skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your list of "Bed, Office chair, Keyboard and mouse, Monitors, Cooking basics like ... a pan or two." (all except footwear) aligns very well with my list of "things that don't fit on a plane".

Unfortunately my life isn't stable enough to invest in something that I can't carry with me when I have to move. It's luxuries like these that I've often had to go without entirely (having a chair and desk is so nice compared to using a laptop on a mat on the floor). If immigration were easier, I'd have already settled down, but instead it's been 8 years and counting living like this. I really hope my pending resident visa application comes through this time, so I can start investing in things like those.
I've wanted to dive into this book for a long time. For anyone who's taken the dive, is it worth the time it takes to read it?
Correction: 16-year-old post. No idea about age of poster.
AFAIK it is still true, but this bug is specifically with upgrading. Basically all the testing occurs with an empty profile; migrations are specifically undertested.

Also note that this bug only affected WebViews and not Chrome. Not sure how testing of migrations compares between the two.
It is pretty common. People are afraid to talk about it, so they generally won't bring it up.
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144
On CLR we moved our server from server GC to client GC. It reduced efficiency, but fixed the problem we were having with long GC pauses. So yes, and it depends what you want to do.
The risk that was being discussed in reference to Ontario was not the risk of meltdown, it was the risk the plant would blow way past the promised cost.

On that metric, we know renewables are far less risky. They typically come in within 10% of the bid.
I understand how this can seem pedantic, but when people lead with swipes like that, it subtly cues the discussion towards disrespect and even aggression. Maybe they don't land that way with you, but the spectrum of the audience here is pretty broad, and it's best to just omit things that predictably activate major subsets. Given that such remarks are cheap and mechanical, adding no information, it improves the signal/noise ratio to take them out anyhow. To me it seems clear how much better the GP comment reads without the first bit—how much more visible the actual point becomes.

Emotional color is welcome in HN comments, but reflexive indignation is a different thing. For the sake of the commons here, we all need to work on containing the petty anger that flares up instantly and is all too easy to vent onto the internet.
Russia is a malevolent authoritarian regime. Russian companies (like Chinese companies) have no power to resist the dictates of their authoritarian governments. I don't trust anyone completely, but democratic countries where government authority is checked/constrained by the people and competing forces are far more trustworthy.
Pretty much every company has special amenities for executives.
Switched to Affinity, Photo, Designer and Publisher are pretty awesome and a true replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Switched 1.5 years ago, never looked back and saved a lot of money in the process. There are a few things it doesn’t have, but its impressive nonetheless. The devs are very committed to speed and anti bloat.
Are you the owner of the Amazon prime or are you "under" someone else's Prime account? If the latter, then you don't get Prime video.

But it might be different with the Expanse in the UK.
If it were the US OR China I might agree. But I don't think we can isolate both at the same time. Maybe with trump sabre rattling, the Chinese will get on board. Who knows
Market making is indeed a useful activity, in isolation. And market making is indeed technically what HFT companies do.

However, pouring unspeakable amounts of money, watts and person-hours into completely unnecessary and wasteful infrastructure just because emergent properties of a system mean that billion dollar companies and their owners can make a lot of money by being a picosecond faster than each other in an eternal battle is of extremely questionable utility.

What exactly do we as a society get in exchange?
I would guess the same. Go's GC is narrowly tuned towards server workloads with pretty low latency. That means batched workloads (such as the Go compiler itself!) is hurt by GC.

Here's a nice presentation transcript that summarizes the design decisions behind Go's GC: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote And as you can see, it's basically entirely driven by low latency, but not necessarily high throughout.

Another point to consider besides GC is that Java at least has JIT which really benefits hot paths; Go does not.
Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year??

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...
Concise Server-Wide Causality Management for Eventually Consistent Data Stores [pdf]
I believe its the current objective to produce a lightroom alternative.
This is a whole-program transformation though, it doesn't seem to be possible to make it modular. Unless you manage to map some module-specific dispatch table whenever you're running code from that module - in a way that cannot easily be subverted by exploit code! Not sure how to do this however.
"Just tried it now on a few different sites."

Which sites?
US, no dead keys. I do have a UK physical layout though, but aside from < and \ everything is in the same place so alt's and escape's keycodes shouldn't have changed.

The symbols as they are printed on my keyboard matches what Wikipedia calls the Linux US layout[1], but I'm pretty sure I bought this in the Netherlands and an ordinary Logitech K200 will not have custom Linux prints on it, so I'm a bit confused. There also exists a Dutch layout with the same physical keys but a different keymap[2], so that's not it.

Trip down memory lane: until Vista, Windows in Dutch shipped with the Dutch and US keyboard layouts both enabled (US was the default) and ctrl+shift as switching hotkey. People would randomly get plusminus symbols when they tried to type a colon because they had accidentally switched to the Dutch layout, which was printed on exactly nobody's keyboard. It happened so often that people would just roll with it, and I think it was generally understood among the heavier computer users that plusminus was supposed to be a colon. Sometimes, someone would reply to such messages: "press ctrl+shift and try the colon again". That person was then thanked profusely. Those were the days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...

[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toetsenbord_(computer)#/media/...
We have so little understanding of basically anything about the brain or mental health issues, it's the next big frontier in medicine.
This is a massive oversimplification.

The old paper journalism business "prioritize[d] content that generates views, rather than good reporting" all the time. It was called "yellow journalism", it incited the Spanish-American War, and it was the business model of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. In other words, if you are an excellent journalist, you get a prize named after the guy who founded and ran the Gilded Age equivalent of Buzzfeed.

Each US city used to have maybe dozens of newspapers of varying quality and bias. (This is similar to the UK newspaper landscape--in fact, the lower end of that landscape includes the Daily Mail, which translated its tabloid journalism model rather seamlessly to the era of clickbait.) What started killing print journalism was radio and later TV journalism, which were far less substantial (because they lacked the information density of the written word) but far more appealing (because of the ease of consumption and the stimulation of sound and video). This is what culled the vast newspaper markets down to the city-wide monopoly or duopoly system. And because the remaining newspaper readership consisted of the more literate and invested members of the population, print journalism briefly had more journalistic value.

Then cable news disrupted the broadcast networks, talk radio disrupted the editorial oligopoly of the major newspapers and TV news, and finally the internet broke the whole thing wide open. Including the glorious period of time when "blogs" were considered a serious threat to "legitimate journalism".
You get the latest version you subbed to. So if you subbed last in 2018, you get that version. If resubbing j. 2019, the 2019 version. Also every year the price goes down, so you pay less and less.
It is illegal to offer a security for sale that you have no intention of selling. I'm pretty sure the way they make money is to flash out orders and see if there is a response for the now unavailable security, allowing them pricing signals they wouldn't otherwise have. The basic solutions people offer are often of the theme "require the order to live long enough for others to actually trade on it".
At around the 0:15 mark, two overlays come on screen, creating an open column in the middle and two horizontal channels at the top left and bottom right. I noticed that I was seeing both options: yellow lines moving horizontally across the top left, turning into downward-moving red and green, then transforming again to yellow as they "turned the corner" at the bottom channel.

I wonder if those horizontal spaces will help you see the yellow.
.NET Core 3.0 Kestrel Poor Throughput with Newtonsoft.Json
I used to use an Ergodox Infinity that I built from a kit. Since then I've moved to the Model 01 from https://keyboard.io

Why? I find the thumb clusters way better, I feel like they're just a bit too far away on the ergodox keyboards. That, and the shape of the keys and the curve of the stagger are better IMO.

The downside is you can't use any keycaps because they're unique to this keyboard.
Useful web portal for tech enthusiasts. Menu in upper left corner
80-100 questions a years seems WAY too high. Maybe I'm in the wrong industry, but I'm a working professional on embedded linux systems and I find I only need to ask a question maybe 3 times per year. I consume probably 500 answers per year though.
The guy sitting next to me at work uses and Erogox with blank keys. He's otherwise normal.
The desire to have fewer moving parts.
What amazes me is the amount of money dumped into standard rectangular keyboards, with zero ergonomics.
Italian City Evacuates 54,000 People to Defuse World War II Bomb
It's fundamentally difficult to compare them, because the features of the language itself change the workload the GC faces in a typical program. For example, Java boxes almost all values, so can't store very much on the stack. That means that conventional Java programs (typically) generate many more short-lived heap allocations than Go programs.

For more, see the excellent blog post here: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
Oh yeah, the Wave. Forgot about that one because I really don't care much for curved layouts. Too many years typing on straight rows for this old man.
On your first point, the idea that genetics influences behavior is not discredited.

On your second point, what's wrong with eugenics? Even if it is wrong, who decides what knowledge falls into that category of inevitably leading to bad things? Do we need to ask the pope?
Agreed. This is word-for-word stolen from the NYT. Worse, the article's by line credits "Denton Staff Contributor". This is a massive copyright violation.
Except the bed is contributing to spine health, what is a plain non-ergonomic keyboard contributing to? Carpal Tunnel?
I chose iOS because its UX is simple and responsive. Apple’s smartphones offer a much friendlier UX for people new to technology.

It’s simplicity was what helped my parents transition to the digital age considering they grew up in dirt-poor rural villages and did not get to use smartphones until their early 60s.

As for me, I got one so I could teach them how to use the OS, but now I’m considering switching to Android because I don’t have a Mac, Android phones have caught up in quality, and I’m getting sick of Apple’s unnecessarily restrictive ecosystem.

Also, I’m kind of salty that they removed the 3.5mm jack.
@dang and co: The old title with “things I won’t work with:” is both the name of a series HN is familiar with and presenting in TFA as the category the post was made under; perhaps it should be returned?
Agreed. That statement is one of those catty oft repeated things we are supposed to take as gospel for some reason.

Personally: I spend ALL DAY typing. Configurations, code, documentation, tutorials, arguments for doing things one way or another, user stories for work, chatting with my coworkers, running cli commands.

I see a huge difference in my productivity between myself and my peers partly due to my faster text input and editing skills.
At least some of Jetbrains' offerings are open source. If you have security concerns, you may be able to alleviate some of them by your own examination.

I'd also encourage you to consider separating your concerns about the Russian government and individuals living in Russia, just as you might other governments and their citizenry.
Yaji
This is an interesting article on the topic:

https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-part-2-1c8...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5j7phw/modern_garba...

> "Go: 67 ms max, 1062 pauses, 23.6 s total pause, 22 ms mean pause, 91 s total runtime

> Java, G1 GC, no tuning: 86 ms max, 65 pauses, 2.7 s total pause, 41 ms mean pause, 20 s total runtime"

What I got from this is that Go has faster GC pauses at the cost of throughput (i.e. more pauses resulting in higher total pause time).

The new JVM Shenandoah GC also makes this tradeoff by adding another layer of indirection ("Brooks forwarding pointer") which has a throughput performance cost but gives you really low GC pauses.
I guess AI Dungeon 2 sort of does this, though it's more like an advanced chatbot in the guise of a text-based adventure game, rather than an actual text-based adventure game.
Secret data found in 14% of 156 random images on ebaumsworld.com
One Hundred Memes That Defined the Decade
I like Rust as much as the next guy, but currently Rust (and Go for that matter) binaries are comparatively enormous (compared to C or C++, i.e. compared to systemd).

For comparison: ripgrep (Rust) is >2 MB stripped, GNU grep is <200k stripped.

I have not looked at systemd in a while, but I'd be surprised it systemd in total is not smaller than the Rust runtime, which would leave your minimal subset larger than the original.

So maybe you meant something other than code size here, but using words like "minimal" and "subset" feel a bit (unintentionally, probably) misleading to me.

I'm sure the Rust people will at some point find a way to reduce the footprint of the runtime. Currently they have other, more pressing goals.

Personally, I wrote my own init system. The PID 1 process is a 10k statically linked binary. Resident memory size is 24k on one of my AMD64 Linux production servers. That is what I think could rightfully be called a minimal subset.
One costs way more money. And Im being serious.
We tend to remove names of series, as well as names of sites and other repetitive markers from titles, in the interest of keeping things unpredictable. An unpredictable HN is a good HN.

The fact that this is a "Thing I Won't Work With" instalment shows up immediately in both the article and the comments, so the information is only one hop away. Also, the article being at #1 is a strong clue that the content is interesting to more than just chemistry specialists. It's generally good for HN if not everything reveals its secrets right away, and readers have to work a little (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). When you have to do a tiny bit of work before getting the dopamine hit of pattern-matching, it seems to put the brain in a slightly less predictable state.

Before we changed the title, the thread was mostly about the series, not the specific article. That's poorer for discussion quality, which gets more predictable and less varied as topics get more generic. (For lots of explanation of that phenomenon, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

If anyone wants to read (a lot) more about title changes on HN, some recent things are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617954 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573.
As others have pointed out, if they weren't distributing source and passing on the license, this is a blatant copyright violation, and what they were (still are?) doing is illegal.

If you're at all interested in doing anything about it, copyleft.org has a bunch of useful resources.
Apple has been selling laptops with broken keyboards for years, not to mention all of the other problems caused by insufficient cooling.
Infamous, and a more accurate description might be that discussions about git are well-known for quickly descending into discussions about whether or not it's intuitive and whether or not that matters since you use it every day you'll soon get it and no longer care that much how intuitive it is anyway.
Seems more of an antisemite rather than white supremacist per se. Didn't publish any manifestos either. But I'll allow it.

Still, that's very few events, which supports my point. It's basically a more potent "think of the children" trojan horse that routinely gives the government even more power (and potential for abuse) through harebrained and ineffectual laws. See e.g. the current FISA abuse scandal where the FBI _falsified the supporting documentation, and knowingly supplied fake documentation to the court_ to spy on a presidential campaign. Had it been you or me they spied on, nobody would even know.
> A second ethical issue with studies with mice is that often the unfortunate phd student tasked with dispatching the mice will not have been taught any way to do so and will have to try to come up with something on the spot. This can be quite traumatic for both parties.

uhhhhhh are you sure about that?? This strikes me as a flagrant violation of policy. Animal studies are heavily regulated.

In my experience, (and mind you I've only ever worked adjacent to animal labs, not directly in them) there is always a canister of CO2 and a euthanization chamber on standby in experiments where there is a risk of injuring the mice.
I kind of wish we had a format that was more readable than JSON, with whitespace instead of brackets, but then I start wishing for references and things like that, and realize I've arrived at YAML, which is nobody's notion of a good idea.
This is awesome, but not sure why pressing o / O on mac (catalina) doesn't open anything.
Mercedes-Benz and Bosch are testing self-driving taxis in San Jose
Not in visual mode.
Here's an idea: free to read and answer questions, but $0.10 to ask questions. This would eliminate a huge chunk of low-effort content by making the amount of friction to ask a question higher than the effort required to ask your TA or RTFM (or textbook, in the case of high school and CS 101 students).
> So looking back, it was not a single thing but a lot of small things done right over a year.

That was almost exactly the same case for me and what I posted a few hours before this as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795979

It seems like the scenario where one specific hack works unbelievably well is much less common (though more desirable) than just doing everything 1%-5% better.
That's the most succinct quick reference I've found on this (I've always had trouble digesting the css-tricks article). Have you thought about making a similar cheatsheet for Grid?
> If you are trying to sell a whole paper, you need a mix of content to attract all the readers. Once you have all the sports fans in your area buying your paper, you aren't going to get more by adding more sports articles. You need to make sure all the areas are covered.

This also depends on how much competition you have. If there are maybe half a dozen competing newspapers, outrageous gossipy headlines and perhaps the promise of a nude woman on page 3 will sell an entire newspaper to a specific target market towards which you can tailor your advertising. Another newspaper can make lots of money by targeting a different market segment.

This is how clickbait works, too. Buzzfeed, Huffpo, Brietbart, and the Daily Mail could have all been paper newspapers that someone would buy in a competitive enough newspaper market. One of them is!
It's not the bandwidth per se, so much it's the continuous attention cost spent on keeping that bandwidth going.

Better tactile feedback and more reliable input means I don't have to constantly multitask half a task worth of attention onto making sure the input I think I'm doing went off as intended, which makes it easier to concentrate on the main task, which reduces the build up of fatigue, which reduces the rate at which the cost of mental effort increases throughout the day.

Which is not to mention things like the chance of getting hand cramps from the additional tension there caused by interacting with a less reliable keyboard, and by the tendency to use excess input force in attempt to get strokes through more consistently.
You could say that about any tool, of course you have to spend some time to understand how to use it safely and effectively.

'for a new person, it's almost impossible to get anything done with a table saw'
Why trade wars don't work – Econlib
a small percentage of the population can avoid having kids and work a "support role", that's not a new thing. We even codified some of that with priests, monks and nuns. Overall though having kids is the "normal" thing to do and most people do it.
I don’t care about technical qualities, for me I find hemp cloth to be far more comfortable to wear. Softer on the skin, longer wearing, easier to wash and iron.

I go out of my way to get hemp clothing, especially when the options are cotton/plastic blends.
> Does anybody know the author of the article?

You know this article is on his website, don't you? His name is the domain name.

https://ionutbalosin.com/about-me/

> is/was he also a coder

Seems unlikely anyone would be writing an article about Java GC, including having coded up benchmarks, without being able to code.
I have an UHK now and love it so much that I bring it back and forth to work everyday. Before the UHK I had a MS Sculpt and was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to get used to the UHK so I used Karabiner to set up a mod later and pretrained myself for a couple of weeks before pulling the trigger. Once I got the UHK the learning curve wasn't bad at all. For people who maybe tried a split keyboard and couldn't deal with it I would recommend the UHK since it's mostly the same as a regular keyboard.
It seems to me that there's something wrong with medicine, but I haven't quite figured it out yet.

My recent submission [0] was about how the system defaults to expensive treatments that are marginally effective, and that doctors frequently have no ability to provide what patients actually need.

My one grandfather died soon after his pacemaker was replaced - the wounds from his IVs became infected. I like to say that when he heard the doctor ask him if wanted his pacemaker replaced, he said to himself "this is my chance": If not for the surgery he certainly would have lived many more months while the battery gave out...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864