skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone ever also noticed how cars are always heavier than the bikes we used when we were children. And how much more air you need and how much longer it takes to fill a car tire with a hand pump.

Also, remember when none of us was a portuguese author and we used paragraphs rationally and wrote things down without splitting them into 200 letter long strings because we used mediums made for rants and did not need a separate app to wrap it all into something vaguely resembling text?

Also has anyone noticed that time passes and things change?
I'm afraid I don't share your optimism. The Ministry of Justice is widely reported to be in disarray, a fiefdom with warring factions out of control, all the while neoliberalist governments have been gutting it, as have the Police (hence the cancellation of the Major Crimes unit in Amsterdam, which was tiny to begin with) and the prosecutors office, and legal assistance and general availability of the judiciary to citizens (closure of courthouses).

Things are on course to become worse, at this time. Carefully some people start to suggest we need Italian-style investments to be able to track, uncover and handle this level and amount of crime, but we are nowhere near understanding or funding that. There is just no expertise, and no(t much) electoral pressure to fund it. Half of our 'sanity' is simply looking away from problems and hoping they pass of their own accord. That works sometimes, but here I'm not getting my hopes up.
> It was an annoying job, since the semantic information pollutes the structure of the html.

In what way? Both the html and the metadata is intended to make your website machine-friendly. You may find the html structure polluted, but crawlers would find it more informative.
What do you think of the idea of getting people compete on who is more miserable?
I also (as seen in at least one of your other responses) that people associate AngularJS and Angular when doing rankings in surveys like this one. There are many people who will never try Angular because of their experience with AngularJS.

Also, this isn't a scientific random sample survey, it's people who self-selected to take it. And I think that Angular specifically suffers due to that because it is more likely to be used at enterprise or large companies where devs often tend not to follow Twitter/surveys/etc at least, not in the same numbers as some other groups. Just my opinion.
The taxi phase, at least, can be mitigated with an electric tug motor built into nose gear. Engines can be off or idle until needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WheelTug
> the relevant body of literature showing that this is a likely event for the population I'm part of

Please link some examples, because I somehow doubt that you referenced them before forming an opinion. I think we all know eating lots of mud is a bad idea without referencing literature, let alone qualifiers about population groups.

I'm curious if you've lived in any of these hyper-polluted cities. The health effects of breathing such smog is absolutely palpable.

Here's a couple of studies on how PM2.5 affects your arteries, blood pressure, stress hormones, etc. I don't doubt all of these effects can add up to a better or worse night's sleep.

- "clear cardiopulmonary benefits of indoor air purification among young, healthy adults", after only 48 hrs of intervention: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26022815/

- "significantly higher blood pressure, hormones, insulin resistance, and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation among individuals exposed to higher PMs": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28808144/
The reason I use AWS is because I can be fairly certain, that their uptime is quite high (not 100%, but it's more than I can probably guarantee if I were to run on an own server), that their eco-system is huge and they connect to each other.

Being a "solo hacker" developing multiple websites, I need to prioritize where I put my time in. Thus my "default" choice is using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy websites, be it PHP, Python or something else. I can easily add environment variables, let it connect to RDS (database), scale it up (more servers or bigger servers), I can add SSL certificates, I can add a CDN (Cloudfront), I can add separate data storage (S3) all with a few clicks and from one (albeit super-huge and need-to-get-used-to) dashboard.

Alternatives: I don't trust Google services for anything critical (they tend to shut down easily or they might just change their pricing drastically - e.g. in Google Maps), Azure might be an alternative, just never had the time to check it out intensively.

For "fixed ceiling" projects, I use Digital Ocean (because unfortunately AWS mostly doesn't offer a budget ceiling, just alarms).
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There's really no controversy that AWS, Azure, and GCP are substantially more expensive than bare metal providers, if you're simply comparing machine specs.

So if all you're doing is setting up root access and handling everything yourself, then yes, you're throwing huge wads of cash down the toilet with those platforms versus renting a VPS on Linode, Digital Ocean, etc.

The economic disparity can flip, though, if you use these services as they're intended. i.e., take advantage of features that are charged incrementally and optimise to reduce how much they're activated per user transaction, where "user transaction" is a key user action such as a page serve or a reported being emailed.

The costs can be much lower when you're only using what you need, and not paying for large capacity to be sitting around in case of a peak usage moment. And even more so when you consider there are automatic upgrades and ops to ensure high availability.
This is hardly new. The page you're linking has been in their Github since Oct 2018.
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
Have you ever tried being really really ridiculously good looking?
> people with what we currently call intellectual disability.

You’re a bit behind the times, we call those people “differently abled” nowadays. (Or maybe there is a new word and I’m “retarded”).
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And? How is that relevant to the permission system?

The average person doesn't need to care whether a file is executable or not.
Yes. They can fade out the old screen with "snow" until the next MPEG stream starts to decode.
> It takes 1 afternoon to learn React and it never requires you to open the doc again.

You are confusing your imagination with reality (or the history of your own experience).
Why? You can turn it off and if you've been using brew for the past year it's already been there. The analytics has been around since Oct 2018.
> It's weird to assume that developers who use Electron do so because they are ignorant, incompetent and lazy.

I don't think I said all that

> As a company do you want to spend that much money hiring a ton of C++ developers over a much longer period of time,

This I think is a big assumption. Making a GUI isn't really that difficult. Most of the time in a program doesn't go into making the actual UI. I never hear someone who is experienced in making UIs say that electron saves them so much time, it is always people assuming it takes an army of C++ people to do what one person can do with electron, which is bizarre, especially over the course of something that is more than a prototype.
How about the maintenance services who act lazy reporting client issues to the main vendor? That's one of the undetected patterns I believe.
More a side note, but if you run a blog you might know that the trackback url can be specified via a RDF tag. That's a kind of semantic information, one example for one type of usage: Given other clients (here: other blogs) additional information (here: where to send the Trackback POST).

The markup you added - it depends on what exactly you did. Did you add the markup for schema.org? That's in practice solely for Google. The SEO promise there is that Google will make use of the information provided and format some information nicely, which can lead to more clicks. https://moz.com/learn/seo/serp-features explains that not badly. For things like reviews I can imagine it to be quite useful.
The third party app platform was pretty slow and missing a lot of APIs relative to the others. The first party UI, which got praise from reviewers for being smooth, was written in a different language and framework.

In the first version, the default blank app from Visual Studio's "new project" wizard was slow to load. I think I measured it on the order of 500ms at the time. Not much room for third parties to add more stuff without being slow.
I wonder why the author is comparing AWS t3a.large to GCP n2-standard-2. It’s not an apples to apples comparison as t3a runs on AMD while n2 runs on Intel silicon.
Definitely Flutter. It's pretty easy for JS devs to work with Dart, and the Flutter architecture is basically like React - component-based (called widgets in Flutter) + RxJS (Streams and RxDart).
Well, I think it's much more valid to claim it's much slower than 2000. Take for instance, Microsoft Office products. On a business class desktop, i3-i5, they are much slower than they were in 2000 in all aspects. Software has become slower as computers have zoomed in speed.
Indeed "slightly different", as opposed to "totally different", which they are not.

And apparently the human ear can be train to ignore this slight difference (which everybody does because we are used to 12-TET). And this, for me, kind of throws the whole "simple integer fraction ratio == pleasing harmony" a bit into question. It's probably not wrong, but there's definitely more to it. But it's hard to explore, because you need the exposure to get used to the new microtonals if you want to experiment with it. Definitely very hard to test scientifically because it depends so much on a particular person's musical background and education.
It does not disable, it enables. Unsafe doesn't turn anything off, it adds new capabilities instead. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
> the kind of look that makes women swipe left.

I'm too old for dating apps, so I've never used one, but don't nearly all women swipe left (that is, reject) something like 80-85% of men on these apps?
>but I do think Windows seems to do a little better software-wise too

Windows 10 does a little trick to speed up boot - when you perform a shutdown, Windows 10 saves a mini-hibernation image to the hibernation file. When you perform normal boot, it can start up quite fast[1]. This gives noticeably shorter boot time especially on spinning rust drives (i know, i know, $CURRENT_YEAR). However if you perform a "reboot" instead of "shutdown + power on", you'll get the full length boot of notably longer time.

[1] assuming the hardware setup is sufficently unchanged
Cache the most recent iframe on the network and have the STB pull + display the cached iframe till it catches up? This would enable fast channel scanning/flipping at the very least ...
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No whatsapp = dead in the water in Europe.
The thing is, they have so many opportunities in the Netherlands.
The true problem is the culture, and I'm not talking about maroccan culture, but "mocro". This is a culture that developed over 3/4 generations where the criminal path is the "cool" option.
The right basically imported them to do jobs the dutch felt too good for. Then they were told by the left not to hit their kids, but weren't told how to raise them instead. All respect for the father (important in that culture) got lost and the kids ended on the streets, giving each other a feed back loop to "screw those stupid dutchies".
The dutch also failed in regards of spreading them, which allowed for this culture to develop.
>Mice are bad. Mice are absolutely terrible.

Bah humbug, I hate modern technology!

This luddite author should go into goat herding if they hate modern tech so much.
No. It's not a codec problem. They can leave it on the last decoded frame and fade it nicely to, say, the average color for the 1 second without going to black, and you don't have to be a super decoder genius to implement something that's a little less aesthetically jarring.
Do you think it’s possible to achieve the same sort of system by just using semver + release candidates?

For example, 5.x.x is currently stable, so you release 6.0.0-rc1 (2, 3, ...)?
Unless I'm very mistaken about modern digital transmissions, cable coming into the house is still based on a broadcast system, which means you're getting everything all the time. The frames are all there for every channel, they're just not being read. I don't know how much processing or memory it would take to read and store frames for surrounding channels to the one you're on, but I imagine its possible.
Ask HN: Good vendor to analyze PCBs via cross section
Has anyone had tests done where they potted a PCB in clear epoxy and then did cross sections to check thicknesses and uniformity of gold layers? Or for that matter, favorite labs who do this and other tests.
The usual problem I have is that I need to switch to DHCP based DNS to register my MAC address to the room number, then switch back so the hotel can't screw with my DNS lookups.

It might not be your ad-blocker or script-blocker; it might be your DNS settings.
> Does it really matter that a book review (for instance, I have a few) is tagged properly?

If the semantic web was better supported, you could have a semantic annotation precisely identifying the books you are reviewing (whether by ISBN edition or otherwise), and reusers of your content (users, search engines or others) would be able to programmatically associate your review with similar content.
The effective monthly price for that t3a.large (excluding storage) can vary from $55 to $25 depending on how much you're willing to commit in advance.

See the chart at https://ibb.co/M7nnMvL for some different scenarios.
It depends on the TV or tuner box. Some are very fast and some are very slow. It is something you have to test before buying if you can.
I can't imagine what semantic tags would pollute a blog's markup as most of the semantic tags were designed to structure simple text content like a blog post. Do you have any examples?

> Is it for search engines?

Yes. And Accessibility.
The tuning chip costs maybe 50 cents or something. Just have 3 or 4 of them and pretune the next few channels.
That's a big part of it. But the other part, which can actually contribute more time than the decoding, is simply slow software on the STB.
China Citizen Watch (Finally) Secures 150TB of Leaking Data
I'm no fan of them, but this paints the incorrect notion that the members of Congress in the Tea Party are a bunch of uneducated rubes and is pretty blatantly false. Current members[0] have the following degrees:

* BA, Finance + MBA
* BS, Journalism + JD
* BS, Political Science + JD
* BS, Computer Science
* BA, Forestry
* BA, Accounting + MPA
* BA + MS (no major listed)
* BA, Political Science
* BA, Political Science + JD
* BA (no major listed)

That's only about half of them but I got tired of listing them out. Only two of current Tea Party Caucus members do not have a degree, both of them at least attended college, and one of them was actually in an honor society before leaving.

My point isn't to defend them, but to point out the dichotomy one can easily reach from reading your comment (Tea Parties are farmers that can barely read, similarly or less experienced legislators on the opposite end of the spectrum are not) is false.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus#List_of_curre...
I found the list great and it fit the twitter format well. I usually don’t like twitter but it is what it is and this seems like what it is good for.

I disagree about mice but everything else hit the nail on the head for how frustrating it is to be using basically supercomputers and still be sitting around waiting on code bloat.
Two men plead guilty to running illegal streaming service
I used to live next door to a brothel in Sydney.
What’s it like working at a large tech company?
I’ve been working at startups or building my own startups and I’m just trying to get a realistic picture of if the grass is really greener. Is job security at a larger company real? What’s the pace like, I understand it depends on the team, but is it long hours and as crazy as a startup? Is there really that big of a salary difference (funded startups these days have pretty competitive offers). Is there really a lot of process that get in your way? Are your peers generally competitive or supportive? Thank you HN community for your thoughts and experiences
Microtech labs in Plano Texas does a good job of this. I use them fairly often for both PCB and IC level cross sections.
if you can legalize adult sex work there stands a good chance the trafficking side would decrease as there would be a legal outlet.
This [0] one had a segfault in a JS test file.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22273#issuecomment-41588...
Your point is valid here, but I'll mention that the type of people you feel would possibly be excluded are very likely already excluded by the current system.
Just sued for the cost of putting the job right.
I also noticed that on the Front End Frameworks awareness chart where react and angular flipped places from second to first even though they are both at 100% and then I saw that the vuejs was in 3rd place although it was also at 100%
For example, white or black schools were unthinkable about 20 years ago. It simply didn't exist because everything was mixed. Nowadays this is a real thing.
Checkout Lightsail, been using it past 6 months. Power and freedom of digital ocean in AWS ecosystem.
The Machine Learning Example You've Been Waiting For
Suppose you're using an editor that actually gives you clever warning if types don't match?

Using plain vim with typescript makes no sense.

It gives me plenty of useful checks using TS. Lack of members, wrong types returned, missing return in switch statement etc.

Saying JS works for you fine sounds like "I have (or waste) good amount of brain memory on my program, so I don't need any further checking.", which can't be the case on code other people wrote.
A remote start for my car. I live in a chilly part of the country and unfortunately have a long commute. Being able to get into a warm car is really comforting!
Best Practices for API Versioning
I'd never use it myself excepting maybe video only for a burglar alarm, but because Marshall worked on home automation protocols, he loves this stuff. I always had nightmares the damn "smart light bulbs" in the 2nd street office were listening in on our conversations.
Pinker also talks about the "Euphemism Treadmill", where words that were specific medical terms turned into general insults and became unusable because of it ("spastic" in my lifetime has gone from a medical description, to a playground insult, to being effectively unusable, a non-word).

We'll see the same happen here. As "supremacy" becomes unacceptable, other words will rise to describe the same phenomenon, and then they'll become unacceptable, and we'll rotate gradually through ever-more-complex words and phrases to describe things.

I'm all in support of reclaiming words. If we use "supremacy" for lots of other things, then its association with racists fades. Giving them sole use of such a useful word seems to be letting the bad people win, somehow.
Sounds like a legit app, though.
It was a limitation on the number of variants. They had no limits prior to this API update I'm talking about. My business allowed people to create merch and we'd add it to a collection on our storefront. Developer support told us sometimes they grant temporary exemptions. They did not. They told us we could upgrade to shopify plus which has no such limitations, but being a bootstrapped company we couldn't swing the $2k per month.

Edit: Just to be clear, it was always on our roadmap to migrate away from Shopify's platform, but they accelerated our timeline and we had to limit the amount of merch our customers could add which obviously led to upset customers.

We're still operating, albeit close to insolvent, and have since launched our new platform. But our reputation has been irreversibly damaged.
Cultural overtones aside, this reminds me of how qualifiers that describe the comparative or absolute superiority of some technology or process are inherently fragile and do not always age well. Things with words like "very", "ultra" or "extremely" in their name are sort of hopelessly bound up in their own time period. There are many papers (mostly from the 90s) that refer to ULSI instead of VLSI, in the mistaken belief that we had now moved beyond the adverb "very" to qualify large scale integration to another era that could only be described as "ultra" large scale integration. Moore's law made these updates seem kind of silly and it seems like we all just stuck on VLSI.
Not realy, the main intent was to host static documentation for different projects and versions. But in theory you could also build your markdown files with something like https://www.mkdocs.org/ and then publish them to your docat instance.
It's patently absurd that a modern cable box chugs just when flipping through the channel guide. The provider has control over the software and the hardware so it should be butter smooth all the time.
Good approach when dealing with any unknown cultural nuances.

I always get annoyed when people go with preconceived notions and stereotypes rather than asking/figuring out for themselves. In today's "Yellow-journalism style media" facts and truth are no longer relevant but everything is turned into a caricature. We should know better in this era of "Globalization". "Cultural Sensitivity" is much more important than we realize.
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Every damn time!
It's the OnOff star from Deepness in the Sky :-)
Svelte seems promising. I think it's a natural evolution from what I think is an over focus on FP and purity in React, to a more natural and intuitive DX without significant drawbacks.

Svelte does have an irritating wart IMO, citing their tutorial:

Because Svelte's reactivity is triggered by assignments, using array
methods like push and splice won't automatically cause updates.

So for reference types that are mutated in place you need to do something like:

numbers.push(numbers.length + 1);
numbers = numbers;

Or:

numbers = [...numbers, numbers.length + 1];

This looks like a leaky abstraction to me since it forces the developer to work according to the implementation details. Don't know how easy it would be to fix this.
That is super interesting! I recognize I tend to think in absolutes an try to adjust for it. I also am tempted by elegant solutions over practical ones. I get stuck on consistency as a value. Not that consistency or elegance are bad, if they work.

I'll add that Haidt's analysis that the value placed on compassion relative to loyalty or fairness is a good predictor of party rings true. Compassion > fairness -> democrat
Compassion = fairness -> republican
Compassion < fairness -> libertarian
The Mann Act, a federal law, forbids transport for the purposes of illegal sexual activity. If prostitution is illegal in your state, and you arrange to meet a prostitute online and provide her with a taxicab or Uber, then you have committed a federal crime and are a human trafficker in the eyes of the law. (Though federal LE will probably not get involved unless it crosses state lines.)

Fun fact: Originally the Mann Act was passed to give the government the power to prosecute interracial couples. Kinda like how sex-offender registries were first implemented to allow police in California to track gays.
For most people "quirks" are unacceptable in their mobile phones. Normally one can't afford to lose a call or to have the maps application crash when you're trying to get around.