skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say it, but mostly by word of mouth.

If someone's good at running and marketing a large business, it doesn't necessarily mean that they do good work, and may mean that they know how to maximise profits by cutting corners whenever they can. That's not always the case, but it seems to be pretty typical.

Instead, look for the small guy who may not have a website and drives a plain van. I work for my dad, and that describes him to a tee, as well as most of the other tradesmen on the jobs we do. My dad doesn't even have a company name, nor business cards. He gets all of his work either through a few regular builders, or by word of mouth from previous customers, and is definitely not a business-man. He started carpentry with his dad after he finished high school, and just slowly grew from there. For most of his life he worked alone, but as they grew older, all of my brothers at one point worked for him full-time (it's just me now, and I'm part-time).

If you do find a potential tradesman, just ask him (or her) how he does certain aspects of the job (ex. baseboard inside corners should always be coped, never mitred), and make it clear that you expect high quality work. If he asks for significant payment up-front for anything other than materials, walk away. Better yet, supply all the materials yourself, and pay a proportion of the job each day or week until it's done. One more factor to consider is price. We charge more than the typical carpenter, but not exorbitantly more. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

I've also found this to be true for auto mechanics. The run-down looking shop is more trustworthy and does better work for a better price than the highly polished franchises.
There’s a lot of fake profiles though and I think a lot more than they’re prepared to admit. Even brazen binary options trading scam profiles don’t get removed - it appears that they’re happy as long as the number are going up.
Just for reference, I found this 2017 about 4D animation suite "Fourveo", the thesis discusses the different ways to visualize (cross-section, projection via 3d and directly) 4D scenes. Unfortunately the software itself doesn't seem to be available anywhere, and there is scant other information about it.

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6968/
Well with wasm, this analogy doesn't really make much sense.
This is especially frustrating when A's response is only within the context of B1's rebuttal, not A's full position. B2 then attacks the response as if it were A's full position.

I like the DDoS analogy...
Agree completely. I'm amazed at how good pure JS is these days. I only use React when I have a non-trivial UI that I need to write. It's just not worth it for simple stuff. That said I don't do a ton of FE work these days, so my opinion is less relevant.
They're not mutually exclusive. It could be (is likely) that the problem never was as bad to begin with and that it was lessened by flattening the curve. Even ERs have been seeing only 40-50% of normal patient numbers and have been cutting staff and shifts. You don't see that except for the fact that experts assumed and/or modeled very very wrong. And that the population has been scared to the unhealthy extent such that they think the virus risk is worse than not seeking treatment for heart attacks and strokes.

There's much we have yet to learn about this thing. We might not figure it out satisfactorily for years. Remember zika?

And it's certainly less severe among those infected than was predicted (at least per capita infections, if not overall). As long as people/ officials/ experts deny that, (or exclusively credit flattening the curve, or fail to admit how wrong they were, where appropriate) don't expect the public to take fear-based guidance from the same sources as credible.
I have spectrum, and though it is "dynamic", I have never had it change.

A couple of thoughts though for Dynamic IP:

- I have my DNS on cloudflare, and I make a script that runs ever minute to checkif my ip changed, and if it did, than update the DNS (this was on a Cloud server and I didn't buy a static IP).
- I also use pfSense, and it updates dynamic DNS as well.
Auckland looks less concerning than places like London or New York. I have confidence that the NZ government will deal with it far better than uk or us
I haven't been collecting links, but I'll keep my eyes open moving forward.
Or, you could zoom out and look at a pattern: Intel's failure to care for the safety of their employees is analogous to their failure to care for the safety of their customers, in the sense of Meltdown and Spectre. In both cases, upper management prioritizes the bottom line and reinforcing the status quo, despite the fact that the world fundamentally changed and thus their practices should change too.
I like your analogy, but I think it's a little off. HTML/CSS/JS are "Java" and React/Angular are "Spring."

I love writing vanilla js, but the problem that the frameworks are really solving for is stripping away the history of HTML/CSS/JS for a 'document oriented web' and present a "re-abstraction" for an crossplatform 'application oriented web' that just happens to live in the most dominant VM platform (the browser).

In the analogy, Assembly is WebAssembly, and C is C. We just don't have the frameworks and libraries written for them yet!

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Edit:
...but yeah you're right it's Svelte. Although I hear that Angular also compiles down to something pretty "close to the metal" these days.
>and yet their published numbers continually show greater engagement.

Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact that, as an advertising company, it's crucial that they are able to tell companies that engagement is increasing?
I can't help but feel like the people that feel this way are people that don't build maintain and modify customer focused web products for a living.
Thanks for explaining, I see where you're coming from now
I particularly dislike the attitude of the CEO which shows he either doesn't know or pretends that he doesn't know how such contracts work. Please read the contract specs and educate yourself a little, Mr. Peterffy, they're public and free.

> Peterffy said there’s a problem with how exchanges design their contracts because the trading dries up as they near expiration. The May oil futures contract -- the one that went negative -- expired the day after the historic plunge, so most of the market had moved to trading the June contract, which expires May 19 and currently trades around $24 a barrel.

> “That’s how it’s possible for these contracts to go absolutely crazy and close at a price that has no economic justification,” Peterffy said. “The issue is whose responsibility is this?”

Nobody ever promised neither liquidity nor positivity of prices, it is the fault of the brokerage, plain and simple. Thankfully $100M is something that IBKR can take on their books (they have $3B of cash according to the latest filling).
Remember when they had to monkey patch the android runtime because their app had too many methods? https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

It's a fun hack, and I enjoy spectacle, but it might be a sign that you are complicating your app more than you need.
Please. That's not what I said.

I said that there was a measurable connection between them. Any epidemiologist will acknowledge this.

The point is that it could be seen and measured in this case. But when they attempted to find a connection between shutting down early or late (in the USA), no effect was found. The point being, the shocked horror that people already "forgot" the lessons learned last month is silly if that lesson wasn't learned and wasn't even true. The claim could do with some actual evidence.

And I'm not even saying it's not true. I'm just saying this is the only attempt I've seen to actually analyze it, and it came up the opposite way. Can you point me to anything that shows the claim is true?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-lockdowns-save-many-lives-is...
I've seen people in the past make the mistake of correlating "Enjoyment" with "Higher Engagement", but you want to be really careful there.

For example - Flame wars increase engagement, even if people feel drained and frustrated afterward.

I understand why it's a useful metric -
It's particularly valuable if your business model depends on time-on-site to sell ads.

But I wouldn't recommend them as a proxy for enjoyment by any means.
These rates are so incredibly off, that this shouldn't be taken seriously.
From the story:

> Customers will be made whole, Peterffy said. “We will rebate from our own funds to our customers who were locked in with a long position during the time the price was negative any losses they suffered below zero.”

I'd imagine this is so they don't get sued and have some shoddy code pop up during trial.
Facebook folded to the "quit changing the UI" crowd years ago when they opened registration up beyond colleges.
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we use this approach since more than a year with very good results. Regarding the data transfer it is not much of a problem because those classes usually get repeated a lot across the elements and having lot of repeated string is the best case scenario for gzip compression leading to basically no size impact.

https://github.com/utilitycss/atomic
This is the framework we developed to create atomic CSS component libraries if you want to have a look (documentation needs some love, but is quite stable)
It has 96 .js scripts on a single page.
My opinion is that this is principally a chronic FOMO market.

People can speculate on levels, relative rises, falls, performance over the last years....I don't think there's much right or wrong with that....but it doesnt explain why there's soo much money around for equities.

i think is a combination of :

- fed promised unlimited money from the money printer. (Anncounced by the fed on 23rd March.

- it is election year, with a siting pres who hangs everything on the markets, a couple of tweets from Pres, Musk, Tim Apple etc...can add 10% to market overnight. No one wants to miss that.

- there are few other attractive places for peoples money. People want them big gains, which are perceived as being still on the table.

i'd speculate the mass lay offs will protect company results for a couple of quarters, maybe more, but the buck stops when there are no consumers left to buy shit - and that's what's down the line IMHO.
I can't decide whether I love or hate the UX of this new stack. It certainly feels more like an app now than a website. I like the new basic layout, "app shell" or tier 1 rendering. It feels like the First Contentful Paint is improved and some random layout shifts have eliminated. It might take a couple of seconds more to load something but it appears where you expect it to appear.

On the other hand, navigation and clicking around is still sooo slow. My 60-year-old aunt called me and asked if she needs a new pc because facebook makes her laptop fans spin like crazy. I couldn't explain to her about all this react-redux-graphql thing and frankly, she doesn't care. All she cares is that facebook is slow and all she does is post photos and talk with friends like she did 10 years ago.
In practice, performance is rarely the bottleneck.

On the job, most developere care about shipping on time and spending less time rewriting things as they learn via experience.

Anyone who avoids frameworks is going to be in for a world of hurt when they have to explain to their boss "I know the project is 3 months late but I saved 100kb in bundle size"
Looking at the framework-less ES6 implementation makes me hope I never have to maintain code like this.

https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/va...
Or vice versa: they notice that everyone is only building concrete bridges all of a sudden, disregarding the traditional and much cheaper approach of hanging boards under some rope handrails; upon being ridiculed, they build a suspension bridge across a river for 10% as much as a concrete bridge.
The market seems to be doing well, how about those capital gains taxes that would finally hit the uppers.
I don't use Facebook but how do you know it's not BE calls that are creating the slow experience? It sounds like they rewrote the FE not the entire system.
The problem is that you have every Jane and Joe who's ever put a line through a set of points making graphs and arguments that conflict with the consensus of epidemiologists/social statisticians. It's fine (and good!) to investigate that sort of thing and share your results, but then you should be sharing "I did this sort of analysis, it seems to conflict with all these other analyses, does anyone know why? Maybe X?". Instead you have "OMG when you do this it looks like Y, the powers that be are lying to us!".

For a non-critical issue this would lower the quality of discourse slightly, but it's not an exceptional problem. In the case of critical major issues involving active disinformation this is highly irresponsible behavior.
No, that's not the case at all. You need buy in from interested parties, which you don't have in politics, and if you have a large unmaintainable codebase, you probably don't have from the people in charge.
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With increasing adoption of reCaptcha v3 which won't let you browse on any page without Javascript, it will become harder and harder to use the internet with NoScript enabled.
> some racist plot

But that's exactly what has been going on, from slavery to the KKK to the "redlining" of cities...

Hell man, ask the Indians! This whole nation is "some racist plot".
> There's absolutely no reason to have a turbine at all; you'd just want a plain old expansion nozzle. That means you could pump way more heat into your plasma, making your engine much more power dense.

I agree that replacing the turbine with an electric motor seems to be the only way to go with this, but the point I am trying to make here is that if you merely increase the temperature of the working fluid without changing the pressure ratio, you will get some increase in thrust, but at the cost of a worse Carnot-cycle efficiency: quite a bit of the additional energy input goes to waste in the form of a hotter exhaust, because it cannot be expanded enough to convert it to useful work.

So can we increase the pressure ratio? if it were feasible to do so with current technology, we would already be doing so, as combustion jet engines would also benefit from increasing it. When comparing plasma and combustion jet engines, we must assume that both will be operating at the highest feasible pressure ratio.

That does not automatically rule out this technology, as it may offer something in trade-off for its limited efficiency, but in the case of electric propulsion, the storage options are currently so limited that efficiency is highly valued.

The question to be answered is this: for a given electricity source, will this give me anything of value over using all the power in an electric motor driving a fan? For subsonic flight, I am very skeptical that it can even come close to having anything to offer.

The J58 is often described as a hybrid turbo-ramjet, but that is hype to some extent: it is a low-bypass turbojet with an afterburner and a pressure-recovery intake, but that describes every supersonic airplane. It is the pressure-recovery inlet that makes all these engines somewhat ramjet-like, and in the J58 there is just more of it. The distinction is a matter of degree; even subsonic jets take advantage of pressure recovery.

Pressure recovery does two things: it increases the overall pressure ratio, and it slows down the inflow to the compressor to below supersonic speed. The former is only a benefit for heat engines (Carnot efficiency, again.) Therefore, I think the only reason for having such an inlet in an electric-fan jet engine is if a supersonic fan is infeasible, and they may well be. If so, then it may be the case that makes sense to use some of the available electric power to heat the compressed flow downstream of the fan, but it is not obvious to me that this would be a better use of that power than using it all in a bigger fan.

I see from here [1] that supersonic compressors, and therefore presumably fans, are feasible, though have not been very successful (maybe because pressure recovery is a better option for heat engines.)

By using electric power in a heat engine rather than in a non-thermal process, you are already committed to throwing about two-thirds of it away, so there have to be some quite compelling benefits elsewhere to make it a net win overall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flader_J55
I still don't understand how the biggest websites get away with being so unbelievably bloated. My guess is that most people have medium to old phones and PCs that are bogged down with nonsense running in the background and facebook, instagram, twitter etc. run extra slow, but I guess people just put up with it.
Perhaps it's that most people have never heard of "BLS", but they trust WSJ / NYT.

Newspapers provide context and interpretation. And they are designed to be read. A big block of monospace text is not inviting for most people.
You could check out the pine phone with ubuntu port or postmarket os. It has all the standard sensors, gsm, and runs mainline linux kernel. It's basically a phone for developers.

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Aah, the Reddit redesign. I still can't use it. I check up on it once in a while, but my 7 year old MacBook Pro still don't like it. It remains slow, regardless of the number of times Reddit claims of have improved the speed.

On the phone it's even worse, a large number of subreddit now require that you use the app... unless you just go to old.reddit.com.

The point of the reddit redesign still alludes me. Sure the old design isn't mobile friendly, so I can understand that they would want to fix that. Then again they mainly use the redesign to push the app. And the new design isn't that mobile friendly anyway. Certainly not if you value battery life. Comments are now also hidden by default, which is just weird. But you have infinite scroll, which seems to be the main selling point. I'm not sure I needed that though.
Yes this is a very CYA statement. IB has been in this business for a long time, Peterffy knows very well that expiring futures contracts can experience all kinds of liquidity problems and large swings in price.
One part of being a community is slowly building values in new members. Many communities, many subreddits as an example, form monocultures and ruthlessly stamp out opinions not aligned to the deigned philosophy (and then being monocultures, they die a slow death).

HN as a community places value on interesting, well informed debates, but that value isn't universally shared outside of HN. It takes regular exposure to build that value in new members but over time they'll either embrace it or wash out of the community as long as we do our best to consistently embrace it positively.

Keep debating and pushing forward on interesting conversations, keep doing it politely and in the interest of meaningful debate.
The next step is having the same but decentralised, uncensorable and with the domain absolutely under your control.

I think it is the best way to have your complete freedom.
I would also be great if there was a way to export all of my OTP secrets out of the iOS version of Google Authenticator.
Are all of these values in US dollars?
Maybe the client encrypts the tracking data it sends, but it only sends the decryption key after the user consents?
This Vox Weeds episode pretty much sums up my anger at this point in history. https://megaphone.link/VMP6490531372
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One problem. There have been at least three patent cases where this mechanism has been claimed to be subject to a patent. The litigants won in one, lost in two others (there may be more of these, I am only aware of 3).

How am I aware of them? I was a fact witness in these cases, and the reason I was a fact witness it that my employment agreement with Cadabra Inc., later to become Amazon.com, contains an addendum describing this technique and specifying that the company cannot attempt to patent it, since I had already implemented it while working at UWashington CS&E.

Apparently this was still not sufficient for the jury in one of the cases. Edit: none of the cases were solely about a session identifier, so to be a little fair to the final jury, it's not quite that simple.
Yes, I'd say most people on HN are aware of this stuff. I guess that's why I comment here more than other places.

> Agreed, but if no one is even willing to acknowledge the existence of the phenomenon, what should one do?

It's just a slow process of education I guess to take a scientific approach to knowledge seeking. Discussions should be about seeking the truth, agreeing with the other person when you agree, questioning your own assumption etc.

I wasn't taught logical fallacies in school for example - I'd be for teaching critical thinking in school at an early age to help with the above.

Most people see views opposed to their viewpoint as an attack and cornering someone with logic to show they're wrong does not work because they're not genuinely seeking the truth anyway.
Nowhere did I used the word trivial.

I wouldn't mind to contribute if paid accordingly.
Especially for a site filled with charts. I'm trying to compare some data, and all the sudden the data has moved to a new place. I stopped reading after 2 pages, even though I was very interested in the results. Easily one of the most frustrating sites I've used recently.
React components aren't a 1:1 mapping to the DOM, so you could in theory have 50 HoCs wrapping a single component and it still only output one div or whatever.

Also, HoCs have somewhat fallen out of favour over time, with hooks and the child as a function/render prop style becoming more popular. I think the only HoC I consistently use these days is `connect` from `react-redux`.
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haha oh man im going to click a link.. is the page done loading..? think so.. here goes... content loads in and moves the target.. clicks wrong thing goddammit!!!
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Right, but that proofreader might not totally understand nuances in language and how words take on different meanings to different audiences, even if they are the same words used.

Back to the programming reality from the analogy, I've seen outsourcing happen, for businesses that revolve around American customer bases and rules and regulations- now the code is outsourced, but the basic understanding of how business logic related to the real world use was gone. So the offshore team, while technically competent, was not equipped to make decisions about software with the consumer in mind. If you were working on something and it didn't really make sense in a real world sense, as a dev, you could go to your product person and raise concerns. Without the cultural context- those concerns never get raised.
I would like the same test done without ads (let's say behind a PiHole). In my experience that makes much more of a difference than the framework used
This looks very interesting. As someone who ran UnrealIRCD for ages, I like the simplicity around the configuration of Oragono. Has any load testing or third party security audits been performed yet? Looking through the open issues, it appears this is well maintained, that is a big plus. As this has chanserv/nickserv built in, how does it deal with network splits? I assume better than using anope.