skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a while back an Adbusters pastiche poster supposedly from Nestlé which read:

Go on then, boycott us! I bet you can't, we make EVERYTHING.

China is Nestlé on steroids. What is anyone really going to do to China? What country can continue to function without Chinese manufacturing?
I would qualify this:
The web is simple when one uses it as intended. (hyperlinked documents that may or may not have interactivity beyond the hyperlinking and embedded media or animations etc.)
The web is complex when one attempts to do "GUI by RPC".
If one is OK with page reloads, this asynch remote folder browser hypercard thingy is fine.
If one seeks to replicate the event-loop desktop "window"-based application one will have the use-case for large frameworks as one will literally be re-inventing all the wheels, which they tend to do, as this is not the default behavior of the application we call a web browser.
Yep, close to 50% of the cost for burying power lines is having to manage and redirect traffic (in Canada)
Procedural Lake Village
Arguably, that's not true for a typical mail service.
What event would leave the Earth less habitable than the Moon already is?
Model Questions vs. Actor Questions
Sure but 10 small changes is the same as one large change.
> I never understand the complaints about investment in infrastructure and having to pay for it in taxes. I'm generally glad to pay taxes and get a functioning society.

In the case of the article, the road is not affordable. The writer isn't advocating for not paying taxes. The writer is advocating for not taking on projects you can never net on. That doesn't sound unreasonable.
Yes, that's my answer. You want to protect your property, buy a product designed to protect your property. Don't fucking kill people over it.

BTW, yes, people do have insurance on their televisions. It's called "homeowners' insurance" or "renters' insurance."
it would be more jobs, but probably fewer total hours.

There are certain fixed costs per employee that means cutting a job into 2 jobs at 1/2 time is not an even trade. Especially when you consider communications costs (eg: an email sent to N people has N times the cost. If N40hrs is 1/2 N20hrs then ever communication costs half as much)
> ... 1m of road costs about 10000 euro ...

Too little information. If 1m is length, what is the width? where is the road located?

If it's a two-way superwide highway in the middle of a big city, sandwiched between a similarly sized winding overpass, and an underpass, and the cost includes the overhead on the city's economy for shutting down that part of the highway for the given duration, we might be having a conversation.
According to the Stack Overflow survey, Linux Desktop marketshare for developer has been growing constantly over the years. 23% in 2018's "primary desktop OS" question, 26% in 2019, 27% in 2020. Prior to that the question was asked differently, allowing multiple choices, but Linux was even lower back then. WSL was released in 2016 so much of this growth has happened while it was out. There might be some delay in the effects though, and maybe it would have been a much faster trend had it not been for WSL.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-de...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#technology-_-...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
I read somewhere that China builds things at 1000x the efficiency of the US.

If that's speed or cost or if it's really only 100x doesn't matter.

This is a fundamental superiority Chinese society has, and I don't see the US switching to a pro construction stance anytime soon!
That just sounds like good old corruption to me.
> There is no unanimous agreement that referring to Constantinople as the Roman Empire is much more useful than, say

Finland!

https://imgur.com/gallery/eNuUdTd
You can also see processors like slave DSPs who's exceptions are routed to other processors to be handled just like any other interrupt on that other core. The N64's RSP, and the Cell's SPEs are great examples of this.

That's more of a support processor thing, where the special-purpose processor doesn't really do interrupts. GPU exceptions usually create interrupts in the controlling CPU, for example, rather than being handled within the GPU. (How the GPUs should talk to the CPUs is a whole subject in its own right.)

Timer interrupts are usually deferrable.

The Cell. Is it totally gone now? (If they'd had, say, 16MB/SPE instead of 256K, it might have been good for something.)
Such an underrated comment.

I think theres some validity to "you're the most productive with whichever tools you're most comfortable/familiar with", but I think people don't realize the levels of abstraction that come with web development.

( My learning path was: Angular 2 -> 7 + sucking at CSS, Angular + Tachyons (learning how to style), -> Angular + Custom CSS for everything, to Vue + Custom css -> Plain HTML + Plain CSS. )

Its like the more you learn the more you understand the boilerplate of libs/frameworks, but also understand what these large tools accomplish for you, and then you learn to appreciate how powerful & simple the "vanilla" web can be if you open your mind to it.
Rada has voted in favor of revoking it in 2014: https://iportal.rada.gov.ua/ru/news/Novosty/Soobshchenyya/88...

It's exactly the same day when active protests in Crimea and Donbas have started. Yes, technically the law was still active, but it was just a delay due to the powerful backlash and people understood well intention of those who came into power.

>Sounds reasonable to me.

Wow... I guess let's agree to disagree here. Because for me a situation in which 80% people speak a language in daily life, but it's not an official one, looks more suitable for an occupation, than for a normal state. Can you name any other world country with a similar situation? (IIRC only Baltic states come somewhat close)

And let's be honest, "regional language status" was just breadcrumbs. Russian was systematically discriminated as a matter of state policy starting from TV and ending with schools, with situation only worsening over time.

>Window of opportunity was caused by messed up government in Ukraine, which couldn't produce any resistance against Russia's military invasion.

Don't forget about heavily demoralized military (and the protests have played a major part here), which didn't believe in the new government, and most of which accepted Russian terms and got integrated into its military. Also some say that the new government has intentionally allowed the situation around Crimea and Donbas to degrade, so a lot of pro-Russian electorate would be cut off from elections. But I guess gross incompetence is usually a better explanation.
tldr; it's an article about William Henry Hudson
> buy wholesale stock from elsewhere

The issue im presenting is they are buying them to be prepared to treat Americans IF it worked. But because they bought so many so quickly, it put Americans in a position where they weren't able to have medicine they needed. The government has a responsibility to balance current needs with possible immeidate future needs, it doesnt seem like they did.
Git has an option to ignore certain commits when doing a git blame, —ignore-revs. You can also point it to a file with —ignore-revs-file <file>. You can configure this per project with git config ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs. After doing this, you get nice diffs AND nice looking code. The price to pay is that every developer has to run one git command locally.
Buzz Aldrin took a more direct approach with skeptics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtye8nhC30
Definitely. Side projects, fine. But I'll never use a pipeline that's coupled to my VCS hosting solution for anything production facing.
Did it before and not only does it make it tricky to move to another VCS host, but your ability to release is held hostage by their uptime - which isn't super reliable.
Yeah LSW1 is better than WSL1 ever was IMO.
Those places are handling physical goods and they have a lot of real costs associated with their services. That's not the same as Apple taking 15-30% of revenue for a subscription where the developer is running the entire backend and all Apple does is host a few install / update files.

There's no developer on the planet that would agree to that deal if Apple couldn't use the customers from their phone business as leverage to extort developers on the software distribution side of things.

It's more like a bouncer at a club getting 15-30% of ALL revenue because they control the door.
What you’re suggesting is heresy on HN. It’s true, a little bit of interactivity, fonts/padding/spacing would improve HN. To this day my thumb covers both the upvote and down vote button.
I like the thinking, but a hard length limit would have to be conjoined with a no-external-references rule. Otherwise 900b will be spent linking to exhibits A-z. Also should specify the encoding for such contracts so they're actually readable. So basically just set a letter limit.
I think there are a lot of people who don't understand just how much retailers mark up some goods. But they're starting to get the idea now that D2C is increasing and you can see items sold directly by businesses at prices much lower than on e.g. Amazon.
They win when the project is needed. Most of these projects aren't needed. Another HNer pointed out to me that when the East Bay interchange had a collapse due to a tank truck fire, the replacement came in under budget and ahead of time - bidding lower than everyone else and making it back on speed-of-delivery incentives.

The reality of most construction projects? You don't need them. You're not going to get better with them and you're not going to get worse without them.
Yep. Personally, I think the steady proliferation of nuclear weapons is going to snap at some point with some nut using them.

God help us all.

Humans are stupid. We think that because we survived the Cold War, that it won't happen. ...but if you read the history - it very nearly did happen a couple of times. ...it's only a matter of time.
The rules on the store in this area have changed interpretations without notice. It not being a new rule but becoming far more strict all of a sudden is a big part of the issue.

Also, going to the press works. DHH is taking one for the team by fighting this.
Encrypted SNI is a solution in search of a problem.

Unencryptable metadata (destination IP) makes it pretty worthless. Even on shared services like Cloudflare, things that are of interest for collection are probably paying enough that they get stuck on dedicated IPs. The 4chans of the world that might not be paying still make sense from a provider perspective to move to isolated IPs for DDoS mitigation.

Censoring proxies actually look at SNI to deconflict shared IPs where pornsite.com and travelblog.com are on the same Cloudflare IP, and will just revert to blocking the destination by default.

(I'm picking on Cloudflare here specifically because they are pushing it - but this applies to MaxCDN, Akamai, etc just as much)
The huge resilience is the overcapacity due to growing feed for livestock.
But not as proud as over Salazar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Grandes_Portugueses
It's an excellent presentation, and I'm grateful that you shared it and agree that people should watch it. But I still say that using the word "thinking" for non-macro-scale biomechanical processes is charlatanism. We don't know how we get from molecules to thoughts, but saying "therefore thoughts" is a bridge too far. If you start doing that, the words we reserve for discussing the leap from mechanism to self lose their meaning because suddenly an automatic door is thinking, which is just...not...necessary.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Looting some stores, burning down a couple police stations, and torching some police cruisers doesn't even come close to the threshold where violent retaliation is necessary. Scorched earth, mass destruction doesn't even come close to comparing to the scale of the protests going on right now. It's literally comparing war to a citizens' demonstration.
For a long time I assumed that google indexed pretty much everything it, and it was only a question of providing a specific enough set of search terms to drag up older content.

But what you hint at might be more correct these days. They are running a reverse wayback machine in that anything not changed in the last year gets removed. If you click the advanced search its "updated within" and the max timeframe is a year.

In fact it seems the date range example doesn't even work: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_...

If I fiddle with it, it returns a result, but I see an hit from just a few days ago at the top...
My iPad is 10 years old and there are websites that bring it to its knees, especially mobile.twitter.com links. I don't click them anymore, it's too frustrating. Maybe web devs should be given low-end machines to work on so they can experience what their non-desktop users experience. The whole 'mobile web' distinction really shouldn't need to exist, my iPad isn't a mobile phone from 2005.
Advice to Young Frontend Web Developers: Use React. HTML is not a rich enough framework to do client work.

Second article in a row here advocating for HTML purism. That is where I jump in and talk about how React changed my career in 2015. Since then, my life has had a measurable impact because of how easy building apps became thanks to React. There is no app where I would consider not using React including landing pages.
Expect a wave of municipal bankruptcies over the next several years. We kicked the can down the road during the last financial crisis, but holding interest rates artificially low can only postpone the day of reckoning for so long.
TPP was a terrible response to the opportunity. Write better treaty text and you get a better result.

Killing TPP was the correct result.
That might be the point. Few people are going to bother spending resources to fix a problem that doesn't exist. And by the time such a problem arises on Earth (inhospitable living conditions due to e.g. supervolcano), we might not have the resources to fix it. Whereas terraforming Mars creates the incentives to develop solutions while we have abundant resources, which means that we have a fix ready and waiting if something catastrophic happens on earth.
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A simple solution for Antitrust authorities would be to allow users to download apps from outside the app store like on Android phones.
To a degree though, thats where PWAs come in.

Websites like https://devdocs.io/ do this exact thing through desktop Progressive Web Apps.

Basically you keep your markup & source as static as possible, and allow a serviceWorker to cache those files locally. This can also be done with a SPA, but if we're talking docs, you get the benefit of only having to update a specific page if its raw html.
It seems like they should stop trying to block China's access to TSMC until we have the factories in the US.

And we should be investing billions in the US factories.

Either that, or do a complete 180 and go back to the globalization mode where we play nice with China. I mean, if there could somehow be a non-violent cultural and political integration that would be ideal.

It seems like we are going to get one of two extremes though. Either people who think that China is ultimately irredeemably evil will stay in power or people who don't care what China does as long as they can make money there come back into power.

Neither one of those extremes really seems like a good approach though. Both seem to kind of be making things worse.

I believe the only safe outcome will involve very difficult cultural,political and technological integration. The economic integration to the degree it exists might be a stepping stone to that stuff but it seems we have seen it's limitations.

I don't have faith that people will recognize the depth of the problems, understand it and address it is a sane way. Most likely outcome still seems to be a horrific war.

This type of thing is why I have recently been thinking that actually it may be best if we just go full speed ahead with the AGI development. Because if we could have a safe world, then I would say the opposite, that we should avoid creating a new species that makes us obsolete. But now it may be a race to create this new species before our own poor organization destroys us or sends us back to the iron age.
""""Reduced"""" Instruction Set Computer?
Show HN: Chalice Serverless Framework
> It's fine for protecting against profound levels of incompetence but I don't do that and you probably don't either.

Everybody starts at a profound level of incompetence. If you want a junior to be able to make a contribution and you don't want to spend half of the pull request discussing mundane aspects of their code style, then linters and formatters improve the situation somewhat.
Why don’t these rules apply to banking apps then?

I wouldn’t consider them business-only as most individuals interacting with the App Store have bank accounts, so that argument breaks down.

I wouldn’t consider them stictly “reader” apps as you can perform many non-passive things in many banking apps (make deposits, iniatiate transfers to and from accounts, pay bills, etc), so that argument doesn’t stick either.

You can’t use the app unless you have a (most of the time) paid account.
China has vertically integrated the entire construction process, making the machines that, extracting the materials, transporting them, and building the infrastructure all using slave wage labor. Americans would never accept that quality of life.
> If that is the case, what are the list of symbols that are not to be used in ad campaigns?

It's difficult to fully enumerate this because it's highly contextual. If the text was talking about the stock market, we'd all be assuming the down-red arrow to mean something entirely different.
One of the big reasons was also the fact that they failed to ban it. They could not enforce it at all, without blocking half of the websites, because of Telegram's clever networking shenanigans, so everyone was still been able to use it (without vpn or anything).

Even russian government officials have official Telegram channels. All the "news" sources quote Telegram channels all the time. All pro-gov celebrities and stuff.

It was not a ban, but a farce that made the regime look like incapable fools. Not that they are not, but they don't want to emphasize that so much. Not that they don't, but at least not make it that obvious. Not that it isn't, but...
You're welcome, I hope it helps! To preface this, I think Ubuntu 20 comes with good font rendering options by default, so my suggestions are mostly unnecessary. I just wanted to experiment to see if I was missing anything. All the options I'm referencing are explained in detail in this blog post (e.g., subpixel rendering and lcd filtering), they're all just configuration options in the freetype2 font renderer.

I found that the Arch Linux wiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration) is helpful because it applies to other distributions like Ubuntu, and provides example configuration files. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration/Exam...)
Hairdressers told 'stop small talk' when salons reopen
They are explicitly collecting both the metadata and the content of all communications they are able to. They have burned their own when someone raises a complaint about their methods or dares to introduce crypto that respects constitutionality(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake).
I love this line of thinking.

Trying to paraphrase: Transaction costs should be proportional to value of transaction.

Such inquiry will help daylight the value these hoarders derive from our data.
Part of the reason is the insistence of not using international help to greatly advance projects, and favoring making the most minimum impact on car traffic possible. When newer nations are able to rapidly and cheaply build infrastructure, chances are they are using outside help and have no qualms about de-prioritizing car traffic. We lack experience building infrastructure since we largely gave up on mass transit projects for decades; NYC and Boston are reliant on vestigial rail infrastructure that hasn't had a serious expansion for decades, D.C. metro almost didn't happen, and LA managed to build 1.5 subway lines in the 90s before metro was banned from digging new lines until the 2010s, under the unfounded idea that the city might explode into a methane fueled fireball if the tunnel boring machine made its way under Beverly hills high school. That half line they started in the 90s won't be completed until 2030, and will be 3.5 miles shorter than originally planned.

Our ignorance and unwillingness to take off the shelf solutions is what has driven up our costs. The patriotic label of 'american made' is regularly used to hide greed and waste. This LA times article (original la times link was dead, this is a mirror) talks about how an established french company offered to construct the project under budget, but officials dismissed them and opted to reinvent the wheel for massive costs along a political route, not an optimal one (1).

The contractor consultant model that we rely on for public works is designed to loot the public purse first, and improvements to public welfare take the back seat to maintaining the status quo of a car dominated way of life. If we were serious, calhsr would have been spooled up into an actual agency with its own labor and engineering pools, and not be this big resovour of public money being sucked dry by parasitic consultants who smelled the billions of dollars of chum we put in the water and convinced us explicitly not to try this in house (2).

Another example of compromised by design infrastructure is the expo line in LA. It takes 15 minutes for the train to travel two miles from USC to downtown LA, because the train runs at grade and is only this year being given signal priority at traffic lights, despite the line opening 8 years ago. Embarrassing to spend millions on a vehicle that can be beaten by someone in decent shape sprinting those two miles along the train tracks.

1.
https://transdef.org/wp-content/uploads/High-speed-rail-offi...

2.
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-hi...
> compromising foreign VPN services is within the NSA's wheelhouse

This is the explicit danger of VPN providers. Even if the provider is not complicit (which I believe applies to the likes of Mozilla), it still creates a centralized aggregation site for collection.

I'm not even sure a US-based VPN provider is safe. GCHQ just conducts the interception and would share the data with NSA. At that point, you are at the mercy of the NSAs locators being good enough to flag your tunneled traffic as "reasonably a US person" so it gets excluded.
This is the nature of invention -- the current climate gives multiple people the same good idea around the same time. You could abandon and join, convince the other project to do the same, keep working on yours, stop working on yours and use theirs... depends on your goals.
> Cross platform things anyway have to solve this problem on their own.
> Why does SQL need to be turned into tables an views anyway? What problem is this solving?

So that data is aggregated, summarized, cleansed, transformed, join, normalized, whatever before you query it. It's much cheaper, faster, etc that doing all of that ahead of time instead of query time.

> I assume a data warehouse is in a relational DB anyway

Not sure what you mean that a data warehouse is in a relations DB? Data in data warehouses can be set up in a relational way, but it certainly doesn't have to be. Perhaps you need to get a better understanding of olap vs oltp?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21900185/what-are-oltp-a...
I don't think it's a good idea to give any company a monopoly on your data even if you trust them.