skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, I'm being anecdotal. But I have seen this play out far too many times. From huge multi-nationals trying to cut corners to solo founders trying to get something built.

Heh, reminds me of a time at said huge multinational. We were building a team in Thailand, and one of the execs knew that I had worked there in the past doing just that. He calls me over and says, "We're trying to figure out how much to pay the team. What are engineer salaries like in Bangkok?" I made sure to give the team a nice bump, based on my "estimate."
Handwriting synthesis with recurrent neural networks: Browser demo in JavaScript
Where did you hear that? Decent progress has been made on one of the PRs and the issue is still open last I checked. It was originally slated for the previous major/minor version but it got bumped to 4.0 last year.

Would be interested to hear if it'd been dropped because I have alternative solutions I can play, just far less convenient.
Fine, but that kinda falls under "without even caring what mountains of code end up running as a result". You use 10 GB instead of a few MB, and get an easy installation vs. an easy installation.

It's like driving a huge truck everywhere, even to get the mail from our mailbox, because it starts up real fast and we don't have it far to the garage from our living rooms, and then later on because we haven't walked in so long, we don't even remember what it is. And especially with websites, people also tend to forget that their website isn't the only thing anyone ever runs on their machine, some have to share resources with dozens of tabs.
I think a very creative movie was actually Johnny Dangerously

Farghin' ice hole.
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I guess I'm missing how that relates to the comparison I made.

Google at least lets me back things up.

Most services do not allow it at all.

So there's no restoring anywhere else at all, no chance.

Having the data I could at least have a chance that some service might offer a rebuilt import option to pick up those google users ... or I could build it myself / at least have the information.

To me that's still leaps and bounds better than any other options that I know of.
I put food on the table, and I do more work in Django than I do in SPA's. In fact, one of the complaints I read about from management is that Django devs cost more than JS devs (don't know if that's true, just saying it's a management concern).

But I think the "React everywhere" error, is more or less the same as the "one language for everything" error, the "everything should be Windows" error, and many other cases of wanting to use only one technology and have it work for all cases.
Is that not a trivial amount for hands off DNS recursion services? Consider the cost to purchase a Raspberry Pi, set it up, electricity, wear and tear on flash storage, etc

If you point me at a checkout page for $2/month to not even have to think about plugging a Pi in, I’m going to pull my credit card out in a heartbeat. A single coffee costs me more. Think about your time!
What constitutes a real application? There is some obsession with preserving client-side state as if the user could not live without it, and yet in almost every case where significant engineering has been put in to (essentially) reimplementing a web browser within a web browser, the result is either on a par or slower, and almost always vastly more cumbersome than just shipping a brand new page.

There are so many things the majority of applications never even try to get right, like progressive loading or history management, that have been solved problems for browsers since the dawn of time.

Separately, avoidance of client JS eliminates multiple classes of potential bugs, because eliminating (or minimizing) active behaviour on the client prunes vast chunks of the overall application state space.

I hire contractors quite regularly, and the amount of time I waste almost weekly having to explain "no Javascript, rip it back out, you're making a mess", because so few people seem to understand this. Our market is somewhat unique, in that most clients are high latency low bandwidth, but even if that were not true I expect my direction would still be the same.

"The page content is smaller as JSON" .. "you introduced a round-trip, game over"

"We only need 200KB of JS what's the problem" .. "the page didn't even start to render until the last byte of JS was loaded"

"We can implement mixed rendering and fix this on the server" .. "or you could just send HTML and rip out the JS, which is what we're doing"
What happens when policy makers learn about comparative advantage in undergraduate economics but don't realize it only illustrates a snapshot in time.
I'll believe it when I see it. All the signs point to this being a temporary effect in reopening locations due to people being afraid of crowded public areas (public transit). Pretty much the entire automotive industry is expecting continuing downward trends in new vehicle sales long-term.
Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball Mouse

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I guess it's a decent idea. But you might want to educate users when they are setting up the services so overcharging is avoided. It seems unlikely that an educated person would overcharge by that much that a 6 hour warning wouldn't work.

Prevent the problem rather than fix it.
GitHub link (while the TF implementation was done in 2018, the browser demo seems to have been created this year in 2020)

https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Try Google Opinion Rewards and see if you still have that...opinion.
I'm a bit late in reading and responding to this, but do you reckon the average person is aware that they can acquire a HELOC as a technique to whether a hypothetical financial storm?
When a desktop rivals some servers for power the workstation is dead.
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Income != wealth
> Developers like simple sites like Hacker News. Nobody else does.

One word : Craigslist.
today. after gnome rewrote the whole thing under "new management"
Why not use a client based content filter such as uBlock Origin?
The evidence from the US, Italy, Spain, UK and France is that a lack of early lockdown led to the number of cases and deaths we see now.
You can buy just one if you want. It's a fairly new product, so I haven't been able to find any retailers. Here is a link to a older model to illustrate the point;

https://www.bsicomputer.com/products/capa112-15994
Again definitely not a lawyer but I’d imagine advertising an ETF or selling a subscription to an email list based on these trades (both ideas from this thread) would be pretty clear violations.
The cases which should be simple, don't give anyone a chance to be impressive. This applies not only to the devs, but also to the managers (and designers, and etc).

I am impressed with simplicity, but most people aren't.
There's another factor at play in these discussions: Cynicism tends to look smart to outside observers.

Cynicism is often mistaken for competence to outside observers. If a piece of software has a specific problem, the person chanting "This software is garbage" is going to look smarter than the people saying "Hold on, maybe this software is this way for a reason".

There are various (somewhat weak) studies on the topic. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29993325

> Four studies showed that laypeople tend to believe in cynical individuals' cognitive superiority. A further three studies based on the data of about 200,000 individuals from 30 countries debunked these lay beliefs as illusionary by revealing that cynical (vs. less cynical) individuals generally do worse on cognitive ability and academic competency tasks. Cross-cultural analyses showed that competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment. Less competent individuals embraced cynicism unconditionally, suggesting that-at low levels of competence-holding a cynical worldview might represent an adaptive default strategy to avoid the potential costs of falling prey to others' cunning.

In toxic and mismanaged environments, being a cynic from the sidelines can be a better political strategy than being the positive person in the trenches trying to find solutions and compromises.
I'm out man. I feel like this is getting super adversarial and into the fray for HN. Sincerely - sorry if I offended.
Swelte has exactly the same problems author mentions about React.
And I'm not sure I need to say it on here but OSS exists, of course.
The article is about semiconductor manufacturing. That's not a labor intensive manufacturing industry where the US workforce has a disadvantage in.
9) a competitive fab is a massive capital investment
That explanation made sense for the hyper-growth mode (2-3 day doubling) in, say, NYC's early explosion, because there was giant pool of infected being discovered with new tests. It doesn't explain states like Iowa which are doubling only ("only", sigh) every 6-10 days. In that realm you'd expect positives to track linearly with test growth, and they don't.

I'm sorry. Those graphs you linked are pretty, but they're just dead wrong.
For 2017, the average household income was $89k, which corresponds to 65th percentile [0].

There are many "us vs. them" thresholds to choose from; curious what was special about this one.

[0] https://dqydj.com/2018-average-median-top-household-income-p...
Producing Professional Deliverables
A Formalization of Sentience and the Logical Properties of Consciousness [pdf]
A broad statement. I’d like to see the evidence that they don’t care, especially when faced with the level of detail collected.

I’d say they don’t care to know, not that they don’t care. Ignorance is not a defence, even if it is temporarily a business case.
No, it’s not designed for you to think critically. It’s designed to elicit an emotional reaction. Emotions sell. Working as intended.
Precisely because the asymptomatic cases get caught by being traced from the symptomatic people in their contacts!
Synthetic biology can make vanillin at scale cheaply. I believe it's one of the molecules Amyris is developing.

Going to be difficult to compete with that in the long run.
So what would work better? Video proposals of an excerpt of the talk in front of a webcam? If you make sure the jury isn't biased why not (they could also be biased with written proposals of course)
oooh, it's written is Haskell.
I guarantee that Uncle Sam doesn't care if Delta files chapter 11.

https://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/delta/
For more on declarative drawing, you might be interested in wrapping your mind around Eukleides: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides .
>Your carrier should not be charging you for inbound SMS

Agreed!

>look at Teli, Telnyx & Signalwire

Thank you, a quick glance seems to indicate they do not charge for inbound SMS on local numbers.
True, but that's been the argument against outsourcing manufacturing for 40+ years. Yet, it is still being done.

I think the best the US can do, right now, is to import from countries where it has some clout and can better control manufacturing. It's crazy to think that a big chunk of your products are being manufactured in China, a country that is competing against you.
From what I'm reading, the best case for a vaccine is 3 years (both development and production on a large enough scale). By which point, it's a moot point because the vaccine will have gotten to herd immunity levels long before that.

In other words, hunkering down won't really change the fact that the vaccine, if it comes at all, won't come in time.
"Rich" typically do not care about their retirement accounts and do not have an employer. They typically benefit from owning a business, having a stream of passive investments and compounding growth. But this may depend on your definition of rich.
I think you mean that solidity is not a credible measure of space being filled.
"An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
I had the option to spoof location data under "Developer options" in Settings with the original OnePlus ROM, but it's even easier to accomplish now that I'm running LineageOS.

In short, yes.
What text are you reading? https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9149304?co=GENIE... says

What gets saved by Android

The following data is backed up in your Android settings. You don't need to turn on Google One's backup to save this data.

App data
Call history
Contacts
Settings
SMS messages

Note, "by Android", not "on Android" as you claim.
NATs is one. Although it has some limitations.
Airnb and the cell provides are good examples [1],[2].

The cell provider location data is the most insidious. They add noise to it, but the central limit theorem is a real thing and people who buy the data are aware of that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/data-privacy-l...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hu...
The Ethical Challenge of Infection-Inducing Challenge Experiments
Yes, exactly, it's a question of what you ask from the compiler.

Not sure whether the -O2 and -O3 system is the exact right choice to communicate that. But any better system would also preserve the user's ability to make this trade-off.

Though I don't think there's necessarily anything magic about -O2. They could conceivably also only protect -O0 and perhaps -O1. Or give finer grained control over the trade-offs.
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I compared it to 1918 Influenza's global death count/estimate. 50 million people worldwide is a lot, even with the 7.8 billion we have. And 2 million US deaths would be a lot as well. I think it's worth some inconvenience and economic slowdown to prevent millions of deaths.
> I can’t speak for HN or the mods, but I do wonder if there are subjects that are not worth discussing because of how undemocratic and liberty infringing they are.

That's counter-intuitive. If liberty matters, it would seem that raising concerns is key.

If HN readers are a self-selecting tech elite, who is more likely to suggest the ideas that are worth pursuing?
This is an overly broad statement. In the last year, for example, I've built an in-browser SVG vector drawing tool and a very detailed dashboard with a lot of nested charts and data visualizations. Neither of these would have been possible without a heavy client-side JS component.

My current project is an e-commerce app that's almost entirely server rendered. I avoid JS where it's not needed but also avoid irrational biases against it when it is needed.
Per the linked article, people don't want the fake stuff; they want the genuine article. And fake vanillin is already widespread at less cost than the real bean anyway, so the demand for the real bean already has this competition priced in.
Could someone familiar with how those systems are made explain how time and ordering of events work in these?
because it's the obvious subtext. Every time Huawei or Tiktok come up it's the same amount of accusations.
Discussion from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230

It's not based just on text code, but on interactive manipulation as well, so it's not like e.g. TikZ which can be kept in the document source and version controlled, etc.
>it's simply not possible to avoid re-rendering the entire page without using XHR

Wrong on two separate levels.

First up, technologies like iframes, frames, and objects/embeds allow that just fine; you can use at least some of them without any JS whatsoever.

Secondly, with avoiding re-rendering you end up avoiding a 200ms ... 500ms load+render of simple full page, at the cost of doing 2...5 seconds of gradual load+render of various bits and pieces. Bits and pieces that often are so unwieldy they cause widgets & content to load gradually, jump around, and sometimes even get hidden behind a loader. While the CPU fan keeps whining at full revs.

The solution became worse than the problem it purported to solve, and your users pay the price in wasted time + RAM + electricity.

If you pay even a little attention to order of loading you can avoid FOUC entirely. If you pay a little attention to defining sizes of leading elements, you'll have constant layout of the top part of the page, and avoid flash of white background. If you use anchors here and there your user will be scrolled to the proper position.

Yes your page can easily look as if it got only updated with JS after doing a full load+render.

The technology is already in the browser; no need to approximate it with three layers of JS.
mostly-CRUD-and-forms-websites.

There's no thin line for this, CRUD-FORM can be really complex or really simple. A thoughtful design choice must be made here between server-side-rendered html with some JS and a SPA.
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I should preface this by saying that I don't have any hiring power.

I think online degrees are fine, especially if the school has an in-person presence. The hiring process should rely less on OCR keywords and stereotyping, and more on the candidate's skill and experience.
If you use the most reductive reasoning possible, then sure, I guess it's bizarre.
Yea - I'll second that even though you don't think I've read it.
IMO, it's kinda hard not to end up learning those things even if you are in react all day.

At one point or another things don't work and it's because of simple HTML... and not react.

Maybe that's not the right path to learn it but we've reached a point where if you want a job, plain HTML and JavaScript isn't it.... plenty of folks who had the benefit of developing their skills from HTML + JS all the way up will bemoan this situation.... but if they're hiring people they're not hiring anyone who just knows HTML and JavaScript without any exposure to anything else.
Can’t tell if you’re being serious or just aren’t fully explaining
This is just armchair quarterbacking. Utterly useless.
There's no such thing as a `fuse` system executable on linux.

There is `fusermount` which is indeed suid (so is `mount` btw), but it's also been designed to accommodate unprivileged FUSE mounts and always adds 'nosuid' and 'nodev' mount options when establishing them.

It's not equivalent to being root at all.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fuse.html...
"Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects"

What makes you think that a black hole orbiting the sun is a "planet" by the definition you're using?

More generally, you can't prove things about the physical world just by citing somebody's arbitrary definition of a word.
Thank you... but I never said if I thought I was actually self made!

What if I tell you that my parents did pay for my education? And they gave me a car when I was 16? Or they were fortunate enough to be able buy a computer when I was in elementary school, which definitely contributed to my interests today, many decades later? Am I still self made? Or did that give me too much of a "head start" so I'm not? Was it so long ago now that it doesn't matter?

TLDR: I agree, it's all subjective...
This. Lot of "mind reading" going on these days, when in fact it's often people projecting their fears onto others.
As a boring aside: this was never a podcast; but just a clip from a full program.
Thanks for saying it, even if it lands you at the bottom of the thread. Agreed completely. It's not about "being offended" (whatever that even means) but about being in poor taste. Nobody would be surprised if a post titled "All Drives Matter" elicited strong negative reactions from readers, even if it was "literally about drive selection in a RAID array" or whatever. Consciously or not, this title is doing exactly the same thing.

Language has context and meaning outside of its immediate definition and will affect the perception of your written word. Don't make people think of authoritarianism and kids huddled in cages if you want to share your cool technical insights with the world.
The problem is that Apple has no way of truly controlling what someone does with data once they have it.
Anecdotally gcc + gdb does release with debug info builds a lot better than clang + lldb. In general quality of debug info is one place I have had fewer issues with gcc/gdb than I have with clang/lldb.
Assemblywoman says 'F–k Elon Musk' after threat to move Tesla out of California
> What I found most exciting was that, from the analysis of the size and colors of craters on Ryugu, the Hayabusa2 team concluded that at some point the asteroid must have been closer to the Sun that it is now. That would explain the amount of reddening of the surface. Using two different models for calculating the age of craters, the team estimated that this solar heating-induced reddening must have happened either eight million years ago or as recently as 300,000 years ago—a mere blink of an eye, cosmologically speaking.

Just about every time I read a story on astronomy, I’m blown away by our ability to simulate the conditions that must have led to our observations. Cosmology especially, and our ability to model the moments after the Big Bang.

Hats off to the experts of the scientific world.
403 Forbidden. Oh well.
I've often said that web development has a big culture problem.

In any other field, 'modern' is the opposite of a selling point. People want tools that work, that are proven and have years of stability and momentum. But in web development, there is an obsession with the new and shiny. It's 100% about the developer's own experience in creating a program and 0% about the user's experience actually using the half baked and constantly changing web app.
Just bought this one last week. I love it so far!
There's a full explanation here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151123190951/http://diplom.org...
Teli has treated us well for years, they use some small cell provider in the midwest for SMS/MMS enablement. Signalwire is essentially Bandwidth.com without the sales funnel.
Yep. Cookies frequently pass from parent domain (edoceo.com) to child (ads.edoceo.com)
Yup. And anyone who’s tasted both can tell you they’re not the same. At all.
That's REST requests... HTTP requests are $1/million.
I would have to say that lack of Critical Thinking and latching to Group Think are the biggest problems in the US. These lead to the inability to criticize whom one voted for or people with-in their own groups.

Saying something direct often will change the outcome and have the opposite of the wanted response. For example:

Two men both buy flowers for women they like. The first man tells her the truth, "I bought them hoping it would increase my chance for sex". The other says, "I thought you might like these", while actually thinking I want to have sex. Which person was better at marketing themselves and have a higher probability of a better outcome?

This is actually from "Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense", https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26210508-alchemy.

Manipulation has no concept of bad or good but is required in our society to help prevent people from throwing away good ideas.
Because the economy isn’t “bad” like in previous recessions. Generally lots of people are unemployed because of government mandates not to work, not because businesses are experiencing lack of demand. When the shelter orders are lifted, much of the unemployed will be able to resume work. People will be going to the mall, travel, out to eat, etc.

Now it’s not going to perfect - some businesses may find demand doesn’t immediately pick back up (or at all), and then real lay offs happen.

IMHO this is why we find the stock market near previous highs but not quite there.
I prefaced my answer with “I understand that...” because I’m aware I might be wrong. I wasn’t being assertive or authoritative. I welcome the feedback and corrections posted in the replies to my comment.