skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lights on, lights off, im still staying in bed
I believe we can clearly see how not having enough piracy can hurt technological advances in Japan. Since Japanese people don’t download illegal stuff streaming services are not as developed there as in the US. For example, you can’t find as much Japanese music on Spotify.
You mean the country that is drawing so much criticism for trying to enforce its immigration laws?
Always love seeing new Jekyll themes focused on content and readability.

I released a minimal CSS "framework" not too long ago based on that concept as well (although not Jekyll based) - https://bradleytaunt.com/typesafe-css/
I wrote a powershell script to automate the remote restart of windows services, saves me about 1 hour per day every day
I'm not going to defend whether this particular instance is good journalism, but Buzzfeed is not Buzzfeed News. A 2017 study in Journalism found Buzzfeed News was comparable to NYT, for what that's worth.
It's so alien to me how this line of thinking is normalized in the US.

In other countries illegal aliens are deported because they are breaking the law. In Bolivia you would have a very difficult time finding bolivians who want to allow illegal colombians or brazilians to stay in the country. They want them out because they disproportionately commit more of the drug/violent crime.

In argentina, they want illegal bolivians out because they take jobs for very little money.

You can go on country by country.

Why is the US so divided on this? Who spent so much money to push this train of thought for decades onto people?
Musk and his ilk are where they are because of luck and enormous amounts of political rent seeking and outside capital to paper over losses.

Musk's career arc is "internet yellow pages sold in the dotcom bubble" -> "payments company he was drummed out of so Peter Thiel could clean up his mess" -> "rockets and electric cars which have needed huge infusions of government and investor money to stay afloat since their inception"
The parent comment doesn't just say "efficient market". It also explicitly mentions "Homo economicus" and "rational company". A rational company makes rational decisions, pretty much by definition.

The saying that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent directly contradicts the efficient market hypothesis.
As a Brazilian, I see a MUCH larger threat from the current right-wing government than from lefties inside academia. While the relationship between natural/hard/exact sciences and social/soft sciences can indeed be very strained, there's very little interference in the actual content of research.

Meanwhile, the State Assembly of São Paulo formed an Investigative Comittee that just requested the content of all research produced by the three state universities in the last 8 years to look for bias under the guise of fiscal responsibility[1]. The commitee is led by a conservative state congressman who never attended college.

1: https://www.adusp.org.br/index.php/defesauniv/3408-deputada-..., link in Portuguese
I don't think you disagree. If new roads make driving more convenient, doesn't it stand to reason that building new roads also increases the number of miles driven?
Not very Linux specific but Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" is an excellent source for OS theory and very readable as well. It's an expensive book, but I found it worth its money.
> It's not the roads that cause traffic, it's the convenience of driving.

That's a tautology, roads are a convenience for driving.
This is what runs through my mind everytime one of these articles shows up on HN.

There is no easy way to undo decades of urban sprawl across the US, especially when many cities have huge amounts of space around them to make this possible.

Also, one of those steps is probably sinking incredible amounts of money into initially barely used public transit which is bound to be politically unpopular.
I'm quite torn that privacy protection tools, which I use liberally as a consumer, can foil fraud-detection tools that I also rely on in my business.

Browser/device fingerprinting is one of these things... bad when used to track you for advertising purposes across the web, good when it can be used to prevent account hijacking ("Hey, it looks like you're signing in with a new device! Please enter the code we just sent you via email.").

It seems to be a "this is why we can't have nice things" situation. That harder it is to identify someone, the harder it is to take proactive measures to defeat credential stuffing attacks and so forth.
"Chaining ?[] sucks no matter what you do"

I find myself wondering if making chaining easy just ends up affording bad design, and if that "suckage" is your program trying to tell you about your bad design. I don't chain very much at all, because I generally consider chaining to be a sign that I need to add a better method somewhere. The big exception being reaching into a "dead" data structure where there's no particular invariants being maintained and no real reason not to just reach in deeply, and, for most programs, you really shouldn't have very many of those. I'd say you almost certainly have a major design problem if you've got this chaining happening all the time.
> the famous Texas cattle ranches can basically only grow grass

Why? Anyway, wheat is a grass.
Lua is basically the same as JS in this department: A few bad decisions spoils the whole for some people. If you compare lua to js at the same time period they would seem similar in quality to many programmers up until the js renaissance (starting at it's very first in 1999 with ajax and really took off around the early/mid 2010's). If lua had gotten the same attention as JS got it's not hard to see it going the other way around.
Marketo Is Lagging Behind
The irony is that anyone who has ever tried to go anywhere in LA can never find a place to park.

I maintain that the problem is not "we need more housing for all these people!" rather, "we have too many people!"

Why do we have so many people so densely packed? That is the problem we should solve for, not treating the side effects of density. Lower density is what we want, less people in any given square mile.

In other words, we shouldn't be trying to live near major population centers. We shouldn't have to. Our notion of 'work' is/needs to change to reflect that. LA, NY, SF, etc... historically became huge because it needed to be that way. Remote work is becoming more and more common. Regular work is being automated away by software or machines.

I made this argument once before and was totally shot down because I didn't articulate it properly ... but who wants to live in a densely packed apartment complex in the middle of a noisy city? Sure, some people LOVE that, and they should have every right to choose it. But... a lot of people HATE that and are forced to do it, because it's all they can afford. That is the problem that we need to change.
I hold no love for parking minimums, and would love to see them abolished, but proposals like "we should turn 10% of all current parking spaces into low-income housing" just make me roll eyes.

That's not an actionable proposal, the closest that gets to an actionable proposal is to demolish existing parking structures and either put public housing projects on top of them or incentivize real estate developers to build actual low-income housing.

Telling real estate developers to build low-income housing in areas where they could easily build high-income housing is, well, let's just say cities promise this all the time and developers never do it.

"Build more housing" is probably the answer to the homeless problem, but the ownership issue needs to be fixed first. The author made all these cute graphics of studio apartments superimposed on parking spaces. Cool, I like density, my condo is 650 sqft, like 3 or 4 spaces without egress.

Are we talking about literally taking parking from existing owners and building housing on the bare pads? Are we talking about building vertically on top of them and leaving the space underneath for cars? I'm not saying these are bad ideas. But can we fully bake them first? So a politician can actually hand it to a bunch of legislators and come up with something he can actually put on his platform?

Sure let's abolish the minimum. But that won't do a darned thing to help congestion and the housing shortage other than make LA more like Atlanta where there's an island of density around a bunch of ugly sprawl with more dense pockets springing up in the periphery. We're still waiting for market conditions to fix the city. And market forces don't care about what we want. Promising low-income housing in desirable real estate markets doesn't work but is the only thing politicians can put on their platforms that people will vote for.
Same here, I had 3 recurring events about an iPhone X sale or some other spam come in my calendar in the past 2 weeks.
I can't ride a scooter or a bicycle - no balance and I can't even see well enough to get a license. So yes, 10 minutes' walk from a station to work, I'm probably getting into a climate-controlled Uber if there's no easy bus, so I don't have to change (and somehow shower in the summer) before walking into work.
Yeah right, just hand me over all your lucrative concepts and work, right ?
Any of your teachers/lecturers had a background from agriculture?

I'm not saying this is not possible. But I am saying - as someone who has grown up on a farm and studied farming - that it might be somewhat more complicated.

For a start, not all farmland is usable for anything but grass.
The assignments are online in various places. Here is a copy I made from someone's Github (not linking GitHub b/c it had answers too): https://pastebin.com/cUXuHcDc
I find the last few paragraphs about Apple and Webkit to be super... ad hominem? "Apple is taking a stance with Webkit to be absolutist, but Apple violated the privacy of their users with Siri, so why should they be absolutist about Webkit" I really didn't follow that or think it was relevant to the actual discussion around tracking protection at all.

I understand the point about 'gray area', however there is truly a difference in power here, and end-users are never accurately informed about what of their data is available to 3rd party advertisers. In fact, I don't think content producers like Stratechery know what data ad trackers track and how it's used.

There is a problem about funding good content like Stratechery, but surely mass surveillance by private corporations isn't the only option?
So the article goes on to suggest expanding a bus network or other public transportation. In this manner, it increases the convenience of a more traffic-efficient bus and decreases the convenience of the less traffic-efficient car.
> It's not the roads that cause traffic, it's the convenience of driving.

Exactly. Roads make driving more convenient.

Build trains and that makes taking the train more convenient so you get more of that.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I'm trying to figure this out. I see chicken breast at $3 for 450g which is about 900 calories? So 1/3 penny per calorie?

A tomato is 16 calories per 100g which cost 50 cents so what, 3 cents per calorie? Did I do that right?
I believe the NOAA scientists who wrote the article, who said it would cause "devastating environmental problems", and whose mission it is to provide "specialist knowledge" to the President of the United States, even if Trump brushes it off because he believes 99% of climate scientists are unethical liars who promote ridiculous conspiracies about global warming being a real thing caused by humans.

Are you saying you and Trump are correct not to trust NOAA, and that Stan Goldenberg and Dr. Hugh Willoughby who wrote the article are spreading misinformation?

Stan Goldenberg's scientific contributions:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/202207...

Stan Goldenberg on Conan O'Brien -- Promoting CYCLONE! by National Geographic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONzPlYCQis

Dr. Hugh Willoughby:
https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/willoughby-hug...

Tag: Hugh Willoughby:
https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/tag/hugh-willoughby/

So what are your qualifications, or are you just another armchair pundit off the street, attempting to argue that Trump isn't dumb to ignore what top expert scientists keep telling him about preventing climate change and not nuking hurricanes?
Precisely. The article seems to take the tone of "All of this stuff isn't really for tracking" when that's not strictly true. Instead, He doesn't use it for tracking, but that doesn't mean the data isn't still generated and used by some of the third parties. Even if I grant him the necessity of doing things this way, as he seems to claim, that just bolsters the argument that invasive tracking is baked in to nearly everything, that you simply can't do business like this without it happening.
How FreeCodeCamp Made $2k from the Brave Browser
Oh, its BeeOnRope. I was wondering who could have investigated this detail to such fine degree.

No comments really, your blogpost seems to answer all my questions. Excellent work!
It's all a big dump, discoverability is bad.

Name clauses.

Version clauses. "All binaries inside a folder" needs renames to allow for a different version (even if it's a different minor version).

It's just the binaries, which was OK back in the "program = single binary", before "man" even, days, but now it splits the program from different assets it uses (man pages, default configuration, image assets, etc). This in turn makes deleting/moving more difficult, and adds all kinds of baggage to package managers.

>It's hard to read the list, but Linux has plenty of tools to fix that particular problem.

That's a description of the problem to me. Needing "plenty of tools" to fix an initial bad commitment.
Oh I get you, been baking bread for my wife since before we got married. Started with the bread machine, got a fancier machine, then transitioned to sour dough and after all these years and a couple hundred loves later I’m finally making a product I’m at least somewhat happy with. There is always some detail that isn’t mentioned that comes to bite you in the butt and causes the recipe to come out wrong.
I too remember being annoyed at the thought that my blog wouldn't have accurate analytics anymore if people's ad blockers blocked Google Analytics from loading.

Then I realized tracking even for "benign" purposes isn't a right for website operators and we need to have more respect for our users' computing decisions.

I took Google Analytics off completely. Had no analytics for a while, then tried out my own install of Matomo. That way at least if I'm allowed to "track" my audience, it's using an open source tool running on my own server.

My point is that I don't agree with the author at all. Every third-party resource is a potential vector for abuse, and even mere fonts or payment processors aren't immune from critique. Does this cause hassles for website operators? Sure. But that's the price of doing business online in 2019.

The web desperately needs a privacy course-correction, and the more operators resist the inevitable consumer backlash, the more they will shoot themselves in the foot.
I'm reminded of Ur/Web, http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
I'm on board with sweeping changes, but most US cities aren't built densely enough to take advantage of public transit even if we do build it.

It's not just a matter of building more transit (which we should be doing!). We have to move people back into urban cores and out of sparsely populated suburbs.
I can think of three that fit that description. Or the ones up a bunch of stairs, with no parking and no real signs.
It is, and people would keep coming up with ideas.

It would get a lot harder to put together a few hundred million dollars in funding to build the vacuum chambers, ovens, lithography machines, and other things you need to actually test your idea and get it working, though.
Tone policing is the lowest form of criticism.

You are a completely terrible person for posting what you did. (Or is that the appropriate term? What an important question! Let us explore it in depth!)
It depends on who you're looking at. There are a few "loud", activist-y homosexuals, but most just go live their lives like any one else. You hear a lot more from the "activist-y" types because they tend to be much louder.
Its similar in Charity work but with more bullying and even less pay.

I am not joking, I did a high end hr/ir course a while back and all the participants where surprised it wasn't the City Investment Banking type of jobs that had the worst rep for bullying etc.
How about a global K/V store for data structures?
It's crazy the number of people expecting our SASS pricing to be negotiable. We offer one fair pricing to everyone and have no time to make special case pricing for every single user.

I guess more prominent startups/companies embrace this as a tool to close or retain customers.
Hi all! Founder of Capiche here. Excited to share what we've been working on here.

Given SaaS is an industry born on the internet, you'd think there'd be more transparency/less information asymmetry, but that's simply not the case.

In talking with tons of software buyers the past few months, I've heard so many stories of huge discrepancies in what people are paying, even for the tools we all think have transparent pricing.

This project is hugely inspired by Glassdoor. As this information starts to become more freely available, it will push the industry toward better pricing tactics, more transparency, and less special treatment. We hope to play a role in making that happen.

Happy to answer any questions!
Considering the right-wing is increasingly hostile to science, facts, and the educated, I think it's going to be hard to find college grads anywhere who will be willing to work on such projects.
"Please give me an excuse to justify stealing tv shows."
If you recall the time that “Eating chocolate helps you lose weight” took over the internet, the follow-up was an article by journalists explaining that they had planted the story.

What the did was take a group of college students and have them record what they did, what they ate, and various metrics like their daily weight.

When the “study” was over, the poured over the data looking for some correlation. In all that data, there was sure to be some random correlation, and they found one between chocolate and losing weight.

They then planted the story and watched everyone latch onto it. The follow-up story was about statistics and science, where they pointed out that given a small sample and a short time frame, and given that you are looking for a correlation, you will find one.

But confirming that correlation is where science begins, by testing the hypothesis with appropriate samples, time frames, and controls.
> How is he supposed to develop an eye for art?

Which is exactly why the CEO of Ubisoft has quite an eye for art (he actually may have an eye for art, but my point is he don't have to...).

You can hire someone to do this, even part time, you can find someone to collaborate with that can do it too.

His arguments aren't correct argument. His actual argument is that he don't care and don't want to have better art. That's all.
For a non-game product, there's less of an need to continously introduce new features for revenue as your product has a longer window of being relevant.

Once you move to business facing SaaS, you can even charge for continued access to the same software. There's very few games that managed that model, and nowadays the only two succesful subscription only games I can think of are WoW and FFXIV, so I think it's fair to label it a dying business model.
Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
I am a typography nerd but let's be real here: web fonts are not so important that you should trade away your visitors' privacy. A CSS system fonts approach [0] is not only great for user privacy but results in better performance, security and more consistent GUIs.

[0] See https://flaviocopes.com/css-system-fonts/#popular-websites-u... . In the future, web devs might reliably use "font-family: system-ui;"
Nobody likes the idea of arresting undocumented immigrants and kicking them out of the country. It could probably be done in a better way too. And the legal immigration system is crazy (I've dealt with it myself). But it's work that needs to be done to secure the border, even though it's heartbreaking sometimes. Just like security making sure people don't sneak into a concert without a ticket. I probably wouldn't want to work for a company that was involved in supplying info to ICE raids, but there's a lot of jobs I wouldn't be interested in doing. People should be able to decide for themselves.
All of this is already factored into market prices of real estate. If parking is valuable, and included in a property, then the property price is higher. Those who don't need a car can find nicer and/or cheaper places to live. If developers build parking structures, then the supply of housing is lowered.

I'm not really sure how the landlord has more power here. These parking premiums (or lack thereof) are factored into every property I've ever shopped for.
Free Rent for Startups – Peoria IL
Since nobody mentioned it...

I spent a number of years running and customising Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org) in a multi-project environment (400+ repos, etc.).

It's not pretty and has some strange abstractions, but it can be customised to a surprising extent.

Edit: also https://gitea.io. The issue tracker works, even if it's very streamlined.
America wasn't for a long time. You can find footage of most leftist politicians supporting stronger borders. Basically, President Trump made it a campaign issue, and so the left stopped.

Orange Man bad, basically.
I do for sure.
Money will always trump morals for a sufficiently large amount of people. (no pun intended)
Same here, same ad - just notified abuse@google
Article without the tracking: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/146
What is angle soft, and for what political reasons are you boycotting it? Maybe if you provided more info, people would.
This is correct. Experian keeps CC number and email. Google has email address, that ties to cookies. They join on email.
And it discourages/punishes people from moving to the right home for their changing family size/situation and changing job situation.

Instead people end up commuting longer distances.
If you are still interested in FreeBSD, "The Design and Implementation of the Freebsd Operating System" is a fantastic book. It's a great guide in how a UNIX system and especially FreeBSD works and written by some of FreeBSD's most respected developers.
[] is an indexed data operator for Lists, Maps and other collections. It isn't a general property access operator like in JavaScript. It makes it possible to have user-defined list implementations with the ergonomics of built-in arrays, and drastically increases readability over Java's get() and set() methods. Don't knock it.
"companies and platforms can make gains through a positive network effect (the more people use the product, the more valuable it becomes) and consumer learning (pirate users may learn about the product and buy the legal version later on)."

IIRC, when China was opening up and Windows and Office were listed at the top of the Most Pirated charts, Bill Gates commented that he thought it was OK because it is essentially starting market saturation, i.e., getting the Chinese hooked on Windows products.

I'm not sure it worked out so well that way. Anyone have any current data on how well MS is doing vs other software platforms in China?
No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
Absolutely this fetish for getting rid off street parking will just lead to third world traffic jams.

BTW I am a non car driver here
Yours is a better technical approach to the vague dream I had described.

Am I being downvoted because I don't have an optimal solution to some problem?
Serverless is about running functions this is about distributing their code. I agree that there is some overlap but different problems are being solved.