skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ASCII has been

Which of the view tens or so ascii's you mean? Probably us-ascii right? I.e. a thing so limited that it's only supports english and not even most of the other Latin writing based languages.

On the other side if we speak about plain text it hasn't be that stable at all for many years and only somewhat stabilized now with Unicode + utf-8 and utf-16 for legacy reasons. And even now we still frequently get Unicode updates.

The idea that us-ascii is enough/usable/acceptable for anything interfacing with users is IMHO a bubble limited to (small? part of) IT people from certain english native countries.

> In fact, we already have a simpler set of web standards. It's called HTML4 and CSS2.

CSS2 isn't simple. It's also fundamentally unsuited for web applications, which IMHO was still also true for CSS3 until recently (css gid). I mean think about how frameworks (e.g. bootstrap) for years did all kinds of tricks to emulate a css gird like features.

Also HTML5 tags like header/footer/article etc. are a must have IMHO and something like custom elements for better composition and reuse are a must have, too.

The problem with the current complexity of the web lies in my opinion in the combination of how all kind of features where bolted on top of a foundation which wasn't designed for given use cases and many of this features being over engineered.

So I believe such an approach needs to fundamentally revamp or replace both the DOM API and CSS.
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I think you've just described Google's AMP
My research has led me to the JS library "automerge" which uses JSON CRDTs and is actually one of Martin Kleppmann's projects. I was watching one of his talks when I realized he was talking about the library automerge which I'd already come across but hadn't strongly considered. I know it's a little bit of a fallacy (appeal to authority) but seeing that he built it really sold it for me.
There is a userspace driver with rw capability, and a kernel driver that only supports ro.
Crumple zones decrease the acceleration of your body, but don't do anything to the acceleration af objects placed on the rear shelf of your car, assuming negligible friction on the rear shelf of your car. Plenty of people get injured in accidents by kleenex boxes placed on that rear deck of their car.

You're travelling at 50 kpm (let's call it 14 m/s). You strike a brick wall. The cell phone on the rear deck of your car flies off the rear deck with minimally deceleration before it leaves the rear deck, travelling 14 m/s through mid-air. Let's make a linearizing approximation and say your body is stopped in 0.8m with constant acceleration. Let's assume the phone started out 1.5m behind your head. By the time your head is stopped by the crumple zone, the phone has travelled 1.6 m, meaning the phone is still 0.7 m behind your head, still travelling 14 m/s (50 kph).

Granted, there are a bunch of simplifying assumptions here (linear deceleration via crumpling, frictionless rear shelf, zero air resistance), but it shows there are plenty of realistic scenarios where something placed on the rear shelf of your car strikes you in the head only minimally slower than the speed at which you were driving.
The Swedish economy is already suffering. The swedish economy fell by (8.6%) 2nd quarter [1] compared to Denmark (7.4%) [2].

[1]: https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/nati...

[2]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/historisk-stort-fald-i-bnp-c...
The vast majority of welders do not possess the skills to properly repair an automobile frame. There's no way I'd trust a body shop to repair my car's cast frame with weld on replacement pieces.
>student’s own testimony exonerated the professor.

The problem is that's not possible. Her testimony would be the same if:

(1) Their relationship was consensual.

(2) She didn't want to have one but feared retaliation for saying no.

(3) She didn't want one but thought it would help her career if she slept with him.

That's the problem with these types of relationships. Until we get a truth detector we can't ever really know.
Thanks, that last entry gave me a good chuckle. I wasn’t aware of the -—no-edit flag when performing an amend. Learned something new.
Team players don't work alone.

What has happened to all the introverts who work alone? They're not working in tech. Tech is for extroverts who get paid to copy from public GitHub repositories and paste into private GitHub repositories and sell proprietary products built upon code ripped from open source projects.

But that's okay. Not everybody can be an extrovert who gets paid to pretend to code. RMS said it best:

> I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do something else.

And then RMS was railroaded out of the free software movement he started by the social extroverts who replaced all the introverts in tech.

I'm an introvert. I'm a coder. I don't get paid to code. I do something else.
I have an old mentor that tought me. I've been staying with him thought the years helping out on his orchard. I'm sorry but I haven't researched any online tutorials. It's not hard though. Really not hard. You can go into all the root-stocks and such, but if your in for old-school and easy and importantly, to me at least, free, get a small fenced garden plot to make your starting place, collect apple seeds, plant them and you'll have the beginnings of an orchard next spring. Apple pressing parties are the best. Collect the remains from a few pressings and just plant them. Boom, as many apple trees as you want. The fruit will be variable but, you never know, you might discover an amazing variety. These are then your rootstocks in a year or so. Collect scions from trees you like in the late winter and whip-and-tongue graft them onto your stock in the spring either as bench-grafting or top-grafting. Orchards without needing to spend a dollar. They'll be full-size trees that will long outlive you.
Perhaps AMP? A declarative specification for websites that is fully backwards compatible with the traditional web via a JS runtime.
From what I've heard in online discussions (admittedly a bad source, but since it is not released we don't have a lot) and based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled_rendering it does not seem that different from what we have now.
They've been doing this by me. LA Metro actually finished digging up the street for a subway station about 7 months ahead of schedule (which I think is practically unheard of)

https://thesource.metro.net/2020/06/15/metro-completes-decki...
Using them instead of the main page is a good start.
Oh very cool, thanks!
US Space Command eager to hand over space traffic duties to Commerce Department
Ask HN: How will Covid-19 and tech change the holiday season this year?
We are about to enter the holiday season and health experts are talking about having a new wave of COVID-19 as the year ends. So we can't have many of the traditional events and traditions. How do you think technology will help us have a good year end season? How will things change?
> at the federal level, there are two chambers of Congress and the Executive.

Changing anything for the benefit of the masses through electoral politics may never happen again or will be too slow. The last time two times the US had aligned executive and legislative branches were the first two years of the Obama and Trump regimes. So much changes between elections that there's no way we can fix it through electoral politics, and we must find another way.

We cannot vote our way out of the immediacy of a pandemic or a constitutional crisis or an environmental disaster. Voting is just too slow help the masses.
They stopped developing Servo and their dev tools. How does that not signal the end of Firefox as a non-Blink, non-Webkit browser?

Edit: I see you work at Mozilla. IMO Firefox is the most important software project in the world (not hyperbole). Are you saying it will somehow remain an independent web rendering/execution platform given this past week?
"It's even worse elsewhere" is no justification for injustice. That's horrific. There's no "subordinate" here. The person he dated 12 years ago isn't a member of the institution and wasn't during the relationship.
The orange one has done his share of awful things (like every president), but if this virus hadn't appeared we would very much still be in the "sports team" situation.

We will certainly destroy ourselves by other means before "the deficit" affects us in the least. It never stopped us from buying more weaponry; now that there is obviously something else on which to spend money suddenly we should worry about it?
Also maybe I'm weird, but eating one meal a day makes me feel really great. I feel like being slightly hungry (or at least not full) throughout the day makes me more productive and mentally sharper. Only after I've finished my work for the day at around 7-9pm do I then eat a big meal.

It feels like I just lost 15 IQ points right after a meal. I also get kind of sleepy and unmotivated after.

The meal is also a great way of demarcating work. Before I eat, I'm working. After, I'm chilling. Simple as that.
I don’t believe OP was referring to the employees. In any case, I was referring to the people who showed up at, yes, a gigantic military base in the middle of the desert.

“Completely normal” people would never go there. Ever.
I wouldn't go back if I were he, but just sayin'...
Not to get your hopes down... but dual-execution in the Carmels and DCLS for CCPLEX should be references to the same thing. :)
They aren't $1000. The queen is $2185.

Even the twin is $1,495.

You can get a really nice foam queen for like $600.
No just css grid, that's all we ever wanted ;=)

(But honestly tables suck bad time, I did wrote some table base hobby website back in 2009? or so and it wasn't nice (the experience, not the website which was quite fine). Sure basing a GUI on a grid is the best thing to do in many cases but tables are no grids. Grids are more flexible.)
How is difficult to argue that a former student isn't a student?
NeXT was also the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser, and on which Carmack wrote Doom. Not bad for a platform far smaller than SGI or Sun I'd say.
The reason they don't have 4g now is mostly because there's no 4g service, not because people can't afford 4g enabled phones. I'm pretty sure by now 4g phones are just as cheap as 3g phones.
It was heavily alluded too in the article, I wanted to give readers full context, because I don't think Ethan wanted to explicitly call them out in his blog...

If the mods have an issue with this comment I can take it down
Yes, it's confounding that movies like "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Raising Arizona" coexist with a ton of hot garbage he's been involved with.

No judgement for him, a guy has to make a living. I imagine he finds the situation amusing. His 2013 movie "Joe" is really good if you need something new to watch: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2382396/
Your comment comes across as overly hostile. Maybe it would be different if this was an in-person conversation, but over the Internet, hostility is the only tone I can assign to your calling the sacrifices the OP has made "self-congratulating".
> And your "save the world from fascism" happened at the same time most of the US was segregated.

Not only that, eugenics and Darwanism were popular in the U.S. at the time. Hell, we still forcibly sterilize people in the U.S. to this day.
You are playing whack-a-mole here.

It just might be that they choose to pick the cheapest way they can get away with,

Of course you know the most optimal trade-off between costs, quality and the environment not folks who are building thousands of miles of roadway every year.

do you deny that in developing countries corruption is not high and implementation of laws is not lax.

Straw man. There is corruption everywhere even in the west. Because there is corruption, nothing should happen.

Filling up narrow valleys with debris or destroying vegetation below the road slope by just leaving the debris there certainly isn't smart; nor is cutting slopes in the cheapest way to leave them prone to landslides.

You know a better way? How do you know dumping it in the valley below is worse than carting it off and dumping it in a remote valley. Do you have data showing where it should be dumped? Have you talked to any transportation engineers. Let me allow that it is worse and causes landslides. Are those landslides worse than having wider safer roads?

Your arguments have too much innuendo, conjecture because you have an defacto ideological position. You are fundamentally opposed to all development as it no longer serves your needs.

Just ponder that.
Thanks for your comment. The `Team` data model is per Team Leader and not visible to other customers. `Team` "contains" `Discussion` and `Post` data models. So same application on the same hardware serves multiple customers. Is this what you call multi-tenancy?
Robinhood Has Mastered the Stock Market Game. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher
Ask HN: What do you use to make slides/presentations (preferably in md/txt)?
The overwhelming majority of people there are utterly banal engineers that like the paycheck.

Holy cow do people mistake both the scale and ordinariness of groom lake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)
Nearby stars could host life
> It should be noted that pretty much the only mechanical keyboards meeting my requirements were the Kinesis Freestyle Pro ($210 with tenting kit), the Kinesis Advantage2 ($330), and the Ergodox EZ ($350). All of these are beautifully-designed tools, but do they really justify a price multiple of up to 5x a non-mechanical Goldtouch keyboard? I think not.

All of the keyboards mentioned offer something that the goldtouch does not. The Freestyle Pro and Ergodox both have fully split keyboards. the Ergodox and Advantage have ortholinear layouts for their keys. The Advantage has a scooped keywell. These all contribute a lot to the ergonomics of the keyboard which is the point of purchasing them over a conventional keyboard. They all will also last a lifetime of use, which is rarely the case for membrane keyboards, where the rubber membrane acts as a single point of failure that can rarely be replaced. Then again, you can buy 5 of them for the price of the other.

Another point this post highly encourages is buying used. While this is often a good option inside the US in suburban/metropolitan areas, the used market is not as good in rural areas and availability of used computing hardware in Europe and other parts of the world is often sparse at best. Still, if it is an option in your area I agree that it should be seriously considered.
If only there were some precedent we could look to where huge numbers of people were out of work and the government killed two birds with one stone by employing a lot of them on major infrastructure projects. And what if those infrastructure projects, like improvements to roads, bridges and national parks, were largely outside and thus relatively safe even in today's climate of Covid-19.

It seems like we might go into a depression... if only that had happened before and we could draw on those experiences instead of dithering and arguing while people can't pay their bills.

Dare to dream, am I right?
Have you ever considered adding trackers blocking functionality to your VPN like [Jumbo](https://www.jumboprivacy.com/)? They use the device's VPN API to block over 400 trackers like google analytics and facebook trackers. The problem is if you want to use a VPN AND block trackers you can't do both. I wonder if there's a way to integrate the two so one VPN does both things
> I have never seen anything like this

How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I just checked the forecast, and it's not Pacifica your talking about (thank goodness, that would be really awful). Inland from the ocean such heat waves do occur.
The trays do blow the red ink, however there are companies that (illegally) remove the unremoveable marking ink.
Being part of a research group regarding ATM security was a really nice experience for me. It's a different world, full of unexpected things.
Yeah that's a good point. I've always thought pages should, then, specify if they're a document or an app. If you're a doc, you use all the various semantic tags. If you're an app, just use div/span. Maybe the spec could have something like that, app mode and doc mode.
Which is the root of the problem, the web was designed for linear top-to-bottom mostly static documents.

But most websites have diverged from this since a long time ago, even such which represent mostly immutable content.
I'm not OP, but it's boldly indicated that the book will be kept up to date and it will be up to the author to continuously provide new content on breaking changes or whatever happens to this stack in the future. $99 seems appropriate to me
I hope by "their" you mean "MIT's", not "MIT media lab's". MIT media lab wasn't particular responsible for the Aaron Swartz situation.
Looks very similar to SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/). What's the difference?
Woz would have been nowhere without Jobs.

Jobs wouldn’t have succeeded when he came back without Schiller, Forstall, Cook, Fadell, etc.
good. It is difficult, but interesting.
Last week some comment linked to a LockPickingLawyer YouTube video and I’ve been binge watching since. Odds are, it is faster just to pick your lock for anyone who knows enough about the type of lock to know the right blank to cut. And access to set up a microphone means access to set up a camera and work from a picture of your key. But with that kind of access, traditional impressioning is probably practical.

Anyway https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ/video...
I’m honestly baffled why people are against mail in voting. I moved to a new city in 2014. Since then, I receive a ballot in the mail for every election that pertains to me. They always also send a little booklet that has information on each candidate and sort of their self published platform. Because of that, I’m certainly now participating in even the local elections that otherwise would fly under the radar... I mean I wouldn’t take time off work for them probably.

It feels like voter suppression to me, especially since we know that a lot of liberal leaning folks have “opinions” but don’t necessarily vote.

To be clear — I describe myself as moderate. I’m more fiscally conservative but liberal on social issues.
This is undoubtedly cool, but I worry quite a lot about people who aren't educated about ML interpreting these "historical renditions" as a "ground truth forensic". Rendering fossilized animals and coloring black and white photographs is also cool, but when you start to render the bone structure and "caucasian-ness" of statues, it starts to veer into some uncomfortable racial and ethnographic territory.

What data and models were used to synthesize these predictions?
An employee violating University policy and violating the University's tenure contract is not "the University exercising its rights".
If it's not clear to people, dreeves runs (or at least works for) Beeminder.

I used it some years ago. You have to figure out how to use it and for what things it will work for you. As an example, for me having any daily task tracked with Beeminder was a huge hassle. I don't want to have to open an app and update several items I'm tracking every day. Others are fine with this. For me, goals with a longer cadence ("once a week") work better on Beeminder.

Also, initially you'll not know what you really want to track in Beeminder and what you don't. I did find myself cheating on occasion. If that happens to you, consider whether you should even be tracking this at all via Beeminder.

Beeminder can give you a bit of hyperfocus. That task that will cause you to lose money today if you don't do it? Becomes top priority for you that day. I found the items I was Beeminding were getting done, but perhaps other more important items I was not putting into Beeminder weren't. In a sense, after a few months of use, you could say that Beeminder will give you an idea on the importance (or lack of) of the things you are Beeminding.

For these reasons, I did stop using it. I'll probably return to it one day when I figure out my priorities. I heartily recommend it to others, though.
some of your points, including regarding Epstein, are valid. However, unless I'm recalling incorrectly, the Aaron Swartz incident wasn't related to the Media lab in particular.
AGNB is the spiritual successor to Louis Theroux

it's what Vice tried to capture but failed. parachute journalism works, only if you inject very little of yourself into it and have minimal framework.
I think I heard somewhere (please correct me if this is merely a malicious rumor) that the reason AdoptOpenJDK were denied a license to the official test suite (TCK) was that Oracle were not happy that OpenJ9 was offered as an option. Guess everyone else fell in line.
> More polite emails, more feedback and less emails asking for support.

Obviously. If I were to run a restaurant I would rather choose/open as expensive as I could so I wouldn't have to deal with people without proper manners and education sufficient to appreciate my fine culinary skills /semi-sarcastic

By the way. Here had already been some posts by free software authors devastated by rude and ignorant people demanding support and/or bullying them by e-mail. I find it very important for all the authors (regardless of whether they code/write for free or for serious money) to learn to just ignore (without any emotional response) the correspondence from this kind of people. You don't alienate them this way, they already got what they are eligible for for free or for their money, personal support should be a premium, for nice people only :-) Yet, there actually are many nice people for whom $100 (let alone $200) per book is a way too much. Some of them even living in the US, not necessarily in an utterly poor country.
Ethan Zuckerman explicitly resigned due to MIT’s and the Media Lab’s involvement with Epstein and is thus the reason why he is leaving his office. So the comment you replied to is not unrelated nor a tangent.

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
I think it's time to unlink my fb account from instagram. I really don't want the chats merged.
> Our best data on the subject suggests that very few innocent men are being victimized, to use your falsely equivalent language.

"It's only happening to a few people so that's ok"? You sure that's the argument you want to make?
I sometimes wonder if the browser client should just be a video player. It wouldn’t be suitable for everything.

Or possibly a display renderer of some sort, like postscript.
Maybe its just me but I have yet to work for a company that didnt have legacy infrastructure that was hold them back in some way. Even the startups I've worked for had to make odd business decisions in order to take on new customers. Those odd one-offs and business decisions eventually led to sprawling legacy infrastructure. If there is an infrastructure Utopia I have yet to work there or hear of it.
Scientist calculates the 'sad, lonely' end of the universe