skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be great if it differentiated the companies who pay based on your region/country vs based solely on the contribution (so you can live anywhere in the world while having your 6-figures (in USD)).
Network effects don't just exist in tech.

Delaware has the most developed corporate law and support services for corporate transactions (you can file charters, mergers, etc. within an hour there; good luck doing that in most other states, including CA). Every company that incorporates in Delaware adds further value to every other company that's in Delaware. Each marginal company adds to the Delaware legal corpus and support structure because (1) it ensures Delaware has the greatest variety and largest supply of potentially significant corporate legal cases, which means it has the greatest variety and largest supply of actually adjudicated cases and thus developed and stable law, and (2) it pays Delaware annual fees for those support services. This in turn attracts more companies to incorporate there because of that ever expanding corpus/infrastructure. And so on and so forth.
> I assume you can not tell any difference between 2k and 4k from the distance a laptop is supposed to be used

My 2013 13" macbook pro retina has a resolution of 2560x1600. I absolutely can tell the difference compared to 'Full' HD, just in crispness of image, beautiful font rendering etc.

So a 4K screen at 15.6" doesn't seem outrageous to me.
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Microsoft: “Time for Mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower”
Have had an S3 for 3 years, S5 for another 3 and now an S8 for one, and haven't had any burn-in issues.

Though I mostly find max brightness to be uncomfortably bright, so I usually keep it down in the 10-30% range (auto).

My gf likes to illuminate half the block with her phone though, and we both got the S8 at the same time, so will be interesting to compare.
In a Wild Wild West sense, you are ultimately in charge of your data and your outcomes. Because it doesn't matter what kind of laws supposedly constrain your insurance company or your accountancy; nobody can unring a bell, and it's human nature for information to spread.
India's main opposition promises universal basic income for poor
I disagree. Sure, it is a monolith as apposed to a micro-kernel, i.e. everything in the kernel shares the same address space. But it is highly modular in that most drivers and filesystems can be dynamically loaded/unloaded.
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I guess if you take into account micros embedded in things like washing machines, kitchen appliances, smart home devices, cars, etc... the figure could get close to 99%.
It could be the places he’s applying, he’s could be blindly submitting resumes, it could be anything. But out of all the things it could be, we don’t know if it’s about age.
Yes, that is essentially the main point. I am just not sure it is that relevant. Even if science is getting harder, so is the utility by itself. Transportation is very useful everyday, going to the moon is (while impressive and inspiring) useful mostly once. On the other hand I am not sure it has become harder to make science useful as such. Every incremental step in e.g. transportation can potentially matter a lot. So I have a bit of a hard time connecting that science would be harder and that it doesn't serve us. I am sort of left wondering what the agenda would be.
Personally, I lay the blame for this issue squarely at the feet of various UEFI implementations which fail to boot when the system's EFI variables are, for whatever reason, wiped clean. The UEFI spec explicitly states that clearing all of the variables on a system must not result in an unbootable system.
> audio and video capture has to start going before call is actually established at signaling level, in order to minimize call establishment delay. Audio maybe going through Bluetooth, for example, and waking up Handsfree mode of BT may take 1-2 sec

As a user, while I can accept capture starting before I answer, I cannot accept sending. I understand how it helps the speed of establishing calls.

But it means the only thing needed to spy on me from that is a software change ON THE OTHER SIDE. No way to know from my side if I'm good or not.
Is your phone from Samsung? Is it new?
If only half of the population is doing fine, 6% of them are hitting that fiber number.
Haven't seen this page before (although admittedly I only have a mac, I don't use any of Apple's other services/devices) but I like how it feels... "Apple".

First of all they convert the time automatically as someone already posted, which is a very welcome surprise.

The second (and most surprising for me) thing was that they only have 2 statuses: "Available" and "Issue". And while most status pages have trained us to expect that the antithetical of green is red that it immediately catches your eye, in this case it is a simple yellow diamond which is much less alarming. I sense the PR department had its saying in how to present service availability issues.
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Hi all,

I post 2 links for 2 github project.

The first one (influx-crypto-watcher) help you gathering history/streaming price (minutes) data about several crypto currency.

https://github.com/clementpl/influx-crypto-watcher

The second one let you code a strategy and backtest it on data history.

https://github.com/clementpl/influx-crypto-trader

The visualisation tool grafana is used to monitor our influxdb data, strategy, indicators, buy/sell.

https://grafana.com

The project is far from the end, but the actual version works well for backtesting strategy.

Actually the project is not ready for production/live environment. But for backtesting all is fine.
From the Docker website it looks like US only.
210k base? This probably needs another topic, but is this normal for bay area companies recruiting at senior engineer level now?
Most performance spec for WASM are not even finished (SIMD, Thread, ...). Doing a benchmark will be interesting when at least SIMD as been properly finished and implemented.
Yeah, but I get a lot more value from DocHub. HelloSign is not that good as a product anyway. Lame purchase, which would only increase my cost of Dropbox, which will force me to move to Google One. So, essentially, Dropbox is stupid squared. DocuSign and Adobe are still leading in the e-signature space.
It's more telling and announcing _to_ outside contributors, rather than asking, listening, discussing, and including them - two way communication This is think was the main complaint, so I was surprised to see it left unmentioned.
I must admit that when reading yet another privacy-invasion-headline I saw "Facebook", not FaceTime/Apple. Not sure whether it's more indicative of unjustified prejudice or actual precedent.
Thanks for the read!, a couple of questions:

> Now we are renting our own hardware and maintain the database. We have a lot better hardware than any of the cloud service providers could offer

Which provider are you using?

> That 30% we can use to hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day.

Where did you find this freelancer?
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as someone who is intimately familiar with CSS and doesn't have a problem using it - it's still poorly designed. I think the problem you have with it (and the one I have with it) is that it is in no way systemic. It's like PHP - it's evolved over time not by iterating on the foundations, but by tacking new features on. Flexbox/grid have solved a lot of the layout issues that required messing around with display:inline-block/margin:auto/float/clear for so long (by basically pretending none of it ever existed), but other issues are still around. The fact that box-sizing:border-box is not the default is basically down to netscape winning the browser wars. Shadows overlap even when they logically shouldn't. It's not nightmare-level but it is hard to mentally model at first.

I don't think it helps that most of the CSS I've seen in the wild is vastly over-complicated.
Yes, but I'd prefer something similar in C++, not C :)
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Even though they didn't have modern technology they abolutely did rely on technological help.

It was a pretty dark chapter. Not only for Germany and Europe in general, but also for the IBM Corporation[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Sure, but I don't think anyone can say with confidence "machines will never think" or similar things (unless we're debating about the definition of "thinking").

I remember reading that people who worked on "flying machines" said it wouldn't be possible to have heavier than air planes before decades or centuries (or even ever), little did they now that they already existed for a few months but the news didn't came to them yet.
In what universe does the number of binaries have anything to do with how monolithic something is?
That isn't an argument, you're just expressing your disagreement.

Even if it were an argument I'm not even sure it would be an argument worth having because it's likely entirely orthogonal given the context of the original statement (i.e. contrasting JS with CSS and HTML -- where whatever esoteric programming language you're thinking of is not an option to begin with).
Will drop you a note :)
Later always happens.
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P2P calls and video calls are patented. I don’t think anyone offers them anymore since the Virnetx cases.
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The key part of my point was "as long as the designer is aware of the constraints and opportunities of the medium they’re working in."

Designers coming from print often get caught out when designing for the web as they tend to think of a webpage as a fixed layout, rather than a flexible system of components.

It's also important to understand where the design and development budget should be effectively spent. For example, unless there's a real business or usability reason for doing so, there's little point in trying to custom-style form elements like selects as doing so is difficult and time consuming and system defaults look better and provide a more consistent experience.

We demand pixel-perfect accuracy at work between design and code – but the developers must approve the designs first to confirm that it's achievable.

I guess it comes down to what we define as 'pixel perfect'.
It runs its own logging system with non-standard interfaces and formats. It runs its own DNS resolver with non-standard behaviour. It maintains compatibility only with a narrow range of udev versions, which in turn maintain compatibility only with a narrow range of kernel versions. And all the d-bus interfaces between these pieces may change at any point without notice. So you can't replace any piece of it, because even if you provide your own component that implements one of the systemd d-bus interfaces, you've got no forward compatibility.
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I have 3. But I guess that doesn't say much.

Websites can show a 'add to homescreen' button.
I disagree. I think the rich like endurance sports because they're safe. My father was a triathlete. He could push himself to his heart's content and never worry about taking a kick to the temple.

Another HUGE factor is age. Rich people tend to be older. Older people can do endurance much easier than say, combat sports.
Hi, congratulations on your work, very enlightening. Could you please remove the "respect for user" and "anti-otherlibrary" propaganda and just explain your work as it is? Let it stand on it's own merit?
Like it or not, the Linux kernel is clearly the outlier in terms of backwards compatibility. For example, Postgres changes their data format in most non-bugfix releases. Would you consider that "a strike against" Postgres?
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Also, OLED displays have fewer subpixels as far as I know. I think LCD usually have Red/Green/Blue for every pixel, OLEDs don't. So on an OLED display, you need a higher resolution to make it look as sharp as an LCD.
Most cheap gaskets age less than gracefully.

Soft elastic but not ductile parts is where it is at, with good aging properties. Well fastened.

Spring steel best but heaviest, certain aluminum alloys, finally few specific plastics.
Criminalizing religion would be like criminalizing sex. It's a behavioral pattern based on instincts of the majority of the population, furthered by social proof and the political necessity of controlling the populace.

I supposed you could try to create a better religion. Do what thou whilst as the basic creed basically - which, incidentally, is what the church of satan preaches :)
FWIW I'm an ESL speaker from a non-English speaking country and despite having had endless exposure to (mostly American and British) English since a young age, I've never encountered the verb form of "buffalo" outside that one sentence. It's an informal North American idiom and by international standards apparently a fairly obscure one.

Policing OTOH seems to be a fairly widespread verb form with a clearly understood meaning (i.e. what the police conceptually is supposed to be doing). Unless you have close experience with buffalo, you probably can't infer buffaloing means "intimidating".

EDIT: Also as mentioned elsewhere, not everyone outside the US knows there are places actually called Buffalo or makes that leap when hearing the word "buffalo". So "Buffalo buffalo" is more likely to be read as "buffalo(n) buffalo(v)" (which already sounds weird if you don't already know what "to buffalo sb" means) which breaks down as soon as you add more buffalo to the sentence.
Few things:

1. TV sizes are getting bigger and bigger. You mightn't notice the pixels at the size of your current TV, but your current TV might be considered small by the standard of increasing screen sizes.

2. You mightn't be able to see the pixels on your 16" 2k screen or on a 4K TV, but your eyes aren't the only ones on the planet. To my eyes, 2k is old news; my 13" has 1600 pixels vertically. My left eye can barely see anything thanks to keratoconus, but with both eyes open I can still discern the difference between 720p, 1080p, and full 4K content on my TV — mainly in games and Blu Ray movies.

3. You don't need to rewrite every single application to support HiDPI displays — Windows already has scaling baked into the OS (and has for years), and the majority of apps support the feature with no issue; macOS has had Retina display support since late 2012 and only apps ported from Linux exhibit any weirdness.

4. All of the Galaxy phones have had OLED displays standard for years, long after 720p was considered a high resolution for a phone (back in 2011). Even some of the non-flagship models have HiDPI OLEDs and aren't particularly expensive.
Font rendering is the big one. It has a massive impact on the readability of complex characters at small font sizes.
I get it, but let's see: don't declare it and you may get a pass. Declare it and you're certainly going to jail for longer than tax evasion.
CSS is not hard. But there are certain things that are (needlessly) hard to solve with CSS. But it certainly got better with CSS3
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Debian Stretch works nicely for me without systemd
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I've got a 27" 5K iMac. At work, we've these 21.5" 1080p displays. I just can't use them, the text just looks so ridiculously blurry. Once you've seen HiDPI rendering, you can't go back.

I'm doubting GP has ever worked with HiDPI content for an extended period of time.
`I think CSS is beautiful` first thing which comes to my mind.
I read it as: police police (Internal Affairs) police(v) police.
I'd prefer serial control, so I can reliably control it directly from my PC without any wireless protocols: https://github.com/gcormier/megadesk/issues/12
radical anti privacy eh?

> prohibit any data to be concealed

Allright. Here's some questions then. Credit card number, expiry and code please? Also your age, sex, gender, name of any pets, road/city where you grew up in, name of your best childhood friend.

> That particular problem is a great example, where I don't see any harm in revealing that information, as opposed to keeping it secret

Really? You do not see an issue with releasing very private (_medical records) information in the open?

People have gotten killed over having HIV, and now you want to release a list of people who suffer from it?
Month long trips were vacations. And at a time when I was really off the grid. Though I’m currently on the road for 3 weeks for (mostly) a business trip with some off days in between stops.
Great list, thank you for sharing.
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How bad is it?

I ask because I'm interested in a tv and the prices are starting to enter the realm of sanity (IMHO).

I have a 2010 Plasma, and people said that would suffer from burn-in. The only issue I ever had with it is when I left a game or menu up for several hours, and a shadow image would be left. The smudges went away pretty fast when something else got displayed, and all is well 9 years on.

So ... does anyone know how bad the OLED problem is? Is it a bit overblown like the concerns about SSD writing shortening their useful lives? Or is this really something to be concerned about, and the industry is trying to brush it under the carpet?
> Nobody should ever be able to just download the entire table like that.

Easily said, but even the NSA couldn't protect from an insider obtaining tons of internal documents. Nor could google prevent the theft of LIDAR sensor trade secrets.
That's the sad truth.
No principles, just abusing the power of being superpower.
I’m not saying that it is hard to spot old people but the difference between 45 and 50 isn’t that great.

It wouldn’t have mattered either in my last two jobs or my current one since my managers were all older than I am. But, I don’t take any chances. I go to all my interviews clean shaven - bald head, and no facial hair specifically because of the ageism boogeyman. No one thinks twice about a Black guy with a bald head.

No I’m not saying that’s the answer for anyone else.
That’s because it isn’t a story. People are routinely arrested in China for things they share on the very-much-not-encrypted WeChat. Anything that goes through any chinese tech company can be assumed to be have been read and processed by the government.
Whenever someone moves to Germany, they have to get registered. One of the question is about the religion (for tax purposes). I'm surprised Germany still uses this kind of registry.
> CSS is not a real constraint language. If it really were a constraint language, it would be better. There's no constraint solver. Just a bunch of rules applied sequentially.

> I'd like to have a real constraint system, like the one in Autodesk Inventor sketch mode

Here you go: https://gss.github.io/

> GSS reimagines CSS layout & replaces the browser’s layout engine with one that harnesses the Cassowary Constraint Solver
Not that it matters, but I'm really happy about systemd.

Sure I have to learn new things, sometimes stuff breaks, but that has always been the case. For me most problems were with upgrading Linux distributions.

Anyhow it's great to have less distribution specific stuff and less shell scripts. Thank you and all the other systemd devs.
For the most part, agreed. However, the parent comment suggests that this is due to the exclusivity of "elite education" rather than the cultural factors that are present during poverty which also reinforce that poverty.

Part of the problem with this narrative is that it makes it seem like these universities are unreachable bastions of the elite, and not things that a kid from a mining town could go to. These institutions are accessible, and part of changing cultural norms is changing this perception.
if you avoid the absurd parts, JS is perfectly acceptable. The standard ways people write modern ES6+ CSS is fine.
Actually, I was wondering that there is no XMPP module.
It's a warzone.

I'm not sure what you hope to gain from a reply like this. Either I'm too ignorant to argue with (which is perfectly possible), but then what's the point of keeping up the conversation, or you I'm not, and then I have to wonder if you consider that a valid "argument".

As far as I know, freelance warzone reporters exist and are actually quite plentiful compared to salaried warzone reporters. And as far as I know, even those salaried warzone reporters mostly have to fend for themselves, at most relying on the newspaper's press card, since "it's a warzone" and the newspaper doesn't give them a force field against bullets or the automatic trust of the locals.

So I don't see why, assuming enough cash can be raised to pay for their expenses, freelancer warzone reporters must rely on newspapers buying their articles at 50¢/word instead of a broad base of individual contributors.

But hey, I'm probably quite wrong. I wouldn't know it from your replies, though.
> Im not sure if every times a brand describes a cheese as Parmesan they are trying to be misleading or trick people into thinking its from Europe

For sure not everybody but sure some do and for sure if you can make people think "this looks like the original stuff but at a nice price" that is a boon for your sales. You do not need to lie for this, often just having a not crappy design for the packaging is enough, since people often (and rightly so) don't really know what they want.

As an Italian we can get a bit emotional on this (and I truly think that some imitations are truly worthy of their own respect) but there is value in distinguishing a DOP brand, eg it make manufacturing much more accountable for the quality of their products.
Well they are patenting the individual peptides they discover, so they are likely to have a huge library of monopoly peptides.

Perhaps they can corner the cancer market and still make a $trillion while lowering costs per patient too. Peptides are very cheap to produce.
I was looking for a job in Vietnam in 2016. My impression was that there were a lot of big codeshops in Hanoi and Saigon writing outsourced code. There was also a not insignificant startup ecosystem, mostly using PHP.
older people can have complex lives

"Family obligations" affect young adults in their childbearing years more than 40+ with kids out and on their own way, generally.
Never seen a function to disable trailers completely (my dumb tv is a large, wall-mounted 3rd computer monitor, so I'm using the web interface), but at least they don't play sound which would probably make me cancel my Netflix subscription.
What you think? Will this finally bring the breakthrough for indoor navigation?
Speaking as someone who has no problem with either CSS, SQL, C++/java/perl/python/assembly or Jan Tschichold, the problem with CSS doesn't seem art-like, but rather SQL-like. People expect CSS/SQL to be like those other languages that also have indentation and (){}[], but they are based on other concepts.

C++ and Python may be different from each other, but they're both imperative block-structured languages with a strong emphasis on time and happens-before.

SQL is set logic expressed as ABNF. If you want to write good SQL you have to let go of assignments that happen-before other assignments. Instead there are sets, unions and other concepts from logic.

Debugging javascript is a little different from debugging C++. Debugging SQL is fundamentally different.

CSS is like that. It's Jan Tschichold's design rules expressed using ABNF and has nothing to do with von Neumann machines. You might achieve Zen by reading one of Tschichold's books, and ignoring all of the syntax and tricks and howtos for a while.
If this bug hits you in staging, no big problem, just don't promote that particular update to production. If this bug hits you in production, your lack of a staging environment is the bigger concern IMO.

(I have been hit by the same issue on my private notebook, but I have procedures in place to cleanly recover from failed upgrades on all systems, so it was not a big deal.)