skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is given, immediately in the first paragraph: "If the market is all-knowing and all-optimizing, how can this be?"

This is an assumption we have about the world, and it's a true assumption for competitive markets, where new companies/busiensses can freely enter, where barriers to entry are low. But, with software busineses, barriers to entry are extremely high and this results in businesses that are far less competitive on price and thus price of labor. The result is that many many of the biggest software companies are monopolies. Monopolies don't need to be competitive on the price of their labor.
> the teams display high performance, not low cost

Performance is relative to cost; you can't have one without the other. Trying to spin it as being only about performance is an attempt to deceive the labor.
I'm not particularly old or successful.

I also think we might have different ideas of what "not giving a fuck" means. To me it's about being true and at ease with myself, even when I'm uncool or weird. It certainly doesn't mean being an asshole, rude etc.
The problem of semantics is two-fold: you’re abusing one thing’s semantics (built-in HTML elements, ending up with something unsemantic in name or functionality), in order to avoid using one of the two mechanisms that are designed for naming semantics in styling and potentially functionality (which are: classes and custom elements).

The effects of the semantic abuse are admittedly slight, but they are still present, so all else being equal you should care at least a little about them. Tools like screen readers do distinguish between section, article and div in their landmark handling. By abusing these things, you are making life just a little bit harder for users of screen readers.
>The "we need universal E2E to protect our freedoms even if there are downsides" is not, in logical form, a million miles different from 'we need guns everywhere to protect us from the government and damn the negative consequences of having guns everywhere', frankly

I agree, and I agree with both of those. Giving up freedom/privacy for safety is almost always a losing bet.
Existing collections of "classless" CSS libraries:

- https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css

- https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

- https://github.com/ubershmekel/cssbed
Does anybody here know of a good modern book about land value tax or Georgist economics in general? Any (constructive) opinions would also be welcome.
Everyone has more of a right to a public space (like a town square) than a private living room or a private website (hadn't occurred to me that being publicly traded may have implications actually).

As I've written in another recent comment, the problem is when Facebook or other networks become quasi-official sources for public communication. If the primary means that the government thinks I will find out about public health orders, mandatory business shutdowns, etc. becomes social media, I'm very concerned about the messy mix that "public space" and "private space" that Facebook will become.
Good photos keep looking good. Bad photos don't. Story at 11.

"those HEIC files will look obviously lame in just a few years"

This is, of course, absolute nonsense. It is equipment elitism (e.g. "if I just buy the right camera and the right lens I'll be a great photographer"), and is actually extraordinary to compare with your leading comment about Bresson's photography: Bresson was working with extremely limited hardware, though it was pretty good for the time. Grainy film with a very poor dynamic range. Soft, inaccurate lenses. He took great photos so that became irrelevant, not the reason for the success. Yet you segue to saying that therefore smartphone photos won't be good in the future? Talk about missing the lesson from your own example.

Further, there are loads of "prosumers" taking just loads and loads of absolutely disposable, terrible photos on their SLRs with "good lenses" (<- that is of course one of those fun no true scotsman things where you can always just argue that counterpoints just don't fit the notion). Yeah, shooting everything as a bokeh photo on your f1.2 lens is exactly what every first-time photographer does.
> The combination of preprint servers + twitter

Filtering noise with noise?
That's part of why I mentioned Jitsi and not just Jami. The former supports partial p2p on one-on-one calls, but uses a central server to support 50+ person calls (though they do recommend 75 max on the free instances they provide IIRC).
Im not sure, even I would like to know the answer to this.
My gripe is less that subjective standards apply, and more about the pious claims to contrary. 'Fairness' is just another F-word.

OTOH, if Trump is actually bothered by Jack, then Trump has only a bazillion options open for sidestepping the media and going straight to his audience.

Therefore, the back-and-forth should be seen as so much theater, to be enjoyed or rejected at audience will.
> On multiple occasions they've had to pull off the highway to turn their car off and on again to get the screen working.

Surely not? The touchscreen is run by the media computer which does not control the car. You can reboot it with the 'two finger salute' while you are driving down the highway. Some things will be unavailable (you cannot, for example, engage autopilot while it is rebooting), but the car still runs & drives.

I hope they just miscommunicated the situation to you, otherwise they are really working too hard just to fix a touchscreen. Turning the entire car off is kind of a pain in the ass. I've never done it. And I have only rebooted the touchscreen a couple times ever. Your friend may want to schedule a service appointment if they really do have to power cycle the whole car, because that is super abnormal.
This post is quite racist. There you go, I have spoken out against racism.
Well, Apollo did a lot of complicated stuff in space and on the moon, while the spacex capsule just goes up and then down.

Only questionable bit is how they do the docking without the screens.
You're absolutely correct. And it's no different than any other art.

But, there are edge cases where a cellphone camera just doesn't work very well. Capturing motion (sports, kids), low-light (bars, concerts, indoor sports), telephoto (birds and animals), and macro (100% scale, insects, flowers, some product photography).

Of course, the best camera is the one you have with you. And cellphone cameras mean that we always have a camera in our pocket or purse. But, I still bring 1-2 camera bodies and 2-4 lenses on most vacations.
AIUI, profits do not really explain inequality. It's a wages dynamic, where the premium that's paid for highly-skilled work tends to grow over time. Separately, wages in highly-regulated sectors (such as law and healthcare) also show significant growth, even though skill requirements haven't changed all that much in these occupations.
There are lots of options between full on censoring and not doing a thing. Displaying that certain prominent posts aren’t accurate is a good start, much like what Twitter did.
> But the decline in the labour share has been much more pronounced in the US than in other industrialised economies which are arguably similarly exposed to globalisation and technological change

From the linked article
Profiling Firmware on Cortex-M
No mention of Ada or their methods of writing the important software. I wonder what they use.

"Avionics Test team

...The main objective is to write very comprehensive and robust software to be able to automate finding issues with the hardware at high volume...."
key management is hard
I think this was in regard to some of his clientele disappearing, due to a user looking at his portrait mode photos and saying "wow this looks like they were taking by a photographer!", potentially decreasing demand even though the absolute quality may not be comparable.
> The game had been set to come out this year [me: March 2020], but the company said last month it was delaying the release until the fall of 2021.

Is delaying the release by over a year and a half a win? I wonder how much in royalties/costs they're really saving.
Where did I defend the Lancet? Where did I say it was OK for them to publish that paper? Obviously they should NOT. HAVE. DONE. THAT.

I could go on, but I think you get the idea -- literally everything you wrote can be flipped right around, which is why you need to consider whether or not your own sleeve is maybe a little decorated.

Seriously: I agree with you. I'm pointing out, however, that you're jumping in to claim "bias" by the "media" in a context where the "other side" very clearly already had blood on its hands over the same issue. And treating one side and not the other is helping no one.
This is really wrong.

Destroying retail will just destroy retail. When it's gone it's gone.

If you think shopkeepers control the Police, you are hopelessly confused.
Wallpaper image crashing Android phones
(not intentionally malicious)
This is the opposite of fighting for the users. It's outright hostile.
Facebook is quite happy to censor speech.

Facebook banned me for 3 days for commenting on a previous ban where I had said "white people suck" and "white people are savages", both for pictures contrasting white people protesting vs PoC and First Nation people protesting.

Disclaimer: I am very white. I was not promoting hate.
Police aren't really distinguishing between the two. Besides, even looters don't deserve to stay in jail if they can't afford bail - they'll still see their day in court.
When You Are Alone and Depressed, and Living Through a Pandemic and a Riot
This fallacy that HCQ is unproven is utterly astounding. I am truly sorry, but Americans have just been completely brainwashed by their media. You have been owned by your medical overlords who do not want generic medicine to work.
I'm surprised you're allowed mission-critical or even non-critical inputs on that touchscreen.

It might be OK if the entire screen was READ-ONLY. Anything else sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.. I also don't understand why companies race to have their laptop display touch, but then again I'm just a random software engineer.
My wife bought two. I couldn't convince her otherwise. They are a marketing company masquerading as a vacuum company, and she fell for it. They cost about 500% of the other vacuums they are comparable to.

I saw the headline about Dyson making electric vehicle batteries. I clicked the link. I was not surprised by what I saw. Yep, anybody can solder a bunch of panasonic cells together. I wonder if their packs will come in a futuristic looking plastic mold and cost 500% premium.

If you want a good vacuum, I'm quite happy with my Shark.
You don't need to take a "shot" at a politician when that politician himself has done everything he can to create a public health catastrophe, including this politicization of HCQ. Pushing simplistic baseless claims undermines slower rational decision making. It's similar to "don't think of the elephant" - rather than giving every possibility a similar prior, it creates an undeserved focus on one particular approach which ends up hampering the decision making process with noisy overshoots in both directions, swamping the legitimate signal.
If you want to do this, look into autonomous custom elements, you can make something like `<x-card>` …no class name required!
The preprint model has actually been wildly successful for many communities (https://arxiv.org/, https://www.biorxiv.org/). I don't think anyone is arguing against peer review, but the idea of peer review and an established journal is being conflated. If anything, publishing established journals can create a level of implied authority that reduces much need scrutiny.
>> you often have to agree, then have a sidebar conversation directly with that person so their negligence, ignorant mistake, or intentional malice isn't put on a large group or public display.

That should be obvious. Most people I've worked for can be challenged in private if you've actually got a point - even if you're shot down in the end. The ones who are still assholes when handled correctly are usually not worth working for. The best ones can handle a public challenge on the merits of course.
It very much can be, you're right, but I think grandparent is taking it for granted (and I agree that it should be) that this is a smallish, petty identity, unworthy of containing a human soul.
I wish we would all collectively agree not to use Twitter or consider it an inappropriate place for such communication. I don't know how Twitter became a serious enough platform for public figures to post on, but to me it still feels equivalent to posting on your niche video game forum or MySpace. I can't take anything seriously if they post it on Twitter.
Same as actors and performers in any other era since the invention of recording and mass distribution, providing the possibility (inevitability) for incredible amounts of money to concentrate (almost exclusively) to the very most successful at a given type of performance. You don't have to go through Hollywood (or whatever) anymore but it's still some happy intersection of luck + skill + hard-work (+ connections maybe) making it happen, with no two being sufficient nor all three being any guarantee, like there's always been, and there's still only a tiny (relative to global population) set of people who can be on top at any given time, no matter how high average quality rises.

In the case of Ryan's World, he appears to have benefited from a mother willing to quit her job to be his producer very early in his channel's history, and also able to competently perform that job, well before it was clear it'd make serious money. So even for a 9-year-old there's the luck/connections thing playing a huge role in this being a viable possibility, let alone any kind of likely-to-succeed play.
Written by Peter Berg.
The study this references was mentioned in the book Influence by Robert Cialdini. IIRC, even using the word because with a circular objective results in higher compliance. For example, “Excuse me. Can I use the xerox machine because I have to make copies?” resulted in 90%+ compliance rate vs. a ~50% rate with just “Excuse me. Can I use the xerox machine?” My memory is probably slightly with the exact percentages, but I always found that study fascinating.
11.5KB of CSS, looks like you could probably take it to under 1KB. But the biggest weight is the 93KB 460×460 avatar image which is used in a 100×100 circle. That can be reduced to an decent JPEG of about 10KB without even shrinking it to 100×100. At 100×100 (low-DPI displays), it’s under 5KB. I’d probably go for a single 200×200 image weighing about 8KB.

If you wanted to make that page really fast, you’d inline all the CSS and the avatar image, and get it under 14KB so that the entire HTTP message could be transmitted in one TCP packet.
It’s unlikely that the flight interface is anywhere as nearly complex and flexible as a desktop UI needs to be.

Astronauts do not need a screen reader or other accessibility features; nor does the UI need the ability to resize for different monitors or play nice with the window manager, etc.

Mission-critical UI’s are also deliberately simple control panels that send commands to some other process. In comparison, Electron apps often try to do everything in JS, which can lead to efficiency problems for heavy-duty tasks.
Mastering 3D Printing: A Guide to Modeling, Printing, and Prototyping
Author here - it's surprising how little information there is about profiling features on microcontrollers. Many of you here will find them rudimentary -- after all they are not nearly as powerful as what can be found on the software side. Yet to a firmware engineer they are a major improvement in tooling.
Now is the time for a 'great reset' – Klaus Schwab WEF
It's universally non plus ultra

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
Stop SAYING this! Goodness HN has stopped caring about facts.

This ruling was not upheld. Please stop using this example, HN.
> My reference was to people casually tossing around the word for "people on the right they dislike", when it wasn't really warranted.

I'm trying to understand why you think it wasn't really warranted. Perhaps it really isn't warranted. But I also think it's possible you are, like you said below, not seeing a bigger picture. I'll take your next sentence in reverse though.

> the model is something more like Venezuela/Hungary/Turkey/Russia rather than the variety from the 1930ies.

I haven't been to Venezuela/Hungary/Turkey/Russia. I did study World War II in early school and a lot of what led up to it though.

> I'm not good at predicting much of anything, but best guess is

I understand not being good at predicting much of anything. Most people are like that!

However, a lot of what our current presidency was doing prior to COVID-19 echoed very strongly about actual events from the late 1920s and early 1930s. And, as a software developer with a strong emphasis on data analysis, I see a lot of differences which make the current situation feel like the 1930s all over again but with liberal amounts of modern technology both overtly and also behind the scenes.

I do think that there are a lot of people who throw words like fascist around just because their emotions are high. That unfortunately happens with any slur. But I also believe that there's a lot of eye-opening moments that make "fascist" less rhetorical than before the current US president was elected.

To be fair, he's built his regime on a lot of laws and court precedent which was established before he was elected. But he's a completely different beast than any previous US president. And I think it's disingenuous to not consider slur in that light and to not combine it with the hidden facets of technology that most people don't think about or understand.
Damn right 5 years is a long time. A very long time. If a competent programmer in language L in domain D can't transfer to another language L2 and domain D2 in half a decade then they aren't fit to employ at all.

Curious: what are you doing that you think 5 years' experience is necessary?
Because there's no proof that can be made for the winning bid on its own. The property that needs to be proven (with ZK) is that "all losing bids were strictly worse than the winning bid". That can't be shown (or even stated) without referring to the losing bids. The one-proof-per-losing-bid itself is probably just an implementation detail, but ultimately all the losing bids must be considered.
Zoom and Meet have similar time limits. Teams requires a Microsoft account.

Zoom is popular because its very easy to use and runs well. My work uses both Zoom and Meet and the connection quality is noticeably better in Zoom.
This is exactly me and my wife. I'm so frustrated that she doesn't want to learn how to use the SLR. I spend hours agonizing over composition, etc. She just walks up, snaps a pic, and it's perfectly composed but looks like it was watercolors painted with a potato. :(
Is there an online gallery?
It just seems hard to believe that calling people savages isn’t intended to promote hatred of them.
I think you're simplifying it to fit your own narrative and paint the entire thing as a political issue when the science was at question all along.

Dr. Anthony Fauci made the issue very clear from the beginning. It is irresponsible to push hydroxycholoroquine as a viable treatment based off of anecdotal information and without more legitimate studies. Trump is not a medical professional and has no business telling the public something can treat COVID-19, especially without support from the majority of the medical profession. Plain and simple.
"In the past, a union strike at a plant would see a generous long-term contract and benefits for the workers."

Based on what I've read about the history of blue collar strikes in America, this scenario is far more often the exception than the rule.
I'd imagine that the data on which tweets are contrary to Twitters own policy - and are only up for public interest - would be fairly interesting

Twitter should try and make this a bit more visible in general.
I periodically go to twitters homepage, see the idiotic trending tags, and just facepalm at the collective histrionic stupidity Twitter is generating
I use Smalltalk nearly every day, it's my prototyping / experimentation substrate. I've also done several interactive presentations and taught classes using Squeak as the medium.

I'm convinced that Smalltalk was so far ahead of its time, that it will take several decades [if it happens at all] before "programmers" get equivalent functionality from mainstream development platforms. Which is fine by me, since I am an EE by day and view programming as an artistic process thus do it for fun, not money. Which is another reason why Smalltalk failed in the market. It was made by geniuses and was aimed at art & research, not a bunch of cogs stuck in cubicles.
> The above is theoretical. The next bit isn't - they will _always_ be able to decide that agent A should look at video B from N years ago.

Unless they didn't collect and store it, as the parent suggests.
The correct analogy would be if someone is standing in the Walmart parking lot. And last I checked U.S. law permits Walmart to tell them to leave.
They can sympathize (intellectually) or empathize (having been poor before). The rich are not even sympathizing at this point.
What Is DangerouslySetInnerHTML?
Most interesting part is the last two paragraphs:

"While Mr. Epstein was a client of Deutsche Bank, his main business was Southern Trust Company, which generated more than $250 million in revenues during its existence, according to public records. Mr. Epstein created the company in 2013 and told government officials in the Virgin Islands that it was involved in DNA analysis and research.

Ms. George, in her civil forfeiture lawsuit, contends that Southern Trust was not in the business it claimed to be and that Mr. Epstein misled government officials in order to win a lucrative tax break. She told The New York Times in March that her office had not yet determined the kind of business Southern Trust was in."
> i've been trying to find a well structured, well designed css framework with no classes - I haven't found one of my liking

Give MVP.css a try: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

It had some good community support (2.5k stargazers and about a dozen contributes).

(disclaimer: I'm the author)
> nor does the UI need the ability to resize for different monitors

I can see this being the case in the future though
But he didn't just tweet that it was promising and drop it. He said it many times, and then made the claim that he himself was taking it on live TV and then further doubled down on that claim. He spun it himself.
Just bring some wildlife with you wherever you go and include it in the photo! Should make for some interesting shots...
Twitter needs to be regulated as a publisher if they insist on curating viewpoints and censoring opinions they don't like.
HBO Max won't hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will
Many common functions in data.table are parallelized under the hood by OpenMP.
It's just a bad article. The whole section about Astree is based on a quote on HN about the ATV, a European resupply craft developed 15 years ago that has absolutely nothing to do with SpaceX.
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Stable Kernel Updates
That is a terrible analogy. The key difference is that parades, motorcades, and road construction are planned events. Protesters who unexpectedly stop traffic do not give people opportunity to plan.

side comment: Loving the downvotes for a legitimate point. When did hacker news turn into reddit?