skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We struggle to render a few boxes and some text under 16ms

Only if a dev has screwed up. Most simple sites are fine. You have to push the DOM quite hard for the browser to be the bottleneck. I've worked on apps that have DOM trees with 60,000+ nodes that remain under 16ms (because very few were actually changing at any given time..)

games with vastly more complex sound, network, physics, UI and whatever else systems render frames in < 8ms at 4k

The Servo project is bringing a lot of what makes game UIs fast to browsers. It's a massive shame that it's not a Mozilla/Firefox backed idea any more but it's still going. Hopefully it'll get a bit more mainstream one day.
TL; DR: “Compared with the omnivorous group, the plant-based diets reduced total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B levels with mean differences of −0.34 mmol/L (95% confidence interval, −0.44, −0.23; P = 1 × 10−9), −0.30 mmol/L (−0.40, −0.19; P = 4 × 10−8), and −12.92 mg/dL (−22.63, −3.20; P = 0.01), respectively. The effect sizes were similar across age, continent, duration of study, health status, intervention diet, intervention program, and study design. No significant difference was observed for triglyceride levels.”
Ugh, right? I've found the worst people for this are teachers. Try saying in school "2 + 2 = 5", they'll go crazy and just won't accept alternative opinions. One teacher tried to flunk me once just because I believe -1 * -1 = -1. Those snowflakes just keep saying "you're wrong" and "trust the mathematical establishment". Sheep!
The TOC is online, they used it to find the page range they're interested in.
the question should probably be where else they spend time to get news that they then post here. You don’t get a lot of karma with comments but with high quality original content or being early to post relevant links/news.
I think the issue here is that most countries don't have to deal with a major political party trying to destroy their healthcare or education system, while the US does. Everybody may have a right to K-12 education, but what if states underpay teachers and make teachers criminally liable when parents get upset about their child getting taught from a normal school curriculum? I wish this was a ridiculous hypothetical, but it's basically what's going on right now.

A toxic political culture can lead a government to sabotage things it's legally required to provide. That said, that same toxic culture can also lead it to violate negative rights. The real problem isn't the distinction between different classes of rights, but the fact that one political party is eager to destroy or at least compromise those rights.
There is a tax benefit for the restaurant as well, VAT is charged on restaurant meals but not on these "service charges".

I disagree that it's all restaurants, it's closer to half. The other half might have it for groups 6+ or 8+ people.
so it's an angry mail client to begin with
Fortunately the winner is determined by votes
Can anyone else believe they can run on water? That is nuts.
Well I was recently at a US airport that had automatic "scan your face to board the plane" gates (non-optional) instead of providing boarding pass + passport, so from there to "scan your face to pay" it's a very small leap. They already know all about you and have your biometric identity, what's tacking a payment method to it?
Short answer, you don’t.

If folks are not providing constructive feedback there’s no reason to pay any attention to what they’re saying.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation
This can be solved by the app: Present the user with the a choice before acting upon anything scanned.
In addition to the great advice in this thread, it’s worth being aware of something called “Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria” (RDD). It isn’t a diagnosable condition according to the DSM-V but is often observed coincident with ADHD. Basically many forms of criticism or even observation can trigger a deep and intense fight-or-flight response due to challenges regulating emotions.

Therapy and medication can help. If you think this might be in play it is worth talking to a mental health professional.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24099-rejecti...
It's compatible with (nearly) all Windows apps, modulo bugs and missing AppXManifest features.
I’m curious what the distribution of karma is on HN, but I haven’t bothered to write a polite scraping method of reading through user’s profiles to grab counts that’s only a little more GET-y than just a human reading HN yet.

I’ve been curious about this for a long time though, already having pulled statistics like distributions of GitHub followers and stargazers.
Treatment should never be invasive and should always be voluntary. That's what every policy should be. As soon as you start experimenting with force, especially when you are already the powerful party nobody can say no to, you become a monster. It is not safe to interact with a system that is prepared and happy to forcefully detain you.
The paper is the original paper on LISP by McCarthy "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I". It has the original definition of LISP in LISP.
I think HN likely has a better algorithm for this than Stack Overflow (where I answered about 4 simple HTML questions 12 years ago, logged out, stopped using the site and years later realised I had racked up thousands in karma), but even so longevity is still a huge factor. I'm sure some very active new users do rack up karma quickly, but for most just having an account here for a decent amount of time is what does most of it (and being reasonably active during that time).

I'm coming up on 10 years here... I've never been a big receiver of upvotes, it's just time.
https://archive.is/jiZ9E
I would not expect custom menus to be printed on the fly based on the restaurant's camera customer face recognition. QR codes makes this kind of targetting practical enough to be routine.
11k. I visit a few times a day, for the last 12 years. I rarely comment or post, and ~10% of my karma is from one front page post, and likewise the rest of it is heavily skewed towards a few popular posts / comments.
I used to spend more, but I'm trying to wean myself off it. The problem is there's a lot of interesting stuff on here.
He is not planning on selling tickets to events. The shop is a completely separate business (I just put link in to legitimize us) It will be selling things like plates and candles. I understand your point though and that could be a misunderstanding. I hope that I can speak with a person at Shopify and get this cleared up!
yeah, unclear. I did find the article pretty interesting ignoring the clickbait though.
> because you'll quickly hit bugs that Microsoft know about but never backported the fixes for.

Or you'll hit basic features which are missing. Like deploying services from your MSIX: win10 - no problem, server 2019 - are you mad? you want to deploy services on a server? of course they're not supported...
Revealed: Contentious tool US immigration uses to get your data from tech firms
You do take it personally, a few times. Then you get used to it and stop worrying about it.
It'll be interesting to see how these sorts of less than anticipated sociological things emerge. Take a look at scientology, many practicers, pretty scifi beliefset, I think all we really need is another L Ron Hubbard and lots of not super crazy people could start to worship these things.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-radical-movement-to-worshi...
Background removal is becoming a commodity but at the same time being top quality is an essential block of building quality software. We built photoroom and removing background is free, no subscription needed https://www.photoroom.com/background-remover
You can see that we are 2x remove.bg in accuracy https://www.velebit.ai/blog/background-removal/
Other than the karma requirement for downvoting, are any HN algorithms driven by karma scores? I don't know what karma gets you here.
It's still quite bizzare to me. The theme park employees are working for the employer too, just like the waiters and barmen working for the establishment. Going out for drinks with friends or for a dinner date is an experience, how could it be otherwise? I don't expect the staff to entertain me, sure, but that doesn't mean that it's just "engaging in consumerism" for the customers. I'm sorry if you have bad memories about the job, but your point of view is quite angsty and jaded.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-radical-movement-to-worshi...
This guy gets it.. haha
Just tested it and I love the easy method you added for cropping. The result was very good too!
What you refer as 'the underlying code' isn't the real underlying code, the underlying code is the model. Your underlying code is just the runtime, which is commercially the least interesting part (which is why it is/will be/ open sourced). Both the model and the integration are way more interesting commercially. I'm sure the code Microsoft has to integrate their assistant to Windows is way more than hundreds of lines. How long until GNOME/KDE even start on something similar? Probably not before 2030.

Anyway, I treat OpenAI and Microsoft as two sides of the same coin given level of integration between the two. It's arguable the Microsoft has the upper hand here but OpenAI is their main LLM talent. [EDIT: I don't see MS switching backends from a backend they control, especially when performance apparently is adequate enough already and the real cost isn't licensing the code, but Azure, so open source doesn't necessarily have an advantage here.]
Any program worth obfuscating is not worth trusting.
Its not undercut at all by not winning the popular vote. 81.6% of the electorate identified as Christian in 2001 and 78% by 2012. Thats a clear majority of the electorate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_United_S....
You are obviously getting ripped off, you should be able to strike a better deal. I know you can if you use the right words.
Embracing Criticism: A Software Engineer’s Guide
For example, the error could have been '1064 is not a string value' or at least 'float64 is not a string value' etc.
Maybe, but I bet this way would be slightly faster, because the library wouldn't have to loop through keys if they write functions for all the most common attributes (href, rel, className, type, etc)
"Musk Urges More Companies To Apply Further Downward Pressure On Tech Salaries"
More like a death rattle.
maybe not all dreams. But some too blinding..

Tarkovsky's Sacrifice film was on eye-opener:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrifice_(1986_film)
Cory Doctorow: How Big Tech Captured Culture [video]
> a polite scraping method

Shouldn't be needed, there's an API.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I was making 4 page sites in 1998. Honest time, including a log in and management of content, was a few days of work (php 3, mysql, and the awesome js that auto placed the cursor on the login input). If it didn't have db driven content, it would be a few hours max.
It depends on how realistic your dream is. My dream is to own a wine bar and travel the world. Unless I have something else going on, it is unlikely I would have the money and time to travel the world while owning a wine bar.

I haven’t given up my dream, but getting that “something else” is working towards it.
Nice to see this gem being preserved. This, and the first edition or Ronald Mak's book are what got me into this subject..
Ask HN: How do you decide what's worth working on?
The HN community is full of capable and driven individuals. Many can solve almost any problem they put their mind to. When this is the case, it's often important to focus on the most important things worth working on. I'm wondering, how do you chose what's worth your time and energy?
Perhaps it helps you to see a PR for what it can be instead:

As the point we're you are allowed to get good feedback.

Next time press the button for opening a PR and think 'ha I'm curious what I learn today!'

Don't open a PR and assume you will be merging it soon, open it to be able to work on your fine-tune process
Uhm...I have to chime in here.

"Anti-fragile attitude" when it comes to criticism is not built by tolerance. Quite the opposite actually. It is a common misconception.
While making yourself numb against criticism IS a solution but not by far the best one.

A high criticism tolerance is learned by understanding that ones self worth is not attached to output or delivery. (This is hard in our industry)
It comes from self-acceptance and compassion. And these values are learned early on. You'll find that the people that break down at the slightest criticism the most are those that were criticised the most as children as well. Those that had no room for being anything other than perfect. Where value was obtained from performance.

To take it even further...why see it as criticism at all? You are not your lines of code.
Literally no considers that to be the case? Like I have never met anyone who would consider declaring an integer variable "allocation"
I suppose the idea is to not have to do transpilation.
About 5 minutes * 20 times a day * 10+ years.

I mostly use HN when I'm waiting for things (meetings, people, test runs, etc.) I pretend to myself that this is actually improving my productivity.
Is Bard crashing for anyone else?
I have submitted several questions only to watch them disappear as if I never asked them.
22k, been here since 08. a lot of of that karma in the last 7 years though. Sometimes I could be on here for an hour or so, sometimes will go weeks without doing so much as checking once a day.

It's probably directly related to how busy I am, or how interesting the project I'm on is.

Ultimately though I get far more out of HN than I put in. I've worked from home, for myself, for most of the last 10 years. HN has been my connection with with wider tech wold, and an opportunity to talk about things I'm interested in that I would be hard pressed to find people to talk to about in the local Pub.
I'm not familiar with that reading of it, and I have no opinion on the existence of that side effect.

My observation is that they have an outsized influence on housing price pressure, while they currently fly under the radar from local disdain about the influences on housing price pressure.
Submission karma >>>> comment karma, I've only ever submitted 4 articles, one hit it big, and it's a third of my karma
Software is a pretty toxic discipline where everyone is constantly ranking other humans - best school, annual salary, funding round, ARR, leet code. No matter what you do someone will find a way to make you feel small because you aren't ranked good enough on some other metric.

You don't have to participate in those systems. There are places where humans are treated with dignity, not made to feel small and worthless if they aren't at the forefront of every metric, or have all the answers.

Compare yourself to yourself.
You need a carbon tax, and one that also imposes itself on imports so that other countries can’t cheat.

Canadians have a system similar to this. Everyone pays a carbon tax. 10% of the total pool is skimmed and used by the government for climate related things, and only climate related things. Then the rest of the money is split evenly among everyone.

The poorer people come out ahead since they use less (e.g. can’t afford a car and take public transit) and thus paid less than the average but receive the average amount back.
Email is in my bio if you want to chat.

I do, but when moving here it was just my wife (then gf) and I on working holiday visas. Ireland is wonderful in many respects but also a deeply frustrating place, it's extremely car-dependent outside the middle of Dublin and perhaps what's harder is that most people see that as fine. Climate breakdown is viewed as a far away problem for other people, and rural communities can be insular. I have heard that some areas in Clare and West Cork are transforming, though.

That being said, I live in a beautiful house on 3.5 acres a 15 minute bike ride from the train station and we want to move to the Netherlands so our kids can have actual freedom before learning to drive. Also a lot more jobs on climatebase.org are in NL (and DE), they're never in Ireland.
Exactly. Just the typical incredibly out of touch, childish and highly privileged view often expressed on this forum:

"The smart people can work remote in Bali for 2x the median USD salary. If your not one of the smart people then you can bath and wipe old people's asses all day while being exposed to all kinds of pathogens for the median salary. The reason we don't have more of this is because of capitalism and whatever politics I don't like".

Variations on this theme in pretty much every topic with over a 100 replies.
Maybe YC should launch dangcoin...
Separate your sense of identity and self worth from your work. Find those things outside of work, and criticisms and failings won't feel so personal. Also remember literally everyone makes mistakes and gets things wrong. The thing not everyone does is handle those instances well.
It’s hard to compete exonomically with a business that is allowed to dispose of their waste (Greenhouse gasses) for free.
Did he fix Twitter yet?
But that's not under your control. Whereas your reaction to the criticism is under your control.
I like this, tried it out and it performed pretty well. I signed up. It says in the pricing section that 2Mpx images are free, although my test image was larger than that.

My account at Cedar Lake Ventures does not link back to Pixian, and there doesn't seem to be any way to enter payment information on either site.

So, where and how exactly do I pay?
My reasons to make good work migrated to "I don't want to fix that shit later"
““It’s very hard to order a $70 steak off a QR code — or a $200 bottle of wine. It just doesn’t feel right.””
It's a form of price differentiation.

Let the people who have money to pay for a very slightly better service give you more money.
That's a little inflammatory. Could you provide constructive input on your reasoning behind that statement? I personally found it a simple, concise explanation of what find is for.
I'm only surprised there is no faxing involved.

The trusting yet maximally awkward payment process where you get paper invoices and need to mail around links is super Japanese though.
The way I like to think about it is that I imagine, and am probably right, that the person on the other end of the review approaches it the same way I do - When I do my reviews, I don't particularly care who's work it is, I only care about the code itself and the problem it's trying to solve. My feedback doesn't come from a malicious place, it comes from wanting the codebase to be in the best possible state it can be given our collective knowledge. Why would the other person be doing it any differently?

Sure, there's always going to be assholes and people that are just straight up mean for the sake of being mean, but in my experience those types of people don't last long anywhere because nobody wants to put up with their shit.
Pogo – Distributed Supervisor for Elixir
I'm very happy with the direction Deno is taking in its development. At the same time, I'm not sure when I would feel comfortable deploying something to production with it. Is anyone here running Deno in production?
I’d be interested in joining forces (I’m in the same boat) if you’re ever interested in starting back up or just want to build a project together. I’m not looking for a unicorn, just enough money where I don’t care about money and enough control that meeting-spawners won’t get hired.
Countdown to the Coup
I'm not following..
> Honestly most of this is tinfoil hat level.

Or you are very naive about how businesses operate today.
Trezor Two-factor authentication with U2F
Think it's pretty dubious to call Rust a functional language at all: most Rust is written in an almost imperative style, but with some extra immutability sprinkled in when easy.

Coming from a functional background, when I first started programming Rust I really tried to leverage FP concepts as much as possible. However, I slowly began to realize that the FP version of the code I wanted to write was more complicated, more lines of code, and slower than the naive imperative version.

Clean FP without GC seems really difficult, and I think Rust team did as good a job as they could given the current state of research.
Adobe: Generative AI Now in Photoshop
Would that work just by displaying the URL? Presumably that could be gamed by using a URL shortener, so the user would be none the wiser.
This is one where I prefer not to use the minified version.
Super cool. They mention code size impact (large) but not runtime impact, as far as I can see? I wonder what the throughput cost is. Guess it's OK if they plan to deploy this in iOS.
If it's a snarky comment in a review, they're the problem, not you.
If it's an honest review, then that's life, it's about the code, not about yourself.

Can you look 2-3 years back at your original code and not find any problems? Then that's a problem :P We all learn, evolve, and improve, so at the end of the day, any feedback is better than no feedback.
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere here, but the program `tldr` is a solid compliment to manpages, you run it like `tldr ls`, and it spits out a couple of examplesof how ls can be used
So the best JS library is the one that doesn't have any JS?
Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI
Posting - maybe 5 mins a day. Reading perhaps 20. Many days zero.

It’s a 2010 account though so many years of light activity really
I have to say that Reichsbürger are probably the craziest conspiracy movement out there.
Website link leads me to an error page which pretends to be chrome’s and tells me to check windows DNS settings (but I am on iOS safari) and is in Chinese.
> Maybe Rust offers the best of both worlds? (I say this mostly but not entirely tongue in cheek.)

AFAIK Rust's solution for tree/graph is to replace pointers by indexes. IMHO this is worse because if you get it wrong with pointers you may have a core, with indexes you just get silently the wrong node..
5.6k karma (so I don't qualify), but I thought it'd be interesting for comparison.

My karma is exclusively from comments. There is no continuity, but I'd say I spent 15 minutes/day in average.

15 minutes per day spent in thoughtful and respectful (as possible :)) arguments, which is part of the HN culture, is some of the most productive time I ever spend.

I don't spend time reading articles in realtime - I store the most interesting from an RSS feed, and read them asynchronously; I don't consider this HN time.
Nuts that this is still built with Grunt. Needs more Gulp eh no I mean Webpack ehh Parcel wait I mean Rollup no Esbuild! It needs more Esbuild. (or Bun)
Love that JS bloat is enough of a meme that ppl continue to make joke repos like this.
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes hurling down the highway.

As a hobby, I've looked into second-hand LTO tape backup for my 71 TB NAS but the drive alone is pricey, and if it dies, how can I restore my data without forking over too much money?
> When receiving feedback, start by saying internally, or even verbally, I realize that I’ve made a mistake

No, feedback is someone else's opinion - don't assume that it's absolutely correct, listen to it and weigh it up and then decide if you agree with any of it.

You have to be able to accept feedback without taking it personally, but you should always be objective about it.
Looks to be intentional, yes.
The parent comment was referring to FPAAs, not FPGAs.
C has a bit of a history with interpreters and reduced implementations (not to devalue SectorC which is absolutely cool). I'm thinking Small C Interpreter for CP/M: http://www.cpm.z80.de/small_c.html an interpreted version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C