skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you’re not wrong. But I wouldn’t consider that 100ms, or even 500ms, “expensive”.

In 1999 I would have been jealous of your internet connection — I still had a 256kbps ISDN line, and there were fast forums even then (but mostly not). I think it mainly depended on whether the sites rendered HTML on the fly (with like maybe Perl? to render database content) or... just served static HTML.

Page reloads only got expensive when we decided that they would do a bunch of other shit besides that.
Toyota discloses data leak after access key exposed on GitHub
As somebody with a PhD in math, I really wish that math was taught via strongly typed programming languages. There is so incredibly much low-lying work done through deep layers of abstraction that it can take hours or even days to digest a short paragraph in a field adjacent to one's expertise.

Of course, that's the dream. The reality is that people are making very strong efforts at computer proofs, and the languages I've worked with in that space are highly un-ergonomic. On the other side of the chasm, calculus of types is largely relegated to category theory which is its own onion of complexity. To my awareness, Haskell is currently the sweet spot. In the hopes of being proven wrong, I'd guess that we're at least a century away from a Grand Unified Notation that allows a fluid translation between what the mathematician is thinking and how the computer can compute.
This, as mentioned above, is true across OSes.
It was never about "doing the smallest", it's a result of corporate culture demanding that you work extra as part of your job.

Which results in people saying that "quietly quitting" is "doing the smallest", when it's actually just sticking strictly to your contract obligations.
> And it's telling of modern practices that it's one of the fastest forum I've used in the past few years, you click and the page instantly appears!

"Modern practices make for slow apps" is a common trope on HN, but it's important to note that it's not just modern practices that make modern web apps feel slow; modern feature sets are the larger culprit.

This app could be a React SPA and it would still be faster than most forums you've used because it intentionally has a minimal feature set.
Notifications and sorting for new like reddit has.
> just a short time ago, web servers took more than 100ms to respond to a connection

And yet, once you wait that 100ms or however long it takes for the server to respond, your page is fully loaded and interactive. During the loading process, your browser remains responsive and your CPU is not loaded.

Nowadays, we still wait the same amount of time for the initial load, but now your CPU is at 100% parsing megabytes of shitty Javascript, and once the initial load completes, you're still not guaranteed the page won't slow down/overload your CPU again because some stuff can be asynchronously loaded (supposedly for performance reasons, even though doing it on the backend as part of the initial load would be faster in the vast majority of cases).
Show HN: Polestar Finder
They just have to know that (1) the organizational overhead is not too high, that (2) that org you found on the web isn’t a scam, that (3) the distribution network is functioning, that (4) malaria nets will be used for that purpose and not be used to fish. Maybe more?
The concept of "there is no value here" is very useful. For example when trying to get a value from a hash map, or having optional parameters.

But nil/null/undefined doesn't seem like the best way to go about this when designing a language. Not every value is optional, but if anything can be nil then you will spend a lot of unit tests and mental overhead on managing that disconnect. Systems that allow you to explicitly specify what can have no value (like SQLs NotNull, or Rust's or c++'s Optional) seem to do much better in terms of preventing bugs.
GP was talking about inspiration. That doesn’t mean you get to carbon copy anything.

When the AI blows away support walls and rearranges things that can’t structurally work, its utility is limited too. It can also dream up sinks/fridges/ranges that don’t exist with sizes that aren’t realistic either.

I’m supportive of the general direction but in a model that’s built for it where all the real constraints can actually be accounted for reliably. That would allow you to go beyond looking at pics for inspiration into renderings you can flip through easily. Bonus points if it can approximate cost, including plumbing and electrical in rearranging things for where plumbing and electrical already are.
Thanks for the quick answer! Are the examples generated based on the types? As in if a field is set as an integer, the tests will pass arbitrary integers? But still how does it know how to produce positive examples? Do you maybe have some documentation on this functionality?
This guy in particular has collected some serious credibility. In the past he's worked at Insomniac Games. He is also credited for popularizing Data-Oriented Design and has delivered at least one talk that went viral and that video thumbnail of him in his red flower shirt has become a meme for a no-bullshit and requirement-focused engineering approach. Go check him out on Youtube.
I use these settings to clear all visual clutter. Basically looks like Librewolf then. For privacy related settings I check Arkenfox user.js and add the ones I find useful and don't cause breakage manually (but going thoroughly through settings already does most of it).

Remove FF sync:

identity.fxaccounts.enabled

Remove recommendations in Extensions:

extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled

Remove recommendations Side panel in Extensions:

extensions.getAddons.showPane (add +set to false)

Remove VPN Promo and More from Mozilla in Settings:

browser.vpn_promo.enabled

browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla

Remove Pocket:

extensions.pocket.enabled

Remove Focus promo in private tabs:

browser.promo.focus.enabled

Remove persistent topsites (facebook, amazon, etc.):

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.default.sites (clear)

Bonus:

Pinch to zoom only:

mousewheel.with_control.action (1)

Full screen video like Safari:

full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen

Calculator in tab bar:

browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator
Yeah they can override old ones. That's pretty much the only way to change the old ones -- pass a new one that overrides it. The legislature can't override constitutional amendments.
> Most 'pure' arbs are exploited, but many still exist. They often require capital, expertise, and experience.

Not really.

Usually it is a higher tolerance for risk combined with not telling the customer how much risk they actually are taking.

It is all good until it is not, and by then it is too late
Did baseball cards have artificial scarcity? Did you buy them in packs with unknown cards in them? Legitimate question, I have no idea
How can the whole nation's grid have the same variations everywhere?
A Raspberry Pi Phone for the Modern Era
> Your "adaptation execution" has been memetically hijacked—where once you would get good things in return for your "altruism" (a stronger community, status, reciprocal altruism, coalition-building, or even "niceness, community, and civilization"), a runaway meme has now convinced you that it's actually better to get nothing!5 You get all the costs of religion, and none of the prosocial benefits!

This is true. Or wrong, because getting nothing in return is very much in the spirit of Christian self-sacrifice.
Hey HN! I wrote a script to find a Polestar 2 that matched my specification.

Turns out, a lot of people wanted this too so I added a front end to it and now you can be notified when your spec is available.

Let me know what you think!
Even very smart people who are aware of this fact continue to justify it, in the name of "I need it for work" and "I learn a lot from <niche> Twitter". We're entrenched in it and it's not always feasible to "just leave", regardless of its subconscious effects.

I was anxious about leaving Facebook when I did (2013) because I thought I'd basically be forgotten when it came to event invitations. I'm glad that enough people have ditched Facebook that the concept of only sending invites via Facebook has stopped being a thing.
There are also countries with low happiness indices and high taxes.
It's all part of Andreas' grand plan for serenity OS.

Ask him about "the plan" next time he goes live :)
It doesn't look like this stable diffusion would be able to tell you that either. You can see it changing the shape (angles) of the room in real time. It does not show cabinets at real depth etc.
Closing bank accounts is bad. Jailing an old woman in her 80's? That's whole another level. No government is perfect but there are shades of bad and you can see for yourself where a government falls on that spectrum.
Well put.

Ethics are a double edged sword.

Not only are you held to account but you can hold others to account.
Disclosing a list of creditors and amount owed is important in bankruptcy cases because the data the debtor has may be incorrect or incomplete. Without a published list, creditors might have no practical way to dispute the records before funds are distributed.
> Venom is a CLI (Command Line Interface) that aim to create, manage and run your integration tests with efficiency.

The linked repo seems to have a greater goal.
If you don't want to be able to read it
Situations like these, with the right teacher, are great eye-opening moments for children.

I still remember a unit in US history, in which we were asked to write an essay expounding on the evolving nature of woman's role in American society from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1820s-1890s).

I think just about everybody in the class interpreted the question as being one about "white" women, and wrote their essays accordingly.

The next lecture opened with this meta-fact, and rather than shame us about it, she used it as a wedge to open a discussion on how the overwhelming majority of writing on American history is authored from a male, generally Western European lens.

Most of our essays told of monotonically expanding rights and freedom (Seneca Falls was in 1848, the various feminist movements were gaining steam at the state level around property rights and suffrage). But this time period saw Indigenous women undergo the Trail of Tears and the institutionalization of reservations and forced relocation. It also saw enslaved women experience Emancipation only to be followed with the failure of reconstruction and the installment of Jim Crow.

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This was over 10 years ago, and I still remember the lesson in so much detail! And find it useful when reading history today. Every time we uncover a blind spot and cure some ignorance, we're making progress.
This is awesome; clearly wind favors scale.

I wonder what the cost of building 14-220 DD is compared to solar panels of the same nominal wattage. I assume wind turbines are relatively simpler technology and thus more cost effective.
I did indeed presume the OP didn't know this stuff. For one thing: because in my experience it was pretty easy to pick up for everybody who took classes on it. (There are all kinds of notations that weren't, though; I just don't think was one of them.) On re-reading that presumption might not hold though. My mistake.

In general my reaction is a sort of counter-reaction to a HN pattern that I don't like. Every HN post has someone say "this is so stupid" on it, about something (all kinds of things usually). I really hate that. So my flinch response is to say "this objection is also stupid". Not helpful and just as bad as what I'm criticizing, really. I kinda regret it.

Somewhat kooky afterthought: I don't like those initial critical nitpicky reactions because they sort of.. encode.... a rather unlikeable philosophy that is always in subtext here, which is that everything can be solved by building something, or doing something 'right', and regular human effort to solve human problems, with its human flaws, is worthy of scorn. Never cared for that. I think that's why I react negatively to it. Like in this case: those notations are actually good for a bunch of reasons. Strongly typing it? Try that for twenty minutes and you'll see why it's gonna be worse (I mean... probably. maybe I'm wrong! glad to learn). Or maybe every blog post define its terms more carefully for people who didn't learn from school? I dunno, I had a blog and tried that and it makes the posts crap, filled with meticulous definitions. At some point you just have to assume some things about your audience, and let them google what they don't know.
in principle, you can sidestep them, because they are gatekeepers only to their own garden, so the web is still in principle open, and it's one of the few systems that are still open. But if you do something they dont like or something they will shut you out. Or if you do something governments dont like, they will compell them to shut you out. This is the problem, our democracies are still supposed to be liberal. It will take political effort to change that very bad habit

This is 2022. We can't pretend our governmnets can be tech illiterate anymore, and we should not be allowing it
I think I see why this would be useful for things other than navigation - e.g. using avy to drive replacement or multi-selection, "select all X within this paragraph"-type things. But for navigation by word, for example, I tend to type only 1-2 characters to narrow down the selection, even for a character that is common on-screen. So I don't quite see how it would be faster to do what you're saying. I'm probably still missing something, but I don't know what.
No, not all ponzi schemes are wrapped in a cloak of crypto.
Under your scheme, if I own a property, it is cheaper for me to make it a single family home than to subdivide it into multiple units? Why are you punishing who make housing available to others?

I rent out one single family home that I couldn't sell when I moved and a 4 unit building where I currently live in one of the units. I never understand these comments. The 4 unit building could be torn down and made a SFH or I could build 14 units which my city desperately needs. If you keep adding rent control and payment vacations and eviction moratoriums and taxes it will be a SFH.

I think your dream is every property is tenancy in commons, but that is legal now and not popular. The reason is zoning. Rich people can compete with two families easily and by limiting the number of units that is all they need to compete with. Much more difficult to compete with 10 families if the lot is zoned for 10.

Anyway, these policy suggestions are maniacal. Go buy and build housing and you'll see how much work it is. Make a startup that makes TiC and construction easier. Go change zoning laws.
This is called creating an utopia, and most products and services these days are trying to do that, including those that promote positive action meant to make you feel good. Making a difference on the other hand is gritty work, it requires you to face a lot of unpleasant truths and compromises. Making a difference can be painful, it might even kill you. It meant to be overwhelming, otherwise you don't even understand the problem.

Burying our heads in the sand is what got us here, if anything I would like to do the opposite, teach people how to deal with the pain without living in a fantasy world. We had enough of that, we need to find ourselves back to reality. It will be painful, but it is what we need now.

I'm not particularly tired of negative news, we need to hear it, but we need it to be factual with a sufficient amount of details, which isn't easy because people only want to hear what they already believe and they have a short attention span. It's a serious problem that let's misinformation thrive.
If more financially homogeneous (i.e., less wealth skew) societies are happier, would you expect more culturally homogeneous (i.e., shared norms/history) societies to be happier?
Lauded Stanford sleep researcher William Dement has done a lot of work to characterize fatigue and drowsiness. Generally speaking his conclusion is that sleep debt is extremely common and also damaging. He gave an hour talk at Google going over many of his results. His manner in this is informal and drags a bit but the information is potentially extremely valuable for anyone experiencing the feeling of tiredness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8 Personal Growth Series: Dr. William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Performance
I remember there was a comic strip that apple and google get away with stuff because they don't have an S in the name, like micro$oft.
AOL was a mix of premium subscriber features and free features.

Its main social component, AIM, was free for anyone to use. Basically they were unable to monetize the primary social component of their network!

Except on mobile, where on feature phones AIM was a paid add on.

In some alternate timeline AIM could have become the WeChat of the west, AOL had all the needed features, but by the time technology was ready for WeChat like apps, AOL was basically gone.

They should have become WhatsApp though. Missed opportunity there.

People forget how great AOL was in the 90s, it was way more powerful than the web at the time. Great forum software, good chat interfaces, and tons of original content was being generated for it.
I am struggling to follow your argument.

Yes, GDP of China is closer to GDP of US. However, I would argue that GDP per capita is more important in this discussion. GDP per capita of Germany is closer to US than China is. After all, we are discussing improving labor rights and higher GDP per capita is associated with a higher standard of living and, therefore, better working conditions and benefits.

> Also your original comment compared ‘Europe’ and not Germany or a specific country.

That was you who switched from Europe to individual countries ("Comparing America to 5 million peopled NZ and 60 million peopled France is an entirely useless exercise."), so my comparison to Germany is based on that.

> If America were to follow European standards, then you’d think we’d be importing or outsourcing European labor. Oh wait! We don’t do that!

Right. We need the unions because labor laws are outdated and we need to improve them. Similar to how European labor unions fought for the rights of workers in Europe. The fact that US outsources labor to lower standard countries is not as amazing as you might think it is.

> At least, we will stay warm this winter. And maybe save the world with our evil military when beckoned.

You are really jumping all over the place. Unions, racism, war - if you don't like "online ping pong matches" then please at least keep your comments more on-topic.

> Racism exists. In every part of the world. Including HN.

This is such a pointless virtue signaling. Let me try to play this game...

Comparing America to 1.4 billion peopled China and 1.38 billion peopled India is an entirely useless exercise. Unless the purpose of the comparison is to simply pit countries with a majority male government with other countries with a male government… therefore ignoring comparable countries from Europe that are led by women. And that’s is frankly Sexist.

Sexism exists. In every part of the world. I would recommend that you not stay calm about it. Maybe you have the luxury of not caring if you are discriminated against, but many of us don’t have that privilege.

Really contributing to the discussion, right?
You're describing affiliate programmes. They achieve the same goals with regular money.
It’s worth remembering though that new generations of mobile networks typically have great performance in the beginning, when few people are using them. But performance quickly deteriorates when more and more subscribers are onboarded and the competition for spectrum access begins.
> I have long promised that Hare would not have multi-threading, and it seems that I have broken that promise.

Arguably, another needed change in thinking should maybe be about supporting Windows and macOS, which together represent 90% of desktops and laptops.

There can be nothing wrong with changing one's mind. Particularly if it's for the better and earlier on in development. Few would find fault or blame, and perhaps many would agree.
The average selling price of Samsung phones is around $250.

https://www.sammobile.com/news/average-selling-price-samsung...

The ASP of the iPhone for the same year was $800.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15379/iphone-asp/

Who do you think has the better business model?
I think a more useful definition would be about instruments, not ends. It is up to each individual to define their utility function. If they want that utility function to be aesthetic or religious, that's up to them. EA as a philosophy doesn't determine what your utility function ought to be.

What it does say is: conditional on selecting a utility function, you should attempt to use the tools of rationality, statistics, etc to maximize it efficiently. The fact that particular groups of EAs have sufficiently similar utility functions to pool resources in determining how to maximize them does not mean that all EAs must agree on those utility functions.

If your utility function says the greatest good is converting non-believers to flat earthism, then EA says you ought to study how best to achieve that before devoting lots of resources blindly. It doesn't tell you that flat earthism is bad.
any example products we can see ?

Seems like some service like this just helps flood the market with crap products set at high prices.
It is sad that we have 2 generations of people believing that falsehood

HTTP literally runs on the application layer, as do email, IRC , gopher and all the old internet. Nowhere in the word "Application" is it implied that some CEO controls what porn people can view.