skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may not be using the software as intended, but I like to move windows around with the title bar. Chrome was the first I noticed hostility against this with a small title bar, but all browsers have followed.
Well, I don't think this is fair, either. As someone points out in the thread before making some good points to OP, this topic is discussed ad nauseam in React's github issues and elsewhere.

There are many good discussions online about this and all the different solutions out there with different trade-offs. And the Suspense system is what the React team came up with to solve it.

I don't see how someone wanting to rehash the discussion requires any other answer than "we're solving this with X, it's just not yet available."

This is one of the most common trope of any sort of forum system, github issues included: everyone thinks they're the first person to broach a topic, yet everyone else has seen it 1000s times.
That statement requires quantitative and qualitative qualification. I know of people who are running sites with multimillion visits and revenue using a basic monolith. One even runs a Wordpress install configured with decent caching to serve millions of visits an hour.

If you are read heavy, offloading static assets to a CDN and having good caching will get you very far. If need be, you can load-balance between databases and you’ll still go very far.

Micro-services is not necessarily synonymous with scale.
But also an expert in virology, HIV, and a Nobel prize winner.
Python is missing a nice simple way to ship native executables. If you have to send people a package to unpack that's an extra step. In theory you can use freeze, but configuring it all is a pain.
Why call python from Rust? I think calling rust from python would make more sense. Use it to optimize python functions like how python libraries do with with C (i.e. numpy)
This is great! In a way it's like the output was a question rather than an answer.

This is quite similar to education research on Teachable Agents [1], which is an embodiment of the idea that to know something you must be able to teach it to someone else. In Teachable Agents you teach the computer rules (e.g. how ecosystems work), and then it gets a quiz where it compares the output to the right answer. When its wrong, you as the teacher must figure out whether the rules you taught it were correct and/or if it needs more rules.

Teachable Agents works for things where there's a right or wrong answer, because the computer is doing the test proctoring. But in your method the human is doing that, and I think it works quite well for things of a more qualitative nature like the arts, with the human playing the role of the critic or curator.

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2015/04/teachable-agents-making...
Not that I know of, but I've always thought there was a cool project opportunity for a Mario Party-esque platform of minigames with room-code join-by-phone controllers.

Sony has the "PlayLink" platform on PS4 but it didn't seem to get much headway. The only game I saw any awareness of in my circles was "That's You". Looked neat enough but mostly drew Jackbox comparisons.
There are no grandmas that can save money anymore. The wealthy can afford to pay so much for housing that real working people can even afford it. The wealthy consume so much simply because they can. And there are a LOT more of them thanks to financial engineering.
Alert me when a bill is over a specified confidence interval.

For example, if my bill is $10/month +- $5 (std), then it will alert me if it exceeds $6.49 more than the $10/month (the 80% confidence interval.) This is useful for phone bills which can go up by a certain amount (e.g. long distance) but don't have a fixed threshold. If they're over by a few dollars for a few months then I've probably added an add-on, but there's no "fixed" amount that it should be, just that it's not too much more than it was.
Ask HN: Brave browser as a platform for the legal industry?
Please roast me on the technical merits of this failed proposal to Mozilla MVP Builder. I'm now looking at the possibility of Brave, rather than Firefox. I'm limited to 2000 characters here, so most of the application has been cut out.

XXXXXX is an open-source, privacy-based, distributed web platform for the online delivery of legal services to the public.

The proposal is to fork Firefox and introduce an open-source, decentralized, privacy-based, distributed web platform that is a search engine & browser, and profile & file directory for consumers, a site hosting and content management system for lawyers, and a legaltech app store. Make a separate source of truth, away from the fake news and scammers, and a platform for authorized practitioners and vetted legaltech companies to serve more people, with permissioned, universal login IDs & profiles.

What this means is the consumer will see a web interface much like Firefox, (after download), and will be able to search for legal services, both lawyers and apps, and then create their universal profile on an as-needed basis to be able to give permission to the applicable legal service of their choice. The search results will be limited to authorized legal service providers, and the app store view will be only vetted, privacy-based legaltech apps. The consumer will be able to upload files relevant to their legal matter and have a folder system, much like Google Drive to work with. In this way, the consumer can discreetly get proper legal information, and interact with legal service providers without the fear of being tracked, or having their information shared or sold, (like the existing ad-based and data mining services that exist now).

Thanks so much, Blake
This was really well explained and interesting.

Funnily enough I'm pretty sure this is a really similar method to urinal design, so if this whole basketball thing doesn't work out for ya, you could always work for American Standard...
I love Grant Sanderson's YT channel. His video on Fourier transforms is amazing.
Nowadays the hottest business model is to throw out a piece of software for "preview", and asks your customers to pay to beta-test it, and then grow it to maturity gradually during a 2-3 years span.

Guess it's very good looking to the bankers, especially if you manage to pull off a subscription model, which many of them did.

Compare Power BI nowadays with an earlier version 18 months ago or even 12 months ago, and you know what I'm saying. I mean I'm fine for patches, but a lot of basic functionalities are missing from very early versions. That's beta testing, not patching.
Did you install Arch from scratch or are you using Manjaro, etc? I love Arch but I've never installed from scratch. It's on a my bucket list. I'm currently using Endeavour OS, which is easy-install Arch Linux with way less bloat than Manjaro. It's awesome. I'll never install a *buntu type system again.
See also "In England, rhubarb is grown by candlelight" as discussed here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746707
That sounds like a conspiratoral worry. Hospitals are all lying? We should just publish overall death rates long with traditional death rates and known cv cases. it's guaranteed there are missed cv tests. In Seattle they have not had enough cv tests to 'bother' testing the sad cases of large numbers of people dying, even in the famous kirkland senior citizen homes.
There's definitely a dialog between Move semantics in C++ and Rust's ownership model.

If I weren't a C++ programmer first, I don't know that I would really grok the value proposition of Rust (not dealing with Move Constructors) or the trade-offs (library code has to provide differently-named functions that trash resources as an optimization, rather than just providing an overload that eats temporaries).
> Looking back, do you think you would have accomplished as much as you did had you balanced your life - for example, "spent" those 4 years going on the occasional date?

A resounding “yes”. Not because I would have been less burnt out, but because I would have less tunnel vision (which is a symptom of focusing on 1 thing so hard for so long). Less tunnel vision = broader perspective. I think I would have contributed more to the growth of our company faster had I slowed down and not turned down every social engagement to “reply to just a few more emails or push that last bug fix”.

I would 100% have done it differently. Looking back, those “last few emails” and “last few bug fixes” were not nearly as important to our company as keeping my social circle (and by proxy, dating life) intact.

I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say I regret it, because a lot of good things happened that may not have if I weren’t as focused. Probably easiest to sum it up by saying if I could tell my younger self 1 thing, it would be that being a successful founder / having a successful exit will only be as rewarding as the people you have to share it with (family, friends, significant other). Money on its own to a single person is worth very little
I wasn't defending Bezos - just putting forward the situation at the time. I feel the idea that this is some brilliant forward plan of domination isn't correct, sure it was a possibility but the element of risk was one that everyone else walked away from. Respect to him for that, having said that, I disagree with a lot of his business practices, but that seems to be the current business environment - he's just working within the rules. The rules need to change.
Well that's analogical reasoning at work. Physics would remind you that drag is proportional to velocity squared, so going say 3x faster would encounter 9x more resistance over 1/3rd the time for an energy requirement 3x more than the slow boat.

That's back of the envelope, but it's in the ballpark. Going faster costs more.
Large-scale antibody test suggests Covid-19 cases underreported by factor of 50
The designers took over. They finally gained power and with it, unfortunately, users lost out.

In my unified theory of organizations, the organization is eventually taken over by the employees/"servants" and instead of serving the constituents it becomes about serving themselves.

Think Congress, teacher's unions, USPS, IT depts.

In programming it's resume driven development, playing with new toys constantly instead of delivering solutions.
TFA actually mentioned that point specifically, if you read it...

> I went into it thinking they’d lied to us, hoping to prevent hoarders from buying up so many masks that there weren’t enough for health workers. Turns out that’s not true. The CDC has been singing the same tune for the past ten years. Swine flu, don’t wear masks. SARS, don’t wear masks. They’ve been really consistent on this point. But why?

Quoted text included this link: https://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/masks_cdc.png
fair point! I guess we can also look at the success of Golang and attribute it to similarity to C.

I remember I was able to do all the Go's online tutorial in couple of hours because it was so familiar to me.

To your point, if you want to make BEAM more accessible to broader audience, making it more C like will increase the odds of success.

Thanks for the detailed reply! I'll keep an eye on it for sure. I never liked Elixir's syntax, so maybe Gleam will be the way to go if someone like me wants to play with Phoenix.
https://github.com/allo-/virtual_webcam_background
Let me quantify that sacrifice in a US-centric way with some napkin math to ballpark:

328.2 million (Approximate population of the US [1]) * 80% for herd immunity (based on an R0 5.7 [2]) * 1% = 2.6 million people die.

If the fatality rate is 0.5% instead, then 1.3 million people die
If the fatality rate is 0.1%, we're still looking at ~260k-ish people.

That's pretty grim.

This situation is still developing so hopefully those numbers get adjusted downwards as later information becomes available.

For reference, ~1.2 million people died to heart attacks and cancer in 2017. [3]

[1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
[2] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
All the horror stories in this thread make me wonder why these banks were allowed to be (profiting) middlemen in this lending program at all.
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has similarities to today's pandemic
This is really neat! Have you considered an ML-like module system, with functors and such? I'd be curious if they could be connected with Erlang's processes somehow :)
For pytorch it would probably be easier to do something based off the pytorch C++ interface.
Can anyone explain what we are seeing here? I’ve never had an Apple II, unfortunately.

The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? Or does it understand vt220 instructions natively?

What is this interface, an editor?

Very cool stuff nonetheless.
Same here. We're seeing very out-of-season numbers. In fact we saw another massive uptick this week that was suspiciously timed with the stimulus direct deposits going out (Tuesday/Wed morn).
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for payment for a product you make.

Things cost money. If it’s too expensive for your taste, make your own theme or choose one of the many other free open source themes.

I personal will not be buying this theme, but I see why he does sell something he created.
I think that's right - was thinking about adding "packs" like Pokemon or Celebrities, etc. to make it even easier to play! But submitting your own words or phrases makes it personal, and dynamic (different every occasion)
I don’t get the point you are trying to make here. The concord used a certain set of technologies and this aircraft uses another set of technologies with their own challenges. I mean I guess the concord was also a large supersonic passenger plane, but the similarity is largely superficial.
What's crazy is Gimp has always felt user-hostile to me. Loads of other people share this complaint. With every new release, there are people recommending giving it a second/third/fifty-third shot saying "They finally made it easy to use this time!"

At this point it feels like a prank that's been going on for a quarter century.
The League of Nations was created by the winners of WWI and disbanded by the events of WWIIz exactly as parent wrote.
I not sure what you are getting it. My position is I should consider the way businesses I use treat their workers. If a business treats them like shit then I may likely choose to stop doing business with them, even if it inconveniences me.
It's convenient to believe that he causes his own problems by chasing wealth

That's not at all what I said by any stretch of the imagination. I said "These are good problems to have. Having some perspective on that fact can help you face them more calmly."

not trying to get filthy rich will not cure your problem.

There are actually loads of people who report otherwise. There are myriad books by people who chose to walk away from the rat race and report gleefully that life is better now because they made that choice.

"How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long is one such book. He paid cash for a house in the country so he could grow his own food and have low taxes and damn little need for actual cash.

There are many such stories.

That doesn't mean no one should ever try to pursue their dreams or seek to strike it rich. But it's a completely valid choice to say "I find this too stressful and would rather do anything else. What are my options for just refusing to play this game?"
It's not about getting rid of rich people. It's about the relative flow of wealth and the behavior of rich people that makes life miserable for 'the rest of the 99%'. how about housing? The digital divide? These are negative externalities from the increasingly large numbers of extraordinarily wealthy people. Inflation will never happen no ,matter how much money the govt prints. Since when does a lower Fed rate help the common man who cannot even get a loan? Since when does the purchase of massive amounts of Tbills help the guy who doesn't have a job? These ancient economic tools date from the time before derivatives, before financial giants and their complex tools. It goes to financial vehicles which just invest it in more financial vehicles.
A small business owner in NYC that has a huge youtube following
I’m not talking trade policy. It makes sense to get summer crops from South America in winter/spring! It ridiculous to get months old apples from there. The US regulatory and monetary system facilitates big players.

Today you have buyer cartels purchasing in bulk and fixing prices. They demand quantities and pricing that shut the market to most players.

I can’t buy lettuce in NY at retail because the supply chain from Arizona and California is fubar. Farmers in NY will be harvesting lettuce from high tunnels soon, but they don’t have access to markets and can’t scale.
This week Poland used Antonov 225 to ship Ppe from China to Warsaw. That plane cost for 30k per hour which mean a single shipment might cost 1M.
[video] Nebraska retired mailman uses low cost geothermal to grow citrus in -20F snowy weather -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
Wow, we're both right.

Double tap on Android 10 in both Chrome and Firefox will select a word in mobile-friendly websites (I tried on https://PhotoStructure.com ) and will do the iOS-zoom-to-fit-bounding-box on websites that aren't (like TFA).

This certainly speaks to an increase in complexity/inconsistency.
But that is the point. Selection bias towards those that are actually infected is minimized when a large portion of the population have the time and desire to get tested.
I run 3-5 miles most days, so I don’t think it was a lungs issue. I was wearing it very tightly—maybe I made a mistake, but I’m pretty sure it was on right.
Hey, thank you for sharing this! `puppeteer-social-image` is perfect for a side project I have where I want to generate images for riddles (both for social media using `og:image` and inline with the content of the page).
convexity!
Performance Battle: Flask vs. Falcon vs. Actix-Web vs. Rocket vs. Nestjs
You prepare for a 1 in 10 chance event which other people don't prepare for; i.e. is you act exactly as if you think it will certainly happen, but you tell yourself you don't think it will certainly happen?

This sounds like a distinction without meaning. Using "people mistake my preparation for me believing that it will happen, so they are dumb" is weird. You're acting as if you think it will happen, of course people think you think it will happen. Why else would you bother preparing? You're not buying 10% of the sandbags you'd need, you're buying 100% of them because nothing else would do.

"Oh but I'm smarter" but your belief is leading you to take the same actions as the person who thinks 10% == yes, so in what way is it smarter? In what way is it different?
how much are they for on ebay?
the old apple machines of course
Sure, I've never even used pytorch. But I'm just saying python has a fair bit of data analysis and ml tools that probably haven't found native homes in rust
Weinstein acts right but talks left. He hoards his hundred millions and goads students to take back MIT. He gives lip service to Aaron Schwartz without doing anything to reduce the digital divide. He is an establishment hypocrite. He is a whiner. (weiner?)
Yep, we also got a massive spike in organic traffic as well possibly due to stay at home orders.
In my opinion budgeting apps conflate accounting with budgeting.

Categorizing bank charges is accounting. Spending money then categorizing expenses is a terrible way to budget in my experience. It’s backwards.

I separate my income into different accounts, then spend from those accounts.

This has many advantages:

- Not possible to overspend.

- Extra money rolls over.

- No time wasted accounting, labeling, reconciling, etc.

- No need to share transaction history or credentials with budgeting apps.

Privacy.com let’s you create virtual credit cards with spending limits. That’s the closest thing to my ideal budgeting app, but the limitation is I can’t withdraw cash.

The app I want is a bank that can easily create multiple accounts and associated debit cards.

Before online shopping this was simple, I just had to take out the cash I needed for the different categories and keep them separate.
I don't see what you're referring to, but either way, isn't this kind of complaint just a little childish?
Personally loved win 7 the most!!
That is super cool, thank you!
I always thought it was odd that .com, .org, and .net were international but .gov, .edu, and .mil was US only.
I don't think the economic climate has hit the part where people are budget constrained yet.
#4 makes me laugh because I had that thought when I was trying to work with bluetooth. I think the real problem is two-fold. The original spec required approval from all members of the consortium. I think a lot of things were left out that are really important, such as security. I know they had security from the start, but really, it's bullshit. Plus the original chipsets were incredibly expensive, and my pure speculative thought is that they cut corners (the firmware part) to bring them out to market. I was really surprised, shouldn't have been with hindsight, to see when bluetooth chipsets started to reach price parity with wifi chipsets.

The second thing is that much of the low level firmware for the stack is closed source stuff that is written in house. I suspect, after working with some of that shit, that it's poorly done and is a major cause of unreliability. Don't know if it would make any difference if it was open sourced, because the hardware/software combo is a lot like what you see with graphics cards. Everyone has their own secret sauce and they don't want to show it to the world.
The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II?

It looks like it's exactly that. The zany CHIP computer 'wifi modem' used to connect is itself a more powerful computer than the vintage 'terminal'.
It was too painful. Spent 6 years or so. I;ve given up. Honestly corporate salaries will earn you 3-4 million by the time you are 37 or so. Why bother with rinky dink startups anyways?
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Yes, he's using a terminal emulator, and a hardware device which does serial-to-wifi.
Just a question: Has anyone figured out serverless ml predictions yet?
I'm starting to see the recent interest as well, which I just wanted to complement.

I've made myself familiar with Erlang around 2011/2012? encouraged by the writing this amazing book [1]. which is still around and super amazing fast introduction IMHO. unfortunately I have never implemented anything of significance with it. maybe its time :)

[1]: https://learnyousomeerlang.com
I often notice times where my 20 year old self would have simply not slept, and instead I sleep for 6 hours and call it a necessary compromise.

I remember doing that when I was twenty. I also remember how useless I always was come 10AM, and how I could fall asleep standing by noon.

By and large I don't think I'm any less able to pull an all nighter, get really drunk, eat trash, or do the other things. I think I'm just a lot more aware of the consequences.
Recently moving from Fedora to a Mac to use my employer's computer one thing that's still very annoying to me after 6 months is the top menu bar that the Mac keeps fixed in the top of the monitor, even if I have the program window not occupying full screen.

I have a 4k 20 something inches monitor, so I keep around 4 different windows open. To go from a bottom right corner window to the top left corner File menu is a long trip.