skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could look through past HN discussions of site designs, particularly minimalist ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12804406
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788244
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114037
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100377
https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1092221945427517440

FWIW, my own site's writeup is at https://www.gwern.net/About#design
When human life is meaningless and you don't have to make decisions around a pesky constitution and citizen rights, it's really easy to be prepared for anything.
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How does India, a country of 1.3B, have around 1k coronavirus deaths?
But the media is known to put misleading articles because it generates more ratings. This is no different.
The extensive use of lobbying to disenfranchise voters in favor of corporate agendas alone oppresses millions of people. This is no hyperbole.
In addition to the third of your day you work and the third of your day you sleep, you also need time for chores, hygiene, food consumption, etc.

Very few people have 8 hours to do things they enjoy in a day.
IMO most front end JS apps have to deal with data races over the wire with multiple API calls, so it’s more like a natural condition of driving.
> sun > supplements
This is interesting, a recent article/study mentioned this, it appears that there is a link between sunlight and lower blood pressure in dialysis patients among other benefits. It would also explain why death rates/severe covid-19 in warmer climates is lower than colder climates.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2410015/sun-exposure-blood-pre...
That sounds more likely to me, and completely agreed on the point that increased government for the sake of it has never been a point of conversation for me I can think of with someone who identifies as liberal where they were arguing that more government is the end goal, but there may be specific things they think the government should handle (healthcare). On the reverse, in my experience talking to more conservative people, I have had that topic of "smaller government" come up multiple times.

So my anecdotal experiences align with your points pretty well.
Incognito – Pop-Up Private Browser for iOS
I just launched a new iOS app: Incognito Browser. It lets you pop-up a private web browser from inside any app via the share sheet. It’s great for checking sketchy links, reloading a page without cookies (cough paywalls), or searching for text from anywhere. I hope you’ll check it out!
Yeah, I don't understand why this position needs defending. Both Google and Apple's app stores have major problems, and they could learn a little from each other.
Reduce and eliminate the government as much as possible. Does the US Federal government need to exist in any form? Somehow the UK is able to exist as an independent state.
I doubt it, Nintendo had huge success from the NES classic precisely because of their absurdly protective attitudes towards old games. They've managed to retain some level of serious value onto 35 year old games in an industry where many games are being given away for next to nothing within a few years of release.

I think they've pushed the NES stuff about as far as they possibly can and the NES classic was something of a final cash grab from those games, but they can absolutely still bleed some value from SNES onwards.

As far as that Tamiya model is concerned, surely Nintendo are doing about as close to that as they can within their medium with Link's Awakening on Switch? It's close to the exact same game, released at a price comparable to the original release, but with technological updates to make up for where the original would no longer match up?
All the posts on Matt's blog are pretty old. I'd asked him to please add dates to the articles to make this more clear but he was (and always is) very busy so I guess it didn't happen haha. I think the most recent post is at least a couple years old, though he does update the rest of the site (publications, current work, etc.).
Any editor can use sshfs.
I guess that's our answer. They'd rather say "not our fault" than even try to solve it?
Look at the external power supplies and the packaging thereof in the box to see the difference in ethos and approach.

Even these “nice” PC laptops still come with a PSU that has ugly plastic-coated white wraparound paper stickers and labels on the black cords with meaningless unimportant shit on them (leaving oily adhesive residue on the cord even if you cut it off), bricks in the middle of the cable (AC and DC lines out opposing ends), plastic twist ties, in plastic baggies covered in meaningless production stickers. Apple doesn’t even do that on the cheap AppleTV.

This is to say nothing of the ugly metallic stickers they slap on the wristrests to spam you for the life of the machine.

The janky plastic trackpads are one of many issues with the approach that most of the industry takes. There are very few machines that even remotely aspire the level of care Apple puts into their each and every product.

Apple also just overhauled the speaker system in the 16” rMBP, making it easily 50% better than any laptop I’ve ever heard. It’s startlingly good, sound I never thought I’d hear out of a laptop.

I’m at a place in life where I have broken my iMessage dependency and find KDE to be delightful; I would absolutely love to pay a premium for an equivalent quality PC laptop, but there aren’t any in the ballpark, even. There are ones that are merely “good” (Razer Blade), none “great” (though the Pixelbook Eve comes close!), and zero have ever been insanely so, AFAIK.

Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong!
Every MacBook Pro these days has the glaring issues of

* not having a top row of physical keys

* not being able to run Linux natively

* not integrating with any phones except the ones it makes

Apple just doesn't have the caliber of engineering or management to compete with PC manufacturers.
The suits control the purse strings, that's why they are powerful.

If you don't listen, you get shown the door and they'll pay someone who will listen.
Yep. Even in peak coronona over 90% of tests come back negative for covid-19.
You're saying no matter how much money you have, 10x the average national income, 100x, 1000x, there's no way you would risk _any_ loss of income by leaving your software developer job, regardless of what you were asked to do. Is that right?

To be clear, we're not talking about risking food & shelter here. We're talking about risking one fewer skiing holiday a year, or buying the house with the slightly smaller swimming pool.

Building tools for mass surveillance, undermining employment regulations worldwide, addicting people to abusive tech, exploiting warehouse workers, breaking the law, propping up authoritarian governments. There's nothing you can think of that you'd put above your family's luxuries?
I went through a similar progression. A couple of observations:

1) Part of what you experience is just gaining wisdom with age. You see how things really work, and you get disillusioned. The thrill of early experiences, does diminish over time. And that's not just software. The thrill of your first bicycle ride, is not reproducible. The sense of freedom you had, after that, riding around unsupervised -- that goes away too, obviously.

2) The word "tech" has changed radically over the years. I joined my first "high tech startup" in 1988. We really were doing technology that was just barely feasible at the time. The entire company was seven people -- founder, biz/ops guy, VP of engineering, four engineers. That was FUN. Figuring out how to solve these problems, seeing the parts come to life, seeing the whole thing come together, seeing it work for users as planned. In an environment like that, you really feel like you are doing something special, that you are lucky to be there, and you just want to spend all of your time on it. The fact that it might actually be worth serious money someday -- even better.

This incredibly exciting sense of being in a tech startup spread. Large companies would entice you by saying, this group is just like a startup within Megacorp. And I never understood how that fooled anyone. In that situation, you aren't scratching your itch, you are scratching Megacorp's itch, and that's a lot less exciting. There aren't seven of you. Outside your group, there are 700 or 7,000 or 70,000. Maybe you get a little bonus, or equity, but you don't own a chunk of the company YOU started.

However, Megacorp and similar companies definitely saw the advantage of getting their employees to commit to their work in the manner of startup employees, and so you get places like Google that gradually switch the incentive. First you want to be there all the time (back when Google was a startup). Then they make it enticing to be there all the time (campus, massages, gourmet dining, on-campus laundry and exercise, etc.). And finally, it's just expected. Being available and productive (or at least seeming to be) 24/7 is just the way things are at Megacorp these days.

And then finally, the last piece of it goes away: the interesting tech. "Tech" companies are no longer solving barely solvable, new problems. They are doing more of the same, implementing dull and possibly harmful goals for the sake of Megacorp. Megacorp is no more a tech company than it is an electricity company. It uses both to meet its goals, and you are merely someone familiar with either bits or electrons, using them in well-worn ways for the sole purpose of enriching Megacorp.

This is both a great pop song, and the lyrics really capture the disillusionment that sets in, although in a very different environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1-EPTAFE0o
I wonder why glibc isn't just using jemalloc when it seems to perform much better than what it currently has.
I almost agree with you... but it's not always that simple. I personally have little faith left in America, and would love to move somewhere else, but I have one fatal problem: I don't have a degree. Hardly any countries with better political prospects than America are interested in giving visas to anyone without one.

But even for those who do, a change of nationality is much more traumatic than a change of career. You risk leaving basically all of your family and friends behind, spending years integrating into a culture where you may not speak the language, and abnormally large expenses for moving and establishing yourself there... while I don't entirely disagree with you, it's not really on the same level as the arguments I'm presenting about career choices.
See the notes and Colab notebook in the source project repo: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple

I am working on a new text generation package which should be even more simple to use.
On a related note, what are some decent external touch pads? I would love to have one to give my mouse hand a break sometimes while at my desktop.
Because the data isn't random enough? They've done random studies in a bunch of places, including germany and california and the IFR is about 0.2% - 0.38% and it keeps getting lower. There's no way in hell the IFR is 1.3%, that's just media sensationalism .
OK. You should take your boilerplate media conspiracy content somewhere else, it has no place here.
> because recently several studies have shown an association between low Vitamin D levels and severe COVID-19 outcomes

Closer research shows it probably isn't relevant.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-th...
I honestly think a lot of it is just (bad) prioritization. An analogous situation; remember when Mac laptops had far, far better battery life than PC laptops? Like ridiculously better. People usually thought it was some magic property of the PowerPC; then Intel Mac laptops came out and they were still ridiculously better. Then Intel started taking it seriously, and a few Centrino revisions later the gap had narrowed dramatically.

I remember reading at the time that, when idle, the chipset in many PC laptops used more power than the CPU...
I'm not going to engage in some arcane debate about the particularities of random windows laptops vs. apple ones. The fact is that there are comparable windows laptops at this point when it comes to "bezels and ports," in particular, but also when it comes to most things that make a laptop nice to use.
There has been a significant push to get Linux to use the c11 conformant gcc builtins. There has been significant push back though, but at least some bits have been updated.
This is the most 'Apple' statement I've ever read in a press release from Apple: WWDC20 will be our biggest yet, bringing together our global developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented way for a week in June to learn about the future of Apple platforms
1. It's going to be different for everyone. I think it should be activities that leave you feeling physically and mentally refreshed. Learning a new musical instrument and mountain climbing helped myself. I have had other coworkers who found a lot of value in learning to dance.

2. Be realistic about the fact you need a mental break. Avoid burning yourself out anymore than you already are. Discuss your strategy and reasoning with your family so it's not a shock to them and have a plan on how to cover finances and health-care.
If you can identify them, and they're in a jurisdiction you can act in.
This sounds like a circus. Not saying that it's better anywhere else in essence, but in US politics the political words meanings have been absolutely butchered.
For a long time glibc was maintained by someone who was of the opinion that if you wanted to statically link 3rd party libraries, then you shouldn't be allowed to build binaries.
>Has Russia recovered?

Was there anything to recover? Sure they beat everyone to space but the economy wasn't exactly roaring. My family tells me you didn't really have any kind of choice when you lined up to "shop" for groceries, and you had to know someone from the store to get anything good (better meat, rare sweets like jam) before stocks ran out.

That's arguably something else to consider in this comparison. Yes we may have a further distance to go to recover to the US historic norm, but even under a collapse we may be closer to ensuring basic survival and even comfort than immediately post collapse Russia.
The Kawaiization of Product Design
Interesting. Lower latency? Or maybe doing some predictive slowing by over-accelerating the slowing as soon as it detects a change in speed or pressure?
God I would love to see Mario 64 re-released with a full ray-tracing engine for an Nvidia RTX. The PC port is already there, perhaps with the help of information stolen in this leak.
What nonsense is this? It is very clear that Dell has tried to improve the XPS 13 over the years and it has gotten better. They figured out a way to have the webcam on top and super thin bezels, something Apple hasn't been able to do.
It's not the job of workstation buyers to subsidize niche architectures.
This is also standard journalism practice, and I use it all the time as a somewhat heuristic for news article credibility.

Journalists are taught to put the most important details at the head of an article, and the least important at the end. This is tradition from print newspapers, where your article would be cut if the editor didn't have enough space. Sometimes only the first paragraph would make it into print, so you'd better make sure all the important details are in there.

If I'm reading an article and it doesn't have all the important information before the fold, there's a high probability (in my experience) that other issues exist (eg shoddy sources or plain factual errors).
Beginner’s Guide to the Programming Portfolio – Lee Robinson
One of the things that still chills is me is how Palo Alto city council decided to fell an entire street of old trees to make it look tidy:
http://www.paulgraham.com/californiaavenueoaks.html

That said if you ever fly over the UK you'll notice it's a beautiful quilted patchwork of green fields and hedgerows. The UK used to be covered in old woodland forests. Much of it was felled over the centuries, with most of it being cut down during the medieval period.

Not a lot of ancient woodland is left here nor indeed in the US. That said California still has quite a bit. Muir Woods are on my bucket list of places to visit.

A full list of old forests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests
To be fair, apple hardware also has some catastrophic issues. The ongoing keyboard disasters and overheating/throttling are two that come to mind.
With many companies easing into open source recently, we have seen that just isn't true. If we're still trying to spread the idea that the community is dumb and is going to ruin everything and will remove value from the product if they get access to the code, that assumption is going to be tested now regardless of what they do, and it probably will keep happening because the incentive for leakers and illegal aftermarket sellers is not going to go away. Note that I don't include them as part of this community.
You're right, it's not a design decision. That degree of optimization is not something that happens at the product design level -- it is organization-wide optimization.

When Apple leverages iPhone R&D for their MacBook, they get it for free. If it takes Dell 50 million dollars to develop the tech, and Dell expects to sell 100,000 laptops, then if we assume everything else is equal, an equivalent Dell laptop would carry a premium of $500 over a MacBook. In which case, they probably wouldn't sell 100,000 laptops, and it would be a failure and a waste of 50 million bucks.

Horizontal integration is powerful.
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I think you're missing the point of the original comments. The argument is not about deaths, but about the way the media covers different topics.
Next, gun makers will be tried for murder.
You're wrong, I owned an XPS 13 before my MacBook and the power supply was small and well designed.
I think the first step here is to put your expectations into perspective. Functional programming also is a range of complexity. If you're not used to functional programming and try to read articles targeted at the high-end you'll naturally struggle to understand them.

I still remember "not getting" OO in university in my first lecture. I had programmed BASIC, C, Pascal, PHP before.
And if someone would have tried to explain me the idea by means of the visitor pattern, it would surely have made me say "eh?!?" too. So allow yourself to start slowly.

I'm also still dabbling in functional programming - at least that's what it feels like reading about monoids etc - but by actually using functional programming languages in my more serious spare time projects I feel I get a better and better understanding. And "those" articles start to speak more to me.
I have similar experience. Left when it was still 5.* something.

Now I mainly do TypeScript/JavaScript and some Rust on the side.

To me, PHP was more of a limiter rather than painful experience (it was a bit painful though). I couldn't imagine how to even make a chat app.

If not for my moving out of PHP to NodeJS now I wouldn't be a software architect and explore the rest of the fun and challenging part of computing domain.
This appears to be geared towards teachers and not students.
Show me your pretty requests everybody:

https://2f5799dcfb.endpoints.dev

# Update

Interesting:

- Lots of IPV6 requests coming from HN.

- What is the "dnt" header most requests carry?
It's a little more tightly coupled than just a file system; it's essentially a fully headless mode.
libraries, examples, classes, scaling architecture, gpu integration, ease of syntax.

mostly the same reason new developers dont use functional languages for anything else either.
That's pretty much what Gandhi felt too, before he got kicked off the train.

For those interested his story is a pretty interesting example of a weird bumbling nerd who annoyed most people, transitioning into a sort GodFather of Collective Action. How he built such a large network of backers is as interesting as the tools he used and what results he produced.
This is it. Apple is willing to spend money on actual R&D for user experience. Dell and hp and friends essentially just assemble off the shelf parts into a styled chassis. It took dell years to bother developing a thin camera module instead of having a nose cam. It does come at a cost and until recently windows machines were not able to recoup it (probably chicken and egg scenario)

Until Microsoft forced precision touch pads windows touch pads were awful since the oems just slapped in garbage vendor drivers.

Screen aspect ratio is another thing. Everyone but apple moved to 16:9 since it's cheaper but 16:10 is better for productivity and not bad for media. But even the business windows laptops pinch pennies and do 16:9. Only apple was willing to buy 16:10 panels.
Workflow Reminds Me of AppleScript
Reacting to DevinNash & MayaHiga on Objectification of Women in Twitch/Business
Perhaps the NHS should manufacture its own ambulances as well?
>> experience is like using Linux on a Mac trackpad

I ran Lubuntu on a 2012 macbook pro for a couple years and it was much closer to an "Apple" experience compared to my current setup of Pop_OS on a P52S Thinkpad.
Do you have any evidence to back your LA Times real estate scam claim? Seems hard to believe that an organization that large would be able to pull off a conspiracy like that for 100 years without someone coming forward about it.
I couldn't; could you help me figure it out?
> This is to say nothing of the ugly metallic stickers they slap on the wristrests to spam you for the life of the machine.

What is up with these? I bought a Win laptop recently to test it out, and one of the first things that struck me at the store was that all of them had literal ads on the inside front of the lap top.

This might have just been Marketing team fucking it for everyone else, but my gut feeling was that any company that stoops that low is certainly not above severely cut corners.
I was just responding to your claim that the difference between the standard res screen and the 4k screen is unnoticeable. There’s a very easily noticeable difference between them, and the retina display on the MacBook Pro is much closer in quality to the 4k display. So it doesn’t make sense to compare the price of an XPS with a standard res screen to the price of a MacBook Pro with a retina screen.

This is actually a paradigm example of Apple getting it right. Other manufacturers offer you a choice between a crappy low DPI display or an ultra high DPI display that drains your battery. Apple offer you a sensible compromise.
What’s the average rate of homes in Palo Alto?
I am not so sure that plasma exhaust of such jet engine will affect climate less than fossil fuel based engine.
That's a good list. I would add

- Listen, because maybe they are right after all
Can you elaborate on why you would recommend Wordpress as the "best bet" for a "more or less static site"? I feel like I'm of the completely opposite opinion, that introducing something as modular and dependent as Wordpress for something "more or less static" is just asking for trouble down the line.

In my mind a "more or less static website" will not require a database, it will not require logic server-side, and it will not require the possibility to add-on plugins for extra functionality.

What's beautiful to me about static websites is that the threat vector is now suddenly nothing but the web server, and when you're serving static web pages that's a pretty small threat vector if you've configured it correctly. As soon as you blur the line between "web site" and "web application" and start including things like databases, forms and API:s you're in a completely different territory and I kind of feel like you should choose that because you really, really need it. Not just as a default.
The motherboard is also MUCH cheaper.