skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it not the case where you are / in most countries as it is in the US that most homeowners have loans out for most of the value of their property (sometimes even more!)? In which case, surely the value of the current home matters quite a lot?

Maybe you mean to say that what matters is the difference between the price of the desired future home and the amount of salable equity that they have in their current home?
You can't decide whether it's "obviously a button" in isolation. Depends entirely on how that particular element fits into the rest of the page.

The only exception I can think of is that it's obviously a button if it uses system controls.
You don't know if it's better or worse than, say, 50 years ago. It doesn't show any trend.

A lot of people believe that flag burning should be prohibited. My guess is that fewer people believe so now than in the 1960s. But it seems to still be a majority view, from last time I looked at the numbers.

What if people instead read the history of modern Germany, with its prohibitions on Holocaust denialism? Will they get the same lesson?
define a cohort.

Say, people who signed up during a given month = 12 cohorts per year

Or people who signed up during a given week = 52 cohorts per year

Then, given a set of cohorts, what percentage of people per cohort are retained over time?
I am not intentionally being hostile, just pointing out that your stated deficiency is the one of the reasons why people migrated to component-style frameworks. It's an affirmation of your comment's validity not a criticism.
As I see you undoubtedly believe in this project and that gives me more confidence to do something about it. One more thing, what are best practices on renting VPS, which service providers are appropriate besides Hetzner from that video (best price/performance correlation)? Thank you for detailed answer.
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It's a strawman version of a blog post. It argues against trivial issues that are inflated into something they aren't.
Seems like there's also a good case for Reddit moderators to not be volunteers as well. To be honest I've always thought the community moderated model has seemed like somewhat of a loophole that was eventually going to be closed. It's having your cake and eating it too. IMHO you can either have UGI with a professional moderator team OR you can have professionally made content with no moderator team.
Honestly it seems terrible and wrong according to most popular user experiments on web forms.

1. Error messages are non existant, all that shows is a redish/pink badge on the left. Which a color blind person may have trouble finding a difference from the blue one above. Also gives no indication as to what is wrong? Email missing a ., shows a red. Hard to say what exactly the error is without further details. And honestly errors are the biggest and most important part of any form. Good quality errors with clear messaging will go miles above any other "improvement".

The number one biggest annoyance is filling out a form only to get an error with something you didn't know needed to be done or you did incorrectly.

Rules are simple

- Keep already in inputted date

- Try and indicate as clearly as you can what the error is

- Show the user to the error (if it's one maybe focus that element)

- Help the user fix the error by offering suggestions, things like if a user types @gmial.com maybe say are you sure it isn't @gmail.com?)

- If you are gonna hide forms in an accordion like checkout experiences, let me go back. And show something that indicates that section is good to go. Real time validation is really good. But PLEASE KEEP it the same as on the backend. Nothing worse then getting a checkmark on the front only to get an error after submitting from the backend.

- KEEP THE ALREADY ENTERED DATA EXACTLY AS IT WAS I cannot stress this enough. The amount of times I've closed a website after entering a form and having all my data cleared from an error is more then enough.

2. There is WAYYYY to much space between each element.

3. The font is small, you should be using larger then size 12px font on forms. At least 14px.

4. The implied "success" is a green border, however the dropdown does not turn green on selecting an option. So it does not look correct.

5. The hover/focus state on the buttons is a slightly bigger light grey box shadow. Hard to read, and hard to know what is focused.

6. Checkbox/radio group has no tab function, you cannot tab to it.

I could go on and on, and I'm not even that skilled with UX.

Also it breaks default styles for several other html 5 input elements, because it targets "input" rather than specific input elements.

Honestly if you want alright base styles that look good just use Bootstrap, at least it handles focus states correctly.
Ask HN: How much would it cost to buy an 1800s company? Is there any example?
What if I wanted to buy a company, just the legal structure, just for the swag of saying its from the 1800. Is there any example of such acquisition? How much is that worth on in and by itself by your estimates?
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As a leader that manages both design and engineering teams I feel worse sin is being committed by the latter these days through unnecessary complexity in front end technology usage.
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It has a lot to do with how much power the "employer" has (one of the 5 factors discussed in the answers).. its pretty normal that someone can employ you today to contribute to opensource and choose your direction, or not employ you and hope your direction and theirs doesn't fork..

(When they try to control all the PMs, etc but accept public work when it happens to fit, then I do think they are in the grey area.)

edit-terms&redundancy..
Yup, that's the big issue. Being able to fly London to NY in 30 minutes is great, but the landing/launch sites will have to be pretty far from the cities to have the sonic booms not break windows all the time. That increases total travel time.
I live on the New England coast, and we're getting increased flooding too. That's only right on the coast though.
Most people who look at the evidence, inasmuch as reliable evidence can ever exist in the socioeconomic sphere, end up concluding that moving the UK further to the left is not a bad idea. Little wonder that grassroots tech movements look at evidence.

Of course the Conservatives claim that the evidence itself is biased. I am not joking.
If ice cliffs in the Antarctic won't collapse catastrophically that decreases our estimate for how quickly the sea is likely to rise, which is certainly good news!

But we're still going to get some rise, and accurate elevation modeling is important for figuring out what effects that's likely to have.

Roughly, you can think of these as two disconnected efforts: get the best estimate you can of the distribution of possible future sea levels, and get the best estimate you can of the impact of different sea levels on humanity. Your link is the former, this link is the latter.
Maybe something more like:

[
"div",
[
"The ",
[
"a",
{ "href": "https://www.json.org/" },
[ "JSON format" ]
],
" was invented by ",
[
"em",
"Douglas Crockford"
],
"."
]
]

With all children being encapsulated in an array...

edit: though it again gets confusing when the 0 index is sometimes the element type and sometimes the straight text... so never mind I guess the problem persists.
The author makes a case for why it would matter:

> XML, on the other hand, optimizes for document tree structures, by cleanly separating node data (attributes) from child data (elements).

Unfortunately, there appear to be some implementation issues here. You have to create a string version of your data to store them in attributes.

So, you lose a bit of context in the conversion.

Such as:

`<Document text="true" />`

Is the text attribute the word _true_ or a boolean _true_. Without referencing some other piece of code or definition there is no way to know.

Whereas in JSON, this wouldn't be necessary, as you can simply remove the quotes and infer that it is not a string, but a boolean.
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I'm not a lawyer, but there is a common-sense difference between Stack Exchange and Reddit.

On Reddit, it's just a community having a discussion. The participants, even the moderators, are mainly involved in guiding a discussion, and Reddit just facilitates that.

On Stack Overflow, the moderators really are working directly on improving the site's content. They're practically unpaid editors.
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I'm confident that no one with an agenda to spin had any part whatsoever in contributing to the two links you give.
Please add it in.
> As far as I'm aware, Github has been honouring government takedowns of this nature since long before they were acquired by Microsoft.

What makes me worried is that this was not a normal takedown where GitHub thought the content was harmful for their platform. It seems it's only geographically blocked, as in, not available for people in Spain. So GitHub thinks the repository is fine, just that it's not fine in Spain specifically.

This indicates that it's more hairy than just "it was harmful for GitHub"
> Because it appears to me they were under immense pressure to stop wildfires without actually cutting down any trees.

You provide no evidence of that being the cause of their deferred maintenance, only a news article that critics exist (not even that they are significant in number or political influence) that don't like the way PG&E is handling the catch-up work of maintenance it is now doing because of the liabilities it has incurred through deferred maintenance.

> Cutting down trees is something California went to great lengths to stop doing around 2007 or so, by ending logging and forest brush operations/controlled burns

The extent to which that is a factor in the magnitude of some of the fires is a legitimate issue to discuss, but forest management by other entities is a separate issue from power line safety maintenance by PG&E and it's role in starting fires. The agencies that make those forest management decisions do not govern PG&E's maintenance decisions.
I'm in the northeast and my state is exactly like CA in this regard (source: good chunk of immediate and extended family works for the state). I've lived in three other states too and they weren't like that but they were all rural enough where people didn't really need government permission to do what they wanted and the political will to go after reasonable people doing reasonable things but without government approval wasn't there.

Everywhere I've ever lived I've seen a pretty wide variation from place to place within a state that seems to get applied on top of the state's baseline. In the poorer areas anything reasonable pretty much gets waved on through and in the rich areas they're much more controlling (because they have the resources to throw at it) and you can benefit from hiring people who know people or are at least known as "regulars" to whatever official is calling the shots. It's a lot like hiring a traffic lawyer.
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I liked your comment on Oberon as an example of what non-C/UNIX might look like. Your statement on language-integrated OS's implies there is a technical reason they didn't make it. It's a common mistake technologists make where they think of everything in technical aspects. Business (i.e. Marketing) and social effects are far, far, more prevalent a reason for success or failure of technologies in terms of adoption. Here's four factors that will answer lots of your questions by themselves:

1. Is it free or reduces costs in some way? UNIX on minicomputers is automatically going to get adopted if its design is useful just because of massive reductions in equipment costs.

2. Is it backwards compatible and/or does it easily integrate with the established ecosystem? IBM, Microsoft, and Intel used backwards compatible to grab markets followed by lock-in. You could say Linux/BSD eventually did with them piling more stuff on the old code. OpenBSD was the exception with them ripping stuff out. Easy example of second is languages compiling to and/or using libraries from established ecosystems like C, Java, .NET, and Javascript.

3. Is it familiar? Do they understand the concepts? And do the developers, picky about syntax, see a similar syntax? This boosted C++, Java and C# over the likes of Lisp, Prolog, or Haskell.

4. Big, dominant company pushes for X to be the language for their platform. That explains most of the big ones that are compiled and Javascript. The other factors helped, though.

These four factors are enough to absolutely kill Lisp and Forth machines in both commercial market and FOSS adoption. They don't make them impossible. They're just an uphill battle with a lot more work to do. We see communities such as Erlang and Haskell getting stronger despite being so different from established languages without being able to easily integrate with their ecosystems. Clojure [wisely] cheated by building the weird language on top of a massive ecosystem (Java platform). There's also projects aimed at Javascript trying to re-create the advantages of Lisp and Smalltalk. So, there's hope the integrated systems can make it either with lots of effort or (more wisely) just working with those factors instead of against them.

Also, it's not a big loss anyway given only a few of these integrated OS's were attempted in a big way. Over 90% of efforts fail to go anywhere. Only a handful of attempts were made. If anything, they might still be ahead of the odds in the long run. They just gotta stop creating unnecessary obstacles for themselves.
The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park
Depends on the cafe. For the one that I always go to, I generally leave my laptop out.
Where does it say she's Christian? Nice straw man.
Agreed. Masturbatory work like this stems from a lack of discipline combined with poor leadership. It’s a virus that has infected a lot of teams.

When the patients run the asylum (Uber comes to mind) all kinds of wacky homegrown or shiny new tech gets piled on to the system and then you’re stuck with it and can’t move.
XML also supports id references, which are built into the parser - to my knowledge, there's no JSON equivalent (nor, do I think, could there be).
The plan is to do it from water based launch platforms. Gwynne Shotwell said that the boat ride to & from the launch pads would take longer than the ~40 minute rocket trip, so definitely several miles away from inhabited areas.
Our best and brightest don't go into government because the government does not offer competitive compensation.
They have an official repo with all the government takedown letters: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns (Only from China, Russia and Spain at the moment).
We are using http.rb at https://serpapi.com

It’s interesting to see that the Ruby ecosystem doesn’t seem to find its “requests” library. There is so many very good competitive libraries: native net/http, HttpClient by Nahi, http.rb, HttpParty, RestHttp, RestClient, excon, em-http, faraday, curb, etc., and now Httpx!
Regardless of its actual origins as an acronym, it’s a company name so the correct answer can be whatever the company chooses it to be.
TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
A (very) cursory search turned up this[1], which suggests they can turn around what appears to be a relatively short haul aircraft in ~50 mins arrival to departure.

My uneducated guess would be that refueling of a starship alone is likely to take a long time if you're pumping in 1,200 tons of fuel.

1. https://your.heathrow.com/happens-aircraft-turn-around-briti...
Not close to fully runtime-less sure, but about as close as you can get. It's the same way C isn't runtime-less compared to assembly because it has crt.0 but compared to Java it effectively is.
Ah, so basically the GP is saying "your users should be sticking around"?
Several years ago it was a massive issue with BoL. They've done some serious updates to limit the issue.
> By the way, how is your site promoted?

Purely organic for the most part.

We have 2 or 3 people on the team who work social media, and TBH this is what the majority of the work is.

They may draft a press release, and send it via email to a few contacts. But for the most part, this is extremely unfunded and independent work, with a few people manually writing all of the social media posts and replies.

This time they're discussing actually cut and pasting templates from Google Docs, so it's improving!
GANs are an interesting frontier. Videos are much more engaging than photos. The next logical step is to make a real-time GAN, like a videogame you can walk around in.

Imagine using a Vive to explore a GAN interactively. You'd be able to control the GAN using vive controllers and by walking around your room.

Right now it takes 163ms to render a 1024x1024 frame on a K80 GPU. That's 6 FPS, which is within an order of magnitude of 60FPS.

I haven't timed a 256x256 GAN, but presumably it would be 16x faster to generate. If so, then you'd be able to achieve 98FPS.

The above timings are based on the 1024x1024 FFHQ GAN model, which generates portraits of humans. https://github.com/pbaylies/stylegan-encoder

And indeed, it looks like the author uploaded an FFHQ music video 14 minutes ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLEfOMBbMw It looks cool.

Someone should train a 256x256 FFHQ and make a 90FPS interactive renderer for it.

Unfortunately it's not possible to take a large GAN like 1024x1024 FFHQ and only generate a 256x256 image. Each GAN is trained for a specific size, so you're stuck with 6 FPS at 1024x1024. I wish the FFHQ authors had saved a 256x256 checkpoint during training.

Training a 256x256 GAN from scratch costs somewhere in the range of $150 GCE credits. But you might be able to bootstrap a 256x256 FFHQ using the weights from the 1024x1024 FFHQ (aka transfer learning). That might train a lot faster.

There is also the recent NoGAN technique, which skips progressive growing by pretraining the generator: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify/#what-is-nogan Supposedly it speeds up GAN training by a huge amount.
Even more on the nose, in 2017 PG&E asked to raise its rates to cover liability for wildfires and was refused.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/s...
Do all orbital flights take off in the same direction due to the rotation of the Earth?
Adthrive and Mediavine promise more revenue per page, and do achieve it, but mainly by putting more ads on the page, and then refreshing them after a set period of time. A typical Mediavine page might have 5+ ads on it.
I don’t think a lack of a browser was an impediment for Plan9 nor Oberon when you look at when they were released. It was more likely the momentum was already behind UNIX and similar platforms. Enterprises already had solutions to hard problems and weren’t willing to take a gamble on something new.

As for the desktop market, BeOS has a browser and that still failed. SkyOS had a browser and failed. AFAIK Haiku has had a Firefox port for several years as well (albeit I make no statement about how stable nor bug-free it might be).

When you have Microsoft and Apple heavily promoting their platforms, even going so far as to give educational institutions massive discounts knowing they’re indoctrinating future customers, it strikes me that the only way to achieve household success with anything new is with massive corporate backing and a decent chunk of good luck too. So personally I’d define Linux as an anomaly.

I also think you’re not making a fair comparison where you compare lines of code in a “basic” operating system to a fully featured modern browser. But I go into more details on that in another post further down.
"So, SpaceX developed their own superalloy in house that they named SX500. According to Elon, it’s capable of over 800 bar of hot oxygen-rich gas. That may have been one of the biggest hurdles in developing the Raptor engine."

almost halfway down, the article is long but so well worth the time.
https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
And if you want, you can still keep some of the attributes:

<Users>
<User first="Michael" last="Scott">
<favoriteMovies>
<title>Diehard</title>
<title>Threat Level Midnight</title>
</favoriteMovies>
</User>
Funding open source development may not be as complicated as you think
The Moorish blood remains in Spain today are the same as with the times of Al Andalus: not much. It was mostly a cultural conquest.

You can keep spreading propaganda, but anyone that checks out historical records will discover that the Spanish inquisition was one of the tamest in Europe. In fact, one of the main drivers behind the creation of it was the protection of true converts from popular mobs.

The expulsion happened after other countries did so already (like England), and just to offer some context, Spain was making its first baby steps as a newly founded empire and had not interest of conflicting power structures within it such as the Jewish ghettos. The genocidal claims you make don't hold when half of expelled Jews returned back to Spain.
Feel the same way about reading this. Felt like gross marketing speak - which to me felt like lazy writing.

To the other persons comment (sorry for not replying to your thread) - of course there are smart people at A16z though it is important to read that smart != correct.
I finds sad that many people focus too much on Plan9 and overlook Inferno, which was actually his last stop, where Plan 9 designers actually implemented some of the ideas they had originally for Plan9, like a memory safe GC userspace (e.g. Alef).
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This is blatantly false for HV, I don't get why this is so persistent.
On the other hand I witnessed two grown women break into tears because, and I cite, "look how cute I cant even"
New York law uses five factors to determine if someone is an employee. Reddit is fine on several points: the degree of control exercised by the employer over the workers and the permanence or duration of the working relationship. Being a moderator of a sub-reddit doesn't entail anything other than creating the sub-reddit, which anyone can do. In addition, there is no requirement for spending time moderating that sub-reddit. This is different from Stack Exchange.
That's got to be the cheapest solution to global warming I've heard of. I wonder what problems there are with it. The nice thing about it is if things start getting chilly (as we move into another glacial period one day) we can simply remove some of the shades again. The increased CO2 means more vegetation growth, which is nice. The only real problem at that point is ocean acidification, which I think won't be reversed by cooling things down again.

I wonder if we will one day regulate our climate on earth by shading hot areas and pointing mirrors at cold ones. There are all kinds of knock on effects of doing that, but it seems like a human thing to do. Modify the environment instead of adapting to it. That's kind of our thing.
Nice find! Thanks.
I have some other tools for being productive from "constrained" environments.
I'm running ttyd [1] exposed trough nginx (to deal with auth and ssl) which gives me a terminal in the browser (using xtermjs). It's pretty good.
Another option I used before was shellinabox [2] (also trough nginx). Terminal emulation is not the greatest.
For GUI access i use NoVNC (exposed trough nginx) and have a systemd unit starting vncserver session.

[1] https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd
[2] https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox
[3] https://github.com/novnc/noVNC