skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest problem in this challenge would be the web, I suppose, as a recent web browser that supports Javascript and all that will easily use more than 1GB of RAM just by itself.

You'd be surprised, I've found that 1GB devices are still quite usable on the 'modern' web by adding some swap space and not having too many tabs. Of course that's approaching the lower bound of usefulness these days.
> Frontend is however typical first place to develop in

I think that, even today, this is a bold claim to make. Do you have something to substantiate it?
IIRC that is a configuration choice by the company admin.

I can think of a few orgs that aggressively block VPN traffic from employees - in some cases the metadata leaked by the end user is a security risk. (Ie you’re doing work stuff in one tab and researching or doing related matters in another)
On a related note, I highly, highly recommend watching this well-made documentary on JWST, released around 3 and a half years ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLD9LKq0u9E

This documentary was produced by Northrop Grumman Corporation -- the builders of JWST under a NASA contract.
I think google renders them in a raster format. Whatever they use to do that doesn't support emojis.

It could be by design, by rendering any text in the svg icon google is making a design decision for you. They're choosing a font, or a specific emoji type. Maybe they want to avoid the problems that would ensue.
What is it hoped this can see? Is there some specific hypothesis this telescope was built to confirm?
Thanks - integration with Сolab is in the near-time roadmap. You can already use it to generate JSON profiles and export HTML reports. We are working now to make it possible to display all the interactive plots directly inside Сolab.

Longer term, we also plan to add more reports for specific problem types, as such time series or recommendation systems. Keep an eye on the repo!
> whichever of us raises more money (and in an ideal free market, this means whichever of us is willing to accept less favorable terms) wins

I went through an entire economics PhD program, and had never before now heard of this founders' race to the bottom of investment terms. What a remarkable insight. Is there already a name for it?
By way of verification, not only did I double check the path in regedit, but I also tried copy pasting the command line from the Microsoft page, and that gave path not found.
This presentation distracted me from my work. :))))
Isn't this scary?
When you look at it compared to actual browser usage, you end up with 89.62% support, which is not bad at all. WebP & CSS Grid are at about 95%.
A 14-year-old PEI boy makes his own army of rat creatures
That list is incorrect. It list the incorrect order for certain nations there.
I know where these countries should rank and how poor they are because I lives in some and travelled to others since childhood and had business there enough to know.

I have never been to Haiti but I will tell you what. The DR is one of the few Caribbean islands I travelled to where I saw kids on the side of the road begging.
I was take a back given the number of huge resort there.

I also met someone whose wife was promised to him but her family because he was in a better financial state than they were. He said this kind of thing happens there.
second this! I read the transcript and it was quite enjoyable indeed
The contribution of social media to our "democratic process" is to poison it.

Too many twitter warriors banging away on keyboards.

You AND SOCIETY will benefit if you check out of it and just meet your neighbors.
I think I will borrow your idea. That is about 3% per week.
Hi, I'm the author. One of the coolest things I learned after releasing the game was that it's played by folks with visual impairment. It's "playable with issues" (meaning I have work to do), but playable nonetheless.
Beautifully summarized !
Ah, I used this exact same strategy in KSP. It’s very convenient to lift a huge amount of fuel into space once using a disposable rocket, then top up smaller crafts before heading out of orbit.

I assume they won’t be following my “dump extra fuel here before re-entering the atmosphere” strategy though.
If the JWST survives launch but has a subsequent mechanical problem that prevents it deploying properly (and it’s the kind of problem that would have been fixable on Hubble, using a shuttle mission) would it be feasible to mount a robotic rescue mission to chase it down and remote-hands it back to life? For less than the cost of just launching another JWST?
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I don't know if the current article is good, but the site has certainly had some good articles. If we were to judge every site by the worst thing that had appeared on it (or, for that matter, every person by the worst thing they've done), there wouldn't be much left. That's a strategy for a much less interesting world, so it violates the prime directive of HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
It’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work
the first amendment to the US Constitution says:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

can you explain how this should apply to "large corporations with massive network effects." would the other sections of the first amendment apply to private corps such that they couldn't deny medical coverage based on the corporation’s religious views?
Who is "they" again?
Interesting. I noticed that "-init" doesn't error out if you give it a filename that can't be a file, like . or /. Using /dev/null seems to work also.
How much of increased housing costs are due to current increased cost of building materials for new construction?

If there's one force that is more national than local it's the supply of construction materials. Construction labor is at least regional, if not national.

There was also a significant dip in new construction during the pandemic which must have had an effect on pricing.

Having built my own house ~15 years ago (I only contracted out earthwork, concrete finishing, trusses, and shingles) I am aware that construction materials are generally a small fraction of total cost, but labor can easily be half of the total cost.

Finally there is probably an aspect of financial bubble happening as people try not to miss out on rising housing prices, willing to pay a steep premium to own housing the traditional way instead of through a mutual fund or similar investment.

[*] https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-ou...
My point was that if you're comparing JS dependencies to other languages, you need to include their compilers too, since e.g. TypeScript projects depend on `tsc`. If you include the size of C/C++/Rust/Java/etc. compilers, I'm sure you'll find 50mb+ of dependencies. You're right that it's self-contained though (to be fair, so is `tsc` – most projects could shed a lot of dependencies by abandoning Babel in favor of `tsc` or esbuild).
i am still useing sometimes an eee-PC 701, 900mhz, 2gb ram, 4gb ssd, 16gb sdcard, as work/everyday linux machine. web, email, python, C/++, vim, whatever. That means what, 12 years? Waw. Original battery still holds 1+hours. Now on archlinux 32bit, about 2 years old.
And all is fine.
Sometimes also i teach python classes, and that is being carried around and vga-projected.
History of Multimedia PC Industry Standardization
Overall it is a nice article about a group of species that deserve a lot more positive attention.

However this statement is definitely false:

> spiders are terrestrial, so you are not close to spiders when you are swimming!

Several land based spiders can actually walk on water, because they are very light and their feet are hydrophobic.

Even more amazing is that there are spiders that live underwater. They have hairs on their body that captures air. When you see them they look somewhat silvery, due to the reflection between water and air. They build nests under water. Because the young spiders also need air to breathe they continuously transport fresh air to their nests.
It’s crazy expensive when you aren’t getting a discount, and even with many discounts. Tech money doesn’t really care about the amounts though. Whenever a food delivery app recruiter calls me up I tell them I don’t think delivering burritos to other programmers is much value to the world.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the housing supply is very certainly behind "balance" by 500,000 units (pre-covid).

source: 15 year professional Urban Planner in California
If you go into your history and remove the video that caused it fixes it for me usually.
That is exactly the point of the article. Every JS developer knows that these numbers are stupid and doesn't look at them.

However a beginner that doesn't know what impact they have of course is scared if when installing a library it tells you that there are all that vulnerabilities.
"Going to stack one more soapbox for me to stand on... and this will get me flamed... koalas and pandas *deserve* to go extinct." -Fern_Blossom, 2 hours ago

"There's no *deserve*.... Why are you throwing morality at this?" -Fern_Blossom, current comment

This was an exercise in friendly ribbing. I think we should save the koalas and the pandas, if we can. We've destroyed enough already. And c'mon, they're cute.
If workers can't afford housing, you'll have plenty of empty and available positions, even at $15 / hour. Especially if you want / need reliable (ABLE to reliably show up for shifts) workers.

Let me break it down...

Let's start with $15 an hour.

Let's be generous and assume five 8 hour shifts per week (2080 hours per year: 5 shifts per week * 8 hours per shift * 52 weeks per year).

That's $600 per week ($15 per hour * 5 shifts per week * 8 hours per shift). Or $31200 ($600 per week * 52 weeks) per year.

Let's assume affordable housing is 30 miles away and takes an average of 1 hour to commute one way.

That's 10 hours of commuting per week (5 shifts, 1 hour EACH way or 1 * 5 * 2) or 520 hours commuting per year (10 hours per week * 52 weeks per yr).

The time commitment of the worker is 10 hours per shift (8 paid working, 2 unpaid commuting).

The yearly time commitment is 2600 hours per year (2080 working, 520 commuting).

So the effective hourly rate is $31200/yr / 2600 hours/yr which is $12 per hour.

BUT! Commuting isn't free. Let's assume the worker owns a car in order to get to and from work. Let's round off the cost per mile (gas, wear and tear) to be 50 cents a mile.

So the cost of commuting per shift is $30 (30 miles one way * 2 ways * $.50 / mile) or $7800 per year ($30 per shift times 5 shifts per week * 52 weeks per year)!

SO! To have the $15 per hour job costs the worker $7800 per year and 2600 hours per year!

So, ($31200 per year - $7800 per year) / 2600 hours = $23400 / 2600 hours = $9 per hour!

$9 per hour! That $15 per hour job is competing with $9 per hour jobs that are closer and more local to affordable housing and giving thousands of hours per year back to the worker.

Think about that...
> 512 MB of memory (if you have more it's not a big deal, if you want to reduce your ram create a tmpfs and put a big file in it)

You can actually reduce your RAM easily by booting with the mem=512M boot option. Though IME this tends to make even a lightweight distro grind to a halt; you need at least 1G for even the barest usefulness.
I haven't taken psychedelics in a therapeutic setting, but I have had a couple "PURE HELL" experiences, and those were still some of the most meaningful and instructive experiences I've ever had.

For anyone considering using psychedelics, consider that a "bad trip" might make you uncomfortable but it will also force you to confront your problems.
Section 230 is literally designed to give content providers freedom to moderate & keep their site as they please. It's designed to allow sites to have liberties to do as they please.

This desire to re-imagine 230, to invent these differing categories, or to imagine additional obligations to carry content, is fabricated made up nonsense with zero basis in fact. It's a complete schtick. Personally, to me, it comes off as a vengeful control act, often by influences/camps who rightfully these platforms should want to stay away from for good cause, but that's a weakly held opinion of myself.

I normally am horrified by corporate rights, by treating corporations as people, but in this case, I 100% think 230 did the right thing, and allowed companies to build the sites they wanted to build, rather than having to get swamped by whomever came by & wanted to use the site for whatever dreadful horrible affairs they wanted.
Until I see a subpoena that fails to yield any user information, I'll continue to be doubtful as to their claims.
We ban accounts that troll HN as you have in this thread. No more of this please.

You've also been posting mostly unsubstantive comments in general lately. Would you please fix this? We're hoping for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Deaths start to pile up when hospitals can't accept more people which otherwise would have recovered. A rapid transmission rate was bad, but hospital saturation was the real COVID killer.
I wonder how often a high cost of living/housing prices employers out of markets. Surely Ketchum, ID is not the only town where this happened.
Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform maybe? I am not an expert in that area. I have used Terraform and seen Ansible. Know basicly nothing about the others.
The company challenging her beyond the normal experience is forced to because until she logs in, she is indistinguishable from an attacker. That's the price she's paying for perfect privacy.

They're not doing it because they want to annoy anonymous users; they're doing it because they're not getting any signal that they can trust this connection. That's the price you pay for removing reputation, and no number of Apple Relay users can change that. Website operators can't simply start trusting completely anonymous connections simply because there are a lot of them.

That's why I say Apple should be communicating this to users: there's a price to pay for anonymity. You may see more captchas, you may get challenged with 2FA more often, etc. Not to mention, you might be making it easier for actual criminals to hide amongst the other traffic.

When she logged in, the privacy issue becomes moot of course, yes. At that point her credential can be trusted the same way as before.
And what's the result of "failing"? A popularly elected representative gets automatically removed from the house because he failed some arbitrary attendance threshold or a test which is going to biased by whomever designed/approved it?

I don't think there is an easy way out of this, the "quality" of politicians can only improve if the majority of the people voting for them actually started caring about the actual work they do when elected (instead of basing their decisions entirely on the party they represent, their public image etc.)
They certainly can. They choose not to. Amazon, at the time, chose to invest in their warehouse operations, they chose to lose a little money in the short term and build out their operations to go head to head with Walmart and the other retailers. And they chose to invest in developing their website and e-commerce when online shopping was not a sure thing.

You bet big, you win big. Of course, now it is just a side show since retail is playing for pennies, but they certainly were not "dumping" back then just to kill the competition, and then planning to raise prices. They clearly innovated and brought online shopping to the fore.
Small orbital changes require orders of magnitude less delta-V than a dedicated launch, and launches have to deal with the atmosphere on top of this.

Rockets become more efficient as they get larger, you get lower structure to payload weight ratios and you suffer fewer losses to drag in the atmosphere. The same scaling goes for your fuel tanks. You want to get the biggest fuel tank you can in orbit and then use efficient ion engines to move for whatever delta-V corrections you need.

Doing some back of the envelope calculations, a single 20,000 kg depot could provide fuel at approximately 10% of the cost of individual launches even with an extraordinarily inefficient 300 m/s of delta-V change for every refueling. Realistically you could probably get under 1% with efficient planning.
did I say it's impossible? I immigrated myself, the amount of financial resources and time it takes makes it infeasible for most of the population.
The material requirements are extreme to what we typically us on earth. Handling temperature extremes, radiation, low outgassing, low weight.
Yes, along with the usual extrusion and (I believe) lofting along a desired path.
Why would posturing be silly? As you say the main chamber(s) of most parliaments is rather symbolic in nature. But it’s important as such: it represents
to the public a lot of what their representatives do.

There are usually tons of formal rules for etiquette, dress code etc which are also in a way posturing, or in another way, showing respect for the institution and processes and showing that they take the job seriously. That something is only superficial does in no way mean it’s useless!

Showing on opposition speaker the same respect that a 10 year old shows their teacher in school seems like a pretty low bar.

The point of forcing everyone to pretend they are listening is the same as the point of forcing everyone to wear a tie: to not make it look like a condo board meeting.
Which is bad if you ever wanted to make a service without user accounts.

Also a strange approach by Cloudflare, who sell IP based risk management.
> Should the credit card company be allowed to use the information about your transaction to assess how likely it is that someone has stolen your card?

I've been called by the credit card company many times for failed transactions that I've authorized. When fraud did occur then I was not contacted by my card company and I had only noticed the fraud because I actively monitor my card.

The credit card company should be able to determine what it wants without providing the information to any other entity. No, I do not think that the credit card company should be permitted to sell the information about my transaction under the guise of determining how likely it is that someone has stolen my card.
It is just pure noise:
Add `audit=false` to your ~/.npmrc to disable it
Not looking for perpetual motion only a compact solid state heat engine on par with others in effciency that would allow a small nuclear battery to work without the steam engine complexity issues.

The mars rover uses a RTG that puts out 2000 watts of heat and only 100 watts of electricity. Get it to 20% efficiency like solar panel and you're talking 400 watts, 40% like a steam engine would be 800 watts.
Saying no to smartphones is certainly impressive but IMO you don't have to go that far, just say no to apps and web services that act like apps.
Is This Predictive Coding?
I’m glad you got out of it
> And I decline cookie consent on every site I visit. It's tiresome, but I do it.

I don't think this is really worthwhile. It's akin to reporting every Google/fb ad as "I don't want to see this/this isn't relevant to me". Easier to just block ads/cookie consents from ever appearing, and set cookies to automatically delete after tab closure.
Is this abusing the function? Block is for things that you never want to see. It sounds fairly appropriate.
you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for that to inevitably happen so that I can revert it. Speaking overly broadly, dark mode everything is normally an at-least-slightly bad idea, but there’s good cause for aesthetic (low-contrast) dark mode of chrome in order to get it mostly out of the way, so that you can focus on the content. This is essentially what most graphics programs default to nowadays, and the same reasoning can be applied to browsers. (Though it only really works if your windows are maximised, otherwise dark between two lights could become a distraction.) No one says “you have a dark desktop background, you must want everything on your system to be dark”. Comment 47’s “When using the "Dark" theme, "prefers-color-scheme" should be dark, because that's what the user requested.” is simply not right. Choosing a dark browser theme is honestly quite a weak hint about whether you want content to be dark. The conflation of this that recent forays into OS-wide dark modes has encouraged is not good.
A whole Starship to deliver a few tens of pounds of fuel to a satellite seems excessive. The whole thing weighs about as much as a tank of gasoline. A Starship might deploy a hundred of these into different orbits for different refueling tasks.
Have you ever worked with a complex project? Upgrading isn't easy if you have a moderate number of dependencies, also you risk introducing bugs for fixing a problem that really doesn't impact you. It doesn't make much sense to me...
I didn't realize Private Relay was coming to iOS too. In that case, they'll probably push the app :)
There's some interest in that in China. The US has assumed that self-driving cars get no support from the highway. With some minimal support, it's easier. Volvo wanted to drive magnetized nails into roads to mark them under snow.
> Make junk mail and spam e-mail illegal to start with.

CAN-SPAM[0] does exactly that for US businesses. Any email from a US business that is for advertisement or otherwise promotional (as distinct from transactional[1]) then it:

* Must not have false or misleading from/to/reply-to

* Must not have a deceptive subject

* Must be labeled an ad

* Must include a valid physical postal address

* Must have a clear and conspicuous[2] way to opt-out

* Must have a working opt-out process within 10 business days of the user opting-out

* Must follow all these rules, even if the business contracts out their email marketing

Obviously, fly-by-night businesses and scams aren't going to follow these rules, but by-and-large all legitimate businesses do because each individual email that violates this rule can incur a $40,000+ fine

The FTC has a site[3] for reporting fraud violations, and CAN-SPAM violations fall under the "something else" category in the generic fraud violation report form according to the FTC's FAQ[4]

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

[1] i.e. it's not to inform you a something happened in the app/site e.g. you have a notification or some action you initiated has completed

[2] in practice, a link with text "Unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email is sufficient.

[3] https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

[4] https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/faq/faq-search/spam
Some of my daughter's second grade friends already have personal cell phones.

I am (very) reliably informed that at one nearby school with 6th-8th grade, almost every kid, even the ones from very poor or unstable families, has a cell phone. The tipping point for "over half of my classmates have cell phones" seems to be in the 3rd-5th grade range.

The schools let them carry them around all day, too, which is very confusing to me. They're not supposed to use them, but they do all the time, and teachers/admin are reluctant to confiscate them on more than a "you can have this back at the end of the day" basis (and usually not even that), because parents freak the fuck out if you hold on to their kids' phone overnight, no matter what (and, with limits only way at the extreme end, I really mean "no matter what") they were doing with it.
Sorry, meant the Continuum fallacy, or Sorites paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox