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What employers really should care about is productivity, not these kind of poor proxies for productivity, like the classic butts in chairs.

Why not just take a stab at that directly? Granted it's not easy, but could you really do worse than this?
and remember other trucks might have crumple zones, but also cast iron engine blocks and spear-like frame rails and so forth.

I think we have to wait for crash tests.

(I am unaware if trucks have the same standards for crash testing)
Well, practical QC seems to be involved with optimization problems. D-Wave recently demonstrated doing something with bus routing for Volkswagen. I could imagine, say, a map service scaling that out by integrating QC into their route-finding for drivers to cooperatively improve traffic flow by finding optimal solutions to problems of a scale that is intractable with classical systems.

The everyday person will use QC like they "use" machine learning today: from a very high level abstract viewpoint, where services they consume have a little bit of intelligence that makes interacting with them more efficient.
There's no defense against someone lying to you about something you don't know, and what you describe is part of the definition of "counterfeit."
I think that is exactly the point.

The argument is that if a language is developed/mainly contributed by a single company there is an inherent risk of that language being suddenly discountinued or lacking features that are needed by other people/companies.

At least that's how I understand the critics against microsoft in this case.
Thanks for catching. It's a fairly complex subject matter- and particularly hard get extra eye balls willing to check for typos.

- String length is typically measured in code units.
- Funny enough, with Unicode normalization, multiple diacritics can be reduced into a single code point.
note: the town looks best on desktop, really big, but should still look good on mobile, you'll just see less of it.

This is my personal site that I redid for fun, it's more of an art site than a website. I hope the ideas and use of CSS are interesting enough to merit your time. The code is compact but has some nice stuff.

After looking at React for a while I wanted a single-page site that used no JS. There's no JavaScript (except Analytics sorry!) and no CSS media queries. CSS3 affords a lot of nice options by itself!

The background is a 1550's painting cut apart into several layers to independently scale into view.

The flying birds are small DIVs with ::afters that move in X and Y directions independently. This is done by animating the DIV along an X value while animating the ::after along a separate Y value. Fussing the animation length a bit gives an "organic" feel to the bird flight. (a true "boids" style bird flock isn't possible without JavaScript)

The navigation consists of three radio button labels, which use sibling (~) CSS selectors to show/hide content divs.

I'd say "the source is on github" but the source is literally just index.html and layout.css, plus the images, which are unfortunately honking huge PNGs so the payload of the site isn't as tiny as I'd like.

The biggest problem: If you open it in a new tab and then look at it later, you won't see any of the town-building animation. This is only fixable with JavaScript unfortunately.

I actually don't know anything about CSS3, this was mostly to learn some of the stuff, most of my experience is in Canvas, so maybe next time I'll make an all-JavaScript village in Canvas or SVG that's generated procedurally or something. I'd like to have a lot more interactivity available.
I think a hard engineering problem in general is knowing when to adopt what level of flexibility. Erring too far in either direction gets bad.
Ask HN: Do you know any other website similar to distill.pub?
I speak for myself and not my employer, past or present.

More and more facilities are becoming robot centric. The only reason humans exist in the robot facilities is because they do something robots don't do well yet. Usually grabbing objects of varying shapes, sizes, and weights.

It's unsurprising that these facilities are moving at such a pace that they're becoming increasingly dangerous and inhumane.

I have, in the past or present, watched with immense data fidelity as humans at these facilities became the weakest link and that weakness only grew as robot evolution further outpaced them.

I'm convinced that the only humane future for these facilities is one entirely devoid of humans. I doubt you'll ever convince management to slow the robots way down and keep them like that.

There are robots available today that are a lot less dangerous than the Kiva/Amazon deathfloors. But I don't see that remaining true as KPIs endlessly march upwards.
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I said the same thing. But this is hacker news. I mean, there are ways around it mate.
Think about the implications of having a real time face recognition camera app, like the one internal one facebook built (forbes article on this came out nov 24 2019).

You could easily profile pictures of high ranking American officials, their parents, their children, etc.

In other words, data like this can increase your attack surface
Not surprising given visa and cost hurdle. Plus starting life with a mountain of debt seems like a poor strategy
I don't think e-mail spam is solved. It's largely just evolved to a non-competitive market where if you don't go with a major provider you'll forever be battling overzealous spam detection which flags your organization's email as spam. ...And you've lost some anonymity and flexibility.
Hyve and Penguin probably have the same shit AMI UEFI and shit AMI BMC firmware as every other vendor. It sounds like Oxide is going to write higher-quality firmware.
I don't know, I'm not in the profession. Maybe start from first principles?
> It says potential threat, not threat

Aren't all threats potential threats, until they are actual? I dunno, maybe the FBI has a formal delineation between potential threat, threat, and . . . whatever is after that. But I doubt it.
One difficulty with continuous zooms, is you lose context. "Was Earth 10^6 or 10^7 meters?" "Are viruses bigger than bacteria, or smaller?"

One alternative is to chunk the zoom. If I ask you, how big is a soda can, you're not going to wave your hands with a factor of 2 error - you've handled them, and have a feel for their size. Similarly, if you repeatedly hear stories at some scale, like 1000x, with cardboard box salt and M&M red blood cells, those sizes become familiar too. The first "How to remember sizes" section of my crufty page[1] has some illustrations (mostly clips from failed user-test videos).

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms Extremely crufty and slowwwwwwwly loading - it wasn't originally intended to be public.
That's an interesting take, but what actually happened is three different things:

1. microwave ovens became affordable, popular, and then discovered to be terrible for browning things, but so good at generally warming food that they became a smash hit.

2. toaster ovens were introduced, with two hardware controls instead of one (heat and time), which did an acceptable job of toasting but also handled lots of other small warming and browning tasks.

3. toasters came back as a nostalgic luxury good.

In all of these markets, the companies with more robust hardware capabilities were able to charge a premium, attract customer loyalty to their brands, and use the brand reputation to diversify to related kitchen goods.
That doesn't make sense, unless your definition of infinite growth is not infinite.

Rather, I suspect "infinite growth" is a hyperbole to stand in for "everybody has it as good as I do."

And carbon emissions are a particularly bad example of that because carbon emissions are falling per person without a decrease in the standard of living for people, or for the amount of useful energy they use in their lives.
Interesting! Just for my further education, could you quote the name of the act in question? I assume there have been a few past that year.
Because you shouldn't need it for most queries.
A look at PinePhone (developer edition) hardware
>the Opium Wars which managed to reduce the greatest civilization on earth to a bunch of drug addicts within a few decades.

This too sounds familiar...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-22/deadly-ch...
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I am using DDG for more than a year as my default search engine on desktop and mobile.

On technical topics, recent news and local sites I built a muscle memory to just add !g at the end of the search.

For everything else DDG more or less does the job.
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It's a reference to Frank Herbert's Dune. Fantastic read, and you should get to it when you have time.
Sure, I agree with that correction.
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> In contrast, Emacs makes it really easy to connect everything together thanks to great Elisp APIs.

Elisp APIs and your standard editing commands (which are of course the pieces of Elisp that happen to be bound to keypresses). The difference between this and ncurses/other TUIs is profound - as you said, typical TUIs are data silos, just painting characters on the screen. Whereas in Emacs, all the text on the screen is accessible for search, navigation, copying, and even modification.

Even saying "Elisp APIs" doesn't do it justice; Emacs follows the best traditions of Lisp Machines - you can inspect and modify software at runtime, and make it do what you want it to do, whether it wants it or not. If an Emacs mode (i.e. essentially an Emacs app) doesn't provide some functionality, you can add it either way. Want to use pretty third-party autocomplete like Helm for e-mail addresses in To: field in your Emacs mail client, and want it to pull suggestions from some arbitrary .org file you use as an address book? No problem at all. Few lines of code and it just works.
What other example can I draw from? Pragmatism is all I was going for.
Interesting. The NYT says 59.3 million prescriptions, not patients. [0] If so the number of patients would presumably be significantly lower, since it is in fact addictive.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/01/archives/article-16-no-ti...
Good to know! I was incorrect to take GPs claim at face value, perhaps.

(BTW I’m not sure if you remember our conversation at React EU in 2017, really enjoyed chatting!)
> pretty readable

Not in a million years would I have guessed JS devs would praise XML for readability.
More importantly, he predicted the rise of The Pill (birth control) very eerily too. And the long term effect that it will have on civilization is undeniable.

Whatever your stance on the pill, I think it is naive to think that it will not have a lasting and deep impact on western civilization (and as it spreads globally, to all of human civilization).

Never before has sex been able to be had without consequence. Or the urge to have sex not led to at least the possibility of reproduction. For those that grew up entirely in a world where it exists and is readily available, it will have a huge impact on how they see sex, relationships, dating, and reproduction.

Sure, the world has a lot of people. But a civilization that by default, does not want to produce children? (As Huxley envisioned, and as I think will be the case in the coming decades) is headed for sure collapse.
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The latest and greatest?

If that matters put in whatever subject and a year like 2019.

Be warned the latest is rarely the greatest.
Unicode URL has serious security problems.

The canonical example is google.com vs gооgle.com.
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Pennies (or any equivalents) are not the smallest unit in any currency. Fractions of it are perfectly acceptable and even common.
It is correct! Using decimal types is the widely recommended way of solving this problem. That includes fixed and floating point types. The problem is using base-2 floating point types, since those are subject to the kinds of rounding errors in the OP. But decimal floating point types are not subject to these kinds of rounding errors.

But they still can't precisely represent quantities like 1/3 or pi.
this is what I'm hoping for. Introducing memory safety is enough I dislike Rust because of how different it decided it needed to be compared to most other systems languages.
I think your math depends on all the office space being occupied (so that $total_customers == $office_space). Maybe that's what GP is pointing out.

That doesn't really affect your original point though.
If it's in your public Facebook profile (or any other public profile), you've already given it to Russia and China.
Off-topic: Why would you wait a year to sell your RSUs?

You already pay income tax on the RSUs when they vest. If you sell them immediately, you’ll have a de minimis capital gain or loss.

Unless you actually would have turned around and bought your company’s stock with a bonus, you should really just sell immediately and ignore the trivial capital gain (or loss).

For ESPP it can make sense to hold, but even then, only if there was a huge increase in value since the beginning of the holding period, so perhaps that’s what you meant (but ESPP is capped at a very low amount, so that would be a tiny portion of your hundreds of thousands in RSUs).
Is substituting the Django ORM for SQLAlchemy doable in V3?
The main downside I noticed was meals based on meat and potatoes, not many vegetables.

The main downsides I noticed were the fact that it would have been completely unthinkable to walk the streets during a major public event and, say, hand out fliers openly criticizing Batka's leadership.† Which probably explained why no one was doing so, at this certain major public event I attended. That and of course the near-total suppression of LGBT culture.

The food offerings as such are quite good and reasonably diverse, if one knows where to look (there's a pretty decent nightlife district downtown, for example). And the people are quite friendly and grounded (somehow more approachable than in many Western cities I've been to).

But still - it's a very different country in certain ways.

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Why would it be of value? Google isn't in the business of giving best-quality search results; it's in the business of giving passable search results while exposing users to ads and collecting data for their advertising machine.
Just like the real world, you are influenced by the environment and people around you.

What made my online life more pleasant was cutting out the social media I have no hard need for.
The remaining ones I specifically follow only those who post informative/funny/educational stuff.

Any poster with opinions (especially involving politics) are blocked/muted instantly.
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Never mind; my math was wrong.

It looks like they just need 25% of remaining office space to be institutional to hit that (20 of 80).
I am 100% sure it is intentional since virtually all Swedes know that Bahnhof is German for train station. No idea why they picked that name though.
I'd agree with the spirit of your assertion that both the state, through surveillance and beauracratic control, and the market, through ever increasing share of our attention and hold over our appetites, are having harmful effects on many people. But it's interesting that you frame that harm as 'eroding liberty'.

I've recently been reading a book called "Why Liberalism Failed" by Patrick Deneen, which also sees these two forces as working together to harm both the individual and society at large, but not by restricting our liberty so much as trading away other valuable social goods for a surfeit of liberties most of us don't actually need or benefit from. The liberty to buy whatever our appetites desire, at any time. The liberty to uproot ourselves and live "globally" without concern for the locales we leave behind. The liberty to profit seek without regard for externalities.

Deneen draws a contrast between "liberty to <do, own, or be something>" and "liberty from being ruled by our animal urges and appetites". The ancient Greeks who coined the term saw liberty as a virtue explicitly in the latter capacity. But the modern sense of what it is to be liberated is explicitly centered around the former. But I think the liberty you allude to is more of the ancient conception, and I agree, the pincers of the government and the market are eroding our liberty from animal urges, in exchange for an ever expanding menu of nominal liberties to which are often harmful to ourselves and others.
Beware that BCD, and decimal in general, accumulates roundoff error at a much higher rate than binary, if you do any inexact operations.

It is more common these days to use base-1000, instead, when you need exact decimal representations. You can fit three base-1000 "digits" in a 32-bit word, with two bits left over for sign plus any other flag you find useful. (One such use could be to make a zero in the second place indicate that the rest of the word is actually binary; then regular arithmetic works on such words.) Calculations in base-1000 are quite a lot faster than BCD.

Almost always when people think they need decimal, binary -- even binary floating-point, if the numbers are small enough -- is much, much better. Just be sure to represent everything as an integer number of the smallest unit, say pennies; and scale (*100, /100) on I/O.
It might be interesting to note the difference in Singapore's age curve compared to western countries. They are certainly not 1/4 the cost after adjusting for age. They might still be less but this meme that price transparency is the sole cause has to stop.
Isn't the picture associated with a specific user? Even if the association wasn't 100% reliable that could still be a threat.
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I was trying to very politely tell you you're arguing a strawman. This thread is not about the exploitation of people on social media, whether by the companies running them, or others (ie. their parents). This thread is not about who will make it big and who won't on TikTok or whatever other platform.

While a lot of what you are saying is important and something that should be talked about, this thread is not the right place for this discussion. This discussion is specifically about "TikTok [curbing] reach for people with disabilities".

I will comment on two things:

> And where you and the rest are reading the since changed guidelines as "victim blaming discrimination" by an evil corporation

Intentions don't really matter if the act comes off as "victim blaming discrimination" to everyone. If everyone (or, more specifically, "you and the rest") sees it as that, then that's what it is. The duck test very much applies.

> I say this because in an ed setting with down / disabled kids you really don't (even with their permission or their parents) video and promote the "funny" things they do.

Once again, we're not talking about kids. And we're not specifically talking about people with Down's. Those are two very specific instances you cherrypicked, but are not the only cases of "disabilities" used by TikTok in this instance, or in previous instances of censorship. Setting aside the Down's adult argument, where intelligence and ability consent vary wildly between people, it's not nearly as clear cut as you make it seem, are adults with facial disfigurements suddenly not able to decide for themselves? What about members of the LGBTQI+ community (who have been known to be censored on this specific platform)? Amputees? Paraplegics? People with a "birthmark or slight squint"? All of these groups of people, and more, would be "Auto R"ed or given a higher risk category which would prevent their content-- content that they explicitly and willingly uploaded and wanted to make public-- from being seen by others. This is like the textbook definition of censorship, discrimination, and victim blaming.

If you're willing to engage in an actual discussion on this topic, I'm happy to do so, but so far I've been saying things that you're either willingly or unwillingly completely dismissing in lieu of your arguments on a completely different topic.
I also heard that modern Maltese is closest to Tunisian Arabic, which is interesting to a Tunisian like myself.
It's solved for an average person. If you go with a major provider, spam barely exists at all. And even if you go with a smaller provider (like e.g. Fastmail), you barely notice any spam either.
That's right, API is not something I should have used for Elisp. The only thing that compares is Smalltalk in terms of being a live environment.

The downside is security. You need to trust everything you run, because as you say it's so open and inter-winded.