skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think this as well. But over time, I've seen it devolve into a wasteland of out of date information. This is driven by two factors. First, the search functionality is by far the worst search I have ever seen. This leads to duplicate information as people relearn and redocument things because they couldn't find them. Second, confluence has a very powerful permission system. Once you get past a certain scale, you can end up with little fiefdoms of information. Want to update a common piece of documentation? You need to convince the owner to give you edit rights. Who is the owner? I dunno, start asking around.
Good stuff here, I certainly learned a few new tricks.

I've been doing web development since around 2005 and to me, CSS and HTML has become far easier to use (although that could also be from experience). I took a web development course in college and found it interesting, later joining a small marketing company as an intern. My internship was unique, the company would travel to local businesses and sell them on advertising. They'd record a small ~2 minute commercial showcasing their business and then I'd build an application that compiled all of this data into a "local tourism" application. The real kicker - we didn't host the content, we burned it onto CDs and distributed the discs (think AOL). The company didn't profit well, but it was small and able to survive on what income it did make. I'm actually surprised to see it still around today - however, it seems they've moved on to actual hosted web development and graphic design work now. During this time we mostly used a combination of Tables and Photoshop "slices" to do layout (yuck!).

Today I use CSS/HTML/JavaScript daily building internal applications (and a few external). There is certainly more things to worry about such as building applications that are responsive now that mobile devices are so prevalent, however my arsenal has improved dramatically over the years with the addition of Flex and Grid (and many others). I actually enjoy the challenge of creating something beautiful and functional.
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Probably just that neither of us are assholes.
Everything non-streaming from Twitter has always been paginated, no? Same with all YouTube, probably FB too right?
So monkey and some "crowd" supposedly is doing something, okay.
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It's period specific in practice. In this period the Eastern med was closely connected so it makes sense.
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The final straw for me was when twitter deprecated the years-old auth keys I had used without any issues because I wouldn't register my phone number.

If you look at twitter's checkered history, I don't see why anyone would put the effort into a new API without strict guarantees of future usability.
> but I’ve rarely seen a high quality PDF renderer

What exactly do you mean by this? That HTML-to-PDF converters mess up the layout, or similar?

You might be aware of this, but it's still worth pointing out that you can specify a different stylesheet for the print version of an HTML page than the default one. I've used this in the past for websites where the customer wanted to use a product description page directly for generating PDFs, without having to do the work twice. We also used some Java-based HTML-to-PDF renderer, which was not perfect but had full support of CSS 2.1 and some support of CSS 3 (and this was several years ago). I think the library was Flying Saucer (based on itext).
In SF author Neal Stephenson's latest book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell there is a hoax to convince people that Moab, Utah has been destroyed by a nuclear weapon. A cyberattack takes the city's communications offline, paid actors describe seeing the flash and mushroom cloud from passenger planes, etc.

Twenty years later, a substantial part of American society is still insisting Moab really was nuked, drives around with "Remember Moab" bumper stickers, and considers the purported continued existence of Moab to be something like a Deep State plot.
> I've never encountered a single video on a channel that I'm subscribed to that didn't show up in my subscriptions feed […] Do you have some examples of this happening?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3lnEJVuGA

See comments, this was definitely happening to several subscribers.
> I’m not saying that JavaScript shouldn’t be used, but that the absence of JavaScript should be supported in general, even if it isn’t perfect.

Aside from an SEO perspective, I don't understand why this is still such a popular perspective. JavaScript is so ubiquitous that turning it off is akin to removing the wheels from a car and expecting it to drive. Perhaps some cars will, but would you really want to take a trip in it?

To your point, I tried disabling JS on Amazon recently and I was able to make a purchase, but the website felt broken, the product preview carousel didn't work, and I definitely didn't want to use it like that again. IMO, you can't disable JavaScript in 2020 and have a good web experience.
I had one even from London to NL because that one was flying on to Indonesia I think and picked up people in Amsterdam.
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The big corruption study that comes out each year is actually a corruption perceptions list. So basically how good is your PR.
Thanks, I am proud I was able to give back something useful for a time.

Unfortunately it's not only the clients it's the servers as well. Also this is still occasionally an issue in Office 365

This guide doesn't look bad - https://capsulecrm.com/support/setup-and-configuration/micro...

The official Microsoft article - Change the message format to HTML, Rich Text Format, or plain text - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-messag...

And of course the Microsoft Exchange article - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/tnef-conversion-op...
Well in their defense the rest of the world was pretty harsh for them and to let the ship sink was not an option. I think if you're being blunt about the car emissions scandal one could say that each manufacturer got a hand held above their head from the country of origin. E.g. America gave GM a pass.
> I also find it extremely distasteful how the US is always bossing around their smaller allies.

Imo, you can boss around but only when you're acting like a "father figure" to the rest of the world.

Right now, the US is acting more like a grown-up baby.
Here is the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WmMSAxq8s&feature=youtu.be
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Interesting, thanks! Did always wonder why sometimes you can hear some running water in the panels. I always assumed it was something on the outside of the plane.
I can't read the full article
You are right indeed, TSMC probably didn't need Apple cash to get to where they are now. I forgot that for a very long time Apple was shopping at Samsung...
> Would it be offensive to say "a person with an x and y chromosome"?

AMAB is politically neutral and unambiguous.
May I ask why you have picked Ukraine and Belarus as the basis for comparison?
That makes sense thanks!

I see that you were an anesthesiologist, now I can finally asked this question that I’ve always wanted too! When under general anesthesia why do they put you on opioids? I read that if not people would still react to the pain? Like would the scream and cry just not know they were doing that?
Softbank invested $1 billion in Wirecard just under a year ago. Son isn't having a good time around these times.
This is a great idea. Since this technology has been available since the 80s according to the article, why isn’t this already the default way of producing drugs? Why do companies rely on fragile long term supply chains instead of a scalable faster process under their control?

In other words there must be some reason the market hasn’t adopted this - what is it?
Fascinating!

> [Glass knives] were once the blade of choice for the ultra-thin sectioning required in transmission electron microscopy because they can be manufactured by hand.

> ..Some labs still use glass knives because they are significantly less expensive than diamond knives. A common practice is to use a glass knife to cut the block which contains the sample to near the location of the specimen to be examined.

> Then the glass knife is replaced by a diamond blade for the actual ultrathin sectioning. This extends the life of the diamond blade which is used only when its superior performance is critical.

> Obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass, can also be used to make sharp glass knives; obsidian surgical scalpels are available commercially.
Authoritarian regimes that never change their power structures will always be more "reliable"

Not sure that is really an advantage or defense. One would hope more than just "reliable" would go into a complete foreign policy
Hacking has two meaning: one is to commit a computer crime, the other is to use technical knowledge to overcome a problem. This website name refers to the latter.
Correction: rem is relative to the font size of the root element, which in HTML is <html>, not <body>.
It's a fad nowadays, but if you remember the bad old days when the "zoom" function in browsers was useless on most pages, that was because the browsers did it "by the book": they only zoomed elements with relative sizes, px units were always pixels. Then browser makers just gave up and reimplemented the zoom function to work with "broken" pages too (I think Chrome did it first and the rest followed suit). Of course the advent of Hi-DPI screens probably also played a part...
The difference is in how they're built and consumed.

UIkit sprinkles CSS and JS on top of existing HTML elements: <div uk-dropdown></div>

Shoelace defines web components, which are custom elements: <sl-dropdown>
“Local law enforcement” means something different in every locality but you are still wrong.

On the contrary, thousands of protestors have been actually charged. Meanwhile police officers are still virtually never charged, even in cases of obvious brutality or obvious murder.

As an example, DA Jackie Lacey hasn’t charged a single one of the 330+ cops that killed LA residents during her 8 year tenure (some orgs say it’s over 600, the police disagree)
Reminds me of a personal experience I had with general anesthesia and a remembered "dream" segment of calmly wondering if I had died of complications and the afterlife was just this void. The current theory of mechanism for anesthesia is that it stops nerves from carrying signals to the brain which would be consistent with the lack of fear in considering what would be a premise of horror short story.
> it's 2020 and I could list at least half a dozen graphics glitches I've had on Ubuntu 20.04 so far

It depends on what desktop environment / window manager you use.

I don't notice too many weird issues when I run i3 and bsp on my Linux laptop. I think the nice thing about a tiled window manager is if you go down this route, you often hand select a bunch of small components that do 1 thing very well. Even going as far as evaluating and picking a specific compositor (or maybe not even using one at all).

You are right tho about Windows. Its UI is very stable and buttery smooth for actions like moving and resizing windows. It has a level of polish that out of the box DEs on Linux usually don't have.
Lest anyone think this is limited to Germany, consider the length of time it took for the US SEC to catch up with Bernie Madoff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal#Prev...

https://www.google.com/search?q=warnings+bernie+madoff
All Europe?
> Same thing as with Taiwan's "special trade status", Trump thinks that revoking their status will get China to leave them alone, because he has a very simplistic bullying-oriented view of international politics, but it's widely predicted to have the exact opposite effect as intended and lock in PRC control.

Have I missed major developments, or have you confused Hong Kong and Taiwan?
He sold his shares hours(!) before being signed on as minister and he sold them to the company that benefited the most from the copper cabling that he pushed for.

How you can mistake this obvious corruption for incompetence is beyond me.
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Due to recent hype we decided to re-visit the state of Tesla. Our local Tesla seller told us a week ago (after our test drive) that FSD was awesome and that once the legislation in EU allowed it (bad guys in EU blocking the progress) and fullyfull-FSD was available, the price of the car would increase as much as 50% and that it was a great investment. Having some related tech knowledge we saw how utopian that still was and our test drive had convinced us self-driving was still at least 10 years away... It is false advertising and most younger tech enthusiasts may not see all the challenges involved in camera-based self-driving!
Is it such an advantage?

> Canonical’s Michael Hudson Doyle says “…the package and backend have both been broken since 18.04 LTS without being much missed.”
Maybe they'll "borrow ideas" or "get inspired" by things like LinuxFx etc.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxfxdevil/

https://b00merang.weebly.com/windows-10.html

Leveraging the FOSS work and cutting down on maintenance costs, and focus that only for LSW, to guarantee the functioning of that abstraction layer, and leave the harder parts (hardware support, security etc) onto public to pick up - at the cost of a few coupons, t-shirts, coffee-mugs etc thrown at them via "hackathons". (And even perpetuate the "passion for software" hence "public github contributions". May be give a slightly higher tier github subscription for free, they've bought that org anyway. And people are anyway suckers for Internet points)
> I believe in you.

Thank you!

> Also this doesn't work for all things but try to find a way to make it profitable.

I want to make it a non-profit. But I do have a self-sustainability model for this project.

> From what I briefly read it looks similar to Lambda School.

This is not like Lambda School(LS). The model LS is implementing is what one professor described as "job training centers". Education is more than that. I want students to learn whatever they want without the fear of loans. And I want the education sector to be a magnet for the best talent.

The whole point of this project is to make loans obsolete so that students are not hesitant to take education. But students should also be made, whenever able, to help sustain the education system so that the society as a whole benefits. And the staff of education institutions also should be compensated well enough to help attract the best talent.

With the present system neither the students, the education staff nor the government benefits. And the education institutions fail to find innovative ways to help sustain themselves without the infusion of government cash via student loans.

The core of my proposal is to divert the flow of funds directly to the education institutions rather than channeling it via the students in the name of loans. That way the education institutions are directly in the loop with the funding process. But the students afterwards should be made to repay for the education they received so that the cycle of funding continues with transperancy and the government can then slowly reduce its funding load. Otherwise the students in future will anyway have to pay more in the form of increased taxes if the government fails to recover the funds it has spent on education. So why not ask the students to start making contributions immediately once they start generating income, even if they are not given loans per se.

In short, students are paying back because they received a service(i.e. education) that helps them pay back and not because they have a loan. Everyone who has benefited from education has to make their fair share of contribution to help improve and sustain the system. So it is really simple, if you get a service(i.e. education) you pay for that service if the outcome is as expected(i.e. you are able to generate income); and because the education system is for the greater good of the society, the government intervenes(by giving grants and loans to education insitutions) whenever required, similar to the way it does now.

So the proposal is not that radical, it is just a little bit of tweaking to the direction of the flow of funds. But the positive impact will be enormous.
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I've used all of Splunk, ELK and Graylog. Should write a longer blog post on the differences.

Splunk is miles ahead when it comes to search and visualizations. You can just do things and join that the other tools don't support at all.

The only downside is speed, Splunk can only find a few hundreds thousands results a second so it's slow as hell when there are lots of matches. (Kibana doesn't give more than the first 500 results so it's totally cheating on that aspect).

ElasticSearch and everything built on top of it has catastrophic issues with typing. Every field is typed, say integer or string, and sending/having data in the wrong type will prevent to do operations (smaller than, greater than, sum, additional) and can crash the database. It's wild whereas Splunk can ingest and aggregate mixed data just fine.
I used to be with it. Then they changed what 'it' was, now what I'm with isn't it and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me.

It'll happen to you!
Yeah. Threads like this whole discussion are why I never want to work for a "big" company. More than about 50 people and you start to get into this kind of managerial/competitive BS. No thanks, I'll take the lower (but still more than sufficient) pay of a small company over that any day.
Why don't companies adopt WebAuthn already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn

No 2FA, just pure and simple hardware token that's chap and easily accessible.
Very nice. I know most of these but then occasionally forget, this website is a good reminder.
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It's funny, because we all know the German stereotype of efficiency etc.
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That's part of the reason I've added more fonts from more compatibles: some of them had much nicer ones - the Cordata and Wyse machines in particular more than doubled the resolution of the original IBM fonts, and indeed achieved something quite close to that 'classic terminal' look.

The IBM PC was meant to support both color and monochrome displays though ("color" meaning "cheap TV-resolution CGA" :-)), and there are hints that both functions were originally supposed to go on the same adapter board. That plus cost cutting are probably why the same ROM chip contained both the color and monochrome fonts, so neither of them could have been very high-res...
Oh yes, I don't think advanced math is required in any way. However, there is a difference in that researchers who have worked with these models for many years (often including having done some of the math) have a very good intuitive understanding of these models. Once you have that, it's fine to be driven by gut feeling. Just like many engineers are driven by gut feeling that come from tacit knowledge through experience.

What is dangerous is reading a 30 minute blog post and getting the illusion of having some kind of understanding, when in reality it can take years to develop that. It's like cloning the postgres Github repository, compiling it, running a few queries, and then saying you've built databases and being hired to become the "database expert" at some company, spreading wrong knowledge left and right.

That's why the popularization of these quick immediate reward tutorials is dangerous. It takes time and effort to become knowledgable at something. Of course, many people are smart enough to know that these tutorials (or cloning the postgres repo) is just the first step on a longer learning journey, and in that case it's totally fine, but there are also many people who start thinking they are experts ready to work on research or production models after going through such things, not being aware of the many things they don't know [0]

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Du...
As far as I can tell, the URLs don't have to be GitHub URLs, you can provide any URL for people to "import"
> but you will need to first create a public IP resource, named myPublicIp, and a new virtual network called myVnet with address space 11.0.0.0/8, and a subnet with address space 11.1.0.0/16 called mySubnet

Am I mistaken or this is very wrong?
Nobody wants a new API. The new features don’t make up for all the work needed to rewrite every call. Again. Nobody wants this.
Their continued existence developing failing government systems is indicator #1 of the criminal nature of the US Lobbying system that awards government contracts. Say what you want, it does not alter the fact that what they deliver does not fulfill the contract to the degree it is criminal theft of taxpayers' money.
> Why must we charge annually to control domains?

Namespace pollution. What if my great-great grandson wants my user name on Google? I took it. Similarly, I took the .net domain with my last name.
All western countries are corrupt. The difference from the usual suspects is the way it's done. If in Russia, it may be as simple as cash in hand, in Germany or Britain it will be kids placement into a nice job, maybe a donation to a family run charity org, or a contract to friend's friend's construction company. Or even the good old one,where you do a favour and 5-7 years later, once not in government position anymore,get a board seat in some large conglomerate.The opportunities are endless.
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Twitter absolutely deserves the bad reputation they have here, and this does nothing to change it.
Luckily I don't have a FOSS agenda that pretends that some corporations are better than others with human characteristics.

The time of rainbow colours and cheerful music is long gone for me.
That's some nice personal attacks you got right there ! Just to clarify: I'm not affiliated with the author, and haven't even used or contributed the lib, I just stumbled on it and thought it was pretty nice and wanted to share it. As for my resume well it already has everything you would ever dream of; not that I care: I have my own ventures.
Funny thing about Gutenberg is that he was also lobbying the german government in favor of Wirecard. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/karl-theodor-zu-g...
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I think the author addresses narrative and "photographic context" in the section under "Emotion".

> What makes a picture evoke emotions in – or feel “real” to – us, is what we see in it – based on our education, knowledge and history.

> There may be pictures from your past and when you look at them you are reminded of those experiences and therefore they feel special to you, like this beach picture above: it was one of the first analogue pictures I took and I somewhat like it, but it is really that good? Probably not.
Same goes for pictures of your girlfriend, children or dog: they will all be special to you, but to someone else they may not be that interesting, especially if they are lacking in one way or the other (out of focus, tilted, noisy etc.)

> If on the other hand you want your pictures to appeal to a broader audience, you should make sure they cover an interesting topic that means something not only to you. And they should also be good in a technical way, which brings us to the following section.