skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not purely aphantasiac (occasionally have momentary flashes of fuzzy, vague imagery), but I'm still in the category, and I identify strongly with the "superhuman ability" to get over traumatic experiences.

I've had very few traumatic events in my life, but when I hear people talk about flashbacks or reliving trauma, it confuses me utterly. I understand theoretically how it could happen, now that I finally know about visual memory, but the practical effect is still completely outside my experience.

My wife had long been envious of my "superhuman ability" to stay in the present, neither lingering in the past nor staring off towards the future. Once we realized I was aphantasiac it made more sense, as memory and fantasy simply don't exist for me in remotely compelling or seductive ways. It's all just abstract word-forms (and occasionally sounds).

As a programmer, writer, musician, and occasional photographer/painter, I've long insisted that when making art "There is only implementation."

I still think there's a lot of truth in that, but I do now realize that most people can meaningfully "see" their work before incarnating it.
That's nice but really, the problem with css (or what's hard difficult about it) is not designing a single page that has a single column of text with some titles. Any large css files that this is supposed to counter will probable have very similar (and as small) css rules for that same thing. It becomes hard when you need a grid, templates, images, and other more complex designs.
Funny how you meantime exactly two CXOs. And that those „useless“ two happen to be women, while something like less than 20% of tech leadership is.
While the papers mentions odd numbers as a possible special case in a sidenote, the real special case is x=0.
The given expression

size_t i = ((x & -x) * debruijn) >> 27;

treats x=0 the same as odd x, since 0debruijn>>27 == 1debruijn>>27 == 0.
Of all the people who over use css frameworks like bootstrap, I'm one of them as well and this is an attempt to start correcting that mistake.

I'm not sure what "over use" really means here, but I think calling it a mistake is wrong. Using bootstrap (or any other framework) is optimizing for something other than download size. That might be development speed, better design than you're capable of, cross-browser compatibility, etc, but it's not wrong unless you're building a site that really needs to be fast and small.

If you're building an admin page that'll be accessed by 5 people in total and can be cached for a year between updates then Bootstrap is great.

If you're building a blog that's going to get 2000 readers a month and want to concentrate on writing articles instead of writing frontend code, Bootstrap works really well.

If you're making a new login form for Facebook's homepage that'll get 100,000,000 visitors in the first hour it's live, maybe Bootstrap is the wrong choice.

CSS frameworks are tools, and they have their place. There isn't a universal rule that says using one is wrong.

That said, if the only part of Bootstrap you're using is the grid and you don't need the UI toolkit, then browsers have got you covered these days - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...
One French presidential candidate ran with that on the last elections. He was the candidate for the Labour party (Parti Socialiste), one of the two major party of France (equivalent more or less to the Democrats in importance), so not a niche candidate either.

He did something like 3% and the Parti Socialiste is dead now, replaced by Macron's party.
Do you have a source for that claim? How does sharing IP's with 'like factories' and thousands of other legitimate users justifies getting captcha-blocked by Cloudflare without explicit instructions from the website owners?
Nobody has ever accused Musk of outsourcing his dry cleaning when discussion his workload.
Maybe people are downvoting because GP says it's justified in their opinion? It might be the truth, not most of us can't tell either way, but saying it's justified is a judgemental statement that I find 'justified' to downvote.
So which characteristics do you describe when you're asked to describe a person? Which features do you imagine? The shape of their head?

I would assume that most people have some form of non-visual, database-like memory for each person.

(I sometimes lose the ability to recognize people when they change their haircut, when they wear a different type of clothes, or when they meet me in an unfamiliar setting.)
a lot of people would argue that his website is very hard to read
Using ML to assess the quality of your chatbot setup
Let's face it, MSFT is dropping all of their eggs into the cloud basket and, whilst this isn't necessarily a bad thing, the byproduct is what the MVP sees: Invitations to things like roadmaps for COSMOS DB, which is almost purely an Azure service and has nothing to do with the scope of the MVP's expertise.

Others have suggested that SO and the OSS community, in general, are much wider audiences for MSFT to receive feedback from and that's not, inherently, true. MSFT still avails of things like the BETA program[0], so they still (seemingly) recognise that they have a need for that feedback loop (for the most part).

What seems to happen at Microsoft is constant culture shifts, based purely on who's making the most money at the time. In the previous years, it was Office that was the top dog, now it's Azure and, not surprisingly, things are changing in the company to push the biggest seller.

The byproduct of that, of course, is that everything else gets thrown to the wayside by chasing these new endeavours (by constantly changing directions) and not having a plan to fluidly bring everything forward and inline.

[0] - https://www.onmsft.com/news/join-microsofts-pre-release-beta...
Thanks. You wrote my comment :)
having to close paragraphs is useless. It moves to the user of the markup a concern that is only of interest to the implementor. That should we exactly the other way round.

I prefer html5, where you can leave tags open as if there's no tomorrow.
Roku has never been neutral. The CEO said himself that he doesn’t see Roku as a hardware company. Roku has always made money by advertising. From the ad that takes up half the home screen to the hardcoded short cut buttons that go to the highest bidder.

https://www.recode.net/2018/9/13/17852908/roku-anthony-wood-...
Oh yeah I think it was one/both of these, thanks!!
> To apply robotic berry pickers you normally need to produce in a large scale (many tons of berries).

Farmers could rent the machine. So the machine can travel instead of the berries.

Also, robotics is in many industries not competitive against cheap labor from low-wage countries. However, for agriculture that might be different, precisely because of distribution costs (e.g., it's expensive to ship fruits and vegetables from China).
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Mine defaults to a TV in my forehead, but with a little nudge, I can move it out it into it's own 3D space that I can view from inside or out. The level of detail is still the same, weak in my case.
Cloudflare is for me the no. 1 company by far which is clustering up the web with their little border controls. No other company made surfing the web so complicated and annoying from distant regions of the world for me.

And because many website owners are just install and use Cloudflare with standard settings they don't care.

It's good that Cloudflare addresses this problem with their extension now but I had a little too much bad taste... this extension is long overdue and I still think it's not the best solution to the main problem (standard DNS settings too restricted).
Cost per mille or cost for 1000 clicks -its an old-school advertising term
Lack of server side modularization of HTML strikes again. It makes no sense that we still have no declarative way of modularizing content apart from using IFRAME. Why can I dynamically load parts and merge it in the DOM via JS but not via a declarative HTML feature?
Not exactly true for Linux - a modern Linux desktop usually has only the most basic (libc, ...?) 32 bit libraries installed. Though an AppImage (which Ripcord uses) might work because it's mostly self-contained anyway. On Linux, approximately nobody still uses 32 bit systems.
I came cross PlantUML recently, it's so much more than a classic diagram tool. I was particularly intrigued by their wireframe system: http://plantuml.com/salt
> Org-Mode Makes Sense Outside of Emacs

... goes on to name one tool (pandoc) that parses Org-Mode (and also parses Markdown. I would in fact guess pandoc is used much more often for the latter than the former).

> Org-Mode Has Excellent Tool Support

> this is not an article about Emacs

... goes on to describe the "tool support" in Emacs. Sorry, but the paragraph title here really implies we're going to be talking about a range of tools, not just Emacs.

And then to conclude:

> With this blog article I wanted to point out the usefulness of Org-mode even when you are not using Emacs as an writing tool.

Can anyone point me to where exactly in the article the author has done this?

Org-Mode is great if you use Emacs. Try installing the Org-Mode addon in your non-Emacs IDE of choice, and you'll hit the same "partially implemented/not-yet-supported/etc." issues you would using an obscure markdown parser. In this regard, Markdown is much more "standardised" than Org-Mode—a standard exists for both, but the level of adherance to that standard in terms of the total number of parsers out there is undoubtedly higher for Markdown.
The future of augmented reality is WebAR
Even more if those are auto forwarding you faster than you can hit it
Side scrolling is also common for online epub readers, and with a visual 'assist' of looking like a book, or large left-right arrows it's rather intuitive.

I think my next blog redesign might incorporate a 'book-ish' horizontal scroll, rather than the infinite vertical scroll...

> If WP for DOS could format multi-column pages, I can't imagine that it's that hard

Funnily enough browsers have this support already (using column-width, or a prefix version of it), so for the web it's basically free, and trivial to add to a site:

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/c/column-width/
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Why is it "arguable"?

What you suggest is exactly how it worked before 1943 and there was a massive expansion of government, government services, and tax rates between 1913 and 1943.

The actual historical evidence strongly suggests this theory is spurious and easily dismissed.
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Windows DLLs require fixups when they're loaded off their preferred base address.
I bought my dad a Roku TV. He hates the login process and it seems to randomly sign him out from his cable provider.

Every time I go home I have to re sign him in.

While I don’t have to do that with Netflix, the discoversbilty of any videos that aren’t recommended is awful.
I would say being patient is what she is talking about here, but are there other jobs that would be more fulfilling for you? Happy to chat and help. It gets better!
I wish all Chromium plugins had such good plugin content overview, saves a lot of time if you want to review what you install.

https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension
Checking math? You must have simpler taxes than I do. By the time I’m done entering various non w2 forms I don’t even know what math I’d check.
I think there has to be a spectrum for this? I can visualize but the impressions are I think weak and fleeting. It's more like a visual thought and I only do it when I concentrate. I'm not a visual thinker at all and I don't draw or paint well. I don't take much interest in photographs either and much prefer audio impressions.

Also if I read a menu I am attracted more by the sensation of the words themselves than a visualization of the food they actually represent. Mushrooms in a white cream sauce simply sounds delicious (as verbiage), though I'm not terribly fond of them.

Anyone similar?
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At the same time online is shit for direct interpersonal communication, so that's the strongest tool teaching has out the window.

The best you can get online is one on one video calls, and while not too much worse compared to real face to face conversations, you will be hard pressed to get live video to web scale.
If only that. They're also forcing the hands of people that try to protect themselves from pervasive tracking online.
Note that you're asking the question as if the statement is true and you just inviting an opinionated justification. The answer to "how does sharing IPs with like factories justify blocking others" is easy to give an opinion on. Proving this is the real cause, that the local ISPs are not doing anything against it, etc. is what I think we should be asking.
it's not enough for me (yet?) for the job to be useful for society at large. quit a job because altough it was useful I was bored
They could have put a repeal of Proposition 13 protections for commercial property on the ballot anytime in the last two decades, had they wanted.
Why such thin grey text? Why sacrifice readability as a matter of principle? What's wrong with black on white, like a regular f*cking book or newspaper?
Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
Great qualification in the first sentence: many things that have seemed obvious to me have been hailed as innovative by others - just given the limitations of human mind, this is inevitable. (Could have been summed into one sentence, that much I concede.)
The author claims, several times, that "many" people use org-mode outside of emacs.

I am skeptical of that.

The whole point of an abbreviated mark-up is to RENDER that mark-up into something else. The "many" people who use org-mode outside of emacs are just a subset of pandoc commandline users (and perhaps some other tool which I am not even aware of). I guess it depends on what one considers to be "many"?
Navigation and spotify. I wish there was a way to skip tracks using the volume buttons on the side or something like that to get rid of the need to look at the screen while doing it. Presumably that would drop the dangerous level down to that of fiddling with a radio.
Roku’s interface is slow and ad ridden compared to the Apple TV.

I have three Roku TVs and like them. But, I have two
ATV 4Ks (free because of the DirecTVNow promotion) - one attached to our main TV.

But Roku is the only non-Apple tv platform that I can stand.
VAX is a hardware architecture. I'm not one to nitpick, but differentiating between VAX and VMS when VMS ran on the VAX is confusing.
U.S. Sends China Signal with F-35-Laden Warship in Disputed Sea
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Can you give a real world example of glueing "together a bunch of Free Open Source offerings"? I've heard the idea that thats all software engineers really do before but it doesn't seem realistic at all.
fork() must go too??!!
I would not at all balk at paying for software that works and doesn't churn everything every 2 years. That was the main appeal to me of MacOS. There is a threshold of crappy changes to abandonment and Microsoft crossed it and Apple just mismanaged it.

Firefox doesn't bother me so much that I hate it yet. But I got to wonder if the only voices that matter were the users that actually paid for it, I would imagine the paying users would be mostly happy. That seems to be the case for commercial software that offers free beer wares on the side like Unity3D.
So:

Politics is evil...

Checks out.
I just filed my taxes this morning.

I owe the government $4,600. I received an "underpayment penalty fee of $44" because I did not "pre-pay an estimated tax" each quarter. Something I have never done in the ~25 years I have been paying taxes.

Not only do they want the $4,600 by 4/15 they also want an estimated $1,200 "pre-payment" for 2019 by the same date or I will incur this same fee of $44 next year.Plus 3 more payments of $1,200 each quarter. So they want to hold my money without paying me interest. At least in my bank I earn more than the $44 penalty in interest each year.

This is bizarre. I surely didn't know about this nor did I read anything about new tax laws as I imagine most people don't.
This could be said to any gender issue. If money is required to live a good life, but in our intensely individualistic society where the money women have access to is dropping precipitously, work form a core of income for many women.

Perhaps this is the part where they need to change and improve? Rather than expecting the world or men to align to them.
Alternative way of building reactive, testable, easy to evolve apps with Flutter
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073906 .
There are people who quite like this outsider role.

Concerning the "Hollywood argument": if I think how Hollywood demands DRM in evermore standards and to infect your life, not being liked by Hollywood is one of the best advertisements for programming jobs that exist.
There doesn't seem to be anything comparable for Direct3D 12 either, the relevant page [1] in the same site has only scattered documents about it instead of a single coherent one.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/
Sounds like we're getting ever close to requiring identification before being allowed to use the Internet. Such a law would be vehemently opposed I'm sure, the question is whether we mind if a company does it and offers it "voluntarily" for those first blocked by said company.
Cloud Run uses gVisor for its sandbox, Flex runs your container in a dedicated VM.

Cloud Run has a limit of 80 concurrent requests to a copy of your app. Cloud Run has a limit of 2 GiB for memory.

Flex gives you more flexibility over VM shape (CPU, mem), so is suited better to apps that have a higher load. Flex does not scale to zero.

Cloud Run deployments should be faster (Flex provisions a load balancer for each deployment, which can be slow).

Both support deploying directly from container image.

Disclaimer: I work on GCP but have only worked a tiny bit on/with Cloud Run.
You should check out Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io). It was launched recently and provides disposable, ready-to-code development environments for GitHub projects: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/introducing-gitpod-frictionless-...

IDE is based on Theia (https://theia-ide.org), i.e. VS Code with cloud-first mindset.
Looks a little bit like the Lout typesetting system on a first glance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
Ph.D. students outside top tier programmes in the humanities and social sciences often get admitted without funding and enrol as students. They might get a teaching assistantship or they might go into enormous debt. Then if they graduate they’re competing for jobs against people from graduate programmes in their field that are well known and respected. Most of those people don’t get tenure track jobs. The ones from no name programmes are just screwed.

Fredrik deBoer got a Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric) from Purdue, applied to more than 300 tenure track jobs and gave up, eventually becoming an administrator at NYU. Unfortunately he’s deleted the essay along with most of his blog but he said that the tenure track job hunt was the worst thing that ever happened to him and he’s an orphan.

That’s someone with statistical and programming skills graduating from one of the top programmes in Rhetoric.
LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on
> voting is shown to not work

I'll grant that voting works only sometimes. And when it does change things, it's often not everything we want changed, and definitively not fast enough. But it can change things. If it didn't, voter suppression would not exist[1]. (One of the ways of suppressing vote is promoting voter apathy, by the way).

The only sure guarantee is that not voting doesn't work.

> peaceably

Even something as seemingly mundane as voting carries a lot of risk of physical violence in some places. That's how voting was in the US in the 1870s[2], if you were black. It might sound like a far away past for certain US citizen, but I (an European) own a house older than that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenfranchisement_after_the_R...
This resonates _a lot_ with me. I've always had an awful episodic memory but quite good conceptual memory. In other words, I experience almost everything but the present (and maybe sometimes even the present) in the abstract. For a long time I thought this was a "deficiency", but I am actually quite happy with it now and often see it as a strength.

Can a mind really focus equally well on the forest and the trees? I have my doubts.

But I will never see the tree - that's for sure. Fortunately I've found beauty in forests.
Because paper is paper and screens are different. The white paper is slightly on the grey side compared to white on screen. And that hurts to look at for long.

Thin text is a personal preference that I made here. No principles there.
According to that, 71% of people on the streets of SF used to be homed

The data does not say that. It says that survey responses claim they used to be homed there; there was no verification done whatsoever. Of course vagrants are going to claim they belong there.
I like cloudflare, but it seems like we're putting more and more trust in them. Not sure if that's good.
Linux is a cancer

-Steve Ballmer
> Cloud Run uses Docker which runs regular processes in a cgroup, so it's sufficient to check the cgroup memory usage, right?

Cloud Run uses gVisor as its container runtime.

Disclaimer: I work on GCP but not much on/with Cloud Run.
Yeah. Like... Markup languages meant to describe things, then leave rendering to the client. It's gonna be fun once our adblockers become useless because the "Web" apps are essentially blobs that do all the presentation for us. Oh and good luck making that barrier free
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You can use Cloud Run with GCP-managed infrastructure, and also inside your own GKE cluster.

The GCP-managed infrastructure exposes the Knative API, but doesn't actually run in GKE/k8s.

(I work on GCP but not much/on Cloud Run. Above is correct to my knowledge, but I'm not an expert.)
My personal favorites have been Bulma and Getskeleton.com.

Somebody in the comments recommended tailwind.css
I don't understand what is the motivation to block Tor or VPNs if there is no large volumes of traffic from specific IP. Does Cloudflare dislike anonymous users?

Also, did you see the permission list for a Firefox extension? [1] It says "Access your data for all websites".

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/
indeed it is. When something is used by a lot of people, they will find use cases not covered sufficiently and will try to extend. Some of these will survive and be absorbed back, some will not. Normal evolutionary pressure at work.
Note that integrity checking is supported and used in many sites. Given that, using HTTP does not matter. (Of course not for the main page.)
Start with the shape and spec, then iterate the features and quality over a few frantic generations.

Classic catch-up engineering.