skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is tough about this problem is how hard it is to communicate. We all know something is wrong, even if we don't really realize it. Like the article says, we've been promised all of these incredible things by the advancements we've seen, but we have gotten very few fundamental improvements. I live in the US, so I'm going to speak from that point of view.

We work more than every, are poorer than any time in recent memory, have a broken healthcare system, we're seeing decreases in life expectancy, epidemic levels of suicide, etc. and all of this at a time when the market is at ridiculous highs. There are very few people talking about this in highly coherent ways, one is Eric Weinstein on his podcast The Portal, which focuses on this. What we have seen in the past 50 years is that physics has hit a wall in delivering meaningful real world improvements for people's lives, biology has largely done the same, and chemistry pushes forward at a snails pace in the form of pharmaceuticals. The saving grace that makes everyone feel as though we're progressing is technology, which seems to have hit the same wall in recent years since most of the easy problems to solve with computer science have been solved.

In the soft sciences, economics has some deeply troubling problems down to the fundamentals, our politics/government/public policy is damaged and decaying at the root, academia has exploded in cost with little payoff for most, and has entrenched itself as a inescapable shadow that looms over young people for the rest of their life, all while cannibalizing those who speak out against it.

Many great advancements are threatening to become meaningful, but many more have been doing that for decades. It really seems like we are running out of easy problems to solve, and the systems that we have in place are remarkably bad at solving hard problems, while being remarkably good at concentrating wealth

I often think of the first few lines of a poem by Allen Ginsberg:

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking
in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz..."

I'm seeing the best minds of my generation destroyed trying to sell ad space, starved of connection, posting selfies looking for a hollow fix.
I really like how the author progressed from semantic to utility with examples. This approach made it really easy to understand the... uh... utility of utility classes.

The answer to anyone asking "how is this not inline styles", is in the article. With utility CSS, you don't use 100% of everything that CSS can do, and just pick the exact snippets you need for your theme.
Stock buybacks also count as cash flows. But stock that will never pay a dividend (or do a buyback) in a million years? That is as pure a bubble as you will ever find.
I did not defend Boeing's MCAS design.
Entitled incompetents who are not only highly paid but expect scheduled promotions as if given a sinecure have really run amock in this sad sad industry.
I've been leveraging docker buildx to create multi architecture images for a few months. It's quite nice and simple, and I've been able to even automate the multiarch builds with GitHub Actions. See an example repo of mine here: https://github.com/jmb12686/docker-cadvisor
Corber CLI: Compile JavaScript Apps to Native Mobile with Hot Reload
No it's not.

You cannot do this in inline styles:

<div class="md-display--none xl-display--block">…</div>

It's a false premise to say this is "inline CSS". Inline styles are one subset of the entire CSS world and functional classes can hold dozens of advantadges inline CSS doesn't have.
Yeah sure ‘dance of avoidance’ makes for better clickbait than ‘resonance’, but you sound like a fucking retard. ‘Dance of avoidance’
IIRC about half of medical expenses are incurred in the last 18 months of life. That would be around $1.6 trillion annually.
I was interested about that too and after some research the likely explanation is that people with an Ashkenazi ancestry have a higher intelligence thanks to genetics.
Rubin was accused by, if I recall correctly, a woman he'd been in a relationship with and then dumped? He denied her accusations and as it was all behind closed doors there's no way to ever resolve it. That shouldn't be in the public realm at all, let alone people having strong opinions about it!

Honestly if Google really kicked him out because of an unsubstantiable claim by some woman with an axe to grind, or some private sexual perversions .... after all he did for Google? $90M is probably too little for what they gave him. That's like, less than a year's CEO salary.
I agree with this.
A basic income program could have an unexpected dividend of a new innovation boom.
> But I don't think that dead lifts are the only way to get strong enough.

I think the key to getting strong is barbell exercises, because they can be precisely and incrementally loaded. (So you linearly progress.)

> And core strength helps prevent back pain.

Deadlifts, squats, and presses are all extremely good at developing "core" strength. Ab-specific exercises are not (they cannot be effectively loaded, and the loads are much smaller, and the spinal flexion/extension involved often aggravate existing back injury).

> chair that helps you sit up straight, and provides lumbar support.

If the chair is helping you, then you are not using your muscles and will continue to atrophy away. Lumbar support in general is not a good thing.
They did use the cutoff switches with the nose down too far. The correct procedure (as stated in the Airworthiness Directive distributed to all MAX crews) is to use the column trim switches to restore normal trim, then use the cutoff switches.

They had already used the column trim switches twice to restore normal trim.

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...
He's from Romania, where people don't usually afford vacations abroad, and when they do, Greece is the canonical choice. Also, a lot of people's existences there revolve around car ownership. In addition, IT people have relatively high salaries (they even have an explicit tax exemption).
Berlin 1884: Remembering the conference that divided Africa
If you do not know basic stuff like that how can you even write CSS at all? Trial and error?
Maintenance of these utility class CSS codebases is such a pain. I've had the pleasure of dealing with it. What if you want to tweak one of your utility classes ever so slightly? If your codebase is big enough, you've just created enormous amounts of potential regressions.
How much of this is due to venture capital? Like, if it were possible to make a billion dollars by investing in 100 plumbing companies even if 99 of them turn out to have been dumb, would plumbers make $250K out of college?
I was being sarcastic.

Object Pascal is already a PhD level language according to Go's design point of view.
This is interesting, because Google clearly has the smartest speakers. Alexa clearly has the most apps, by comparison. It's the (current) example of ecosystem > quality in tech.
Anyone interested in a framework to produce functional CSS in SCSS/Sass, this is my project https://github.com/meerita/utilcss
Microsoft did, on Google's side.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-956/89566/20190...
One of the things you learn after writing code long enough, is that there is no such thing as a perfect abstraction, or even a non-leaky one. Eventually you run into edge cases, either in performance or functionality, that causes you to add warts to your abstraction.
Really?

Googler 2006-2014. I can't say I remember much politics during that time. The closest it got was Eric Schmidt having close relationships with Washington. That and the China thing but even there, Google was in China with a censored search engine up until they went and hacked the firm. I don't remember much discussion of the fact that we had a Chinese version of the search engine.

What are you thinking of?

I look at it like this. My friends who still work there complain about stupid idpol all the time now. I never heard complaints like that when I was there.
Ergonomics is something that seems to be advancing very slowly.

My current thinking is that split keyboards are important, having your hands low is important, having the keyboard tilted down is important, exercising entire muscle groups from back muscles to shoulders to forearms is important and making sure you have multiple good positions to adjust to is important.

I think conventional wisdom is so far off the mark it will be laughable in 50 years. Look how twisted you have to place your hands to use a regular keyboard. You lift them up, tilt them up, tilt them to the side etc.

Using a typical computer set up is basically putting yourself is a stress position. I want to have multiple, very different positions I can be in. Being able to lie down on a bean bag and use a tablet for some things would be even better.
I think the reason software pays so well is because the world is simply littered with computers.

Today's software developers are earning a fortune from the fertile soil that has been spread around in the form of computers in everyone's pockets. Making those computers x% more useful to y% of their owners scales as a function of the number of computer owners. The fruit keeps hanging lower and lower to the point that it's hard not to step on it.

It's easy money because most of the work is done as the byproduct of investments by other industries, like telecom, but the extra value is unlocked by the software developers.
Give me an example of that.

Would you mantain .display--block? how? .color--red?
Consumer Reports restores 'recommended' ratings to Tesla Model 3 and Model S
ready-tarantula is in the lead with a perfect score in 24 seconds!

If anyone has ideas for improvement hmu! :)
All of these articles and ways of thinking always miss the bigger, more fundamental shift in human society — we now know there is literally no place we can access in any meaningful amount of time where the “grass is greener” than the places we’ve already been.

This is profound, semi-depressing, and enlightening at the same time. Rather than seeking something new somewhere else, our new obsession is in improving what we’ve got, where we are right now.

I know a lot of you are going to make hand-wavy claims about space mining and things like that, but our population curve seems to indicate a very minimal benefit to all of that. If anything, the fastest-growing environmental concern seems to be space and sky pollution. Starry-eyed young engineers have been sold on the idea of interstellar space travel, when the reality of the commercial application of their work is that it’s more likely to lead to an over-proliferation of satellites and help rich people get to places faster via space plane.

The final argument someone’s inevitably going to make is, survival of the race. Yeah, okay. You might want to self-reflect on our existence as deeply terrestrial beings that are intrinsically connected to the Earth. Even if you spend all of your day hidden in a bedroom, you can’t escape your bond with this planet. Instead of trying to find a mistress in the form of another moon/planet, we need to spend more time working on the marriage.

I think space technologies are fun, and that rich people obsessed with suicide missions to other planets should be able to do what they want, but let’s not kid ourselves on the moral superiority of these sorts of things. There is no shame, and no inferiority, in working to optimize our Earth-bound existence.
NASA could not do that decades ago because then we didn't have good enough computers to model the process of burning in the engine, or to control the engine to land vertically.

So i don't think that effort spent on facebook and other computer related things was a waste.
For what it's worth, Fedora support arm7/aarch64 images for the rpi3: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_P...

The raspberry pi 4 apparently isn't supported. I'm not exactly clear on why, and how this links to the above issue, and if any of the things they suggest are problems in their bug tracker are also not solved in Fedora, or are simply raspberry pi people being unwilling to fix in their setup.
I use free weights, sure.

But I've always preferred using lighter weights with lots of reps.
This philosophy is about as far from what I value as it's possible to get. An easily understandable program that doesn't solve the problem is worth absolutely nothing. In fact, if it's code someone is depending on it's probably worse than no code at all. In some applications it could even cost people their lives.

Correctness is a basic starting point. It's the minimum viable offering.
To provide an edgy answer, we live in a rather peaceful time...

We haven't had a good old fashioned War to accelerate our technological advancements. As humans were rather adept at finding new and creative ways to kill each other and then ultimately repurposing it for good later on...
They'll just wait until it breaks. My car clanks sometimes when doing sharp turns at a low speed. Something in the steering or wheels. Not very loud, but disconcerting. 2 visits to the dealer - zero progress. To be fair, it's probably harmless. Or it could crap out at 80mph and kill me, I don't know. And that's BMW, where mechanics are expensive AF.
If these, and others of its kind, are the things that also keep you awake at night, feel free to get in touch. It's hard to openly express them around here (edit: here, meaning the city where I live, not HN) as I always seem to get into trouble for that. Thought police is always on the lookout.
What's not elitist about that statement?
Hopefully only the specific Java incantation. Other languages have different syntax, so arguably they are not Java.

Java: public String concat(String str)

Javascript: String.prototype.concat ( [ string1 [ , string2 [ , … ] ] ] )

Python: def __add__(self, *args, **kwargs)

C++: function <string> std::operator+ (string)
Terahertz laser generated with laughing gas paves way for advanced applications
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I was just today watching some of the videos Adam Wathan put together for Tailwind [0] and this one on "Optimizing for Production"[1] is especially relevant to your comment.

You can introduce a build step (in his example, PurgeCSS) to filter down to only the styles that you actually use. So during development you'd have thousands of available classes, but in practice you only use a handful, and that final CSS file can be significantly reduced.

I'm not (yet?) fully on board the utility-first bandwagon and I have yet to give it a solid try, but I was excited by the idea that it should be pretty optimizable.

[0] https://tailwindcss.com/course/

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/course/optimizing-for-production
I’m surprised this article is so upvoted.

1. The author took this nearly word for word from Thiel/Eric Weinstein, who have both discussed this point extensively, most recently on Weinstein’s podcast.

2. The author is using this click bait headline to discuss his own industry/company, and this looks like some content marketing piece.
Just opened the samsung ones. They all seem to be "app by manufacturer can use permissions of another app installed by manufactuer"
Android 8.
And even then only things like turning wifi on/off.
if that's as bad as it gets now I'd say its more like things have come a very long way.
You are wrong. I'm not talking about "identical looking" people. I'm talking about _monozygotic twins_. They have identical DNA because they're two people spawned from one zygote and therefore have identical DNA.
> [...] it is simply not possible for young graduates to come to work knowing basically nothing [...]

If there’s something that I’m really really grateful of, growing up in Germany, it’s the dual apprenticeship system. [1]
And Germany also does a splendid job at giving students a glimpse of working experience at uni (if you are willing, at least)

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16159943
It uses effectively only the one keyword assure. The constraints look like fields on the type variables, which have an ambiguity with package private method expressions with the same name.
I'm writing a book on future thought tentatively titled

The Soul of Tomorrow

A futurist's construction kit

A field manual for how to think about and create "future stuff", stepwise advances for a continuous world.

I'm about 25,000 words in. It's currently being developed on github. If this really interests anybody, I'd really love to talk to them about things.

The chapters are starting to come together, but honestly this is 15 years of thinking and currently only 15 days of writing (November novel writing)

I intend to eventually get this to a publishable academic state with careful citations. I've even taken a week off work to travel around to libraries and do research for it.

I'm looking at how visions of possible futures operate, how they change, get communicated, materialize, and often collapse.

I've developed a number of frameworks that I'm currently trying to validate and falsify by looking at many classes of future from things like biblical second coming theology to socialist theory to technological dreams to even white nationalism. I'm trying to figure out how the dreams of a different tomorrow operate at fundamental levels.

Please reach out and contact me if you want to talk about this. I'm really passionate about this study.

My email address is in my bio. If you replace the domain of Yahoo with Gmail I'll probably see it quicker.
I was being sarcastic, as Wirth is probably the only language designer that removes features with each language revision.

While I loved my experience as Oberon user/dev, and it opened my mind to systems programming using GC languages, my favourite languages on Wirth's linage aren't done by him, rather influenced by his creations.

Modula-3 (which comes from Mesa/Cedar, not Oberon), Active Oberon (another ETHZ team), Zonnon, Delphi.
It's disheartening to read comments like this when I think of the graduates I've worked with over the years and the yearning for betterment and peer recognition I often see.
I've had a tangential interest in the physics / mechanics of air-conditioning since working in an office with two people on opposite ends of the "comfortable temperature" scale, and noticing that one of them opens their window in order to "solve the problem". I've since noticed various other people open windows to try to "fix" the air-conditioning temperature.

My assumption is that opening the window fucks it up for the whole system, but very few people are aware of this, and the office folks aren't made aware of it by the air-con techs.

Am I way off? Am I overstating the effect that an open window has on the system?
I wish you lots of luck in finding these mythical designers out there to work with throughout your entire web development career. You can spend plenty of time thinking of how things ought to be but the flexibility of CSS and HTML will always be utilized in real world applications where it's practical. Asking for a few more iterations from the design team to make their concepts fit your teams existing set of baked utility classes or even their own style guide (issued more than a few months ago) instead of simply writing a few more lines of CSS is not a good trade off in the eyes of most everybody including many developers.
In addition to meeritas point about pseudo classes and media queries, I'd add that the fact that it narrows down the space is an important factor. The classes mean that I need to find the best fit rather than spend hours matching pixels by hand.
It's like going from drawing charts on blank paper to grid paper. You stay within certain boundaries. It seems like a detail but I find that in practice (and in fairness, I've only been using Tailwind a bit so far), this makes a significant difference to the way I think and work with UI.
I disagree, I think the politics of land use are more easily solvable than the simple physics problem of too many cars, not enough space. Plenty of other countries in the world (and even some US cities) have solved the land use problem to the point that most people don't use space-inefficient private vehicles to get around. It's solvable and there are working models to emulate. This is not true of your alternative.
Isn’t it reasonable to consider a company’s assets in addition to cash flows? If a company has $1B of assets (and no loans, for simplicity), might indirect ownership/control over those assets via stock be worth something?
As far as I know, Iran has little gas refining capability, so they must purchase gas from abroad. With the continuing effects of the embargo it's tough for the government to subsidize the low gas price with less cash coming in.
There are numerous devices for which the typical individual can function well in society without making direct use of them.

Skillsaws, 737-MAX airliners, full Linux server distros, and home flourine refining labs among them.

Automobiles, after a century-plus of integration and mutual reinforcement of the built infrastructure and virtually all aspects of life, commerce, government, employment, recreation, education, etc., are not amongst these.

It is possible, usually within narrow environments and/or with considerable compromise, to survive without owning, using, or access to one. It is exceedingly difficult, and the net household ownership rates within the US and most other Western / Industrialised countries, reveals this.

The standards are different.

Incidentally: I agree with your premise regarding the unacceptability of manufacuters' apparent self-driving cutout behaviours. No, this is not remotely acceptable.
A Museum Tried to Hide This Stunning 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact
Too much work.

A-b_c is so multiplicative
Iran is by far the most stable and wealthy country among its neighbors, which makes our ability to enforce sanctions on them pretty ineffective. Sure, we can mostly stem the flow of high tech from America and Europe from going in to Iran, but do you think anyone in the 7 countries that border Iran gives a fuck about enforcing US sanctions?
Not to forget VsCode, which has markdown support and preview.
Have been using fsnotes for a while (MacOS / iOS) for this, syncing it with iCloud

https://fsnot.es