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Solid's goal is nice but its solution ia based on RDF and semantic web. Those technologies failed to take off for a web 3.0. I dont see this going to take off either. Turtle is just another syntax for RDF because XML is too verbose....

Anyway i do see a lot of value in IPFS, its solving a different problem, but it's related. It could allow for storing private data encrypted in a non centralized way, having the pinned copy owned by you.

I dont think the data format is going to be Solid based.
Was wondering if this was going to be SALTI. We must hang out in the same discord. ;)
This perfectly describes how I feel in my current position... and why I signed an offer letter this morning to go somewhere else. We've hit hard times and no one seems to know exactly what we need to build to bring in new revenue.

So instead of figuring that out as quickly as possible and building something of value... we're building a 'platform'. No one knows exactly what the platform needs to do, but management seems pretty sure that it needs to use gRPC for APis, table storage instead of SQL, an 'onion' architecture, a multi-stage data ingestion pipeline with more visio lines than I can count, docker, CQRS, a service bus for eventing, a micro-service architecture, no direct communication between services, and a SPA front end.

While it does seem enticing to get paid (well) to play around with new tech, it strikes me as a massive waste of resources and a huge risk. I just want to build something that solves a real problem before we run out of money.
I love the premise and design vision of SILE, so I played with it a bit. I reported an issue with the show-off document (not the manual), and it led to an interesting discussion: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/issues/623
It’s 20 years, not a decade. It’s like Sir TBL felt bad about not being able to capitalize more on its first invention (the Web), then spend the remaining of its life trying to reinvent it with a technology stack that got epsilon adoption.
GP has since edited their post, it originally used the word "bigotry" where it now says "discrimination".

Edit: This leads to a much more interesting line of discussion that can be summed up as "discrimination (and similarly bias) isn't always bad".

They're useful tools and we should be careful about practicing them, but the idea that because discrimination is sometimes bad it is always bad doesn't follow. (or an alternative way of looking at this is that discrimination often includes the qualifier "unjust". Bias in favor of some group in the pursuit of greater justice therefore isn't discrimination).
I actually interned at EA Mythic in summer 2007 and remember everybody out there being talented, obsessed with games (I miss those lunch chats, people would work on games and talk about games when not working on games) and great to work with. It felt idyllic at the time, didn't at all match the "EA spouse" experience I was half-expecting. Maybe it was too early in the studio's relationship with EA for that to become reality.

Too bad Warhammer Online ended up flopping and sealing the company's fate, given all of the hard work put into it. Not clear if the market had room for one more ultra-successful MMO after WoW at that point.
Possibly the Ariane 5 failure?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_...
Current K-12 curriculum is, from a perspective, all about preparing kids for 3 years of calculus. From this pedagogical perspective, discrete narratives are there to be a stepping stone into continuous narratives. Some people like Gilbert Strang believe that there's way too much emphasis on calculus and not enough on algebra.
My big question is whether doing a specially constructed in-person code review might be more effective than coding some challenge? You could make some sort of application with a limited size code base but various parts altered both obviously and subtly for discussion and deconstruction during an interview. And then after doing a live discussion and review of the codebase instead of coding, at the end you could discuss architecting a new feature of some of kind at a diagram and psuedocode type level. Seems potentially more pleasant.
we just want the link
I don't think it's an existential threat to FAANG. Because they could request access to your data to perform their AI/analytics on it to then be able to deliver you value-added personalized services.

Most likely these sort of brokered accesses will be the purview of third-party data brokers who will handle your pods for you.
Vehicle dynamics literature does seem (as an outsider) to involve a slightly weird blend of imperial and SI units, research nowadays is metric but old research being cited in textbooks (i.e. RCVD has a lot of imperial)
>> While the founders, CEO Martin Mao and CTO Rob Skillington, were working at Uber, they recognized a gap in the monitoring industry, particularly around cloud-native technologies like containers and microservices

What is the actual gap that is not addressed with one or all of the following?

- Prometheus / Grafana [1]

- Datadog [2]

- Cloudwatch [3]

1. https://docs.docker.com/config/thirdparty/prometheus/

2. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/introducing-live-container-mo...

3. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
If Amazon is a top tier employer + payer (on par with F&G) as you claim, you should definitely be able to. Whether you wish to do so is your prerogative.
Why not just run WeChat Linux client?
If my OLED TV stops working randomly after a year it's going to be a lot more for the repair.
Morocco is not a member of NATO.
Two, but sometimes closer to three.
He probably meant what he wrote. Github has an issue tracker after all.
Does this mean we'll finally see Zoom screen sharing with Wayland? Hope the Zoom team gets this resolved soon.
Setting static time rules in a dynamic world is unnatural and causes problems. Humans are not machines.
Spain has an active defense shipbuilding industry (e. Eg scorpene submarine), why would they buy them from someone else ? And these kind of program secure a lot of jobs, when you buy from outside you secure those jobs abroad.

By the way, how is the f35 going ?
Low-cost airlines and why they keep missing the boarding call in Canada
Wow, that's not a Live competitor, that's a new paradigm! Definitely going to check it out and see if I can help in any way!
This is how I read it too. The problem was not the to-the-point critique, it's the author's emotions leaking into the writing.
> Why not static allocation, but sharing memory between the greedy chunks of code that can't run parallel to each other?

That's what I wanted to say with my comment actually.
While I haven't studied their idea enough to be able to argue about it's effectiveness and/or flaws, I am glad that they are doing it, being who they are.

It really looks like we need a central paradigm shift. A free world designed for educated academics cannot survive the greed and stupidity of the whole world it seems.
Ask HN: Is there something like OPML(podcasts) for music platform playlists?
It would make migrating between services easier which is good for everyone. How do such standards get conceived or make progress in general?
90.000 websites hacked every day. If you
>I still believe that a major change in the way data collection tactics are carried out should come from "below" (the people) rather than some incompetent digitally-challenged politician.

This is the only way as far as i'm concerned, if something is to be long lasting. People have to be living it in practice because of the inherit cost/benefits of system over another, no matter what any particular government makes a diktat for. Right now, most people are cost/benefits skewed towards the fb's (but that is slowly changing to me beacause the cost of computing continues to decline, while the knowledge of such increases at the same time as people at the margins experience higher perceived costs with the fb's).

>This would probably take a lot of lobbying and can only work if

Thats still playing the game of the giants… why play that game if trying to something new? Probably there are cheaper ways to subvert it, while making the giants pay increasing lobbying costs for ends that chip away at their power.
So what? It’s not like the video is getting taken down, just marked.

I’d honestly prefer if more satire was labeled as such....
Seeing very strange behavior on iOS Safari (font size of entire page shrinks when I touch the screen, and scrolling has zero momentum)
Not a startup, but also a data sovereignty thing. I realize this doesn't play very well with SaaS though.
A little off topic, I'm genuinely interested in diving into Math again. Never appreciated it in college (Comp Sci Engineering, had the first year with some engineering maths) but now i really want to get into it again. (Calculas, trignometry and statistics)
Can anyone point me to resources/path on how/where to begin?
To be fair, lots of people being affected hasn't stopped Google in the past.

In the case of Fonts though, it's a good source of user and browser data, so it's not likely to be shut down any time soon.
I know this probably sounds ridiculous to some, but you could also use the phone to make a phone call.
> I've never seen a product fail because of poor engineering practices.

I've seen plenty of things fail due to extremely high costs to develop basic features with few enough bugs to satisfy customers. That is mostly the result of bad engineering practices, like choosing C++ instead of PHP for your web servers, or just plainly having bad engineers who don't know how to build a big project.
Human missions to Mars will use lasers to communicate with Earth
the real man, right here.
These subs are for infiltration of special forces, there are many use cases for that particularly for contributing to NATO or UN operations.

I don’t think anyone is claiming that Spain has a serious blue-water Navy any more, or even aspires to have one.
https://archive.md/mq0KY
How can I pay with BTC or anything else?
Ah, as a Korean who experienced all of this bullshit (in middle/high school), I have a few additional points I want to make:

- Standardized test scores aren't either the culprit or the panacea for the privatization of education. No matter what the process of selecting students is, there will always be cram schools willing to exploit that process to the maximum degree. Korea in fact has another way to enter college without that single exam (called _susi_, it's basically your GPA + portfolio + cover letter), which is less well known than the default route (called _jungsi_). And guess what, there are a shit-ton of crams schools for that too. There are cram schools solely for entering International Math/Physics Olympiads, because they are one of the several ways to enter Medical School, which are the hardest type of colleges you can try in Korea. There are cram schools for art college examimations, cram schools for your high school GPA, cram schools for entering science/writing contests (so you can lengthen your portfolio), cram schools for just anything you can imagine related to college admissions.

- It's becoming more and more of a lie in Korea that simply entering a good university will automatically land you a good job, especially in the non-STEM sectors. Humanities students in top universities are now scrambling to get good GPAs, TOEFL scores, and any activities that would lengthen their portfolio, simply because jobs are very scarce even for them. A lot of them are preparing for government administration jobs which would give them good job security. And guess what, those jobs are also determined by a single test, how tragic! Same goes for law schools, medical universities, etc... As a Korean, you'll almost never leave the perpetual requirement of nonsensical tests and competitions for quite some time even after high school, it's pretty harrowing.
I went back to China for a month in December 2019. It's crazy how Wechat payment is now used everywhere.

Any shops in China (I believe 99% of them): in wechat, you have "wallet" that generates QR code. Go to any shop, at the counter, show the QR code generated, they have the machine (or wechat app) to scan it. done. Crazy efficient. Most of the people there don't bring wallets anymore.

Most of the restaurants in Shenzhen now has a QR code. You scan it, order what you want, and the food come. Don't need any interaction with the waiter, what I felt a bit inconvenient since I like to ask what's good there.

Starbucks: When I've left home, ordered via the Starbucks "mini-app" inside wechat, when I arrived in starbucks 5 minutes later, it was ready on the counter.

Metro and Bus: get the metro/bus "mini-app" in wechat. you get . In their receipt it is mentioned "blockchain" technology. I'm not too sure if they use it, wondering if they really do use a blockchain behind to generate receipts.

Sending money to ANYONE: never been that easy to send money to anyone. Even if you , show the QR code, and they'll . No more " I don't have cash on me " excuse. There is also no hard limit on how much you can send. I remembered paying all my rent via wechat when I lived there, about 3000 usd every 3 months.
Deepfake Videos used in 2020 Delhi Elections
I've has MS-DOS and/or Windows as one of my boot options on all of my systems for gaming purposes for 30+ years, but the day they mandate a Microsoft account is the day I finally ditch them all together.
I was being intentionally provocative. On the other hand I feel like there are plenty of people in my (mathematics) department who would say that "normal" fields like geometry, topology, algebra, number theory and analysis are where the action is happening, and category theory is just a tool which we use to get "normal" maths done. On the other hand now Scholze is beginning to use infinity categories more in his work, this might change -- but it might not. Maybe in 10 years time there will be a book "infinity categories for the working mathematician" which we all read the first ten pages of and this is all that most of us need. Note that category theorists like Hyland and Johnstone have retired from Cambridge now and have not been replaced -- in the UK now you are more likely to find a category theorist working in a computer science department than a mathematics department. Whether or not it is "real mathematics", it is certainly a fact that in the UK at least it is an extremely small community, whereas our departments are full of number theorists, geometers, topologists, analysts and algebraists all of whom need to know essentially no category theory beyond the basic language of adjoint and representable functors.
I wonder what's the proportion of people I'd call hackers who haven't locked themselves out of their own computer or otherwise hosed their system somehow. Let's just say that there's a reason that I run ls/find before doing a recursive/globbed rm/chown/etc.
I really don't understand how people can make all these incredible things with just a controller and no programming.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/MadeInDreams
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 18: Executing Procedure Calls
The overwhelming method of communication in China is WeChat, whether that is in messaging or voice call. WeChat is the absolute most important communication medium -- this is true for all age ranges.

You statement doesn't sound ridiculous, just uninformed and lacking awareness of how people communicate in China.
And the Egyptian, unlike the Gulf Arabs, for example, would use ج "jim" and still pronounce it as your "gaf".
Blockchain Without Internet?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) donors and partners
So the solution for this dilema would be to take more applicants into a job first and then weed out by measurable quality/output ?
I'm not sure that because Semantic Web didn't work that implies the technologies don't work.

The Semantic Web isn't the technologies it was an initiative.

Having said that the technologies you mentioned do have developer experience problems. Some think devs just don't understand them, which is partially true, but having a fugly toolchain doesn't help!
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I have used ConTeXt for a bit. And it made me like TeX again. The typesetting is actually great. It does ligatures, kerning, right to left scripts, Arabic, and more. I think LaTeX is where it went wrong, with all the incompatible packages which redefine random stuff...
Maybe you should regroup and try to make this your next startup?

As alluded to by some of the comments, this was probably a misguided effort for the original startup but could be worth pursuing by itself.

I believe this is how the likes of Slack, twitter and a number of other companies came to be.
Own video streaming platform on web, tablet and TV
I think HTML wasn't supposed to become anything - by the time TBL got HTML 0.9 or so out of the door, it was based on SGML which, in turn, was the meta-language invented to capture and evolve all kind of text notations (also covering, for example, Wiki syntaxes such as markdown and MediaWiki used for writing large portions of text we're reading on the web today, even though SGML was intended to generalize ad-hoc syntaxes of older text processing systems). What killed HTML as a representation format covering contemporary digital text was the introduction of CSS (as an arguably unnecessary additional syntax on top of mighty SGML) and JavaScript, and the relative stagnation of HTML in the presence of these other two languages that, once present in the stack, could be used for all the presentational tricks people were asking for. Maybe the problem was also that HTML parsing was hard-coded into browsers and couldn't be changed easily enough in the presence of the first wave of web content at scale around 1993-5. Also, there just wasn't a blueprint how to evolve a language for describing static text into one for "modern UI experiences", so a Turing-complete language had to be used for tinkering until such a time where the idioms for digital text presentation were better understood. IMHO, if anything, the web has stopped at that point, and JavaScript and CSS are hurdles for future improvements rather than the declarative HTML core.
Metaprogramming Ruby is a great book.
Am I missing something, from the 10 minutes I spent poking around this is mediocre at best.
Sorry to hear he died. Glad to hear he wasn’t actually a flat earther.
Logicism and Probabilism
Okay HN I will take your downvotes as an indicator and tell everybody do not opensource your next weekend project and share it first on ProductHunt and pay $100 for 200 upvotes to some indian kid to make it the product of the day and sell it as subscription!
Firstly - I’m sorry to hear about this experience and don’t want to undermine the pain here.

I’ll note that some of the schools I graduated from in the US (NYC) are moving from exams to a “holistic” system of entrance, and my feeling is that is even worse in many cases.

In the holistic system:
- you don’t know what the criteria is
- friendships and contacts matter
- you can’t study to fully strengthen your chances
- you don’t get feedback on what you are doing wrong
- in the extreme cases is very open to bias and corruption (eg many “holistic” systems actively filter out Asian candidates)
Is it still a living living (2x for emphasis) project? It was announced years ago and since then there hasn't been much word.
You haven’t even begun to understand the scandal or the problem the UK now faces
Do your research.

EA can be good - for a time - when the studio is in the initial investment phase after acquisition.

EA can be a soul sucking experience in slowly seeing all passion and enjoyment die if the studio is in the advanced monetization phase.

EA, unlike for example Ubisoft or 2K does not take innovation risk. They buy studios with innovative IP and successful innovations that can be scaled by infusing cash.

Once the monetization engine is running, the creative people who built the studio will leave on their own after their Stock Options and RSUs are cashed in and they realized they won't ever get to do anything new again ... just more of the same. Once the genre wanes due to overexploitation and stale ness sets in, promotion freezes and yearly 10-20% staff purges will eventually do their thing.

So there is a great opportunity to move forward your career, learn and spend a lot of money in the scaling phase but when the first layoffs happen you better get into the boat if you lasted that long in the boredom of financial innovations to meet responsibility profit
Airbnb Survey Finds Black Americans Setting Top Travel Trends in 2020
Welcome to HN! I perhaps came to know of her via HN, when she won the Fields medal. Then about her tragic untimely death. Then couple of memory articles, at least once since 2017.
When I wrote my Spotify playlist exporter (back in the dark ages of 2013), I added an option for outputting them as XSPF[1] because that's what my music chums told me was useful to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Shareable_Playlist_Format
Vestager: Facial recognition tech breaches EU data protection rules
If you have time to create your assets then SEO would be a good idea, specifically the "skyscraper method" - https://backlinko.com/skyscraper-technique

I recently used it and I'm starting to see results.

The major issue it takes time. Hope I helped.
Not really a professional setting, but I teach TLA+ to the above average kids in my class (I teach 2 hours a week) in high school (15 / 16 yo). I started this a few weeks ago as an experiment, but the results are great. The students are enthousiastic, and while they need a bit of help, it's not too hard to get into for simpeler projects. So far a student has used it to model his rubiks cube solving bot can do every move a human can. Furthermore, we are currently using it for proving their anti collision system for multiple robots navigating a grid is sound.
Why would people accept their data to be harvested?
I guess money could be an incentive, which is quite interesting because it would fundamentally revert the power dynamics between the big data abuser and the people.

Lots of food for thought.
Jesus, why bother we a lean site with that mindset.

If it truly is a must make it a small (self-hosted) png.
Question : In the last chart, we can see the constrained model reduces the FPR for both categories, old and young. However the "old" category still has more than 2 times the FPR of the young category, how did it make the model fairer? (I would imagine an equal FPR between both categories for it to be fair)
It just needs to be there and be good enough, so when the time comes and people are upset enough for whatever reason, regulators can instruct FAANG to use it.

Usage meanwhile by non-US public sector, corporations (worried about industrial espionage), ethical consumers, could be enough to get it to that sate.
≥ 2) the majority of internet users are oblivious to the data collection tactics employed by half the internet and I can't picture folks raising pitchforks for "pods" to become a standard.

Usually purely technical solutions to societal problems won't bring you far. It is still not bad to have them, because they essentially show what would be possible, if we just wanted. Helps in discussion as well if of all people Tim Berners-Lee was part of it.

However: we have issues of education around the topic and our jurisdictive let's the big internet corps get away with too much. Starting with taxes and privacy down to the societal effects their algorithms have.

What ad networks do is the digital equivalent of filming and spying on people who walk by your storefront. What they do, how they do it and the effects it has on society are wrong. Online Advertisement is probably one of the big drivers of the political division we are seeing lately, because controversial topics produce more engagement and more engagement is what people selling ads want.

If you'd explain the current practise to common folk, most of them clearly don't think is okay. This means both education and media isn't doing their job.