skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer who started noodling on 8 bit BASIC, the power of a web browser that is essentially a universal, network-capable application engine is beyond amazing.

As a user, the constant misuse of dark patterns and the glut of careless unoptimized and insecure code and coders is nightmare fuel. Consider I grew up coding, trying to explain modern websites and web applications my folks is simply painful because quite often it just doesn't make sense. A lot of UX never actually asked a user how they want it to work, or disregarded their input.

The best websites for me are still those which adhere to pre web 2.0 design patterns. I find them easier to navigate and use, ie old reddit vs new - the new design doesn't bring anything useful other than nagware to register and install the app - reading a thread and click outside the main area by mistake, it navigates you back in history and you wait 10 seconds for all the ajax to finish popping into place. My old online banking interface was a simple list of my accounts and balances with links to common functions. The "new" app-inspired interface hides everything under animated menus and ugly graphs I don't need to want, while constant monte-carlo simulations mean basic features always move; my wife and I often have completely different UX, it's just another annoying half-baked web app with ajax popping in and out all over the place.

There's good stuff and well design applications of course. Shadertoy is amazing. For music there's fully-fledged DAW's in the browser - fantastic! Collaborative document editing in real time, brilliant!

But I think I am down with the concept of a different engine or mode for "web surfing" vs "web application execution" - it's a completely arbitrary distinction I know, but as a user I've got a completely different set of wants and needs when I'm just surfing, vs when I need an "application."
Also not GP, but imo ElasticSearch is meant to serve one thing: provide search. It's not intended as your primary storage and source of truth which OLTP databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL are designed for.
Shopify did adopt sorbet to some extent.
Reprogrammable Satellite Launched
> But splaying involves a lot of tree operations and rotations too. I don't get how that works.

Correct, but the whole idea is that over time the same subset of hot nodes is going to trickle to the top of the tree, so you are just rewriting node offsets in your temporary list as you process the batch. A node may be logically modified 100x per batch, and only written to storage once.
The most important thing I learned across my ~30 years of training (various incantations of self defence) was to keep my 110 m hurdles skills top notch. Running away is always the best solution long term.

This is also what I insisted on with my teen children. They were training since 4 years old and the rare times they got into a confrontation they said sorry and left. 10 minutes of humiliation is better than a life long death.

There were very rare cases when either me or them had no other way than fight (a total of maybe four cases). The fight was over after 3 or 5 seconds, with the adversary trying not to choke on his teeth and looking for his testicles while hopping.

It was fast, brutal and nobody was proud of that because it could have ended with a bad strike or a knife in the stomach.

Real fighting is dangerous.
Since "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" are now mostly used as marketing slang and, hence, don't convey anything of substance anymore, it makes sense that job seekers will want to get in on this new highly paid trend.

Of course, that attracts institutions who sell matching certificates and magical one click solutions. But they conveniently forget to mention that to use ML/AI tools well, one needs years of experience in stochastics... The average person still gets confused by mean vs. median despite both of them being included and explained in Excel for 10+ years.

I predict that in 5 years, we'll have discrimination lawsuits by people who took a weekend AI course and feel offended that the math PhDs earn so much more, despite both of them working in AI.
It's also addictive. I never looked at working for someone else the same way again.

In the beginning not having a boss is harder than you can imagine. It puts additional responsibility on your shoulders being responsible for your employees and their families.

But once you've had that experience you can't ever be content working for someone else again even if circumstances force you to do it. The world just looks different.

You say never again yet six months later you start writing down ideas for companies. You know that sooner or later you have to start another one.
> "The first Crossrail trains will start running in 2017, and when the network is fully open in 2019, it will shuttle an estimated 200 million passengers every year."

We're half way through 2021 and still waiting! According to the latest project update, "Crossrail Ltd plans to bring the Elizabeth line into passenger service as soon as practically possible in the first half of 2022."
If you are programming C, you will already roll your own data structures. So why not roll your own formatting routines?
> I am not asking the world: I am asking you, an individual human who assuredly stands for something (and hell: we know you at least stand for this, as you decided to stop using Firefox over it ;P).

How about standing for leaving politics at the door of the work environment and freedom of expression?

> FWIW, I would presume the answer is "because most people don't realize that companies might be doing that"; however, I also take issue with the example: not going out of your way to display support for something is, in fact, different than actively taking action to undermine it... someone who doesn't show a flag might still support something, but someone who actively donates against something clearly doesn't.

Once you've gone out of the way to show it on one account, going out of the way to not do it on another is essentially the same thing and hasn't drawn ire.

> You do realize that no one has suggested deleting all the copies of Firefox,

You're feigning ignorance and creating a strawman. The movement that forced Eich out advocates for censorship and destruction of ideas and information. You were the one who made up the story about deleting all copies of Firefox.

> Remember both that CTO is a a very public position for an organization like that

Now that is an argument. If the organisation has made efforts to climb into bed with a modern religion and the CTO commits a sin then yes, removal makes sense but it should never have got to this point.

> By saying that you have decided to stop using Firefox because the employees of Firefox should not have revolted against Brandon Eich, you are thereby not only cancelling the work of a number of people you disagree with

No "cancelling" as you put it and most likely as the person you are replying to understands it involves mob justice forcing people out of careers and forcing the removal of ideas from platforms. Deciding not to use something is a personal choice.

> Truly: all of your fretting over people destroying the work of the "evil pagans" is off topic, whether it makes you feel better to frame it like that or not.

When you make a three paragraph strawman argument it can seem that way but while "your truth" may be that it is unrelated, the reality is different.

> Ummm... are you missing that Brandon Eich made the first move here, taking action against gay people by fiscally

He expressed his political opinion through excepted channels. He didn't incite a mob. Again there's an argument he couldn't be at the head of an organisation with the religious connections it has but again it should never have got to that stage.
suckless.org's surf could work too.
Glad they didn't though!
Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
Does anyone know - is it possible to restrict yourself to read-only operations? It's fairly easy to accidentally break something in production environment...
AOM insights is a short, condensed blurb to publicize research. The actual articles themselves by Dean Shepherd and others goes into number of different situations (e.g., grief recovery, family business loss, corporate project failure, and natural disaster recovery).
Thanks for the interesting tip. I agree it needs polishing, though.
I think it was a strong feature when the PM was actually first amongst equals. When the PM was effectively a chair for a cabinet. That does not appear to be what we have now. BoJo clearly sees himself as some kind of Presidential figure, chosen by the British population.
A stable heavy-quark tetraquark shouldn't live longer than, say, the B_c meson, which has a lifetime of about 5×10^-13 s
Use case of satellites for fire warnings
“Be an entertaining interviewee” is a great one. Doesn’t work for the leetcode grind interviews, but turning on a bit of charm and honest entertainment goes pretty far. People like working with people they like.
To me, Linux is closer to "Windows" than Windows 10 are. Using Xubuntu, I have desktop, panel, shortcuts,... Everything WinNT and WinXP (best Windows versions imho) had, and best of all, once I configure it it stays the same. Windows 10 is a joke - installing widgets automatically and tracking users by default is not acceptable in my book, especially for something I paid for.

And then there is shell. Win10 has made big progress here (by using Linux subsystem), but it is still only half useable. For example, I really miss "select to copy & middle click to paste" support.
My concern would be that Google decides that WebKit/Blink is a dead end and creates a new rendering engine, and not making it open source. Mozilla can just about keep up with new feature, but even Microsoft just gave up and uses Blink.

Also what’s the point of standards if nobody can realisticly implement them?

Yes, I can see that Apple perhaps isn’t giving WebKit sufficient attention, but Google and Chromiums dominans is the bigger problem.
> Let's also not forget how incredibly empowering bikes are for kids, essentially they can get anywhere they want to if they can ride around on a bike.

That's true on paper, but note that in the outer suburbs, towns are usually small and kids would have to ride quite long distances (>10 km) to get anywhere useful. And winters here can be rough. Add to that narrow streets and careless drivers, and I can totally understand why you don't see many kids cycling.
DanG will occasionally, when deemed appropriate, contact people directly by email. Not seeing a reply here is no indication.
> “aimed at a niche market most of us don’t know much about.”

Then Apple should have demonstrated the $1000 stand to those niche market separately instead of trying to sell the aspiration of 'Pro' devices to the consumer in an usual consumer event.
100% agreed, notifications are another method to spam users.
With that enabled it's comically slow, but even without the stdio syncing (and even operating on stringstreams) it's still much slower. For simple one-off formatting it's hard to notice, but once you write a parser for some engineering file formats (most of which are still ASCII) and have to read a few million floats here or there it becomes a really stark difference. For parsing floats specifically there are some implementations around which are optimized more, though some of the "fast and clever" ones are less accurate.
Perhaps the structure becomes visible at higher energies?
Disclaimer: I don't know about Tunisia, take this as general advice.

If you use encryption at any level, always do that in a way that offers plausible deniability. If "they" suspect you are carrying sensitive information of national security importance, and you can't or don't want to decrypt that information on request, you, or someone you love, will likely be tortured to extract from you that information.

I read suggestions about using Ham Radio gear for long distance communications or slow Internet connection. Keep in mind that encryption is forbidden for Ham radio operators; you would immediately draw the attention, and finding a rogue transmitter is extremely easy even in case you transmit for very short intervals. Keep Ham Radio gear at hand as it could become useful, but don't use it thinking of privacy and anonymity. If things really go south, its ideal use is on a vehicle, each time from a different place.

Trust no one.
Zig is probably nicer if you want to write code that is to be called from C.
I’ve heard from the organisers of similar courses that the employers tend to be surprised by how little they know. It is just a 10 week course.

You should seek some direction from the employers where they will be placed. Unless they give an indication towards QA and ML or other niches, I would just make sure they are well grounded in the basics and have full-stack web experience.
Feel free to ask questions in the MongoDB community http://mongodb.com/community/forums about your schema design.
Ask HN: Solopreneurs, what is your day and week like?
How do you plan your day? And how do you plan your week?
WA2000 is also one of the coolest sculptures in the history :p
Amazon fined 746M€ following our collective legal action
Is Livebook git-compatible in a sane way, unlike Jupyter?
Second that. I have no hands down experience with it, but I've seen seemingly more complex apps deployed on IPFS https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/usage-ideas-examples/
> But Apple doesn't want vanilla websites, they want developers to make iOS apps

These are not the same category, and that's very much the problem. Well, a problem at least.

Have a website? Make a website! Please! Don't make a web-app, don't make me download megabytes of JavaScript, consume my bandwidth and power, and make me insecure just to read your content and maybe do some minimal form filling. Just give me some HTML+CSS.

If you have something that's an app, please make a real app. Don't make a web-app, don't make me download megabytes of JavaScript, consume my bandwidth and power, and make me insecure when I could be having a native app instead.
There are still platforms with C compilers but no (or very bad) C++ compilers. It's much easier to write a decent C compiler than a C++ one.
No. The presence of a valence antiquark guarantees it will decay at some point.
How Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon
https://www.jenner.ac.uk/volunteer/recruiting-trials/covid-1...

You must not:

Have previously received an adenovitus vectored vaccine

Have previously been vaccinated against COVID-19
Cryptojacking: A tale of riches, deceit, and theft
o... kay?

You're not wrong, but who's talking about 20 applications?
I mean you could see the black plague as what loosened a 1000 year grip on society the Church had.

At this point, liberalism could be in the same position with COVID. I don't even see the evidence that liberalism is compatible with the internet so it might have already been in trouble in 2019. When you add Covid on top of that only digital authoritarianism seems compatible with what you get.

I think people right now would even vote for digital authoritarianism if given the choice so you can't blame politicians for following the will of the people in a democracy.

I am just glad I am old with no kids.
Does it presume you have like, scrapers and a surface plate and so on?

I can't see someone making an accurate lathe or mill without an expensive suite of metrology tooling (or going full whitworth three plates method and lapping like forever).

Would be interested in seeing people's results.
React JSX in Depth
Alright. A few very lucky and successful companies adopted Sorbet "to some extent". That doesn't mean the Ruby community is moving in that direction at all. It just means if you are in the lucky 1% of companies that reach that crazy scale and success you'll have better tools now.
I don't think your average startup needs Sorbet or that the Ruby community is moving in that direction (let's face it: the Ruby community is mostly Rails, and Rails is not going in that direction).
How to does breaking existing compatibility with 3rd party products fit in to that?
Covid-19 Vaccine Intranasal Study (COV008), UK
Virgin Media Warns Users to Be Safe from Scammers
while it is easy to see the desired hostname for an SSL connection that makes use of SNI it is also very easy to simply connect to the address someone is communicating with and see what certificate is presented to you. it probably even works by just intercepting it... that keeps being practical as long as non SNI enabled connection or let alone ECH enabled ones are expected to work as well...
False Positive: Why Thousands of Patients May Not Have Asthma After All
> I think we all wanted it too

Definitely not true. However, post hoc I am forced to admit it was not as colossal a waste of money as I'd expected, and honestly there was an astonishingly positive societal response. So, I was wrong, but I was not alone!
“ Also, if I see non IX OS like Haiku OS, as impressive as they are, in the end I am missing the underlying IX Philosophy and power.”

You may be suprised if you delve into the command line environment in Haiku and see just how intimate you can get with the kernel and resource management.
> Entrepreneurship refers to creative destruction

No, it doesn't. That may be the definition used by a small minority of people, but it's not a generally accepted definition.
“I have a PhD and I am unimpressive”
Can the Weaknesses of NFT Technology Be Fixed?
It depends, if you need to support old Edge (Spartan) you'll need to use one of the freely available virtual machines from Microsoft instead of just installing the browser.

Not a huge pain either, but given that there's still people out there that need to test on ie11 I wouldn't be surprised if Edge has befallen the same faith.
Presumably that means Redis is fundamentally single threaded?
The Olympics in London cost 11.3 Billion and generated revenue of 3.3 billion which doesn't exactly seem hugely beneficial.

Of course in the usual London fashion most of the money came out of UK govt coffers, national lottery funding etc - so it was just a form of London sucking cash out of the rest of the UK to build infra, via the handy "Olympics" excuse, so I can see how a londoner might argue it was good as it was a means of extracting resources from the rest of the country.

In the aggregate, it was just a giant waste of money especially for the 90% of the UK population that isn't in London.
In the world of double-open-heavy-flavour hadrons (to which this particular tetraquark belongs), you get bullshit headlines like this https://www.sciencealert.com/new-quark-fusion-releases-signi...
Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos:
https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/
It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
No idea why. Firefox is an amazing browser.
Ikea made a rotary encoder (dimmer) like that with Zigbee. It works well with Home Assistant. It actually had an accelerometer to determine its position, so it could be rotated within a passive magnetic mount. Unfortunately they stopped making them. They replaced it with a square one that doubled as an on/off button. But perhaps you can still find some second-hand. It was in their Tradfri range.
They are contributing to the problem no doubt but I doubt they are the major reason. The prices of apartments are also rising. I rented a studio for 10 years in Sydney and the price doubled in that time. I would have purchased it or one similar if not for the lending restrictions that properties had to be over a specific size. So instead of owning my own place I paid off half of the owners investment property while they delayed and refused repairs at every opportunity.

I am not demonising these people. I am just merely saying that the Australian government, the banking industry and Australian society at large believe that it’s more important that a citizen/non-citizen can lease a residential property than it is for an average citizen and wage earner to be able to purchase a property to live in.

I find it funny that at the beginning of the pandemic when people were buying up all the available toilet paper to sell at a markup they were “selfish” but somehow doing the same with shelter is not.
Google, FB, Netflix, Spotify, Twilio, et al. Make their money selling software and / or digital products.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Event Will Take Place on August 11
> I cannot emphasize enough that the spirit of science is to question assumptions and rigorously prove hypothesis.

But that's not what we're getting. Instead, we're getting a large number of people who haven't spent ten minutes bothering to learn anything about the science posting obvious bullshit.

How is anyone supposed to get actual science done if nearly all the "questioning" is repetitive worthless lies by people who have absolutely no interest in science at all and are simply screaming obvious lies at the top of their voices?

A question I ask a lot of the vaccine deniers on my Facebook page is, "Can you give a quick explanation in your own words why COVID-19 is so good at getting past the human immune system?"

No one has even tried to answer.
Several million tonnes of equipment = 5 tons of precious metals.
> We benefited from it in London

You can never say that for sure because the money spent on organizing Olympics could have been used somewhere else (or not used at all, therefore decreasing taxation). It was certainly a waste for anyone not living in London in any case.
Thanks for the explanation, I missed that in the article. I have no idea what 501(c)(3) means however :D But great that you are remaining non profit.
It sure did feel like the future, like a lot of things in the dot com era. Exciting times!
Scientists produce gold-coloured metallic water solution
metallic = free electrons.
Wouldn't the government say "wth are you doing with that dial up call everyday" and of course find out what the dial up signal is about?
You must not:
have previously received an adenovirus vectored vaccine,
have previously been vaccinated against COVID-19.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28014448 :

That said, current vaccines don't provoke the exact same response as an actual infection, particularly in that they don't fully stimulate an immune response in the mucous membranes of the upper repository tract. Here's an Scientific American round-up article (from back in March):
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-beat-covid-we-...

[..]

The current vaccines are excellent at helping the body stop the virus as it progresses into the lungs and further (thus the massive reduction in severe illness and deaths). But it still means that there's a period of a few days after initial infection when a vaccinated person has a relatively naive immune response (while the virus is mostly just in the nose/throat). This would then result in the person still being pretty contagious.
> China said on Friday the joint declaration with Britain over Hong Kong, which laid the blueprint over how the city would be ruled after its return to China in 1997, was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance. … Lu told reporters during a regular briefing on Friday that the document no longer binds China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-anniversary-chin...

This was all the way back in 2017, my bad.
Derp, I'm an idiot.
Does it still feel like Ruby though or is it a new beast? I mean Typescript doesn't really look like Javascript at all and your whole mindset changes when you use it.
So is Shopify now typing the whole monolith ?
> but for the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) they basically renewed this giant landfill site.

Why would you need the Olympics to have land repurposed. They were waiting for a good excuse? No need to have big expensive party if you could have done that in any other context. But then again you'd need to whole country to accept paying for making new apartments just in Sydney.