skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only works for extremely low density living (which is really only practical with the help of modern amenities). Doesn’t work that well for places like India.
I am 100% part of those developers that is trying to improve their communication skills. Since February I have made it a big focus to try and find a voice.

It's super hard.

English is not my native language, and even if it were, I am not a good communicator. But I started writing tweets and a blog.

It's a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand, I've had a lot of success, I have followers, readers etc... on the other hand, it's very hard to do it without compromising oneself and still finding an audience.

Twitter is also a world on its own. Hell, I don't believe I deserve the following I have and it's very hard to find a style of communication that works for developers on that platform. The result is that it's skews toward short, simple tweets, the simpler the better.

Being a good communicator is important, but it doesn't come without a cost.
She already addressed what you said in her previous post. The original issue wasn't about "BIG SCALING" but just being designed and implemented safely and sensibly; the library used failed at smaller scales too, just with less frequency.

Having worked at a FAANG-level company in systems contexts, I think that most people with similar experience would say Rachel is spot on.
I appreciate the different perspective.
> I mean, I stop and help people broken down by the side of the road, I tell people what I think and what I think needs to be done. But that's individual initiative and it's not going to fix large problems.

The impact of one individual doesn't fix the whole problem, but the impact of every individual doing their piece is how it gets done. Ordinary people wash their hands. Doctors treat patients or research a vaccine. Restaurants switch from dining in to takeout.

All different people doing all different things, but they each individually know what they need to do. Nobody has to exert top-down control in order to make it happen.

> Why large nations have replaced small tribes.

Large nations replaced small tribes because the technology was created to exert power at a distance. It's more of a bug than a feature.

> It's true that today a lot of people view the government as a thing outside of themselves rather than a thing they create. But that's a slightly different problem.

It's a problem caused by the size and centralization of government. It makes each person such a small contribution to the system that they have no capacity to exercise influence over it and then they correctly perceive it as an external force acting upon them rather than something they have any meaningful control over.
> more than 75 people are listed as working at Canva (part time or full time) with SEO in their title or job description

That seems like a lot of people just for SEO but it appears to be working for them, especially for backlinks.
But this involves a sleight of hand where, at first, you deny knowing the encoding so as to require we can't decode it, and then, you declare you did know the encoding so as to declare the results "destroyed" because now you can't decode them.

Just tell the text processing tool the encoding. Or, don't use text.

If you resent having to pick an encoding, it still works - just the encoding is UTF-8 because duh, of course it is.
I guess there's a bit of abstract economy behind this. A good context is worth a lot of efforts. Just like a clean space, a nicely organized workshop, a well tuned chair desk keyboard..

Thing is it's hard to create that context. Maybe copying good ideas or joining forces..
Brilliant. There should be some way to incentivize lite pages, even if only for news websites.
Next’s logo was sort of like if Apple’s logo had changed to a black phone rectangle and colorful app icons when the iPhone was announced. Next’s identity was intended to match its strong vision of the future of computing as well as the creative expression it would enable within both the company and its future customers. And the logo has been validated as a powerful symbol over time, though granted it can be hard to isolate praise for it from praise for Jobs.
Or maybe even have those sort of features be broken out as modules. Can have a flag that says you’re using this JavaScript library or that css layout module at compile time and not ship with anything else.
Side question, anyone know the easiest way to lookup how many shares an individual insider currently holds? Do I need to go through the most recent 10k/q or is there somewhere else I should be looking?
I would be OK to get rid of all CSS and other styling, and make it up to the user preferences instead how big a <h1> text is, how big a <h2> text is, how big the normal text is, what colours to use, what fonts are in use, etc. Make a more user-oriented specification, designed primarily for the user to control, assuming the user is an expert at it, rather than the author of the document.
And yet 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck[1], and 40% don't have the money to cover a $400 emergency expense[2]. For our riches, we have the highest population of people without health insurance in the first world, and the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical expenses.

Inequality drives cost of living up. Normal people in the US are competing with the richest people domestically and internationally for housing. While normal people need housing to shelter themselves, the rich, especially the rich outside of the US, see housing as a means to store value.

In the past 15 years, the largest growing population of homeless people are entire families, and the most common reasons for homelessness are lack of affordable housing, insufficient income, or loss of income.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/11/live-pa...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-em...
More to the point:

> In my case, not only was I not permitted to cross-examine my accuser, I was eventually informed that there was no accuser, a nonsensical claim eventually disproved by the documentation I received when my ordeal was over. My anonymous accusers did not even include the person I was supposed to have harassed. And when she was interviewed during the course of the investigation she denied that I had ever harassed her.

Perhaps he is lying, but this is not the first criticism I have read of Title IX along these lines.
I never mentioned "memorization" of code in the article, and I don't feel that "memorizability" is at all a goal. In my mind the goal is learning and understanding and familiarity and navigating the landscape of the design, and these things are easier when things are nicely factored into bite-sized pieces.

Speaking of bites, it's very much like eating. You only put a certain amount into your mouth, then you chew and a swallow that, if you try to stuff a giant hamburger into your mouth all at once you might choke. If you are forced to puzzle over one giant monolithic object after another it will be very difficult to learn the system, but if the system is nicely factored it will be easier. That doesn't sound at all controversial to me.

What do you feel is a good range for the number of attributes in an object? Do you feel an object with 100 attributes is just as easy to understand as one with 5 attributes? That seems unlikely to me.
Yes! I like the original idea of HTML, where the client chooses the styling not the website. That way the web cloud be completely consistent, just pure information.
As a tangent, is there a Firefox focus equivalent for the desktop?
All of the author's complaints come down to issues of "due process".

Due process doesn't mean running a trial or decision-making process in the particular way that US courts do, rather it means running such a process in some fashion that is consistent and reasonable. Personally, I believe that it is extremely important to maintain due process in our trials and procedures.

In this case the author fundamentally has two complaints. The first complaint is that when he was accused of a Title IX violation, the procedure was so unreasonable and so biased against the defendant that winning cost him $27,000 and an entire year of no contact with his university and no response to the charges (thus destroying his reputation). The second complaint is that he was slated to receive an extremely harsh punishment (loss of tenure and being fired) for what he considers a rather minor violation (having a consensual relationship with a former student who was technically still associated with the university). All told, I agree: the ultimate outcome (him resigning) may be reasonable, but the process for reaching it clearly was not.
you said a rendered sprite (fake 3D)?
Well, I'm just curious why then it got hidden in Show HN section, since I definitely didn't try to spam with many posts. I waited for a week on purpose.

So is it okay if I post tomorrow for example? I'm just new to HN.

By the way I even tried to make a welcome comment, but I think that I'd need to get into technical details more.

Thought probably I'd make a separate article for this, not in show HN section.

Regarding "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" - I asked a lot of people and they told me that it's way too promotional for HN :)

Anyway thank you for your answer!
> more evidence on the side of keeping sex out of your work life in general.

Unfortunately for academics, there seems to be no line between work and life - professional acquaintances are often social ones and vice versa. How do you meet a mate outside of academics when all of your time is spent there?

As a non-academic who knows a lot of academics, I do not envy this arrangement in the least.
There is no need to aim for mass adoption. Make it a standard for whoever wants a simple html environment. It could be situated between gopher and the full html spec.

People use command line based browsers. A limited browser is usable, just not for full web apps.

To start it, offer a website that checks websites for their compliance. At the same time, let webmasters register their site so that you can offer a directory of available content.

If you want to monetize your project, offer a search engine with ads for all sites that passed the test.

The icing on the cake would be a proxy service that transcodes complex websites into the simple standard by analysing the site with a headless browser.
I am a good developer, and even better communicator. That said, I have no interest in social media. It just seems so forced.
The relationship happened more than a decade prior and the student’s own testimony exonerated the professor. Unless the article is lying about the details, I don’t see how he could have been anything but railroaded, especially given that, after the Title IX inquisition (let’s call a spade a spade) failed, the university launched an internal investigation in which the provost took it upon herself to prosecute the case (unprecedented) putting her employees who would judge the case in a clear conflict of interest, and the provost herself flouted the requirements to provide arguments in advance. These are among the enormous laundry-list of verifiable claims the author makes against the university. Either he is lying and should be sued for defamation or the university is abhorrent in its corruption.
A very Henry Kissinger thing to say.
https://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/drop-box-locator.aspx
I don't really like <marquee>, and believe it should be user configuration to just display static or to manually scroll it; the user should also control the blink rate for the <blink> command too (including zero if they do not want it to blink)
Ask HN: Yet another “Deleting HN content?” question?
I’ve gone back through old HN posts about HN disallowing edits or deletes after a certain amount of time.

Many of the arguments revolve around “what’s on the internet is permanent anyway so why encourage any illusion to the contrary?”

I’d like to propose a different way to think about this: Say you get a tattoo.

You love your tattoo. People take pictures of you and your tattoo. This means your tattoo is now in formats and places that are beyond your control.

Later, you change your mind about the tattoo, so you get it removed from your skin, because that is in your control.

Being a reasonable person, you don’t go about asking the people with a picture of your tattoo to delete the picture. You’ve changed as a person, and while you don’t want what you now consider to be a mistake to follow you around forever, you’re okay with reflecting on and acknowledging the fact that you did indeed have that tattoo at one point.

Why not something equivalent for HN? Example: provide the ability to hide comments you’ve made from your own profile, but don’t provide the ability to delete them.

Sure, it means those comments are still there and attributable to you. But having the ability to put only your best foot forward when people find your HN profile would mean a lot. Especially for those of us that aren’t anonymous.

This is an intimidating crowd of people. My own engagement has been limited by the fact that I’m worried I’ll say something I regret in the future. Maybe this isn’t a problem for you because you don’t use your name or you just don’t care, but clearly this question getting asked all the time means this feature or something like it is in demand by the community.

I don’t want anyone to have the ability to amend the historical record however they like, but I do want everyone to have control over how they are presented to others. i.e. you don’t have to wear that tattoo forever, but you don’t get to delete pictures of it from other people’s phones.
> Does this mean that people who get married and later decide to run a business together should get divorced? Does this mean for example that the sqlite.org creators wife is evil because she is (technically) his superior, being the CEO and owner of the company he works for?

Definitely not, but the rules are sometimes written in a byzantine manner. This example is from Canada:

Dental hygienist loses licence for treating wife, ruled as ‘sexual abuser’

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/09/13/dental-hygien...
In the sense that WA no longer has exclusive control of it.
Sorry for the late reply. Don't know if you'll still be reading this, but...

> This is getting a bit meta, maybe even off-topic. But I think this is fairly simple to explain: you can't remember states you haven't been in. Generalized memory implies some record of a state that has occured - states that have not occured cannot be remembered.

In a discussion about the arrow of time, this is somewhat begging the question! The difference between a state that you've "been in" and a state that you "will be in" is exactly the subject that we're discussing. How do you precisely define "been in" or "occurred" in a way that doesn't reverse under a transformation from t <---> -t?

The answer I've provided elsewhere in this thread is along the lines of: Other than melting icecubes and scrambling eggs, the only other difference you can notice between the past and the future is that you can remember the past, but you cannot remember the future. If you could remember the future just as well as you remember the past, you probably wouldn't have strong opinions about which way time goes (or which direction is "clockwise"). If you, Merlin-like, could only remember the future then you'd probably be here asking why you always observe entropy decreasing in closed systems, and complaining that they got the second law of thermodynamics backwards.

On a fine-grained scale causality works just as well in a rewound video, although it is full of spontaneous-seeming coincidences with surprising macroscopic effects. There are only two things that establish an arrow of time:
* The universe has an entropy gradient along the "time axis", with one direction (which we can call 'P') having lower entropy and the other ('F') having higher entropy.
* We (and other physical systems) are able to form memories in one direction, but not the other. Because of this, we perceive a sense that time progresses "from" the direction that we can remember. This happens to be the direction of increasing entropy. Because of this ability to remember only along one direction of the entropy gradient, we call 'P' the past and 'F' the future.

This is not a coincidence. Memory operates on systems of increasing entropy, so you'll always only remember the past having less entropy than the present. [1]

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2009-08-physicist-solution-arrow-of-ti...
That's the harsh fact as it stands. No amount of GitHub stars, blog-posts, retweets or news coverage would help it further in its goal. I mean, the author is the only commiter, which is already a high risk of failure.

The way this will work will be similar to any project with the complexity and funds like the Linux Kernel Project: Recurring sponsorship funds in around $1M+ per month with 1,000 core developers and 10,000 external active developers at other companies also using this Rust browser.

This can also be turned into a Rust consultancy offering their services and expertise around security and Rust which also funds the development of this "Rust Browser" marketed as "more secure than Chrome".

That whole idea sounds almost unrealistic if starting from scratch, but it has worked for the Linux Kernel Project and Red Hat. It sounds more possible if it were spun out of an existing large company. But would it be open-source? I don't think so.
> bragging about how they were getting paid $300,000 a year to do absolutely nothing

If I was doing this, I would feel guilty as hell and wouldn't tell a single soul. I'd probably also be looking for something else to do. The messed-up stuff some people boast about, it's sickening.
The coins don't have entropy, the sequences they produce do (in information theory sense, this is not about physics).

For a long sequence (say 1000), the former will produce close to 500 heads and 500 tails. The latter, assuming one heads are three times as probable as tails, will produce around 750 heads and 250 tails. There are many more different sequences of the first kind.
To summarize. The existing models just scratch the surface.
Sigh. I predicted as I wrote my comment that there would be some point in my comment that someone would contest; I just didn’t expect it to be such an elementary error! Cue sad OBOE (more apt than sad trombone).

:-) indeed.
I was at Area 51, which he covered. And while his video was very entertaining, it did not represent at all what it was like to be there.

AGNB is exceptional at finding the crazy people and encouraging them to be themselves on camera. 98% of the people at area 51 (admittedly a lower percentage than most events) were completely normal, non-conspiracy individuals, mostly from the midwest.
If money were everything, nobody would be working on opensource.

I'd jump at that opportunity. Earning a third or a even a quarter of what I earn now would pay for every single one of my living expenses and even allow a comfortable life. There's no way that salary would be OK for a corporation, but for doing something I truly believe in? It's friggin' great.
Programming means never getting to say “it depends”
Because the law gives authority to agencies to create rules, and the people who direct those agencies make the rules they want. The problem is that the law gives a lot of leeway for creating policies. This leads to rules changing when new administrations take power. Just look at all the executive orders that get revoked and instated when a president is elected.
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definitely worth doing. would be a massive undertaking. I'm not webdev enough to comment intelligently on _how_ to do it, but I think the general _what_ to do is something like... a system that is simple and internally coherent, designed specifically to a) court devs to build on it instead, and b) enable all the optimizations that have eluded browser vendors so far because the existing standards are so absurdly complicated. "parallel layout engine" and "a tab doesn't use multiple gigs of ram" are good for starters

then you make a browser that is much faster for sites written in the new thing and build in blink for fallback. also make something in the same niche as electron, but only using the new thing. win devs over and try to cultivate another "this site best viewed in" phenomenon. gradually demote the existing paradigm to second-class status

the important thing is you probably need a well-heeled patron but you don't need to win over the existing browser vendors. (tbh I'm surprised facebook hasn't tried this yet, they'd benefit immensely from it even aside from being able to stick it to google)

make something better and people will gradually switch. reaching non-technical types isn't as hard as it's made out to be, there was a point where every early adopter geek type was going out of their way to install chrome (and firefox before that!) on their parents' and friends' computers for them. and if people switch, other browsers will have to follow

of course it's also likely that all the problems that necessitate a switch will come back even worse after. google made a js engine that was 1000x faster so people made sites that were 10000x slower. google sandboxed tabs so a bad site wouldn't crash the whole browser, and now complicated sites crash constantly because there's less consequences to it. but hey you have to imagine sisyphus happy after all
> The fact that this was treated as some kind of gaffe at the time, and is still being repeated almost a decade later is just terribly disappointing

Anti-intellectualism has been a staple of American politics since approximately the 60s.
On Aug. 14, 2020, Science Friday featured a discussion about rapid testing strategies with two scientists. The recording is well worth a listen. The key take-away is that while PCR tells you if you're infected, to protect others what you really want to know is if you're infectious.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/covid-testing-strateg...
I was not directly involved in the incident; hearing about it after the fact.

My understanding is that a forum spammer started registering fake accounts, and then did what they do. The admin saw this. He was quite smart, and figured out who they were, then executed some kind of attack on their server. I think it was a DDoS attack.

When they responded, the used a bunch of privilege escalation attacks to promote some of their registered users (It was a badly-maintained phpBB site; otherwise known as "Swiss Cheese"), and blew away a lot of the site structure and templates, so it basically imploded.

Yeah, it was his "baby." He was also involved in a running battle of nerd egos with some other folks, who used the incident to discredit him, and drove him out.
A subset should be invented which lacks HTML.
OP runs a for-profit company with Non-profit customers. If they share a lot of stories about how inefficient the non-profits are, that could hurt those non-profits financially or just emotionally. Either of these would disincline the non-profit from continuing to be a customer of OP’s moving company.

Everyone loves accountability until it’s applied to them!
Hi, sadly for now, it is only an iOS application.
> Does this mean that people who get married and later decide to run a business together should get divorced? Does this mean for example that the sqlite.org creators wife is evil because she is (technically) his superior, being the CEO and owner of the company he works for?

Obviously not, and this is such a strawman I won't reply further.
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