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I remember ads you could find in computing/science magazines back in the 80s and early 90s in France, and they were all about technical specs and performance for certain use-cases. Pretty cool stuff. Now it's just colour puke and buzz-words.
Not yet (technically - I have tried a few times with a DSLR in the past but generally always been thwarted by clouds etc.)
> lol

"I'd rather assume other people are incompetent than accept that maybe maintaining tens of thousands of components presents unique challenges that I could learn from."
Yeah the whole point is to make it loose and organic instead of rigid and quantized :)
I remember the buzz when Sketch 2 came out in 2012. Tons of us switched immediately. Whilst I think Sketch has stagnated since then, what it initially offered was a lightweight tool that was designed around the types of primitives we used as designers.

Most notably, CSS3 border radiuses were finally being supported, and doing them in Photoshop was awful. It was really simple stuff like that. It just felt right at the time.
Investment banks were leveraged 40:1

The consumer banking side of the story has almost nothing to do with it
Can someone explain how the accounting plays out on these write-downs? So they take a $4.5B write-down in the value of the assets, does that mean they now have a "loss" to use against their income and reducing their taxable income?
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There's a pattern of left-leaning mathematician he fits into, that I also see in some other mathematicians, one example being LKY and probably his son. People who would have equality of outcome as a goal, but see through the bullshit, aren't inclined to play along with it, are smart enough to understand concepts of trade-offs and incentives, and stay tied to reality instead of drifting off into a world of words and analogies. They look kind of right wing, but they'd support an inheritance tax that real right wingers would oppose.
I doubt they'd be able to 100% buy tbills at that maturity length (hence curiosity on what they're doing on the backend here), but even assuming 2.30~ average plus whatever Mastercard kickback is negative 50-70bp is still a hell of a margin to make on selling consumers tbills and not raising funds for your own investment activity

edit: a better way to explain it - we'll give you tbills at 3% p.a and let you pull out/in whenever you want and handle the rest is a hell of a business model without the rest of the story
Who at MIT? We need to start attaching responsibility to actual individuals and not just the organizations they belong to.
In 2007 I don't think it was nearly as clear that challenging them was an option. But I'm also sure that similar things go on all the time and we just don't learn about it.
“Private” photos that people uploaded to Facebook.

Sounds like a good time to reiterate the advice: Don’t upload things to the internet that you don’t want to be on the internet. That way there won’t be any of your things on the internet that you didn’t want to be there.
I personally enjoyed this quote from Ken Burns' Civil War.

"You can sell anything to the government at almost any price you've got the guts to ask".

-- Jim Fisk ( War Profiteer )
Well done for getting them to pay up!

This looks a lot like the one I found a while back (after falling victim to it myself and spending a few weeks looking for it). Reported it through HackerOne and thanks to a shirty Twitter developer and his boss, got a permanent ban from HackerOne.

Needless to say, if I find anything else of this magnitude, I'll be keeping it to myself.
In the case of _pranks at MIT_, which has a rich history of outrageous pranks, I'd hoped it would have affected their reaction to it, much as one would hope that students wouldn't get arrested for breaking an entering if they did it to assemble a Volkswagen in someone's office.
What is your personal definition of the term "unit vector?" Do you suppose there's a reason why no other textbook or Web site defines it the way these authors do?

Are there only N unit N-vectors, as the book says, or are there an infinite number of them?
Changes to Google's service model in Europe
I remember (but cannot find a citation) in ~2005/6 AIG was offering 4% saving accounts. I'm having deja vu all over again.
As usual, I'd like to point out how scummy this site really is.

The paywall advertises a "Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription" which is more expensive than the standard subscription and explicitly states "No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking" as one of the perks.

Trying to buy it has the following:

> By subscribing, you agree to the above terms, the Terms of Service, Digital Products Terms of Sale & Privacy Policy.

On the privacy policy, we have this:

> hen you use our Services, third parties may collect or receive certain information about you and/or your use of the Services (e.g., hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date, information about your interactions with advertisements and other content), including through the use of cookies, beacons, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technologies, in order to provide content, advertising, or functionality or to measure and analyze ad performance, on our Services or other websites or platforms. This information may be combined with information collected across different websites, online services, and other linked or associated devices. These third parties may use your information to improve their own services and consistent with their own privacy policies.

There is absolutely no mention of the "Premium" ad-free subscription in the privacy policy at all, so they are still granting themselves the right to stalk you all over the place even with the premium, more expensive subscription.

Not to mention, the privacy policy page itself loads a handful of different trackers before any kind of consent was even granted. I can see Google Analytics, something from "c.go-mpulse.net", something else from "bam.nr-data.net" explicitly sending my user-agent in the URL (why? They'd get it in the headers anyway), Google News JS, Google Pay and the New Relic JS agent.

My only response to this is a big "fuck you" and this link: https://outline.com/zd5du7 so you can read the content without any of that garbage and without paying them since they don't even deserve a single penny.
"Space for everything! Your life, uncompressed! Top standard tier, 200GB!"

OK, I'm a photographer. But I literally outgrew a 300GB drive about 10 years ago, and genuinely shot nearly 100GB in one week on a trip earlier in the year. Heck, my music collection's over 100GB. (No, I don't stream. Too much obscure stuff, too many low bit rate feeds.)

Those numbers. Bit basic. I remember the days when Google's storage offerings were light years ahead of the competition and effectively infinite for most uses.
When you render your components, you do so in a Shadow DOM where CSS neither enters nor leaves.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-component...
The vast majority of people should just be maxing out their 401k and investing in index funds.

They shouldn't be using Robinhood to buy individual stocks, buy cryptocurrency, or do options trading.
oh ok. I was confused by "(kafka)" in the title. Mods can you please remove kafka from the title.
Here’s a great tip - learn to strap up without sitting down.

Or, go to a steeper part before strapping up.
IBM protects your cloud container data running under Kubernetes with encryption
When you are code a `switch` you're telling the compiler what you want. So you get decades of compiler optimization working for you.
That must be very recent. I had contactless cards on half my cards in Canada a decade before hand in comparison.
Blue Origin is presently spending a great deal of money developing New Glenn. I would be very surprised if we don't see a flight test of the "v1.0" full scale rocket before 2025.

Virgin Galactic has nothing in development with anywhere near the velocity capability for low earth orbit. Going up in a parabola to 100 km or 150 km and then coming back down again, a few hundred km down range, is a very different sort of delta-v requirement versus putting something in a stable orbit.

They are in "about the same place" for things that are flying now, but for the next generation beyond that, Blue Origin is far ahead.
Ask HN: Maths Hackernews
Are there any websites like hackernews for mathematics which posts recent papers, advancements, unsolvable problems?
What is stopping the non-asshole savants from succeeding now? Would a lack of competition improve things further? And of course who decides who is an asshole and making sure they aren't the biggest one of all.

Also one is dealing with far ends of the bell curve by definition - there may not be a replacement with every desired trait. Overfiltering on the irrelevant is the action of literal historical losers like trying "German Physics" or Lysenkoism instead of Bourgeoisie genetics.

Not to mention there are plenty of non-savant assholes in charge - if we want to get rid off assholes wouldn't it make sense to oust the savants last as they have actual utility above the norm?
You can run TensorFlow Lite on a Pi with no problems at all. You can even train and run basic gesture recognition with full TensorFlow on a Pi.

Source: wrote a tutorial doing this for Arm (https://github.com/ARM-software/ML-examples/blob/master/mult...)
We use styled-components, which is one of the most commonly used css-in-js libraries, and it supports both pseudo-classes and browser breakpoints. I'm not sure how applicable this argument is, my experience runs counter to the premise.

I've also done animations in JS using react-motion and react-flip-move and had a pleasant experience with both.
The US is intervening in Yemen; without our support for the Saudis incinerating people there, there wouldn't be a war.

We also certainly intervened in Ukraine by fomenting a coup there. Rolling tanks there would probably be WW-3.

None of these interventions has made life better for anyone other than the evil ding dongs at Brookings and in the Pentagon.
Affinity make great products
No, it's much worse than the financial crisis.
I have seen this site some days ago (reddit maybe?) and I really like the concept! The design is very clean!

One feature I'd like: A way to slow down the render so we can see the whole generation in slow-motion.
Cancer research is only one example, a new road also requires a minimum amount of money. Many people would happily pay for their chunk of a new road/bridge if it made the difference between having it and not because the cost is less than the utility. But, you don’t see charities to build roads because that model does not work in that context.

As to efficiency that’s not really relevant. What I pay to see a movie is divorced from what it takes to make the movie. All I care about is the utility.
That seems to depend on the phrasing of the friend's statement, along with ambiguity in the word "know".
The US spends $10200 a year per head on healthcare, most of it ($8k a year) government or compulsory spending.

Canada spends $4800 a year on healthcare in total -- under half that of the U.S. Israel spends $2800.

That's a sign of a broken system.

Use Canada's system, cut your mediacare/aid tax, and your companies no longer need to spend money on healthcare when employing them. Using Canada's system removes the tax on jobs that the U.S. loves so much.

> You get to have that system because the US has taken on the role of global police

Why? Who benefitted from invading Iraq? Who benefits from a dozen different aircraft carrier groups around the world?
Yeah sorry I haven't quite got around to preparing all the materials (I spent 2 days this week just getting the project off the prototyping board and into something I could slot into my rack permanently).

I forced myself to complete this video without worrying too much about total accuracy (which I probably wouldn't have managed if I hadn't given myself such a hard deadline) but it did mean it resulted in a tighter story.

I was hoping anybody who might actually want to build one of these would start badgering me in the YouTube comments :)
Agree - although I have an additional criteria for digital things: is it fungible? - in the sense that if the current service provider takes it away from me there is a realistic chance of getting an identical copy from elsewhere for the foreseeable future.
I think you're missing an important point.
Not all CSS in JS solutions attach styles as inline styles.
Some of them, such as Styled Components [1] and Emotion [2] (and many more) will actually generate proper CSS Stylesheets and attach them to the document, thereby enabling usage of all CSS features—including, for example, pseudo-classes.

This may incur some additional runtime cost when the page loads (which is definitely nothing to dismiss), but should be (roughly) as performant as "native" styles after.

They still come with other disadvantages (and advantages), so I'm not saying you should definitely use them, but maybe you should take a look at some implementations you might not have seen yet.

Personally I arrived at the conclusion that they're not for me and that I'll just stick to SCSS.

[1] https://www.styled-components.com

[2] https://emotion.sh
periodic reminder: if your employer (especially your private sector, non-union employer) offers you a buyout? Jump on it.

After the first round of layoffs, there's a lot more stress, and the severance, almost without exception is a lot less generous for the second round of layoffs. Take the package; find a new job.
Any company that talks about their old "move fast and break things" motto as if it's a good idea should be treated this way (or not used at all).

In industry perspective: We call ourselves "engineers", but real engineers are held accountable when they sign off on using an untested metal alloy in bridge joists and then people die when the bridge collapses. Facebook's constant bad engineering may not kill people directly, but it does lead to a lot of really important information stolen, peoples financial future being ruined, and who knows what other consequences for their users. If you still work for Facebook in this day and age you should be ashamed of yourself; I know people can justify just about anything while claiming that they'll "make it better from the inside" or because they just need to collect a fat paycheck and are comfortable and don't want to look for something new, but we need to fight these impulses anywhere we work.
The EVM Is Fundamentally Unsafe
It's open source, so you can just clone the source code and run the server locally on your computer. I've been running it like this for a long time :-)
Adobe software became notably worse (IMO) shortly before they went to subscription model. I remember the change from Illustrator CS2 > CS3, they totally ruined the flow. It feels like they make changes just for the hell of it sometimes.
What about sass modules? Independent .scss files per component, with no class name clashes. Or are you counting that as css in js?
Gephi?
If you need a lightweight web UI for Postgres - have a look at https://sosedoff.github.io/pgweb/
They could adopt a different business model. Open source business models are hard.

What they're doing is changing to a proprietary license and keeping the business model. That's a fine thing for them to do, and lots of their customers are going to choose different software as a result.
Is scoped CSS different from CSS in Js?

Sorry for the noob question.
What's the removal date for this service?
The article states "...organic food is so much worse for the climate is that the yields per hectare are much lower, primarily because fertilisers are not used." It uses this metric to assume organic agriculture increases deforestation and is thus worse for the environment.

The flaw in this reasoning? Fertilizer manufacture is responsible for the majority of our current atmospheric CO2 emissions.
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Short answer: It doesn't unless you follow some light "Design by Contract" principles... unfortunately that flavor never really caught on.
Immediately took me back to Logo and 9 year old me trying to figure out how to move the turtle :) Great memories!
Yeah America is fairly bizarre in what is advanced and what is from 30 years ago. But you do get things like generous rewards cards, no exchange fee international ATM & credit cards on many accounts and so on. Not to mention cheap consumer goods.

In Canada we had none of that.
It's an interesting question but I think we need more detail with supporting evidence and not just assertions.
The people sexually assaulted on the subway, discriminated against because of their skin color or sexuality in taxis, and those recorded in their beds without their consent in hotels would all presumably argue that crimes happen even without SV investment money.
This is a valid concern but your comment really highlights a big problem with these discussions: your wording implies that this is universally bad but your examples are both things where it's impossible to say whether a given move is a win, loss, or wash without fairly detailed data. An increasing percentage of people are either mobile-only or mobile-primary, so making things mobile/tablet friendly is probably a good idea for most sites. Similarly, customization has significant training and support costs and removing infrequently used features to add things more people care about is a classic business trade-off.
> That does not mean they automatically deserved what they got

Indeed, and I said the same about Aaron.

Snowden's a different case as he didn't break the law to show up the law.

But it's critical to history that Rosa Parks broke the law. If she had just annoyed a racist bus driver then there's no shining a light on the system. And crucially, that's what Aaron was attempting to do too.
Sure, I've updated the post so it doesn't imply that we comply with the OSI open source definition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757437
"You see, Mr. Griffin, what makes us different from other banks is that we're not a bank."
Audi X IOTA Collaboration Successfully “Pushes New Use Case to Reality”
Individuals can't do things like this without an organization.
I don't want to defend either of

- Uber/AirBnB's regulatory abitrage

- assault, harassment, or illegal discrimination

but this is a complete non-sequitur. The laws that they're avoiding have nothing to do with individuals hurting other individuals. And assault, harassment, or illegal discrimination are perfectly possible in the context of a licensed hotel or taxi.
I, for one, welcome...

But, seriously, I think just aesthetically, these whegged robots are a lot less creepy than robots with articulated legs; a lot less robot like.
Have now added the original Snippet Code as GitHub gist to the website.
I found knowing the mechanics of Gaussian elimination to be really helpful when learning about algorithms like SVD or using Householder transformations. Knowing how the matrices became triangularized gave me something to hang the new information on.
Why, the source is open. You can use it to look for bugs, to make your own optimized / customized / verified build, etc.

The change applies to making the running code available in certain ways, not to access to the source.

I wonder how "free as in freedom" such software is, though. OTOH AGPL is considered "free software" by GNU, so this likely is, too.
my response to this is always in the vein of, "how exactly should customers show they care?"

"Well, leave!" isn't an option. They can't leave. Quitting Facebook when you're an active user means you lose a huge amount of social contact. I can think of a dozen people I know who are there because it's how they send baby pics and the like to family. They're non-technical and don't care about federated mastodons, they just want to see their niece and go to their high school reunion.

So yeah they get really mad at this stuff but the network effect is so strong, you can't simultaneously convince the entire graduating class of whatever to plan reunions via some new thing when 1)everyone's already on facebook and 2)they've been using it for so long it's part of their workflow.
Sadly, this is the nature of open source and decentralization. If your code can be easily forked, if consumers have freedom and control instead of an authoritarian entity gatekeeping what can be done with their software, then fragmentation will occur.

As users tweak and change systems and software to meet their needs, a variety of options and choices become available. Each branch on the tree results in further fragmentation. For the standard user this is a bad thing as it means they can't just learn one widespread system. For users like me this is a boon, because it gives variety. If I don't like how Gnome works, I can use KDE, if I don't like APT I can use YUM. If I don't like SystemD, I can use another INIT system.
I think it should be studied. Singapore famously uses them, and has vanishingly-tiny street-crime/property-crime rates. See, for example:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/16/singapores-crime-rate-is-so-...

My hunch is that it could work because it provides a cheap, rapid symbolic "closing of the psychological loop" – offense, capture, punishment.

Even though the tangible costs (in money and time) may be less, the necessary messages are sent to change the calculations of the sort of people who choose such crimes. Indeed, there may even be less collateral damage to their other lawful relationships (job, school, family), compared to jail time spent with (and learning from) other worse criminals.

In the US, jail time is a theoretical punishment, but very inconsistently applied because the courts and jails are crowded. Such uncertainty lessens the deterrent effect, and leaves the victims of petty crimes feeling helpless.
I'm no fan of AirBnB, but all of those things have happened at hotels.
Each field seems to have its own nomenclature. I recognize 'instrumental variables' from a (bio-)statistics course, so I think that's a pure statistics term. Larry Wasserman has a vocabulary chart in 'All of Statistics' (there's a PDF I won't link to) that lists terms differing between statistics and computer science. For example he writes that 'using data to estimate an unknown quantity' is called 'estimation' in statistics and 'learning' in computer science.
I've become convinced that people were already looking for a concrete reason to dislike Facebook. They resent the presence of social media in their lives and the influence it has, not to mention the annoyance and over-saturation.

But they see some usefulness too and/or don't want to be out of the loop, so they're not ready to totally walk away. So they remain in a situation they don't like, and there's been a lot of simmering frustration.

Then this data collection thing came along, and it became a way of venting some of that frustration. So it became a myth that a lot of people believe in. A myth because, while Facebook definitely isn't perfect, people believe it is doing certain bad things it really isn't.

To me this suggests that, like a couple who has a big argument over some trivial non-issue, there is probably some other real issue that needs to be sorted out.
That definitely is useful, and I do usually end up doing that when I first get off the lift. The problem is more that when I fall on the hill, it's more difficult for me to unstrap a foot, stand, and strap it back in than it would be just to get up from my toes and turn. The upside to all this is I've actually got pretty decent at doing toe-to-heel turns quickly.