skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HEIF is already successful and in widespread usage.
It looks like the Angular version doesn't have the fade in/out transitions, so it feels more like navigating conventional websites via links than just transitioning states in a javascript SPA.
well I suppose Patreon is an American company, and they can be sued for libel under American law - unless some of the people banned are European in which case they can be sued also under whatever European law is relevant. At any rate I thought maybe Patreon said they were banning people for being 'nazis' and wondered if that was the case? Or if there is a list that can be provided of the people banned and the reasons given.
The main issue is that one can't really consider the technology ready for real world testing until said real world testing is done.
Andy Warhol famously spoke about Coke:

"What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

It's sad to see that something as quintessentially American as Disney is going the opposite way.
As a hobbyist I love seeing new languages. I look at their features and a few simple examples and immediately imagine they'll solve all the issues I have faced with other languages.

I generally appreciate the massive amount work that goes into something like this.

But when I want to work on a project, I am wary of using something new. I just know in my heart I'll set the wrong flag on the compiler and the binary will end up in a directory I can't find and it'll take me two days to figure out how to do it.

My question is this: if the main strength of this language is that uses Swift-like syntax, and lets you develop native apps in Android and iOS, why not just make an Android compiler for Swift?
I'm not sure how the parser and lexer/etc. line count matters for the VM line count. shrug

Definitely something I'll be looking at for my embedded work; it may fill a gap in my toolchain. And boo-hiss tabs.
Biblical creation theory postulate that a good initial design has had an increasing lot of destructive processes going on after the first man breaking the trust relationship with the Creator. "Genetic Entropy" thus being one of these consequences (there's even a book with that title, by Cornell prof., gene gun inventor and creationist, John Sanford).
Except when they chase its own tail running in circles around a tree trunk.
That is my biggest complaint with Material Design. It’s great if you already know what all the icons mean and what you are supposed to click. Apple design, by contrast is generally very obvious and instantly understandable. Look at the Apple Music app on iOS: pretty much every icon is labeled. You don’t have to guess where “My Library” is or fumble around trying to figure it out. Google Hangouts on the other hand.. I have used that thousands of times and still have a cognitive interruption every time I try to share screen, see the sidebar chat or any other common tasks.

I frankly don’t understand the appeal of Material Design. If it came from anyone but Google, it wouldn’t be a thing except in the back alleys of Dribble.

However, this dashboard project — thanks to whomever made it. It does look very nice — just not a fan of the typical Google design language because of serious usability flaws. This dashboard does seem to mitigate some of my main complaints (ambiguity and uncertainty.)
Sounds not so light-weight.
It surprises me that this article has so many votes when nowhere has it actually provided any details of either the commercial terms of the acquisition OR whether any Smyte customers actually lost any money from prepaid service.

Sure, it sucks that people lost an API they were using, that much we know, but hundreds of votes for a “bad” commercial transaction on which we have no details?

The way I see it, a number of Smyte users just received a free billing period of API access?
I do and the development experience of working with something like Angular Material is pretty great. If you're building relatively simple interfaces it's not that bad. Most of what I do is data tables and CRUD, I just want nice and relatively well styled components that are also well integrated with my framework.
When I compare that to German health insurance, it comes out to an income of ~1600 EUR per month before taxes, but you pay more of if you earn more.

Quite an interesting concept though that their rates don't seem to up no matter if you just get by or make millions...
Using the Chrome OS Graphics Stack on Intel-Based Linux Desktops
I write JavaScript for my day job, but I only recently started learning how engines optimize it. I had a ton of fun reading this article: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics (which I discovered in another HN post somewhere)
I basically associate material design with "slow" now, especially ever since Google has began to move all their services (flights, analytics) to material design. It's all becoming slow and annoying to use, anyone else feel the same?
I understand what you're saying, but you're not quite accurate, there was the Philippine–American War.
Its simple really, chinese ppl in general dont care about sports let alone hockey, most of my friends have never been to a hockey game, or baseball or a soccer match. Chinese people would rather work and have other hobbies outside of sports. Sports isnt the end all be all. its actually not very important at all in the big scheme, you can get excerise in many other ways and be successful in many different professions.
I am not convinced that investors having more skin in the game would destroy capitalism. Maybe it would destroy our local interpretation of capitalism. Maybe that is a good thing.
Well, if you've been in one place for a few years and don't want to tip off your boss to the fact that you're looking...
An interest rate of 190% ? Wow. For those with no credit, I guess 190% APR represents the risk that the lender is taking. I'm sure that 190% rate sucks way less than your typical payday loan rate, but this is why many states have outlawed payday loans.
This country only exists because of Puritan persecution in England, but you don't see me thanking the Anglican church for America. Bad means result in good ends all the time; that doesn't mean we should celebrate bad means.

I agree that the US military has made positive contributions to the world, but I don't think it's the main source of the Pax Americana -- strong international bodies (NATO, UN, &c), the tendency for democratic nations (the dominant sort in the 20th century) to avoid wars with each other, and advancements in crop science are all individually more responsible for the relative global stability of the last 30 years.

I don't deny that the military had a role (usually financial) in any or all of the above, but I wouldn't call it a causal role: virtually all academic research funding hits the defense world eventually ("food security", "ecological security", &c), especially during the Cold War. That's the result of political contrivances, not any sort of deep connection between the U.S. military and scientific progress.

Finally, I wonder about drawing comparisons between the past U.S. military and current ventures. The Google engineers in question probably wouldn't be designing waterproof radios for fastboats; they'd be training models that "recognize" "terrorists" from afar and systems that pass that information to drones for remote killing. Put another way: the shift away from conventional warfare changes the moral dimensions of working for the military.
Don't they have a fast track product to skip the lines? It's probably optimal to price to pack the park and let the people who hate lines pay extra, instead of trying to keep lines down by increasing the price for everyone. IIRC they use varying fast track pricing on different rides for crowd management too.
But not Ember sadly.
I’m from Bletchley (and actually lived in a housing development built on some of the land that the trust that owned the park sold, inventively named Bletchley Park)!

Historically (as in,5/6 years ago), Bletchley Park was in dire need of major upkeep work and stimulus to keep it open. It’s only been since the Turing film came out that the Park received a ton of funding and managed to pull itself into the modern era as a museum and afford all of the expensive work that needed to be done to restore the machines.

I remember walking around there as a kid with my dad (perhaps 15 years ago or so) and there was considerably less content and working machinery. I only remember seeing an enigma machine - the emphasis was much more around life during WW2 and general military technology. Nowadays the focus is on signal intelligence and code breaking, and is honestly much more interesting. We always go there once every year or so to check it out and see new exhibits, but still haven’t visited the now separate computing museum on the main site.

Can’t recommend visiting Bletchley Park highly enough if you’re in the UK, only a 30 to 45 minute train journey out of London, and the park is literally opposite Bletchley train station.

If you do visit, don’t be under the impression that the town of Bletchley that houses the park is equally as beautiful - it’s not. Don’t visit the town. You will be very, very disappointed if you’re a foreign tourist on a day trip.
Hack your way to an obscenely cheap flight
I think it's starting to feel like "suddenly whales!" in the SF Bay Area this year too. We've had something like 8 dead whales wash up in the past month or two, and many are thought to have died from boat strikes. There was an article in Wired a few weeks ago about the dead whales in SF: https://www.wired.com/story/the-messy-malodorous-mystery-of-...
FWIW, Eric Schmidt is a member of the Bilderberg Group....AND the Trilateral Commission too.
Maybe they should. The executives of Uber have the tacit approval of the investors.
If Apple had something for the web I'd almost certainly be using that instead. But in my case, I'm just trying to write JavaScript and avoid the other stuff as much as possible -- I'm more of a backend dev who's doing frontend work out of necessity. Material libraries (Angular Material, Material-UI, Vuetify, etc) have been great for me in that use case.
"In the case of violence by the police, somebody who is holding a weapon and behaving erratically is inherently more of a threat then somebody holding a weapon and complying."

Except that in a lot of cases the victims were unarmed.
I think you might be underestimating AWS migrations initiated at the executive level.

I dare say the AWS sales pitch is even more effective at that level: "Increase your agility, reduce your operational overhead, scale out with the push of a button. Be like Netflix and Apple."

Most executives aren't well-equipped to probe the sharp corners that aren't in the pitch.
10 very good reasons to stop using JavaScript (2013)
I'm amused by the downvotes for a controversial question. Check out http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Even if the assets were acquired, I wonder why you can't sue the remaining shell and get a cut of the money that was exchanged for the assets.

I guess the real issue is that smyte's contract probably said something like (from GCP's terms of service):

> 13.1 Limitation on Indirect Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER PARTY, NOR GOOGLE’S SUPPLIERS, WILL BE LIABLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR LOST REVENUES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF THE PARTY KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE AND EVEN IF DIRECT DAMAGES DO NOT SATISFY A REMEDY.

> 13.2 Limitation on Amount of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER PARTY, NOR GOOGLE’S SUPPLIERS, MAY BE HELD LIABLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR MORE THAN THE AMOUNT PAID BY CUSTOMER TO GOOGLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.
Paying a "safety driver" to sit in the car seems like a small price to pay if it means this (minimum wage?) person takes the manslaughter charge instead of Uber.
Only if the acquisition hasn't closed yet. If it has, who's there to go after?

But you're actually right -- if the acquisition hasn't closed yet, they're independent and independently responsible.
What are the thoughts about https://www.rtings.com?

Are there other sites that don't ignore some of the best products?
Can a human driver handle those things?

I had a near-collision when I was headed to work one day. I was going the speed limit on a major four lane road. I noticed ahead of me that a car was stopped in a neighboring lane. It wasn't clear if it had broken down or what, so I started slowing down. Cue a group of kids jaywalking, and running in front of my car causing me to slam on my brakes.

Had I not seen or reacted to the already stopped car (or had it simply not been there), I probably could not have stopped in time. Not that I wouldn't have absolutely tried my best, but physics dictates that a compact SUV going at 45 mph doesn't come to a stop immediately.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't evaluate whether Uber seriously messed up and should face dramatic consequences - it certainly seems like they disabled a critical safety system that would of saved the pedestrians life.

Rather, we shouldn't make such grandiose statements like "Jaywalking shouldn't carry a death sentence" which don't really touch on the facts of the case. We should instead ask, "Did Uber's negligence cause this to result in a death when it shouldn't of been one?"
Hi tries to blame USA for mistakes of his own country.
That is not in fact true.

ENTER copies M words from the caller's stack frame. The pointer passed by MetaWare High C/C++ in the register could equally well have been placed at the relevant position in the caller's stack frame, just as other arguments are, and an ENTER N,1 used as part of the perilogue.

The only consideration here is speed of the ENTER instruction versus having the hidden pointer in a register, not that this sort of nested function implementation is somehow impossible with ENTER. It's just another case of ENTER is slow and other instructions do the same thing better.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/function-perilogues.html#Standardx86

(Part of that consideration is making non-nested functions usable via full function pointers.)
JPEG XL is a new standard. Guetzli is a (extreme) compression approach for the existing standard.
How deep is your car?
One of the banks I used "updated" their iOS app and used Material Design. It's infuriating.

The thing that bothers me the most is the "switches" (3rd example here[0]). My first thought upon updating the app was "Why did they reinvent the toggle switch when iOS has a perfectly good one built in?" Being bothered by this is irrational, yet I'm bothered by it all the same.

I also find the ripple effect[1] when pressing things to be infuriating. Just do the action I've asked, don't do this animation and delay the action by half a second. Again, this is somewhat irrational, but it still bothers me.

Perhaps the thing that bugs me the most is that it feels like I have a really well-designed Android app on my phone. The problem though is that I have an iPhone. If I wanted to use Android apps, I would have bought an Android phone.

[0] https://material.io/design/components/selection-controls.htm...

[1] https://material.io/design/interaction/states.html#pressed
Einstein’s Greatest Theory Validated on a Galactic Scale
> If you have driven at night you will know that a human can see much further than what is shown on the video footage

This is honestly what bothers me most. Firstly, I expect self driving to have massively more information at hand than humans do. I'm talking long range, 360deg sight. I expect multiple sensors to be recording at all time, analyzing. And finally, I expect a "black box" to be able to visualize all of this for cases like this.

Visualizing is something I think needs to be black-box level standardized. It's what we need to hold them accountable, I think. We're dealing with proprietary implementations - so humans should be able to review black box "footage"[1] and decide if the scenario was handled better or worse than a human.

There's going to be times where this system fails, and I'm not expecting perfection. Yet, humans in non-private positions need to be able to regulate how Uber and friends are behaving on the road.

A short sighted grainy video that looks like it was from 1990 is not cutting it. Fully unacceptable in my view.

[1]: I say footage loosely, because I imagine a lot of the scanned data is just that, data. So it needs to be rendered in a human friendly, visual manner, fully understandable by lawmakers.
I’m not sure we’d like the result of that. Even milk is produced by the terrible way of separating mothers from their children. Anyone who’s been to a dairy farm knows most of those cows are absolutely miserable for the majority of their lives.

The other cows we eat. :p
That's true if you have a free market, but the healthcare market is not free due to supply restrictions (can't make new doctors easily), demand restrictions (employer or government bears most of the cost, but patients are consuming healthcare services), and complex regulatory things that increase overhead. So an idealogically pure libertarian would argue that unions are bad, but a more pragmatic libertarian could argue that unions are bad overall, but might help address some of the current problems with the healthcare system.
> - I sell a $20 Photoshop plugin, and $4000 is not much revenue to suddenly have to register for & remit South Dakota taxes.

I wonder if Adobe publishes how many noneducational Photoshop licenses South Dakotans buys a year. As I highly doubt you're in any danger of needing to pay SD tax.
Thanks for the summary and addendum - not sure why you're getting downvotes.

> the vast majority of civil war surgeries involved some form of anesthesia

I can't find the article at the moment but I recall seeing somewhere that it was pretty common for incorrect amounts of anesthesia to be administered and many patients waking up (or worse, being aware of their surroundings and able to feel pain but being unable to move or scream; a personal nightmare of mine). Even if this was a small minority of cases it's still haunting enough to leave a legend that roughly corresponds to the myth you cite.
They didn't want to pay to have two people in the car anymore.
I honestly don't know where Tesla's head is. I'm surprised that when I turn on the turn signal to change lanes, and the car has detected something in my blind spot via sonar sensors, that it doesn't give me a tone or something. Let alone showing me video from one or both of that side's cameras.

Tesla, in putting it's targets on self driving, has omitted a lot of low-hanging fruit that would make significant day-to-day difference to drivers right now.
That is generally true, but it's painfully slow for any operations that aren't vectorised or waiting on I/O.
Amazon spotlights work with federal immigration agency
> Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage.

Its not just seeing it as such, it is. Data is everything these days.
Because drugs have side effects, which may have contributed to why she put herself in the position to be hit by a car that she probably should have seen.
Why would you lose your stock options when the company got sold?
That's obviously not true. Real-world testing should be the last phase, after the car has succeeded at simulations. They're building a mock urban environment near my home for just this purpose.
I didn't really have a childhood that could be described as "difficult", but having grown up on a farm and having ended up workin' in the big city for a tech company, I suspect we have at least one common experience.

Do you ever sit and think sometimes how weird it is, to know all these things and have all these skills from your earlier life that have, like, no relevance or use in your current life?

It's weird to me how much I know about pigs, tractors and corn/soybeans/wheat that just doesn't come up much when you're sitting at a computer typing all day. (Hay bales should be stacked "sideways", to allow air to flow up through them, so that they will dry safely and not spontaneously combust. With straw it is fine to stack it any which way; some people prefer to stack it with the wires up so that it is easier to walk on, others the same as hay for consistency.)
It's not a problem on your side. It happens on all sites with material icons... But thanks.

I'm just trying to use the smart people on Hacker News to help me with my issue! :-P
If stop using js, then TypeScript, WebAssembly or other alternatives?
In the realm of embedded languages (which is dominated by Lua), Gravity seems like a great improvement.

A lot of game developers attach a small scripting language to their game engines because C++ isn't a good language for rapid game logic prototyping, and takes ages to compile. The majority of them use Lua for this purpose. Lua is certainly simple and elegant, but has its shortcomings (no direct support for classes, 1-based indexing, indexing a wrong field returns nil, can accidentally declare global variables on assignment, lack of syntactic sugar...) I've looked at other languages such as Angelscript, Squirrel, Wren, etc..., to use for game development, but I think Gravity is the cleanest and has the most features so far. I'm still curious about the performance though (If it runs about the same as non-JIT Lua I'll call it a success, given how Lua is much simpler than Gravity)

Even if you aren't a game developer, scripting languages also has its use with UI development. The majority of UI developers use Javascript with a combination of web technologies, so that's one example. Even QT developers use a scripting language called Qt Quick (which also resembles Javascript a bit), because C++ can be too tedious for rapid prototyping. The author of Gravity have also developed this language for mobile UI Development, so it seems good for its intended usage.

The language isn't particularily shining on new concepts, but I think it will be very useful for some of us.
The ModInverse and GCD improvements will be very welcome in a demo I just wrote for trustless card playing[0].

I'm beginning to wonder if there will become more value in "lifting" binaries to LLVM IR, applying all opts to them, and re-compiling them. McSema does this[1] albeit you have to setup IDA and what not. Has anyone applied this to Go programs and measured its benefits for their specific use cases?

0 - https://github.com/cretz/go-mental-poker
1 - https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema
Thank you for making this more tangible.
As a YT creator with 200k+ subscribers, shit like this scares me. Fortunately, I do not put all my eggs in one basket, and YouTube is just one of 4 ways I monetize my business.
Don't forget to roll your eyes.
> I read somewhere though, I think one of those decade long Harvard studies that having chores when young was the biggest factor in how successful people became.

That seems to make sense.

> I presume poor kids have to play a bigger role, hence have more chores in ensuring that household is fed and clothed.

But this seems to imply that poor kids are more successful because they do a lot of chores by virtue of being poor.
There was no software or hardware error. It didn't break, it worked exactly as it was programmed. Which is the problem, and one of the many reasons Uber is at fault.
Sure, but I feel you're ignoring my point.

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