skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CSS is a lot like JavaScript: cobbled together in a hurry and designed to be excruciatingly easy to get started with, almost to the exclusion of all other concerns.

It makes me wonder if it's even possible to design a language that's both easy for abject beginners, while simultaneously being powerful, expressive and productive for experts at scale. Is that even a topic of study in language design?
In particular, T-Mobile's last "Sidekick" device was an Android phone. You should probably start looking for a new name now.
I hate Twitter and think it’s a huge hassle and a waste of time, but I would pay for a domain verified Twitter handle / namespace that could be used for product feedback / support.

Ex: twitter.com/example.com

It would also be advantageous for incumbents to make a system like that the norm / expectation because it would reduce the gold rush effect for new platforms where people rush to reserve their handles.
I am not so sure. Copying from a short horror story I wrote myself, "The level of earthly technology (...) was already advanced enough to create whole movies using digital actors exclusively, with perfect bodies and unprecedented beauty. But, for some reason, the masses still preferred flesh-and-bone actors, in spite of the costs and their erratic performance. The blurry, undefined line between the character and the human being is attractive by itself."
sounds like Reddit. Or Digg before that. Or RSS feeds before that.
Counterpoint: I'm aware of Excel giving birth to many, many accountants!
Prometheus not work with transaction it is just tools for save metric, I think we will have integration for that too, but right now our plan to improve current system.

About dashboard: we fully agree with you, but for that we need some more experience in UI/ux and design. Also we are not so big as, for example, datadog. But we will be glad to improve it and to hear the suggestions.
Yes I believe Carto and Kepler.gl are products under the same segment but Locale somehow has a much better data ingestion and user friendly console. Not just that the number of use-cases that it solves for is truly amazing. What are your thought on how Locale can help mobility companies in improving their business and traction ?
> There are no such things as facts; that's the consensus of the debates in 1960s from history and philosophy of sciences, philosophy of language.

That is itself a fact claim—not just that that is the consensus of the debates in those fields, but even that such debate has occurred is such a claim. So either there are facts (and the conclusion of the debates to the contrary is false) or there are no facts and it makes no sense to cite the supposed debates or their supposed consensus. In either case, the claim about the debates is of no value.
Sorry -- small correction "5 MBps" -- "40 Mbps"
Facebook can afford to do so because they have higher margins allowing for more experimentation/risk-taking. Businesses in more competitive spaces are unable to take tough stands.

The New York Times cannot be the New York Times of New York Times v Sullivan anymore, because their ad monopoly has been decimated. But Facebook can be the NYT of NYT v Sullivan, because they have 40% margins on their ad business.

One thing I have been wondering is: why is Google so lacking in conviction?
In fairness, this does apply to natural language too.

"Let's eat, grandma!"

"Let's eat grandma!"

The diffference is that we have no notion of getting people to blindly and literally follow instructions generated by AI. People in the execution loop creates an implicit layer of sanity-checking, plus language is inherently ambiguous and the reader will tend to interpret things in sensible ways even if the writer didn't understand fully.
There are no guarantees in life.

I don't know what this one guy stood for, what he did right, or what he did wrong. He might have been completely incompetent, or maybe his ideas were so far out of the mainstream that he really stood no chance no matter how competent he was.

How many allies did he manage to get? How many people did he manage to reach? How long was he active for?

Also, we need to keep in mind that just because your party doesn't get elected that doesn't mean you've failed. Sometime showing the public that there's an alternative or moving the conversation to include your issue can effect change in the mainstream, which can be a victory in itself, even if your party does not achieve power.

But even if this one guy failed, that does not mean that becoming politically active in a democracy is useless for everyone and that everyone is doomed to fail. The point is to get lots of people involved. You can't do it all by yourself (or it wouldn't be a democracy).

That said, I agree that there are many faults in American democracy, and in other democracies all over the world. That doesn't mean we have to give up on democracy. They could be reformed to be more democratic, through democratic means. But people have to become more educated and more politically active. Simply casting a vote once every 4 years and digging our heads in the sand the rest of the time is not nearly enough.
It's different when the companies are being baited with investments to spill their secrets and visions to you, and then you take the idea and throw your infinite power behind it without them.
It will be similar to offshoring. Yeah, if you can make a precise spec or if you programmers are not willing or capable to think for themselves then it fits.

Let me make quonn‘s law:

Any software job that cannot be offshored currently cannot be replaced by AI in the future.
This isn't a lie- it's mythology. The information is stored in the emotion and values presented in the story, not the literal details.

Most native american cultures have a complex mythology that explains the worldview, values, and philosophy of the culture. This is how the culture is transmitted, and even young children in these societies are used to mythology, and understand how to use it without interpreting it as a simple literal explanation of 'fact.'

The 'literal truth' doesn't work in place of mythology, it is hard to remember and interest kids with unless they've experienced it directly... unlike mythology, it fails to serve as a stable and effective way of transmitting cultural values over long time spans. The emotional content is critical for memorization, and attention... and also serves as a sort of 'checksum' where erroneous changes to the story generally reduce the emotional content, thereby causing the original 'correct' version to remain dominant.
I have gotten the impression over the last few years that the Tor Project has embraced social justice and diversity to the detriment of their software.
> I don't think this is true, otherwise we would see a lot more business models where development is largely outsourced for a cheap price and in-house work is mainly solution architects producing technical documents.

But we did see a lot of that. It was exactly what all that outsourcing to India was, before it got unfashionable again.

The problem with the model wasn't that it would be too hard to produce code for the design, it was that you'd need a finished design to ship to the sweatshop. That rules out any sort of iterative development models, so you're stuck with a slow waterfall.
Do they still want to make a skeleton key for the internet and entrust it to the same people who couldn't protect the database containing secrets from their own background checks and who argue with a straight face that xkeyscore didn't count as a search under the 4th Amendment?
Ah ha! I had the image of the whale in my head but wrote dolphin! I'll let it be and thank you for the correction.
5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel [Trailer]
Show HN: FlowState: Collaborative Real-Time Fluid Art
FlowState is a mesmerizing fluid simulation in your browser. Play alone or with friends—everyone sees and interacts with the same canvas. Great for socially-distant virtual hangouts. LED wall too!
FlowState uses webgl for fluid simulation, convergence.io for real-time collaboration, and openpixelcontrol / FadeCandy for LED output.
Demo video: https://youtu.be/BRUZXglnGHg
> Right, because doing something that ~everyone can do after some learning is such privilege

Because the GOOG or M$ is hiring former waiters right out of a sketchy code bootcamp? Good fuckin luck. You don't need to go to MIT to get in, but you certainty need some sort of legitimate qualifications.

OP is working at a FAANG+M type of place, which are universally well-known and offer base salaries that are are known to be some of the highest in the industry / country / world.

Literally thousands and thousands of other people are applying to those jobs online, and I'd bet several hundred of those could probably do the job adequately enough.
There are multiple services available that do this, without hardware, and with more privacy features (like being able to fuzz your camera such that people know you're there but can't actually see you picking your nose or whatever).

they don't steal desk space. they let you use the same screen for other things. they're cheaper.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY

I've tried them with my team at a past co and people were FREAKED THE EFF OUT by the idea. They DO NOT WANT. It doesn't matter that it's logically the same thing as being in an open office. they DO NOT WANT a camera pointing at them, even knowing that it's not recording.

some people are ok with this, most aren't.

this appeals to "leaders" who don't trust that their people are working if they can't see them at their desk.

DO NOT USE THIS. Society is _NOT_ ready for cameras pointed at them while they work and folks feel it's a SERIOUS invasion of privacy.
The danger here is that others might be happy with the pace and lack of stress, or they might simply not be good enough to do any better. In either case, they're happy with the situation, and don't want it to change.

If you do good work, they'll fear managers might notice, and it'll make them look bad. So they won't be happy with that. They'll sabotage you, bully you, not proactively tell you things you don't know you don't know, etc.

Before you start that fight, make sure you want to fight that fight, and that if it happens you stand a good chance of winning.

Otherwise you'll just put in more effort than now, and the result will be that more people than now will hate you, and eventually you'll get fired because your work will suck because your colleagues have deliberately withheld information.
You have to know there is a huge difference between showing and managing your initial anger response, and plotting a murder.
While it's certainly true BBS access had lower requirements than graphical web browsers, by the time graphical browsers appeared there was a huge population of home systems that could run them.

By 1994 Windows was installed by default on consumer PCs and you'd be hard pressed to buy a new PC that wasn't multimedia capable. The multimedia trend had been pushed by CD-ROM content since the start of the decade. Within a year of Netscape becoming available Windows 95 was the default OS on new PCs. AOL, CompuServe, and MSN also all existed by 1994 and had graphical clients.

So by the time Netscape was first released a majority of PCs in use were easily capable of running it. The number of just AOL users likely dwarfed the number of BBS users even at their peak popularity. C64 and Apple II die hards might have still been dialing their local BBSes but they weren't a majority and BBSes weren't really offering the ease of use as online services and then the web.
As "satisfaction" is such a subjective measure, I'm not sure there's any good public data, but at least a strong majority of folks fill out internal surveys indicating that they are happy in their current roles.

We all find satisfaction in different ways though. Some get it from the products they work on, even if their individual work isn't exciting. Some get it from the actual challenges they're solving and code they're writing. Some get it from the flexibility and engineering-driven work environment and the opportunity to choose which problems they tackle each half. Some get it from the freedom to work 9-5 and have a strong separation of work and home life (barring periodic oncall or the current bizarro pandemic world). Some simply get satisfaction from knowing that the benefits and compensation they receive are helping to protect themselves, their family, and their loved ones, and ensure they have a comfortable life outside of their job.

Many find satisfaction in FAANG roles simply because they have access to one or more or all of those at the same time.
> [...] if you're in a city, and are a D, why vote?

Good point. No reason voting in CA, NY, or other states since your vote is basically meaningless.

> Similarly in rural for an R?

Same as above.

Maybe the electoral college isn't really that democratic if millions more people end up voting for the "loser" of an election.
there's canvas, you can already write apps that target it both in unity and Godot, the latter spring a wealth of languages
Ask HN: Why do you browse the New tab?
i'm feeling a bit of guilt in that I don't browse the New tab at all, but I also just dont have a ton of motivation beyond "giving back to HN". just trying to understand why others do it and how I can do it better (i'm more focused on frontend/AWS/finance/career posts, for example).
If it defeats the purpose for you, sounds like this product isn't relevant to you? My guess is something as nuanced as a workplace (of which, there are MANY types, and you're right, a lot are just moving to remote work per COVID) will require different setups for different sets of people.

I won't dispute your jab at the traditional workplace culture/politics, but I certainly wouldn't assume your personal preferences (and perhaps, the common preference of HNers) is the golden standard.

Many people work better with others "around" and enjoy the company/atmosphere, myself included. Sounds like this product addresses that exact market.
You could compare oral cultures to mnemonics (memory aids) — the more extreme the story, the easier it is to remember / recall the underlying message. That's how our brains work. I recommend a book about oral cultures (and storytelling) called: The Spell of the Sensuous.
Eh, my favorite is the meme that San Francisco is covered in shit and homeless people. Oh yeah, and if you get on a bart train you'll get jabbed with needles and covered with poop by homeless people.
I think because of low poverty and expansive social nets, crimes out of desperation are rare. E.g. Reducing crime is explicitly one of the main reasons why Switzerland mantains its heroin programme, providing the drug for free to people who have failed mutliple withdrawal attempts.

The risk/reward for small crimes just doesn't check out for almost everyyone. Why a lot of those is in the hands of organised crime that can scale and optimize it and pick out the people willing to do the "last mile" dirty work.
Best of luck to you guys! I understand the different point of view.
But you would hypothetically be accounting for that outcome in your strategy. If I'm understanding the commentary correctly, Amazon would regularly invest in companies in order to gain access to their data and technology while another team used the info to undercut and kill their product. You don’t generally assume your investment partner is actively planning your demise by pretending to support you while siphoning off your life blood.

I agree though that it’s not as sinister as it initially seems. Companies create competition at times to stimulate product development even though it’s a shitty operating mode for the ground soldiers involved. In that case though they’re spending entirely of their own resources and not leeching off other investments to actively undermine a successful exit.

Perhaps startups are undervaluing their IP if this behavior is able to manifest easily. And in light of this news I’d be super hesitant as a board to allow any money from Amazon whatsoever.
I think the author’s problem is that he finds vulnerabilities thinking outside the box. Traditionaly vulnerabilities exist when you can inject payloads, get access to somewhere you don’t have access to.

His points are valid, and these are vulnerabilities. However they seem like feature requests, rather than being focused on a technical vulnerability (for example use after free).
When you see an ad for shampoo on Youtube, do would you say the company is "selling" the product on Youtube?

Like I said, it's splitting hairs with words, but it's not some grand conspiracy as per the Vox article.
Great videos from Munro.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVnxiHPmig
Pretty light on details.
Is there really a point to rampant, non-stop technological advancements if the common people never really get to see the benefits of it? It seems like life just keeps getting harder and harder for the lower classes.
For the longest time (more than a decade) I ran a small company (< 50 employees) that fielded a video chat service. The whole thing revolved around a minor bug that just happened to be present in all major browsers.

All that time I thought: next week someone else is going to clue in to this, it is so obvious. But nobody ever did.

You can read more about it here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug/

So I totally believe that the seed for the idea came from somewhere else.
Mobile Game for Art Lovers. ️️
We created a game to help art enthusiasts experience the art world from the safety of their own homes.
Good job menduz, it's well made and looks very useful. I'm especially happy to learn of the existence js-sequence-diagrams.
Depending on where you were it might be the Japanese fishing fleet as well.

At night, the footprint of the Japanese fishing fleet in lights can expand the apparent size of the Japanese islands by what seems like double the area.
The cross sales are the scariest. When I receive ads that are focused on me that could not possibly come from my account; it is gets very concerning. It's the point where you know your data has been resold.

We are a European company and we need to comply with GDPR. The right to be forgotten is basically a human right.

DeleteMe works best where we have seen the worst re-sellers, which are often the hardest to remove completely.
"...the newly amended version of the bill essentially gives state lawmakers the ability to regulate the internet, according to Joe Mullin, a policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who broke down the censorship risks posed by the measure should it become law.

"All 50 states will be able to write new Internet rules that online platforms and websites will have to follow,""
That's covered in the article - any recruiting discussions are pulled into a private channel and include confirmation of users age.
Alternatively, a lot more businesses were created because the sum total of labor required to run a business went down, so businesses that would have been unprofitable back when it took a room of bookkeepers to manage a department store can now exist.

People think that economics is a zero-sum game, but the endless drive for efficiency and productivity is what makes our world possible and lifted billions out of abject poverty. It is the opposite of zero-sum.
IMO, maybe but unlikely any time soon.

I've lived in NYC for the last decade+. Had many friends that had legitimate careers as models. Some lasted a year with just a few shoots and a self-funded trip to Paris fashion week before they quit or went into debt over it. Some have been going at it for more than a decade and you would recognize if you flipped through a fashion magazine even semi-regularly.

I also work in media, date someone in fashion and have knowledge of what actually gets paid to models.

While there are a rare few who find a real career out of it and rise out of the traps of shitty agencies and contracts, usually by branching out and establishing a self-brand, none of them that I know made something they can comfortably retire on just with what we would consider the job of a model.

There are certainly exceptions to this but in general, if you're a fashion brand, digital or print magazine offering any type of exposure, hiring a model is inexpensive. Rarely if ever livable wages. That goes for most of the people who work on sets or for fashion shows.

So with all of that preamble out of the way, what I am getting at is...

1. Coordinating an AI model, that has to wear these clothes, and that bracelet, and be on this location, or pictures with this lighting sounds complex and expensive when hiring a set to produce the real thing is a known quantity and cost virtually minimum wages.
2. There are still people who deeply care about the art of the whole thing and do most of their work for free to be supported in anyway to keep doing it. I am looking on the not so bright, bright side here but I'd like to think AI is little more of a thread than stock photography.
True in our experience. We’re considering moving back to the Midwest to be around family, because the alternative is to be in a house alone all day every day.
I don't understand this bit:

> But there's a third issue: websites can easily determine whether you have allowed JavaScript for them, and if you disable JavaScript by default but then allow a few websites to run scripts (the way most people use NoScript), then your choice of whitelisted websites acts as a sort of cookie that makes you recognizable (and distinguishable), thus harming your anonymity.

How would this work exactly? And if it did work, wouldn't it at the very worst only work on sites for which you had enabled JS? I.e. sites that you had already essentially conceded your anonymity on by choice?

I don't see this as a worthy argument for enabling JS by default and destroying users' anonymity without custom configuration.
I know people will hate this idea, but I would like to see what it would look like if they limited the amount of tweets a free account was allowed to send and even deprioritize those tweets to only show up on to their followers. Seems like it could curtail a lot of the toxicity. Obviously the other side of that coin is that it could limit discussions and interactions, but maybe it would show how useless a lot of the interactions are on the site.

Of course, I say this as someone who never tweets. I only use Twitter to aggregate news/interesting people. A bigger question is how can they make a user like me pay.
Most people probably have no idea they should be using a particular platform for any sort of discussion:/
Moving to Silicon Valley for a role on a billionaire’s reality TV show
Ah, an opportunity to share my favorite RIPscrip art of all time: https://16colo.rs/pack/sadist04/K%21LIGHT.RIP

One of the magical things about RIPscrip is that some (most?) viewers drew the art as it loaded in layers, so you got to see the vector art be assembled as your modem worked. Do yourself a favor and download PabloDraw (linked from the article) and view that k!light.rip file (it's part of this pack: https://files.artpacks.org/1999/sadist04.zip).
Are variable fonts supposed to have a smaller file size? The examples I've looked at have been bigger than including all the variations you'd expect to use of the non-variable version. Are there examples of a significant file size saving?

Generally with web design, you want to stick to a small number of font weights anyway so if the file size isn't smaller, what's the core motivation?
I'm excited about ActiveJob because, finally, people will be able to build background jobs on things that aren't Redis. No hate on Redis - I'm a huge fan of it - but sometimes you have stronger consistency reqs that Redis does not have, and stronger availability reqs that SQS or PG don't have (aka multi-region jobs).

If the concurrency in ActiveJob become as good or better than Sidekiq, we can really get a lot of interesting stuff out there.