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> CSS Grid is a two dimensional layout tool. Flexbox is one.
>CSS Grid is for architectural layout. Flexbox is for alignment and flow layout.

I agree with the first (it seems impossible not to) but I think the 2nd is kind of a misconception. That grid is for “architectural layout” ... it’s for any two-dimensional layout, any time, any place. And flexbox is often totally appropriate for laying out entire pages or large sections of pages, if 2 dimensions of flexibility are not needing to be controlled. You can have grids inside your flex items inside your grids inside your flex items as needed.

The decision of layouts having to look a certain way at different sizes unfortunately is often made long before any code is written to implement a design in my experience. Not much the implementation person can do except maybe push back, but it can be a tough sell to ask for an approved design to change so that the underlying code can be less hacky.
Many of the pre-Christian European peoples did not have written languages or used them extremely sparingly - oral tradition poetry was how information was stored and communicated. Notice how all of Europe uses mostly Roman letters (the Christians also unfortunately burned most of the existing culture when they converted a population which is also why the Norse legends come mostly from Icelandic, one of the last places to really convert because of its remote location)
I'm certain we can predict the future. We do it all the time without noticing or accepting that we are. We are so good at it, we are disappointed when we are wrong.

I think we actually predict the future correctly more often than not. The question isn't, can we? but rather, to what resolution can we?
I’ve had great feedback on my css grid crash course video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ
> OTOH, OpenBSD's VMD not only supports it but I think it's enabled by default.

Yes, my VMD virtual machines have it with no configuration necessary.

pvbus0 at mainbus0: OpenBSD
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
virtio0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio RNG" rev 0x00
viornd0 at virtio0

Here’s the manpage: https://man.openbsd.org/viornd.4
He killed himself.
Is torture legal?

No, but it happens all of the time.

Is any evidence gained through torture admissable?

If the police lie and say the person wasn’t tortured or do you believe that police don’t lie?

Are any law enforcement allowed to use torture to gain access to information?

Yes and police never lie and district attorneys never illegally withhold evidence from the defense....

You’re making a lot of assumptions that police, judges, and district attorneys play by the rules and that overworked public defenders have the time or the will to be great advocates for defenders.
It would probably be a good idea to institute a policy of the flagging of articles to be explained in the comments (who flagged it, why).
How is this related to the plan to release a (crypto)coin?
In what way is it incorrect or misleading?

The first paragraph of the article states "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox."
Is there something in the video that is "over-the-top-cargo-culty" or are you just complaining that this post was upvoted?

I won't see the video because it does not interest me right now, but I'm curious about your reasoning and also expected outcome when making this comment
> Regarding a libc-replacement I couldn't name a single important thing for the last years.

* Supporting new syscalls, such as getrandom(), or extra options on existing syscalls (e.g., socket options).

* Support for libc-components of new hardware versions, such as the register state information that you get on signals.

* Supporting new versions of C, such as C11.

* Improving performance of threading and memory allocation, among other things.

* Updating Unicode tables for locale information.
I love Tim Dodd! I'm actually really surprised to see him show up on hacker news. I've been watching his youtube videos for quite a while now.

Anybody else interested in space stuff should also check out Scott Manley. I also like Marcus House also has some really great stuff.

These guys focus a lot on SpaceX but they also do a lot of other videos on general space stuff.

Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNHHEoiSF8pcLgqLKVugOw

Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg
Sure. Even the most sparsely populated javadoc suddenly turns from a nightmare into a valuable improvement when you stop trying to pull information with a browser and just enjoy what the IDE presents when implementing an API client, if it is presenting something. More authored content is still better than less, but the amount of empties remaining stops being a hindrance when consumed through an opportunistic push mechanism.
You may be in two different countries with two different sets of options available.
The abstract confused me.

Near the beginning, it refers to "the switch in the character of the European–African climate with that of the Americas, with a drying of the former and a greening of the latter"

Later on, it says "the temperature gradient between Europe and eastern Siberia is reversed, and the Sahara greens, while large parts of the Americas become deserts"

These seem somewhat contradictory, and I'm wondering if something was inadvertently reversed.
It isn't a dodge, and I'm not claiming a single-payer system "will automatically solve provider-side costs" (which is an odd thing for you to put in quotes, since I said no such thing). What I am saying is that such a system opens up avenues to pressure providers that aren't available in other systems (or are more easy for providers to escape [1]), and that potential gets us closer to solving those problems. After that, it's a question of political will to use those powers.

[1] e.g. by refusing to accept Medicare patients or by charging non-Medicare patients more to compensate. The alternatives to the single-payer for providers (e.g. concierge medicine) are likely to be far more limited.
SoftBank and JPMorgan at Odds over WeWork Rescue
> because the people involved don't get prosecuted for making mistakes.

And they shouldn't be. But there is a very large difference between 'mistakes' and 'intentionally circumventing processes put in place to ensure safety'. Having to draw lines is always difficult, but in this case the line has been crossed. Consider what Martha Stewart went to jail for, then compare to what happened here. If justice is to be observed as even handed there ought to be some serious consequences here, not some already rich guys getting richer with their golden parachutes, the irony of which I'm sure will not be lost on the relatives of the people who died.
He is the lead designer! So he must be interested quite a bit to do that on day-to-day basis.
You are making a lot of assumptions. Maybe he saw himself as creative, and believed he was building important things? Maybe he was a great family man? Maybe his death had nothing to do with overwork? Maybe he did stop caring about money at 40, and continued for other reasons?
Cool. But you shouldn't need Leap for this these days, you can do hand tracking with ML: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/on-device-real-time-hand-t...
I think the author/s were only trying to list software that people would actually like to use!
aka "Velikovskian climate change"...
I recently saw an interesting review of Against the Grain by James Scott, which makes the claim that:

only the cereal grains can serve as a basis for taxation: visible, divisible, assessable, storable, transportable, and “rationable.”

And so early states led the way in agriculture in order to collect more taxes.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...
Sad to hear this. I was excited that an established company like Samsung was pursuing the idea of using your phone as a PC, but looks like the ROI wasn't there for them.

Fortunately, you can always come check out Maru OS [0] if you want to turn your phone into a PC. We launched in early 2016 as one of the very first projects to ride the "convergence" wave created by Ubuntu's (failed) Edge project. After this news, I guess we are the only serious project still in active development. Anyways, we're open-source and have an enthusiastic user and developer community that is always happy to welcome new members! (I am the creator)

[0]: https://maruos.com
Every company is subject to the opinions of the public. I avoid Google products because they don't respect my privacy; I know people who don't use Apple products because they're too controlling. That is called "doing business".

And trying to be neutral doesn't even insulate you from those opinions! When I realized my previous webhost's position was to allow e.g. Nazi content as long as it was legal, I switched hosts. What do you think that webhost would do if enough people followed suit?
SunCalc (http://suncalc.net) has a visualization for sun position throughout the year and time of day. Another great app is Sun Surveyor for Android, which gives an augmented reality view of the sun's position and trajectory.
Cultural Cringe
Is there a database where you can write stored procedures in C or C++? Usually such languages can't segfault or buffer overflow.
This is a good way to; complicate development, slow down development and add an unnecessary dependency of jira...
This is true on some level, but I can see things from his perspective too. You're getting to work with smart, talented, experienced people, making big decisions that have ramifications in a world-wide industry, mentoring and conversing with juniors, and feeling the gratitude of customers whose lives you've made better. And maybe some of it just the sheer joy of winning. Who knows?

Here I am on a Friday night, casually hanging out on my laptop - between Reddit and Hacker News and watching work tech talks and looking at GitHub issues. A new bug came in. I know several companies depend on me to fix it. It's not urgent, but I'm taking a look at it. I guess it feels good to be useful to other people (looking at the bug), and to feel like part of something bigger than you (the tech talks).
Well... yeah. There are definitely people with big problems in this world. They can’t trust the people around them. They are trapped in bad situations.

Those people will literally be able to rest easier when this problem is solved.
Asking for sources is the internet way of shutting down any argument when you know that whatever sources there are are not going to be made public in the foreseeable future.

But there is more than enough smoke to conclude there is fire, even absent handy incriminating smoking guns in .pdf format. Enough people knew about this and decided not to talk about it when it mattered with two very serious crashes as a result. If you want to chalk that up to innocent mistakes then you really should read up on the whole thing from day #1 and how long Boeing held the line that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the aircraft.

I thought we were well past the stage where this would even need to be argued at all. Asking for proof I'll leave to the courts, in the meantime, even absent proof I'll take my chances in making up my own mind. This may led me astray but if proof to the contrary surfaces I'll be more than happy to adjust. But for now the various narratives seem to support a cover up a lot better than an organization that is transparent about its mistakes and forthcoming with documentation supporting that story.
What jobs a company takes are part of working conditions. It's a valid thing to unions, or others, to negotiate over.

It's also pretty silly to say "Well if companies A, B, and C are hiring individually, the workers can all choose to work for A and B but not C. But if they all contract out to company X, then company X workers need to shut up and either work for all three or none. They can't even ask for things to change, they can only quit."
I’d be curious about the errors and inaccuracies - I’m not trained in the field, and to me it didn’t seem like he got into any real detail about how the aerospike actually worked from a physics perspective other than that it did indeed work. Seemed magical.
Very nice visualization. It'd be interesting to see it extended to the galaxy, as in https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/orientation-of-the-ear...
There's lots of indie games that get tons of updates, too. Minecraft is the big one in this space that kinda defined the model, Factorio is one of them too. Dwarf Fortress has had regular updates since 2006.

Get a playable version of the core game into Early Access for a low price, start releasing updates. Your player base provides feedback on the game as it evolves, free beta testing, and growing word-of-mouth promotion. Maybe even ideas for entire systems, especially if you have mod support. Eventually you expand it to have all the stuff that was in your original vision, and you bump the price up for the 1.0 release. Port it to consoles, decide if you want to keep on adding new content to make it the game you barely dared to dream it could be, or move on to the next project.

There's still people who keep a game quiet until they can release 1.0, but there's a lot of small games out there that get their stuff out in public as soon as possible.
Very amusing. Some of my favorites:

> In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children).

> (Tetris) Agent pauses the game indefinitely to avoid losing

>Agent kills itself at the end of level 1 to avoid losing in level

>Robot hand pretending to grasp an object by moving between the camera and the object
> Check out William Bricken's "Iconic Math" http://iconicmath.com/ or "Proofs without Words" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words or the other 3Blue1Brown videos for that matter.

Yes, those references demonstrate that some mathematical facts can be demonstrated easily, given the right presentation.

I agree that there is large gap between current mathematical presentations and the optimal presentation.

I am curious how effective the optimal presentation is.
How easy can we make math? We have to be careful of the trap that the 3b1b video warns us against - when we understand something it is very difficult to put yourself in the shoes of a beginner. Something that looks like an elegant and clear presentation may seem like gibberish to the beginner (look at the YouTube comments on the 3b1b video).

I tried to google "Alan kay teaching calculus smalltalk" and didn't find anything. I am curious to see how much he actually taught the kids. It's clear that the typical college student, after taking a typical calculus class, doesn't really get the point of calculus. They may be able to follow some algorithms for differentiating and integrating but I don't think they understand when they can apply calculus.
Thanks for sharing. That lets me sleep a bit easier.
Russia’s Yandex Joins the Self-Driving Car Million-Mile Club
Normal API use is to read information about the people directly interacting with a post or an app, for the purpose of facilitating that interaction.

Cambridge Analytica used posts to get API access to all users (and friends-of-friends) who interacted with those posts, in order to incrementally build a copy of the complete social graph. The process is similar to scraping.
fyi portage has INSTALL_MASK: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd#systemd_...
Buggy software will happen. Buggy software that isn't reported when it should be, that isn't fixed, reviewed and tested shouldn't happen. Software development for aviation is pretty good, that's not where the issue lies here. The issue is a systematic attempt to circumvent proper type certification for a new aircraft, and downright trickery in order to pretend it's just a minor change to an existing aircraft when in fact the aircraft was substantially different from the previous one sharing the same type number. That's not an innocent mistake.
Evo Morales: ‘We are not a country of beggars any more’
Having the US government act on citizen’s behalf would not be the mainstream view. If people felt that Tencent stood remove or reprimand the one executive who was out of line, they would be vocal in the press or with their wallets. I think we saw this with Jeffrey Epstein recently. While the fallout is likely to continue, US citizens have not asked the government to intervene in firing all of L Brands executives.
Love the idea. Suhail is doing something similar with Mighty (check it out if you haven't already). Not sure how you're streaming stuff like Adobe and Blender products, but I like the idea and I think this has some potential.

Speaking of things in the cloud, I wrote a small thread about the pros and cons if everything is in the cloud (mainly inspired by Mighty):

https://sdan.xyz/essaycloud
"the rest of the electronics should hold up as it's just consumer grade smartphone parts"

Consumer grade smartphones, of course, last as long as...uh, three years?

I mean, I'm pretty sure the lifespan of whichever Google phone I had that started rebooting and wouldn't stop was less than that.
This holds for humans too. I have a childhood friend who's dad was an Army Ranger in Vietnam. Literally the last guy on a hill once. He would always try to be a good dad and attend Fourth of July festivities. It wouldn't take long before he was shaking and sweating. As a former weapons officer myself, I give zero shits about fireworks and would love to see some drone acrobatics instead.
I’d say the “(2016)” isn’t needed for something like this, but thanks for posting. Definitely going to build some of the stuff there.
Beto maybe ought to look at some US history before saying such things. Prohibition, anyone? Or, alternately, sanctuary cities.
Except a black hole. And fundamental particles. And bits. And verbs.
Slate is suggesting trade deals are responsible for more job losses than robots and therefore Yang is full of it.

However, the last sentence says, "By prophesying imaginary problems, you ignore the real ones."

But finding reasons people are losing jobs not due to robots does not mean robots aren't taking jobs.

It's a mathematical fact that robots are taking jobs. Container ports are being automated and hundreds of longshoremen are laid off at each port. Robots in factories.

At the end of "American Factory" (spoiler) coming...

the solution to the problem of "lazy" American workers was, you guessed it, replacing them with robots.

It isn't just factory work either. It isn't just blue collar work. The internet and technology and automation is replacing absolutely everyone.

There will come a day when it'll be almost impossible for a human to find work. I believe companies will just stop hiring them. Pretty much all the "human" work will be done by independent contractors who will be able to command very high salaries.

The article mentions how low wage truckers will drive the trucks in the cities, but I don't think they'll be low wage truckers. I remember learning about river captains who are flown out onto large ships when they need to navigate up river. They're experts and command very high wages to move the ships. It takes much experience to learn now to pilot ships through shifting river bottoms and curves.

I don't think it'll be cheap when we need humans to take over.
> The Earth rotates around its axis from west to east, or, when seen from above, counter-clockwise.

North is not up.

When seen from above the South Pole, the Earth is rotating clockwise.

But really doesn't make much sense to talk about the rotation of a sphere by analogy to a 2D clockface. The Earth rotates from West to East; that's all that needed to be said here.
Banning out-of-hours email 'could harm employee wellbeing'
Unless you have a license to provide Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft apps over the cloud in this way, you should take this down immediately. They have lots of lawyers.
Apparently Mono Lake Vol Field is the closest to Silicon Valley
It lived in a garage under the bridge, on the Wean/Porter side, between the cut and Hammerschlag.
Looking for a C++ Software Engineer at Iris Automation – AI Software for Drones
Previously Withheld Messages show Boeing employees knew of 737 Max problems
In postgres you could just make an index on the RIGHT(SomeColumn,3) expression.

See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createindex.html

> An index field can be an expression computed from the values of one or more columns of the table row. This feature can be used to obtain fast access to data based on some transformation of the basic data. For example, an index computed on upper(col) would allow the clause WHERE upper(col) = 'JIM' to use an index.

No need to maintain a separate view or its index
You can play Factorio with the enemies turned off. I do that too, because I find getting distracted by enemies annoying. The downside is that the whole military part of the research tree becomes pointless.

Another way is to have enemies but set them to be peaceful until you attack them first. Downside is that it's finicky. The enemies love to roam randomly, so if you accidentally hit one with a car or build a rail track too close to one of their bases such that one of them wanders on to it and gets run over, all the enemies on the map will instantly become hostile.
What Brent said. I basically interpret it to mean “this expression can not be satisfied (covered) by the use of an index even if an appropriate one existed.”
The aggregate amount spent does not mean the government pays individuals more. I'm pretty sure the NSA can't compete with private industry for salaries. So that would cast some doubt on whether they can utilize the most talented.
What does being the sole payer for services give you, besides a monopoly on payments and all the leverage that comes with it? It should be self-evident, but the ability to negotiate far better prices from healthcare suppliers. Medicare for All’s (not Medicare’s) “unique ability” is this ability to say do these things or you won’t get paid or paid as much. It’s a big part of what single payer systems do around the world to drive down costs and what allows for consistent care to prevent the development of more expensive conditions.

Medicare doesn’t have this advantage because it is not “universal” in any regard and doesn’t have this leverage. The cost pressure from the ever escalating supplier-insurance war further down the chain bleeds into it, as thaumaturgy outlined. Not the very least in the form of lingering injuries and chronic illnesses in its beneficiaries that could’ve been better managed through a universal system before they came onboard.

Which is related to your point about drug costs - the inability of Medicare to collectively negotiate drug prices allows them to be as ridiculous as they are in the US, which of course leads to horrible outcomes for managing care. When people can’t afford medicine, ration it, etc, their conditions worsen and become more expensive to treat. Even if the medicines themselves are not a large, direct source of upward pressure on costs, their inaccessibility creates the circumstances (and need) for more expensive care. And this happens throughout the system as people self-ration various, necessary forms of care.

TLDR; Because Medicare isn’t universal coverage and it and it’s beneficiaries don’t exist in a vacuum.
I’m not sure if it’s related but I can’t seem to understand the international date line.
That sounds awful, but I/we do name feature branches as team-<TICKET #>(TICKET TITLE),with the title as usually optional
I'd really hesitate to say that factorio focuses on tower defense/military. There is defense, but unless you are ramping up the difficulty the bugs aren't really that much of a problem - more of a low level pressure unless you expand deep into their areas - and, you have the option to turn them off completely when starting a new game, and you wouldn't be losing a major part of the appeal (like minecraft with creepers off).
Wasn't this called Citrix back in the 90s?