skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The public does yell "The web is too slow!"

Except they usually yell "My phone is too slow" when the problem is actually the web that got 3X bloated since they bought their phone.
I was going to say that I remember coding towards a 35-50KB limit in the 90s. That'd get you a load time within 10 seconds on a typical modem of the era, if you were lucky! :-) Couple that with only being able to use hex colors at multiples of 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, and ff, as well as having to cater for 640x480 resolutions - great times.
Is fastmail free now?
I agree. But it's worth noting that the UK has recently enacted the Right to be Forgotten Law, which plays into this discussion.
Astronomers Detect Millions of Signals from an Intelligent Civilisation: Us
If government wasn't all up in all sorts of stupid things (or was all up in them to a lesser degree) people wouldn't be apprehensive about it being involved in the kinds of things government needs to be involved in, like public health and funding research that has no profit use.
Other coutries used lockdowns.
> If you do know how to do so, you can turn a comment that is unreasonable to derive a conversation out of them. I do this all the time.

I agree one can sometimes do this, but I don't think it's always possible. I strongly suspect you do not have the ability to, for example, turn all of the trolls and hijackers in a toxic reddit thread into reasonable conversationalists.

> You cannot have community when all opposing viewpoints are banned.

Banning trolls and hijackers is not the same as banning opposing viewpoints. I am not saying people who reasonably argue for opposing viewpoints should be banned. I am saying that trolls and hijackers--people who don't reasonably argue for anything but simply shout down everyone else--should be banned. Doing that is necessary to make it possible for reasonable people arguing opposite sides of an issue to have an actual conversation.

> So now that we have all these echo chambers and no communities. How healthy is society? It is far worse off than 10 years ago.

I'm not sure I agree. The sickness might be more visible now, but I don't know that it's actually any worse, just more visible.

I'm also not sure the sickness is quite as bad as you say. Are there really no communities at all? For example, is HN not a community? Is it just an echo chamber? I see opposing viewpoints argued reasonably here all the time; after all, that's what we're doing in this very conversation.
I'd assume not, given that Tim Berners-Lee hadn't invented HTTP yet.

But, the website looks rather similar to how it did back in 2001 (with the recognizable two-column list of bullet points):

https://web.archive.org/web/20011129002047/https://www.berks...
AMP was one of the things that pushed me off Google search and off Google Chrome on Android. The experience was mostly worse; especially reddit AMP is really awful, even given how awful non-AMP reddit is.

The few things that bothered me the worst were, blank white pages while loading, to earn the 'one contentful paint'; fonts loading late; and it's difficult to share links, because they had the garbage urls because google was proxying. The fake address bar was the icing on the cake.
Actually, not bad for a monster,it looks a lot like the "Oogie Boogie" character from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" [1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/md9P1lk.png
and a few points shy of 20% more votes than the first time.
I used what was probably the first 1MB page on the internet to discover why realloc() was not a smart choice for progressive parsing of content. I showed the problem to the lead dev and he cut the load time by a factor of ten in as many hours. NCSA had a web page where you could list your web server and a couple of sentences about it. Which was great until Netscape came out and everyone was setting up web servers.

This was back when Lycos was news to most people and Alta Vista was just launching. It was a poor man’s Yahoo. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the end of its usefulness came so close to the birth of better alternatives. The ungainliness of the status quo is usually what goads someone into trying something new.
Windows on ARM also runs x86 apps via translation, but in their marketing materials they call it emulation.

x86 emulation works by compiling blocks of x86 instructions into ARM64 instructions with optimizations to improve performance. A service caches these translated blocks of code to reduce the overhead of instruction translation and allow for optimization when the code runs again.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...
I agree that we can't look at the whole year until it's over, due to the irregular level of spread throughout the year.

However, it's interesting to note that during the first ten weeks of 2020, 8% fewer people died in Sweden compared to the average of 2015-2019, and 2020 had in fact the lowest number of deaths of the last six years[1] during the first ten weeks of each year.

[1] https://scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkni... (Excel file, Tabell 5, fairly easy to translate)
How Attention Works in Deep Learning and Sequence Models
The critical thing Youtube provides is discoverability. Hosting videos can be done on your hard disk. Served from AWS.

Youtube makes it easier for people to care about a person's created content. It solves a social graph problem.

Good luck.
The key difference is that the quote is saying that we will see some of that, but the headline is implying that it is universal due to it's absolute tone.

It would be like me saying if you drink alcohol, plan on being an alcoholic. It's true that we see some of that, but it's not the case for everyone.
computing will become biology and biology will become computing.
I mostly use Reddit apps ever since the UI overhaul. You can pretty well reduce it to just text.
Somehow though, Reddit doesn’t feel very community-oriented. Out of my many years there, I don’t know any other users by their handle. I haven’t got to know anyone. I miss that about message boards.

Same here, actually.

I fondly remember car forums where you get to know the regulars.

IRC rooms still seem to have that aspect to them, but the IRC protocol makes it hard to have asynchronous conversations. I really like Matrix/Element protocol-wise, but there are issues there too.

Edit: I really like what Discourse is doing. I wish it had a lower barrier to entry and better community discoverability.
I tried self hosting. And even with SPF and DKIM set up correctly my e-mails to Outlook.com (and assocciated other domains) was just dropped. It didn't go to the spam folder, it was just silently dropped. At the time I heard that this was essentially expected behavior for an IP without a good enough trust record. This even happened when I replied to mail sent from an Outlook.com account. Having my e-mail randomly not reach its intended recipient was and is still unacceptable to me, so I bit the bullet and paid for hosting on my own domain. And while I'm still not happy about paying for hosting that I have sufficient capacity for on my own servers, I have otherwise been happy with it "just working".
lol Jira is 24 MB.
When distributed systems Go wrong [audio]
Didn’t they already have a joint thing that required $300K?

Now the household needs to just earn $200K?

To meet the individual standards of accreditation, households can pool wealth between spouses, regardless of whether both spouses are acquiring a security.
Elasticsearch, Lucene under the hood, implements an inverted index which is an extremely fast data structure for text search. ES has clustering as a primary feature too and many search features that can significantly improve relevance that you won't find in MySQL and most other databases.
> If you zoom out 200 years, this year's mortality looks awesome!

If you compare it with 1666, this is paradise.
I hear you saying that if my service is compelling enough, people will tolerate the horrendous page loads.
Chrome Devtools says a very respectable 62.6 kB
It's an interesting trade-off... toxic subreddits exist, and hitting the front page instantly creates an Eternal September. BUT Reddit also gives you a suite of moderation tools out of the box. You can set rules, and benefit from site-wide policies that keep you on the right side of the law most of the time.

It's not perfect, but it's good enough that it seems to have won the segment by a fairly large margin.
The problem with abstract thinking is that there’s often more than one way to represent an answer, so that means the teacher has to actually understand the problems, not just match to an answer sheet.

I’m reminded of a widely circulated common core math problem to draw a series of dots showing 4 x 8 or something. The kid drew 4 rows of 8 dots, and the teacher marked it “NO!” and drew 8 rows of 4.
FWIW they announced their intention to do this over two years ago now, in March 2018:

> Based on what we learned from AMP, we now feel ready to take the next step and work to support more instant-loading content not based on AMP technology in areas of Google Search designed for this, like the Top Stories carousel. This content will need to follow a set of future web standards and meet a set of objective performance and user experience criteria to be eligible.

Source: https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/standardizing-lesso...
According to the article he was in the water for almost half an hour (!)
I love it!

I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that's what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it's entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I've built consist entirely of pages within a fraction of that limit.

It'd be interesting to impose a stricter limitation to the 1MB Club: one where all pages on a given site are within that limit. This would disqualify Craigslist, for example (the listing search pages blow that limit out of the water, and the listings themselves sometimes do, too).

I also wonder how many sites 1mb.club would have to show on one page before it, too, ends up disqualifying itself. Might be worthwhile to start thinking about site categories sooner rather than later if everyone and their mothers starts spamming that GitHub issues page with sites (like I'm doing right now).
>r/AskHistorians is a top-tier academically-minded Q&A forums,

It's very nice for what it is, but it's not a counterexample to the problems with reddit because /r/AskHistorians achieves its famous reliability by outsourcing user authorization to the university system (you must be a historian to answer). This is not possible for any subreddit centering on a topic which is not famous enough to have entire departments of universities about it, such as, for example, Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo GameCube.
It's not even 6 million, but that's splitting hairs. He got nearly twice as many more people to vote for him the second time as the amount he lost by.

It's just funny to see how offended people get when you float the idea that half of their countrymen might disagree with them. And that that half has a meaningful political reality worthy of accounting for.

If despite those numbers, you still think we're "unified", you're just burying your head in the sand.
Ask HN: Should I make a project open-source being a non-expert developer?
I'm going to start a project developing an app for a charity organization for free. I'm currently studying computer engineering and I doesn't consider me as a professional developer right now. I would like to make the project open source, but I aware that maybe I could make a security mistake and put the private data of the organization at risk. It would be easiest to find security vulnerabilities if my app is open source. What do you think about it?
That was a century ago. No one is alive with a clear memory and influence.
> However, instead of making a game that captures the essence of Doom its more like a Michael Bay version of Doom. Instead of desperately fighting never ending hordes of increasingly horrifying creatures from hell so you can get out in one piece and save the world, you're an unkillable demigod that's basically dunking on armies of demons for lulz.

Doom was structured in such a way that when you started off playing it was practically survival horror, but when you "got gud" you were practically the unkillable demigod. That's what I loved about it: it was so open-ended. It could be that way because its engine was so limited. There were only so many possible level layouts, and only a few different parameters that determined how enemies behaved. Using those, you could construct a combinatoric explosion of battle scenarios that ran the gamut from balls-out arena battle to hunting down enemies in dark narrow corridors and everything in between. Furthermore, the level data was small enough that the entire level, and all objects spawned within it, could live in memory at once. This made each level feel like a living world. Enemies from a faraway part of the level you haven't reached yet can spot you and start chasing and attacking.

In Doom 3, Doom (2016), and Doom Eternal, the engine is so unlimited that the designers had to basically pick a playstyle in order to narrow down the solution space, just to get started. Doom 3 opted for a survival horror style while the latter two games opted for a Serious Sam/Painkiller style combat game: move to area, sweep all enemies, move to next area, repeat. They feel more fun and more like Doom than Doom 3 did, but there's still something missing. Not that I blame them for adopting a few modern shooter conventions. Had they made it a total "boomer shooter" I doubt it would have sold as well.
Message brokers can give you a lot without the weight and inflexibility of ESB. Not mentioned in the article though.
Yes. I too have been pretty anti-IDE most of my history. But I think a lot of it comes down to tools and culture; Ruby (which I have done for the first half of my profesional life) is extremely hard to give good tooling for. So the tools are bad, so they aren't useful. So you don't use them.

Contrast with a language like Java, which is very amenable to a lot of tooling, and kinda sorta needs it to make the language more usable. If that's your background, you can't imagine not having that tooling, because, well, you're used to it.

I will say that I have been playing around with using more IDE-like things, and even though it's culturally pretty foreign to me, I understand the appeal. And as I'm getting more used to it, I get annoyed when it's not there, and then remember how I used to pooh pooh people who required all those fancy features. So... I get it. These days at least.
I think the context is given at the end of the video.

I think Fauci was trying to avoid a mask shortage that would have affected healthcare workers who absolutely need the masks. The problem is that he downplayed the masks too much, and now his words are being used against him.

EDIT: The video was in another comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI
The difference is that a lot of software is forever unfinished. I was about to say "if you work on a game, or a desktop app maybe" but even that is not true anymore. Games are patched almost weekly nowadays.

This advice can absolutely be applied to making a movie, writing a book, painting a picture, etc, but not to software.
It hasn't been locked down for a while now.
Before all this, I thought that people WERE educated in such a way. I thought that no matter what, eventually people's sense of self-preservation would kick in. I believed that what they observed with their own eyes (sickness and death) would cause them to modify or alter their behavior, in order to avoid such an outcome. I was wrong on all counts!
Yeah, that sounds about right. I remember MS DOS used to fit on a 720k floppy -- back when they were literally floppy...
Reviving old threads was also a reason. I like those that add new information but 99% of the time it’s some dude who didn’t check the date on the thread and posts “omg me too!” on an 8 year old post.

I also think a technical reason due to the scale of reddit, etc. I see no reason to do it other than what I mentioned on discourse, phpbb, vbulletin, etc.
Truly painful. On iOS it regularly fails to keep playing the next song in a playlist, which is pretty much unforgivable for a music app.

Here's a longer list of grievances from users who were forced to migrate from Google Play Music: https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/comments/icmwdf/one...
Crows Have Figured Out How to Safely Eat Poisonous Toads (2018)
Yeah, but oftentimes loads (e.g., A/C or cooking) are not shiftable. And since there's no "EPA drive cycle" for TOU pricing or marketing standards, everybody quotes the lowest-possible rates that aren't representative of your marginal cost to consume. It's really anti-consumer.

Imagine if everything adopted this model. Gas at the pump changes price mid fill-up. You'd fret that you'd be gouged for a million dollar gallon in the moment that you glance away. Or if there were TOU in addition to data caps on your internet connection - streaming a movie might be more expensive than you bargained.

So yes, in principle I agree that pricing everything to the most-granular and timely degree is economically correct, but it's also absolutely exhausting as a consumer. There's only so much cognitive burden to be tolerated. At some point apathy takes over.
I have seen people of all ages make all-in bets with their wealth. Previously successful people often over-estimate their skill and have a naive belief in their ability to pick or make a winner. They can fail and lose most everything, and the consequences for their families and friends are harsh (although I don’t know if it is ends up being a benefit for the economy overall; and restarting from scratch again is easier if younger).

Some requirements for diversification (instead of accreditation) would help mitigate such risky behaviour, and allow small investors to invest too.

Do “director-level management and those employees that are actually responsible for the investment activities of the fund” make sensibly diversified investment decisions? I don’t have a wide enough experience to answer that, but my very limited experience says no, they are just as likely to concentrate everything into one risk.
As you point out Apple's per core performance is impressive, but their ability to customize their hardware to optimize very specific compute tasks like the nsobject release example or floating for Javascript will be a lot harder to convince off the self/least common denominator parts like x86 processors have traditionally been.

The improvement in retaining and releasing NSObjects is mostly due to Arm's weaker memory model. And javascript specific instructions like FJCVTZS are available for anyone designing Arm cores. Also, IIRC, FJCVTZS was added to more closely match the way x86 handles floating point numbers because that is what Javascript was designed to target.

But if it did turn out to be on the right side of the cost/benefit equation now instead of having to convince multiple parties it's a good idea, at worst Apple just has to convince a few internal divisions to work together.

The problem is that Apple does what they want at their discretion. You need them, but that don't need you. Whereas hardware manufactures are usually quite sensitive to customer needs. We've already seen how this plays out with Apple's professional software products like Shake or Final Cut.

Not to downplay Apple's accomplishment, after all nobody expected them to be this competitive. But people are getting caught up in the hype.
hah. still waiting on BTC to hit 500K. McAfee told us it’s gonna happen!
Kernel Flow Meets Virtual Reality
|"Verizon Media is also making an undisclosed cash investment in BuzzFeed in addition to the stock deal for HuffPost, according to a person familiar with the matter."

So Verizon is paying someone to take HuffPost off their hands? Hmmm.
Interested in how large this dataset is?

Is it in a format that could be backed up by a community to protect? Seems like something folks in /r/datahoarder would be interested in backing up.
True, I should have said "cheap." Because when you cheap out on maintenance, you're making a choice to lose long-term value in favor of short-term gains.
Maddening that they don't manage to present clear data points - deliberately, or because they don't know any better?

Like what is the point of comparing flu deaths between January and August with Covif219 deaths in the same time period? Perhaps those two diseases have different seasons? (Maybe not, but they way they present it, it is impossible to know). Perhaps all the flu deaths happen in December and all the Corona deaths in March? (Just an example). Also for example Sweden had exceptionally few deaths last years, leaving exceptionally many people "ripe to die" this year (what Marginal Revolution calls the "Dry Cinder Effect").

Also comparing to averages can also be very misleading. It is in fact to be expected that any given year deviates from the average. It would be very odd if every year was exactly on the average.

Then in the middle of comparing death rates of previous years, they seem to jump to absolute counting of Covid19 deaths again ("The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show"). When the whole point of looking a death rates of previous years is to establish how many excess deaths were really attributable to Covid19.
Here is one big counter-example: The Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, a union with two million members in the US. They call for comprehensive immigration reform tied with labor conditions. Teachers' unions like the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association also call for compassionate immigration reform.

The old stereotype of nativist unions is just that. It's true in some cases--see the Teamsters, who also supported Trump, or police unions--but the actual union movement in the US has long fought for better treatment for immigrants.

https://www.seiu.org/cards/solutions-for-immigration-reform-...
Curious, even with cache disabled I get somewhat less (13.2KB) but I assume that's what came over the wire and then expands after it's inflated(?)
With shipping it ends up being more like 60c. Not a huge complaint, but... I had to think twice about buying something where the shipping charge is almost as much as the product.
thanks for the link I didn't know that :D.

I'm not a car enthusiast, but the supra is the first car that came to my mind when I read the parent comment because I saw a lot of youtube videos with supras from the 90s (modified and) producing a lot of power.

Like this one [1], I think the car in the video is a 1999 model and stock it produces at most 325hp (info from wikipedia).

1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvh2HYIyBAs
Wikipedia Style
No. But if you go to Airbnb, you probably have already narrowed down your search, it makes the booking process a little bit easier. I find more options is always annoying. Say some reviews are more important than others, I wish sites like booking.com can discard listings when certain keywords appears in negative reviews. All I want is to have a few options to choose from. I personally don't use Airbnb any more.
To solidify getting rid of "wrongthink", they removed the upvote+downvote count.

Previously, even for opinions people largely disagreed with, you could see what number of people agreed with it. They changed it to showing only net numbers. I think this made it easy to use automated suppression mechanism i.e. they could read comments with algorithms and downvote automatically.

This was back when they were not banning subreddits for wrongthink, they were merely suppressing it.