skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of useful extensions like [1] Honey (auto coupon code finder), which are generalized enough to automatically detect coupon code input fields in eCommerce checkouts that it's never seen before.

"Wildcard" however either needs; AI to detect and classify unknown HTML as rows in a table. OR tonnes and tonnes of integration code (glue code) for all the popular websites used... which seems to be the plan

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/honey/bmnlcjabgnpn...
But is it actually interesting why this started? As a purely economic experiment it's surely at least not a total failure as the company is still standing.

I'm not sure what value the "high performer" qualification has in this instance. They were the highest paid, but I don't think we have any guarantees to their actual output. If the CEO is an untrustworthy agent (as some of the stories make him out to be) how can we trust any of the valuations of his employees?
>biggest package ecosystem.

I don't understand how you can be proud of having the most unusable package ecosystem. Sure the numbers are large but can you actually safely use those packages? No, you can't. Just add a single library and you will include a huge amount of transitive dependencies from random package maintainers over which you have no control.

Other languages like Java or Rust have the same problem but this is a problem with exponential impact and NPM is the leader in tree depth. Having a 10 layer deep dependency tree is far worse than a 7 layer deep dependency tree. When I look at the dependency tree of my own projects more than 50% of the libraries are first party and from a vendor with a good reputation. (spring, apache commons, tomcat). The rest are less trust worthy but each project has a small opensource community that consists of more than just a random guy that may randomly throw emotional fits like in the leftpad scenario.
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All you have to do is enumerate an infinity of infinities. It's no problem at all.
Ah, yes, "measuring."
I think there's an important distinction between company and interaction.

I hate interaction in the workplace, especially when it's spontaneous. Being remote allows me to be in the zone probably more than half of my week, which has a tremendous impact on productivity.

On the other hand, after a few hours of working alone I do crave another human presence.

What I've found works well for me is to have a chill twitch stream in the background. An interesting phenomenon is that some of the streamers I like sometimes stream without talking, so all I get is some background playlist, but it does has the desired effect whereas just playing the same music wouldn't.
No offense intended but this seems very naive to me. It feels very much like the promise of nuclear energy creating “energy too cheap to meter” from 50 years ago.

Technology will definitely help but think about it this way: people who live in those dispersed areas will likely be there out of necessity, not choice. How many people in say, rural Appalachia, are currently using Door Dash to regularly get groceries or can rely on solar to be off the grid? Grocery delivery doesn’t help much when you’re over an hour away because it drives up cost and limits the types of goods available. Those solutions already exist from a technological standpoint but they aren’t causing people to move en masse to these locations despite housing shortages elsewhere.
The problem is "intelligence" is not a very well defined concept. Usually, we define it (consciously or not) as "something the human is good at, and animals / artificial tools cannot". So, of course, as soon as a machine is able to do something, it does not fit the definition anymore.

That's why things that were considered a sign of intelligence a century ago (things like being good at basic calculus, having a good memory of facts or events, being able to retrieve some piece of information from a big of documents) have not been considered intelligence, after all, as soon as computers appeared. Chess playing was stil the typical intelligent activity, but it stopped being so as soon as deep blue won a game. Being able to go from point A to point B with nothing but a map, and being able to say "hmm, let's avoid this road, there's usually a lot of traffic at this time of the day" was, too, before the advent of connected GPS. And so on.

Now that we're getting closer and closer to Turing's test, there are more and more people claiming this test is pretty bad, after all, and isn't a good way to assess intelligence.

In a way, "artificial intelligence" is an oxymoron. It's a battle that cannot be won.
Assuming all the suppositions about these clones all being smart ( however you define that ) are true.

Then do you really think these million people will be working for you???? :-)

Or will it be the other way around....
Yes, but on your way into the stall, you touched the stall door, and then you touched other things, including your clothing, which you didn't wash on the way out, only your hands.
Some do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
> signing a document that both acknowledges our innocence and removes our right to claim against the US Government for any damages incurred.

this is extortion. they should not have to give up the right to sue for damages
Yeah, good point. I'd say that's very related. In those circumstances appropriate comparisons of cost (both cost of work, and potential losses from delay) aren't being made and prioritization is not happening.
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An idealized world such as that pretty much comes to a crashing end in any medium to large sized company when you experience what pigs you coworkers can be in regards to employee break rooms and even rest rooms.

From messes in share refrigerators, microwaves, or counter space, to restrooms issues that make you wonder how often the maintenance people service it each day and when. I am not sure if this is just a US thing but I used to expect better from coworkers.
Wuhan's capabilities up until about two weeks ago were a max of two thousand tests a day. Even now, they are only able to test more patients because of horizontal scaling, aka building more machines to eliminate bottlenecks in the RT-PCR pipeline. The rest of the world is significantly behind. The test may also be run several times per person because there is evidence that there is a high false negative rate while patients are still asymptomatic.

There are so many people suspected of infection in just about every nation that there is simply not enough tests to go around to test people at random.
I don’t believe publicly posted photos are the privacy issue at hand here. Facebook tracks your activity online and sell it to advertisers regardless of your consent, even if you’ve never created an account in your life. That’s the privacy issue (amongst other things).
Yes! The main advantages for me with the Hasura/Nhost stack is:

1. SQL (Thanks PostgreSQL)

2. Instant realtime GraphQL (Thanks Hasura)

3. Zero vendor lock-in
I think HN is just "undesigned" to be honest. I mean, look at the stylesheet - aside from some declarations to use Verdana, a few minimal concessions towards a mobile layout, and a bit of fiddling about with the voting arrows, there's hardly anything there.

I'm sure at this point the minimalism of HN probably is a conscious choice (as in, they have consciously chosen not to do anything to the design for however many years, despite, I'm sure, countless offers from aspiring designers), but how it originally came out was surely as a result of the people involved not wanting to put any energy into designing it or writing CSS.
"High paying white collar workers" or even mediocre paid white collar workers are more likely to be working from home when sick.

I have never had a job where I felt comfortable and able to take a sick day because I had "just" a cold, but since I've had an office job where working from home was allowed, I would also not feel comfortable coming into the office sick.
According to a recent talk from Herb Stutter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk), as many as 20% of users fully ban exceptions and an additional 30% ban them partially.

Even code doesn't actually reach the throwing paths, exceptions and RTTI induce a huge binary size overhead that is simply not acceptable if you have binary size constraints.
Critical journalism in the crypto ice age
My word, I remember years back when I didn't realise that this was a thing, and it took my mate showing me his feed filled with me liking a whole load of random sexy filth pages. I remember commenting wondering if my mum could see all the shit I'd liked, to which she responded "yep.". Absolutely mortified mate.
I think most trains around the world have carpet - just city subways are the exception.
I'd just like to point out that we've known that mixing classes of traffic in the same space is bad for safety since the industrial revolution brought heavy rolling objects to the workplace. This stuff is well known. It's a politics and resources problem.
I've seen that there is already basically the same kind of car being made in India.
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That's all great until the judge asks for a demonstration to show it can generate the material you're presumably suing over.
> It's quite possible you had a terrible gym

Yeah, it's just anecdotal, and I don't want to take away anything from anyone's great gym memories, but I think there's something systemic, or at least common and broader than my own experience, for a few reasons.

I went to multiple schools with different teachers that all used the concept of modules to expose kids to a bunch of activities in rapid bursts without practicing or developing any skills.

Let's play badminton for a week, then football, then dodgeball, then baseball. Now let's administer the presidential fitness test without any warning or prep. No attempt to work on those measurers after the test, making it unclear how important they are.

I might have drawn all the bad teachers and was just unlucky, but my experience seems to track with most people I meet and also with portrayals of gym in popular media.
No, because each thing you want to claim copyright on must be “fixed in physical form.”
Excellent visualizations on Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-wuhan-novel-coronavi...
> "Bring the VBE into this century!"

This actually gave me goosebumps...

Are there many modern use-cases for Visual Basic? All I can think of is horrible scripting code for Excel, Word and AutoCAD
The automated feed is working to displace the magazine, growing pains still abound nearly 15 years later.

Here's a list of negatives:
-waves of clamping down on discovery
-confirmation bias sees more support
-moderation explodes with the user base
-it costs users attention
-magazine viewership may be hollowed out, and magazines destaffed
-payola via SEO, and all abuses SEO implies are in play, because the feed is just a search / filter operation
-any big lists may be turned into a feed (youtube subscriptions feed)
-it's volatile, once gone the feed and its presentation disappears forever
-discrimination transparent to users and the publisher (racial "affinity")
-it's not transparent
-it's chipped away at RSS
-personalized display and user classifications have privacy implications to publically social participants (oh you like x? people who like x also like y, how would you like to discuss y?)

The upside:
+benefits of being a publisher without the responsibility for a few Trillion-dollar companies
Yes I agree with you. With Hasura there are 3 main ways to handle business logic. We use the first one at Nhost and it's working (and scale) very well.

1. https://3factor.app/

2. Actions - https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/manual/actions/index.html

3. Remote Schema - https://hasura.nhost.io/console/remote-schemas/manage/schema...

I know Hasura is actively working on this exact issue and they just released Actions (second option) and I think we will start to see a standard/best practice approach to business logic soon.
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That's not authoritarianism. "Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. "

I'm sure you could create a political movement to make it by law easier to hang out your washing where you like.
Those iOS issues with type="number" are really interesting – thanks for sharing.

Support for inputmode was added in iOS 12.2, but initially it used the 'numeric keypad with punctuation' – is that what you mean by 'the keyboard shown varies from that for pattern='? iOS 13 updated this behaviour, so it now uses the 'correct' numeric keypad, without the punctuation keys.

The pattern attribute is still provided in order to trigger the numeric keypad on older versions of iOS. Once traffic from older iOS devices drops off we'll likely remove it.

There's a little more info here: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/1449

(I work on the team)
returning, moving, swapping a small vector would break any pointer to an element. That's a big deal. Interior pointers are used all the time (that's, more than performance, the primary reason that reserve exist).
Compare 'The High Cost of Free Parking'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
Also, if you and they don't find a mistake for a few years, there is a statutory limitation on them even collecting money. I don't remember exactly, but it's less that I'd thought.
Also, the US Forest Service only manages national forests, and doesn't really focus on productivity.

An awful lot of forest land is managed by commercial foresters, with an eye towards maximizing the value extracted over long periods of time.

And then there is the management of small plots, which is also often done by commercial foresters, with an eye towards immediately extracting as much value as possible once they convince the landowner to let them do a cut.
The Washington, DC metro still has many cars with carpets. They're pretty disgusting, but probably not quite as disgusting as you might think.
material-ui
Tons of illegal trash dumped on French border, no punishments
I wonder if the R1102G can playback 4k video, would be awesome for a small media pc passively cooled with a snes emulator.
> "The interior sound level of a SOAC train is as quiet as the interior of a modern office building"

Well - we managed to make the interior of office buildings louder by an order of magnitude since then...
> You grow up wielding a certain power, and you know your decisions matter and will affect your everyday life. This ingrains a close relationship between the citizens and their representatives.

As a Swiss citizen, I think the feeling of individual power plays a minimal role. Unless you're some kind of political advocate you don't really wield any power and you do know that your single vote will almost never matter.

I think the big difference (and the real strength of a direct democracy) is the feeling you have that if a given system is in place, it is because a majority of the people - without discrimination - wanted it. Or, from the other side, that if a majority of people disliked it, they do have the power to change it.
is a hard drive not a tangible form? Come to think of it, so is a brain, and everything else capable of storing information. That language is atrocious.
Thank you soooo much for your kind words ️
No need to get personal. I guess you could use a less loaded term than front-running. Or at least qualify what you mean when you put it in "here".
I have tried to build a language learning app called Talking Ninja, heavily based on voice. I started with danish as thats where I live and its hard fro me to learn new language without being able to speak to someone/something. It was not the best choice of language to start and also the complexity of the voice tech behind it grew beyond my one man army skills at the time. Maybe one day I will try again.
pretty much ignoring the fact WalMart started a trend when they pushed their wages up in 2015 to nine dollars a hour and have reached eleven or more depending where you are. This in turn led to Target trying to out do WalMart by going a bit higher each time.

The unwritten effect is that many smaller businesses who cannot handle the wage pressure were put into a bit of bind and some people employable at minimum wage won't make the cut at higher wages when people who would not have considered the job before enter the market.

* I only commented because people tend to herd mentality jump on anything negative about Walmart when in fact they do far better than much of the retail environment out there.
In addition to what clarry said: do it piecemeal, and upgrade the sewers when you would be doing maintenance on them anyway.

Also: if necessary, do charge the developers, and use that to finance the upgrading work and perhaps some modest handouts to existing residents to compensate them for the trouble. (Perhaps have different parts of the city compete in an auction on who would accept the smallest handout to be upgraded first. Allow negative bids as well, in case some parts of the city positively want the upgrade.)
boost does not advertise being an header only library. Some boost libraries are header only, some offer hybrid modes, some require a library to be linked in. Each case is documented individually.

Boost is better thought as a loose collection of libraries that try to follow some common design principles instead of a single monolithic library.

I can't defend the build system though.
45 km/h is the speed limit of the AM license that you can get while being 14 years old.
I worked remotely for almost 8 years. Even managed a team of 10 developers remotely. I loved it as it gave me 2-3 hours each day for exercise and meditation. The only issue was I could not establish a clear work start and end time.
They just released a microserver gen10+ .... and that one just switched from opterons back to xeon's.

I'd like to see EPYC's and Ryzens, but i'm not holding my breath
yes, but this is a mock-up of a real freeze. What I want is independent of tmux: a way to freeze a process and all its children and save it into a file. The file is then opened when rebooting, or even on a different computer. There was this:

https://github.com/maaziz/cryopid
Good point! We will evaluate our pricing next month and make it more competitive and attractive while at the same time keep the business healthy.
Dependence of earthquake times and independence of magnitudes on history [pdf]
Really? I have repeatedly called people on FB, accidentally every time...
Interestingly a fair few famous academics from earlier times were quite wealthy. I think they used to be called "men of letters".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavendish

This guy managed to get a measurement of G (the one from high school physics) in his basement IIRC.
I noticed that a lot of "younger" developers working on software for Windows are unaware of the fact that nearly "everything" in plain old Win32 gets created as a Window: Buttons, Comboboxes, ListViews, etc. - they all rely on "CreateWindow" / "CreateWindowEx".
> I am willing to bet you $1000 that in 2030 there are more jobs on general $job_board of your choice that mention Perl than Raku.

Bet taken. With the current rate of Perl's decline, I think that's a very safe bet to take.

> I'll be 70, I think you'll be in your 80s.

I know I'm an old hack, but not that old: I'll be 73 for 98% of 2030.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Nhost provides: Database, API, Auth, Storage.

Next on the road map: Cloud Functions, Hosting, Crash Reporting.

We try to go from the core and outwards. Hope it makes sense.
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> used to be the Vatican astronomical observatory.

The observatory was later moved to Castle Gandolfo:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory

After the light pollution got too bad, its use was retired, and now things are run out of Arizona:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Advanced_Technology_Te...

The head dude is Brother Guy, and he has some interesting interviews if you search for him:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Consolmagno
I think some US employers still took the attitude that women who took significant time off to have a baby were not wanted back as late as the late 70s/early 80s. Like, I was told, the State of New York.
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Why you make me think hard with pct? Why not just use a % sign?
http://web.archive.org/web/20170806002037/https://www.reddit...
If you find that excessive, do you also consider that founders of startups should relinquish their shares "to the public domain" after some time?
Alfred Nobel started the prize because his obituary was accidentally published, putting him in a bad light and he wanted to be remembered differently - we benefit from this prize today, in spite of his destructive business activities. I think it's fair to mention the fact that it was due to Price being accused of overpaying himself that the situation got turned around to be something valuable for his company and staff. However, I don't think it's fair to vilify him in the present day and discredit the results.
I wish websites would stop enforcing a "password policy". An insecure password should be a choice. If you are so sure you cannot secure your site, leave authentication to a third party provider. All this leads to is zillions of user accounts that are used only once.
Puppetry 3.2 is out. Now it supports Headless Chromium/Chromium/Chrome/Firefox
Remote work hasn't been a thing all my life, but now that (and where) it is, I've never seen people act like that, so I don't know why you're declaiming against it.
Exactly. Harmonic progression is probably the most important part of this, as it imparts context on the melody. The same melody over I-V-IV-vi and vi-V-IV-V is not the same thing.
This is generally called Jevons paradox: When you make something more efficient, demand rises because it is more efficient, which in the end leads to using more of the base resource (but getting a lot more for it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox#
> Most of them don't even hold a driving license

This is absolutely not true in the UK, and probably not in most major cities. The overwhelming proportion of cyclists here are adults, and many have decided to take up cycling after already going through the normal rite-of-passage of learning to drive.

Base on data from the national travel survey, it's estimated that 83% of cyclists hold a driving license in the UK[1]. Given that figure, an increase in cycling traffic will definitely cause a proportional decrease in motorised traffic.

1. https://www.cyclinguk.org/statistics
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I think RubberDuck shows a lot of potential, it just needs the speed and stability improved now.
Most of the "good" component libraries are what i'd consider to be open source for PR purposes, e.g. Atlassian's Atlaskit. You wouldn't use them unless you really want your UI to look like another company's.

I'm intrigued by Tailwind UI though, it looks like it might be the right balance between feature set and brand agnosticism.
"The move towards investing more in gold bullion is both reactionary"

The market seems to be moving towards US Treasuries too.
I mostly agree.

>cars need much less maintenance these days.

And, especially if you lived somewhere with snow and salt on the roads, they mostly lasted about 50K miles before they rusted out. Growing up, it was an unusual car that made it to 100K.

That said, minor repairs of otherwise functional gear can make sense. I'm generally in agreement on electronics. But I fairly commonly repair or have repaired hiking or camping gear for example that just needs some stitching to get back in working condition.
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