skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created this as a tool for playing around with different font and color combinations then generating a theme object that meets the System UI Theme Specification for creating interoperable UI components (see system-ui.com). The idea is that you can quickly experiment, and then if you come up with something you like, you can take those style properties and use them to make your component libraries or with popular projects like Theme UI, Rebass, Primer, Chakra UI, etc.
It's not "effectively" an ad for anything, it's a discussion forum. The fact that it also offers some publicity to YC's business is an additional aspect, but not the main one.
A rather long article and yet no mention of basic related philosophical ideas such as The Problem of Induction, the limitations of Empiricism, or even a mention of Epistemology. I really wish more physicists (and scientists in general) would study the philosophy of science prior to asking philosophical questions about science.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
> we should be linting code to say whether it phones home or not

Is that possible? How do you diffentiate it from expected API calls?

(Not convinced black/white-listing strings is any different from code review in this case - it'll just be changed on demand if if prevents adding what was tried to be added.)
Running their own service would be most ideal. They are definitely not. https://github.com/Igalia/webkit/blob/9777baa3db09cad7ed5b2c....
Link to code in question https://github.com/Igalia/webkit/blob/9777baa3db09cad7ed5b2c...
For anyone interested in how Costco works as a business, there was an interesting 150-slide deck circulated last year that had some good insights and observations about Costco's model. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hohqj3rl2uv43p/COSTCO%20Deck.pdf?...
OK how does is that going to work for Facebook?
I agree with that for a lot of items. But part of it is that I don't think Costco ever does loss-leaders like grocery stores will (except in gas and their restaurant). Hence why I don't buy Costco's milk.

Costco is in a league of their own in Canada (and probably Iceland where they have a location). ex-USA, you just don't have deep-discounters.

With such massive turnover, is that everything is fresh at Costco, and it's not because they're throwing anything away. Their stock probably sells out daily.

And if you're not happy with them, you know you can return it a month later with a smile.
to each their own. I don't like low hydration, dense breads, and I do like high hydration airy breads.

because that's what I like eating, not because that's what's pretty.
All of these claims about the consequences of various levels of warming, including this "1.5 C is the limit" claim, are based on an assumption of predictive power, not just in climate science but in economics and sociology, which simply does not exist. Nobody knows how to predict what the consequences will be, particularly when you take into account that people will change the way various things are done in order to adapt to change. Indeed, that is happening now (and has always been happening throughout the history of the human race). These are the same people that predicted there would be worldwide famines in the 1980s and that oil and mineral prices would skyrocket by 2000. Their only predictive track record is of entirely wrong predictions. There is no reason to believe them this time.
There's really no difference. Mainly I use a machine at home instead of a data center VM because that's just one less bill to pay. I have two GPUs in there which would be very expensive on public cloud.

I guess one reason people might gravitate to home hosting is owning your own disks, the tinfoil hat perspective. You can encrypt volumes on public cloud as well, but it's still on someone else's machine. They could take a snapshot of the heap memory and know everything you are doing.
I believe an argument could have been made that it was the right call if they had publicized it. Seeing as how it was implemented in the background, I am less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
GDPR applies to personally identifiable information, this may apply to some content posted. Of course no ToS can override your rights under GDPR and there are tools built-in to comply with any data requests.
> But if you live near enough to a Costco and own a car, the real killer-app is their gasoline. From this alone my membership

Just clone the magstripe on a friend's Costco card for the gas ;)

What I don't understand is why no gas station other than Costco has hoses that can reach around a vehicle.
"But it's obvious that for the next generation of cars, you're not going to compete unless you make a car electric from the ground up."

I agree with you that there are deep, architectural improvements (skateboard design, multi-motor AWD, etc.) that come along with a clean-sheet design.

Certainly I, as a consumer, want all of those things.

I am speaking purely on a surface level - I want a BMW 7 Series (or a Range Rover or an A8 or whatever) that has the technology of an electric car underneath. I don't want some cutesy (or space-agey) i-mobile or e-car. I don't want a distinctive, different interior. I don't want weird space-age lights and colors.
100% is actually trivial in the sense that we don't have surplus energy, so we can't turn off fossil fuels until we can turn them off.

What I should have said is this: economy is growing, and for now, it has to keep growing to even work. It's also dependent on fossil fuels and is using them up "just in time" - we don't have much in form of a buffer (or rather, the "buffer" is untapped sources, like ones exploited through fracking). As old sources get used up, new need to be tapped. We'll be able to stop tapping into new sources only when renewable/nuclear alternatives start growing faster than economy + drop in output of existing sources. Which might be somewhen in the future, but it's not now.

> The fact that you took it all the way to accusing me of trying to kill off most of the population is extremely rude.

I didn't accuse you of anything, you're projecting. I was only reminding everyone that the economy is not something you can just shut down and restart in a better form. Only gentle and incremental change is on the table.

> You are thinking in false extremes and stories, not numbers and graphs.

I can draw you the graphs if you like; the point is still that until we replace any given chunk of fossil fuel capacity, we have to keep that chunk running. Simple as that.

> willfully miss-frame the discussion. That is rather rude of you.

Sorry, that wasn't intentional. On the other hand, you've attacked me personally multiple times in your reply, which is that much ruder of you, and also against HN guidelines.
Problem is that we're not getting a better interoperable metadata-rich relational object storage system. We're getting closed silos in short-lived cloud surveillance services.
Most stores didn’t really work around anything.

Costco performs a credit check when you sign up for a membership. It requires a state ID to sign up for a membership. Like voter ID requirements, this has impacts on the people who shop there. Previously, they also tied the membership to qualifying for their partnered credit card. It is true that you can pay with cash. Ultimately, I'm trying to explain why Costco shoppers look the way they do. It may affect the bottom line to put up these obstacles, because people who meet these criteria can and do spend more.

Walmart only relies ownership of a car to target a richer shopper. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, often used for single people or non car owners, locates its stores nonetheless in certain wealthier urban locations. Loyalty cards do not achieve these ends.

The knock on effects are immense. Grocery stores, for normal people, are as much about the discounts as seeing your own kind there. That’s not just economic stratification, it’s also the ethnic groceries, some of them really big, expensive item enterprises (like H Mart).

These are experiences Amazon cannot provide. You don’t get to see the other Amazon shoppers, and you don’t get a sense of whether Amazon is a “cheap” or “expensive” store. And yet this is precisely an experience people want, just as psychologically important as 1 day shipping. Costco, like Amazon, occupies a valuable psychological niche. The question is if there exist any viable retail that does not.
Pretty much this. I didn't feel it needed to be stated because obviously that's different.
For much the same reasons.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=information+th...
I understand that companies need to do everything in their power to maximize profits. However, we as concerned citizens should also not 'enrich' these companies by continuously supporting them. We are simply lucky that we are living in a relatively free world when so many are not.
The google servers apparently takes url hash prefix. Does tencent do the same? If so is it still considered a gdpr violation? There is not much info in a url hash prefix.
Why is this getting downvoted? I'm also interested in why this approach isn't taken.
Correct.

Though as the article notes, Japan similarly has few rubbish bins.
I've baked no-knead bread before and I'm still confused - what exactly is the difference between bread that requires kneading and bread that doesn't require it?
I'm a big fan of Costco, but packaging is one area where I'm not sure how well it works out from an environmental footprint perspective. Buying milk? 3 standard cartons in a big cardboard box. Tomatoes? 4 lbs in a cardboard box wrapped in plastic where you would have used the same amount of plastic minus the box at a supermarket. Many of the items they sell are in the standard packaging then packaged in one additional layer of multi-unit packaging. I understand the need for it due to requiring stacking the items in large quantities plus efficiency of checkout and I optimistically hope that supply chain efficiency offsets the additional packaging but I'm not sure what the reality is.
This is what I'm gonna link to my friends the next time they make fun of me for being a green-texter.

This is exactly the story I went through a few years back as well. I had an iPhone 4? 9-ish years ago when I was in a music-kleptomania frenzy (back when what.cd was around too ;) ), and I remember just how frustrating it was dragging and dropping shit through iTunes all the time. Same for movies, photos, and documents! I couldn't see the appeal of using the iPhone at all - why would somebody use this when they could just plug an Android device into their PC and use their file explorer? (The update to iOS7 was the nail in the coffin - I found the neon design just repulsive.)

I guess my question is - has the Apple "ecosystem" gotten better for this? Can I actually edit metadata for .mp3s and .mp4s and just drop them into an iPhone or iPad now? And copy them out as well or download them offline, bit for bit? If so, are dongles still the norm?

*An aside - I've definitely eased up on the file-ownership thing now. I just let YouTube Premium handle everything. It was definitely a waste of time retagging thousands of music files out of some strange ownership OCD. I see it as a net positive overall - now I just find it amazing that someone even uploaded some white-label vinyl-only run-of-100 Foul Play UK garage record (and similar records going for >$100 on discogs - maybe even ownership has its limits?) at 128kbps at all, even if it doesn't stay there forever :)
That sounds an awful lot like a personal attack.
What happened to the introduction?
I love this. Yes. The most productive person is dead. Because work produced divided by time worked is literally undefined when time worked is zero (because you are dead).
>Costco controls the kind of shopper that shows up by tying a credit card (ie a credit check) to membership. Sure you don’t have to pay with a credit card, but you need to qualify for a good one to shop there.

I don't follow this logic at all. They take Amex and debit cards in the UK - so no Mastercard/Visa credit cards but debits are fine. They also take cash.

So, why do you need to be able to qualify for an Amex (the only CC they accept) to shop there? Everyone has a debit card. They're not doing a credit check when you sign up as a member - they don't extend you a line of credit when you shop in their stores as a consumer.
Does not exist in the wild, probably for a reason.
I like Singapore too and have lived there. Other countries could learn a lot from how Singapore is run but it has it's own worts. It's very dystopian in certain regards. It's a really good example of the trade off between freedom and safety.
And bigger packages have less packaging material per volume.

While bigger packages could have thicker packaging, that's not always true: packaging that protects from the outside world won't be any different. A foil layer is a foil layer.
> The most important realisation we had going into this renewed effort was that a successful migration has to be centered around people, not just tech.

Key insight. It’s always people first, code is a far distant second. Love Kent Beck’s series on this, so insightful https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-r...

Great read, Heap team! Thanks for sharing :-D
What is this magical "high-end" database that operates without the use of any "files"? Certainly not Oracle or Sybase. Sure, they have "data partitions", but the database executables are distributed and stored in files. And what is the magical file-less operating system that they run on? Ooooh we're in "files are extinct land". Where nothing needs files.
Love it, already started using it. I was thinking of making something similar; now I don't have to! Thanks.
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Something I’m very curious about...

Given* that our actions are causing climate change, what is the logic of oil companies continuing to do damage?

1. execs truly dont believe their Corp’s actions impact climate

2. theyre making piles of cash, they can buy theirselves and their descendants out of future problems

The first seems naive, the second seems pretty bleak.

What other logic is there for this behavior?

* let’s assume it is for the question above
Are fridges warmer in warmer climates? I'd have assumed the target temperature was the same.
As far as I'm concerned, cars have no place in Manhattan, and should be banned from all but a handful of designated roads. Maybe give out special licenses to the disabled, or anyone else who physically requires a car—that way, they'll actually be able to get around at reasonable speeds, too.
One of the dangerous factors of cloud-first thinking is that it tends to abstract away people's concerns for redundancy. "Oh, CloudBrand handles distributed backups for me in 32 different regions, I checked the box for that." And when CloudBrand has some new scale of failure, it just takes down all your copies at once.

Every service is "extremely high reliability" until it isn't. Sometimes, the causes of failure are even beyond technical ones. Look at the situation with Adobe Creative Cloud users in Venezuela-- the discs and wires are still fine, but customers are losing real value because of legal mandates. Your high availability platform can withstand a network cable cut, but can it withstand a court order?

If you're still thinking local first, it encourages awareness of multiple baskets. iCloud is down? You can still pull the photos off your camera's flash card, or your workstation's SSD, or the external spinning-rust hard disc you used for cold backups, or the third-party dedicated backups service you use...
Man...Math textbook/website/vid overload is making me weep for some reason. Most of this stuff hasn't changed in 200 years. Wtf do we need so many books for? Total failure of Math Pedagogy imho.
Understanding Wealth Inequality in Canada [pdf]
Just elaborating on the method google uses here. The client sends a hash prefix of the url if there is a match in the local db. The server then sends back full url hashes. Other than your IP address, there is not much data that can be collected here.
The box of 12 soaps in 12 boxes always irks me.

But you have to consider the packaging that you don't see at other retailers: it might come to them in the same packaging, but it's discarded before you see it.
Yes, we were adding TypeScript code, but we were adding CoffeeScript at a faster rate

So the devs were able to iterate faster with CS than with TS?
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was acquired illegally (though not immorally, IMO), so it's probably the safest place to host it.
Except that poster wanted the utility to be taken over by the government. Thus the comment was in favor of increasing government.
You won't find many non-sugared drinks in 2019 in Singapore either. I only know canned Oolong Tea which has no added sugar, the rest in e.g. a 7Eleven is overly sweet. It's next to impossible to get unsweetened yoghurt in a convenience store.

The brown-sugar tea is all over the place and if you order some green-tea with 0% sugar they look at you like you're an alien and tell you it will be too sour and not taste good.
Completely agree. While I have no idea what I'd actually do if I was this wealthy (maybe just enjoy life and give into time consuming addictions), but I have numerous projects that are "on hold" from lack of time.
The main problem I see is that a public company is aiding an illegal website by protecting it against crawlers/scrapers and DDOS attacks. They already got backlash by protecting 8chan:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/04/cloudflare-will-stop-servi...
What would you say are the most useful features of coffeescript?
Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
Anyone suggesting using proprietary cloud products for something that's mandatory for participating in society hasn't thought things through:

1. The privacy policy of Google & Dropbox is a catastrophe.

2. They can ban you at any time for all sorts of silly reasons and then you can't even turn your homework in any more.
Would you mind linking to the upstream repository instead? GitHub doesn’t let you search in forks.
I'm pretty sure you would get a big GDPR fine if you start taking data people agreed to put on Linked-in without their express permission.
Yes, build times of a few seconds instead of minutes. Easier and more robust "write once, run everywhere". Integrating third party libraries in a matter of minutes instead of hours, sometimes days. Generally much faster prototyping capabilities. And so on.
"The iPad is strongly tied to the workflow that Apple suggests, and that's a workflow that removes files as a concept, abstracting them away. It's quite possibly a genius approach in terms of how accessible it is to non-tech people, even though it doesn't sit right with me."

I ran into the same thing when I acquired an iphone. After moving all of my music files to the iphone (with itunes, etc.) - look at this picture:

https://www.ilounge.com/assets/images/articles_tagging/2011/...

SO many choices ... and what is missing ? filename

This comes into play when you have uncompressed, raw rips (WAV/PCM) of CDs which have no metadata - there is nothing but the filename.
>Costco controls the kind of shopper that shows up by tying a credit card (ie a credit check) to membership

This is not true.
Very cool. My camera is capturing, but the button for "capture current position" is never enabled. What am I doing wrong here?
This hardly looks like database corruption. More like a bug where some characters are not properly escaped.
Will it get better eventually?
I believe that LinkedIn were enjoined from using measures to limit HiQ specifically from scraping their site, not from general authorization-based measures that might have the corollary effect of limiting access by HiQ. The idea is that LinkedIn can't make the data public and freely accessible and then turn around and say that the data isn't public if you're a potential competitor who is using an automated tool to access it in bulk.
> At Costco I am guaranteed that the price is at least competitive.

Right, you know that Costco is taking making a 10% margin across the board. You'll never be able to exploit a loss-leader and fill your cart with below-cost X, but you're never getting overly hosed either.

If you're a well-to-do immigrant that hasn't built up a mind-map of "Buy A at X, buy B at Y, and only buy C when on-sale at Z", Costco is a low-cognitive load solution.
I don't think there is one.

There is no hardware/software provider pushing the envelope like they did. There is nobody who can poke fun at Microsoft like Scott McNeally did. That last part is not even considered cool anymore.

Apple builds some impressive computers (the MacPro is a good example) but they use x86's and stock GPUs. They don't design CPUs for their high-end kit, and their high end stuff ends on their desktops and their performance is what you'd expect from a high-end PC. Oracle is killing SPARC bit by bit, milking it until it bleeds, then bleeding it dry. IBM makes impressive POWER9 machines, but they don't make workstations anymore.

Some companies build workstations and servers, and even write software to support them. The Raptor folks deserve a lot of recognition for what they did, but they can only stretch so far and you won't see them hiring Frog Design to make their computers prettier. It'd also be pointless for them to make their own OS.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If this source is to be believed, it's either going to Google or Tencent, but never both:

https://twitter.com/eromang/status/1183422784082530304/photo...

You can try yourself by going to one of the IOS Safe Browsing test pages on your phone, and when the warning pops up click "Show Details". It'll either say Google or Tencent on the warning message, which should let you know which one got chosen for you.

https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com

I just tried it, and it says Google for me in the US.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. A Costco membership is $60 and you can pay in cash. There’s no credit card needed. You don’t have to sign up for their credit card either, and it’s not really even pushed when you sign up for membership. What gave you the impression that you have to qualify for a credit card to shop there?
3. Humans are notoriously terrible at internalizing future risk for consideration in context of the liability of their current actions.

i.e. "I never thought it would happen to me."
What's channel conflict?
Yep, from my second job out of uni at a well-known agency. I was told my phone while on holiday, and when I returned the next Monday we were told that we may as well go home for that day since there wasn't anything left to do.

Thankfully, one of the agencies we sub-contracted to took our clients on, and offered to take us on for our remaining month of redundancy, so on Tuesday I was in a new office. Sadly, only one of us was offered a job, and it was me, but the rest of my work mates managed to find jobs to start at the end of redundancy.

That month sucked. I had gone from what I perceived to be a wildly successful, award-winning company to uncertainty at a shitty agency. I spent nearly four years at that agency, and worked on a number of fantastic projects - some of which I still talk about now. In all honesty, being made redundant was one of the best things to happen to me.
I'm guessing they'll write it last. The book is still being written.
I find going to Costco in an urban area really painful. Lines just for parking 3 blocks away. Crowds of pushy unpleasant people and lines. If you value your time and well being, it ends up not so much of a bargain. Now using Instacart to get Costco delivered, love it.