skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first version of our web trading platform was written in Angular. It quickly got out of hand in complexity (and we felt Angular had a learning curve that was unwarranted for a frontend lib). The bundle sizes were also big. Then the Angular version fiasco happened. Vue turned out to be far easier to understand and work with, was faster in our benchmarks, and smaller in size.

With Flutter, we initially had a native Android app and a React Native iOS app. Managing two codebases was obviously painful, and React Native had significant performance issues, and we also struggled with the lack of stable libs, and the breaking changes between releases. Flutter came along and we were able to share 90% of the codebase across Android and iOS apps, and were quite happy with 60FPS rendering of native UI.
Kudos! What did you use to make the game?
With lend-lease, I can imagine at least some of it was already subsided
Justice Department drops criminal case against former Trump aide Michael Flynn
Two sets from Fawlty Towers but neither of them is the lobby.
> I was doing all-nighters and basically killing myself

I often suspect that the true goal of most time-estimation exercises is to guilt you into working unsustainable amounts of unpaid overtime.
The ND-100 was a bottleneck for the 500 series, and initially also for the 5000 series. But as time went by the 5000 series acquired intelligent I/O interfaces sitting directly on the Multi-Function bus on the 5000, and there was less and less of a bottleneck. The systems I worked on had to get the absolute last possible drop of I/O performance out of it, and by having the ND-100 do its own I/O in parallel with I/O on the 5000 the whole thing worked very efficiently in the early nineties. The bottleneck, near the end, moved to the 5000 (or 5700, as it were) CPU instead. A Sun 4 could run circles around the 5700 in processing time - at one point I ran all our Fortran code through f2c and executed it on the Sun. Wow. That's when I started to talk with the customer about a possible rehost (which we did, to an SGI).
A new high-resolution, 3-D map of the whole mouse brain
That's something that might be useful for one of those rare end-users who for some reason want to try to build something with a bleeding edge compiler.

That is also mind-numbingly absurd to force upon the vast majority who couldn't care less about the bleeding edge and want a stable platform to act as a fixe target without risking random ABI breakages.

I should not be forced to endure a brittle and fragile and overly-complex compilation process just because a random guy somewhere had a whim about taking a compiler out for a spin.

The world expects stability. If you wish to try out some stuff, just download the compiler and build the damn thing yourself. Hell, odds are that there's already a PPA somewhere. So where's the need to screw over everyone?
> It does make it invalid, when the difference between runs is as big as 80,000 estimated deaths which can lead to dramatically different government policies.

Wrong. Nobody decides policy based on whether there will be 320k or 400k deaths. What matters is the order of magnitude.
I dual boot windows/linux and the linux client does not have the virtual background options.

I'm using an i7-9700k so it's not a lack of cpu power.

edit: Maybe there's a newer version that supports green screen? The options simply don't exist in my version.
Zoom consultant Alex Stamos weighs in on Keybase acquisition
Cisco shell is like this, 'show running-config' becomes 'sh ru'
There's a common theme on HN that it's all the fault of consumers for wanting free stuff. The truth is, budgets are limited, and if you start charging for stuff you will soon find out how much consumers actually value it - with respect with other stuff they can buy. I'm not talking about the average HN user making six figures in a cushy software job - of course you'd pay for a product like Gmail. But think about most people who don't care that much about technology, to whom it's just a tool and not an art, a craft or a hobby. Do you really think your product is that valuable? Do you really think people are willing to buy your content - enough that you can stay afloat?

It's not that consumers want free stuff, it's just that most people do not have extra money laying around.

I'll also add that "charging a fair price" has never deterred companies from engaging in unethical and privacy-violating practices in addition to taking your money. See: Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
So you're saying that the original creditors made money off this and new creditors through secondary market transactions are left holding the bag? That's partially true but a massive portion of this debt is in pension funds or passive investments that track index funds. They track benchmark indices so they're buying these bonds at issue or shortly after. With no active management involved, they are also losing money when a company files.
Is the author aware of the irony of posting this on a Medium blog?

Maybe I’m getting too philosophical here, but “be the change you want to see in the world” is really a valuable mentality. If all we do is complain about what others are doing while being unwilling to change our own behavior, it’s not just counterproductive, it’s hypocritical.

[edit] after reading through again, I believe the author is just naive (ignorant, not hypocritical)
Linus from LinusTechTips did include that specific processor, and even the 150$ Core i5 (I forgot which one specifically).

I recommend you see that video for the comparison you're asking for.
Is this US only jobs if not would love to be able to filter on time zone and country of employment preferences, or contractor vs employment etc
I highly recommend hivelocity.net [0]. Solid and their support is top notch. In 5+ years of hosting, we probably had an issue may be once with them (DNS was not pinging) .

https://hivelocity.net
give jenkins x devpods a look[1]

[1]: https://jenkins-x.io/docs/reference/devpods/
This is one week after this PR stunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sBpkgRA6sM
https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing... has a list of E2E-capable clients. For instance, Mirage, mentioned as an alternative here, has full E2EE support (but no cross-signing yet, given it's brand new).
Yeah sorry a bit off topic...
Class registration during 1978, before internet era
PostHuman
Everything you mentioned here is table stakes for the major cloud providers.
On many real world AndroidTV devices (I've tested a couple dozen) you definitely do NOT get Chrome updated properly even though it's supposed to.

Android is the Wild West, with all the good and bad that follows. Manufacturers are often not implementing things properly. Problem is that these devices are all over Amazon and people buy them and expect them to work. We try to steer people to good quality devices such as the Nvidia Shield but you can only do so much.

Keep in mind that GeckoView may not be used to build a browser. Rather it's often an engine used to drive an application built with web technologies. So a developers requirements for updates are different than an interactive browser of arbitrary web content.

The story is the same on the desktop with Electron. When you deploy an electron app the browser underneath it is locked in conjunction with the version of Electron.

It's still up to the app developer to be responsible and follow issues and update as required. But that's a lot less often than when you have a browser of arbitrary web content.
Or, just maybe, the situation is a bit more complex than that, and demand as well as supply are stratified as well as other ancillary effects affecting prices beyond that?

Or are we just going to pretend that the world works just like an economics 101 textbook and close our eyes to the real problems instead?
> I never understood

The airlines are masters at A/B testing and figuring out what works best, as the industry is notoriously low margin and very cut-throat. You can bet that they price things this way because it works better.

BTW, people pay a lot extra for first class tickets and love the "free" drinks. Different classes is how the airlines optimize profits from different market segments. They're very good at this.
The Spark and the Engine – Important metaphor for change and self-improvement
This is such a tired and lazy argument.

1) The "easy way" is not the same as the "correct and effective way".

2) He's young, retired, enormously wealthy, and can do anything he wants. But still donated his time/energy to help educate people about wealth inequality. To you, it may be "just talk" but he's already doing way more than 99.9% of people in his position.
Actually it would be, at least for sustainability, inequality and parts of public policy/governance. Simulations of "what-if-when" scenarios or analysis of data (which is what public policy of any kind should be based upon anyway) are precisely what computers excel at.

What humans (or rather: our governments) don't excel at: accurately using the data that technology gives us. We know that climate change is real, man-made and will fuck up entire continents, but still there are world leaders actively rejecting science.
"The smartest people I know are mostly self-educated."

Which direction do you think the causality arrow points in this sentence?
No, plain useState. What you're describing can be done via Context, which gets you back to "need to refactor large swathes of component trees to reparent state and callbacks that need to be shared or persisted across different subtrees as new business requirements arise", but worse.

EDIT: quick example here https://codesandbox.io/s/unruffled-easley-ry6x2?file=/src/Ap...

This is a fairly innocuous example since the bug is immediately apparent from the button not working. Now imagine the failure mode is more subtle, and these components are about two dozen layers apart down the tree.
Yes! Hawaiian was great for years, then they reduced the service considerably. Now, even locals who want to support locals don't fly Hawaiian because there's cheaper flights that have about the same service level.
700?! Ridiculous! we need to develop one universal language that covers everyone's use cases. [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/
Also got the X1 carbon. I have no idea how something that feels so sturdy can feel like its light enough to float away!
I'm begging on hands and knees for everyone in this thread to read Graeber's "Debt: the first 5,000 years." The notion that debts have to be paid is very odd. If I went to a bank and asked for a loan to bet on a horse, they'd laugh me out of the building. But if they knew that no matter what they could get the money back from me, they'd cut the check. That's where we are right now with non-dischargeable debts. Who holds risk for making loans is not an iron clad law of nature; it's a matter of political will that we have changed over time.
This is bad advice.

Even the stereotypically low-earning majors (Education and English) are very (financially) rewarding to those who complete degrees. This is true even though most majors confer almost no useful skills or knowledge. The only caveat is that there is almost no reward for attending college, so you should only go if you are reasonably certain that you will complete the degree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
As opposed to the usual on-BBC background of an impressively scholarly bookshelf, with a copy of your own book casually prominent.
Sorry, dont really know much about Ionic. The GeckoView site should have all you need to implement it instead of a Webview, it's pretty straight-forward.
The company is now servicing $100m of debt. That cash went to the previous shareholders in the buyout.
Indeed. There were over two dozen minicomputer manufacturers at the peak in the early 1970s in just the USA. I don't know off the top of my head, but I imagine there were just as many in Europe.

Most of the machines and their software are entirely lost to history at this point, with the companies bankrupt or dissolved and documentation and hardware all scrapped.
I am truly disappointed. But I should have known better. Big woop. Keybase and Zoom deserve each other.
I know a guy who died recently who didn't eat rice and exclusively bought Chinese and Korean electronics as a result of his involuntary relocation to a certain pacific island from 1942-45. He wasn't personally the target by any of the orders that the people he was wronged by were following yet I think most people would consider the grudge reasonable since he was personally affected even though it wasn't personally targeted at him. I consider OP's grandfather's grudge to be along those same lines albeit over a much more minor wrong.
Understand that failure is not the opposite of success. Failure is an essential part of success. Once you succeed, no one will remember your failures anyway. Microsoft wasn’t Bill Gates’ and Paul Allen’s first business venture. Who remembers that their original Traf-o-Data business was a flop? The actor Jim Carey was booed off many a stage while a young comedian. We have electric light bulbs because Thomas Edison refused to give up even after 10,000 failed experiments. If the word “failure” is anathema to you, then reframe it: You either succeed, or you have a learning experience.

--Steve Pavlina
Yep! CPU is definitely still important.
Using peeking plants mornings and at night seems like a no brainer stop gap.
How would this differ from existing debt settlement firms?
This article approaches a few correct points on some very obvious ideas while saying a lot of other things that I find crazy.

My personal experiences with the government have been either frustrating, inefficient, meaningless, or detrimental. At some point, you inevitably start questioning why such a large government exists and why we need it.

The authors is listing words with very specific negative emotional subtext. It barely makes sense in the context of the sentence.

"The first thing to understand about governments is that governments and corporations are exactly the same. Both are just groups of people trying to create value in some market."

The first thing to understand is generalities can be the death of any reasonable perspective.

The authors use of language betrays the mistake of personifying the government as a cohesive and singular entity.

The truth is that most governments exist as an ecosystem for many different parts to cooperate for various reasons. A very large amount of the people within that ecosystem are genuinely passionate about being able to work for the public good and do a fantastic job of it. A large amount of people within the same ecosystem do not care and take advantage of their civil service role as a means of personal/commercial benefit. Now what about the people in between these archetypes?

The actual "thing" is too varied and complex for almost any generality to be usefully applied.
One of Frederick Wiseman's wonderful documentaries is "The Store", which is about Neiman Marcus sometime in the 80's. Currently streaming on Kanopy.

One sequence showed the CEO giving a pep talk to his buyers, whose relationship with their suppliers was always strained at best. He told a joke about a buyer who called his supplier that went something like:

Buyer: "Hello, is Fred Jones there?"

Receptionist: "I'm sorry, Mr. Jones passed away last month"

Buyer: "Oh, sorry to hear that, goodbye."

Ten minutes later:

Buyer: "Hello, is Fred Jones there?"

Receptionist: "I told you, he died last month"

Buyer: "Oh, oh, yes. Goodbye."

Ten minutes later:

Buyer: "Hello, is Fred Jones there?"

Receptionist: "He's dead, why do you keep calling here?"

Buyer: "I just like hearing you say it"
Using Kaf for Azure EventHub
I wish there was some study that would actually prove that free money is bad, and that it's required to pay people have a productive society.

Because so far, this sort of belief belongs to religious texts, and it's still an important pillar of how society works. We still judge the homeless and moochers because they are not willing to work. We even put people at job where they're not productive, as long as they look busy, available, and obeying.
The size wasn't because of marketing or anything, it's because of the higher crash standards.
Heh, that's a neat idea and cheap to implement on top of existing SSH tooling!
I get the sentiment, but it would also be good for a lot of people to goto junior college and knock out some pre-reqs at the same time.

Also, I think you should make it the whole school year, not just a semester (if we have issues this fall, we're likely to also have them in January and February of next year).

This gives you several advantages:

1 - you don't fall a year behind in schooling

2 - you can still start a business, as junior colleges aren't trying to weed out students

3 - your cost will be lower (no room & board, lower tuition)

I fully agree with the author that now is a time to try something new, even if you fail completely, you'll learn a lot more than you ever thought you would.
Ask HN: Was there an online encyclopedia during the 1980s?
I was recently inspired to investigate after watching the scene[0] in Ghostbusters II where Egon pulls up a record from the "Occult Reference Net".

I am aware that people were able (and still able) to connect to bulletin boards and library catalogs via telnet, but was there such a thing as a "reference net" for general topics? If so, do any still exist?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRE-RzLg5M
The crucial part a lot of businesses miss is have some breadcrumbs for your most loyal customers to follow so you don’t lose them with the quality drop.

Don’t advertise it, just put it on your website where someone might be able to find it on Google.
I failed to find the BBC World News Studio backdrop, which might be very useful.
If you really haven't heard the term "surveillance capitalism" before, this[1] interview is a very good overview of the topic, including this explanation of the term:

>> So even early on in the theorizing of capitalism it was understood that capitalism takes on different market forms and different eras in the context of different technologies. We’ve had mercantile capitalism, and we’ve had factory capitalism, and mass-production capitalism, and managerial capitalism, financial capitalism. And typically what happens in these new concepts is that modifier, like “mass production,” or in my case “surveillance” capitalism, what that modifier is doing is pinpointing the pivot of value creation in this new market form.

> engender anti-surveillance support from anti-capitalists

Every anti-capitalist I know has already been anti-surveillance for a long time.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-an...
And what if you are going to College to learn something, rather than "for the experience", or "to socialize"?

What if you don't care how many amenities they have, or that the cafeteria is something special? You just want some classes?

It seems to me college has gotten more and more expensive as teens are treating it as some sort of adult theme park/experience.
What's the value again?

They plump up the turkey, borrow against it, and spread the losses across the market.

The original lenders benefit as they offload poorly underwritten debt. The owners of the distressed asset benefit because they get something. The people orchestrating the turnaround win via fees, etc.
I think the advantage is bigger than you believe, and I would bet you mix typing/trackpad more than you believe also.
Great questions, I wondered how they got it so wrong, I still wonder how they got it so wrong. It never occurred to me it may have been time of day they asked the questions.
Yes, this was exactly how I mentally categorized these two companies as well.

My first reaction was: it can't be that keybase can it? Huh, well maybe I'd sell my principles for that much money too, oh well.

Maybe some keybase employee will end up being a whistleblower sometime soon though.
Cue another “college is useful/useless” debate in the HN comments...
They used to use firmware-based rootkit to reinstall their manufacturer spyware onto a freshly formatted OS install. So, not matter what you do, they will reinstall even if you format the hard drive.
A non-occupancy tax is orthogonal to this particular issue, a lot of high rise condos cannot be rented, reasonably. And so they are only accessible to people that can afford to buy them, occupied or not.
Thanks, but paying extra for reliability implies that reliability is being compromised and can be provided for a fee, which isn't the case here. As unfortunate as these incidents are, they are rooted in the legacy infrastructure a stock broker is dependent upon and we've been working hard over the years replacing those, component by component.
Yeah I dunno, I'm basically showering in downvotes right now but it seems to be just Silicon Valley types who are upset that Torontonians didn't welcome their dystopia with fanfare and adulation.
My rating is usually around 1200-1400, so not much higher than yours. I play on lichess.

One piece of advice I got from a very high rated player was to play longer time controls. He said, “playing only blitz you’ll just keep making the same mistakes over and over without even realising it”. I have found this to be true, and generally prefer the chess I play at Rapid time controls.
Watched that show not so long ago, for the first time really. I guess I had fawlty expectations, I thought it might have more good jokes and less racism.
> people who didn't like the few good things about X

Since these were also pretty much the only people who were putting effort into maintaining X, I think it's reasonable that they decided to replace it instead.

The history of X is a history of forks. But we've not seen another X fork appear to compete against Wayland. Instead we see the people who are writing Wayland continuing to retrofit the new technologies they're able to bring back, back to X.
Did you miss superfish?

https://www.cnet.com/news/superfish-torments-lenovo-owners-w...

It did MITM to inject ads, including adding their cert to the trust store to MITM SSL connections.

Of course the software needed the private key to work, which they shipped to every laptop and was quickly put online.

All of the sudden banking at coffee shops on a lot of Lenovo models was no longer private.

I'm not sure if captured traffic could be retroactively decrypted, but I wouldn't doubt it. PFS support probably wasn't high on Superfish's priorities.
My father said when he was a boy there was the "nickel bar" of chocolate. The size of the bar went up and down with chocolate prices, but the bar was always a nickel.
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To all the utopist at the bar right now: do not give up!
But an HOV lane is not, and those are good places to start, as you can regulate the traffic on them.