skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data point of 1, but mine is as fast as anything. On my 7 year old desktop, upgraded from 7 to 10, its near instant. But given almost anything can hook into that menu (i.e. I have winrar, vscode, treesize, etc) it probably comes down to what you have running.
How can we verify that he doesn't contribute to the codebase? Are there some git logs or something we can look through?
A powered off Dell laptop is not nearly as fast as a TRS-80 Model 4.
Yes, native DO snapshots are used. I tested with droplets up to 100 GB in occupied disk size and the snapshot required over 1 hour to be ready. For volumes, the time is lower.

Unfortunately, this is a limitation for most of the cloud providers.
Point of sale systems are painfully slow with a mouse. Touchscreens are ok, but the old text-based POSes were ugly but super fast.

When my beta testers learn about keyboard navigation in PhotoStructure, it's so much faster than a mouse, and it's mostly just cursor keys, so it's not hard to remember.
It also has a large permanent gutter, can't successfully fullscreen an image, can't switch images while zoomed (really common lately but still dumb), resizes to some third size if you double click on it twice(??), and loses its zoom state if you switch desktops.

Seriously the worst image viewer I've ever seen.
Let me know if I can help with anything. Thanks!
> If you are seller fulfilled prime, then you are not paying Amazon for fulfillment.

That's where my question comes from.

If you're seller fulfilled prime, you're eating the cost of 2-day free shipping without a cut of the $119/yr prime membership fee. Then why would you offer 2-day free shipping only to prime members? It doesn't make sense. Why not offer 2-day free shipping to everyone including those who are not prime members?
I wonder which algorithms are most easily generalised to three or more dimensions. Also what would be the best way to visualise and navigate a 4d maze? I can imagine one where the maze structure changes as you go forwards or backwards in time, and in each cell you may or may not be able to time travel. The number of time coordinates wouldn't have to be very large to make this fiendishly difficult.
Define everything. A lot of things were way slower in 1983.
The integers HAVE fewer subsets than the reals!
Cantor's theorem tells us that the power set of any set has more elements than said set. It's also well known that the reals have the same cardinality as the power set of the integers.

Therefore, |P(R)| > |R| = |P(N)| > |N|, so the power set of the reals has more elements than the power set of integers.

The continuous hypothesis is the belief that no cardinal exists between |N| and |P(N)|. My previous argument fails if we pick two sets A and B, such that |A| < |B| < |P(A)|.
He's actually teaching a class that I'm in now and I just asked him! He says writing a book like that is in his plans when he has some downtime
FTC warning on buying internet connected smart toys
Ah, enabling TLS for access using only an IP address is a great point, thanks.
I remember being able to type faster than the machine could keep up an an old Mac. (Maybe a Mac plus?).

I couldn't type up handwritten notes reliably, because half a page in, I would fill up the buffer and characters would get dropped.
> It's a frustrating situation because intelligence agencies obviously do need to keep secrets

Or do they? I mean, it's not that there can not be advantages to doing so, but then the same can be said about torture, about killing "dangerous" people without a trial, about censorship, ..., or in short: There can be advantages to any of the things that authoritarians like (as long as they themselves aren't the target, obviously).

But still, we have recognized that we are better off as a society if we make all those things illegal, because the good that comes from them is outweighed by far by the bad. Maybe we should come to that same conclusion about "state secrets"? Maybe we should realize that they are inherently incompatible with democracy, and that having them damages democracy so much that we would be better off accepting the risks of not having "state secrets"? Or, to at least reconsider how far they can go/how they can be used? Like, I dunno, maybe you can have state secrets, but not for longer than three years, and you can not convict someone based on secrets? I don't claim to know what the right balance would be, just throwing out random ideas, but my point is that it seems to me that the damage done by the concept of state secrets warrants reconsidering whether they are actually worth it.
I've never seen a self checkout machine with a mouse.
Not until close to the end (right after where I stopped reading, turns out). He still has some hardline views that I think drastically oversimplify the landscape, but apparently doesn't think mice are completely useless.
I seem to recall that F1 and F2 had some sort of hard wired functions (that were printed on my keyboard) but I don't remember which they were...
It's not a construct because it's not a real number. There's no objective definition or accepted test. It's made up by whoever is talking about it.

> "if you cannot afford to pay a wage that enables your employees to comfortably live, you likely should not exist, find another business"

What's "comfortable"? Is this the magic and subjective livable wage again? Who are you to tell everyone else what they should be comfortable with?

Regulation isn't that simple. Not everyone agrees that the government controlling pay is "protecting the people" and many would rather have the freedom to make their own choices. It's purely academic thinking that simply raising wages fixes everything. It often does little but raise costs while also removing opportunities. How many goods are purchased when income goes to zero? How many social programs will they need then?

It's easy to say that businesses should close because of your moral attitude about a subjective number, but do you realize it affects the very people you claim to be protecting? Have you ever worked a min wage job or talked to people who do? Affordability and cost of living have nothing to do with wages and are rarely ever fixed with a min wage.
Remode: An emoji sys-info for decent users and a decent monitor for sysadmins
If you're going to require permission to write to Documents, it makes sense to ask permission to write to ~/ .
What was disappointing about it? I owned an Atari 2600 and played Pac-Man many times. But I've never played it on another game console or in an arcade, so I'm not sure what I was missing.
I really wish we could turn off what appears to be a deep scan of all the files every time one opens a directory in Windows 10. I just need to see the filenames to do what I want 99% of the time.
2g was decommissioned quite some time ago in Australia and New Zealand, it was a right pain as it ate into the spectrum and slowed down LTE
Redux has the largest shift towards "negative opinion" out of all technologies. Did people just get fed up with the boilerplate or is there something else going on?
I'm not saying it never happens; Blender is one example I've personally experienced where input velocity would be a major drain on productivity were it not for keyboard shortcuts. But suggesting that Twitter shouldn't involve a mouse just because it's "one-dimensional" content is laughable.
With quartz glass, it's going to be hydrofluoric acid and I invite you to read up about its toxicity and lethality (user stories like: splashed a few ml on a leg, did all the emergency procedures exactly right, got quick emergency care, leg amputated, died anyways).
That keyboard-centric design for GUIs (I clearly have never taken a design class) is what makes Reddit Enhancement Suite such an effective product, in my opinion. HN's interface is possibly just as effective in that it discourages me from taking too many actions; I can vote on basically every reddit comment I read but using a mouse to do it on HN represents such a massive barrier compared to keyboard navigation.
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What a holy mess is the landscape of the testing frameworks, even worse than that of the front end frameworks itself.
Modern day tools such as Slack, VS Code and other Electron & browser based apps do bring a fair amount of lag into day to day work.

The common denominator there is browser tech & I think that will improve with time. And network-delivered services like Google Maps & Wikipedia are best compared to CD and DVD-ROM based services like MapPoint and Encarta, which had their own latency and capacity challenges.

In the meantime, you can still use tools like vim for low-latency typing. And it’s kind of interesting to see a Java GUI (IDEA) perform as well as it [has](https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/).
Using Service Workers for Caching
The POST alone for my AT clone took over a minute. I remember watching it count up to 512k.
Yeah, but the problem is those api responses are only 95% accurate...

—

TARS : [as Cooper repairs him] Settings. General settings. Security settings.

TARS : Honesty, new setting: ninety-five percent.

TARS : Confirmed. Additional settings.

Cooper : Humor, seventy-five percent.

TARS : Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10, 9...

Cooper : Let's make that sixty percent.

TARS : Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock.

Cooper : You want fifty-five?
You'd think so, but yet here we are. Even on a modern $3,000 machine it takes 5+ seconds to open Photoshop.
I'd be more impressed if they had a mock code review as a discussion afterwards where you could explain your decisions and they could question/challenge parts of it. Not only would that give you time to settle, it'd give both parties some real insights into expectations, skills and work practices.

Something like: "Why did you store it as a byte array?" and then "How can you reconcile it with OOP principles?" as follow up questions would be far more productive.

"Which principles do you mean? If I write an object then it only matters to the caller what the API is, not the underlying storage, right?" and before you know it you're in an interesting conversation where you both have the opportunity to learn something.

It'd probably be quite enjoyable, regardless of whether you got the job in the end.
Flow appears to be _effectively_ dead outside of Facebook. Or at least plateaued, at a very low peak.

For actual metrics, the NPM stats of TS vs Flow downloads [0] show TS usage skyrocketing up to >33M DL/month, while Flow has never gotten past 2.5M.

Purely anecdotally, I see numerous articles talking about projects migrating away from Flow, and absolutely nothing about actually adopting Flow at this point. Even projects like Jest, which started inside Facebook, have switched to TS to get more outside contributions. At this point, the only major project I can immediately think of that's written in Flow is (ironically) React itself.

FWIW, I wrote a blog post recently about my own experience learning and using TS as both an app dev and a Redux maintainer [1].

[0] https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=typescript&package=...

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/11/blogged-answers-le...
I can definitely attest to the poor customer support - the wait times for car2go were unacceptable across the board. My credit cards on file expired twice during my time as a customer of the service and each time that put my account into negative balance which took literal weeks to resolve.

That said it wasn’t common that I needed to contact them so this frustration didn’t come up too often even as a $200+/month customer over the past six or so years.
Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf]
Wow, 39.9% of respondents mark themselves as "Expert" at CSS. I've been doing front-end in various guises for 12 years and I would only rank myself maybe 5 or 6 out of 10.

As I've gotten more experienced in my career I've become more aware of what I don't know as opposed to what I do know.

It's funny that "Advanced" is mastering animations and transitions whereas "Expert" is being able to develop a full-front end consistently. I know many people that can build a front end, myself included but are nowhere near mastering anything, especially animations and css transitions.

I write this in jest of course. As we all know, self-assessment is about as reliable as...
But tektōn means non-specically any craftsman or artisan, even a teacher or student.
Yeah, but uber is running at a loss... Sooner or later they will increase the cost.

But I doubt that they will come back....
> Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat.

When I first saw that UI in 1990 or so, I was so confused how one program could accidentally cause another one not to respond. And how all the filenames had to be in 8.3 format.

Amiga had spoiled me.
F1 was already Help by then I'm pretty sure
Google pays A$481.5m to settle Aussie tax dispute
The first Mac was 3.5 inch disk based IIRC. I remember test driving it and was kind of shocked at that price since it felt slower than my Commodore 64 with a hard drive (the tape drive was so slow but cheap!) or my next computer, an Atari ST with a hard drive, of course the disk access/read/write speed was the dominating speed factor.
Tencent Cloud gives 8k employees iPhone 11 Pro awards for revenue reaching 10B
VOIP over LTE has been rock solid in my experience with T-Mobile on the east coast. I regularly get on (hands-free) VOIP Zoom calls during my 20 mile commute and almost never have any latency or packet loss issues.
I think the name Facebook being attached to just about anything is a disadvantage, if there are other alternatives.
NT4 was very nice, although no USB.

Didn't crash and was smooth as butter.
Any thoughts on making an audiobook?
That's sort of how it works. You request the conch, and if no-one else has it then it's yours.

Otherwise you're in the queue, waiting... always waiting, until finally the conch falls from your predecessor's grip - and you get notified via email or webhook.

Or as a last resort, by polling:

while [ 1 ]; do
if [ "$(curl -sfL conchable.com/bearer ...)" == "me" ]; then
echo "THE CONCH IS MINE!"
exit 0
fi
sleep 30
done
Show HN: Embed PDF Viewing into Webpage
No, it’s a Blue Air so doesn’t include an ionizer, it just when HEPA filter.
Donald Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress
It's usage is probably being replaced with GraphQL + Apollo/Relay since the need for FE app state is reduced when you no longer need to make multiple round trip requests. Also Apollo (possibly Relay?) offer local state management too.
India Dealt with Cyberattacks in 2019
Probably because a lot of people have been working with it for a long time (like you). I think I started 20 years ago - but I just learned like 40% of css grid this past weekend. (I've been a happy flexbox user for a few years)

But I know what you're saying. I also noticed a few percentage points of people saying they have 20+ years or React experience at this point.
> Okay for everyone wondering what impeachment is vs a removal of office.

> Impeachment is like charging you with a crime. So the House of Representatives charged Trump with abuse of power & obstruction of congress.

>Removal of office comes about when the House of Representatives vote by a majority to impeach on each charge (known as an Article of Impeachment), that goes to the Senate, and then by a 2/3 majority (67 Senators) in the Senate to vote to convict, and only then is the President is finally removed from office.

> In other words, impeachment is like being charged by the DA for manslaughter, removal of office is when the jury decides you're guilty of manslaughter. The DA is the House, and the jury is the Senate in this analogy.
Keyboard-only input is not antithetical to discoverability. You can have a menu system (including top-menu bar) with clear hotkeys displayed.
I can read it fine on emacs, using emacs-w3m, which does not understand javascript. So javascript is not required to read this article.
Not an expert, but the multiplatform story for ionic is pretty nice. One codebase to run on iOS/Android and Web is easiest with ionic and I see a lot of small-mid size businesses using it. It's usually not about top-of-their class apps though.
There are several solutions today that will embed PDF viewing into a web page. But in many cases, users suffer from a fractured and inconsistent experience that often introduces confusion when opening new tabs. Often, those solutions do not even adhere to standards for rendering PDFs

So Adobe has published a View SDK that is based upon our Document Cloud platform.

The Adobe Document Cloud View SDK provides a significant benefit to display PDFs in an environment that you control natively. It’s simple to use — only a few lines of JavaScript are all you need to get it done. And it delivers an “Adobe quality” reading experience that matches Acrobat rendering for text and font, graphics, images, and page objects. All of this is important for content owners to ensure their users are getting predictable experiences across all desktop and mobile devices for all major browsers.

The SDK allows the content owner to control how the PDF appears using pre-configured embed modes such as in-line, full window, or sized container. You can customize viewing experiences with commenting, print, download, and save functions for your PDFs.

Document Cloud View SDK also provides out-of-the-box integration with Adobe Analytics, so you can quickly gather insights and analytics on how your audience is engaging with the PDFs
The `20+ years` demographic refers to 20+ years of JavaScript experience, AFAICT.
A few further findings:

1. WashPo delay curl requests by about 8 seconds. Changing user-agent to anything other will defeat this.

2. The size of the actually-useful bits of the page is about 3% of just the primary HTML page transferred. That's excluding images, external CSS/JS, and prefetched content.

That's a pretty considerable chunk.
I started to realize that it just doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't actually have a real concept of how to deal with asynchronous things (like, http requests). You have to use weird things like redux-thunk, or god forbid redux-saga.

The event system is basically synchronous, and just changes data which will be displayed in the UI. Why use the event abstraction and all the boilerplate that entails for synchronous code which doesn't really benefit from events? It feels like a cargo cult.

What it boils down to is any function which will at some point change the UI needs to be written weird, so that it takes the "dispatch" function and calls "dispatch(nextFunctionEvent)" instead of "nextFunction()".

Lots of developers always implemented their own half-ass systems to eliminate some boilerplate by automatically defining events from handlers and state or vice versa or some other combination of the above.

React hooks have basically eliminated it's niche, and none to soon!
I just remember doing cad in the 1980's. If you want to talk slow. As in getting coffee while the compute redraws the screen slow. Some time around 1993-4 suddenly the hardware was fast enough.

I think at this point we're trading performance for a bunch of ultimately worthless bling bling. No one's added a damn thing that improves user productivity.
I always found this such a weak argument. A small store deals with inflation all the time - for the rent it pays for the shop, the products it buys and services it employs. Surely wages as well then? If, even with increased consumer spending being the result of increased minimum wages the small store cannot turn a profit anymore then it means that their business model is simply no longer up to date with modern times.
I've been trying to explain for years that for the past 4 decades the hardware guys have been surfing Moore's law and the software guys have been pissing it away ....

Well Moore's law is falling by the wayside, if they want to start doing more with less the software guys are going to have to stop using interpreted languages, GC, passing data as json rather than as binary, all that overhead that's deriguer but that doesn't directly go to getting the job done
At least an order of magnitude? That's interesting, considering that even mediocre code jockey can make $100k a year, that must mean you make at least a million a year?
So sad to see Meteor solidly in the avoid quadrant, but it seems deserved. Meteor is what I learned how to do web development with back in 2015, and it was fun. It didn't take much to make stuff happen, and the baked-in live sync was like magic. I'm still eager to whip Meteor out for proof of concept prototyping because of how convenient it is to have a schemaless database and a framework that abstracts away HTTP, but for one thing I feel Meteor's big bet on Mongo hasn't paid off.

Also surprised to see ClojureScript's satisfaction rate at 60%. In the past year or two it's become much easier to use NPM packages, which was IMO the last remaining huge missing piece. It's now a great language for web development, providing what JS couldn't: a rich standard library with, ahem, consistent API's, a strong FP flair with excellent immutable data structures built in, and maybe most critically of all, a somewhat constrained macro system that allows users to write and distribute third-party libraries for syntax that in other languages would have required an extension of the language standard.

All of that is (I think) desirable by anyone unless you're hardcore anti-FP (with the one exception, I guess, that macros can be and are abused, though I haven't seen it very often in the CLJS ecosystem). So why hasn't ClojureScript seen more adoption? It's the age-old curse of Lisp, I guess: those dang old parentheses which decades of CS curricula taught in ALGOL descendents have rendered foreign and horrifying.
Not true.

I have a top of the line Intel processor that’s less than 2 years old (launched, not bought). 970 Evo Pro that’s the one of the fastest drives around. 32 GB RAM (don’t remember the speed but it was and is supposed to be super fast).

Explorer takes a second or two to launch. The ducking start menu takes a moment and sometimes causes the entire OS to lock up for a second.

The twitter rant is spot on.

There’s so much of supposed value add BS that the core usage scenarios go to shit.

And this is coming from a Product Manager. :-)

Anyway the referencing problem is painful. I feel it often. Google maps or Apple Maps. Try to plan a vacation and Mark interesting places on it to identify the best location to stay. Yup gotta use that memory. Well isn’t that one of the rules of UX design, don’t make me think?

Regarding OSes: storage has gotten so much faster and CPUs haven’t, that storage drivers and file systems are now the bottleneck. We need less layers of abstraction to compensate. The old model of IO is super slow is no longer accurate.
Radioactive animals have taken over the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone
> The judge also ruled that Snowden had breached his contractual responsibilities by giving speeches at the TED conference and other venues. Each of these speeches included slides with materials that were marked as classified.

There was another front page story today about a judge claiming that the wiki claims could not be tried because they could not confirm whether the government was indeed spying. Which is it: are the leaked documents real or fake? Awfully convenient interpretations
Except they excluded the country with the highest English language proficiency on the continent of Europe, the Netherlands. I suspect there’s another reason.
> ... you probably wouldn't notice anything being perceptually slower

I disagree. I have such a PC (64 GB of RAM, Quadro GPU, SSD, etc.) and I absolutely do notice things being slow, even things like Word, Excel, and VS code, let alone resource-intensive professional software.
Discussed at the time (2017 that is—not 1983): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663