pretty terrible, but yes, a lot has already been determined by age 8 based on parental engagement in their child’s education.

That said, it’s simpler than the example they gave. Some well-established examples:

- Did you read to your child from a young age? Bonus points if you did it in an “interactive” way.

- Did you engage with your children in dialogue using more or less proper speech (i.e., not baby talk). Ideally this is in a wide range of topics and with different types of language (e.g., description, narration, etc.). Ideally with some modeling of good language as well.

- Did/do you review your child’s homework with them? Ideally, did/do you sit with them quite a bit and review study strategies, time management, etc.?

- Do you constantly have new sources of learning available to your kids, and do you encourage them to use them (ideally by engaging with said materials with them)?

- Ideal but optional, do you try to give your children a wide range of experiences. Simple examples are field trips, intro to various sports, intro to various arts, etc.? The article characterizes this with very high end examples, but they can be done cheaply.

The parents who do these things give their children a huge advantage in life.

Some folks on HN may be asking something along the lines of “um, isn’t that what pretty much all parents do?” The answer is largely no.

A common (perhaps close to median) example of poor parental engagement in the education environment:

- Child is never read to... ever. Parent may not be so good at reading.

- Child rarely spoken to, except via commands. Household mentality is that children are meant to be seen and not heard.

- Child largely left alone to keep themselves entertained on their own in a resource-poor environment.

- Child is never helped with homework. Never encouraged to learn for the sake of learning. School is often disparaged, and doing well in school may entail being abused by family members and/or peers.

- Child never leaves their neighborhood, much less their town, state, or country. Much of what is seen on TV that is supposed to be a caricature of modern life is largely or completely unrelatable to the child’s own environment.

- Things like going to anything cultural that is oriented towards children is non-existent. No children’s museum, no children’s theater or orchestra. Sports will be whatever (if anything) is played locally.

These folks have an uphill battle in terms of fighting inequality.

If you want to do something to counter the second example, support Headstart programs financially and politically. These programs have proven results, but somehow find themselves consistently compromised in terms of funding. These programs are low-hanging fruit for easy wins.
Got new email at work and am starting with reputation 1 at SO. Can't comment anymore. This is hostile and I don't want to write answers any more. They have a lot other privileges which I never cared for. But commenting should not be a privilege.

Let's see what comes first: rep 50 or the next new email.
Depends on the quality of the education system, it well could be that a gap gathered by 8 will have a huge impact. The system can be quite competitive at 8 (and in some countries, as early as 5 or 6)
What We Know About Mental Fatigue
These are all somewhat sloppy versions of the definitions of these words in common use.

“Generic”, “general”, “generalize” and “specific”, “special”, “specify”, etc. all come from the relation between “species” and “genus”, where genus is a larger category containing a species. The use of these in a programming context is not too far removed from the same usage in non-technical conversation or in (non-biology) technical contexts like philosophy or mathematics.

Similarly for “abstract” (meaning idealized or separated from particular cases) and “concrete”, which have been used in logic/philosophy for a long time.

Static means unchanging.

Void means “empty”, or in a legal context invalid.

> why did early teletype use allcaps

Because it replaced humans listening to Morse code, which has no lower case. Also, the first primitive keyboards from the mid 19th century used something like piano keys, which take up a ton of space, and even still up through the 1960s data transmission was expensive so people wanted to save every possible bit.

You can read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33, etc.
The whole point of "professional" discourse is to keep emotions and feelings out of it so the substance can be the focus. If you start insulting people then it is going to trigger an emotional response. That's how most humans work. If you choose not to be careful about how you word your criticism, then you are also choosing to inject emotion into the conversation, thus distracting from the substance.

You can be blunt and direct without being an asshole. It's not that hard.
This sort of statement is exactly why serious people shouldn't take "quantum complexity theory" seriously. The complexity class BQP is bullshit: there are no quantum computers, the end.

Feel free to prove me wrong by building one which does useful calculations. No time limit, until you die, in which case "time's up."

Edit add for downvoters: the strong Church Turing thesis is also almost certainly, and very obviously bullshit. How does that make you feel?
Maybe we can have buttons that look like buttons again.
If this happens often enough to be a nuisance, you could try to install it as a preload substitute for an official layout (for instance en-US), or have the admin guys put the Registry settings in an AD group policy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190630200023/https://www.bosto...
Sadly, it does not matter.

People read, get riled, takes sides and form poles.

Lots of wasted energy.

Fram. Banning Fram. Local vs central cabal governance. WWF can play the bad cop and take the hit. There are more Frams, more ArbComs and more WWFs to take their place.

Some day bots will rule, grafting in disparate knowledge graphs.

Is the internet gonna stop using Wikipedia?

If the humans are smart, best stick together and (start) build consensus and trust networks.
Encouraging creation is part of the deal, preserving culture, and enabling wider education were also parts of the deal -- Queen Anne (or her advisers) seem to have really valued the availability of literature for the people (or at least the priveleged people with access to the BL and Uni libraries).
> Load show_ads.js asynchronously ... well why not tell me to do that up front rather than after the fact in PageSpeed?

Google is a huge company and not every team has the same priorities is the most likely answer. It's not realistic to expect they're going to optimise the loading speed of literally everything they release.

Web best practice checks will always have some degree of false positives as well as websites are so complex.

I wrote my own Chrome extension that checks websites for best practices (https://www.checkbot.io) and had to weigh up how generally useful a test was compared to its typical false positives rate. The website for the product does pass the vast majority of the tests though, but I've only got a single website to manage compared to Google.

> Eg: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/alicious.com/RyJ575Jd

By the way, isn't some of this advice outddated?

"This page has 25 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one."

"This page has 3 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one."

This is obsolete with HTTP/2 because files can be downloaded in parallel. Combining the files will also increase the weight of pages that don't need every file.
you're getting downvoted, but as a 19-year Linux fanboi, I actually agree with you. If the system has booted at least once, then it knows how to successfully boot. i.e. it knows of a string of modules, kernel, initrd image, etc that worked. As you upgrade, the OS should have a courtesy feature where it doesn't simply delete these files (unless you do the equivalent of issue a "-rf" force command). For instance, we currently have (kernel, initrd, filesystem, and modules that exist on our fs). All we would need to make it (nearly) brick-proof is to add one more thing: fallback-rd that has all the previous shit that worked last time. This would save so many users' asses at hardly any cost since storage is so cheap these days.
If you do quit and find yourself looking for a cofounder, ping me.
The Beale Cipher Mystery
Missing the URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/fighting-...
This is absolutely amusing. Seems that the creator of the Tampio language has created several esoteric languages, one of them being domain specific language Retki for writing interactive fiction. It is also based on Finnish language. https://www.kaivos.org/projektit.html
I just had a look at svelte, and from the perspective of someone who isn't really a web developer, I think this is a the proper way to do it.

All of the other frameworks seems so convoluted and to me it looks like people are reinventing the wheel left and right.
Quote? I'm vague on what went on in Germany in the first half of the century.
Today is a good day to code.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Var%27aq
> some people with college degrees will have to be the ditch diggers so to speak. [...] It's just math

How about we pay the ditch diggers enough to live on? In fact, what the numbers are showing is that ditch diggers are poorer now than they were! Even if you refuse to share any of your tech industry gains, can't we at least keep ditch diggers at parity?
If you cut a car brake line, as long as you're allowed to look under the hood/vehicle then you'll see the brake fluid, and see the reservoir is low.
Does MS still have the MVP programme? Some of those people used to post useful information to the MS usenet groups.
"Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese has been outlawed, and offenders face heavy fines"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
I know I'm late to this discussion, but you're right on the money. It's slow, you have no idea how often the data is refreshed. There's no SLA's, schema could change. It really should be for analytics and not transactions. It's the lazy way and folks will pay for it down the line. We got away from shared DB architecture and this is nothing more than a backdoor to the same old way of doing things but in a worse way.
> I can’t really relate to not remembering which contacts use which apps

Lucky for you.

> is a 50-100MB chat app really an issue

Yes. 50-100MB is multiple albums of music in mp3.
Well, I wouldn't take half my pay to not work. This is prime career time. The losses are huge? I could be compounding my income by working.

50% is an embarrassing amount. I'd accept 100% maybe.
I've always felt like bicycle and foot traffic should be in the opposite direction of car traffic so they have a better idea of what's coming next.
> Be aware that this project is still in an early alpha stage when it comes to software – its not an easy task to rewrite the whole Internet!
remember tiananmen? couple thousand people run over by tanks is a price worth paying for that government.
I predict mass real estate sell off in every major city around the world. Millenials world wide collectively let's out a sigh of relief.
> Put in more base terms, there is only room for 1% of the people, in the top 1%.

That... seems to be a total misunderstanding of why people are concerned about income inequality. The fact that the sizes of the percentile buckets are fixes does not mean that the distribution between the buckets is zero sum.

There's no "just math" reason for why we pay some jobs more than others. It's not even a "just market" reason. There are elaborate regulations on income (c.f. tax brackets, minimum wage, investment taxes, mortgage deductions...) all across the board. And those aren't working well, as evidenced by the numbers in the linked article.

None of that stuff is "math". It's policy.
My Chevy Bolt EV has one of these sound generators that kicks on at low speeds (20mph or below, I believe). It sounds like a small electric fan, like a very quiet hair dryer. I cannot hear it in the cabin unless I have a window rolled down and I am near a sound-reflecting surface, such as a building. I think it's a reasonable compromise.
That's not as all the right scenario. Imagine Barnes and Noble 'sold' you their books for basically retail price, then comes around and throws them into the incinerator, but at least they gave you a return.
> He was a good editor. But my understanding was he was mean.

In a community driven effort, those are contradictory statements.
Because it's a business risk.

- It's very easy to find JS programmers. There's a _lot_ of them. But programmers proficient with pure functional programming languages are harder to come by.

- JS is natively supported by browsers and it is pretty much guaranteed that the code you write is going to work for ever. Elm on the other side, who knows? It might lose steam and go into support mode, or drop support, or maybe they introduce breaking changes in a future version. JS is a much safer bet.

- Writing Elm does not guarantee a good polished product. You can write bad software in good languages and vice-versa.

That being said, it's only a risk. Maybe your team is more comfortable with Elm and they get more productive. Maybe the language design makes easier writing code with less defects. Maybe it actually gives you an edge.

It is hard to say if Elm brings value to your business. It most likely depends on what kind of a business that is (web agency than cranks 3 visit-card websites a day? Or is it one developing a complex app?)

In any case, managers get very nervous about languages that are not mainstream. And they do have good reasons.
You forgot to include Apple in your do not buy list.