skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toggles, buttons, sliders, look like they could be on a white plastic physical device. Flat for sure but more skeuomorphic than macOS in its current state imo.
That's not necesarily true. They could store a full password hash and a hash of the 4th and 17th character separately.
I've worked in AWS for five years. I get paid, but the kind of knowledge in these pieces are by far the most valuable thing I've gotten from working there. I've been in it. I've used these principals. I've seen what happens to drive these recommendations first-hand. I've worked to design and build systems that follow and support these guidelines and principals.
Using the internet with connections that have 5ms latency is a far better experience than 100ms, especially with real time communications. Also, everyone should have symmetric connections, none of this 250mbps down and 3mbps up BS.
Number of nuclear reactors needed for the energy wasted by cryptocurrency mining
I'd guess Cloudflare:

$ nslookup -type=soa lihkg.com
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
lihkg.com
origin = kevin.ns.cloudflare.com
mail addr = dns.cloudflare.com
serial = 2032679273
refresh = 10000
retry = 2400
expire = 604800
minimum = 3600

Authoritative answers can be found from:
Yeah, I totally need your judgement on whether my choice is worthwhile. Hint: nope.
Has that really affected labor costs related to broadband rollout? We're still sticking wires up on poles or in the ground - from what I can tell by using the same machinery we have for decades now.
And why can cancer hide from my consciousness? If we are a single particle, we can't possibly interact with the others in the way we do - why is that one particle special. And if we are a gestalt, why is it that some of the parts are less important than others. Nerves nicely explain why we are more aware of our hands and lips than the action of our appendix - a singular atomic consciousness can't, and neither can an equally weighted gestalt.
VoIP on 100ms is not enjoyable.
It really helps with communications, and there’s just no reason not to since a symmetric connection is going to be fiber anyway, might as well beef it up for low marginal cost and make it a little future proof.
Those "mobs" are only ordinary people exercising their own freedom of expression online.

I think a more correct sentiment would be that even when there are governments that don't want to limit freedom of expression, multinational corporations will still oblige those governments and influential citizens that do.
Agreed. And the phenomenon is not exactly new. I played around with CGOL about 35 years ago, and although I was already a fan of s-expression syntax, I still thought CGOL was great for certain applications. It's cool to see Vaughan Pratt (who designed CGOL in 1973) in the bibliography of this article.

S-expression syntax seems to be very divisive. Every time I have introduced that syntax into various projects (since it's such an easy and clear solution for domain-specific languages) for the past couple of decades, I have met resistance because so many people are repelled by all those parentheses.
The current president isn't wishing for a pony. He has aggressively, unilaterally changed USA trade policy with respect to China. One might suspect his goals in this exercise. Still, if he can do this in pursuit of his idea of "fairness", then some other president, perhaps with the cooperation of Congress, could have done similar with the idea of penalizing some of the more odious behavior of the Chinese state.

That hypothetical president who cared about e.g. Tibet or the Uighurs couldn't have expected any popular intellectual support for that effort, however, since our popular intellectuals act largely to feather their own nests with Panglossian tributes to how wonderful TPP could have been.
Amazon really isn’t that prestigious. Only work there if they have a job that interests you.
What we know about software development, and why we believe it is true
“We Committed Copyright Infringement and Want to Be Sued by Disney”
Taking a government contract is not the same as politicizing code.
The ability to communicate with hundreds of millions of people in China who have nothing to do with this?
Couldn't Starlink benefit from relays so that receivers in non-cloudy/non-stormy areas could boost signals to cloudy areas?
I just did a little googling, and it appears that Firefox supports group policy settings that can cause it to use system root certs[1], so if it's not working, it may be because the domain administrators haven't bothered to support it.

1: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/f972ec60de7...
> "Countries that trade with each other don't make war with each other."

I'm pretty sure this was the prevailing thinking prior to World War 1. A large scale conflict would be so damaging on a human and economic level that most assumed the people in power would find away to stop a massive war from breaking out. Well, they were right about the first assumption, but very wrong about the second.
That certainly is a take.
I have young kids, and I've lately found myself experiencing a lot of anxiety about the various ways in which the randomness of the universe might harm them, or harm me and deprive them of a parent. Just reading "Live life qualitatively not quantitatively" gave me an instant, deep sense of calm. Thank you for sharing that.

I hope that your journey together is wonderful, no matter how long it is.
Depending on how far you're willing to take it, the game will let you take progressively more dark actions. Have you done anything to their corpses yet?
Modern cars are testing the limits of their computer hardware
S. 386: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
The same thing that happens when wired ISPs oversubscribe their infrastructure. Users get less than than theoretical maximum speed. Wireless infrastructure doesn’t inherently have this problem and wired infrastructure doesn’t inherently solve it. The bigger problem with wireless internet access is probably geographical constraints where neighboring sites can have drastically different quality depending on what is between them and the closest tower.
Are you implying another candidate has written major legislation that passed??
Or are you just singling out Sanders?
How is that any more readable than deobfuscated js?

func1500(func3444(var7, var9), var7)

or more likely:

gw(kl(s,i),s)
The Foreign Bodies That Got Stuck in Bodies
To you. Peoples' politics are, definitionally, subjective.
This is a crucial point. Status quo sycophants tell us to "take politics outside," but what they mean is "take YOUR politics outside, and make more room for MINE."

Politics is money and power. Tech is money and power. Tech is politics. And anyone who says otherwise is trying to undermine your power by obscuring this reality.
> These people are missing the point

Maybe not.

If data binding, dynamic markup, reactivity, etc, were baked into browser we'd save a ton of kbs and CPU cycles.
I have another way of dealing with road rage. I am overly empathetic and give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Someone cuts me off in traffic? Whoa, they must be in a hurry to take a risk like that. I wonder if they have a very important meeting.
What you’re describing as “basic competence”, which is removing viruses from a PC in this case, would exclude 99% of users.
FWIW there are other people entering the low-orbit satellite constellation internet business (though, still big companies -- but better than a single big company).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)#Kuiper_System...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb_satellite_constellation
I was always impressed by Berlin's subway. Some parts of it are very accessible, with the rails literally 20ft below the street. For example: https://youtu.be/42EV-9G9vjo?t=230

Also, no fare gates (there are occasional ticket checks on the trains, and heavy fines for non-payers).
Lisp machines didn't go away because of some conspiracy, they just stopped making sense. The vast majority of the benefit was that since they ran on (and were compared to other) 1980s minicomputer hardware without instruction caches, pulling the interpreter into microcode meant that the interpreter's overhead wasn't competing with data fetches on the von Neumann memory bus.

Instruction caches (and JITs to a degree) solve the same problem in much more general ways. That's why Azul went out of their way to create an appliance to run Java code with custom CPUs, and ended up with a pretty standard RISC for the most part.

All of that applies to WASM machines too.
This [1] is just one of many sources you can use for changing your app behavior, or null routing / firewalling. It is well maintained.

[1] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
We need to declare all speech religious speech. Politics is religion. One religion currently has the upper hand, and it's dividing people.
not to me.

does 'he eats faster than I [do]' seem wrong to you? it's a different problem ('than' as conjunction vs 'than' as preposition)[1] but to similar efect.

[1] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/than-i-v...
> 1) This doesn't deal with botnets and other compromised devices. Would you want your ISP to terminate your service if you (or worse, your roommate) got a virus?

2) This would require ISPs to do even more invasive monitoring of all traffic to be in compliance. They'd essentially have to DPI everything, or even break TLS between you and your destination, to know if your traffic was malicious. No thank you.

3) Many ISPs simply don't care. A lot of malicious traffic comes from countries where ISPs will just look the other way for a bit of cash. I suppose we could come up with a system that depeers bad ISPs, but this would have tons of collateral damage to innocents as well as reintroducing the exact centralization we're trying to avoid (where's the "master list" of bad ISPs to depeer?)

Whatever the solution to bad actors online is, it isn't ISPs.

Yes, I would like it if I had something that unbeknownst to me is harming others (beyond some de minimis) through their service, and per their contract, they certainly have the right refuse my service until the condition is rectified. Anyone relying on my service will either suffer or be owed something, by me. Note that this isn't some arbitrary shuttering of some service. This is a harmful activity being blocked from harming and is spelled out in the contract clauses.

You make it sound as if this stuff is so hard, yet here we are discussing this in a comment section of a post by a person who doesn't seem to be employing highly-sophisticated tools in identifying the bad behaviors. All he would have to do in my dream world is show this behavior to his (contracted) service providers, and them on up the chain.

But notice that this option is not available, thus the only option is to use a centralized provider that is effectively big enough to completely absorb a huge percentage of bad activity. He even comments that owners of networks are only voluntarily providing responses and actions to these activities. They could just as well not be bothered and what then?

If the ISPs don't care and people who don't want this traffic on their networks disconnect from them, this is bad? And, yes, whole countries may have problems connecting anywhere. Mind you, even those countries had some reason to connect to the World Wide Web (itself with a mountain of even just protocol requirements) in the first place, and it likely has to do with some minimal amount of trade with the outside world. To continue this trade communications they will have to provide a service that others are willing to connect to.
Indeed, but I also count that as a support ticket!
Chime Raises $500M at a $5.8B Valuation
I share your opinion. I never went to a restaurant for a food alone. Environment, people working there, other guests are very important to me. This anonymous food delivery business is somehow scary. It got worse when I saw article about container kitchens in London: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d... I definitely don’t want such anonymous food, especially when it’s preparation conditions belong solely from people working there.
It absolutely is. Government is the reification of politics, and technologies facilitate this reification–or don't.
I am all for maintaining large true wilderness. Even so, I think it would be great to have many more "little community forests". My guess is that such forests would improve the diversity of all animal life the size of (say) a hawk and smaller. I also guess that the best path to a medium-sized community forest in an area without one is to start with a "little" one.
Good. Javascript needs to die. It was far simpler to build performant multi-device UIs 15 years ago than it is today. Building UIs natively on iOS and Android is so much simpler than building for the web.

Technical question:
1.) What is the speed of WebAssembly on iOS WebKit and Android WebView?
2.) Is it feasible to write an entire app UI in something like Qt and target WebAssembly?
3.) Android, iOS, Windows versions of the app are Qt apps natively or possibly through the device's WebKit.

Is this possible today? Is there a better UI library than Qt for this?
For the gaming Niche, twitch is likely larger than youtube.
Odd to find advertisements not being mentioned. That seems to be the goto for publishers. Excellent list!
I have an invisible illness, after seeing more physicians that I can count. The conclusion appears to be some neurological issues with connective tissue problems which result in chronic pain and fatigue most likely caused by antibiotic I took 7 years as symptoms started right after my allergic reaction.

I got married after symptoms began. It was not easy but life doesn't stop. I'm still coming to terms and searching for something that works meds/supplements/physical therapy. However, I don't considered myself disabled even though this is quite limiting and I require more rest.

I think once one accepts your alignment and find ways of still being a member of the society, one will have a much better luck dating. I think the depression that these problems bring is just really hard to deal with and affects people around us.
Neighborhoods of San Francisco
GoAccess is a modern log based analyser. I’ve just deployed it analysing logs coming out of varnish cache (on two servers, using syslog to keep log data the same across machines) for a client. It works well, no additional client side code or cookies or changes of any kind required on the (web) application layer.
I've never seen anyone's banning get cheered. On the contrary, I see the locked account person get cheers and welcomes back when they return, elevated as a hero, comradery strengthened, usually on a different account, abandoning the old, meaning a good percentage of twitter's accounts are stagnant.
I agree that you need to leave straight away. Likely the team lead is threatened by you and trying to find a reason to get rid of you.

I would turn in my 2 weeks. If asked why I was leaving I would just give the standard fluff about new opportunities etc etc.

Talking about the manager is a gambit. If it succeeds, maybe they make your life there even worse by confronting your manager.

If it fails, then you look petty and disagreeable and maybe even get walked out the door.

Never burn a bridge, just in case. Leave on good terms, but leave ASAP.
How about this framing: are non-coastal residents supposed to subsidize the costs of sea level rise and climate change damage for future coastal residents?

It's shitty to hang people out to dry, but at the same time, people MUST move in the above example. Coastal residents can't do whatever they want and expect others to share the costs.
As many times as I've used breadboards, I wondered where the name came from. Thanks for sharing this! Wikipedia seems to agree and has a few example images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard
You place a lot of faith on the ability of US-based companies to resist control by the US Government.
MemSQL 7.0
W3C endorsing it has nothing at all to do with whether or not it is here to stay.
Complicated lists on the web are really bad. If you have a lazily populated table, it breaks the browser's Find, it typically breaks the scroll bar positioning, there's visible holes while it populates, scrolling is janky slow, the scroll bar will jump unexpectedly.

This is one place where HTML does not give enough primitives for a quality library-based solution.
Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
What we really need is an A.I. nonprofit who’s only job is to abuse to privacy of powerful people until they insist on legislation.
Fun fact: confiscating the total wealth of all US billionaires (accumulated over a lifetime), would fuel government for less than six months.
Wow so interesting comparing the comments in this thread vs Reddit. I guess since the HN audience is generally older, they tend to have a more conservative take on this than myself and my peers.
That remains to be determined.
MIT researchers use shadows to create a video of what happens off camera
When hermit crabs confuse plastic trash for shells, ‘avalanche’ of death happens
It would be more correct to add “was” since it happened in the past (the act of leaving it blank). Not necessary at all because “left blank” is already past tense.
There are a few "restaurants" near me that don't have any brick-and-mortar presence. The food they offer suspiciously looks like what you could get at your grocery's frozen food section. I'm not a fan of this model as I've seen it so far. You don't need much, you can have the Domino's style food counter and a stool (aka don't eat here, go outside), but not having a real storefront rubs me the wrong way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...

Clarification: one of the journalists
The report seems to deal mainly with freedom of expression by journalists, members of NGOs, activists, widely read bloggers and other members of the gadfly class.

I wonder whether freedom of expression by the average citizen is decreasing or increasing. They certainly have more opportunity to express their views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
Sooo what the US has been doing for years?
The difference seems to be the ability / willingness / enjoyment of adapting.

Honestly, I think that goes for all jobs.
> all in a single file

It's not really an advantage, is it? Having everything mixed up into one giant file just makes the code much harder to make sense of.
Boston's light rail system (Green Line) is built in a very utilitarian, un-ostentatious way. The second it becomes feasible, the trains emerge from tunnels and ride above ground. Many of the stops are nothing more than a painted stretch of pavement. I've always found it ugly, but perhaps there was wisdom in keeping it simple.
Reasonable question.

Until the javascript has loaded (a single cacheable javascript file: https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js ), the browser can't lay out the resources on the page (images for example).

If the browser rendered the page before layout, it would likely look pretty bad. Then when the javascript arrived, the document would layout again moving elements around. This is typically referred to as the "Flash of Unstyled Content" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content) and is considered by some to be a negative user experience. Many web pages outside AMP take a similar approach to hiding the content until the layout has completed.

The 8 second CSS animation is only present as an "escape hatch" in case the javascript never loads. The specific value was chosen as a time that probably indicates the javascript will never load. Note that if javascript is disabled entirely, the page is rendered immediately via the <noscript> tag. There has been a discussion around changing the 8 second time to something shorter
( https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/22543 ), though it could probably be renewed.
If you genuinely don't think you are conscious, then I have nothing to say.

If you are making a roundabout point of how we can't know if other people are conscious, then my argument about solipsism stands.
Using "farmer" as a proxy for "lives in an area too rural to get non-satellite internet" is going to be an extremely poor estimate.

For one thing, the rural population of the US is, depending on your definition, somewhere between 15 and 20%. [1]

For another, a lot of farmers and rural areas get perfectly good cable internet and even fiber.

[1] https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/about-us/definition/index....
Apologies in advance for the harshness of my tone, but I nearly spit up
my coffee...

> Students in elementary algebra don’t know what parabolas are.

The mind boggles. Have you never shown them a sliced cone? (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_section )

I mean, they know what parabolas are: they live on a planet, with
gravity. Every ball, every jump: parabolic motion, yeah?

"Michael Jordan exerts his muscular power to enter a low-altitude earth
orbit..." ~some Nike commercial in the 90's.

They know what parabolas are, you just have to connect the dots.
What is abysmal with the best selling electric cars in the world?

> The Tesla Model 3 in 2019 has seen nearly 3 times more sales than the second best selling plug-in vehicle (EV) in the world, China’s top selling BAIC EU-Series.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/05/tesla-model-3-13-percen...

SpaceX has now proven they can reuse first stages repeatedly, when sending spacecraft to orbit. Like no other organisation has done. They have 10 reusable first stages, some which have flown 3-4 times. Hardly abysmal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/cores#wiki_.2810.29_fli...