skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the title I expected a simple explanation how CORS works...my fault..
It's absolutely ridiculous how some content based websites require several MB of js to function. And the devs say this is because it is 'easier' to write such apps. And if the thought of optimization even comes to their minds, its just adding another layer on top of this madness to manage the layers below, or saying its too hard. Of course it is hard if you start with an overcomplex solution in the first place and try to trim away stuff from it. How hard exactly is it to write some plain html and css, with js doing some optional improvements? Most problems of web development are self inflicted.

I was talking to someone once about how ridiculously bloated Imgur is and that I had to use Imgoat because of the slow internet I was experiencing then. Of course they were trying to make all kinds of excuses like imgur not having servers nearby etc. But of course the really simple fact couldn't get to their heads that Imgur downloads like what 2-3 MB maybe even more of crap minus the actual image whereas Imgoat is something like 500 KB. No amount of network optimizations and caches etc are going to get over this fact. And also, such optimizations are over and above the page download size improvements anyways. If Imgoat used such techniques it'd be even faster. Most importantly: both sites have the exact same and simple core function, yet one site is so many times more bloated than the other. I will let you derive your own conclusions as to what this means.

And imgur also has the typical horrendous js misuses such as scrollbar hijacking that makes absolutely no sense etc.
I managed to take 4 day weeks every other week for about 6 months at an old job. It was great! But the only reason I had so much vacation accumulated was because the job offered a lot of PTO but subpar pay, so I couldn't afford the kind of vacations that would merit taking off weeks at a time.
So squatters rights for accounts?

One aspect about squatters rights is that someone presumably has to put the time and effort in (depends on the law) and couldn't just squat all over the place and just get all the things.

E-squatters rights as we see here seems like it could be heavily gamed / abused, and may simply not be an option for someone who is poor, meanwhile someone who is not poor gets their stuff.

The only thing that happened here is someone put up some money in escrow, that really seems like a poor way to judge ownership.
> If there has to be base + offset translation on every pointer access it is way too slow.

It does do this, but it's not too slow - the overhead of the translation is lower than the benefit of reduced memory transfer, increased cache space, etc. Obviously - otherwise people wouldn't be doing it.
> Travel between Porto and Faro (Portugal) by train is 5 hours versus 50 minutes by plane

That's exactly the problem: Porto to Faro for should have a better train connectivity, that will emit 10x less CO2, should take not more than 3 hours and should be much cheaper than taking a plane.

Why can't we have good things?
First thing to verify would be your employment contract. I know of some which specify that even if the IP was created on your own time, if it is directly related to your job/company, it is the companies IP.
I don't think the current V8 release has this build in yet.
This something the common JVMs have been doing this since at least 2006.
You think they're gonna throw an (ex-) lawyer in with all the thugs? Nah, it'll probably be Club Fed for Steele.
It's certainly easy to find examples of profit trumping safety, if that's what you're after.

But GP is correct that the overall balance is much more towards safety today than (say) 100 years ago. It's not really technological advances that sets how many people die to build a skyscraper (and medicine is equally helpless now as then). How many people die in factory fires etc. isn't about the owners being more or less greedy now, it's about whether the fire safety inspector has teeth, which is a political choice.

And in a way a rational choice, too. Every such choice amounts in some way to putting a value on a life, and now that we are much wealthier, this implicit value is much higher.
> As fewer results of such not-for-profit websites show up in Google Search, competition will be reintroduced to the search market.
Sorry, you lost me there. Can anybody explain me please, how this is supposed to work? Because I think that can not work.

If you're not on Google, you have no outreach whatsoever...
Just the classic Rumsfeld with his "unknowns" comes to my mind here.
I like the ones pictured lower in that Twitter feed where there is a big chunk of car shaped metal between the bikes and the road. I had a concern with the original that some asshole not paying attention to the road is going to sideswipe the spot and ruin 10 bike tires at once.
Very few shows are good after the first couple of seasons. Breaking Bad is probably the only TV show I know longer than 2-3 seasons that maintains its quality from beginning to end. The Americans is also pretty good.

Even Game of Thrones went downhill on its last seasons.

Stranger Things has also gone down the hill. I watched the first 3 episodes of the new season and I'm done with it. It has gone from a sci-fi show to a teenager drama.
It's not just losing interest. Unless you catch it at the very end, when all seasons are produced, each new season carries a startup cost - you'll need to re-acquire a lot of knowledge about the world it's in. (Or, colloquially, "Who the fuck are those people and why do I care" ;)

At some point, it's too much. It's becoming work. And if you learn/relearn an entire world, why not something you haven't seen before? So the series gets ditched.
Awesome! Thanks for the response. I will definitely donate once I'm off work today.
I've learned a lot from Alex just by working through these diagrams with him. Brilliant thinking that I hope will remove some of the current barriers in blockchain.
Maybe he was asking if there was any visual perception that had to be done or is the data simply available without having to use visual analysis.
There are several crypto projects (some even fairly popular) where we do know who's behind them - Ripple, Stellar, Ethereum, Tether, Bitcoin Cash, Tron, EOS, etc. Hell, the core dev team members of Bitcoin itself is public knowledge.

I think it's interesting that while crypto was a bunch of hobbyists and startups, it was just a bunch of folks wasting their money, but now that FB is involved it's a threat to the global monetary order. (Personally, I think the threat of FB is overblown - I'd bet that it'll make some significant noise over the next 2-3 years but fail over the next 10 - but the threat of startups and new crypto projects is underestimated. While the government is obsessed with FB's 2 billion users, someone else will come up with a cryptocurrency that's actually useful and take those 2 billion users for themselves.)
I’ve been working 4 days a week or less for almost a decade now. It’s great. Never going back to 5 days. Never. As a software dev it’s very easy to do. Highly recommended.
Anyone who does knowledge work in a large company knows a huge amount of the "work" is just a weird game we all agreed to play. Sure everyone is busy, but surprisingly little is really getting done. We agree to work 40 hours because that model worked for people making widgets in factories. People work extra hours to demonstrate socially that they're hard workers, but again, nothing is really getting done.

There is no reason at all you could not reduce all of this to 30 hours a week and get the same amount of productivity accomplished. Why shouldn't people be compensated the same if the end result is the same? For labor intensive job where a human is working as a type of robot then hours of labour is directly correlated with hours of product (with some point of diminishing returns as you overwork people).
No, because you'd have to distribute the private key for the local webserver to be able to sign the connection challenge.
> I'm exploring a "microinfluencer" (1k-1000k followers) management platform, initially focused on the fashion industry in NYC.

So a management company that recruits hopeful influencers and skims the top of their take-home pay? No, thanks.

I'm sure plenty will be fine on their own.
My main concern about libra is that, by being strongly tied to real currencies, libra issuers (not just facebook, all of them) have effectively assumed the role of unsanctioned mints, with the ability to damage the stability of each currency because libra is not tied to the international exchange system: if you pay facebook, or anyone else, $10 and they convert that into libra, now they have $10 that they will absolutely put back into circulation to make additional money on, _and_ $10 worth of libra have been created, which can be converted back into real dollars with the original $10 already gone.
This answer strongly reminds me of Joel Spolsky's BillG review story [1]. It's confidence-inspiring that you've already spent time looking into these things.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
If I'm not mistaken, the Earth contains several times as much olivine as it contains crust.
Maybe to avoid the issue with the user having to actively check for challenges, you can only allow challenges if the account is inactive (no deposits or withdrawals in the last x days). Then as a user, you could set up something which would automatically deposit money into your account/wallet periodically (or just send your income there regularly), and if you ever need to recover your account, stop all deposits to the account and wait a few days.
I suspect the micro will give it away to higher level players
> A 80kbyte/sec write with a specific pattern for about six hours would absolutely hose the card (and yes the card was write leveling).

80kB/s sounds a bit low for a card that is doing full "global" wear leveling; memory cards and SSDs that don't have DRAM often cut corners on the wear leveling, so they aren't as effective as proper mainstream SSDs. Your workload was probably issuing the writes in chunks smaller than the flash memory's page size (typically 16kB these days), so you probably had serious write amplification from the read-modify-write cycles even if that 80kB/s was sequential writes. SSDs with decent-sized write buffers and power loss protection capacitors can do more write combining than a memory card that has to be prepared for sudden power loss at any moment.
What's the point though? Most people won't have the resources to out-train Google's models. Maybe if every model received the same amount of CPU time to train...
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Global heating: London to have climate similar to Barcelona by 2050
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You definitely come across as an impartial subject matter expert!
an emotional op-ed with lots of assertions but light on facts
I shared all year's calendars until 2100. It's my own design for you. https://www.dreamcalendars.com/calendar/2019
>It has never been considered outlandish except by oil company PR teams.

You're describing catastrophic terraforming on the scale of about 100 years. That's a huge claim with enormous ramifications and given the current expense of mitigation, it rightly warrants scrutiny, both in probability of occurance and scope of change.

>Simple math from the very beginning of the fossil fuel era made it obvious we would eventually run into problems.

Absolutely nothing about climate change is simple. Which is why it took decades to establish any kind of consensus. Global climate is a chaotic function of various positive and negative feedback mechanisms - simply noting that increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses may cause climate change is not nearly enough to conclude that there is a problem without considering the hugely complex system in it's entirety.

>It has been extremely obvious for decades that the predicted problems were here, now.

We've been collecting the very data necessary to prove the "obviousness" of climate change over the same decades in which you claim the problem was already evident. You need time series data to establish a trend with any kind of certainty, and climate changes at a minimum over hundreds of years.

>There's no social or economic cost to the world for acting to prevent climate change. The costs are all negative - we save vast amounts of money and societal damage by acting.

Like the rest of your post, your perspective is biased by your assertion that climate change is happening. You need to view this from the perspective of a society which has not had time to perform the necessary data gathering and analysis to make such conclusion - in which case, there are now and were decades ago current costs to switching off of fossil fuels, which it would only be reasonable to incur given a minimum degree of certainty in future climate change. It is simply infesible to make drastic policy changes for every sounded alarm - one must obviously consider the expected value of the change, which is (disaster cost)*(probability of disaster)-(cost of change). The value of this probability is difficult to model and has been steadily increasing with recent climate science.

>There hasn't been any serious scientific dispute over whether climate change was occurring for at least 50 years.

Just decades ago the consensus was that of global cooling. Again, you underestimate the complexity of determining whether the climate is actually changing and, in particular, how it will change in the future.

>And of course it's completely accurate to note that the oil companies knew about the problem

Again, oil companies did not "know" of the problem, they were aware of the possibility of the problem. The very documents which you mention state that additional modeling was required to determine anything with certainty.
So you’ve identified a person. What information has been revealed about that person?
Yes, the answer is yes it should do it if people want it and are willing to work on it. Let people decide what they want to build and use within the software they use.
I do, when the weather is acceptable. Not too cold (20F/-7C to 100F/38C) nor excessive precipitation (something of a problem this year) nor a day where I need to go on site (which is sadly in the middle of nowhere). Works out to two or three days per week typically.

I did lose an entire month once--February a few years ago, when the snow never melted for the entire month, and I had low ridership last summer when I had to drop the kids off at camp every day in August and it just didn't make sense to drive back home to hop on the bike. I probably lose just as many days to stupid stuff like that as I do to the weather. Still, I'm happier on days when I get to bike. I only occasionally get stuck in traffic on the bike--when pedestrians decide to fill up the bike lane and walk very slowly in a huge clump.
I watch the Super Bowl for the (american) football, but the TV commercials are still effective. Much of advertising is just reminder that the product exists. Effective not because I buy what Tom Brady buys. "Influencers" are just "content providers" to get the views.
Humans in isolation can tolerate 400ppm. Offices and houses accumulate far more than outside it pushes to far higher inside, enough to breach health and safety recommendations, cause decreased performance and so on. We don't know where planetary equilibrium would settle at 400ppm as we're still emitting. Looking outside and no longer in isolation >400 seems to be causing some pretty wild changes.

I'd say that's far from zero problems.
Makes me think of how amazing the X-Files would have been had they fully developed and then concluded the mytharc. They could have ended with full-on hard core sci-fi and exploring the political and social implications of alien disclosure, not to mention good and bad humans and aliens and all the rest.
I much prefer the retro resolution of 3 words "Do no evil", we're now up to 4k resolution of words, soon we will have 8k resolution of words.

Maybe there is some new moore's law in EULA and Privacy Policies as they keep getting larger and larger, when will we reach peak, as there are published books out there with less words.
Really? I don't believe I've ever seen one in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville. What are the nearby bike friendly cities?
[Netflix] now routinely ends shows after their second season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix has learned that the first two seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the third and later seasons don’t do much to retain or win new subscribers.

- That's crazy and smart all at the same time. Definitely not user-centered design.
There is a lot of truth to what you say but there is also many studies that show longer hours have a rapid decrease in productivity. Working overtime over extended periods of time has an even larger drop. There is also the thought that someone working a 4 day week for 80% pay is more effective per hour than a person working a 5 day week for 100% pay. The 4 day is generally less stressed and (especially in software) likely to be thinking about the work even on their day off. There are other benefits too of staffing slack. If you do get in a crunch, you could easily pay overtime to the 4 day people to work their old schedule to get something out. This also generally leads to better cross training, vacation coverage and just happier people in general. The loss in net productivity every time an employee quits is huge and it takes time and money to find and train a replacement.

I'd would agree that there is a lot of bureaucracy in knowledge worker's days. Cutting that by an hour per day would have similar productivity gains.
Handling the speed and validation trade off
I think the Fyre Festival fiasco is pretty strong evidence for the efficacy of "influencers."

In that case there was no real product to buy, the _only_ reason to try to buy the product was its advertising, more than 4,000 people did, and its advertising was almost exclusively via social media / influencers.
The number one issue with CORS I've found is that merely defining it undoes alot of defaults and most of the top searches on the subject of how to do x in CORS doesn't explain what those defaults are. So you get devs breaking things trying to whitelist something not normally allowed then deciding to cast a wide net to fix those things.

The CORS standard needs to be radically redefined from the ground up with developer ease of use as part of the consideration.
>for me, because of the endorphin rush

I think my lack of exercise-wanting is related to this! I don't get that rush feeling. Sorry to not have mentioned that. I just feel terrible the whole time. My SO mentioned this too. For my SO, there is this 'glow' feeling after a workout. I don't believe that I get any such benefit.
Delta plane engine breaks and glows orange mid-flight, forcing emergency landing
What about that makes it better to be embargoed by Facebook? That's a dystopia no one needs.
> At my company I enforce a no-meetings-Friday rule

Do you make any exceptions? Seems weird for someone who might need to discuss something will need to wait until Monday.
This is how every bank works.
I love that you're doing this!

If you are interested in sharing some of your experiences doing this, email me at nick@30hourjobs.com

People love reading about this kind of stuff and I would be happy to feature your company on the site/newsletter. If you're hiring, past featured companies have received some quality candidates from this!
Is the screen view limitation much of a limit? You can scan through the map quite quickly using the minimap to quickly move the view.
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On the contrary: CORS is what enables other sites to use your resources (in a way allowed by your policy). It was created because, by default, browsers don't let you do that.
The benefits are global though, while the impacts on beaches are local.
I thought the browser at evil.com would first send a pre-fetch request without the cookies, but not send the full request when it doesn't get the correct value from Access-Control-Allow-Origin in the response from banking.com.

I'll admit I may be one of the developers that doesn't understand CORS...
For years I commuted by train/bus to school/work until I could afford (the extra $200ish per month) to switch to driving to claw-back an hour of time I spent commuting each day. If traffic devolved to the point that I wouldn't be able to drive to work anymore I /would/ adjust, but I'd be generally less happy for it.
Nothing about Libra denounces the power of central banks.

Facebook just becomes an unregulated central bank.
I don’t buy it. Drive for profit should naturally increase safety, because safety is something people are willing to pay a premium for - both in aggregate and individually.

The Saudis didn’t cancel their Boeing 737 max order because they valued safety over profits. They did it because unsafe flights are also unprofitable.

In fact I’d argue we are even willing (collectively) pay massive amounts even for the false appearance of safety, i.e Homeland Security in the United States, even in the absence of concrete evidence that it actually makes us safer.
Thanks. I see bay leaves should repel ants too, from your original comment:

> Bay leaves repel about every insect known to man.
I see it is fixed now. I thought up this work-around back in 2014, when NPAPI was phased out. Spotify and another large player came up with similar solutions.
Boston. Every day. Rain, Shine, Snow, Winds, etc. 3.5 miles each way. Gets prettttttyy bad in the snow, but better than the subway.
Galvanoplasty, electrolysis, and many other electricity-dependent chemical reactions, strong electromagnets and small wire-length actuators (like rail guns).
Installing trust store certificates for these purposes is asking for trouble. Sure, if the private key is unique per installation it theoretically should be fine, but in reality it can be hard to gather enough entropy to be satisfiably unpredictable, and it's very easy to get this wrong. It's worth noting that there isn't a solid way to limit your CA certificate in the trust-store to the domains you intend to use it with https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31376/can-i-res...
>4,000ppm would almost certainly be the end of us or as near as makes no odds.

If by "end of us" you mean human extinction, I'm curious why you think that. Reducing the co2 in a building to whatever level one wants is cheap enough (by bubbling air through water mixed with soda lime or lime) that it seems to me feasible for a few million humans to survive indefinitely even without major advances in technology. (I am assuming that the cost of a co2 measuring device, currently over $1000, could be driven way down before they would be needed in large numbers as part of the machinery to reduce co2 levels inside buildings.)

Wouldn't most food crops would grow much better at 4000 ppm than they do now?

People would be able to go out into the 4000-ppm-co2 outdoors for hours at a time with no obvious serious problems. (I exposed myself to higher levels than that for years by sleeping in a very small room with very low "draftiness". Not recommended of course.)

Co2 at 4000 ppm would kill billions of us and make the survivors miserable and is certainly something I wish for humankind to avoid, but that is different from human extinction.
How? Are you working as a consultant?

Do you work as an employee and get a special deal to work for four days? Has anyonee tried this? Did you take a paycut?