skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder about this too. When you walk through European cities and look at the decoration of those old houses, they were all handcrafted. I think it would be too expensive now to build those same houses with handcrafted details. Same with all those old chairs, where some woodworker sculpted everything by hand. You can't imagine that right now anymore.

Is it because we throw away stuff after 5 years? Or because we just have way more stuff to produce? Because we don't work as hard? I have no idea.
sounds like a classic In The Pipeline "Things I Won't Work With" [0] tale

[0] example: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
An old trick to make predictions without influencing the outcome:

E.g. https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1017575588641505280?s=20
Fortunately for most, the legal system in the United States does not (usually) require us to prove innocence.
Well, they did the best they could with the hand they were dealt. As the article states, their economy would have been impacted one way or another but dealing with COVID and the lack of tourism would have been devastating.

It sounds to me like the answer to the question is Yes, they won as best as they could have. When most of your GDP depends on tourism and exports, you lose a significant chunk of revenue due to the external effects of COVID-19 on your customers.
I have been getting failed to load error almost every week on Prime Video when I try to load a series at dinner time on weekdays (pacific timezone). Never have this issue with Netflix.
Decide Your Career Now
Minimum effort. On Linux they are basically only interested in Cuda and Mining working.
This article makes it seem like we did not know this already.

Having multiple repeated studies that replicate the same outcomes is a good thing.
Sophie was THE main architect of the original ARM processor. She created the entire instruction set de novo and wrote the first code for it, including an OS.
What great questions. I've had pub debates about 3/5 of these over the last year. Reminds me a lot of pg during his prolific periods.

What makes a lot of these interesting is that most have bad answers. Some (eg the inflation question) have answers were sustainable 10-20 years ago, but grew out of them. Some have cliched or even ideological answers. Again, time has changed the strength of these answers. Time to re-ask and re-answer.

Some (eg progress in science) have no obvious or common answer, but are commonly discussed at a smaller scale. Academic incentives, publishing & such are commonly discussed, but no ways forward seem to emerge.. even rhetorically.

In any case, I think the first one (inflation by sector) hits squarely at a major blindspot in most economic thinking. I think it's responsible for a lot of the divergent views of economists (relying on measurements) and non economists relying on intuition.

Your answer to this question may relate to GDP growth consistency. Again, I feel this is a blindspot in most theoretical economics. One of Thomas Picketty's controversy bombshells was treating GDP growth and rate-of-return (r>g) as basically constant. Almost all other theories (even Marx) treat these as determined by everything else in the theory. All that doesn't seem consistent with consistency, as patrick points out.

I would have also asked, "what is the successor to the university" since several of these questions could be answered if you had an answer to that. It's a loaded form of a question, but other questions take that form.

How you load questions can be the most important thing. "What's the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?" is loaded in an opposite way to "* How do we help more experimental cities get started?*" I'm not saying questions shouldn't be loaded, just that they should be loaded carefully.

Great read. i will come back for the links.
No idea why you're getting downvoted. That's solid evidence that you're right.
What I’m hearing is that a huge and amazing place is cheaper than many small apartments in the Bay Area :)
As an American business owner, do you believe in the rule of law or the rule by law? Do you think any appearance of shifting to the latter would have an impact on the business environment?
Except you can't get your game on the shelf without Microsoft's explicit (contractual) approval, and (of course) paying them a royalty for each copy sold.
Hi ! I admit I like it. Writing down such document would allow my fellow developers to understand the important paradigms I'm choosing more easily. I feel like it's the missing piece before the documentation of a choosen tool. For instance you could work on a React project and a novice new dev wouldn't have to go trough the ENTIERE react documentation to be able to start getting a sense of what you are doing. He could read the arch records and have the notions links written down immediately inside.

I will try to use it thank you !
I have no interest in owning movies after I watched them. You can still buy your movies in blue ray if you want to keep them.
You don't know what all your failure modes are. You probably think you do, but you don't. That's the point of chaos testing.
There is nonetheless the European private data protection office as well
> Where/when did we go wrong, and how do we fix it?

Speaking logically; there can't be anything is making it physically harder to build infrastructure over time. And nothing physical is making the economics of railroads worse.

Therefore the changes have to be entirely legal, political and social. The specifics are probably things like increased environmental scrutiny, greater political impediments to forcing people out of their homes, requiring higher standards for construction, increased safety. Reduced political will to build infrastructure due to competing models of public/private ownership.

My personal theory; I suspect big chunks of modern infrastructure are now illegal to build. I don't know if it is still acceptable to sign off on a project where it is expected that 11 people to die. I know that would be wholly unacceptable in a mining context; for example. Probably construction too.
You'd think that after 15 years or so of streaming video (probably more) they'd get making a UI for it right.

What I'm instead seeing is an attempt at copying Netflix' interface. This is actually far too common - competing services that just copy their competitor's homework when it comes to UI.

I mean it makes sense in a way if you're targeting that service's current members, they're familiar enough with the UI etc.
Jason Fried on TWiST about Hey vs. Apple
So, a megabyte of PDF which both downloads and renders far more slowly than the equivalent HTML, which could be 20KB of HTML, no JavaScript, 1KB of CSS and perhaps 50KB of images (which don’t block page rendering, either), all bundled into one HTML file (base64 the raster images) of under 100KB.

I can imagine why you might have concluded as you have, but your conclusion is nonetheless baffling. Most of the reasons you’ve chosen PDF over HTML apply just as truly to HTML; page-orientation is the only one that doesn’t, and I refute your claims that that page orientation is a good thing for the web at large or the hardware that most use. (Guess how I read the document? By scrolling, not by pagination; the footer and header of each page transition is just a minor annoyance in the middle of a paragraph of text.) I disagree with every point of your assessment on PDF’s historical disadvantages, too: PDF as used still includes patent-encumbered things, and implementations are complex enough that major deviations and incompatibilities are common; PDF files are still ginormous (nothing has changed about this ever), and tooling is terrible (perhaps even non-existent?) for trying to shrink files without butchering the lot, with yours as a good example of not being an order of magnitude smaller as claimed; it’s still far harder to make PDFs accessible, because most free tools just can’t do it, and it takes far more effort than HTML where it’s easy (as before, tooling is terrible, where with HTML you can just edit the source in a text editor); most PDF readers can’t reflow text (don’t think I’ve ever used a tool—reader or writer—that could); most PDFs can’t be edited freely; and PDFs don’t render well on screen.

You’ve thrown out the HTML ecosystem because some people abuse it, and are choosing to use PDF despite the rampant abuse and many problems of the format, because it’s theoretically possible to work around those problems. (You may quibble with my judgement of “rampant abuse”, but most PDFs I encounter on the web are PDFs for no good reason and perform terribly, loading slowly and being worse for task performance. It is perhaps a slightly different class of abuse, since spying on users via JavaScript isn’t part of it, but it’s related inasmuch as it’s not about meeting the needs of the user.) This does not seem internally consistent.
I don't know if Mozilla plans to bring it back but I know the solution is just around the corner: host it yourself. If you only want to do things like this you could use any SBC - Raspberry Pi etc - running some distribution of some operating system you prefer - Linux, *BSD, etc - hanging off your own internet connection. Either run something cloudy - Nextcloud, Owncloud, Syncthing, Seafile - or find (or make) a program made for this purpose. Get a domain name, use dynamic DNS to keep that name pointing at your IP and you're done - welcome to the world of self-hosted services.

Now that you've made a start you'll probably find you start adding services to that box under the stairs. Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Run something like Airsonic and you can stream your own media. Instead of having Xi Jinping watching your goldfish through that IP camera you can put the thing in a dedicated network zone, run a VPN on the box and make the camera only accessible through that VPN. The possibilities are close to endless, the costs are low and coming down all the time, power consumption can be negligible if you choose the right hardware. If in the end you don't like running your own services you can always use something run by someone else so why not give it a try...
JavaScript Fetch API – Complete Tutorial with Examples
Oh, I did not realised that explaination is required.

Reason:

Zeit is very easy to use, you do not even need to config your workflow, and FaaS and multiple framework are well supported.

Firebase, it belongs to Google, there is no doubt Google will limit the free tier and charge you more in the next a few years.
Both countries (Switzerland and Japan) have a culture of a focus on quality, so they are very close in this trait.

The Dutch are IMO very pragmatic people that, while quality is important to them, are more willing to sacrifice it for other things that are of higher priority.

So it's not about a general sharing of culture but only about sharing the quality-focus aspect.
Ghuloum's scheme compiler tutorial essentially follows a useful process: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf. It starts with emitting x86 machine code for constants, then unary and binary primitives, local variables, conditionals, heap allocation, procedure calls, and finally closures. It helps that Scheme has little to no parser to speak of, but it is straightforward to extend the technique to a language that does.
Depending on the style of house, it also makes better use of space if you're otherwise trying to balance space for gardening or for your children to play, etc. I would love to be able to grow my vegetables on the roof and free up the ground level of a basketball ring or more lawn for the kids.
More amazing when you realize India's labor laws start becoming cumbersome when you hire more than 100 workers in a single factory (you need to take government permission to fire redundant workers). Maybe they found creative ways around that.
Tragic, but I wonder why anyone would consider bringing sensitive data on their phone or laptop on such a trip? If not the Iranians, the USCPB would almost certainly grab a copy of it all upon his return.
Some platforms like Facebook and Twitter do, but HN and Reddit are (outwardly) based on votes, so you're seeing what the community thinks is important, not what you yourself do.

Mind you, there's a lot of people (myself included) who want to keep up to date on what others find interesting at the moment.
We don’t “know” something just because one study showed it.

But mincome actually did show a reduction in working hours, which is hard to spin as “improve employment”.
>In a sane world we would already have webviews on all platforms and the problem mostly solved for client applications

Isn't WebView kind of work around for web browser being overbloated? I mean they made single instance of browser and interfaces for embedding that single instance, but do you really need that for desktop?
You seem to have just taken HTML and provided it with a different syntax, for no clear reason.

HTML is the compilation target, the low-level markup language that Markdown, reStructuredText, &c. can render to.
> Trying to make the DOM work as some kind of window rendering engine is a travesty that doesnt work.

Regarding the CV padding theory the explanation is more straights for me: it simply works better that what we had previously for enterprise software.
It’s more relevant to compare SPA not to the WWW but to 90’s or 00’s corporate software.

Like what would you use for the typical CRUD with some analytics business app? The drawbacks of SPA are nothing compared to the universality of the web interface (“oh and it must work on my iPad too”) in the enterprise world.
> How can a major mobile platform (THE major platform?) be such a rats nest to begin developing for?

The great mobile stagnation has begun. We're at least a few years into that now.

The mobile market is no longer growing (and or barely growing) based on usage and unit sales. The market has largely been saturated in terms of time and devices. Even India is heavily flooded with smartphones now, and it was one of the last great potential markets.

So what you have is a large group of existing developers with experience and a gradually reducing group of new inbound developers pursuing a shrinking number of free (widen open) opportunities (in jobs, in new apps that can be created, etc). It will end up mostly being a replacement system, where as developers slowly age out or leave, that's the max inbound new developers you can fit into the stagnate market (to have it be any other way, you need more growth than exists now, or is likely to exist going forward).

The existing developer base largely doesn't need the Stackoverflow information updated, and the demand from new developers isn't as high as it used to be. Most platforms start to stagnate in this manner after they pass their peak / prime days. Mobile is aging as a thing, in other words, and you're starting to see that show up in such ways as rotting Stackoverflow info.
What would it tell you when you see that e.g. the Python option is twice as fast as the Java one? Or that the node server boots slower then the php one?
This is something I've ruminated on a lot – but frankly, I'm in no way qualified to understand or make sense of it. The two things that I often come back to are:

1) the pathways that infrastructure would run through have more "things" (a scientific term) in the way, raising the time and cost of a project. My father often mentioned how when I-95 was built, many homes near where he grew up had to be physically moved to accommodate it. That was in the 1950s. That problem only grows more complex over time. It's no surprise that building a new subway in NYC would have been 'easier' and cheaper in 1900 than in 2000, despite advances in technology, per Patrick's question.

2) investment in infrastructure requires foresight and time. It demands a long view. Who wants to be the one responsible for allocating a huge chunk of change for a project that they won't be in office to get credit for?

Please tell me why I'm wrong or what else I'm missing, I'd love to learn more about this.
> Speaking logically; there can't be anything is making it physically harder to build infrastructure over time. And nothing physical is making the economics of railroads worse.

Building could be harder over time when lands to build is used for other purpose. Railloads economics could be worse relatively over time when competitor(car, airplane) getting cheaper and improves quality.
I believe his point is built upon the fact that his MAC is hashed and therefore his data is able to be traced back to him
The problem I have with Taskwarrior is that (from a layman's point of view, i.e. mine) there's a lot of new information you need to learn just to get to the point of a simple TODO. Whereas Trello has the massive benefit of being intuitive and you're up and running in seconds after making the board without even having to read any docs.

Anyway I'd be interested in learning Taskwarrior, but in my day job I work in a team and I can't make them use that kind of tooling.
It's curious that plants haven't evolved to fix their own nitrogen, given their need for it and its abundance in the atmosphere
Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
TikTok and their users are so dumb that it is no competition
Usual white painted surfaces get hot too. And if you use some superhigh-reflectivity surface, you have to keep it clean.
>> It’s not unreasonable to acknowledge or even admire some aspects of a person, a company, or a country, while also being aware that there are other aspects that are less admirable.

They are two sides of the same coin. You have the "nice" stuff because of the xenophobic policies. I'd be willing to wager the majority - if not all - of the people that loved Japan were white and didn't think about it at all.
Could you elaborate on your first point? What kind of stuff was added?
Who wants professional brand books for free?
a > b ⇏ b = 0
The demands China makes of foreign companies are obscene.

While any company's welfare can suffer when diplomatic relations between nations sour, as evidenced by TikTok, there really is no comparison between operating a business in China and operating in most other developed markets.
A related topic (that the title initially made me think of) is fantasy consoles like the PICO-8, although those appear to commonly use high-level programming languages like Lua.

https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
>One day someone will release the ‘detect and block anything resembling kpop’ extension for Twitter and I’ll be happy.

Not only kpop, but entire "fandoms" as a whole. When that software finally arrives, I want to be able to refer back to this comment and say I read it here first.
I don't hate the programming language. PHP is a great language that I used for a decade before moving over to the frontend. I don't use it any more but I work in a company that does and I see good results when it's deployed. This is not about PHP (or Python, or Ruby, as they also have built-in httpd servers).

What I hate is the idea of putting something on a server that's going to make my life harder, or create more work for my team. I don't want the developers I work with having to give up their evenings or weekends to resolve issues and incidents that arose from things shouldn't have existed in the first place. That's why I don't want additional network services sneaking their way on to production. I should very easily be able to tell which applications on a server are listening to external traffic.

Maintaining good security is hard enough without language runtimes including things that should strictly only ever be a development dependency rather than a production dependency.

If there are pills I can take to make this problem go away, sign me up.
I would like to know as well. I would also be interested in opinions about "Lisp system implementation by Nils M Holm".
I tried to read "Lisp in small pieces" at least 3 times but never managed to go further than the 1st chapter. I find the prose pedantic and often it doesn't go straight to the point that is the objective of the chapter. Maybe this is an issue due to the translation from French. In any case I find it a very heavy read. I have the feeling that the contents of the book could be easily condensed in half the pages.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232307
> Otherwise, the problems he s describing have 100% to do with the miserable culture of CV-padding that has taken over the silicon valley and led to SPA monstrosities, rather than with web standards themselves.

I don’t understand what you’re saying here. SPAs aren’t circumventing web standards, like Flash — web standards are what make SPAs as they currently exist possible in the first place.

Indeed, the complaint is that the standards themselves have gotten too complex, such that only Google —with its obvious conflicts of interest — has the resources to develop a browser that complies with them.
It's not service in the sense that is commonly used. They're not "serving" you by helping you. It's more of a "helping me by helping us" attitude, I think.

The UK used to have this level of awareness of others, and almost this level of politeness. One of the complaints about American tourists was that they were so rude. I still find walking in a British city a pleasure (but not London, as it has lost this), because people are aware of everyone else around them, and make space for them. I find the same driving in the UK (but not London) - drivers co-operate together to keep the traffic going smoothly. People regularly let others in front of them, knowing that someone else will let them through in turn.

Walking in an Australian city is a nightmare by comparison - everyone is ignorant of others around them and annoyed if they have to alter their path at all. Driving is even worse. Australian drivers are incapable of merging at a junction because they point-blank refuse to let other people in front of them. Every other car is an obstacle to be got around, a competitor that needs to be "beaten" rather than co-operated with.
> helping students specifically when they are stuck and need more personalized help.

This is where most learning resources fall short of ideal - if you work on a problem without human guidance, you can often either work through it in whole and learn, or check out the solution if you get stuck, have a short "ah, of course!" moment and not learn much at all. A tutor can sort of "debug" through questions and targeted hints where you're going wrong, and thus make the concepts stick in a more lasting way.

I wonder if there's potential for some sort of digital learning medium which actively tries to "figure out" where the student's misunderstandings and gaps lie and addresses them in a more targeted way (optional hints are a first step, but there must be better).
It's not like he is wholly unrelated to China, though. This is kinda similar to Davit Isak and probably numerous other people
“The basic income is claimed to produce a range of health and social benefits, but it is important to underscore that none of the income maintenance experiments, including Mincome, produced direct evidence of a causal relation between income support and health outcomes.“
> My point was only that the idea of a man's worth being in the number of sexual partners he has had is harmful to men overall....

I think you’re equivocating between two extremely different things. I would actually agree it’s not necessary or good for men to derive any self-worth from the difference between, say, 5 or 15. But it’s probably unavoidable for men to derive some degree of self-worth or self-esteem from the difference between zero and non-zero, which is the situation under discussion.