skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could open an issue. Seems like a reasonable idea to fix that.
A blog post I wrote a few months ago is apparently fast in general, but I get a bad score on pagespeed insights because I'm pulling in 3rd party scripts. The scripts I'm using? An embedded youtube video and some fonts from google fonts. I'm not sure why pagespeed insights says first paint is delayed behind youtube's javascript loading. Sounds like something I should fix.

Shame on me for using google's other services in the recommended way I suppose.

[1] https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjosephg.c...
how did you get users for Placecard and Chatstats?
I’d prefer if people like yourself were forthcoming with what you’re ultimately advocating for instead of pretending to entertain honest intellectual discussion using tired “scientific” propaganda.

From my experience people belonging to a certain group of concerned citizenry seem to be complaining about over-representation of black people in the NFL quite regularly.
Do you know of any studies or articles that shows why backtesting actually works or is useful? I have been reading up on automated and systematic trading, but I do not yet understand how backtesting gives one anything more than warm fuzzies.

For backtesting to work, wouldn't one need to re-run (i.e., playback and not simulate) all inputs from what the real data was (instrument pricing, the weather, social media sentiment, whatever) at a time resolution finer than what your algorithm operates on? If so, that's a massive amount of data that may even be impossible to get.
I'm almost finished with "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" by Walter Scheidel. It's a fascinating take on the global history of income inequality from the Stone Age to today; and the impact of major "leveling" events.

On the fiction side, I'm enjoying the "Merlin: The Lost Years" series by T.A. Barron.
Blockchain is a fancy linked list. I don't understand why this religion around a data structure. Atleast if you all want to spiritually devote to something consider the fact we are creating and mass producing logic gates with light and some chemicals.
There is no JS here, and it's multiple "pages" in one file.
Thanks. I suppose there may also be a way to use the excess as grey water.
I've had enough close calls with people playing with their radio/hvac that I'd rather have everyone pull over to set up Bluetooth than end up in a ditch somewhere
There’s an iOS extension for Safari that does this; I think it’s a $5 one-time purchase. The functionality is also available on Insight Browser (a YC company), which offers various other browsing enhancements.
Care to mention who you're trusting your coins with for staking etc?
A python library with C/fortran is different than a C-only library. eigen is a great example of this. Many python packages depend on eigen, and there even exists a pyeigen, but assuredly almost none of them depend on pyeigen.

In conda, you can declare this properly, and you can have one true eigen in your environment.
Really?

Every stick car I've owned (2.5 Saturns, 1 Subaru) has had some sort of interlock switch set up such that if the clutch pedal was not pressed in, turning the ignition would do nothing, whether or not the Car is in gear.
I had HashBackup's web site hosted at Google Sites for 10 years. The recent migration to Sites V2 looked really bad, so I redid it all in Asciidoc.

I downloaded a static HTML-only version of the old site from Google and a cat of all the HTML files was 25.3MB. The new static site is only 1.7MB of HTML, with more than a third of that being the release log. The average HTML page size is 19K, whereas with Google V1, the average was 450K. And it's way easier to maintain now with a text editor and rsync vs pointing and clicking in a browser text window.

The other major problem with the V2 Sites is that the HashBackup release log took 15 seconds to load. It didn't do that with V1 Sites, so this was a new "enhancement". With the Asciidoc site it takes a little over a second. Google has a Report Migration Issues button, but of course they never responded to anything I sent.
I’m contrasting payments in general there, centralized always requires KYC legally and is pretty well enforced vs decentralized payments it may be required legally but is not enforced via the protocol. No crypto (that I know of) has KYC built into it at a protocol level, some are varying levels of anonymous and low friction.

I do think what you’re implying is correct that you actually do need to go through KYC for some payments/business relationships regardless of whether they’re conducted through the regular banking system, cash, or crypto. I’m not a lawyer though
Which brings up a fun question; At which point does pressing buttons on a screen to play a video game while driving cause just as much distraction as pressing buttons on a screen to manage your windshield wipers / drive mode / HVAC / windows?

There used to be a lot of crashes attributed to "playing with the radio" in the 90's / 00's. Maybe all those buttons on the wheel and a display centered in the drivers cone of vision were actually huge advancements in safety...
As someone who used to have to buy everything secondhand, this makes me sad. I can't tell you how exciting it was to find something that you wanted but knew you couldn't afford going for a reasonable price at the thrift store. I feel like by buying up all of those quality items, you're depriving people in less fortunate situations from experiencing the same sort of happiness.
> What does "an equal share of governance" mean?

To use the Enlightenment terminology of the time, it's that each person has the same "Natural Rights" per John Locke. Another popular way of putting it was "Equal before God". Again, this is in contrast to e.g. the divine right of kings. And it was practically expressed (for white male land owners) at the dawn of the U.S.A in terms of an equal franchise.

> It's an inherently disingenuous ideology,

Well, you're starting from the bogus notion that "created equal" meant genetically equivalent ("more or less"); you might consider grappling with that before worrying about whether others are disingenuous.
Yup time hasnt stopped yet. Been awhile since shes been in the press post yahoo sale. I guess that makes me kind of old.
not all e-commerce sites are dropshipping
I think the point is that this difference is not significant compared to the annual revenue and profit of a typical successful car shop.
For a broader look at the same subject (on the continental scale), I recommend 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory....
interested as well
Yeah, I really like how the characters unveiled - and the overall arc of the story.

Bit of feels near the end.
> it’s goal is to survive the longest and not to eradicate us

Unfortunately viruses evolving to be milder is a myth.

> The assertion that viruses evolve to become milder “is a bit of a myth”, says Rambaut. “The reality is far more complex.”
Borges' Animals
I like Walter Isaacson's books and this one was so timely. It was also fascinating to learn about the competition/cooperation in scientific research and how one discovery builds on top of others.
I wish browsers came with some kind of configuration panel for fonts.

All the font control I wish to give websites is the choice between serif and sans-serif. Let web fonts be opt-in rather than opt-out.

Let the browser pick a good one and be done with it, no need for every website to transfer an entire font file to my computer. Browsers already used to have some kind of control for this, though on mobile you don't really see it often anymore.

Designers seem to put a lot of value in fonts but I honestly don't care. Most of the fancy fonts decrease readability and just serve some kind of desire by the designer to have a certain brand. I don't care about your brand because 99% of the time I won't ever come back to your website and even if I do, it won't be because you picked out some bespoke almost-Arial-but-not-really font.
No, human review isn’t a solution to the DMCA. The DMCA is absurd in the lengths it goes to encourage/force automatic acceptance of a claim. If you don’t comply with a claim, and it is later found that the claim was correct then you can be held liable. At the same time there is no penalty for false claims.

Basically the legal penalty if you auto comply is 0, and the penalty if you don’t is atmospheric. At the same time you have no way to recover legal fees for a lawyer to audit the takedown requests even if they are clearly fraudulent.
Past threads:

CSS Zen Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627018 - March 2020 (217 comments)

CSS Zen Garden relaunched - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6076163 - July 2013 (47 comments)

CSS is for design, HTML is for content - CSS Zen Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811468 - Sept 2009 (3 comments)
EU urges caution on any ban on imports made with forced labour
the days of consumer products on autopilot forever is over, requires constant work to continue marketing, website updates etc
Hah, maybe! I haven't gotten to that point yet. There are definitely some things that seem dated.
The technology is actually not that hard to understand, at least at a high level, it's getting through the "people talking about it" down to what is actually being done with the technology and why it needs to be a "distributed ledger". Often it doesn't and understanding that disconnect seems to often be the hard part.
I've been working on Remote Leaf[1] for a while now and it's making about $2k/month(OpenStartup[2]), while I'm still doing my job. Planning to approach remote employers to feature their company profile/jobs starting from 2022.

Site: https://remoteleaf.com

Open Startup: https://remoteleaf.com/open (need to update this page with latest stats)
I always forget how little actually happens in the first book of the trilogy, and how…earthy(?) it is?

It’s just so small in scope compared to the following books that I forget that its entire appeal is just how unknown the unknowns are and how much potential it sets up for the rest of the story.
That's almost FSWEP money :-)
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins - Konrad Lorenz

A book from 1973 but still actual and incredibly true.
Multiple displayed pages, and potentially an entire website, are presented within a single source file.

There are no^W^W is one external dependency (the stylesheet https://john-doe.neocities.org/style.css). This could also be inlined, and is required for the concept to work. There are 75 directives and/or media queries.

The site can be browsed entirely offline once accessed.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670168
Don't want to share the exact amount but for stablecoins you can get 8-12% APR and that's as 'safe' as it gets without having to deal with price fluctuations. So if you were to convert $100k savings into stablecoins, you'd have a return of $230 per week (100000*12/100/52)

For yield farming you are dealing with higher risk, but you can easily get 50%+ APY on liquidity pools, compare that with the 12% above and it's not too hard to get to $500 a week
Hands down, the most fascinating book I read in 2021 (and I will have read for a long time!) is "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" by James Gleick: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400096235

Those who have a computer science background will almost definitely love the book. It connects many dots that are previously seemingly unrelated. My jaw dropped for literally every few pages of most chapters.
Entirely unrelated to the OP, but comments like this are why I love HN.
I’ll have to do this then, thanks!
Edward Jenner Model
Were we intelligent, remembering what Edward Jenner taught us, then we would have offered, at every drugstore, a nasal mist of these four common colds:

HCoV-229E,
HCoV-OC43,
HCoV-HKU1,
HCoV-NL63.

Had we done this, things would be very different. We have forgotten Jenner.
I found the next two books in the trilogy (The Dark Forest, Death's End) to go much more in depth on the sci-fi aspect; if you're willing to suspend a little disbelief the story is constantly engaging and quite thought-provoking. While the style is different from Stephenson's I think anyone who enjoys Stephenson's books would enjoy the journey and perspective this series offers too!
I wonder if any research has been done about safety around touch controls? It's so much easier to reach over and hit a physical button or rotate a physical dial that you know is in the same spot every time without having to look at it compared to a touch interface that will by adjust depending on the app running. Like I appreciate the power that something like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto bring to the infotainment system but every time I can't control something from the physical buttons on the wheel I know I'm not going to be as focused on the road as I should be reaching over and hoping that I am correctly aiming at what I'm trying to touch and that's already after probably quickly looking away from the road to find where to aim in the first place
Luckily it looks likely that Bayern will simply not renew the deal and I imagine the legal tactic was a bit of a stall to allow time to find a new sponsorship deal given cash is already strapped for these teams because of COVID
Any examples you could point to?
“Crime and Punishment” was by far the best book I’ve read this year. Not that I necessarily agree with all the ideas presented by the author, but I found it to be written so well that I couldn’t put it down. Really didn’t expect that for classical literature.
Definitely! For all the knocks against tables for layout, we're only beginning to approach the simplicity of that approach after many years. (It's even a stretch to call CSS Grid and Flexbox simple.) You could get so far with a few tables and spacer gifs -- if you looked past the semantics.
To be quite frank, this is a really unfair mischaracterization. The article describes black police officer's direct interactions with racism. One of them describes often hearing "She’s one of the Blacks that’s OK." Another described hearing the N word by white officers at work since their very first day. They also pointed out things like the fact that the mostly white Fraternity of Police voted 84% no confidence in the Black police chief (they had also been very vocally opposed to him even during the campaign that led to him being chief). While a vote amongst Black police officers found 89% approval of the chief.

This isn't just "trying too hard to find racism behind every rock". This is very clear examples, using both data and personal experiences, that illustrate what it's like to be a Black police officer in that department
I had it in August, just two days after getting vaccinated. Headaches, fever and body aches continued for three days after which I had complete loss of taste and smell for about a month. I don't know about you guys, but not being able to taste the food you eat was a big fucking deal for me. Lost a lot of weight that month. I wouldn't recommend getting any variant of this virus, especially if you live with a compromised loved one. However, compared to something like bacterial pneumonia, which I've also had in the past, COVID was very very mild.
Would a 2001 Accord have had the recall performed? My understanding is that there is a limited time manufacturers take responsibility for recalls, even safety related.

I know a guy who bought a 2007 (?) Toyota Tacoma and his frame cracked which was a recall but Toyota will not fix it now.
VLC does it.
Except there has been a wall between AWS and Amazon Retail since inception. Only much later did Retail start using AWS. They were buying massive amounts of servers specifically and only for AWS for many years. I would agree that it increased economies of scale for the servers purchased by Retail in addition.
Honestly, I wish the powers-that-be would crack down harder on touchscreens in vehicles. There is no case where manipulating a touchscreen while driving is safe, for one simple reason: you have to look at the screen to use it because there's no tactile feedback.

They are truly, as that one book title went, unsafe at any speed.
It seems FTA that the ‘average’ color is found by resizing the color information within the bounds in question to 1:1 and then using that color to fill the bounds. I’m not sure but that seems to be an important algorithmic element of this process that is almost completely delegated to a side effect of an image library and not really discussed in the context of this write up.
I have a Moto G4 and a sometimes patchy internet connection. This might be the prompt I need to upgrade!
Hey, don't forget how Twitter acquired video microblogging service Vine, used their platform power to kill comeptitor Periscope, then let the product languish into death... leaving that medium wide-open for China's TikTok to take over.

Yahoo was the Web 1.0 company that killed a ton of great Web 2.0 projects with destructive acquisitions & fumbled post-acquisition product development.

Twitter's been the Web 2.0 Yahoo, killing a bunch of promising Web 3.0 concepts with their API rugpulls, botched acquisitions, & lethargic product development.
> Making a delivery might literally kill you if you get carjacked and shot

Seems exactly why this is a good reason to put employees to the task: To make them empathizes with what they're putting dashers into. Make them understand the system they enable.
Cool! I tried a search for something I’m currently interested in and the result was surprisingly better than Google! Love it!
When new Java features like this are added, it also includes new features and optimizations in the JVM itself. Other languages that compile to the JVM can take advantage of these new features as well, either with no effort, or incrementally.
Wait, you're saying you still to this day have no sense of smell and a diminished ability to taste? And you feel that's not as bad as the typical flu?
Like it or hate it.

In historic terms, the world has never been more peaceful since capitalism 2.1
I can’t understand what is real or fake here…
seo and specifically creating online tool for niches like "ftp online", "sftp online", "s3 client online" and referral from existing customers who share the product with others.
If you post it on a public social network, it’s fair for employer to ask. You can plead the 5th but that’s effectively an elaborate excuse.

I ask contractors if they’re vaccinated before entering my home and they can refuse the job if it bothers them.
Information presentation has practical and usability aspects.

Sometimes you want as much information as possible on a page. Sometimes you want one and only one portion presented. Which you choose depends very much on the application, user community, and objectives.
Traditional cars degrade quite a bit while sitting for years.
Components get rusted, essential rubber belts crack, ignition system degrades.
These can add up to a lot of money.
how did you market this and get backers on your kickstarter?
This takes a bit of reading, to understand:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/
It's by far not the first scene done in any ray tracer, rather an early test scene for radiosity (diffuse-only global illumination, before path tracing was developed).
Strange, I would have thought the stock-market would be the opposite to a creative endeavor. Can you expand on how that works for you?
> They presumable thinking was that autopilot/fsd would be driving the car so the driver could play games.

Arrgh. It was a feature for the passenger to play games while preserving the driving UI. Absolutely no one intended for this to be used by drivers. There isn't even any evidence of a driver being caught doing this. The coverage is basically clickbait, and you appear to have bought it exactly as it was intended.

Whether it's really a good idea or not? I mean, the driver can pull out a phone or iPad and game/text/whatever to their hearts content already. And many do. And lots of them die. Why exactly are we treating this any differently?
"Java 2" is already out - it's Kotlin (or Scala if you're so inclined) ;)

Unfortunately the more compatible you are with "V1" the more compromises you have to make. See: Kotlin, F#, TypeScript bending over backwards to maintain compatibility with the dominant language of their respective platforms. Not to mention C++. You have to admire the hutzpah of Python 3 level of changes. Some software should simply have a "sell by" date and be thrown out when it starts to stink.

That said I'm surprised more languages haven't attempted the approach of Rust with 'editions'.

> There are times, however, when it is useful to be able to make small changes to the language that are not backwards compatible. The most obvious example is introducing a new keyword... Editions are the mechanism we use to solve this problem. When we want to release a feature that would otherwise be backwards incompatible, we do so as part of a new Rust edition.

[https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/index.html]
Yep, I've just got the CS degree too, and same here re: EE stuff. I always thought it'd be fun to get into electronics but I couldn't get very far with it.

I like that the author takes time to actually explain the concepts with words before getting into the mathy stuff, whereas it seems like a lot of books on topics like this will lead with "The <whatever whatever> is defined as <math equation with 17 symbols in it>. Thus, we can <do complex next-level thing> and <I will never explain what any of those symbols mean>"
> Google's search result page will often run 2-2.5MB in size

While it is true, for almost all of the users most of it is cached. For me it is using 2.5 MB resources with 77kB transferred.
My parents got it. Unvaccinated. They're both dead now.
Unvaccinated, early 30s with no comorbidities other than having a slightly high BMI.

Had it right after thanksgiving of this year. Two week deal. First week was the typical fever/flu symptoms, second week was brain fog and nausea coupled with a loss of taste and smell for about 2 or so weeks from start. Brain fog took 3 weeks to clear from the start.

I had shortness of breath but employed breathing exercises and later did some heavy lifting around the house and ended up doing some unexpected cardio. A more structured and disciplined approach would likely yield more measurable, positive results. No shortness of breath after three weeks from start.

Not a ride I’d want to go on again, but as other have reported, certainly didn’t live up to the media fear/hype.

Worth noting that I did employ a pascalian therapy in my approach (1). I was prescribed ivermectin, took large amounts of quercetin, vitamin c, d, zinc and so on. I think this probably led to me recovering so quickly and not experiencing any lasting side effects. This is totally anecdotal though.

1. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
> Today, people love their tech stocks, even though none of them pay dividends - the only reason to buy GOOG or AMZN is the hope that you can sell that stock down the line to a "greater fool". Some might call it a Ponzi scheme since only way investors make money off AMZN or GOOG stock is from new investors money coming in.

This is just nonsense. The fact that GOOG doesn't pay dividends is not important or meaningful. Buying back shares is more tax efficient for shareholders. Google spent $30 billion on share buybacks in 2020, and authorized $50 billion for share buybacks in 2021. You don't have to trick a "greater fool" into buying your GOOG shares, Google will happily buy them from you with their giant free cash flow. This is just how tax-efficient companies return money to shareholders these days.