skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had issues pasting phone numbers into text fields, where the last digits get cut off because the form doesn’t want hyphens. I’d rather it paste in the full thing and then let me manually remove the hyphens/spaces.
/tin-foil hat on

Well, no government wants any company to wield more power than them, right?

/tin-foil hat off
I disagree with that - at least in this instance. Perhaps in other situations, but if you're suggesting that a program between the major state and city health departments in Seattle (which was one of the earliest known COVID-19 cities) _about_ COVID-19 being halted would otherwise "not be news", I'm going to have to disagree.

Edit: to say "halted".
Feature request for HN: Make it easier to see new comments on popular posts
I recently asked a question on Hacker News and got some good feedback, but as it got more popular it became so hard to follow. New comments were added but they are so hard to find.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:

> Sort comments by date.

> Visually represent recent comments better - like maybe the dates should be darker for recent comments and lights for older.

> Highlight new comments since last view.

Any other ideas?
Yeah, I don't get what people mean when they say "bring back RSS"—-it's still around. The thing that disappeared was Google Reader, which I guess was a signal of super mainstream popularity of RSS.

Feedly is a great app that I use regularly to keep up with RSS, and there are other RSS readers too. It's not like we're talking about a dead protocol like Gopher, here.
I would like one that punishes sites with too much ad to content ratio.
Is it a given that climate change would be bad for companies? Changing needs usually means opportunities.
Lancet editorial blasts Trump's 'inconsistent and incoherent' Covid-19 response
Yes but most people broadcast their views or interesting findings on twitter because that’s where the audience is.
Yes, but it's branded to sell you products and ignores differences in each item's volatility & leverage.
This whole thing is just making it painfully obvious that the best use of the FDA is as targets at a firing range. I think just lining them up and shooting them would result in fewer deaths than letting them continue to operate.
i would also prefer a more neutral grey. i'm curious as to how designers choose greys in their palette. is there something wrong with just using equal amounts of rgb, e.g. #666666 or hsl(0, 0%, 50%)? do these values not show up as "true grey" on some displays?
Isn't that the suggestion? That if there are groups of individuals who you know are going to make wildly irresponsible choices because they don't have the ability to interpret such information, you would prefer not to give it to them?
It's funny how defensive mediocre engineers get.
Nursing homes account for 70% of fatalities here in Quebec! And retirement homes 20%. It's very telling that we shut everything up here, with very intense measures compared to our neighbors, but we just utterly ignored nursing houses. We were giving fines to 13yo kids playing soccer in parks when nursing home patients were still going in and out freely and their caregivers were encouraged not to wear PPE (not that it was available anyways, it was mostly diverted to hospitals...).

New york did a similar mistake by forcing nursing homes to accept recovering COVID patients, with disastrous results too.
DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS:How I put it all together
It sounds like you expected to get a high-powered dev machine comparable to 1500$ laptops (which are kinda required to run IntelliJ) and not, what is essentially, a lowend laptop without about the slowest Core CPU out there.
LiveJournal has worked this way for decades and still exists.
Self-promoting that I have a blog with scattered thoughts here: https://mlu.red/

Also built with a custom static site generator (https://github.com/owenshen24/Volta), like many other blogs in the comments here. Woot for customizability and self-expression.
The inflation that matters such as asset prices and real estate aren’t captured by CPI.
Sure but it was still "engine motion blur" not real motion blur. Just like SSAO is fake shadows and noticeable.
I wrote a blog article about reading books and blog articles instead of watching YouTube videos, ergo using addictive, low-quality, negative social internet: https://dennisarslan.nl/you-should-read-books-and-blog-artic...

You can still use https://www.inoreader.com/ for blogs and use Google to find good-quality blogs in your niche.

The fact that blogs aren't so popular anymore could also force them to write higher quality content to gain popularity.
New Yorkers don't go to times square, rich tourists do.
We’ll, at a certain point CPU consumption from hashing a sufficiently massive pass would be a concern, no? Like, bcrypt is a pretty slow function, although I don’t know how it scales with input length.

Edit: Hunh, apparently bcrypt only handles 72 chars anyways.
So read them. I do.
I use RSS everyday, and follow several hundred sites using it. One thing that gets overlooked when discussing RSS is that the nature of feeds themselves lends to scripting. I have one single source of aggregated data that I can run queries against, automate scripts with, generate alerts from etc. It's nice.
This exact tablet didn't exist couple of years ago :/
To me it's more that Blogs vanished and the people that spent time with it moved their attention onto different media, especially Twitter. Both exploring and maintaining blogs is an effort, and I think what's left are tech blogs and blogs attached to news or magazine websites that are written by professional Journalists. Medium and Youtube also seems more like something for people who spent a lot of effort on this.

I think most people resorted to platforms for hosting the blogs. Not sure if it's so important if many people read something as long as it's interesting for some people.
"The market" has become a tool for politics, so we can assume politicians will never let the market die. They will just keep dumping money into it.

And, investors know that Republicans, Democrats, everyone will sacrifice everything to save "market growth".

Seems like a rational, safe bet.
I mean you're free to start a site with neither upvotes nor targeted advertising... And while I'm sure you'll find an audience, the vast majority of the population enjoys upvoting, and actually prefers targeted adverts over untargeted ones.
> I would argue that the public internet has lowered in quality, and the lowering quality of search results simply reflects that the information you're looking for often isn't out there.

I think that's not the case: There's a lot more people with more diverse backgrounds, from different locations and cultures online now than it was the case 10 years ago. It's just harder to find the places through a "globalized" search that is mostly aiming at commercial offers. From time to time I stumble upon absolute niche blogs (Example from my feed reader: https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com) and it reminds me that there's a lot of good resources out there if you find them somehow).
By input states do you mean stuff like knowing whether a key is currently pressed or a mouse button is currently held down? Could you explain what you mean by it gets messy?
Real World Tech (David Kanter)
The the panic over COVID is justified, as it has already exceeded heart disease for the #1 spot… and it’s contagious.
> With the FIRE movement this is only growing

Honest question about FIRE: you hear stories about people retiring and dying a few years later in part because they lost their purpose in life, or people nearing 65 asking themselves "what am I going to do with my time." Purpose in life is strongly tied to emotional well being. What's FIRE's answer to that? Retirement is not an end unto itself.
They also stopped distilleries from doing so. Unless the argument there is "you can ingest alcohol made in this facility, but not put it on your skin"...
When you take a 10-year moving average, it's not going to pick up anything abnormal for a while. And the Shiller PE is intended to smooth out the cycles, it doesn't work well when the last cycle itself lasted the whole 10 years.
Disasters don’t always happen in a snap. We’re in the middle of a slow motion disaster, any anything can happen.

Literally. POTUS could wake up tomorrow and say anything and do almost anything. That rolling of the dice problem with a very serious economic disaster makes it exponentially more dangerous in this phase.

We’re probably closer to a depression that we have been since 1929, and that depression didn’t bottom out until 1932.

Also my assumption is that folks in a public forum are middle class people with retirement funds and some home equity. Gambling with your retirement or the kids college savings is dumb. If you’re sitting on a few million liquid bucks or are very young, your situation is different.
It prevents server-side errors, which I don't handle as gracefully. When the client sends content that it shouldn't have been able to send (i.e. someone tampered with the form) and the server bails out, I don't always bother making it pretty.

I'm well aware of the risks in client-side validation, but indeed, as I see in my job often enough (I'm a security consultant), it's a valid remark that not everyone has taken to heart quite yet so thanks for the comment :)
Although not exactly an online course, my compilers professor released his book for free online. It walks you through all the steps of building a compiler and is an invaluable resource for me. You can find it at www.compilerbook.org
For 7% a P/E of 14.285714285 or less would be good to be very precise.
Private companies get sold for over 5x all the time. Just to pick the obvious recent example: Giphy.
I clicked your link, but I don't see an archive, its redirecting me to their main website.

Wiby is based around two main things:

Non commercial content (1) that does not rely heavily on excessive javascript and CSS (2).

http://wiby.me/submit contains the submission criteria.
It's sentiment like this that keep stocks from becoming too overpriced. The market at work!
You should be doing some fairly expensive hashing if you're storing the password correctly. Maybe not an issue for a 50k char password, but how about a 50 billion char password?
> hard-pressed to find a rewarding asset class today that has billions in liquidity, with less risk.
If they hold cash/tbills, they risk losing a good chunk to inflation

How do you figure that risk, numerically? Historically high US inflation sits around 15% (per year, obviously). The market crashed 30%+ literally a month and a half ago, and per the linked articles (and a straighforward naive reading of the fundamentals!) seems poised to do that again.

I can't believe you genuinely view a short term 2-3 year cash holding as riskier than a stock position. It's true it lacks upside, but that's not the same thing as "risk".
The site looks good. Kudos. I was looking for an (android) app that does this. All the apps that I tried were so bad or filled with unnecessary things that I gave up on tracking the time for now.
I'm increasingly running into blogs that sadly don't have RSS, but just today I discovered a cool open source project to generate RSS based on visual scraping: https://politepol.com/en/
> There won’t be another crash like March.

This too sounds like a prediction to me. Keep in mind that a bunch of huge companies like Google, Amazon, Wal Mart, etc. own a ton of commercial real estate. If commercial real estate does collapse, it’s going to have impact. The tech giants seem to be sitting on massive piles of cash, but I guarantee that’s not true for everyone.

We all saw how devastating the CDO monstrosities were in 2008, and it’s hard to see how this outcome will fare much better if the commercial real estate sector has been playing the same games since the last crisis.
NPR daily podcast every morning. Also the economist weekly magazine.
This was the model back in the 2000s before monetization was big on the internet. This is really the key issue, not whether RSS feeds or dead or if it is too hard for people to self-host blogs.

The internet has changed a lot in the last ten years. People have realized that popular content has a big monetary potential, and it is far easier now to get compensated (remember when YouTube content creators couldn't monetize?). More content is created as a income source, than out of passion or interest. Search results are gamed by commerical blogs. The average hobby blogger can't compete with that.
Not really. You’d have to replace it with the third, fourth, and fifth COMBINED. Since your point is that Coronavirus concerns are overblown, you might want to reconsider it.
It would be funny if WeWork comes out ahead after all this.
I characterize Reddit as true neutral. It has the potential to be any alignment, but it's mostly the will of the moderator to impose what alignment any subreddit will be. It's the only place on the Internet that still has the feel occaisionally of the 90s/00s.
Have you tried SDL2? I don't know what your criteria for "messy" is but its event stack makes it pretty straightforward to get input from the mouse, controller and keyboard.
I agree with most of what you're saying here except for the point on generics versus templates. I wouldn't say generics are an approximation of templates at all, templates are something in between generic programming and macros and that leads to them being hazardous, slow, and generally speaking unergonomic.

Rust's generics allow for some seriously powerful abstractions to be built in a very clean and readable way, although there can be friction with stuff that would be simple with templates in C++ and quite verbose in Rust.

Maybe concepts will change that.
I wonder what Edison would think of the internet, self driving cars, speech recognition, image recognition, social manipulation at scale, VR, modern medicine, etc.
You said: "Let's not make HN one of those sites."

Either it is already one of those sites or there is room between the most extreme contrasts. Pick one.
Airlines are also important in ways that cruise companies are not.
On Jan 1, 2008 the S&P PE ratio (which just uses 12 months of earnings) was 21.46. Today it is 20.53.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio/table/by-year
It’s not so much that blogging died but that commenting on them directly did, and with it blog culture. Commenting now takes place in other venues, not visible to the blog’s reader unless that venue is where they came from.

HN is part of that of course.
Surely that is/was reddit's promise, but it does not live up to it.
ScienceDaily.com
The huge leap would be to try to make all of that simple and accessible to non-technical people without making it bloated like Wordpress.
I like the idea over drag and drop, but the interface itself in the demo is too low-information to use.

It reminds me of all the problems with Apple Podcasts compared to other podcasts apps. Too many screens, too little information on each screen, and the thumbnails are way too big.
Didn't perceive it as rude, but don't understand what my ability has to do with my critique. The contrast in OP's dark mode stylesheet is trivially fixed by making the font lighter.
I still can't forgive Google for killing reader. There are plenty of replacements, but none have became as popular, and culture of subscribing to RSS feeds died with it. You can still do that, but you can't count on your readers doing it en masse; so all content creators that want to find an audience moved to Twitter, FB, and other platforms, and gradually changed their content to fit these social networks accordingly.
This is only true if you choose the worst case scenario. If you bought SPY in almost any random day since 93 you could have sold it with profit without having to wait too much. On the worst case you had to wait for 5 years or so, but that wasn't a surprising situation.
I think this is the paper https://www.cs.bu.edu/~jappavoo/Resources/Papers/unikernel-h.... There's a great summary by cormacrelf below of some of the details. This kind of things comes and goes across the decades. Back in the 90s it was common for databases to implement their own file systems or memory management, but gradually the OSs of the day added features make this unnecessary. As we found then, you lose so much flexibility to modify the os via config changes, adding new monitoring or whatever if you had the db directly connected to the os. I'd hate to give that up for more efficiency. There's a lot of 'strength' in an OS separating various things from the database itself, giving that flexibility.

A modern DB needs efficient interaction with the OS of course, but I'd say based on experience at many companies a bigger challenge than raw efficiency is the ability to implement changes in the db itself. I've worked on 4 or 5 major databases and we can always identify many ways to improve execution, plan selection, various aspects of the db, it's just the giant challenge to alter a big code base that blocks improvements more than OS layers. Improving plan choice can make queries thousands of times faster - but you have to be able to implement it.
That is why you don't try to time the market and just put in the same amount every month. The overall trend has been up for the past 100 years, and ignoring dips that are always temporary, this is true on smaller time scales as well.
The misinformation has been extensive, even in this site where some supposed technologists don’t even understand the privacy protections.
I've just installed Dark Reader from this post, it is awesome.
This one violates the 'if not' though.
You could maybe mitigate that with by only having the "move here" show up in the visible portion of the list
I wrote a tool to do something similar a while ago for sites that didn't work with these ready-made tools, it's a bit more effort as you'd have to implemented a custom scraping plugin for the target website: https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge
https://voice.mozilla.org/en

“Common Voice is Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.”
A charity isn't an investment nor is it his wealth anymore.
My honest recommendation for Twitter: Don't use the built-in systems to follow anyone. Keep bookmarks on people's profiles and visit manually if you want to know what they're up to. The timeline is a terrible idea. Twitter works really well for me because of this.
If you think the stock market is overvalued, buy. If you don't, sell. Money talks, articles in the New Yorker don't.
The blog is not gone. You can start writing your own blog now and it cost no money at all as there are plenty of free of charge blog hosting services.

What I miss is the public forum and chat. True, it still exists in English, but in my native language, Japanese, these are long lost in the Internet.
Just start anywhere. You're going to end up throwing it all out anyway. Accept that failure is the path to success and just do it.
The simplest thing is to limit their exposure to the market and hold cash.
Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy
I was wrong, and thank you for pointing it out. I conflated his Foundation with his person. And you are correct, "much of his wealth", is misleading. It is the hundreds of millions of USD in his private healthcare investment and several billions under his control through his Foundation [1] that I know of. Given how extremely wealthy and powerful he is, I think that even though it is not a majority of his life on the line, it is a lot of control, influence, and maybe a teensy bit of a return on investment, that he has to gain from this.

[0] - https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bill-gates-says-foundation-...
Do you know of a way to detect whether an article is the same even if the URL is different? In this case the URLs were:

repost: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/index.htm...

original: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/
You put into words the vague thesis I've been operating under. Robots aren't going to take everyone's jobs tomorrow, but we've entered a period where growth comes ever decreasingly from labor and ever increasingly from technology.

The shutdown already spotlights the fact that the true economic value of non-essential business and workers is primarily as consumers.
My understanding is that soap and water is even better for coronavirus. Not just to wash it away, but to actually destroy is because it has a very fragile lipid layer.
This was largely due to the supply glut of oil. Price of food went up by~3.5%.

Additionally CPI tends to be a lagging indicator. In other words it is a good way to determine if we have just seen massive inflation. The stock market is forward looking, meaning analysts are considering future risks in pricing the assets.
IEEE Spectrum is the closest thing that comes to mind ... but the literature on hard tech is indeed scant.
> His backing is why it's "news," he spend/gives millions to the press to ensure it.

No, it's news because the FDA is haulting COVID testing over utterly stupid bureaucracy when we need massively ramped up COVID testing and SCAN/Seattle Flu Study are actually providing quality home tests at scale.

This stands in stark contrast to the hundreds of poor quality home antibody tests the FDA has approved with almost no oversight. It seems inconsistent with the need to cut red tape to fight COVID.
I don't understand why does he show loop-based version using 2 for loops instead of using just one. I usually work in higher-level programming languages, but can't believe that cache hits or something else makes it faster than finding sum and maximum both while going through all images only once.

And having just one loop makes it simpler too.
Maybe you should submit a pull request to the npm package where that code lives.
Indeed, wonder if there’s a term for this type of hedging behaviour, which the article also references when citing the president’s tweet. Is this studied in the economics literature over time?
I don't get it why game theorists use so much the Prisoner's Dilemma.

In most real world situations, the payoffs are much different than the PD ones.

Collaborate, and you may lose or win a little. Defect and for most cases, your payoff is 0.
When they timing, I'm staying the course.
We could stop the pandemic by July 4 if the government took these steps
There should be a feature request for hacker news and let the community vote! I would love a dark mode.

I also just posted this for making it easier to consume comments especially on popular posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206330
Imho, try to keep it from going mainstream. If there aren't enough viewers to make advertising profitable, then many of the problems filling the current internet would not appear in the first place.