skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my question is essentially this: what difference is there between visual programming and it's representation as a GraphViz graph?

These are two ways of representing the same concept: you could save the visual representation as a text document.

So what makes Visual Programming not have a textual representation? What makes them inherently incompatible with each other?

Because as of now, what I am seeing are the comments from people who used primarily proprietary tools, and those proprietary tools don't allow you to edit textual representations of the graphs directly because it makes the vendor lock-in so much easier.
Come on..., Evolution is not settled science? That's refreshing?
> rapid unplanned disassembly

Is that proper aerospace lingo, like "controlled flight into terrain"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
Don't do accessibility just for the disabled. Normal people are slowed down by today's graphics design for websites, too. If it's thin and gray on your retina display, guess how it looks on my 13year old monitor with washed out CFL, or on cheap phone outside when the sun is shining. How it looks when your stupid website is presented on the wall projector (you know, on a meeting to a group of people deciding whether to buy your service subscription or not), or printed on the paper.

Reading mode had to be invented, so that many websites could actually be read.
If you didn't like caching the map iterator, you could have cached the pointer to the value object instead i.e. Foo* cached_value = &mymap[this_thread_id]. Although caching the map iterator sounds perfectly fine to me.
Please point out where in my comment I make any reference to reasonability.
Tens of thousands refuse 'extension of life' in South Korea
If you want it done and don't have the skills you can hire someone who does.
True, but look at painted images! I recognized them from a book I read in the 80s. Amazing stuff.
Cute! Sadly it doesn't handle my .it or .s3m files.
GitHub link: https://github.com/steffest/bassoontracker

Everything about this makes me giddy with excitement, from the cursor to the faded out numbers in the digital display. I "miss" these times, yet I was born too late to enjoy it in real time. I hope the demoscene lives on forever and we keep seeing it pop up in future tech.
Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE
Meanwhile... Google, Microsoft and Apple* _receive_ money from their users to harvest the same personal data that Facebook is willing to pay their users for and nobody bats an eyelid.

* Apple is probably the least guilty here, however as long as their OS remains closed, we don't actually know how much personal data they are harvesting.
Great example of why we need diverse browser culture, instead of a Chrome monoculture.

When we hand Google a browser monopoly, we hand them de facto authority over everything related to the web.

It will effectively be up to a single for-profit entity with questionable-at-best motives how we see the web in fundamental ways.

That's not to say the work they're doing here is bad. Might be good. And it's a long ways from production. But that's besides the point.
Well the article talks about "collapsible corporations", so the corporate tax rate can be relevant to individual income. I'm not aware of anywhere with a 10% rate on individual income, but I'd bet on seeing the same kind of behaviour from rich individuals in such a place.
>legal and morally right

I guess the first question is, if I do something illegal, but either avoid being captured or manage to otherwise avoid prosecution by using money or influence, have I done something wrong, legally speaking?

Because there is an argument to be made that making money off of children's consent to contracts is legally wrong, but because of the widespread nature of doing such by those who have enough political power to impact how laws are enforced, the laws are not enforced to protect children. That we aren't correctly enforcing laws that protect taking advantage of a child by using consent that can't legally exist does not make the action legally right, or if it does, then we are effectively invoking the notion of "it isn't illegal if you don't get caught".
It said I had a neutral accent...

I grew up in the deep south and make Andy Griffith sound like a northerner.
From a certain size on they need each other. Apple can’t afford to lose Facebook and Facebook can’t afford to lose apple.
That's because he wasn't involved in the rescue itself.
Understanding Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling
Hm, Do you think its not CC0? Unsplash has same words:
https://unsplash.com/license

I added this one to make it even clearer:
"So you can be safe and sure: You can make commercial projects by using all music on WOWA, you just can't sell the music as it is or create another "WOWA" with this music."

Thanks
I think some things are more suited as not-for-profit entities.

Blogging is hard to monetize without coming off as evil or desperate, so why bother?

But then again, you still need to fund servers and such.
First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then...

Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.
I remember an article about the 90s when you had to be a paying member of MSDN to be able to file a bug report
XKCD - Steal This Comic

https://xkcd.com/488/
Hm, I'll look into it... :)
Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant
I've read some of and done exercises in The Algorithm Design Manual instead of CLRS as I was always told and read CLRS is more a reference. I found The Algorithm Design Manual interesting and nicely paced, not slow at all. I actually very much enjoy it and will often re-read chapters or sections and pick out things I might have just slightly glossed over.

I can't say anything about CLRS as I haven't read it or any parts of it.
Personally, I was excited by Medium all those years ago. Now I think twice before clicking a medium.com link. I really hate the obnoxious UI and usually close the tab before reading the article. Anyone else feel this way?
> If you don't want to deal with AMP, you can click the link icon at the top of the page, then click the link [...]

Apart from that that is "dealing with AMP," why is it so hard for Google to offer a "no amp in search results" setting? It's not like there is no case or desire for it.

Until they take that simple step, I see no reason to assume that pushing AMP isn't on an ethical par with distributing crapware. Google should know better.
The right to have your legally earned income is one given to you by society. It's not something that arose out of natural order, or given by God if you are a believer.

It is not absurd at all that society thinks you shouldn't have this right if it is at the expense of others. Society can take all the wealth it wants from you if it thinks there is a problem to be solved. Poverty for example.

Taxes are tool at civil society's disposal to tackle problems. Considering them immoral that they should only be used as a last resort is absurd.

It quite funny that we consider property more important than people's lives. In the current political climate, going to warnis easier than rising taxes.
Financial publications seem to fall for an aweful lot
> Does anyone have experience running in production?

We do:

https://klaviyo.tech/scaling-klaviyos-real-time-analytics-sy...
At least a solid third of the questions I wanted to check multiple boxes and a lot of it is context dependent or some terms are more specific than other terms but both work.

Rotary/roundabout

Yard sale/tag sale/garage sale

semi/semi truck/semi trailer/tractor trailer

sneakers/gym shoes

I suspect they didn't have a large enough sample size to allow multiple selections while still having the desired accuracy so they force you to pick something.
Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?
When I opened it I swear I got teary eyed. Things were so much harder that when you finally got something decent it just made you feel like you were king of the nerd hill.
and the monthly cost kept it out of greater adoption.

I believe it was also used for high fidelity, low latency audio for interviews and music production.
You can easily verify using Wireshark on a router, that neither Google, Microsoft or Apple are redirecting ALL INTERNET TRAFFIC through their servers.

This is quite a step up from sending home some telemetry data.
Sanity - World of Commodore 92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43uH-kQpzk
I don't expect a sensible result, I just imagined that I would get somewhere either close to the origin of the Americans I know personally, or close to the source of the media I consume (since those are my main connections with the English language), so I'm wondering why my pronunciation is closer to that area in particular instead.
Most people may not buy specific AirPlay speakers, but for example if you have an AppleTV or AirPort-express they can be used for this as well. I use it a lot and I'm glad iTunes can find them!
Here's my 2 cents.

Anyone who is telling you they have cracked the parimutuel pools, and "here's how to do it", is trying to sell you something else. Anyone who has actually cracked the parimutuel pools knows how they work, and that if you share your "tips", or selections, you only serve to diminish your own returns, so you are not going to do it.
I wouldn't be surprised if people have been flagging it. Back when FB was getting slammed for the Definers controversy among other ongoing controversies, multiple commenters were bemoaning HN's purported collective hate against FB. That said, makes sense for that thread to move down while this current discussion stays near the top, as this discussion contains the newest developments/fallout.

(in contrast, the similarly highly-upvoted Facetime bug thread [0] seemed to stay up longer, but no official fix had been made in the ~18 hours since it was first discussed)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19022353
Nintendo has different priorities. They use plastic screens instead of glass for instance.

Their focus is on building cheap but durable goods, e.g. plastic scratches more easily but is less likely to shatter catastrophically.

They have definitely had their own industrial design failures - the Wii would sometimes overheat in sleep mode, the 3DS would scratch its own screen when placed under pressure in a pocket, the Switch supposedly can have its screen scratched by a bent dock. The initial run of switch controllers had an issue where the left side controller could disconnect very easily. Of course when your product is $149 or $299 replacing it or living with a scratch doesn’t hurt as much...
Yep, I've had experiences early in my career where I found managers so impossible to deal with that I explored these kinds of theories.

But it's not really cool to go around diagnosing people with psychiatric conditions and extrapolating that out to make judgements about an entire organisation.

It takes different kinds of people to be where the buck stops in a high-stakes role for a huge organisation.

It doesn't mean they're pathological.

You can choose not to work with them, but best to avoid diagnosing them unless you're a professional who's asked to do so.
Monaco has 0% income tax: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/7243401/M...
>Facebook will lead the way to allow for smaller players to get away with doing this as well.

That's not how any of this works. It's hard to 'move fast and break things' when a company like Facebook has used all the loopholes and gotten caught.

Small players will never be able to replicate Facebook or their scummy tactics because at this point Facebook wants regulations. Regulations will ensure Facebook can and will continue to operate (can pay any fine) while the competition is hamstrung. If your competition is hamstrung it makes it easier to buy em up or wipe em out.

Just to come full circle Facebook purchased onvo so they could spy on users and figure out which apps they were using and how often. Facebook then used this data to buy up companies.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/12/05/facebooks-onavo-sp...
Where can I see your product?
Until the day a Google domain is accidentally blacklisted. Then suddenly there will be an internal whitelist where they get to decide what goes in.
Wireshark won't decrypt encrypted traffic.
> " had to relent "

You mean they totally embraced, rebranded and used it and it as a tool of mass control.
I don't have the know-how to write a Rust comparison (I'd happily accept a pull request from someone who does!), but I can take a to-do to add SwissTable benchmarks. :)
I feel that way about most bloggish sites, until I hit the readability button.

If they block that then I give up.
> I have to say, I am particularly fond of the first example on this page: https://exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/the-defaults-suck/ .

Also from the same page a very interesting point that I have not given much thought:

> Screen readers

> I’ve always assumed that adding detailed structural semantics to an HTML document is a good idea. I started to doubt if this is such a good idea when I observed casual computer users who depend on a screen reader. All elements that have some relevant semantic value, like heading levels, navigation items, links and forms get this meaning attached to it, which is spoken out loud. So this page would’t simply start with the title spoken out, but it would sound like heading level one, The defaults suck. When a page consist of many elements, things can become very annoying.
interesting idea, but personally this would create another problem which is: I'm not going to put my services in AWS because of this conflict of interests. You could start a VC x hosting war, interesting concept anyways maybe they can get in the ecosystem somehow, someday.
This ad piqued my interest in the specific articulation (velar pinch?) and it's origin or the region i.e. where the speaker, who is typically American, enunciates words ending in '-ing' as '-een' e.g. talk-een, think-een etc. I have since surmised, that it can be largely attributed to California, Texas, the surrounding South-West and rather surprsingly - Chicago! It is known as 'Chicano' English.

I would be more than happy to be corrected.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/shortcuts/2018/jan/03/di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano_English
The parent is referring to legal power, not military power.
but no matter which culture gets dominant, it's the conservatives who will try and maintain it (by definition) and the progressives the ones trying to change it
Thanks!
One of my favorite demos from Sanity remains Arte:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFh07lXfxTY
Then just look at Android... the stumble is global and bigger than Apple.

Go develop for Android, they are needing it.
I'm in games, and we really do have lots of vectors of maybe 8 or so elements. The small wins add up across the entire codebase.
> Even mercifully assuming they mean "photograph of the entire Earth", this is clearly nonsense. The Apollo 8 crew got excellent shots of our planet long before they entered lunar orbit.

Colour pictures from space (at least on the US side) go back as far as Alan Shepard who took this [0] image from Freedom 7 in 1961.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/milestones/earthinspace....
'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
Ah, but the difference this time is that the title is all upper case - SO IT MUST BE TRUE.
I have learned that I have peak efficiency in code in the early morning and stays strong for 6 hours. By 8 hours I start getting hung up on simpler problems and it’s just a waste of time to keep on going. Take time to relax and sleep. You will have the answer to your problem sometimes just minutes from wake.
I run my blog with Lektor on Netlify (no affiliation with either, except I recently became a Lektor co-maintainer) and deploying literally gives me happy feelings. It's amazing to be able to just deploy your blog wherever you want, and Netlify have done a great job at being a deployment target.
Almost by definition, we're only going to notice the "right things" they've done that they don't get called out on (i.e. have attention drawn to beforehand).
Same here. It's ironic that Medium was supposed to be a nice, clean reading experience — an alternative to all the crappy popup-ridden content mills.
2019 WORLDWIDE THREAT ASSESSMENT of the US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY [pdf]
I think its dependent upon your theme. For example with a dark theme it is like so : https://i.imgur.com/bwsyhjN.png
Every sentence could have been a tweet. It felt like I was reading a children's book. The sentences were very short.
Don't forget they don't take 90% from all your income - you pay it in thresholds:

UK for EG (figures approx as I dont have time to look them up).

First 11k 0%
11k to 44k 20%
45k and up 40%

So yes I pay 40% tax, but still take home a hell of a lot of my monthly paycheque
I am slowly turning into a Luddite. Whenever new devices come out I immediately wonder how they are used to spy on people as main purpose and helping people is secondary.

The ad-supported business model really has corrupted tech to the core.
... so they allow themselves to abuse each other? Maybe enterprises should have % penalties built into their contracts here to effect the appropriate behavior if the normal rules don’t (or can’t) apply.
To avoid controversial topics and flame wars (and likely to prevent heavy load on the servers since large threads cause significant strain on HN it seems)
There's a surprising amount of engineering in rocketry. That's what these methodologies are designed for: people who know what they're doing, taking responsibility for what they're doing. One of the points of Lean at Toyota was that anyone on the factory floor could stop the process if they felt it was irresponsible to continue.

Of course rockets are far bigger with much higher stakes than cars, but nothing about that justifies taking engineers out of the loop.
See the comments section of the article where author addresses this.
It's not directly related to the story, but Write.as federates the content to Mastodon and others in the fediverse.
The mind of a crypto quant
Why don't all browsers simply visually emphasize the TLD and second level domain (or third level in a case like example.co.uk) in any given URL?

Yes, sometimes it is not easy to recognize the real address in a scam URL like "dropbox.com.scam.ru" but browsers could make absolutely clear what the TLD and SLD are.
Evaluating Proof-Of-Work Consensus Protocols' Security
Automatic Machine Learning Is Broken
Top idle games to play in the browser –while doing something more productive
Seems to me that conservatism is already deadly in the long run, just look at current climate crisis as example.
Luxury Real Estate Developers Use the ‘Void’ to Build Sky High
No idea where it'd originate from, but in central Utah it's common. A few others I've remembered include (similar to fer) your -> yer, our -> are, really -> rilly, prescription -> perscription, sale -> sell.

Robit is pretty funny, like a frog? Haven't heard anything like that.

A random YouTube search shows what I'd consider representative for the area, at least around my age, only a couple of fers though. Overall fairly "neutral". https://youtube.com/watch?v=k3IdMkc-aD4 Your sibling mentioned a similarity with Appalachian people, maybe some of it is a mountain thing, though if they had in mind anything like https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bn8O6Nx3C6w I don't really hear much similarity.
> I want to support the artists ..

That is like eating in McDonnalds to support the workers there.

You mean you want to support the big media corporations that make good artists available to you...

Just making sure that you know what you are doing.
The way to eventually get towards ownership is through increasing your billings whereby the client is hiring the productive worker, at which point, it's usually when you become a partner of the company (effectively sharing in profits and losses).

The assumption that marketing, administration and sales work of business as non-productive is an arrogant view. While as engineers, we tend to think that doing the actual work counts more than the rest, clients actually value the other stuff and would be willing to pay much more for it as well. You can easily see this with enterprise contracts that value $25k to $1m or more, where they usually have account executives, project managers, training programs, etc. in addition to the product.
They don’t abuse each other but their users.
The top tier rate was that high to pay for WWII. The rate didn't go similarly high for Vietnam, Desert Storm/Shield, or Afghanistan/Iraq because we have played shell games to cover the cost, with the net result being huge national debt and the social security fund being low enough that it may not be able to continue full payments through my lifetime.

Wars cost money. Taxing the wealthiest the most keeps wealth in investments and productive companies while securing the lower and middle class to provide demand with their lower rates. If you want low taxes on the wealthy, avoid allowing a geopolitical situation in which war occurs, and don't enter into them unnecessarily.
Depends on the distro. Changing compilers or compiler flags and any dependent base libraries has a big impact on kernel size, and distros can tune kernel configs for size.

Fitting Linux on a floppy back in the day was about 80% tuning the kernel, and then playing with BusyBox size and finally things like compression or even repacking objects to align better. (It also helped if you had a floppy that could cheat it's way up to 1.68MB, a little known hack that traded reliability for space)
Uranium abundance: At the current rate of uranium consumption with conventional reactors, the world supply of viable uranium, which is the most common nuclear fuel, will last for 80 years. Scaling consumption up to 15 TW, the viable uranium supply will last for less than 5 years.

source: from 2011 phys.org - Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs

The amount of available Uranium is disputed of course, but I could not find sources about significant new finds. Canada is still the largest provider.

So "long-term" isn't something nuclear power excels at. Yes, yes, Uranium is found in traces everywhere. But economically extracting it for energy production is a different matter. Demand is higher than production even today.

What really would help us would be a good energy sink to store power produced by water/wind/sun.
Facebook’s latest data scandal is a glimpse into the future
How long until someone releases a gene-drive that dramatically reduces the yield of a staple food crop? Humanity is nowhere near responsible enough for this technology - we should be terrified of it.
The issue is you're claiming three incompatible things

- 'no copyright'

- 'CC0'

- 'you just can't sell the music as it is'

It is not possible that all of these things are true at the same time.

For example by claiming CC0 you have waived 'all of [your] rights to the work worldwide under copyright law', but then you try to assert the right to tell me not to sell them? How do you think this works?
Remember that in the case of the Facebook VPN, they were asking teens to install it -- which means the teens involved (according to US law) are a protected class: under adult age. Under age folks can't legally agree to participate in anything.
I used to live lektor, but thought it died. Hope to see it start moving again.
Companies are even more relevant because they have more leverage as buyers.
Privacy on the Internet – What Privacy? – Security Boulevard
> Every major site uses CDNs. Once AMP uses Web Packaging to show the URL of the original site instead of google.com

I disagree. Although wired.com might be served by fastly, fastly is not in the URL scheme and is treated as a 3rd party. There are a lot of browser restrictions on 3rd parties. Having fastly become a first party would definitely be different in terms of browser restrictions