skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be handy for apps to have some sort of method of showing how far down you've scrolled on a given screen. Maybe we can call them scroll bars?
Is there a solution to this in DOM+CSS? I had always wondered, we have the same issue in some of our UIs and I'm never sure if there's some pseudo-class that I haven't discovered that can style overflow without Javascript. Never got to the point of researching it in-depth but quick looks didn't find anything for me.
Map link: http://subject.space/projects-static/california-crops

Try zooming ALL the way in on some color -- it shows field-level data.

From DWR "Crop Mapping 2014" open dataset:
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/crop-mapping-2014
you can often help clear it out just by slowing down to the average speed it's moving

I'm of a similar belief. However, I've run into self-proclaimed professional traffic engineers who insist the best thing is for you to tailgate the car in front of you as closely as possible. The provided justification was that the more tightly traffic is packed, the sooner people can reach their exit & free up space on the road. I still don't buy it.
It could be a good starting point, but it totally depends on how each of them look at it. Personally, I hate it too.
And yet...

$ host -t mx vuln.ninja
vuln.ninja mail is handled by 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
vuln.ninja mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
vuln.ninja mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
vuln.ninja mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
vuln.ninja mail is handled by 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.

Maybe you should try running a bit faster.
Cost of Rust-Analyzer
Perhaps you are just more sensitive to style than others? The style of writing and the substance of the text are two different things. i.e. I've read widely enough that once I "pick up" the style of the writing, reading a book does not become a chore, but I do have my preferences.

David Foster Wallace is a perfect example - I can see the "quality" of the style of his writing and I can intellectually appreciate it, but all of his writing is a slog and definitely needs a bit of editing. I grew up with Alan Dean Foster, so that general style I respond to very well. Lush prose like Borges goes down well, but it is like velvet red cheesecake. And Sally Rooney is absolutely wonderful, but her style is ... hell, I don't have the words. And do not get me started on Susanna Clarke! New book coming out!
Huh?

No it's not. It's a solved problem.

Has been at least since way back when I was at Halliburton.

In fact, they're almost the same pumps, mechanically speaking.
Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?
3 times in SF this week, a Cruise AV has driven past my car and triggered my automatic windshield wipers, even though it was totally dry out. (probably the LIDAR interacting with wipers' infrared sensors).

Got me thinking about what unintended consequences can spring up because of new technologies. Anyone have other examples, current or historic?
This is even worse on mobile apps as they typically just show that page in a web view without the ability to even see the URL/cert
Thanks for noticing that it was a duplicate!

Didn't see the other post on HN from Google's blog :)
Yet I still get the occasional user who will flag their purchase receipt as spam when all they really mean to do is delete it. They don't get the difference and don't realize that it matters which button they click.

I have a relatively high profile email address (first initial and last name) and I almost daily get at least one form of "receipt" from a transaction someone made where they entered my email by mistake.

Sometimes I'm in a bad mood and I'll mark anything I see like that as spam partly because its frustrating and partly because I suspect a good number of these emails actually are spam masquerading as receipt/login/etc emails.

And I just don't have the energy to figure out which are legit or not.
I can tell in less than 5 words what Instagram or Whatsapp are for.

But today's Facebook? I could sarcastically say that they do lots of things but not a single one correctly.
> Grow a culture of collaboration by firing those unwilling to play along

I can see a misreading of the original. This is my understanding.
I read ant as aunt and was very confused, then realized what happened once opening the link.
"The problem in the U.S. was much the same problem we've always had: free trade became synonymous to opposition to government intervention. All the free trade bills in the U.S. invariably included funding for re-education and R&D to help manage dislocation and build competitive advantages, but they were meager financially and suffocated by neglect. And that's because these measures were considered "government intervention" and hedges to preserve "big government", which as well know as Americans (and, to a slightly lesser extent, everybody else in the Anglosphere) meant naivety, ineffectiveness, and corruption. So it's no surprise that the American public and politicians drifted toward a fundamentally broken policy situation."

But this hinges on the premise that employers are receptive to older retrained workers. In my life time I have never seen this, and I have long considered it to be one of the biggest lies in economics. This has never happened on a large scale, and is an academic theory. Whats more, this would only be possible with a some kind of glut of jobs. Starting at the bottom of another career hierarchy at the age of 40 is a complete disaster, you will be out-competed by 22 year olds who cost alot less, are easier to train, have less grievances about a low salary, are okay with the bottom rung, and do not have huge expectations. Even more than that, shifting X00,000 people from one career to another would flood the labor market and destroy wages. The whole thing makes literally no sense.
I live in the outage zone so i've been hearing some conspiracy theories.

Trying to get a govt bailout, diverting power to a big secret government project, or (here's a good one) prepping us for more outages so they can start taking people (specifically anti-zionists) in the night, Bolshevik-style. lol.
i feel like when covering from languages such as javascript to go, there should be quite a bit covered on preventing data races
>>This is the real reason behind's Ballmer's failure.

Yes, I am sure it had nothing to do with him lacking the basic vision one would expect in any tech CEO and saying idiotic things like "no one would buy such an expensive phone" (about the iPhone).

If you look like a buffoon, you act like a buffoon, and you talk like a buffoon...
They have very little incentive to fix the problem.
I haven't used Jenkins in 2 years, but before that I used the Groovy DSL plugin.

A job that would run that and create the other jobs.

Incidentally, a similar (but native and more streamlined) approach is taken by Buildkite: job that processes a DSL that then generates other jobs (could even be recursive if you like that sort of thing) [1]

[1] https://buildkite.com
There are any number of Web design failures which are traceable to either bad defaults or missing basic functionality. Standardisation on more of these elements, and maybe bisecting or further splitting current browser roles to (principally) textual content, commerce, multimedia, and applications, rather than cramming all four roles (poorly) into a single app, might help.
Url changed from https://sciencebeta.com/mens-ex-attitude/, which points to this.
> We're saying, we want, we're okay

By 'we', you mean the multinational corporations that write 'free-trade' treaties (that usually encompass much more than just tariff reductions). Because voters tend to not get much say (and sometimes not even senators!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Secr...
"Australian billionaire to fund Singapore subsea cable project"

https://www.power-technology.com/news/australia-singapore-po...

The Australia-Singapore Power Link (ASPL) project has been developed by Singapore-based company Sun Cable project is being developed by Singapore based company Sun Cable at an estimated cost of $14bn (A$20bn). With a storage facility based in Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory, the project will include a 10GW solar farm and a 20-30GWh storage facility which will transport 3GW of power to Singapore.

ASPL was given major project status by the Northern Territory Government in July 2019 and will begin producing power in 2027.

It sounds just this side of science fiction to me, but it will be exciting if the project actually goes forward as planned.
> However, we also know that the difficulties of typing these languages without special keyboard support have led to a variety of more English in ASCII language successors such as J/K/L.

The input language has nothing to do with the keyboard. How do you think people type foreign natural languages? This comes up again and again in programming-related online discussions - why is it so hard for people who program software every day to imagine that keyboard input is also mapped by software?

The real reason Iverson used ASCII for J is that in the early 1980s, you had to get an APL character video ROM (code page 907) for your terminal or PC (exactly the same case as for foreign languages). Obviously not a problem at the time for Macs or other computers that use bit-mapped fonts, and has not been a problem for PCs for the past 30 years.
It is easier if you use two fingers--one to "pick up" the icon or icon you want to move (you can grab a whole stack of them) and the other to navigate to where you want to be.
+1 for pass. Pass is conceptually simple, and some of it's negatives (It's hard to see who read which passwords) are actually positives (Assume every password a compromised account had access to is compromised)
What do you mean by "distribute trust"?
Well that "buffoon" trippled Microsoft's earnings and doubled profits. But let these new growth areas slide because of the antitrust suit.

If the market judged Microsoft by its earnings, it's stock would have been up. The internet, mobile was the blockchain and AI of the era.
Thanks. We've changed the URL above from https://sciencebeta.com/mens-ex-attitude/ to that link.
It's not like I have any numbers, but we have to remember that everyone uses a smartphone these days and a large portion wouldn't be able to even say if they're using iOS or Android.
Flywheels are acceptable replacements for batteries. I'm not sure if the Amish use them for energy storage, but the rest of us do.
when people start quibbling over words I like to point them to this feynman video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s

The idea that risk isn't a part of the discussion about why a company is laying off 40% of its work force doesn't seem like it has much merit.

The responses made sense, and they've been explained to you. You're just casting about trying to come up with some way to dismiss the other persons point while intellectualizing it for the HN audience. If we were on reddit your tone would be some passive aggressive wiffle waffle about experience or intelligence.

The tone might change based upon the site, but the inaneness of the person behind them doesn't.
These are monoids, not monads.
Sorry ya without context, I don't suppose my comment made sense.

I grew up in Idaho and went through a couple of recessions. Most of the TV/movies from that time like Family Ties and Ferris Bueller's Day Off portray it as prosperous, but it was really more like South Park.

My dad practiced dentistry for many years but due to some house fires and other setbacks, we didn't have money until I was about 15. So I grew up eating a lot of lamb, deer, elk, farm fresh eggs, etc that he got when he traded out dental work because nobody had much money.

So what I was trying to say is, real prosperity to me would look more like if the 80s and 90s had continued so the US still had its manufacturing base today. A bit more like how Germany has prospered.

Instead we have the appearance for prosperity for most, but the bottom income half of the US is really struggling right now with multiple jobs, high debts, and not nearly as strong of a social safety net as we had then. So I question why that is necessary when some people are doing so phenomenally well. To me, America lost its way after the dot bomb around 2000 and never really recovered. Maybe I'm reaching though, if I'm seeing conspiracies just because we can't find a discontinued connector, which I fully admit haha.
What's even more infuriating is when a company offers a discount for that. T-mobile offers a $5 discount (per line? I'm not sure, I don't use it) if you enable autopay. Of course, good luck disputing any charges you've automatically paid!
I've been working on using BERT for search, for research and training development, with not so great results.

Note the quote "when it comes to ranking results, BERT will help Search better understand one in 10 searches". This is because of the "keywordese" point they noted earlier in the article. Most searches are 1 or 2 words - there isn't enough to grab onto for meaningful ranking with short queries and a similarity function for longer text documents.

Also, try keeping the systems afloat to handle search like this. BERT is not practical to use for search results by anyone without the scale of a company like Google. You need to have a server farm of GPUs to translate all your documents into tensors - and then keep them around somehow! A document of 10k text will balloon to ~1MB when converted to a multitoken vector representation. BERT uncased has 768 features - thats 768 floats per token you need to keep around. If you compress it using PCA or averaging across tokens, you lose all the juicy context that you need for the matching and ranking. Also, there currently isnt a good way to keep this stuff around yet (though there are active projects ongoing to get this into Lucene [1],[2])

I think this is definitely a great achievement in NLP - but it needs breakthroughs in other areas to be useable by product teams implementing search, with any reasonably large content size.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10208 & https://github.com/castorini/anserini/blob/master/docs/appro...
[2] https://github.com/o19s/hangry
I think you are expressing the actual disconnect: "Everybody should program" means we need localized languages, "Programming is a Difficult Profession" means programmers really want to learn English to have access to StackOverflow and many other English only resources anyway so localized languages are not necessary.
Good point, I have never once felt "Wow, a new Microsoft product, can't wait to buy it!".

Instead it is usually more like "Oh shit, a new Mirosoft product, I hope I wont be forced to buy it to stay compatible".
Space Farmers Could Grow Crops in Lunar and Martian Soil, Study Suggests
Crypto.com Card Program Receives Green Light for Europe
> It's inconsistent on android

Inconsistency in Android is one of its selling features if you are in to that.
I'm a KDE user, I'd let you set the scrollbar to autohide (complete or partial) and the width of the deployed scrollbar and partially-hidden one too.
No you normally do not send the password to the server.
You can ask the user to enter the password when the application is openend.

Authentication is much easier when you use the GraphQL replication. There you are much more flexible on which data you return depending on which user is asking for it.
they knew it all along, but kept bs peddling(Taleb's term) anyway because everyone(even paul krugman) needs to eat
Puppeteer 2.0
Edit: I was wrong, never mind.
Because I'm trying to read off some details on a document I have open on the side while interacting with the menu and then it goes full screen and obscures everything.
> Those made-men (because they are exclusively of that gender) have each other’s backs.

Save the virtue-signalling, we don't need another Carly Fiorina, Marissa Meyer or Elisabeth Holmes.
Yee bois, this review is lit. (But not everything is very recent.)
Thats like driving in India in with a three wheeler taxi.
That's very interesting! If you have the time for it, you should consider experimenting with swapping in SpanBERT[1] instead of BERT in your usecase. They train on full length length segments instead of masked half segments (as in BERT). I suspect that this, besides the improvements that SpanBERT brings over BERT should enable you to feed in bigger chunks (more sentences) to the model before the averaging step, leading to fewer vectors to average and as a result, perhaps better clustering.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10529
>I cannot figure out why things have to change

How many promotions in your life did you get by not changing things? Or by doing the exact same thing as the guys before you did?
I checking out recommend http://amasci.com/ by the same author: Bill Beaty.

Site was made in 1994, and looks like it. My friends and I spend hours on here in high school reading about all his interesting science experiments, and trying some out ourselves.
It doesn't. It's an entirely separate protocol and flow. More enterprise and uses XML.
The v3 onion protocol [0] is supposed to provide better DDoS resistance than v2 [1] - haven't read up on the specifics though.

[0] https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/onionv3-hidden-service/

[1] https://darknetlive.com/post/cryptonia-market-countering-ddo...
Do you own a (mainstream) cellphone? If you do, then you're saying you don't care about phones being disposable. In fact, you handed over money and confirmed the company's thesis: You want a particular product at a particular price point, and you were willing to compromise your weakly held values of environmental sustainability.
I do not think that meteor will scale better then your GraphQL server with whatever database you want to have.
With meteor you are bound to a specific ecosystem which is often a pain. RxDB does only one thing, it is a client side database. Everything else in your stack is free to choose.
Feels close enough that I was able to read it. By context, I think I could learn a few German words this way.
Of course they were bláse about it, it didn't affect their livelihood one way or the other.

Do you get paid for saying fancy sounding things, or do you get paid because you did fancy sounding things?

Economists are all talk and no stones and they should be ignored unless they can demonstrate that their portfolio represents the ideas that they espouse.
> he lack of maintenance has lead directly to the fires.

Since they've been responsible for a number of fires in recent years, how are they not being fined or held accountable or for not properly maintaining their infrastructure?
Wasted vs. spent is simply a matter of perspective/semantics. From a sustainability standpoint it's totally wasteful. The idea that we could make a perfect product is also kind of silly. Consumer demand in this society is largely driven by novelty.
> Problem is, the state has shrublands and, grasslands and forests which historically have been prone to natural fires. Fires happen. People also like building and living in these areas. <

The rainy season in California is shrinking and becoming more erratic due to climate change. Temperatures in the fall are at record highs and winds are above average turning small/ manageable fires into unstoppable hellstorms that cover 10s of thousands of acres and travel at 20mph+.

We're 10+ years into this and PG&E has been allowed to increase their rates to mitigate fire risks, but instead of using that money to increase maintenance and modernize, PG&E cut big fat checks to shareholders.

Other power companies in similar areas such as SMUD haven't had similar fire issues because they haven't neglected maintenance.

PG&E management has failed the public by letting their infrastructure turn into a massive risk. They've failed their customers by delivering un-reliable & unsafe service. They've failed their shareholders by creating a massive-unrecoverable liability.

PG&E management needs to get replaced all the way to the board level.
I don't get why "Equitable rules to play by" is a concept so hard for everyone to understand.

The free market is about creating a level playing field. Globalization was shit because because it did not create a level playing field, it created a subsidy for "developing" countries, at the expense of "developed" ones.

Its hilarious that people think that somehow free markets and libertarians are responsible
Ask HN: Show Me a Fast React/Vue/Angular Site
Hi HNers!

Can someone point me to a fast non-trivial React/Vue/Angular website?

I don't mean hide-the-latency "fast". I mean, don't-waste-my-battery-or-bandwidth fast. I'd like to record a DevTools perf timeline and see < 100ms of total JS execution and < 500ms for full page load (excluding images/media).

By non-trivial I mean a real-world, deployed app/site (not demo/mvp). An e-commerce site would be ideal but anything like Github, Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

I'm asking because I've literally never encountered one; they all seem to load 500KB+ of js, make 200 HTTP requests and execute 1500ms+ of js during page load (on a desktop browser). Then I look at the DOM via `document.querySelectorAll("*").length` see there's only 1,000 total DOM nodes rendered.
Exactly right.

> Lord knows, you can't actually grab the scrollbar and navigate with the bloody thing.

I read those words while actually grabbing the scrollbar and navigating with the bloody thing.
This is the kind of search you see everywhere. 95% of queries I see for customers in most fields are only 1 or 2 words long (and they are typically a noun phrase).
Your first paragraph was precisely my point! But I guess now you're saying they've strayed from the beauty part recently too. I admit I don't know much about it, as I haven't used Apple stuff lately. (No particular reason on my part, just that the industry I'm in tends to keep pulling me toward Windows.)
RxDB is offline first. You can still query your data even when the user has no internet. Hasura will not make your app workable without a stable connection to the server.
I think you're right so we've de-notted the title above.
And it costs them nothing (except maybe a new book deal, so win win) to write the paper explaining why they were wrong.
Founder of Rally Rd explains how to create fractional ownership of unique assets
I have not looked into Coda yet, but have a few observations on the user / programmer divide.

To me, spreadsheets are just another programming paradigm. I have seen business users build impressive things using Excel (excluding here VBA). I'd even say that in terms of raw productivity (i.e., just in terms of business problems solved over time, without any consideration for maintainability etc), the spreadsheet paradigm is vastly superior to the regular textual programming paradigm – as long as the problem is simple enough. And most of normal business is dead simple.

As soon as the process or problem hits a certain complexity, the Excel solution becomes painful to use, understand and change.
I believe this is in part specifically fault of the tool - while Microsoft has been doing a great job in terms of power user features (Power Query, PowerPivot), they have apparently not been willing to extend the spreadsheet paradigm itself to meet the requirements we demand from business software, which is a pity and missed opportunity.

Secondly, what I have also observed is that most users, even users building complex workbooks, are not willing to make the jump to textual programming (e.g., VBA). I think programming in general requires a high level of frustration tolerance that most people are not willing to bring up except when they really have to (e.g., to use Excel, which is basically unavoidable in 99% of businesses).

To summarize, there is still room to come up with a system that makes building simple things as simple as Excel, while being flexible enough that it scales to meet production software requirements.