skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I upgraded my main development machine - a 2013 11" Air (yes, seriously) to a new-to-me maxx'd out 13" 2015 MBP. I do "heavyweight" local development - IntelliJ, Java, Typescript, React, Postgres, etc.

It's faster than my Air, mostly from going 8 -> 16GB of RAM, and the high-resolution screen is great. But it still feels pretty slow and IntelliJ can get sluggish at times. The MBP has a 3.1GHz i7 so at least on paper it doesn't seem materially slower from the current gen of processors. Maybe memory speed is the issue? 1867 MHz DDR3 vs 3733MHz LPDDR4X in the new Air?

I miss the 11" form factor, but I guess that's a lost cause.

The 2015 MBP bought me (cheap) a couple years while Apple sorts out their keyboard issues, but I'm already looking forward to a replacement. It's just ok.
I don't think you fully appreciated my comment. I've looked at now 100+ documents from that list. Not a single one has had actual content related to the web standard.

I was finally able to find one, by looking elsewhere: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/. You include 8 copies of the css-grid-1 standard in your count. So of the small fraction of documents that are actually web standards, you're miscounting by an order of magnitude. In other words, I expect that the actual count here is off by 2 orders of magnitude and that the real size of the "relevant" web standard is 1-2 million words, and the rest is just bad measurement.

> Out of curiosity, is it your intention to also look for flaws in my approach to word-counting the non-web specs I compared against?

No, I think pointing out a 2-3 order of magnitude mistake in your methodology speaks for itself.

> They felt this necessary to document, so I included it. The same is true of other specs I compared against, such as POSIX.

The posix spec includes examples and docs yes. But so do the actual web specs (see again the css grid spec doc). What the posix spec doesn't include is a parallel version of the docs meant entirely for posix users, that is wholly irrelevant to people who are building a posix shell. Again, you're including an analysis of which PDF readers to test the accessibility of the PDF you're writing in an analysis of web standards.

Edit:

For an even more egregious example, https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xpath-datamodel-30-20130108/ is one of eighty versions of the xpath datamodel spec that you count, and xpath isn't even an officially supported browser thing.
I’m wondering whether the USB-C port will support data as well. I’m hoping, but Apple is... quixotic.
As someone that once ran a company I could have easily and without malice been accused of something like wage fixing had I not had a partner more wise than me. Recruiter called, told me he wanted to recruit my employees. I asked my partner. My partner said it was up to the employee to decide, not us.

My gut would have been different. I would have considered that losing some of those employees could have killed the company and then all the other employees would be out of a job. I don't know that's the decision I would have made but the thought would have crossed my mind and it's possible I'd have made the wrong decision not knowing it was illegal.

The point I'm trying to make is it's possible Mr. Cathmull had no malicious intent and thought he was doing the right thing at the time to protect a 400 person company. If true that doesn't excuse the actual crime but it does mean he might not be the monster he's being painted to be here.

Half of HN seems to worship Steve Jobs who was also caught wage fixing. No excuse for him either.
My wife made a joke about a bidet a few years ago, so also as a joke I bought us one for her birthday. The $60 attachment kind where you just plumb in a splitter from the source that fills the toilet tank.

It was a hit, so we bought one for family friends for a birthday - high hilarity as we heard the reports from their kids - and then more for our extended family at Christmas. Shocked reactions around the Christmas tree.

The response has been amazing, people saying things like "How did I do without this my entire life??" and "How was I such a savage before??" On vacation at AirBnBs we are looking forward to going home just so we can have a bidet again.

In most cases, you don't even need the extra features, like fan or warm water. Regular cold water is nowhere near as bad as you'd assume.
Depending on the region your infrastructure is located in, AWS doesn't own the datacenter.

For example in the Paris (eu-west-3) region, their availability zones are operated on hardware owned and managed by Telehouse, Interxion and Equinix.
There is no pipe or hose that connects to your toilet with a valve? The one I have can attach either at the valve or at the tank where the water enters the toilet.
"Object REXX, 1996, International" seems a bit thin for an encyclopaedia entry.
This is not what would happen in a bankruptcy in the airlines industry. They would file for Chapter 11 which lets them re-negotiate with creditors instead of having to liquidate everything. Who are the creditors? Pilots union, flight attendant union, etc. Sometimes the airlines don't own all their planes, they lease them from a holding company. The airlines would say "take an 10% haircut on benefits the next 5 years or else we will liquidate and you'll get nothing". Then they'll re-emerge from bankruptcy with a healthier balance sheet with future liabilities lowered and a better cash flow.
Along with being young and healthy, the people going out in public to do things should wear gloves and a mask if possible. You might be relatively safe, but you still might take up a hospital bed, and you still might transmit it.
I built this project for developers that work with geospatial data like I do. I use it to create, test, and inspect GeoJSON data and I think it might be useful for others! Let me know what you think.

If you click on a layer name, you can:

- make a bounding box

- create a buffer

- create a grid of squares, hexes, points, or triagles

- intersect with another polygon

- tesselate

- convert to WKT

- compare center vs weighed centroid

- view area/height/width

- split multi-polygons into their individual polygons

Other features include:

- include new polygons from a library

- create polygons from the viewport

- make random polygons

- copy layers as GeoJSON
The shiny new macs being advertised today will ship with a terminal that is compatible with standards established 45 years ago. That's quite a humbling thing to realise.

I'm sure the various character sets, error correction and parity, control codes etc constituted standards hell for terminals back in the day. But a solid set of conventions seems to have survived.

I'm not sure how much of HTML will survive in 45 years, and with what historical 'depth of field'. Is it more likely to contain <marquee> or web components?
Bidets are great in hot humid climates that lack much AC, but can be uncomfortable in colder climates unless the heat is turned up a lot.
> Flutter is the future of cross platform mobile development. Developers in the US are going to be late to the party at the current pace.

So what? all the devs must rewrite their mobile apps in Flutter just because it is "the future"?
Org-roam: Roam Research replica with Org-mode
Watch Helvetica for free this week
the new company could just rehire all non exec-employees.
> For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with keys it can be up to ~(total number of panes - 1).

You're not taking into account moving your hands from the keyboard and to the mouse, shacking it to find which where and on which screen your mouse cursor is located, and then putting your hands back on the keyboard after the resize.

However what we're really arguing about is negligible micro-optimisations anyway so it's a little silly to say one is faster or slower than another. :)

> It's also a single config option to enable all mouse functionality, whereas setting up keybindings do just the resizing takes several lines.

Keybindings for selecting and resizing panes are already defined in tmux's defaults. You don't need to configure nor enable it. However it is something you'd need to look up, commit to memory, then muscle memory after. Which I guess creates enough of an hurdle that many people haven't bothered to jump.
I tell everybody that a $50 sprayer attachment will get you 80% of the benefit of a full-on bidet toilet.
I don't know who made the website but shouldn't the least volunteered ones be at the top.
Just pray it can't interface with a 3D printer.
Crafting Interpreters is in two parts. AFAIK each part corresponds to one of Thorsten Ball’s two books.
Take 2008, for instance. The Fed injected $4 trillion. Why? Because $4 Trillion evaporated in the crash. The result was that we didn't have a deflationary meltdown, but it didn't result in inflation.
People like to say post industrial and post information societies but neither of those are true. We rely on both quite heavily and should learn from things like this pandemic that we can't trust to outsource all our manufacturing to other countries especially military rivals like China who will naturally cut us off when we have a war over Taiwan when China really starts flexing.
If the government is going to play kingmaker and choose which business succeed and fail, the profit for those moves should go back to the government, not just the old shareholders.

>I don't want to see long-term crowding out of private investment.

This really wouldnt be that different than Blackrock and Vanguard and State Street controlling like 10% of the market, except the government wouldnt be a passive investor, they would exert some form of control over controlled companies.

It almost seems like cheat mode, for the government to say "we wont let this undervalued stock collapse, watch us save it. now its worth more (naturally because we saved it.) profit."
It has a fan that goes and sucks the air out of the bowl when someone sits on it and blows the air through a charcoal filter. It also has adjustable nozzles(position, heating, oscilation, pressure). It is so over the top, but after a few days of "this is weird", it just becomes awesome and I miss it when I'm away from home.
54,443 individual Coronavirus case details. Multiple sources, updating hourly
Kabas.online Is Off
Anyone knows what happened with kabas.online page or initiative? My 7 years old kid used it 2 years ago and some how he remember it, now when I look the site is gone. :(
/command

* http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html

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Are these airport names? Just clicked for me. Is this typical across the industry? I think I remember Rackspace also using ord and iad...
Don't forget that it is backlit and because it has power in also adds effectively an additional USB C port, thow in a case and you are well over the top. The current Smart Keyboard Folio + Magic Trackpad 2 is $310.
Considering how Apple prices its products, $100 for 10 Gigabit Ethernet seems very cheap. Actually it is cheaper than most PCI-e cards.
Another thing to note is that the virus will overwhelm emergency rooms world wide and deprive many other patients of adequate care that will cause some unnecessary death.

So it isn't just virus deaths you have to factor in.
Packing the Tundra with Animals Could Slow Arctic Melt
You'll figure it out, and you'll kick yourself for not having done it sooner. It's all much easier than you're imagining. I had the same concerns, and am a complete convert now.
24-Hour Spring Live Virtual Cloud Native Conference
What I got from the book is how much luck was involved (which Mr. Catmull acknowledges). If Lucas had not sold them. If Lucas had sold them to someone other than Steve Jobs. If Steve Jobs had not been willing to blow 70 million on them as a computer company. If Steve Jobs had not allowed them to pivot to animation after blowing 70 million on them as a computer company. If any one of those things had not happened Pixar would likely not exist and Mr. Catmull would likely just be another employee of some other company.
They're using custom T2 chip which is known to control flash storage, so I'm not sure about SSD.
I get the differences, I'm not making an argument for any single language to be dominant or anything.

I'm not learning C# because I think it is bad ;)

As for debuggable, I'm not sure I know enough about C# to comment on that but I find JavaScript ... "debuggable".
I can't imagine too many puritanical Americans onboard with bestowing so much pleasure upon their anus. It could lead to dancing.
add on to what the other reply said, the second part is in pure c which means it likely gets far more gritty details as this book has to implement it's own hash map for storing the symbol table, since c doesn't have a huge standard library the way go does (note part 1 is in Java when he's building the AST runner instead of a bytecode compiler)
> I'm not going to buy a 4k screen with the intention of running it at 1080p.

He is not talking about not running 4k. He is talking about running more than 4k framebuffer scaled down to 4k (the "more space" option in Display control panel).
POSIX does not specify the path of anything. It says that "sh" is a shell, but doesn't say that "/bin/sh" is that shell. See: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

I believe that in Solaris before Solaris 10, /bin/sh was the original Bourne shell (which didn't comply with POSIX), and in Solaris 10 it's ksh (which isn't either, but is way closer): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/538844/does-posix-g...

Also, I don't think that "#!" is specified in POSIX. It's extremely common, it's just not in the specification. This is similar to find's "-print0" option, which also isn't in the POSIX specification but basically everyone implements it.

If you want a specification of "where things go", the closest one in practice (and one that most modern distributions try to follow) is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS): https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html
Are companies really laying people off this early? It's still unclear what the exact economic impact on tech companies will be.

If they are stopping interviews, I bet it's just due to the social distancing requirements. Once they figure out remote interviews it will restart again.
I don't think that fiat currency issuers have infinite power to suppress the price of gold, because they have at most limited amounts of gold to sell. They can certainly increase the price an infinite amount, though.
Ah man! I was kind of excited to see that a whole new OS was emerging. Is it now going to be swallowed up by a more popular OS?
This comment turns out to be a tangent. But has anyone looked at whether gamification increases stress/anxiety/depression among social app users?
Ask HN: Facebook Portal TV Alternative
As we're all going to be spending a lot more time indoors, and not seeing friends and family face to face, can we come up with alternatives to Facebook Portal TV for staying in touch?

I'd like my toddler to be able to do virtual playdates without it being routed via a 5" screen. I'd like to be able

Ideally

- something cheap (e.g. leveraging old phones, or things people already have, or are cheap), and easy to set up and use so that it's not just my rich techy friends that get on board

- something secure, so my techy friends get on board

- connects to the TV

- HDMI-CEC for activation/control would be nice
You might be interested in weboob then.
I am not using it, but I know they provide lots of small apps to access different websites.
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I think the books are complementary. There is definitely a different style in how they present info. I like both.
So how do you work on the toilet (as in, replace the flap or fill valve) without access to a water shutoff?
Not really. Microsoft actually borrowed that term from elsewhere (the term has existed longer than Microsoft have existed).
Are there individual break rooms, or change rooms, or kitchens? No work requiring a small group?
I picked up the new 2018 Air right after the redesign, 16gb and 512 ssd model. I have had no problems with xcode doing iOS dev (even using simulator on occasion), vscode and nodejs/redis/mysql working fine, also no problems running windows in parallels desktop, it’s super fast and quiet!

Great machine, only wish I had waited for the true tone and keyboard redesign but those are minor, have grown to love the keyboard.
Agreed. Even in television production, audio quality is seen as the most important part of the medium. If you lose video, the audience is not going to miss as much as if they lost audio (in most cases). This is even more true for conferencing. Of course, we didn't even have video in conferencing for the longest time.
Me too actually. Especially while singing. Anything over 7ms or so and I find it really hard to not sound like an idiot
Well, if any task should be robot-automated, it should be this one!
A Society Riddled with Suspicion and Paranoia
Reminds me of this article from 2011 blowing my mind... 12,500 cores for Pixar's Cars 2

https://www.cnet.com/news/new-technology-revs-up-pixars-cars...
Thanks. I think hologram portraits are the next direction, but any ideas on what else would make it more interesting?
Consensus Network for Autonomous Agents
To be fair there is a useful difference between /usr and /opt being that /usr and /usr/local are prefixes so software designed to be installed in a prefix can commingle sanely.

/opt is for programs that don’t follow any sort of FHS and need to be installed in their own world. Google Chrome and Mathematicia come to mind.

/opt/local makes total logical sense as the counterpart to /usr/local.
I get the feeling that ChromeOS would break your heart like it does mine. It's like most of the iPad Experience, plus the android tablet app heartbreak plus WSL wrapped into what I personally think in V82 is the best terminal app I have ever seen. It's all kinds of 'THIS IS AMAZING' while also being 'THIS IS HORRIBLE'
I'm not a practiced germ-o-phobe. There is certainly a risk that I will mess up and touch my face without disinfecting my hands.

Given this, would shopping for my neighbors even be helpful? I'd hate to be the one doing them in..
The Dell XPS series is awful for this; the camera is mounted below the screen, I guess to reduce the top bezel? It makes you look atrocious.
The "aim" is to cover an interval with "simple" rationals (where a rational with a smaller denominator is defined as simpler)
Unless your name is Randall Munroe :)

https://xkcd.com/555/
It is not technically open source, but 'source provided' until there is an OSS license provided.
PS5 vs. Xbox Series X Comparison Chart
Maybe ISAs wouldn't be a bad thing if these "schools" actually provided some value. But they mostly look to me like improvised garage schools providing the same knowledge that could be easily found online for free or for small fixed price + a sloppy support system that doesn't even remotely replicate the educational support system of traditional schools.

If they really want to disrupt education don't start by attempting to create some sort of novel pseudo-loan just to claim that they are tackling the student loans problem.

Start by creating an educational experience that can compete with top established schools by leveraging technology to cut costs and improve the learning of the students. Doing this would actually make the ISAs valuable, but you got to start by providing real quality.
The first thing that comes to my mind is accessibility. If browsers were simpler to create and the web were simpler, people could much more easily develop accessibility tools.

I think the privacy and tracker-blocking crowd would have a lot more options. You could also have browsers designed for low-power or weak-CPU environments. Better automatic limits on what code runs and when.

Next category I picture are browsers with really customized interfaces and displays. Different approaches to navigation, hotkeys. Tiling sites across the screen.

Browser functionality could be built into more devices and contexts (e.g. inside another application).

I know none of these is "staggering" but I'm one person brainstorming for five minutes. If enthusiasts and hobbyists all over the world could more easily tinker and try things out, who knows what ideas would pop up.
How do you turn off the water supply to the toilet? Is that part non-existent or inside the wall? Because that is where you normally install the splitter.
This might be TMI - and i'm totally serious - but in my case I suffer from severe bleeding if I do dry wipes. I purchase the "ultra-hard" (no flakes) variant of TP, dip about 1/4 of it into a cup of water, fold it in half, and then I wipe. Anywhere from 4-8 wipes, with the last wipe being a dry sheet to pat dry the area. This makes buying "standard" TP problematic for me, because that 1 sheet now turns into 2 or even 4 in order to prevent tearing up the TP during the wipe.
Those experiments could be wrong. They likely aren't and are like however many sigma accurate to the point that for all intents and purposes it's guaranteed to exist, but there's a reason that physisicts waited for 5 sigmabaccuracy before announcing the higgs for example. Other things people were really confident about existing because they thought they saw it, like a bacteria that causes influenza, with their own eyes, turned out to be false. you intellectually honest thing to say is that yes it is incredibly incredibly incredibly likely that DNA will not be falsified. But you can't say that with absolute certainty. it's not like in mathematics where you create the rules of the game and then can prove that within those rules you can accomplish XYZ which is a proof. We didn't write the rules of the universe.
They probably tried, but it was staggering to try to conceive.
> the profit for those moves should go back to the government, not just the old shareholders

If the government buys the assets at distressed prices and sells them at ordinary prices, it would?
Ask HN: Is is possible to add a “Read” menu option to HN
I know it can be accomplished by searching my browser history, but it would be convenient to have a section listing the HN articles I have read. My browser history does not include point scores and comment totals, both of which I find useful.
The Verge: "Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments"

In this case IP might mean Intolerable Pricks.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital...
Anecdote:

I remember in 2007 or '08 a colleague was assigned to Ericsson, to work on a time reporting "application" made in VBA, contained in a gigantic Excel spreadsheet. I also assisted in some troubleshooting.

It was called Tratten, swedish for "the funnel", and I remember him
telling me that when he presented it to some kind of stakeholder board and when said "sometimes, the application gives a 'read error'" and the whole board reverberated "read error?!" amongst themselves ...
Are you concerned about the hose to your tank leaking? What about the rest of your plumbing? Wrap teflon tape around the threads in the direction you will be screwing the connection on three times. Tighten with a wrench. If you are really paranoid, use pipe thread sealant after the teflon tape.
Even worse, we trust web browsers to manage passwords now too. This is insanity icing on top of the complicated cake that no one can understand.

I feel as if we are hurtling faster and faster to our ultimate doom. And all we seem to do is mash the gas pedal harder.
That's a good point, and outside of my personal development workflow. Condolences!
How am I picking winners and losers? We should try to keep any business open that doesn't unnecessarily increase the spread of the virus.