skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss information density.

HN is great for this and you can change enough settings on reddit to get it where it used to be, but FB is really bad for it and Twitter is just ok (though with the tweet deck app you can get a lot on macOS).

In that FB screenshot you can see half of one post?
> on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable

Consumer side isn't relevant here. These are two backend ecommerce platforms. The platform part doesn't extend to anything that consumers know they're interacting with.
> Most of them only allow Chinese-registered phones, meaning it's absolutely impossible to communicate with Chinese people from the outside world, aside from a very small number of carefully vetted services like WeChat.

Indeed. I am very appreciative to wechat that I can keep in touch with my family and friends and enjoy the technology. By valuing my freedom and the freedom of my Chinese contacts, I do not communicate sensitive materials on wechat. The freedom is only ensured within boundary so know thy boundaries. I have plenty of channels to enjoy my western freedom. Whether we should impose our western freedom upon "Chinese freedom"? That is a good question. Fortunately that is not a question I need to resolve.

It is illuminating that those who try to exercise their western freedom on the Chinese domain is helping China to the opposite of their goals. If you have that honorable goal, do your due diligence of educating yourself with the right technology.
"Instant" is a relative word (unless we're actually at 0 time :-)).

We're focus on client apps, where we're really focused on human perception. In that sense, I'd consider 22ms or 2ms as instant (for startup). I wouldn't consider 2s as instant.

I'm not saying Dart doesn't have room to get better, but there are diminishing returns at a certain point.
> “Now that Trump is president, the popular conspiracy theories come from Democrats and focus on Trump and Russia,”

Honest question: are there really all that many conspiracy theory about Trump and Russia? From what I've read of first-hand sources, there's a whole lot of evidence in the public record that demonstrates repeated exchanges between high-level Russian officials and the Trump administration before and after the election. That's not even getting into the impeachment scandal which had numerous accounts and record indicating that Trump did exactly what he was accused of.

I think that's much, much different in scope than something like Anti-vaxxers or "COVID-19 is Bill Gates' attempt at population control".

In the first case, people are extrapolating based on concrete evidence, and in the latter, people are literally making shit up. I think 9/11 Truthers are a better comparison.
If people keep submitting (edit: I should really say upvoting) wikipedia.org articles on widely popular topics, we're going to have to penalize Wikipedia submissions again. We used to do that, but I was persuaded to remove the penalty. This case is particularly bad because the topic has long been an internet cliché, and also because it has a meta aspect. Meta is internet forum crack, so we try not to do it here—er, not too much. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114661 is another current thread where the topic is much too well-known to make a good Wikipedia submission.

Good HN submissions from Wikipedia are about topics that have not been widely discussed before, and about which there isn't a good article available elsewhere. (If there is, it's best to submit the latter instead.) Since Wikipedia is the most generic of sources, short of maybe a dictionary, it should be the domain of last resort for a topic.

I appreciate that not everyone has seen the same things. You can always use search as a proxy for how well known something is: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

This has been coming up repeatedly recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990237
Protection, extortion, gambling, human trafficking, other contraband goods, and sure, burglary and robbery.
Lots of things that could be more violent to the population at large then drug dealing (after all, you don't really want to kill your customers).
Sorry, you have to append a period to a URL to make it work. HN does not believe in URLs that end in periods, apparently.
Every bloody monday I admire the naivety of the code I wrote friday.
> a large chunk of software engineering is CRUD apps and digital plumbing, which doesn't require a lot of creativity

The issue is more precision and lucidity of thought and language, and the ability to communicate ideas and emotion to others from a given culture and socioeconomic background.

Consider that when development velocity grinds to a halt because of "technical debt", this is almost always just a euphemism for developers not being able to read each other's code. (I understand there is an actual idea behind technical debt, I'm just talking about what's almost always happening in practice.)
I had a blog with comments. But spam made it painful to administer. Almost nothing beats spam except for very sophisticated captchas but then normal people also have trouble writing comments. So I have no comments on my blog now. If you want to "comment" you'll have to email me directly.
Attorney here who has handled a number of similar wrongful termination claims here. You can try this, but you better have a lot of good, clear documentation backing up your non-discriminatory reason for the firing which, if you're just making it up as a pretense, you probably don't. And if it's found that you did fire for a discriminatory reason and you attempted to lie about that fact, you're opening yourself to a world of hurt.
They said parse which is true regardless of caching
For most games, I'd expect a 4700k + rtx 2060 to outdo e.g. a r5 3600 + gtx760, as similar priced upgrade options (once you factor in a new motherboard and ddr4 ram) in the tier of your current GPU.

That said, there are cpu heavy games out there, like MMOs with high on screen player counts, simulations like Cities Skylines or flight sims, so your mileage may vary.
It's called "polonius": https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius

There are some posts on Niko Matsakis' blog, starting with this one: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-...

More recently a really good talk, with slides here: https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-belt-rust-2019/
I've only recently started learning about how trading works in depth so I'm probably way off, but isn't he just avoiding the obvious answer? The broker and the clearing house. I thought that's a large part of why we have them? It just so happens that counterparty risk includes handling of massive amounts of physical goods so they'll have to charge larger commissions to cover the additional risk on the contracts. It would probably reduce the number of speculators at the same time, reducing the risk of this happening to begin with.
I feel the opposite. Having to sift through the bullshit and separate feeling from opinion from guess from estimate from fact, when they're all presented the same way (often through a lens of indignation and outrage) is much harder than coming up with my own interpretations and narratives from impassive "boring" presentations.

Take scientific reporting. How often is the long many paragraph article written by e.g. bbc ridiculously wrong compared to the few sentence abstract of the paper itself? Sure, I'm not going to understand it all, but the misleading mainstream article that does the work of doing interpretation and narrative for me is more likely to make it worse than better.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1mOTsYB0Q
At first, I thought the headline meant chip designers were pressured to create chips that had huge performance at the risk of catching fire.
FWIW, when I was a tech reporter at Inc. I found Marketplace Pulse helpful in covering ecommerce, and their data trends roughly matched what I heard from merchants directly.
I imagine the compile would be magnitudes slower than Rust or C++, and I can't really stomach slow compilers. Yesterday I was hacking on a Qt app and the time taken to rebuild after a slight change to the header is distressing (more than 5 seconds, which can afford a full rebuild on a typical C program). I'm kind of surprised that the quick sort example took only around twice to thrice as long to compile compared to the no GC approach. The example seems to be working on a compile-time defined list though. I'd like to see how it scales on arbitrary runtime-defined input.
It would effectively become a stack-only language (heap allocations' sizes would always have to be known at compile time, just like on the stack). I could see that serving an interesting special subset of use-cases, but I was under the impression we were talking about a general programming language, which that would not be.
Brain on Covid-19
Comments should explain the "why" and not the "what".

The code _should_ explain the what just fine, but it doesn't explain the problem the code is trying to solve at all. If you struggle to explain the why with a docstring or few comments, then that's a sign you didn't decompose the problem enough.
It's tragic for people being censored, and worse, like public humiliation and jail, depending on what's been shared.

That's an objective assessment. It is tragic for those people, whether anyone else cares.
Yes, locally on the browser. No data leaves your browser without your consent.
Since the <Fragment> component was introduced (React 16?) excessive wrapper divs are no longer necesssary fortunately!

Edit: not sure they ever were actually, I think you could just return props.children in most cases?
I know, after I read a couple articles on it, and switched back to my HN app's white background, the white looked very cyan for a while.
Yup, I can no longer recommend jquery at all unless you happen to need to support IE10 and below (and please, honestly, for the love of god, don't bother).
no the section itself traces the workaround as well as the restriction, it's some more hops to jump and users need not to be involved
Wow so now the law is “semantics”. “Words Mean Things”. The minute we allow people’s feelings to control how the law is enforced we are all in trouble.

A trust is when multiple companies are in collusion. Are you claiming that Amazon is in conclusion with its competitors?
Wasn't the original purpose of futures to let farmers and others lock in prices early so they can mitigate risk? Speculation on futures seems dumb if you have no intention of taking delivery.
But what about the points you didn't cover? They're correct, right? /s

But yeah, I considered doing debate as I thought it was about logic and truthfulness. After watching a spectacle like this locally, I noped out of it.
Thanks for sharing that article. Would you happen to have other recent articles that describe the results after 3 years of the new approach? [Even if you google search for me in Finnish and share the top-five relevant results, this would be super helpful for me. I can use google translate after that.]

I agree with you that primary and middle school students are too young to be self-directed, but that doesn't necessarily contradict the no-subjects approach. The phenomenon-based learning can still be led by a teacher.

Also as far as technology being distracting, that doesn't surprise me much. I think some very careful selection of the apps and tools is needed, but it can totally be done (e.g. offline or local installation of web apps and tools specific to learning and not open access to the internet or game-like apps).
ok I guess YMMV. It doesn’t fail for me, so I guessed it’s like that for everyone.

everything requires javascript nowadays, that’s just a default
All these things can be true and yet people will still frequently misuse them.
That's my point, the example "phenomonon" given, cafeteria services, is extremely utilitarian.
I have no idea what kind of straw man argument you're trying to make anymore other than I think you're looking to pick a fight by being pedantic about words. So I'll just leave it at that.
I've noticed good trades people always take pictures of their work. I'm now wondering if it's worth asking to see images of their recent jobs.
His contrast is too low even for my normal eyes. Did not notice that initially though, until I turned off Dark Reader extension to view website colors as designed.
Well, yeah, it's reasonable to expect investors to appropriately researching something before buying, and be cognizant of the risk that it could crash.

It's not reasonable for them to expect to deal with a platform that misrepresents the state of the market and executes trades at a non-market price, as was happening here. (It was telling them the oil futures still had a positive price when it was negative, and making them pay on that basis.)
Can you provide some data backing the assertion that not a lot of people change their political opinions in a crisis? Genuinely interested.

In any case, in our system not a lot of people have to change their minds; just a few moderate voters in swing states could be enough.
Do you have a feel for how this compares with other states?
Yeah, parsing of megabytes of CSS and JS is not necessary on each page load, but you still need a round trip to a server on each interaction, and a full page of HTML, even if only a small part of it has changed.
One I like to go back to is the micro-kernel scheduler written in assembly I did for a grad school project: https://github.com/mbcrawfo/avr-kernel/blob/master/kernel/co...

It seems so much more interesting than the web stuff I do today.
To talk to family members who have chosen to permanently live in China. :'(
If I'm talking to somebody like this I will usually say, "I don't have time right now to respond to all of these points, but here's my take on the first few (or the most salient points)." You will probably never convince the gish galloper, but if a third party is watching the discussion and they see the first few points get outed as disinformation, they'll be more skeptical of the rest of it.
they are only doing fine through inertia in enterprise and datacenter
US unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, highest level since Great Depression
I had this feeling from time to time, usually right after finishing a project. While every relevant contextual details are still fresh in my mind.

Admiring an older piece of code that I've written more than last year? Rarely, unless it's just a small puzzle or self contained code.
DigitalOcean Data Leak
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Unfortunately, I can also see that this tactic is a tool for causing clickbait and stories to be written a certain way, because editors get tuned to what causes people to click the most.

"Guess what government figure just hit 14.7% today?"

"These 3 sectors hate the latest unemployment figures!"
OSS: A Node.js and TypeScript Wrapper for the macOS Reminders App
Facebook Is Lying to You
It really is. Especially when there are constant radio ads here for warehouse workers which, I do not exaggerate:

"Apply online. No interview required. Start tomorrow."

That's the very definition of interchangeable pieces you're not overly concerned with. "Can you pass a literacy test? Background check? Have a pulse? Start tomorrow" shows absolutely no deep abiding connection.
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Too many nations are too concerned with being seen as 'doing their part' and too few are actually paying any heed to the long term ramifications of the precedents they are setting now.
Show HN: Shopify Global Search
What makes you think it would be "vastly more effective?"
Codespaces on the iPad
Data Breach at Digital Ocean
We don’t know when vscode will or won’t go extinct. It’s less distinct than other similar editors in comparison to emacs, so the switching cost is a lot lower. But my point being isn’t that vscode will somehow be “the great winner,” but rather that new things will come and continue to replace the old.

Emacs has/had the option of changing with the times. They’ve opted out of that. So most newcomers will opt out of emacs, and thus it’ll slowly die out.
It’s a clickbait article... any article that claims something about rates, salaries, sales is basically that. They are often completely inaccurate, with data coming from either self reported numbers (best case), or a guess based on a sample of job postings they scraped from somewhere.
What I find weird about the article is that they spend so much time talking about the performance of the new design, yet fail to include any hard numbers comparing the old vs new implementations. They do throw out a few numbers like how the new page only downloads 20% of the previous 400kb CSS for the homepage, etc, but I'm surprised to see no actual browser benchmarks for what they claim. How else would they be measuring this internally?
> I've yet to see any valid reasons to possess drugs or alcohol.

For recreation, therapy, socialization, experimentation, mysticism, or just because it's my own damn body.

> With guns, there is at least the justification of self defense.

That would be fine if gun violence wasn't a thing.
While I can’t disagree since I am not a refugee:

As a child of african immigrants I’ve been pretty fortunate to pursue what I want thanks to good school success (not amazing, but enough to make me a smart young adult).

The this country has too a very high bar for employment because of ubiquitous education. It’s probably very hard for a refugee from a country which doesn’t have schools that are known to be ”good”.

Could it be racism? Yes, I can’t deny that. But my family members and friends have not had trouble finding employment that matches their education level.

I think a place like Finland suffers from at the same time taking in refugees and immigrants as potential workers, but at the same time requiring too much skills/degrees for fairly simple work that shouldn’t require degrees, but goes to someone with a degree.
Bray Quitfires Self over 'Chickenshit' Activist Quitfirings
This is cool, how did you build it?

Your about me page still has placeholder text btw
Donald Trump's Speech Generator – 30 Quotes Added
The serious answer is: yes, but it requires courts, which are slow.

I'm curious how this works in other countries; if a company lets someone go inappropriately, is there faster recourse than the courts? Can you go to the police and have them escort you back in, or what?
It doesn’t matter why it happens. The fact is it does happen by the same political institutions that people want to give more power to.
Yes, but when the framework continues to grow 100kb release after release we blame the person who uses it for doing so.

If you don't like it, stop using it.

You can't win, and there will always be a developer ready and willing to kick you while you're down.
Yes. e.g. in France you have something called "droit de retrait" ("right of withdrawal") when you consider that you cannot do your job without endangering yourself (e.g. not adequate protection or measures, especially in a pandemic), you only have to inform the health committee or your boss by any means before doing so.

You cannot be directly denied your salary or get demoted/fired for this. The company can of course appeal by opening a court case saying you abused this right, in which case any sanction may be applied if the ruling is in their favor.

The law also mandates that the company is responsible for the health of its employees on company time and premises, so you can also open a court case if you do not feel adequately protected (what happened to amazon).
Taking physical delivery and hedging are not one and the same. It’s entirely possible to use a cash settled future to hedge against market movements; the farmer sells at a steep loss, but their cash settled wheat futures offset a large percentage of the loss on a cash basis.

The distinction you’re looking for here is those who are speculating on market prices, vs. those who are hedging against market prices. If you use or sell oil in large amounts, it makes sense to use futures to stabilize your downside risk, even if those futures are cash settled.

That being said, I think that cash settled futures make purely speculative trading much easier, so you’d have a good point if that’s what you were heading towards.
I thought he bought a basketball team not the whole city. He hired a third party to "audit" over 1000 businesses. Someone please tell me what authority he is operating under other than money or fame.
It's probably cost them a lot of lives and I'm not sure they are going to be any better off economically when everything shakes out.
If you get into the market for physically settled contracts with no intention of taking delivery, then you're almost certainly a speculator. I'm not sure that it's the market's job to make that safer for you.

I am not justifying inaccurate pricing. Burning speculators is fine, but give everyone accurate information.
I removed this sentence from my comment 30s after posting, but here's what I meant by it:

Myths, despite being wholly or partially fictional, can contain some elements of truth. They can also provide insight into the values, aspirations, tropes and path to power within a group.

In Amazon's case, I think it is much more startup-like than peer companies. It's been willing to pivot, to give up margin, to place serious bets on new businesses, to focus intensely on growth, etc.

Also, obviously, Amazon is a 500k-employee megacorp, with all of the institutional dynamics that go with that.

It's clearly not day one, but just as clearly people within Amazon take the idea seriously. So yeah, false and true.

I should mention that I worked there for over 5 years, but that was a while ago. The whole "day one" thing has been around the whole time.
I think you are expressing the problem. The market doesn’t reflect economic reality but instead there are a lot of people who need the markets to stay up so their future is secure.