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Those WebKit enhancements have ended up in surprising places. @acabel produced Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for Standard Ebooks and upgraded the pipeline to use Firefox to render MathML to png for Kindle, etc. Turns out that the Kobo renderer which seems to be WebKit based was able to display MathML directly, so the kepubs we build just have the plain MathML in them now.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...
Exactly. An American can still drive to Europe without an ETIAS, so it’s not a visa.

Makes sense, don’t it?
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I suspect that a lot of programmers actually see programming as a chore, and I think they would prefer Java because it's very predictable and delivers a paycheck.

You never hear that point of view though, because they wouldn't spend their time on Hacker News discussing their favorite languages.
I've seen other comments mention this, but it's really hard to make the case for paying a wage laborer to not show up. Even if he's sick. Can't do janitorial work from home. And such labor is highly fungible: very high turnover, easy replacement, little training, lots of firing/hiring. If you don't show up, you get replaced, mostly because your company now has to hire someone else to do the job and has no reason to keep paying you.

Let's not forget that every time we pass stronger "labor laws" (e.g. higher minimum wage), we do see job loss, decreased hours, second jobs. A paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that the costs to low-income workers outweighed the benefits by about three to one. Telling McDonalds it must pay people to stay home will almost certainly just accelerate the pace of automation.
In the picture timeline it says:

>Tiffany Filler is accused of logging in with the "Scott Shaw" account from her MacBook Air from Tufts' wireless network to view answers for a small animal medicine bonus quiz, then minutes later on her own account to take the quiz

That's smoking gun evidence. It's theoretically possible that she is the victim of an elaborate scheme to frame her but it seems pretty extraordinarily unlikely.

I don't quite see the evidence for the requirement of "detailed and extensive hacking ability". It seems like on administrator account was compromised and used to create/access other accounts. The initial compromise could be as simple as looking over a shoulder, swiping a post it, or guessing an obvious password. After that, it's just basic computer skills to do what they did.
I can’t believe there are people still defending this scummy company.

Facebook broke both legal and ethical “ToS” countless times and has no plan to stop.

Why do you consider what Facebook is doing as OK but a little web scraping for personal usage to be so bad?
> Policy should be set based on the reality on the ground and not merely policital fantasy.

I fail to understand what you mean here; aren't these two things the same? The way I see it, politics is exactly the practice of coming up with fantasies that larger groups are willing to accept as reality.
I had an assembly line for setting up Windows 95 with the 21 floppy disks (and later Windows 98 with 38) at a school lab. Start one, when it asks for disk 2 move on to the next PC, and the next thing you know, you have a clean install on every PC in the "lab."
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It’s not a mistake. The tech industry wants low regulations, so they gut the government. Simple process, really.
COMCAST NBC UNIVERSAL ? they are basically a ISP monopoly.
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>I've known perfectly intelligent and productive coders who took months to build a really complex well architected system that didn't solve the business problem and hence were a bad hire.

That's an interesting statement. Isn't it usually the job of product managers (or someone in management) to determine whether or not what's being done is actually wanted? It is not typical for developers to be brought on under the broad banner of "make us money please" and then set loose to email users and determine 100% of their own direction. Wouldn't the fact that the wrong program was being built have been caught in an informal "let me see how it's going" sort of status update?
The precept that packaging serves to reduce spoilage is true.

The real question is, can there really be no other alternative with merit? For example, it's true glass can break, but the main knocks against it are mostly cost & weight (aka delivery cost). Are they lobbying in good faith, or just trying to keep the cheapest option?
Maybe so. But you know, my impression is that it's stronger in the other direction, at least in tech.

By and large, tech workers don't seem to think the world owes them a job, where they want to live, on the projects they'd like to pursue, at the wage they've decided is proper. Tech workers seem to understand they have to work hard to earn these positions. It seems to be the employers who think that the world owes them a worker where they want to locate, on the projects they decide should be done, at a wage they think is proper.

Tech employers asked the market for lots and lots of developers in the valley at salaries too low to buy a house and raise a family, the market said no, so tech employers had the government ask the market for them. The government responded by creating a program where high tech controls skilled immigration through their HR departments, deciding who is allowed to live and work in the US and the circumstances under which they are allowed to remain.

Sometimes I think libertarians get so caught up in unions and "socialism" that they are blinded to the antics of corporations and their unholy flirtation with state supported corporate control over workers' lives.
Yeah, it's laughable to think that more than 5% of HN's experience is relevant to these situations.
It's not a question of pressure; a wave has whatever pressure it has. It's a question of frequency (wavelength). Just like a flute can't make tuba sounds, a small one of these can't attenuate large wavelengths. But they make larger flutes that can play lower tones. Could you not just make one of these arbitrarily large to handle an arbitrarily low frequency?
The term is "Convergence", fyi.
"potential new members that it did not have the opportunity to individually evaluate"

Theres nothing stopping the US adding a state.
uhh no, doctors lawyers and politicians, basically anyone making >>$100k have way more leeway. You seriously think a dr is going to run around in a patient care setting while he's contagious, .e.g has the flu or some stomach infection? Maybe if he's the only dr in a rural setting he might go if it's a minor cold, same as with a lawyer for a court date, or politician who really needs to go vote or attend some important meeting. Not to mention that these people also have $ to hire nannies
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All right, point taken. Reading through the so called rebuttal though, there is not much there, hardly any of the arguments or actual data are disputed, there is suggestion that maybe there is another explanation for the disparity in outcomes with no specific data provided to support it. I think it is fair to say no actual debunking as been accomplished and what is left to explain the dismissal is ideology and the desire not to hurt feelings. I concede that the shrieking hysterics was hyperbole on my part.
You can also rephrase that as a business concern. Instead of how ugly the code is or how challenging it is the more important factor is how long does it take to accomplish a given change.

The challenge there is if you have isolated yourself to a happy path you have no idea what the edge cases are, what the regulatory concerns are, or what prior business concerns have already been addressed. You really have no idea how long the task will take to complete or the scope of actual work. It is a big risk to leave your framework dream world and embrace reality.

By living in reality I know how to account for those various concerns. I can provide a more accurate estimate of effort and still get it done 8-12x faster. You don't get better at anything by closing off reality and hiding from failure.

The problem with using a bunch of unnecessary abstractions and tools is that you have to choose between two really horrid scenarios. Do you give up on speed of delivery and product quality to work within the tools in place? Or, do you account for all the business concerns and deliver quickly by creating a one-off and possibly fighting those existing tools to do it?

The best way to know what to add to a project (dependencies) are those things you known you will deliberately never maintain and that require a one time configuration. For example I use a linter to check my code. It is a dependency that I never modify, I never reconfigure, I never look into its code, and I almost never update. If I were forced to peer into the code and read all about how it works and really get intimate with it I might as well just write it myself, because you will be maintaining it just the same anyways.
the disconnect in this thread is a mild shock
So is the date info from GPS ambiguous because of the roll-over - a device cannot tell what the date is based solely on GPS without having some prior info (e.g. its own internal clock)?
I sure haven't I'd love to see a few if you have them. Help me be better informed for choosing a language for large projects
Even the ones writing telephone switches?
What exactly is not the case? Most humans have been dependent on animals for their diet. Even with rich narrative traditions, they would still have to limit their connection to the food, otherwise they would not eat it (similar to some people today). It is abnormal to have easily available food in part due to specialization (butchers, etc) and industrialization.

Are people likely to be desensitized by not being part of the process of getting the animal to the table? Possibly, but that is an ad-don to the points I made.
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My favorite story format podcast is RadioLab. Their recent story, "Punchline" deserves a Webby Award.

For economics and society, I listen to EconTalk.

Sam Harris's show (Making Sense) uses a long interview format that works really well for his show, which explores controversial subjects.

Brian Lehrer on WNYC is my source for local NYC and NJ interests.

The other hundred podcast shows I subscribe to are occasionally listened to.
its almost as if the invisible hand is encouraging us to be wasteful, to encourage growth, rather than efficient as we were all taught in primary school.
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I'll admit I did not, because I was probably six months old.
OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.
The letter sounded as if it was part of a written conversation between two spouses fighting over when/what/where.

Far too emotional and completely out of place for a Dean writing an official letter.
Two important URL:s from the Windows 9x era

1) http://www.annoyances.org/

2) https://www.litepc.com/

Good times.
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And yet, when trying to correct systemic wrongs, what some individuals can and cannot do is irrelevant.

If you have a class of people (let's call them W) playing life in easy mode, and another class (let's call them B) playing life in hard more, then the fact that some people in class B still finish the game is irrelevant.

Meritocracy is not about "see, still a person from B class can win".

It's about all players playing at the same difficulty level.

So, not only the fact that an individual can go "beyond and below the average through their own effort and choices" is irrelevant, when discussing meritocracy, but a society would still be meritocratic even if no B ever was able to win the game and W had all the top scores -- as long as B and W played the game at the same difficulty.
They were packaged closely together in the Pentium Pro (two dies in the same processor package). The Pentium II was a cheaper downgrade that preserved the separate bus but just put the cache next to the CPU in the weird packaging.
I will listen to every episode of:

* 99% Invisible

* Hardcore History

* Hello Internet

* No Such Thing as a Fish

* Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me

Close are Deutschlandfunk Hintergrund, Planet Money, Reply All, SRF Digital, Echo der Zeit, Reply All, Revisionist History and The New Yorker Radio Hour.

If I have time to catch up or need to fill some time, The Moth, Making Sense, Radiolab, Fresh Air, Ask me Another and Hello from the Magic Tavern.
Speedrunners have built tools for some games (most Valve games if I'm recalling correctly) that monitor times, while excluding loading screens. Obviously this is a separate category, and both curiously exist for games with a built-in timer (GDQ ignores in-game timers, for example).
The good news is cardboard is one of the most valuable recyclables, and I think packaging peanuts are reusable if you drop them off at a postal place.
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I understand the sentiment. I certainly have my own bouts of intense paranoia related to security and the privacy of my personal stuff. It can become unhealthy. However, I think as long as the majority are complicit with email providers that don't offer end-to-end encryption, we may fall deeper into the clutches of government surveillance, targeted advertising, and other practices that IMO are an overall toxic influence on humanity. I don't practice what I preach at the moment but hopefully the loss of convenience is not too significant as I make the switch.
At least the EU made theirs 3 years.

I challenge them to do the Canadian thing and make it 5 years.
Rust, maybe. I'm not particularly leading edge myself, so I've heard of it but never actually tried it.
The emperors new clothes.
I think it would be a fascinating problem use some combination of AI/robots/etc to design a hugely effective way to sort garbage. Even better if it was possible to do an army of tiny robots that would just go out and fetch all the garbage etc.
This is one of those things that should be viewed as a long term opportunity rather than a short term problem.

The worst solution would be to just find another country to send the garbage. The best solution would be new technologies locally which would allow us to deal with garbage.
somewhat OT but: ended up in the 'go/constant' package's source from there somehow and there saw the comment on "Prevent external implementations" [1] regarding using a non-exported function in the definition of 'constant.Value' interface.

Here is an external implementation of constant.Value:

https://play.golang.org/p/3dVFCT2-kN8

[1]: https://golang.org/src/go/constant/value.go?#L58
I'm curious if this lady is a serial social media user like most young people? Going on a 70 mile trip and not doing social media updates or taking more than 2 pictures would be suspect behavior for some people.

Does iPhone have location history option like Google maps does on android?

How did she get there? Did she just drive herself 70 miles? Does she own a car or did she rent one? Did she take a train or bus and still has the ticket? Did she go with a friend? Did she eat a meal and pay with a credit card there? Did she buy gas?

How about checking in the provided photos if features present in the photos match what would be there at the date in question. Does the forecast show it was rainy there but it's sunny in her provided pictures? You could measure shadow length if it may have been faked at a particularly different part of the year. You could search social media for tagged pictures from others which may show her in the background. Were there displays or construction that was modified between the date of the alleged hack and when she could fake a photo there?

Does the xiaomi tracker differentiate between (on a human and human sleeping) vs (not on a human and sitting on a nightstand)?

Did any other student grades get modified upwards?
Ha! Keyboard lysdexia strikes again.
It’s funny to see the scam sites launch so quickly, just so they can charge 50 EUR in 2021 for sending in your 7 EUR application.
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Sure, but if that occurs the state is now no longer an individual and can never leave. States in the US are not individually parties to any agreements with other countries, so the treaty would have no additional members.

The same thing applies if belgium decides to conquer a few more miles of land. You can leave the EU, no state leaves the USA.
The article itself pointed out that 1) it didn't used to be a lie and 2) it's only a lie because we throw so much trash into the recycling stream.

So if anything is a lie, it's single stream recycling.
I'm a Ruby guy and I'd love to feel what you're feeling. Where should I start / what should I check out? Bonus points for concept walkthroughs and materials designed to bring Ruby folks up to speed, specifically concepts that need to be temporarily forgotten or unlearned in order not to get sad.

I like being a polyglot, but my schedule is tight enough that I need to hit the ground running or else I get pulled back to reality pretty quickly. There's a lot of posts and videos out there on Elixir, so curators are incredibly awesome in my world.
I agree, a conventionally raised cow is given corn to the point that it would die from this diet with a few weeks by the time its slaughtered.

And corn might be the worst mono crop we have (causing the most destruction to eco systems).

I intentionally said free range (non feed lot cows) for this reason.

As far as methane, I wonder if we could focus on eating small free range mammals, such as rabbits instead. I’m not knowledgeable in what each animal out puts from a methane stand point per pound of food. But it seems it’s clear, from my limited knowledge, if we switched back to more farms leaving the eco system as is and raising free range cattle we would be killing much less animals than a plant based diet.
If you’re talking a white-collar office job, I just did the same this past week in the US.

It’s pretty common in the US as well.
No, they are not.

ESTA specifically allows people to travel visa-free.
a16z: long and sometimes overwhelming but in a positive way, with great guests from the tech industry

FT Alphachat: my favorite finance-focused podcast with the least buzz, covering one topic in-depth each time

Global News Podcast: daily from the BBC, great for educating yourself on world issues that you otherwise wouldn't hear about, with lots of primary sources and interviews

Stuff You Should Know: two super easy-to-listen-to geeks, geeking out about various topics from ancient history to dyslexia to how things work :)

Y Combinator: solid tech podcast with top-notch guests, and more focused on practicalities and experiences than a16z's abstract, macro-level ideas
Yeah, fair enough. I agree, there is an over reliance on libs that often don't do much. :)
Buy a bunch of third-party apps (like Sunrise and SwiftKey) and slowly but surely integrate them into your own products (like Bing and Outlook) to gather more data?

I'm entirely used to one of them (SwiftKey) and I've tried several others as well. They've all offered amazing user experience, but I'm just not comfortable using Microsoft's Launcher for example.
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Obviously there would of been no point in producing random photos until they counted for an alibi.
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I feel like a lot of the comments here are missing the point because this isn't a magic noise-cancelling material.

The neat thing about this is that it works while still allowing air to flow through. Even if it's not blocking broad spectrum sound, it's still useful to block specific narrow frequency ranges. One immediate application mentioned in the article is for drones, which are very loud. Maybe if you put these devices below the fans of a drone, you could make it run much quieter.

It also establishes acoustic metamaterials as a new field of study, so we could soon see significant improvements in this technology - imagine a dynamic version of these rings which can change the frequencies which they block.
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Humans turned out as masterminds at both trashing the only planet with rich life and treating the sick on it.

"No rain drop thinks it's responsible for the flood...nor does it care."
Excellent write up.
Self-replying to note that one of the EU member states on which the US imposes visa requirements, Poland, is already in Schengen. (Edit window has passed.)
Yes, thanks! We've updated the headline from the submitted, “CDC: Low-income parents send sick kids to school due to lack paid sick leave”.
Correct: they’ve exempted each other.

Lots of dual citizens.

If Canada required Canadian passports from dual US/Canada nationals, an American in that situation could lose their security clearance.

(Usually the US is okay with being a dual citizen if you haven’t taken advantage of it in any way).
You don't want a supernova going off too close. We have been lucky to avoid that. Our odds were greatly improved by the fact that we spend most of our time out of the galactic plane, away from other stars that could be about to go boom. This is an unusual orbit.

Not really. The amplitude of the Sun's vertical motion is about 100 parsecs (~ 300 light years), but since the main ("thin") stellar disk has a vertical exponential scale height of about 300 parsecs, the local density of stars at the top/bottom of the Sun's orbit is only about 30% less than when the Sun is crossing through the midplane. (And this isn't at all an unusual orbit.)

What makes a real difference is being relatively far out in the disk from the galactic center: if we were ten times closer to the center, the local density would be almost 100 times higher, and you might indeed have to start worrying about nearby supernovae.
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MathML was created as a human-readable interchange format. It was never intended to be written by humans. Much like how HTML is often generated from markdown nowadays.

It was specifically created to avoid TeX being used on the web, because TeX is ill-defined, loosely structured and lacks basic functionality such as Unicode support.
At a college I worked at a few years ago in one of the larger lecture class rooms. There was a Windows3.1 PC mounted in the podium/lecture counter. It was used primarily for controlling the levels of lights, dropping down the screen and projector, and a few other menial tasks. I don't believe it was wired into the network and don't believe it was ever replaced.
Shit, you're making me concerned that I should open a facebook account and start uploading records of everything + making paper trails of everything I do in case I'm accused of a crime in the future
Maybe drug "companies" should be government entities then and not for-profit at all.
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Tell that to the accidental Canadians or Americans (ie: born in Canada or US, but lived 99% of their life in Europe).

Then when they tried to get an authorization, they got rejected and told their EU passport is worthless and to get a Canadian/US one).

It’s a lot messier for the EU because of jus sanguine. Toooons of EU citizens that haven’t/won’t bother to get the passport.

I guess I’ll have to do it and waste the embassy’s time in a language I know 20 words of.