skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ask this out of genuine curiosity - what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript? Are y’all browsing the internet like this? If so how and why? Isn’t most of the modern web dependent on JavaScript?

Anytime I’ve shared a personal project on HN someone has commented that it doesn’t work with JavaScript disabled.
Static type declarations don't make Java fast. The compiler does. Dynamically typed languages with no type declarations can be very fast if the compiler can infer the types.

That's not to say that Python will ever get there. My understanding is that the design of the language and leaky implementation details make generally compiling Python to fast machine code nearly impossible.
There will typically be a maximum ambient temperature assumed when the heat rejection for the device is calculated.

It would usually be well above 100 F though, so not something that should frequently come up in New York City.
Are you creating AI or are you applying AI to enhance or create new workflows?

If you're applying, you need an engineer who can build product and ship it. Not a scientist.

If you're creating new AI or models, you need a scientist who can actually do that work.
Strange, the experience I've had is that the waiters always remind you to save space for dessert!
How to say your a Russian national without saying your a Russian national.
You're right in that I don't go into any depth on what an Iterable class is, but iteration (while, for) are definitely addressed throughout. In the intro class I teach, we don't do classes, and thus, don't delve too much into what an Iterator class is, so it's not included here.
"fly-by-night" and "as expected" are your own added bias. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is a story about a pre-interview, not a story about Sam.
Obviously a bad server state should be 500
The vast majority is not land. Here's [1] inflation adjusted land cost per acre over the last 50 years. Pick a piece of land at median 1950 sizes and the increase is around $500 in today's dollars. Now please cite why you claim the vast majority of the increase is land.

Want to read what did increase? Houses got bigger as I stated
[2].

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/55910/farmrealestate...

[2] https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
Well said. I’d go further and say the modern world is only comfortable for a particular subset of neurodivergent people

Namely ones who are content to be sedentary and work on explicitly abstract or highly derived concepts (mathematics, accounting, computing etc).

That’s a novel context even in near history, saying nothing of how far away our nearly unchanged pre-modern biology is from being comfortable in such a context
Bacteria is determined by bacteria. Yes, the rest expands what I wrote, regarding food.
Makes perfect sense! And yes, I edited my original comment because I skimmed far too quickly.
Alas, this is my experience with a lot of product websites. There’s lots of content but rarely anything useful.
Geez, thanks! I was starting to think that I was the only one over 40 around here...
AI Is Thirsty
exactly, if you had never seen Greg's work, you wouldn't be asking for it and would never create it. People want the results of someone elses labor.
I've often wondered the same thing. I look forward to reading people's responses.
>Are y’all browsing the internet like this? If so how and why? Isn’t most of the modern web dependent on JavaScript?

It's not all or nothing. I enable JS for the bank, webmail, etc websites I visit regularly and trust. There's no need to have it enabled on the rest of the shit that I only visit when it gets linked on HN.
as the current economic situation accelerates,
the resource owners do not need consumers,
that is why the workers are increasingly devalued
> In other things, you may be forking a repo, editing/compiling it, and figuring out how to get the editor to load your version of it.

This is more a theoretical problem in VSCode. If you just want to start programming using a mainstream language or framework, in VSCode it's literally a matter of saying 'code .', downloading whatever extensions it recommends for the language it autodetected, and starting work with autocomplete, debugging support, and all that ready to go.

Read @bborud's comments in this thread. He had been using Emacs for even longer than I, and he switched to VSCode and is not looking back. Because Emacs requires fiddling to keep running and VSCode does not. And that makes VSCode better.
You left out one other case... the owner wants a specific tenant or in the example that started this whole thread, a Chipotle.
Wow. Another story teller. There was no finger pointing, I did not blame anybody. I simply pointed out the hat the target complaint, if resolved would not change anything.

If you took every yacht away. Nothing about climate would change.

Your response reeks of emotional bias. Please try again.
> There doesn't seem to be a general way to progress on to the next lesson at the bottom of each topic page. Am I missing something?

The idea is that there isn't always just one "next" option, thus the idea would be to go back to the flowchatt to choose your next lesson. However, there's probably many (like you!) who just want to be taken to the next lesson and not hassle with the navigation - great input.

> I'm not sure about the UI/UX decision of your "Incomplete"/"Complete" indicator at the bottom of each lesson.

Thank you! I'm sure this is something that could be improved.
Yes, absolutely do not use Discord for this, Matrix would be better
Why do you see it as sabotage? I don't, given the comments leading up to that one.
Yup, that makes perfect sense. Going from a fairly weak pound to a fairly strong one, coupled with a subset of strong growth years, can most definitely make per capita GDP appear to have doubled in a surprisingly short period. Thanks for digging up the numbers.

Is looking at house prices in USD a sensible measure for the UK? It seems slightly perverse to me, but maybe it makes sense in the context of financialization, foreign investors putting money into UK real estate and/or immigration? Or whatever other factors may be relevant.
JavaScript is irrelevant to most of the internet. Only the web part would be affected.

I think there’s some vague good reason to block all JS and put sites you trust on an allowlist but I no longer do it personally.
That's good to know. I'll stop using them.
Infectious agents like E. coli!

Imagine if everyone had access to that. What a shitty situation that would be.
With my email message service provider, I think, 59% of screwedness, I have.
> Based on the timeline here they've mostly stopped. [1] The last one with any meaningful injuries was almost a decade ago, and the one before that a decade earlier. Compare that to the 70s and 80s.

So, in other words, airline bombings have gone way down as screening procedures have increased?
im likely being too pedantic here so apologies up front if this is the case. if by “work” you mean, sacrificing your own dreams to make a boss’ dreams come true, then we’re probably on the same page. but if by “work” you mean, doing yard work, passion projects, etc… i’m not sure i agree. my parents are heading into retirement in a few years and i’m deeply concerned they won’t know what to do with themselves without work keeping them occupied. they’re both extremely lucky in that they immensely enjoy and are passionate about their work, tho.

even in my free time i have so many projects that take work but i absolutely love them.

i just wanted to chime in that people feel genuinely energized by work if it’s something they care about, something that matters to them, feeds their soul or whatever phrase you prefer. again, sorry to be the obnoxious pedant.
Or... the official US inflation numbers have been bogus over the long term and the price of gold is actually a way better way to measure inflation over the longer term?
Schools are more willing to differentiate learning when it comes to reading/writing than math. This is because it doesn't require different lesson plans to let kids read different books during free reading time, for example. And when grading a kids' writing, it's not hard for a teacher to focus on basic skills for kids that are slower, and more advanced grammatical nitpicks for kids who have the basics down.

You make the point down-thread that parents do accelerated math because it's easier to show a kid has mastered a given skill. This is definitely relevant, in that schools that fight parents who want to accelerate their kids (across the board) have a harder time resisting when it can be clearly demonstrated that the child understands a topic. Even with this evidence, schools still resist letting children learn at their level in math; I can't imagine how much harder it would be to accomplish in a more amorphous subject like ELA.

FWIW, in my family we emphasize both math and ELA, but we might be nonrepresentative since I work in literacy/edtech.
I've been playing with minetest a bit and the lighting really is the thing that stands out. The animations are noticable when you really watch something, but the difference in how cubes are shaded jumps out at first sight as the thing the commerical game has that really makes it look polished.
> what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript?

1) Disgust at sites that use JS for gratuitous purposes, absurd scrolling, stupid visual effects.

2) A kind of chest thumping "I was here long before Javascript was a thing, laddy".

3) Security fears, desire to reduce attack surface

4) Revulsion of JS as a language
There are plenty of ways to improve security but maintain openness.

I think a good idea might be to have TOFU and self-signed only as a fallback. If there was no initial mismatch, and then upate cert periodically.
There's a page on Wikipedia about what the Obama administration did on energy. A few examples:

- $3.4 billion Smart Grid Investment Grant (part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), which would affect 49 states and has the potential to reduce electricity use by more than 4% by 2033

- The recovery act included more than $70 billion in tax credits and direct spending for programs involving clean energy and transportation.

- The launch of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) project under the Department of Energy

- New efficiency standards for home appliances

- Extending the investment tax credit for solar energy

- Extending the production tax credit for wind energy,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_Barack_Ob...
https://www.rewind.ai
IANAL but trademarks are complicated and the more descriptive a trademark is the less protection it has especially for a decades old video game no one is selling anymore.
The most wealthy and powerful are generally immune to inconveniences, so don't care.

The most poor are completely and totally helpless to change things.

It's the group between those extremes that sign up for CLEAR; as a group though they could push for removing the need for CLEAR.
It’s crazy that now entire neighborhoods of skyscrapers are basically just glorified “wework” spaces now
> Are y’all browsing the internet like this? If so how and why?

Yes. All JS turned off by default unless it's on a whitelist. Takes a few days to get the whitelist set up, but its fairly straightforward.

Between this and uBlock, it makes the web a lot safer and resource intensive to browse. For example, people frequently cite Chrome as being faster than Firefox, but with my setup that has rarely been a the case in a very long time.

I've also generally found a strong correlation between websites that don't work or work badly without JS and them being websites I don't want to frequent. And when the website doesn't work without enabling most of the JS, including all the ad and tracking stuff? That's a good sign that I probably should never whitelist that website.

There's also just the matter of principle. If a website works just fine for my needs with most or all of the JS turned off, it wasn't really necessary in the first place was it?
Looks cool, but I think I've been spoiled by DCS
Now, could you add on the housing price inflation over the last 10 years? Your calculation assumes housing prices stay flat for the next 10 years, which is a tall order.

Also, what would happen to people with not so well off parents?
I'm a proponent of the most popular wins. Look at the top five and pick one. You'll get lots of support in terms of libraries and general know-how for most OSs which helps immensely on productivity. You'll want to make it as easy as possible on yourself.
Anecdotally I’ve also found that without coffee I lose the will to live
Voyager 2 Communications Pause
> Sure. But we know they are important. Despite being “single molecules.”

The point is that there's huge debate on how they work, why they work, whether they work for this and that, etc, despite them being about as tiny and simple in form as you could ask for.

And as far as I know no one has ever claimed that Vitamin C and D are not single molecules, so I've no idea why you put that in quotes. It's relevant that they're not, for example, the mixture of hundreds or even thousands of synergistic and antagonistic compounds, in various quantities, found in every single plant.

> Because they appear unsubstantiated. You’re describing treatments. That’s a different ball game.

Taking C for a cold, or D in winter, is NOT unsubstantiated - there are studies that show effect, and studies that show no effect. It's debated. That's exactly my point, that even these simple and tiny molecules inspire massive confusion and debate. It's in no way like an engine. The body and how it processes things like vitamins is so, so much more complex.

You can say this same thing about thousands of molecules and simple substances, which the scientismic community stands behind despite huge debate - SSRIs, anti-psychotics, glyphosate, etc. We don't understand them, and vested interests in white coats want us to believe otherwise. Remember tobacco being promoted by doctors? It wasn't that long ago.

The point, again, is this: that if we can have so much uncertainty about such tiny and simple things, why would we believe it's safe to muck about with our food supply (GMO monocultures), or to declare glyphosate safe and cover the planet with it, or claim that mRNA vaccines are utterly harmless (despite immediate evidence to the contrary, as now proven beyond doubt). Remember CFCs, PFAS, thalidomide?

These things are fundamentally different from your example of a simple combustion engine. They're complex on a level far beyond our current ability to comprehend. Even if we think we know what's going on, we really, really don't. We have hints, we have hunches, we have incomplete models with giant and dangerous holes in.
Another article conflating AGI risks with ML risks. AGI has catastrophic possibilities. ML risks can range from accidents to annoyances.

Other than that, good insights from someone that works with self driving cars
NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet that sold for $2.9M had opening bid of $1
There's no common C++ build system. That means (among other things) that there's no way to turn features you don't use into compile-time errors. There's no project configuration to select an allowed subset of features. All the difficulty goes onto the programmers, and in a multi-person project into the code review process. In practice, you end up using the combined set of C++ sublanguages each contributor chooses to use. You have to know about all of C++'s features to use C++ in a large enough team.
The only choices were Communism or the New Deal. Which are you endorsing?

The second New Deal was a different story.
New Research Reveals Brain Region Responsible for Conscious Awareness
> Schools are more willing to differentiate learning when it comes to reading/writing than math. This is because it doesn't require different lesson plans to let kids read different books during free reading time, for example. And when grading a kids' writing, it's not hard for a teacher to focus on basic skills for kids that are slower, and more advanced grammatical nitpicks for kids who have the basics down.

Ironically, that's exactly the kind of individual-differentiation-without-group-tracking that people around here object to when it is proposed for math.

Schools are, increasingly, willing to differentiate this way for math. Conservative (in the “attached to past methods”, rather than ideological, sense, though there is considerable correlation here) factions in the populace are opposed to it, though.
GIF is a terrible format for video
You have to be much more careful about what you modify when using multithreading, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.

A lot of people here mention that sharing data is much easier with multithreading, but doing this without races is not easy.

You can't just use the values from difference threads like you would in normal code, you need to synchronize access with locks, which can be difficult to do correctly and can harm performance in a lot of cases.

I think a lot of the people who complain about the GIL are going to become acutely aware of why it was useful when they attempt to use GIL-less multithreading, and realize that removing it wasn't as great as it sounded at first!

In my experience, most problems are inherently synchronous with lots of mutable state and complex data dependencies, or inherently parallel with lots of tasks that can run independently. Problems that can be easily parallelized already work fine with multiprocessing! Problems that can't be easily parallelized are not something you can just slap some threading on to get more performance, and will require a lot of work to keep state synced!

This is just my opinion though and I'm sure there are plenty of domains that I don't have experience with that will benefit from no-GIL python!
Was it possible on older machines and operating systems? I'm afraid I don't know enough about low-level performance but I always enjoy learning more.
I had not seen that! Seems to answer my question pretty well. Thanks!
Yes, I'm browsing with JavaScript disabled by default. It cuts out an incredible amount of crap. With JavaScript, web sites (especially "news" sites) are unusably slow due to all the crap advertising pushing GB of crap JavaScript at you.

Sturgeon's law is understated. 99.987% of anything in an iframe is crap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I made an edit or two to my original comment, so just to make sure you see it:

Your "Bookmark" button conveys very clearly what it is for and what it will do when I click on it. "Bookmark" is a verb and "Bookmarked" is a status.

So what about "Complete" for the greyed-out label and "Completed" for the green state? That would similarly make the deactivated button show an "Action" word—the exact action that will happen when I click it—and the activated state a "Status" word (that I can intuitively return to its original status by clicking again).
Writers and readers of literature trend as either character-oriented or plot-oriented. Literary critics, showing a traditional prejudice, call stories of the first type "literary fiction" and the second type "genre fiction". Dostoevsky’s works are definitely character studies, so looking for a well-structured plot is missing his aims. My own preference is for plot-based stories, so I find most of the great "literary" novelists, like D. H. Lawrence, rather unengaging.
5) When you visit a site that didn't actually need that JS it wanted to load, it's done instantly.
Try it sometime! Turning off JavaScript makes web browsing noticeably faster and less memory-intensive. You may be surprised how much still works fine with it off. Software like NoScript lets you allow it temporarily if something really does need it.
> Of course, I'm cynical enough to believe that they, too are about reducing pushback against security procedures from the sort of people politicians actually listen to.

I completely agree with this, but at the same time I paid for Global Entry. It feels ok to me since it's really a government program that helps with a government requirement.

I find CLEAR offensive because of the way it blurs public/private boundaries.
who cares what the owner wants?

the owner probably wants a billion dollars and a pony, too, but what they can have are the options I listed

the reason they don't have tenants is because their asking rent is too high and demand is low

in capitalism, that means they should lower rent
The majority of Spotify's lifetime there was NO DRM, and ripping it was easy.

The majority of users had no idea and it didn't affect them at all. Nor is there any evidence that it had any impact on Spotify's business.
Convincing. Maybe I’ll try it for a while. Any tools you prefer or is it built in to the browser?
For example, analytics scripts don’t necessarily need to be enabled even if other scripts are. NoScript in particular allows such options.

Not only analytics but advertising and general “tracking” stuff. There are many reasons and any individual may have one or more which would persuade the decision.

If one “offers advice” that a website “doesn’t work with javascript disabled” just consider that they are suggesting to try implementing progressive enhancement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement) as is done on the linked page. Basically get the page working with HTML only, then add CSS, then add JS.
>That article is signed by 'Admin', and has no references whatsoever.

At the very bottom of the article is a source link. The (now deleted) link is a website that translates Spanish articles into English.

This is the article that was translated. I have no horse in this race.
https://www.larazon.es/sociedad/20200119/3ahrv5kqbbbbblleqyw...
You may not realise this, but you need to be reasonably affluent *and* fly quite a bit for this to make sense. An extra $190 to shave off 15 or so minutes(1) for 1 or 2 trips a year is, frankly, not an affordable luxury for most.

For families it'd be worth it sooner, but if 2 parents join, you'll need to fork over $380. You could also put that towards your family holidays. E.g., it's enough for three tickets to Disney World.

(1) another comment stated that average regular TSA wait time was 26 min worst-case.
Yes, I read that, but it's unclear what your assumptions are or what you value. I guess having AI that is "highly innovative" in the same way that some people can be innovative is something you value, but it's not that clear to me why that's important.
I majored in construction management in school. I was the only one in my major who didn’t grow up with a father, uncle, or grandfather in the trades.

It is often hard, grueling work. I was a project manager so I didn’t ‘perform’ any of the work, but I was still up scaffolding and down in muddy pits. The laborers are out in the worst weather day and night and make decent money- but totally wreck their bodies.

So it is a combination of people being steered away from labor jobs into college, not knowing an entry point without family ties, and grueling hard work. I’m surprised anything gets built.
P.S. Most web sites use Google analytics, which relies on JavaScript so, as a bonus, I'm in Google's blind spot.
But they linked a specific section, and it wasn't the United States section.
yeah same, this is a nice one to simply get the back button on the mouse to actually go back...
You may be interested in the concurrent.futures library, available for over a decade now. It keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot like that.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html