skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're considering learning Esperanto, you should learn Chinese or Spanish instead
Probably just talking about owning a home.

To a lot of people it doesn't matter how many fancy toys they have, they want stability.
Can we please stop with the hyperbole? $200k in the bay area is emphatically not scraping by. You can live on your own, without roommates, save money and have a social life if you have a $200k income in SFBA.

What people (especially on HN) think "scraping by" looks like is getting a little nuts. Just because you can't have an opulent lifestyle and a cheap five bedroom house doesn't mean you're struggling. $200k in SFBA is well beyond the point where all your basic needs are met.
Assuming this is a 'startup' with a trajectory objective of acquisition by one of the big platforms that dominate everything. Independent tools like Wunderlist get taken off the table (in that case by MSFT). Would be nice to see more standalone tools that don't data track us for profit
A device that costs $35 doesn't work as well after 6 years and we complain. Meanwhile my $600 Pixel from 3 years ago has stopped getting updates, but that's normal?
No, this is nothing specific for Lets Encrypt, this is how PKI works.

A certificate is for a domain name, not an IP address.

Anyone can point a (sub)domain that they own to an IP address that they do not own. And then get a valid certificate for that domain.

I can point an A record to [your-ip].[my-domain] and I will be able to get a valid cert for that address. However, the address in your address bar will still point to [my-domain], not yours.
Tony, please answer the question. We are waiting on you.
Even in STEM, there is tonnes of obscure jargon. Much of it also sounds like it could mean something you are familiar with. Think of all the words in theoretical physics: strings, worldsheets, bubble nucleation, or just plain energy and action. Yet no lay person could hope to follow along if reading one of the "seminal works". That is just the nature of specialisation. And there is often plenty of ambiguity in there too, despite the efforts to avoid it.
Yes, strict tracking will still block extensions. I hate the way permissions work with Fraidycat - I shouldn't need access to your website data to do this, for instance - I just need the ability to access URLs without using your credentials. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a permission for that. (Admittedly, I doubt they had something like Fraidycat in mind when designing the web extension API.)
1password recently moved their browser plugin too https://blog.1password.com/1password-x-may-2019-update/
Nobody is forced to buy Bitcoin.
> 200k in the bay area is scraping by

People say these things, it's not very accurate even though the bay area is obviously very expensive.

You've got roughly $130,000 in take-home pay at $200k in the bay area. Your employer is paying for your health insurance.

Even if you're paying $5,000 per month in rent for an apartment, you're still not scraping by. You've got $60k to $70k (depending) to distribute to everything else (food, utilities, lifestyle, etc), with housing and health covered. You can trivially buy a year old Mercedes or BMW sedan every year if you feel like it, like all those other people barely getting by.

You can spend $2,000 per month eating out, instead of $400 cooking for yourself, if you feel like it, as with all those other people choosing between their vast food options while living on food stamps.
This is misleading. For very basic things, you'll need timezone files, ca-certificate, for many Linux tool/libraries to work properly.
There is something fascinating and magical to me about a multi millionaire starting a startup in a seemingly mundane field. No space stuff. No let's stop aging. A time saving app. Cool.
> Instagram mirrors society and amplifies it.

Can you give me examples of this? Because I don't see it amplifying anything but its own revenue. I do see it amplifying negative traits of humans though.

> Instagram levels the playing field. Now anyone can go on IG and gain an audience.

That's what social media is for. In fact, its a basic requirement.

> Then make your profile restricted?

I have a private account. What about the 200 followers that I have? They can still see what I follow and not long ago they could also see what I like.

Why do you even need to show people how many people I am following or how many followers do I have or how many likes I have on my photos. We don't go through life telling everyone how many friends do I have, do we?

Some people do want to show it but at least give us the control of these things?

> There are no norms - there are really only moments in time.

Lost you here.
They released a video today stating that the point of Floatplane is -not- to replace YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOOfZWXPu4
You did the right thing. People want to be lied to and will punish you for not doing so.
Depends how the company is doing. Depending on the internal transparency of the company, as an employee you're often privy to a lot of information that Wall Street does not have access to, eg. you'll oftentimes know their upcoming product pipeline, employee morale, culture, and key metrics for the success of the business that are not published in their financials. If those are doing well but Wall Street is treating the stock poorly, it makes sense to max out your stock compensation and never sell, at least until the metrics turn or you leave the company. (Yes, technically this constitutes insider trading, but it's virtually impossible to prove that inaction was because of inside information vs. because of lazyness or inattention, unless there's a pattern of action.)
Hmmm... I'm pretty skeptical of the premise that "All therapy books start with a claim that their form of therapy will change everything."

My wife practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and the foundation of her approach and all CBT books on her bookshelf is that CBT in fact doesn't change anything at all. You will still have symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) after CBT, but the goal of CBT is to help you manage those symptoms and live a meaningful life despite those symptoms. It's reasonable to doubt that such an approach can work, but Scott's article entirely misses that this approach can even exist. I suspect that this is a latent bias due to his psychiatrist training. (Psychiatrists are trained to use medicine to reduce/eliminate symptoms, and that is their primary measure of success; psychologists use therapy, and the reduction/elimination of symptoms is not necessarily their primary measure of success.)

I just did a quick search on amazon for CBT books, however, and found that most results are things like "CBT for Dummies" and "Teach yourself CBT in 7 weeks". These are not books for doctors, but books for laymen that are merely self-help books with a veneer of science/therapy to help the book sell. Who knows what sort of crap is in these books.
No, you don't.

If you export functions to WebAssembly, any language that can run in WebAssembly can call those functions.

And if you define WebAssembly Interface Types for your exported functions (note: still in development), any language that handles interface types can automatically handle things like "how does this language represent a string safely".

Either way, you don't need to define a new API for every language.
Imagine a list of objects with descriptions or names and these objects need to be drag/dropped. It would make since to disable highlight the object names by mistake.
Plenty of people are vegan/vegetarian because it’s fashionable, in the end it is a choice which is the OP’s point.
Oh, thank goodness this is real. For a moment I thought this was another tired Keaton Patti bit:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-forced-a-bot
Couldn't they just get a wildcard cert for "*.has-a.name"?
He could have said, "Yes, poultry is very popular during Christmas in the West." That's probably what a skilled politician would do: lie without lying. If pressed further about KFC itself, he could have said, "KFC is one of many stores which sell poultry in the West, but here in Japan, KFC is the largest store selling Christmas poultry[1]." However, you'd probably have to know the questions in advance to practice your wording. Most politicians ask for the questions in advance as part of the agreement to appear. A chicken sales-person probably doesn't have that luxury.

[1] There was no concept of "Christmas poultry" in Japan outside of his own invention, with decorated packaging etc., so technically he's either true, or the concept was too ambiguous to be objectively false.
> And then if all web apps move to a canvas-painted UI with all the code in web assembly then there will be a major accessibility problem.

There will also be performance problems. The web is already slow using the heavily optimized DOM. It's going to be so much slower when things try to use a fullscreen Canvas instead. That breaks all sorts of optimization opportunities browsers currently leverage.

But sadly it'll probably happen. We'll all end up downloading forks of browsers in various states on each site we go to as each site decides to re-invent the DOM & all the rendering optimizations that go along with it.
Just because it is not perfect does not mean it is useless. Just look at the countries trying to endlessly print money to see what happens when you ignore it.
There's a pretty stark difference between those working in and with WASM, and people commenting on the sidelines. Almost everyone involved with WASM itself sees it as complimentary, and explicitly is not trying to "kill javascript." Random commenters on the internet do say this a lot though.
more context: https://www.fastcompany.com/90443260/the-billboard-200-chart...

> In an effort to further reflect how people listen to music, Billboard will now count video plays from YouTube, Apple, Vevo, and Tidal toward album-consumption data.

YouTube views have factored into the Billboard Hot 100 since 2013. The expansion to include album plays from video is meant to give a more accurate representation of the music landscape.

“Genres like Latin, hip-hop and electronic, which consistently dominate the YouTube charts, will now be properly recognized for their popularity,” said Lyor Cohen, global head of music at YouTube, to Billboard. “This is another great step in bringing YouTube and the industry together and we’re so grateful to Billboard and the music business at large for making this addition.”

The changes take effect in January.
FarmShine Kenya Blockchain Startup Raises $250k
Yet they do it anyway.
What's New in Apache Kafka 2.4
> A better solution would be to get everyone on board with a single DC voltage and connector

Why? For many things 6V is enough as it will downscale without too much loss to 5V/3V3 which is what most electronics run on... but everything that draws a boatload of power (computers, laptops, LED strips, ...) will go on 12V up to 24V, so if you want a standard it's either 12 or 24V which will introduce a lot of regulation waste in the form of heat in the device.
I basically can't stomach watching/reading any "news" media any longer. Fox News needs no introduction, CNN follows closely behind. I'm so sickened by all the bias (one way or the other) that I feel like it's all tabloid nonsense and that it isn't worth my time.
Yes/no.

If you switch off javascript then the WASM files won't be able to be loaded.

Then on top of that I guess you could just filter for all `canvas` elements. That will cripple some [biased edit: worthwhile] uses at the same time, though.
Hacker News comments are not Markdown.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Your thesis is an economics thesis. Congratulations, you are now a failed economist.
Is this a case of biomimicry? Is the peculiar design functional?
For the same reason you pay towards a creators Patreon or Twitch, you want to support an individual creator you like.
> Lived in Bay Area all my life

I have as well until recently. Living in SF that's probably a close to accurate statement. If you live in Concord or Martinez (which is still technically the Bay Area), you can do quite nicely. Although, you'll trade ~2 hours of your life in commuting on Bart. Not to mention the overall discomfort of the Bart commute itself (better than the drive however).
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What? This is a direct img link, there is literally 0 javascript.
> "If you want to change communications, you probably have to work on the surgeons" more than the patients, Dr. Schwarze concluded.

I find it harder and harder to believe that Insurance is the Bad Guy in US healthcare, as insurance companies make fairly normal level insurance industry margins (like, less than car insurance). The magnitude of total spend is the real problem, and that's a provider-side problem, not a payer side problem, but its hard to talk about doctors and pharmacy benefit managers being the potentially evil ones. People can't stomach the thought that its not a faceless insurance company, and that it might be doctors, in aggregate, over-prescribing and over-practicing well beyond actual need. (And proponents of EU style healthcare costs never mention EU style doctor salaries, and the difference w.r.t. those and the USA).

It sure would be terrible if tons and tons of these interventions done on frail people had no real medical use, and hundreds of them were found to be ineffective (not budging mortality, etc), and surgeons just wanted to get paid. Totally terrible if journals had meta-analyses of that.

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/94d42de3/almost-400-...
well this thread was about wasm vs java, but...

advantages: sandbox, portability

disadvantages: performance, platform integration

nobody's saying that server-side wasm will be universally the right choice.
It sounds like you're saying, "We keep getting away with it, so we'll get away with it forever." That seems unlikely to be true. Real, sustainable prosperity cannot come from the government printing money to buy stuff.
Yeah... but... nah... it being the biggest fad in history does not mean it’s not a fad.

If even 5% of bitcoin held were placed on the market simultaneously the whole thing would implode like a coke can filled with a vacuum. It’s totally illiquid and any attempt to cash out by a significant proportion of holders would herald instant disaster. That’s why it’s so volatile. Research shows the 2017 peak and crash were due transactions by a single ‘whale’.
Are there others who issue?
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This is incorrect. The account will not be banned if you submit counternotices to all complaints.

You don't need to sue: as I explained, it's the company alleging infringement that needs to sue to keep the claim going. This is astonishingly unlikely for a clear case of fair use.

DMCA is a great policy: it's what permits YouTube to reinstate videos after a counternotice is received. Otherwise they'd just keep everything removed for fear of liability.

I'm currently suing a large company [0] for false IP claims against my Amazon account. Those are under trademark law, not copyright law, and so there's no similar ability to send a counternotice and get the claim reversed. I wish there was a similar DMCA framework applied to trademarks, it's just so much better than the status quo.

Also, YouTube has a fund to defend fair use.

[Case is Thimes Solutions Inc v Tp-link et al if you want to follow it]
The problem of fake news is not actually that you (a rhetoric "you"), with a presumably above average intelligence, is able select or be skeptical about your sources of truth, but:

1) The researched human behavior where "1000 lies must be equal to 1 truth".

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256486791_Credibili...

2) Monopolizing the information stream: the attention grabbing effectiveness of deepfake videos to convey fake messages and its novelty incentive to share them on social media, added to the fear-of-missing-out they generate on viewers and the fact that "the effort required to refute b* is 10 times greater than the effort required to produce it":

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/social-media-fatigue-an...

3) voter apathy caused by news fatigue due to the sheer volume of fake news, to which deepfake adds a new vector:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/polls-media-fake-news....,

https://www.datadriveninvestor.com/2019/07/04/chronicle-fati...

4) A majority of youngsters can't really spot (or care) about fake anymore:

https://qz.com/1750839/most-young-2020-us-election-voters-ca...
Somewhat ambivalent about that too! I can't seem to hold onto any that's for sure.
Canned TLDs should be abolished entirely. A domain name should be able to end in any string. Problem solved.
The "web" app will have worse performance.
These kinds of aircraft are built for special missions. This is not the first of it's kind. It reminds me of Super Guppy [1]. They are not very efficient aerodynamically due to the large frontal area. In addition, these are designed to carry oversized but not necessarily heavy loads; for example, the fuselage of another aircraft. So there is no point in mass producing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy
Madoff was a product of the artificially low interest rates established by the US Fed, causing people to participate in all sorts of risky schemes to see some investment returns. So yes, one could argue that the Fed "succeeded" at creating lots of bubbles and fueling lots of scams in recent history, though the details of the situation are of course a lot more complicated.
This app will help her run her next big company to the ground faster.
How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy
I haven't looked at it from that angle yet, but you are right: If you share the whatever.has-a.name address with other people and tell them to trust it, then this is very dangerous.

However, the OP wrote this:

> but keep in mind that the operator can also get SSL certs for your site

Which made it sound as if they can get a cert for your domain, which they cannot.
I think almost any thing is better than js. At least it is popular due to its actual developer's. People use it because they like it and its ecosystem was grown by them, not force of a dumb decision in 90's or company backup. Both performance and ecosystem are not characteristics of language. they are due to being the only language is being supported in browser. (hint: I won't use python for web)

Also comparing languages based on syntax and ecosystem is not very clever idea.
Esperanto has a far worse problem with linguistic imperialism than English does. Esperanto is a hobby/philosophy for denizens of rich Western countries to play with. English, while not being a fully neutral playing ground, is orders of magnitude better able to connect disparate communities and give the underprivileged greater opportunities.
Direct PDF link: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1753393/guides/Cloud_Report_2...
I only think thats ok for some very specific things like button / input fields where it looks dumb if its selected by mistake. But for content you're immediately reading, it shouldnt be messed with. Maybe you want to take meaninful notes.
Should be illegal
You must pass on a lot of services then, considering how prevalent similar arbitration clauses are in ToS
This seems like a straw man; I’ve seen relatively little JS hate in this thread. Unless you’re considering WASM’s progress (or existence) to be an attack on JS? I personally don’t see what is wrong with having other choices for web development.
PIR chooses and supervises the contractor that runs the TLD. I don't know if maybe, once upon a time, PIR ran the TLD itself, and then decided to contract it out.

It's not an unreasonable thing to contract out. Afilias runs multiple TLDs, and there are many operational things that would have a cost benefit from sharing; for example, running the anycast network of authoritative servers in as many points of presence as possible --- each PoP requires capital investment and time investment to setup and run, but servicing additional load may be possible at a much smaller marginal cost.
I wonder if web development were to shift dramatically... would it go to largely one or a few languages?
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> You keep pushing the blame on the government shutdown.

I've actually only mentioned it in two or maybe three comments over the last year.

Your operating from the benefit of hindsight. All the information about the Lion Air crash is out now, you can look at it and decide it should have been grounded. At the time it was not very clear what had happened and why and if it was issues with the pilots or the aircraft or both. Boeing had more information than the public, but not as much as came to light after the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

Also, Boeing does not actually have the authority to ground aircraft they make, they have to push the FAA to do it. The FAA will want to have a good reason, because if the FAA does something that needlessly costs the airline industry lots of money, people at the FAA loose their jobs.

So, its pretty much fuckups all around.
To support creators and avoid youtube/google
I think they are talking about bundling before code-splitting (like we did back in the Browserify days) and that's true, but we have Webpack, or ESModules now.
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Touché! But cult-like stocks have a stronger relation than usual to their founder(s)' actions.
Its true that online dating doesn't get the respect it deserves. Some points:

People are dating around and when they settle down they know what they're doing

More young people use Tinder than Facebook

Its only worth being on Tinder if you're 8/10 or above

Male cosmetics are growing in popularity

Will change emerging markets culture
“When people tell you that cryptocurrency will enable smart contracts on the blockchain that supersede traditional court systems and automate trust, allowing frictionless commerce with no need for archaic subjective state justice systems, remember the time people asked the police to dig up a corpse to ask it who stole their Bitcoins!”
> Not every text in a user interface is supposed to be selectable. Can you select the text on your buttons, your tabs, your dropdowns? Of course not, because it doesn't make sense.

It would make sense, and all text in a user interface should be user selectable and offer the same behaviors.

Maybe you need to copy and paste a lengthy error message. Maybe there’s a word you don’t understand you want to look up in a dictionary. Maybe the interface isn’t in your native language and you want to translate it.

The fact that most mainstream computing environments don’t offer this in 2019 doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do, rather that our systems have regressed in some (many?) areas when it comes to usability.
I would check you local codes. Running Cat5 might not require an electrician, but that doesn't mean it doesn't mean it doesn't require a licensed installer. Especially if you want to run network over that Cat5, you'll want someone who knows what they're doing.

That said...Belden is reputable, but this doesn't sound like it's fully baked.