skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Re-rendering the whole page everytime the user checks a box or clicks a button just to replace some fields in a whole page is (a) terrible UX, (b) hard to track the state between page refresh, (c) wrong practice and (d) bad performance.

In practice, the whole page re-render-from-server is often much faster. Compare how long loading indicators last on full-fat GMail versus Basic HTML Gmail and its full-page reloads. Fastest "web app" I've seen in the past five years was pretty complex, and it re-rendered on every action, even menu navigation. The backend? PHP. I'm in the center of the US and it was served from somewhere in Asia (Singapore, IIRC?). Still the fastest thing I've seen in a long time.

I'm pretty sure the "it's for performance" argument has been dead since we (the industry) stopped sending XML and HTML snippets for direct injection, and started sending JSON and then doing a bunch of processing on it before finally generating some DOM nodes and rendering something. In the wild, what we're doing is killing performance, not aiding it. At least two of your points are simply wrong (c, d), another is highly debatable (a), leaving only one (b) and I'm not sure that's worth the performance cost, at least in many cases.
This. For a currency to have value you need to be able to buy things or satisfy obligations in it. What does a theoretical country named Bictoinalia export? Drugs, ransomware and speculation. And they're starting to lose drug export market share because the public ledger is easy to track people with.
Maybe someone should do a review of Trustpilot on Trustpilot?

There's a company I used to be customer of, with a free tier but who act in an underhand manner to their paying customers and for quite a while they've been getting bad reviews from people warning about their dodgy practices.
Free-tier users are occasional users in the main because if you use it a lot you're pretty quickly getting 'commercial use' detected issues.
However in the last six months they'be been guilting those free-tier users into giving glowing reviews and their positive review count has soared while the negative reviews from paying customers has been drowned out.
So in this case, Trustpilot is also useless for 'real' customers.
> I've been thinking about how the original vision for cryptocurrency was basically "once this exists, governments will fail because they can't tax it" and how far reality had strayed from that.

mind if a propose this as an example of a strawman on wikipedia? it doesn't get any better
I don't need a threat model to wish to preserve my privacy from second parties. What is the threat model for not putting public cameras in your shower?

I want a mail client that connects to my mail server and nothing else. Any functionality that involves connecting to anyone or anything beyond that is unwanted.

You'll note that client IP is coarse location. Any service that has persistent identifiers and is contacted daily gets your travel history.
> JPG+RAR files was used to smuggle information past American checkpoints

Have any more information about this? I couldn’t find anything on google.
Oh yeah that's what I thought too, just buy the "premium" meat, they surely take care of their animal, after all that's what they base their whole image on.

Then you see a few leaked videos from "ultra ethical cruelty free 3000" slaughterhouses and you understand it's just marketing BS.

This is from one of France's "cruelty free" slaughterhouses, focusing on "animal well being" which is supposedly more "responsible"

NSFL: Don't click if you don't want to see dead/suffering pigs and piglets, a dude smashing live piglets against a metal rail, mutilated pigs living in the dark with barely any space between them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Owo7jGtU

If you don't live next to a farm and buy straight from the farmer there is absolutely no way to tell the meat you eat actually is cruelty free. It's all empty promises and feel good marketing
Sorry, I classified DAG under PoS, my mistake.
I'm seeing people removing the laser eyes from their twitter avatars.
we now have a deep understanding of the environmental impact of EV and it is better on all criteria than fossil cars, there is tons of documentation available on internet showing it, and I know of reports for the French electricity transmission system operator and for the distribution system operator about infrastructure impact.
Not this bad
Yes, yes, uninterceptable. But there are Kessler sats up there who intercept the once un-interceptable ICBMs and there are toys down near the ground, that can intercept hypersonic missiles. All it takes is hard glorified buckshot, the detection is were its still at.
And that is getting better all the time.
Which is exactly the problem. All those bloated behemoths of the past, are running out of time.. they are not crisis stable and have nothing compelling going for them.
You're missing the scenario. If somebody uploads revenge porn to hurt somebody else then they don't care- they want the content reuploaded and spread around. Copyright law doesn't do anything here.
What is a good argument against it? It makes understanding the layout of the website easily and saves you from having to come up with your own <custom> conventions around it.
I thought Novell Netware was huge in 1995. Why isn’t that listed here? Is it because it was an enterprise only beer?
The phrasing "it could be prompted to say so" made me think you had an opinion on it.
I have experienced episodes of depression throughout my teenage years and now my mid-20's, but never allowed myself to believe that I was having depression because I thought I wasn't "one of them" I thought I was stronger, somehow better than everyone else. YouTube started recommending red pill videos such as edits of American Psycho, Fight Club, The Joker, basically movies of men expressing their feelings via violence.

I recently sought out a psychiatrist as well as a therapist, and have been taking medication. My psychic pain has been alleviated thanks to the medication, which has given me breathing room to work on a lot of toxic mentalities that I carried. Like that the most important thing about my life was my job or how much money I made, caring about status and prestige above all things, thinking of myself as a machine solely to milk for money, among other things like toxic masculinity.

While I never had easy access to weapons, nor do I think I would have ever committed a mass shooting, I can easily see how someone with a weaker support system than I had would be driven to retaliate against society because violence is oftentimes seen as a valid means of emotional expression for young men.

Anyways, thanks for asking :)
> If Nato joins the conflict, they will very quickly get aquatinted with Kinzhal, Tsirkon & Avangard hypersonics (un-interceptable as of now) loaded with conventional warheads (non-nuke) followed by a barrage of their other (of larger variety and longer range than anything western) ballistic stand-off weapons.

Exactly how many of those missiles does Russia have in its inventory? I suspect it's only enough to get NATO mad. If it had enough to do serious damage, I'd have expected the Russians to have done better in Ukraine.

Also, the Kinzhal and Avangard appear to be nuclear capable, and the Avangard is ICBM-launched. It would be, to use a technical term, stupid-as-fuck to use those with conventional warheads against a nuclear-armed adversary.
So, what you're saying is that sanctions are in place and you're unhappy about them ? sounds exactly like what sanctions are for, and all crypto is good for is evading sanctions that a massive part of the world has agreed in.
The supply of housing for purchase directly competes with the supply of housing for rent. If you can get a 2 bed home for $1800/month as a renter or $1700/month to own, most people will choose to purchase, forcing landlords to lower prices. Similarly, if you can get $2500/month in rent for a property that costs $2100 a month to own and operate as an investment people and institutions will purchase or convert units to rental properties.

Yes, they aren't 100% interchangeable (down payment requirements and transaction costs can change the equation renting all things being equal ) and some markets (the bay area in particular) seem to have a bizarre separation in the cost of renting versus buying, but in general this holds true.
That's not a fault of the technology. Many people want to pin the flaw of human behavior on Bitcoin but there's nothing inherent in the technology that forces people to do that. The literal "quickstart" of Bitcoin is to hold it in your own custody (running the Bitcoin software on your computer gives you a wallet you 100% control).
I often tell my consulting clients that you are not paying for my by-the-hour efforts, but you are essentially leasing my 20+ years of experience and expertise.

My hourly rates are frequently >$1,000/hr, but as you mentioned, that kind of work is not full-time. And in 99% of the cases, my clients could not get equivalent information and decision-making input faster or cheaper anyplace else.
Withdrew from Bitfinex or redeemed at Tether? My point is people make these claims but no one has documented actually redeeming via Tether
None of the recent examples of unbundled multi-tenant CI/CD appear to have wildly successful exit stories, or even continuing to run with great growth and profitability stories. I’m thinking of companies like Travis with that comment (which was, IMO, delightful to use for its era). It’s probably pretty hard to sell this to the average enterprise when you’re competing against product suites which do 100x more? Definitely feels like a situation where those suites are “Jack of all trades, and master of none” though, and collectively mediocre vs. individually excellent.
Isn't it great that big city folk get to vote and decide on your location and livelihood, from the other side of the country? Totally makes sense.
Purely ideological? What do you mean?
I think you misread my comment - obviously hypertext systems are "applications" for some definition of "application" - but there are distinct types, constraints and architectures. Mysql and php are not my first choice for creating a multi-player driving game - and even for an irc client they're not my first choice. However, for an asynchronous message board, news or mail client they might be fine.
It's not a massive leap of faith at all. Two reasons:

1. We know how natural selection works, and it clearly often produces unnecessary parts for many things.
2. There is physical evidence of evolution creating unnecessary and inefficient parts and components.

1. Natural selection works by randomly creating a fixed set of features both bad and good and then selecting the best one. Thus the features are bounded by randomness. If the random mutation doesn't create the most efficient part then The only thing that can be selected is an inefficient part. This follows that it is VERY possible that many processing modalities of the brain CAN be unnecessary. It is NOT a massive leap of faith.

Additionally the selection criteria is simply survival. Not efficiency. As long as the "processing modalities" in the brain aid in survival the selection process does not interfere. Thus all kinds of arbitrary processing modalities both efficient and inefficient can occur so long as the modalities do not detriment survival. Why does stupidity evolve? Well stupid people aren't smart enough to create nuclear bombs to kill themselves. Thus stupidity is a possible trait, similar to how inefficient and unnecessary "processing modalities" are possible, mayhap being stupider aided in survival or didn't contribute anything at all. Just looking at people responding to me on HN, alot of them are pretty stupid (physical evidence). Not pointing out which one, certainly not you.

2. There is (alot) of physical evidence of the above. For example, the wheel is a very efficient way of traveling yet no animal has evolved some form of a wheel. The reasoning is actually more complicated about why a wheel hasn't evolved but the general idea I described above still applies... both natural selection and random mutation were not able to generate the series of intermediate traits required to form wheels.

Thus from the reasoning above it is very possible for the brain to evolve with unnecessary and inefficient "processing modalities".

Yes this idea did begin as a gut feeling. Subconscious processing is often times correct and logical. It is unwise to constantly mistrust it. It is always wise to analyze these "feelings" in attempt to break down the logic behind why it occurred.

What my self analysis tells me is this: Given the fact that MANY of our mathematical models for physical processes involve elegant and straightforward primitives it follows that intelligence will also VERY likely be such a model as well and very likely much more simplified then the human brain.
Redis isn’t used exclusively as a cache. It’s used a lot as a job queue, as an event bus, for session storage, etc. Some even use it as a core source of truth database, though this is rarely a good idea IMO.
Seems like the JWM Turner of China. Using traditions of representation to explore abstraction. I shouldn't be surprised to find that Turner was well covered in my Art History courses, but I had never heard of Daqian. It's amazing how deeply racism and politics permeate even liberal arts education in the US.
My understanding is that Purdue's claims about the time-release mechanism providing safety and anti-addiction benefits were true, except that an addict who's hoping to get high could easily defeat the mechanism by crushing the pill. So in a framework of drug legalization, I'm not sure how you could say they even did anything wrong; what's the issue with an easily defeated safety mechanism if you can just buy pure oxycodone directly from your local dispensary?
> Long term I'm bearish because it's a deflationary asset. Deflationary value stores have a tendency to cause all sorts of social ills by encouraging hoarding. There's a reasonable line of thought that observes that it's no coincidence that the end of the age of European colonialism coincided with the demise of the gold standard.

It's definitely an interesting theory - any particular articles or books you've read on the subject? I find the story of money fascinating.

On the other hand, however, States are no longer constrained by how much gold they have. In the past you could wage war until you ran out of gold and then that was that - you couldn't print money out of thin air. Now you can just print money and at least up until some point (which we don't know yet) it works. I guess you could argue back to your first point that this is what caused wars - you needed to accumulate resources in order to have wealth so you'd start wars and take stuff.

I think deflationary economies have bad attributes - like why take risks when you can do nothing and the value of your assets goes up? On the other hand, (and someone else mentioned something related to this) inflation literally destroys wealth so how can someone working a non-high paying job store wealth when the value of that wealth is destroyed at a minimum of 2% per year?
Is there anything in the announcement that says that people who installed K-9 mail would find that it has silently turned into Thunderbird? I'd assume this would involve a separate install, as it'll probably have a separate app ID indicating the Thunderbird connection.

In any case, I've had installed apps have the name change as a part of rebranding before. It's a little bit jarring sometimes, but name changes happen. They're usually small name changes, but I don't thing taking "K-9 mail is continuing development with a new name" as "app becoming something completely different" is really fair. Unless the functionality and UX completely changes, I don't think it's fair to read a name change as something so negative that needs to be "protected against".
Astronomers may have detected a ‘dark’ free-floating black hole
Learnings from the journey to continuous deployment Engineering
Perhaps even occasionally, without being prompted by further input, continuing a prior statement with a further "followup thought" when some specific threshold of "speculation" is reached?
It does not support IMAP at first glance. The wizard has only POP3 config option.
Linux beer: Displaced the various flavors of UNIX beer by being free (as in beer) and is extremely popular where that's important, i.e. everywhere. Tasted a bit manky in its earliest brewings but eventually got tasty enough to displace all the other UNIX beers, although Solaris beer brewers fiercely insist to this day that it's not nearly as good. Currently the most widely drunk beer in the world, although its detractors point out that for most of that it's only an ingredient and not being drank straight up. Its drinkers have a one-sided rivalry with Windows beer drinkers for some reason even though the latter has long since ceased to care.
What cloud platforms do you use? You wrote multi-cloud, why?
So who is going to be the ones who have to suffer for it?

I'm guessing its not the folks who could afford a stint unemployed that will be asked to do vital economic functions. I wonder how many people y'all are going to kill for your inflation woes.

I get it though, all these people who just got jobs and who just moved to better jobs are way too uppity and need to be put down. Heaven forbid they do anything that isn't worry about paying for a slightly comfortable life. Good for you, helping to put those hard working folks in their place - they don't need anything other than stress and worry and work.
A and B are solid, sensible suggestions. Inevitably someone stupid (possibly multiple someones, possibly in positions of power) will ignore them. We can leave that to one side.

With C, we're well into "what do the safeties look like" because the assumption that you can manoeuvre at all after something Unexpected And Exciting happens is possibly rash. I don't trust that designs like this one have much unpowered lift or even that much flight control at all in a power-out state. And remember too that the whole point of these things is that they're flying over presumably dense areas. The idea that there will be somewhere safe to manoeuvre to in the seconds you may or may not have is definitely on the optimistic side.

But still, even given all that, a parachute should go a long way to being a workable "emergency stop" equivalent. There are failure states which it doesn't help with (for instance: a birdstrike goes badly enough wrong that a short-circuit starts a lithium fire which, thanks to our parachute, slowly drifts an incendiary path across entire city blocks) but in general I'd expect the benefits to outweigh the risks.
Emphasis on documented. We’re dealing with liars here. Their customers, who are small in number, are insiders with incentive to keep the music playing.

And I’ve seen some of these claims. Upon pressing they got their money via Bitfinex, not Tether redemption
And iPhones. And avocados. And pistachios. And, And, And...
Binance ‘pauses’ Bitcoin withdrawals amid market collapse
This is such a crucial thing to fix in terms of national security you would think it would be wildly bi partisan
Apple is no stranger to secret projects. A few years ago, when I worked for a large (> $25 billion in revenue) software company, we were approached by Apple to be part of a beta program for a new API feature. Their requirement was that no more than 4 people in our entire company could know about it, which made it really awkward for the lone Engineer in the loop since even his manager didn't know what he was doing.
Only a few months earlier in HN threads I read some comments saying that 10 to 13% interest rates on crypto are a good reason to invest in crypto.
> What specifically would you say was different in 2018 that made the DAI peg more workable?

Rates were low. There is less dumb money now. And its quantity will predictably decline over the coming 12 to 18 months.
Making you dig through a garbage dump is what I consider bad UI/UX.

Richard & Gilfoyle At Landfill Site Talking ICO Crypto currency Idea To Russ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEjaZw95kI
It's also good PR. I would think someone that thinks google maps is good is more likely to use other google products that are more profitable.

Granted, that's a pretty difficult metric to track (if you even can).
> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients, written starting with a browser as a jumping off point, rather than a compiler?

As far as email clients go, Thunderbird is literally what you are suggesting. Thunderbird is essentially the Firefox web browser, with all of the browser front-end code stripped off, and an email client dropped in its place.
Insurance.

You want your LiFePO4 to absorb the day to day brownouts/outages as well as sunlight variation and charge/discharge, and you want your lead acid there for when you get taken off the grid for 3 days and maybe have your solar ripped off your roof or partially degraded, once every ten years.

You also can afford to capture more energy faster and charge your lead acid slower - vs just dissipating the extra the lead acid can't use as heat.
Sure but thats not much better! Like either there is grand conspiratorial malice, total incompetence, or the classic 'actually, this is how its supposed to work'.

Honestly a toss up to me which of these three is the worst. And I don't think my criticisms or diagnoses would change that much for any of them. I feel in fact that they are all probably true and connected. One person's incompetence probably stems from another's malice, which itself stems from the possible actions and consequences a given system provides and authorizes.
Using the litteral 'millionaire' net worth marker that is the top ~8% of adults in the US. If class is measured purely on net worth, as much as it might feel like it - it is not middle class to have a net worth of 1 million USD.
Radio Canada wrote an excellent deep dive into it last month but it's in French. I'm halfway through it, and it's really sad to read about it. I'm glad that I'm not building a pension in Quebec, but my entire family is.
Meh- in most cases it is more sustainable to live elsewhere (climate, water, ...). Esp. when remote work is a possibility