skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got to agree. Lazy loading is obnoxious and unnecessary. Browsers already load images from top to bottom, so unless your site is already extremely slow, you gain nothing from it. It also makes sites feel slower, since instead of reading a paragraph, and scrolling down to see an image, you read a paragraph, scroll down, and find an image loading.
I find LED bulbs last forever, with the caveat that instead of a notable failure (eg a bulb burning out with a loud pop), the bulb will start to fall off from its maximum brightness once you start getting past the 5-year mark. I've also noticed that bulbs kept well below their max brightness (50-80%) can maintain that level longer.
Funded by the state is correct. Being a mouthpiece is an opinion.

I find most of their reports to be pretty balanced and factual, even if they have an obviously mainland Chinese perspective.

Before concluding that their content is propaganda that should be dismissed out of hand, why not verify for yourself whether it's that bad? Their video content speak for themselves. You don't even have to agree with them.

The content produced by Liu Xin in particular are pretty high quality. She regularly invites guests -- even western ones -- on her show, who provide non-Chinese perspectives. Sometimes their guests even disagree with her.

If you disagree, I would love to hear why.
This is a total absurdity, cars are not a daily good people need to survive.

If all car companies suffer a derangement simultaneously and decides they are entitled to a larger share of my money, I, along with other consumers, will put off our purcase untill they've come to their sences. A few months of reduced sales willl get the message across.

With rents the situation is a bit more plausible, but car manufacturers have excess capacity, and there is no ' limited nunber of cars' in the world. If we needed to double their production, we would.
I'm selling my bootstrapped SaaS project. Currently doing $2500 MRR and growing
Man this brings back memories. Oh how I miss the '90s
I suspect you're, unfortunately, going to be correct.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/ba

It's interesting how the common narrative uses metrics like low unemployment rates during certain touted "economic highs" and claim correlates, yet the popular narrative casts aside the correlation during times like this and jump into ambiguities and positive outlook for justification during certain "economic downturns."

It really, IMHO, helps illustrate just how disconnected many of these metrics are from economic prosperity for the vast majority of Americans.
Yes.

Signed Exchanges mean the publisher signs the content using their private key. A third party can provide delivery like a CDN, but they cannot modify the content, or the signature would no longer match. The useragent (browser) enforces this. This gives the secure control of the content back to the publisher, unlike the trust model of CDNs or the AMP Cache.
But the Swiss arm industry probably made some good fortune during the protest by exporting equipment to HK police.
Recent substitutions I've seen (where I specified "no substitutions"):

Ice cream flavors: my favorite for something I'd never pick (still ate it, annoyed)

Margarine instead of butter -- the heck? Won't use it.

Vanilla yogurt in place of plain yogurt. Slowly eating it for breakfast, annoyed; can't use it in savory dishes which is what it's for.

Juices: I can't stand sugar alcohols, and got a ton of crap full of sucralose. Won't touch the stuff...

Not to mention the half-rotten veggies that I'd never select for myself / won't survive a few days in the fridge.
The gig economy will be the first to go.
In other words, the only reasons for Twitter not ban such a user are 1) business (that he might be driving a substantial amount of traffic); and 2) PR (that banning him would bring much more negative than positive coverage for the company)?
1. Obsidian makes use of a local folder of Markdown text files, rather than syncing to a cloud database like Roam.

2. Each page in Roam is an outline (as in outliner), whereas each file in Obsidian is a Markdown file.

3. #tag is not the same as [[tag]] in Obsidian.

4. Rather than a built-in feature, "daily notes" is available as a plugin in Obsidian.
you're either extremely young or a sociopath, I sincerely hope it's the former. Describing a lifetime of commitment to one's career as "sucks you lost your job" demonstrates an extreme lack of empathy, which ironically makes YOU selfish in aggregate.
Recent and relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219
Sounds super cool. How many concurrent connections can each connector support?
Fined ≠ "smacked." To Google, EU fines are just a cost of doing business. Like FedEx eating parking tickets.

Until Google is fined to a degree that it impacts its share price, nothing will change.
Well, this is kind of horrifying.
It's obvious since end of February that the only usage is in prevention. Give to all risk persons 3 weeks before. That's the Indian advisory:

https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/V5_Revised_advisor...
I’m all ready to bring out the pitchforks, guys, but I’m confused. Didn’t we all agree literally yesterday that Facebook not doing enough to reduce division was a moral catastrophe? Isn’t deleting what hundreds of millions of people see as a foreign propaganda slogan a textbook example of reducing division? Is the rule that we should delete only what you in particular find divisive?
Maybe get archive.org to handle it? My understanding is that they have some pretty good legal counsel, so that's something they might be cool with?
I am as annoyed by all the feelings getting hurt as you are, but this guy is directing a sizeable amount of money in some backward intra-nationalist way, which only slows down progress, even if it is 'only perception'. It is open bigotry plain and simple.
Boost for reddit has been working good for me some quite some time now https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayay...
Amazon with Zoox could enter the Uber/Lyft space rideshare and food delivery
Security Issues and Challenges for Virtualization Technologies
Why not have a somewhat open core model? The user is free to use the open source app in their local machine, but then there is a license that says you definitely can't host this on your own and charge for it.

Meanwhile for the commercial customers they can offer a managed solution.
You legend, you.
This is a pretty simplistic view of the world. The idea that accountants don’t understand R&D is silly.
Honestly, I'm pretty happy there were enough responses for them to actually call it out separately in the results. I'm not sure that was the case last year. Also, I think Julia's audience tends to not hang out on StackOverflow as much, since they're often scientists primarily and software developers second. Sure they use StackOverflow, but how many have an account and would answer a survey.
Coincidentally, I just posted this on HN: an animation tool for kids, at https://drawa.live

This came out of watching my son do animations with Flipaclip, and thinking there must be a better way to do simple animations.
>C++ isn't completely unlike every other language people have been using for decades.

Neither is Rust, most of the things that seem weird or new in Rust already exist in functional languages.
Yeah, it's worse for freedom than slavery. You fucking people are so put of touch.
Where does speech about religion fall? There are people on all sides who would consider the others to be spreading "dangerously factually incorrect information".
That article is an interview with an expert in the field. You can look up Sarah Taber and find more information and citations. Just because there's not a Works Cited list attached to a Vox interview doesn't mean it's just made up.

You realize that crops have to have organic material to grow, right? Using leftovers, spoilage, and damaged produce from the previous crop is how agriculture is traditionally done. If farmers don't use composting, then they have to buy some other source of organic material and fertilizer to grow the next year's crops. You say "feeding people is better", but there's more than enough food for everyone. The answer to hunger is not to force farmers to give the leftover produce to poor folks. Rather, it's to give the poor folks the means with which to buy the food they need. There's plenty to be bought! So much that lots of it gets thrown out! It'd be much healthier for the entire system if we addressed the problem at the source and made use of the systems that are in place rather than trying to short-circuit things, resulting in a lot of unintended side-effects.
Propose an alternative solution to a sudden destruction in demand for these roles. This is why your job is not who you are, but merely a means by which you support yourself. I apologize if your life path has lead you to where your identity is your work. I never said we shouldn't take care of these people. They deserve a similar quality of life, even if their role no longer exists, and I apologize if that wasn't made clear by my comments. To be clear: We absolutely should take care of people collectively whose roles have evaporated.

I am not willing to have communal tax dollars to pay pilots, aircraft lease payments, and fuel for unneeded air travel capacity, or workers to build planes that'll never fly, and I don't think that's unreasonable. I would be totally fine taking those tax dollars and putting those folks on Social Security early (or whatever safety net is going to keep them comfortable). Take that safety to go find new work you enjoy. Or go fish. Or woodwork. Or spend time with loved ones.
Hey - thanks for the link and the suggestions :)
Huawei executive Meng loses key B.C. court decision in extradition case
Look at Trilium Notes, this is basically a "polished up" clone a bit.
'Are held' and 'can be done' are obscenely different to conflate them.
There are similarities in the general approach, but the two biggest differences between us and Teleport are:

1) We support native clients on every major platform (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Linux support just a few weeks away) which makes it super easy for anyone in a company or team to gain access without being limited to Linux.

2) Twingate natively proxies any TCP or UDP traffic and we don't care what the underlying protocol is. This is huge given that most teams are using a variety of client applications, protocols and destination servers.
Oil painting entirely hand-coded in CSS and HTML
So this brings an interesting question. Do you think US sanctions apply everywhere? I am not talking legal part of it or the justifications used. I am more curious about your perception of sanctions.

edit: added not. gotta slow down
Is more workers to achieve the same total outcome a desirable state? It seems like what you’re proposing doing there is literally wasting entire human work lives for zero productive output.
What kind of preparation are you doing in this time of economic uncertainty?
We just had another article posted on here about pay cuts and another about layoffs. Are you taking any preparatory measures due to the economic uncertainty?
Economists are not scientists. They are priests in a cult.
Haha, then why did China, Russia and Japan use it so successfully? Let's not forget we live in geopolitically very interesting times, and that the WHO is pretty much under the influence of China.
this is really cool. will you be adding a jobs board?
Please read this article: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700605/section-230-inte...
There was, and the overwhelming majority of PPP funds were looted by franchises of Fortune-500 corps. The amount of corruption and favoritism that went into handing those funds out was mind-boggling, too, with banks prioritizing giving this money to companies that had outstanding loans with them - instead of solvent, well-ran small businesses.

What wasn't plundered by friends, cronies, and the Fortune 500 was used up in a matter of days.

I have no idea if this business got a cent of PPP money. We certainly haven't heard about it - and I'd figure the employees would have been told if 'funding was secured'.

That small business bailout was a drop in a bucket. Is another one coming, or are just going to bail out big businesses, going forward?
But it's trivially easy to do, and the venue knows that not doing it is a violation of contract. A violation of contract could cost them the whole show, so there's no reason not to do it.
>that's not scalable

and therein lies the problem. The issue is the scale in the first place. Twitter et al produce so much garbage because they're designed towards virality outside of any human scale.

Bring social networks down to the size that a community can coherently operate in and you've diminished the problem.

HN arranges by popularity but actually in a fairly limited way. There's no scores shown and the downvotes are capped, and most threads you can actually read through because they've got less than 200 comments or so.

Do the same for Facebook or twitter. Limit connections, hide visible upvotes or likes, cap the number of people something can be shared with by one user, make people choose who they are in contact with, which immediately puts scarcity and value on connection and communication. Obviously there is no commercial incentive for these companies to do this, who live off the entropy they generate.
I've been thinking about this for ages, and I want my own contribution to this to be a simple webring service.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, a webring was a simple circular linked list. You had a link on your knitting-themed site to the "next knitting-themed site", that site had a link to the next one, etc.

To join the ring, you just emailed someone and said "hey, I, too, have a knitting-themed site, can you add me to your webring?", they looked at your site, and changed their link to your site, you added the link they previously had, and the ring continued.

I want to build something simple that'll serve a small widget with previous/next/random site buttons, it'll work like the webrings of old regarding the curation aspect, so to get added you'll need to be referred to by someone.

Would you use something like that? You'd basically just drop a bit of HTML on your page and it wouldn't load heavy JS/analytics/crap, just whatever was necessary to paint a few links.
Fortunately, there are a lot of aerospace companies still hiring. Look at the aerospace hubs (Seattle, Houston, Huntsville, etc.), the defense and space side is still booming.
The use of human challenges get trials is a very different situation, and the decision of whether or not to engage in one is definitely a question where economists and ethicists have a lot to contribute, I'm glad you're engaged in the conversation. Its a tough utility/risk-reward/ethics question, where we'd be able to speed up development of immunization approaches by a LOT, but with a virus we still don't fully understand and that keeps surprising us. Definitely a decision that needs cross discipline input and discussion.
I don't understand. What is the difference between that video and this [0] one? They're both by NASA.

Then there's also the one by SpaceX [1] for those interested. I know that SpaceX usually has two webcasts going during launches; one for the public-friendly chatter and another for the go/nogo technical chatter

I always look for the SpaceX or NASA official links. Don't search for SpaceX on youtube, you'll drown in unofficial garbage from news companies

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjb9FdVdX5I
Totally forgot that Boeing owned them. They have been on fire lately with all the new features and I hope this doesn't impact them.
Good grief. I bet the number of murders in NYC dropped more than in Paducah during all this as well. Let's hear it for New York! :-P

Particularly shameful coming from Pew, who I think of as one of the last fairly neutral sources.
> I should be getting paid more, not less.

Most firms will pay less for remote workers. It is a little odd given they save a decent amount of money, but most people save a lot of time by not having to commute and they like the flexibility so the rates for remote workers are lower.
I've always thought it was interesting to see the parallels of PHPs growth and JSs. Both seem to add a lot of popular (at the time) features. Neither can purge old APIs or "break the web".
Depends on who gets laid off. If the upper middle class people remain fine, then food delivery will remain strong as will Amazon delivery.
Which neither Twitter nor Trump posess in great margin.
They could verify that you have a room that appears to be dedicated, especially during meetings and such. They probably can't reasonably verify that it remains dedicated outside of work hours, but they probably also don't care.
Rust still on top. Real shame there are so few Rust jobs out there. I agree, the language is still changing way too much but that is to be expected from a relatively new language. A lot of polishing has been done and imo, it's a production ready language at this point. Tooling is awesome, cargo is awesome, packaging is great. The compiler is still very slow, despite a lot of improvements on that front but that is to be expected given Rust's nature. Real shame it's so underused in the real world :/
Funny how an obviously failed system (trickle down economics) is seen by the general public as valid but the opposite somehow will almost certainly destroy the economy. Even though the lower 50% of earners actually do spend the money they get on necessities rather than hoarding it in offshore accounts.
In the race to the bottom, it's good to have a head start! Join GrubHub today!
One very prominent example is the Open Skies Treaty. Basically, signatories permit reconnaissance aircraft to fly over for the purposes of enforcing arms control. It is legalized spying.
I don't believe those people matter politically. Every election there's a lot of rhetoric about "undecided voters" but in practice the campaigns don't care about those people. I know undecided voters isn't exactly what you're talking about, but I think the concept applies.

The real effort is in getting your historic/likely supporters to show up rather than stay home. If someone is a big Biden supporter, there's almost nothing you can say that will get them to vote Trump. And vice versa. So your hope is to get your likely Biden supporter angry/scared/whatever enough to get off their butt and vote. That's what these things are about. That's why Trump says crazy flamboyant things. It's why Twitter never fact checks things like the gender pay gap, perhaps the most debunked concept in all of economics.

For me, seeing the world through this lens results in a lot more things making sense. It's especially true now that information/news is so siloed. People in power can say basically anything they want as long as it's emotionally aligned with their team. And their team will never know they've been lied to, because they don't watch the other side's rebuttals. For example, Twitter is fact checking Trump on this mail in ballot fraud issue in the same week that there's multiple examples of mail in ballot fraud in the news. But the people who think Twitter is a reasonable source to fact check Trump will never see that, so they will get away with it.
The me of today doesn't want to live anywhere near the me from college.
Maybe it's the main account providing the anonymity. Posting something specific enough to be identifiable with a throwaway makes sense in that case.
I actively mistrust grocery delivery, because between when I place my order for items in stock and the hours-to-day when they pick my items off the shelf, I'm seeing on average 10-20% of my items being listed as "out of stock" or being offered inappropriate substitutes.

This issue is compounded by the delivery service I'm using refusing to handle "replacement items" requests — if 'garlic' is out and they offer 'garlic salt', you can't request 'twice as many shallots' or 'garlic powder', because their worker doesn't have the freedom to make judgment calls and doesn't get paid enough to have time for that conversation and can't make substitutions that add any new items to the list.

I am being significantly undercharged for delivery groceries and I am getting significantly poor service, and so I will stop using delivery groceries as soon as the pandemic winds down in my area. In the past I used third-party delivery services (e.g. Instacart) and they were much better equipped to make sensible decisions — but the cost-benefit tradeoff of paying them an appropriate wage is such that I prefer to shop in person rather than pay an hour's wages to someone else.

Missing from the equation is the time taken navigating terrible online sites. Search for "eggs" and you get easter candy. Search for "salt" and you get one billion kinds of salt, ordered haphazardly. It's impossible to navigate "the fruit isle" because they present everything in a grid of tiny icons. Investing the time necessary to build a visually-attractive site would make this more plausible, but would require significant levels of effort in UI and product photos that exceed the bare minimum exerted by machine-driven listings.

So, charge me too little and the service is so poor I loathe it; charge me the correct amount and the service still comes at a net loss in time-and-money, because the UI consumes the hour of my life that I could have just driven to the store and shopped with instead, and then I pay a fee for having my time wasted on top of that. I imagine this makes more sense for others who have more complicated lives and need to be able to prepare an order during store-closed hours, but it doesn't make much sense for me.
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It looks like they still haven't fixed the Power on thunderbolt failed issue.
> Browsers already load images from top to bottom

Is that true? I believe that they kick off the requests to load images from top to bottom, but I don't think they prioritise bandwidth in such a way that downloading image #3 will never make downloading image #1 slower.
ISS[0], Vanguard, and other fund families absolutely have massive say (powered by those 401k balances) over corporate conduct.

[0] - https://www.issgovernance.com
> Edit: I realise [sic] COVID. But that's the excuse, not the reason.

Not sure how it's not the reason? (Or, at least a major reason?)

I think there's two things going on:

1. The long-term vision at Boing: the investment in R&D, etc.

2. The short-term cashflow issues.

No amount of vision is going to save you from the cashflow crunch that a 96% drop in air travel is going to cause. [1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/politics/airline-passengers-d...

To put this a different way: How could Boing have positioned itself to handle a dramatic drop in orders?
Tech Companies and Job Boards Hiring Remote Tech Workers
You are missing other laws that already enforce standards on certain platforms, that are similar to the concept of free speech.

Those laws are called common carrier laws.

It is already illegal for many communication platforms, that a subject to certain classifications, to discriminate on the basis of the content of the speech that they distribute.

Common carrier laws are not controversial. Few people would argue that we should get rid of common carrier laws.
Correct. Also, you won’t be dragged to a keyboard connected to a computer logged in to Twitter at gunpoint, but you sure will be dragged to court to face a judge at gunpoint. There are different standards of accountability that match the standards of compulsion and violence.
Depends, a simple hello world yes maybe then you start working on some more complex structure that are trivial to do in any other languages but you will fight hard in Rust, I invite you to look how GUI things are implemented in Rust.

Even some simple sharing can be a pain and counter intrutive.

I would add that tooling and stability are also not a thing for Rust as of now, that being said it's pretty clear that Rust is here to stay like Go.