skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though it's widely recognized as impossible for individuals to self-host, at least there are many available providers, and any medium+ size organization can self-host. Things could be better but they could be worse too.
> asymptotically

Had to look that up, fancy pants.

I don’t think there is an near tangent approach plan at all, more like what seems a clear intention.

Add in their beta-ing a pay to win karma system right now... it’s like they want the worst of everything.

Next they’ll make a “Reddit award” that is just a loot box, trying to edge a n the worst part of gaming.
I don’t know Rust and haven’t done JavaScript for years but isn’t JavaScript a bit more of a higher level language, which would make a developer more productive?

Rust being closer to the hardware should require more code, and effort, to accomplish the same task.
Presumably by closing the connection based on the Content-Length response header.
I built Siashable with ExtJS and xmpp4js in 2008 against Openfire. I’ve run it at various times against Tigase and Prosody and it works, and even ran the XMPP lib I made for it in iOS JS Core recently, and it has its own everything down to DOM with namespace support in JS so works back to early IE versions. I’d say XMPP with BOSH works pretty good.
from https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f5... idea
You are right. I understand the temptation from a business perspective, but it is not an ethical practice IMO.

What does the rule look like that enforces that? No ads can be placed that contain the trademark of another company? Would that be too restrictive in practice?
The number of people who thought of hello fresh before 2008 is probably greater than the membership of HN.
Understanding Logical fallacies.
In these days of bad news reporting, it is good to recognize logical fallacies in reports.
Instead of getting someone's opinion, it helps to focus on the actual data that is mentioned in the report. If the writer is using logical fallacies, they are trying to manipulate me. If they have clear logic, they are trying to inform me.

Then as second step, you can evaluate the data yourself, or even question it. See where you can find the source, or see other data. This step is more checking if the statistical evaluations are correct, or if there is p-hacking or any other problem. It must also follow basic common science. And if not, this should be explained.

What I usually find (>90% of the articles that I find interesting) is that the reports are conflicting and even the data is conflicting. The evidence/science is often incomplete and filled in with unfounded theories. And knowing this, it reduces the amount of information that is important in the articles.

So technically logical thinking is a way to compress all the data, without loss of information.
File a ticket. I file so many tickets for work I do. Sometimes after the fact ("oh... they'll wonder why I ..."). A journal is good, but using whatever institutionalized knowledge system your company relies upon (usually some form of ticketing and documentation system). The tickets are good for timelines/notes, and if they need to become something recurring, that's when you document it.
> At some point sub-reddits were added, as well

Hah that was in 2006.

The real change for subreddits was when they became user-creatable, but even that was already in 2008.

Point is it's not like they're a recent addition.
Developing without shipping is saying "I know what my (potential) customers want better than they do". People with big egos may actually believe this; but I think most people pretend they believe it so no-one ever gets to criticise their precious.

Either way, it's a monumetally stupid position - just about everything ever sold has been massively improved by customer feedback.
JavaScript's a sloppier language.
That's not something I expected to read! Will you migrate them to your version of the app?
I had to edit the expiry date on the "redesign_optout" cookie that gets placed when you tick the optout. But an add-on (see sibling comment) is probably more reliable long-term.
Can you spell this out? I'm curious but not curious enough to go digging.
Having optimised the Multicore OCaml implementation, this benchmark benefits heavily from inlining and unboxing. MLton style aggressive inlining and unboxing is the way to go here. MPL builds on MLton and it works out great!

Multicore OCaml compiler doesn’t yet use the new flambda2 optimisation passes. We witnessed good improvements with flambda2 on stock OCaml on the tight loops in this program; the compiler was doing all the right things. It seemed not worthwhile to continue with hand optimising the implementation leading to non-idiomatic FP code. We hope to get back to this once flambda2 Passes are integrated with Multicore OCaml compiler.
$ is the shell prompt; he's not typing it.
"3 millilightseconds" is the distance light travels in 3 milliseconds, the time a "zero" timeout would take to actually timeout. (This comes directly from the definition of the lightsecond: how far light travels in one second)
"miles" is what he wants to see that distance converted to. Turns out it's 558 miles; one mile is 0.00179 of 3 millilightseconds.
PiP is a cool feature but I've recently found another way to "stream" video from the web which is now pretty much my default: For a lot of sites you can either curl or youtube-dl the video to a file and thanks to the way encodings and container formats work you can just play the file back using your favorite media player while the download is still in progress. You can't seek past the download head unfortunately but the playback you get is much more pleasant (and for some reason also faster?) than say, on YouTube.
I’m on iOS too. I see why you might think there are two different j there but what’s actually going on is that since the quoted text is in italics, and the text is wrapped on our iPhones so that the second italic j is on the next line of text, part of it is outside of the “bounding box” of the text of sorts, and is clipped off in rendering.
That's fascinating, I wasn't aware of such details!
Point of Presence is where the university network would connect with the internet
It might be overrated, but clearly it STILL MATTERS. I mean the entire article is about a developer who stopped working on an idea because he was beaten to market.
The only icon I recognized was Angular on the page.

I feel though a standard of sending money is a little too similar for paying a vendor. I'd personally prefer companies to handle this than a recommendation, because who is to say my payment details are saved and then a malicious script sends the bad actor my money?
"... outliers like The Birth of a Nation have little effect overall."

Are you serious? Please educate yourself. Start here: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/08/383279630...

Also, hilarious that you consider Scientific American, a 174-year old publication that's published Francis Crick and Albert Einstein, among so many other distinguished scientists, a "B Grade" magazine.
Depends on what you're optimizing for. If you want memory efficiency and near-native speeds, then you need WebAssembly. And Rust is a fantastic source language to compile to WebAssembly because of its memory safety.
Indeed, that would be the "entrenched hangout for bigots" part I mentioned.
bridges, vaccines, cars, skyscrapers, aeroplanes, ...
That’s not how the web works. The host (YouTube) serves the content, my user agent (Firefox and add-ons) renders it. Stop trying to turn the internet into cable TV.

YouTube can create its own client software (like it does for iOS/Android) and do what it wants. As long as it openly serves content via HTTP then I can render the content it sends anyway I want on my computer.
League of Legends chat, WhatsApp and early versions of Facebook chat were build with XMPP and Ejabberd and they were able to handle massive loads with it.

Obviously for an internal company chat app this is not the best option as it will require some maintenance, and the app support is not great, though there are some good options now.

But for heavy chat load it is a great choice that will save you a ton of money, time and resources.
The Onion really needs an .onion site.
> Instead, installing PPAs to get updated builds of standard packages seems considered “normal”.

Perhaps we should consider why this is: because people want up-to-date software on their computers (desktop or server), instead of being beholden to whatever version distribution maintainers have decided you can have.
You can also use the URL “old.reddit.com” For a quick fix (and for all you lurkers out there)
Mind explaining a bit more here why Rust is a particularly good language to compile to wasm? Why does memory safety help here?

Asking out of ignorance!
Surprised no one has mentioned learning a second language yet. I'm currently learning Spanish (one of the easier ones for native English speakers like me to learn, especially being from the American Southwest) and finding myself suddenly understanding conversations between people I walk past at WalMart has been one of the more gratifying experiences I've had.

It's hard to say whether this skill will afford me new opportunities in the future, but it's immensely satisfying and I think it's useful because it has changed the way I think about language in general. It's hard to explain, but when I only knew English, words were the concepts that they symbolized. Of course I knew intellectually that "dog" is just a symbol for the animal, but I couldn't separate them subconsciously, if that makes sense. Now that "perro" is also a symbol for the animal, and it's ingrained in my mind enough that I don't have to translate it to English, it's as if words and things have been "decoupled". Unfortunately I'm finding it hard to articulate why that revelation matters. Basically, learning another language expands your mind in a unique way. It's just something you have to experience.
I'm donate to project vesta yearly. Personally, I think the lack of attention is due to its relatively slow pace (compared to the typical news cycle) and the fact that it's simply not going to ever be a revenue generator.
Peabody Energy[1] operates the largest coal mine in the world (North Antelope Rochelle coal mine in Wyoming). Stock is trading around $2.80 down from ATH of $47 in Oct 2018.

A Chinese company recently abandoned plans to invest nearly $7billion in an Austrialian coal mine[2].

> A $6.7 billion Chinese mega mine coal project adjacent to the Adani venture in Queensland's Galilee Basin is in doubt after the company abandoned its bid for a mining lease.

> The company will not explain why it abandoned the process, but analysts believe the project is no longer aligned with China's interests in coal and is financially "unviable" given the difficulty companies face obtaining finance for coal developments.

Even the famous "Belt and Road" won't risk large investments in coal under the current conditions.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE:+BTU

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-23/macmines-abandons-min...
Really wish Dart was more useful for server development. There’s a lot of missing packages that no one seems to be interested in writing right now though.
Point Of Presence (POP) is the location where two or more networks meet each other to connect.

Here is a good explanation: https://blog.stackpath.com/point-of-presence/
In theory no one can spoof a Tor hidden service. The service name itself encodes the public key, and only the corresponding private key can authenticate. Much better than https, where you have many dozens of "trusted" authorities, any one of which can compromise you.

And also it precludes any attacks a malicious exit node could run on your https traffic, like the other comment says
The line between a small subreddit struggling to get enough posts and then getting big enough to have drama is so fine these days.
Prior to the initial sale of Reddit, it was self sustaining. At the least, modest means would have been necessary to continue.

It sold for a lot, and suddenly the new owners are eager to get returns on that investment.

And here we are.

A new Reddit, that somehow does not get sold, would run just fine without all the BS and people would love it and do damn near anything for it.

I consider Reddit a great example of why a public utility type model could work and serve users much better than what exists right now.

Or... some other ownership model that does not include a billion dollar exit would do the same and mean a very nice living for whoever does it.
Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution.

The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place?

I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.
It’s not that bad once you get used to it.
> - bug: QT applications leave withdrawn "empty" windows on the screen if qtile is reloaded (which happens when displays are connected or disconnected)

Late reply, but this might fix it:

https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/1807
I would like to get started with Rust & Game Development. Any resources for that?
>56 Florida ICUs are at capacity, with a further 35 are above 90%

There are 306 ICUs in Florida (https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/ICUBedsHo...). As of today, 16.8% of all ICU beds are available.

As I said, a 90% ICU load is normal; hospitals routinely transfer patients elsewhere to maximize utilization across as many facilities as possible. Again, only a small portion of ICU patients are there for COVID19, and a good chunk of the remainder are people who postponed procedures during the lockdown.
POP I believe is "point of presence"; I believe its meaning is "the point at which our network connects to the internet".
I have no issues with your original comment. But in regards to your "why the down vote?" question, HN's guidelines state:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
They would have used pulleys and I think they still do:

https://www.ralmark.com/aircraft-pulley/overview/
This is a fantastic piece. I am going to share it with my students tomorrow.
Except for the data scientists at your gas company :)
Does anybody know anything about who runs that site?
And this is exactly how Apple creates wealth. Don't be first, be better at something like look and feel in apples case.
Rust actually can be a higher language. It has true generics, static algebraic data types, functional programming features, and so on, even as it is closer to the metal. It is closer to Haskell or OCaml, but more pragmatic.
It took 12 years of dedicated effort to make the joke
> As governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus imposed iron discipline on what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic, according to documents discovered by Spanish historians in 2005. In response to native unrest and revolt, Columbus ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed; in an attempt to deter further rebellion, Columbus ordered their dismembered bodies to be paraded through the streets.

https://www.history.com/news/columbus-day-controversy
As usual there seem to be fragmented efforts going on. Does anybody here know what's the difference between these two?

* https://webmonetization.org/specification.html

"Web Monetization is an API that allows websites to request small payments from users facilitated by the browser and the user's Web Monetization provider."

* https://www.w3.org/TR/webpayments-overview/

" ? "
Or, perhaps, they're taking the non-networked use case.
What emphasizes this issue further is the insane content you can wind up browsing after just 3-4 “suggested” clips on YouTube. I’ve watched folks get from pretty banal comedy sketches and the like to Ben Shapiro and Jordan Sather with no effort on brand new accounts.
I currently think that's trickier than I used to. I'd like to mention a few thoughts on my mind on this idea in general (not criticisms, nor making assumptions about the nuances of how you do things).

I live to work, and have had a bunch of open source involvement, and have had serious side interests, so those interviewer questions are to my advantage, when I'm the candidate employee/cofounder.

But a lot of candidates will have families that take up all their non-work time. (IME, some of them are among the best engineers.) And those candidates with families might've heard that many interviewers will discriminate against them for that, wanting people who can regularly put in 60hr+ weeks and surge to 80hr+ of grunt coding. So, I figure they might cringe at talking about how they're spending their "spare" time. I'm absolutely not going to discriminate against them, nor do I want them to fear that they might be discriminated against, or feel alienated because they keep getting questions like that in interviews.

And for the people who're pursuing cool technology through their employer, I'm really hoping it doesn't sound like they prioritized adding this year's unproven hot framework/buzzword to their resume, over the success/risk of an employer's project. :)
Nope. That's mostly on Apple though, as they discourage all APIs that aren't Metal.
From reading this comment, I think it is possible that you undervalue non-coding work. That is, I think it seems like you don't see as much value in it as some companies you've worked for do. There isn't really an objective measure to say whether you're more right or whether those companies are, but it's definitely the case that career trajectories are driven by what companies value rather than what lower level engineers value.

But take my thoughts in this with a grain of salt: my bias is toward believing that most engineers place way too much value on coding work and not nearly enough on the (in my opinion) harder work of figuring out how to successfully execute an ambiguously defined project.
A little while ago I discovered snaps can be slow even when you're not using them. I had the fun of trying to log into an online job interview and couldn't because snapd was hogging the CPU doing god knows what. Restarted and the same happened, the machine became usable about 20 minutes later. Little "surprises" like that are infuriating.

> so my next OS upgrade will be Mint or pure Debian

I've moved one machine to debian stable and haven't looked back. There are a few teething issues like /usr/sbin not being in the default path, some sudo issues, the installer isn't as grandma friendly, but it's rock solid and doesn't nag me about updating 137 packages of things I've never heard of needing an update.
There's a post that came out earlier today which claims Ghislaine Maxwell operates one of the most popular Reddit accounts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/hnckn0/umaxwellhil...

It seems...sort of strange, to say the least? I don't buy it, but you can see the discussion linked.
If you don't want software that has been configured and tested to work together by a distro maintainer, you're volunteering to do that work yourself and become the sole maintainer of a bleeding-edge distro with a very small audience.
A C micro-framework for web applications
I use it directly from VLC when I need to boost up the sound a few db beyond the original threshold
Mostly because WebAssembly does not include GC yet, so being a non-GC language helps.
DHH on becoming a millionaire overnight: A mild crisis of faith ensued
From what I understand, this mainly means that a lot of work has been put into making this process possible, while for some other languages the workflow to wasm is lacking.
The C Web Application Framework
> Webassembly Is Faster Than Javascript

Just curious, how's the OP measuring this? Also, would be very interested in the stack - is OP using Yew/Seed/etc or server rendered pages with Rust?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik
Related Bloomberg video on the profitability of fracking (16 min long): https://youtu.be/jFWHxZpF9rc
PiP made Firefox complete!
Imagine the following exchange:

A: “Recently I have been thinking about personal responsibility.”

B: “Why so?”

A: “I believe there is a strong correlation between a sense of personal responsibility and success later in life.”

C: “That is interesting, I think I read a study about this once. Here is a link!”

<the discussion goes on for some time>

B: “Myself, I learned about personal responsibility – in particular financial – when I as a child ran my own little business. What I did was to deliver apples and later fruit for a small fee to the neighbourhood on my bike when I was about twelve. It did not make me rich of course, just enough to buy a video game in the end. But I do think it gave me solid experience in life. Later on in high school I started designing local webpages.”

D: “Hi! I am D, I am head of research at Foobar Corp and we have a new apple breed: http://foo.bar/baz It is the best apple on the market: crisp, juicy, and perfect for pies! Let me know if we can help!”

A, B, and C: “Eh?!”

Now, you are perfectly in your right to disagree. But I think D is being a dick here and inserting themselves blatantly solely to attract attention to their product and adding nothing to the discussion or the community as a whole – possible because D has signed up for some god awful “business intelligence” tool that just scans various websites for mentions of “apples” so that they can insert a generic, re-usable message.

Regardless, I will not monitor this conversation further as I feel we are at this point deviating far far from the topic of this “dead” thread. If you still feel the need to discuss this matter, feel free to dig up my e-mail on my personal website. Trust me, I am fairly easy to locate with my username and a keyword or two from my profile – or just look at the about page using the link to the tool I mentioned earlier in this conversation.
calling it male/female at this point is kind of arbitrary, when it's the asymmetry in the distributions that I thinks interesting, but yeah, what happens if the pareto-preference population was the first mover rather than the normal-preference population that acted first. It's well documented that the first mover in the stable mariage problem has an advantage, It's why they switched from residency programs to being first movers to med students being first movers about a decade ago for The Match. This is the first I've seen it done with different preference distributions in the population. I'm curious how strong of effect the advantage is for different distributions.
There aren’t very many good wasm options that will produce web-friendly binary sizes. The options are really c/c++, rust, and some other less-supported languages like Zig and Nim. Rust has a good mix of high-level constructs (making it more productive than C) and has a good ecosystem around it. Cross compiling is never easy, and the rust wasm story is arguably the best and most supported via wasm-bindgen.
Passing a threshold doesn't happen because something happened at exactly that point; it happens because an accumulation of things reaches a tipping point.

For instance, with my workplace there were (unseen) negotiations with the union on how to respond. For at least a week or more, us peons were saying (or I was to myself) what the hell is the governor doing? Well, in all fairness, lots of people were doing things behind the scenes.
If certificate authorities are a concern, then why do some onion services use https?
Reddit had thumbnails in 2007.