skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make my tables like this guide recommends, but more because I know that it's the "professional", "publication quality" way that the people "in the know" prefer. I myself don't really feel that strongly about vertical lines but I avoid them to not look ignorant.

It says a lot that the first slide doesn't even say which is the good one and takes is for granted ("Easy decision, isn’t it?") but some here have thought the bad ones are the good ones.

Shows that it's more of a fashion thing. (Not counting the intentional mistakes in the "bad version" like kerning "fi lter" and other spacing errors in the math, like the exponent in the top right formula -- seriously why introduce those additional mistakes, why not just make the tables themselves different?)
Yeah, it had never quite clicked for me, but now it makes so much sense that I kind of feel silly. Great explanation.
People severely underrate content marketing in my experience. Or misunderstand it. Just having a popular technical article on your business domain is good. You don’t have to do anything clever in the article itself marketing your business.
> Many of its central concepts such as 'soma', 'hatchery and conditioning centers', and the caste system - alphas to epsilons - don't have readily transposable equivalents in our modern day society

Ah, not yet! Give it time!

- Soma, I'm sure you can imagine

- Conditioning centers... advertisement everywhere?

- Caste system... genetic engineering for the rich
Wow - thank you once more for the answer and the links!

I tried a simple JiT once that did code threading by jmp/ret - seems like that would not be any better today :D

tldr; prefer trampolines over weird stack tricks.
Amtrak between LA and San Diego (and even Santa Barbara) is very convenient if your destination is within walking/biking/bus/trolley range of downtown.
Huxley yes, but mostly his emphasis on pleasure over pain and self in order to pacify the population. But designer babies are already here so he could end up being correct on many more things.
I use removable storage. SD cards, USB flash drives, USB hard disks.

Apple’s hardware choices are irrelevant.
Very little code in this world is needed. Much of it is, however, useful.

The person you replied to obviously isn't advocating for something they find useless.

Perhaps you could have instead asked "Why do you recommend doing this? I don't understand the benefit." But instead, you decided that they're advocating to do something useless for no reason.
fwiw, I've done SOC-x stuff, and I talked our auditors out of requiring routine password changes. That said, we seriously invested in 2fa, with high-pri stuff protected via yubicos.

I also talked them out of requiring virus detection on our macs, but this took a lot of work to avoid trusting (most) laptops.
Yes, here in the West we are too moral for mass state surveillance.
You don’t have to watch those? If million+ Chinese like it though what’s the problem?
Dear Mary,

Social Security is not an entitlement in anything but the strictest sense of the word. Every year you put it in your report and group it in like it's some sort of handout by the federal government, but it's not. And every year, you put up a few slides pushing your politically-motivated world view of cutting "expenses", but never bother to note what USA Inc. could do to increase revenues like raising taxes on the insanely wealthy back to 1950's levels: 91 percent top marginal tax rate would go a long way to balancing USA Inc's books.

Also, it's amazing how many slides you dedicated to the national debt during Obama's presidency, and yet now it barely gets a mention, and definitely no dire predictions of ruin and destruction for all. I wonder why?

Every year I point this stuff out in HN, because I want to make sure the bias is well and truly noted in case others missed it. It makes me question how much irrational partiality infects the rest of the report - quite a lot I suspect.
I found Radical Markets engaging (if not compelling), but I think it would be totally out of place on this list.
New NTLM vulnerabilities avoid all Microsoft's mitigations
Well, we are totally addicted to antidepressants and all sorts of other mood altering drugs we wouldn't need otherwise. Every time I see how many people are taking meth for 'ADHD' I think of Soma.

And it would be very easy to make the argument that America has a 'caste system'. Zuck, Bezos, Gates all went to schools almost none of us could even consider affording to attend.
A friend of mine works in a flat organization, and they're growing so they're building a new office building. They got to a plan somehow that includes a coffee bar inside the office, but the budget didn't allow for it, and then all employees had a vote and decided to increase the budget. I wonder how it'll turn out.
I think your point downthread about how this could impact the truly "on-demand" nature of the services is apt. As you said, the value prop is you get a guaranteed car in about 15 minutes (and often it is much less), whereas the old systems required calling, being routed to a nearby car service and having someone dispatched or a on-the-road driver routed to you.

In heavily urban areas, the average user might not see much of a difference (with few exceptions for weather, getting a cab in Manhattan pre and post Uber was basically the same and I've frequently canceled an Uber when I was able to hail a cab faster), but if you expand that just a smudge, say Brooklyn, which doesn't have yellow cabs unless they happen to be on the way back from a drop-off -- (and don't get me started on the uselessness of the green cabs) and as such was one of Uber's first really strong markets (I signed up for Uber the month it launched in NYC, back when it was livery only -- and used it almost exclusively in Brooklyn). The subsidized price (even though it has only decreased for drivers) has allowed cars to circle neighborhoods in Brooklyn -- but if that goes away and prices increase, drivers aren't necessarily going to sit or drive around each of those neighborhoods and will instead migrate to the most dense parts of town.

This is even worse for cities with historically little or no cab ecosystems (Atlanta -- and Atlanta is at an even worse advantage because of the terrible stage of its public transit, which only exists in the city proper), where Uber/Lyft effectively have become the cab system. I certainly don't think that market will leave those cities, but it costs rise (which seems likely), that will impact demand and will also in turn, impact how long it takes someone to get a ride.

(That said, I do not expect us to return to a pre-Uber in Atlanta world where it would cost $100 to get a cab from the airport to Dunwoody)

I do think the combination of increased demand (or at least awareness/ease of access to call a car) and logistical improvements (to me, this has always been Uber's greatest strength) will prevent things from turning into NYC in the 90s in most larger cities. But it is an open question in smaller cities that didn't have that infrastructure to begin with or are much more spread out.
Backblaze and Lensrentals are shining beacons of content marketing.
I wonder if this will be a tough sell to the generation that grew up playing Sim City 2000, which had this kind of system going haywire as a disaster scenario.
Yes, because we are sending an ISRU demo on the Mars 2020 rover which will convert the CO2 atmosphere into oxygen and carbon monoxide (which could be used as a fuel).

You'd have to use a completely different type of ISRU for the Moon, and mining for it on the Moon (i.e. scraping a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar pole) is a lot harder than on Mars where you can just suck in some of the atmosphere. There's not nearly as much commonality as you might think.
Recycling is done by all major governments because all the science and research suggests it is beneficial (in terms of carbon, energy, cost/profit).

It's really weird that this little micro version of climate change denial (promoted by all the same sources) is still socially acceptable in certain circles when the arguments for it are so laughably weak. To see him praise John Tierney's articles is mind boggling to me, I thought his whole schtick was about rationality.
We know that particle pollution from coal plants, heavy fuel oil powered container ships, and cars/truck already kill a lot of people.

We know that we have air pollution, I find it unlikely that plastic will be much worse.

Do we have any reason to think so?

Note. I'm not saying it's harmless, just that maybe we have bigger fish to fry first.
I'm curious how CO2 reduction is less compelling? Not to be blunt, but as an average American I'll likely never see the rainforest in person. I find it quite a bit more compelling to mitigate global warming, as that will drastically impact where I currently live. Sure, you can't use cute animals as mascots, but surely the people who live near coastlines should find the possibility of their homes being literally underwater more compelling than an environment they will never see.
La zone du dehors Alain Damasio, only in French unfortunately. Writen in 1999, the book talks about a global ranking system of the citizens akin to what's happening in China with the “credit score” system.
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Oh yes, the slaughter of dolphins is tragic and wrong. Not because they are our 'brothers', but because they have value as part of the whole ecosystem.
one idiot, and one serious macos bug (re: disabling filevault)

And the answer roughly comes down to (1) it trained me out of trusting, even in a small shop; and (2) now that I know these things happen, I have to protect against them. If I abuse what the mdm gives me, I expect my employees to fire me. ie quit.
Are you using variable size fonts? Or are you having to do the paint by numbers thing with a design handed down to you?

So much of CSS grid is challenging to the ways pages have been written. Try getting desktop to work and then using CSS variables defined in your media queries so you only have the one set of CSS rules, with just the bits that change in the media queries.

This way is much more succinct and you know what bits change as those are the bits with the variables in them.

I recommend that you just give it a go on tables, next time you need to. I think it just needs judicious use of display:contents on the header and rows for it to fall into place. That and the CSS variables approach should get you there and the problem can be solved in a two step process.

I would not dream of styling up a table or anything else that needs to be in rows/columns any other way, previous approaches have been too fragile for me.
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IIRC there was one on the Lion Air plane that crashed, but because they had a 737 instructor aboard helping aleviate the pressures when things started going wrong they were able to land.
Every new OS, it seems - mobile or desktop - seems to go out of its way to hide my files from me. On Windows 10, the "C" drive isn't listed until you go one level deep.
Most man-portable anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles work like this as well, for obvious reasons.
Sure - that's a solution - Apple's iCloud Keychain might work there also.

I don't use it and have some reservations as Apple’s iCloud services still do not provide end-to-end encryption.

I'd be interested to see what Matt Green has seen.
It's content marketing as a positive rather than a negative force.
How to start speaking at developer events
Ok, we've given you power above.
> yet another GUI designed by a designer.

That’s a weird complaint. I’t like saying “yet another application programmed by a programmer”. Well, who else is going to do it? It’s right there in the name!

I’m guessing your objection has to do with a GUI being built by a designer that has a sense of visual hierarchy but no sense of usability/interactivity/ergonomics. I’m not sure if that’s the case here, but with that I can agree.
One of the fascinating things about '1984' is that in the actual year 1984 the book, which did receive some notable publicity that year, was perceived as being something of a 'dud'. Not that people perceived that they were living in surveillance-free society but rather at that time people were more preoccupied with nuclear war (anyone remember "The Day After"? [0]) and the tools that would bring about an oppressive environment were still in the imaginations of technologists. Strangely enough Apple, with its 1984 type commercial, was one of the few companies that really went all in on the 1984 anniversary [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
Related:
https://hackaday.com/2016/02/22/a-field-guide-to-the-north-a...
I think the people really pushing for the Semantic Web kind of gave up. You hardly ever hear that term anymore.

I guess the value proposition of "You can add a whole bunch of complexity to your webpage that won't affect what people see so robots can scrape your page easier" didn't really resonate with developers. Also, the proposals I saw were much too granular and focused on people writing scientific papers on the web. It wasn't a good mesh for the "garbage" web, which is like 99% of everything.
Incidentally, this isn't a problem on macOS. I often finding myself wishing that Linux GUI applications and frameworks imitated Apple's keyboard shortcut conventions rather than the derivative scheme that Microsoft ended up with after largely abandoning CUA. Having access to emacs/readline shortcuts on a separate modifier key from the more widely known cmd+X/C/V/etc. stuff is great.
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VR can give you an experience for something you'll be unlikely to ever do yourself for real.

It may also allow you to experience animals that have gone extinct.

It's not a technology without merit.
Diversity in nature or technology is important. And it's worrisome that both are disappearing.

"The resulting homogeneity and uniformity can offer substantial advantages in both the quantity and quality of crop harvested, but this same genetic homogeneity can also reflect greater susceptibility or pathogens. Thus it appears the more that agricultural selection disturbs the natural balance in favor of variety uniformity over large areas, the more vulnerable such varieties are to losses from epidemics." https://www.nap.edu/read/2116/chapter/5

- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/01/aws_outage/

- https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/2/18649635/youtube-snapchat-...

- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/11/wordpress_vip_go_ou...

And if we take the word of Steve Jobs on this one we are for a hard ride: "It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.

They have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers." https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-why-innovation...

With our economy and daily lives so dependent in a few companies, any drop in quality will impact all corners of society.
The first tax rule every startup founder needs to know
Yeah, I can't imagine everything working perfectly when using various combinations of timescale/citus/pipelinedb functionality.

cstore_fdw is... yeah, there might be other edge cases there, but frankly, it's not a particularly good solution as it severely underperforms vs. any mature column store DB. Though - there's an argument for using it in order to avoid more complicated ETL from the production relational DB to an analytics DB.
> Or do you just have trouble sticking to context?

To be fair you wrote "never", not "within this context".
There's a philosophical argument to be made wrt corporate personhood. If we lock up and/or execute people for serious transgressions, are corporations let off too easily (fines usually a fraction of their yearly profit, and therefore just a cost of doing business)?
It calls to mind the trust in Jon Postel, who managed DNS through IANA for about 10 years basically alone until his death in 1998 and IANA's subsequent transfer to ICANN (which had just been founded).

Since Troy will still be involved, hopefully he can steer things in a direction that benefits everyone - or at least warn the public otherwise.
There is a caveat in per country carbon accounting. It doesn't include imported goods, nor shipment of those goods. Having said that, Sweden is indeed doing relatively good compared to other developed countries.
To be fair we treat people really badly too. We just suck as a species.
Maybe nothing? Many founders have no desire to stick around for an acquisition, and VMWare has a lot of competent people who would be eager to take over.

It's possible that's _why_ they sold to VMWare... they get to walk away rather than being stuck at a big company for 4 years vesting.
Fail. Windows only, making it useless in most cases.
Can your podcast make money,after all? Glow debuts tech platform for memberships
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" was written in the mid-1970s, set around now, and is bizarrely prescient to a degree that few authors ever achieve. (Brunner was arguably too pessimistic about the USA, but in many of the cases where he guessed wrong, it's because what he predicted happened in China or Russia instead.)

More on topic, it's difficult to imagine what anyone could write nowadays that would have the devastating impact of 1984. It's not like there is any shortage of works attacking neoliberal capitalism or any other economic/political system, and none of these has the messianic pretensions or fundamental hypocrisy of the Leninism that Orwell was critiquing. (Arguably, Orwell made it impossible for any such system to be taken at face value again.)
The problem for me is always which ones? If I were to dig through my browsing history and plot a frequency/frecency list of news-ish sites I visit, I don't think I'd see a small few dominate the list. I wouldn't mind throwing a couple bucks a month at the sites at or near the top, but I can't justify giving each of them even $5/mo, and certainly not the $10-$30/mo most publications charge for memberships. I just don't get that much value out of each one.

I'm still a big proponent of a micropayments system where my browser can automatically send a single- or double-digit amount of cents to the publisher (with my permission, of course) when I read an article. But I have no expectation of something like that gaining traction.
And Samba shares, which from my perspective is even more interesting.
I think it's important to point out though the number of cities where biking is impractical (and can even be unsafe). In many parts of Europe, this is probably a good model. In San Francisco, this could work. In Seattle, where now live, I've seen an uptick in rented bikes (though plenty of regular bikers too) -- but it really depends on what type of commute you're making. In New York, it depends on area -- but if you're really concerned about time/money you'll take the subway. But in Atlanta or Los Angeles, this isn't going to be a solution for most people that use Uber now.
I'd use Backblaze a LOT more... if consumer ISPs in the US weren't pretty much monopoly BS. (Can you really call "up to" 12mbit down (and like 1mbit up max) VDSL a competitor to 1000mbit down ~30mbit up cable? Both of which are WAY TOO SLOW for backup up real workloads! Let alone the caps @.@)...

Also no, where I live is typical of American Surburbia, if anything it's actually slightly better than the median who suffer through Ex-GTE hell and cable ISPs so bad they make even comcrud look good.
Original article about human story (something like Hemingway's "The Old and the Sea"), not about tech thing.
My manager introduced me using a game of 2 truths 1 lie in a group meeting. I liked that idea, everyone takes back home a memory about you
Ask HR: Why must purchasing a SIM card require personal identification?
Uber adds another air taxi vehicle partner to the mix
I have stayed subscribed to the WSJ since you guys broke the theranos story. The non editorial sections are the best in journalism today. NYT political bias has seeped through every article wheras WSJ clearly separates political bias between editorials and news.
Once you innovate, you grow, as innovation leads to better productivity.
LOL I've got the old ones covered https://github.com/kingkool68/stickyHeader
Not meth or anti-depressants, but even alcohol and weed to excess.

And yeah, more than anything I think we have a caste system. Social mobility is decreasing, and we certainly don't interact with people of far-away economic classes unless it is required (usually). I don't think the poor like being poor the same way the Epsilons were pleased not to be burdened with responsibility.
That’s not what a red herring is, but you are correct that it is a red herring.
Then why does turning on dedup on ZFS suddenly make it chomp through 4GB of memory? Is there some tuneable you're supposed to be setting to make it less insane?
The West is Brave New World on the surface with a 1984 surveillance state underneath. Obviously, not fully either one, but elements of both are present.
This article introduces a new term 'structural' for describing the US trade deficit.

Essentially if a country is to have their currency as the world's reserve currency then they have to run at a deficit.

Since all those extra dollars that get printed go overseas they are not in the US economy to cause price inflation, i.e. too much money chasing too few goods.

https://qz.com/1266044/why-does-the-us-run-a-trade-deficit-t...