skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you understood how learning worked then yes, if you're a good engineer you will be capable of applying those skills and mathematics to whatever engineering problems they are - which doesn't exclude also hiring experts that are further along in knowledge and understanding than you and learning more for yourself.

And you're right the engineering is similar but different, the real additional value comes from the CEO then making the right organizational calls - which he can do because of his engineering and prior experiencing starting and scaling companies.

You simply disbelieving Musk is an engineer is you getting in the way of yourself.
Perfect timing. Chrome OS just had an update that makes bold fonts look very fuzzy. As far as I can tell that update contains no other changes, just severely fuzzy bold fonts.
Ah that makes sense, thanks. I was wondering how other western youtubers had channels full of interviews.
Infinite scroll often make it nearly impossible to click on the site's privacy policy or terms of service in the page footer without going into dev tools. Whenever I come across that issue I wonder whether it's a feature or a bug.
For this particular feature, there can be no meaningful transparency whatsoever. Permission to use TCP or UDP is very, very different from permission to access location info. Any user can easily imagine the possible consequences of allowing the latter, but the definitely not the former. Heck, no one can possibly know the actual consequences unless someone goes through the effort to reverse engineer websites using this feature.
> In 2011, Apple released Mac OS X Lion which introduced an enhanced scrollbar behavior that made scrollbars hidden by default.

I don't think hiding scrollbars can really be termed an enhancement; 'mistake' at best or 'user-hostile behavior' at worst seem more appropriate.

The original Macintosh GUI succeeded so well because it made it so easy to see what was possible. It laid an awful lot of stuff out right there on the screen in front of the user, and what was hidden was easy to get at. They spent a ton of time testing an improving usability. Modern macOS, OTOH, just doesn't feel right anymore; I suspect it is designed to look good, not to be usable.
Do we feel like someone riding a bicycle through a region would necessarily discover something about such camps?

If I randomly traveled in any country would I know about these things? Would I know if I was "without government supervision"?

I'm not inclined to believe that any given rando foreigner would somehow provide a good view of what is going on locally.

I've traveled plenty, there's a ton I could not see / know.

I've actually seen this concept put forth a lot, especially when it comes to China that rando traveler didn't see something so we should doubt it (often put forth with stories about how little crime there is). I don't really understand why anyone would think that makes sense... particularly with all the rest of the information we have on this topic.
I've blogged on and off since finishing college 11 years ago. Some posts about programming got millions of hits.

But this was mostly a decade ago. Today it is very difficult to find readers for blogs. This is due to:

1. Professional content-farms having thoroughly won the SEO game.

2. A shift in people's media consumption preferences from text to video and podcasts/audio-books

This year I replaced all my blogging with YouTubing and am finding it vastly easier to build an audience and connect with people.

I don't see myself going back to blogging and would strong recommend vlogging or podcasting instead. Be a person of your times.
> full memory safety enforced through runtime checks [disabled in production]

Which means you cannot guaranty your program doesn't exhibit memory unsafely unless you stumble upon it during testing. Yes there are fewer footguns in Zig[1] than in C (which is the opposite of C++), but dangling pointer dereferences, double free and race conditions will still be lurking in any reasonably-sized codebase. Calling it “memory-safe”, is dishonest. And I actually don't think it serves Zig. It's a clever language with tons of good ideas, no need to oversell it with misleading claims about memory safety.

[1]: but still plenty of them https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Undefined-Behavior
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Caused by runway debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10.
Not everyone in tech has a smartphone. I know a fairly senior manager at a well-known Silicon Valley company who only got one when he joined that company and they gave him one he needed to use for work.
Even in an FPS unless you are trying to play at a pro level or something 100ms will be barely noticeable. Your reaction time is already probably over 300ms
Distributed git development. Moving us back to central repos.
Small tweak: you do not need to install RealVNC Viewer. macOS already comes with a high performance VNC client:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app

You can drag it to the Dock or use Spotlight to find it, as it is indexed by default.
It was a happy day when I discovered you could disable auto hiding of scrollbars in OSX.
Manipulative daydreaming is some form of addiction or a coping mechanism for anxiety and depression and is described as a great ability to have but it could impact a normal life quite severely because it wastes a lot of time and leads to neglecting of the outside world. I describe myself as a daydreamer but to me it is just flashes of imagination compared to manipulative daydreaming.
I'm not intending to be aggressive towards you personally, but Hacker News as a community because I consider flagging abuse to be really toxic behavior, particularly when a better alternative to it exists.
Especially with the usual screen ratios nowadays, their huge width goes unused 99% of the time anyway. So there's an only 1% incentive from usability side to remove the right vertical scrollbar...
As a matter of fact, I actually use in my Firefox vertical tabs stacked left, to spare me some vertical space on the laptop screen.
Answer is no. SpaceX is not NASA.
That isn’t consistent with the difference in dependency on advertising that occurs from app to app. It could be, however, that the device-level prompt could set the default for future app-level prompts. (That sounds annoying in retrospect, but maybe the right way.)

Another consideration is your point that preventing ads will harm advertisers’ income. In some cases, hurting income is an acceptable loss, but in others where the service is sustained by advertising, less so.

Perhaps another compromise could be to allow apps that do not accept the tracking prompt to only access basic functionality, with an explanation that the tracking supports their premium service. That’s a very different world for Facebook and others.
I still wouldn't categorise that as wanting to be tracked, just begrudgingly accepting it.

I'd also say that's a better argument for google, where them knowing some stuff about me probably does give better search results - but facebook just want to give me better adverts, which is of marginal (approaching zero) benefit to me.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I can't think of a reason for scrollbars to exist in the first place. You always have a physical way to scroll. If a user doesn't know how to scroll, it's a problem with the device, not your software. The only purpose of the scroll bar is to show your current position in the page, which doesn't require persistence.
All you need is a round of testing for cross-browser compatibility. It's a pretty much solved problem by now, doesn't take that much time and can be automated. There is nothing stopping every developer from doing it - besides the usual pressure to deliver features in place of proper engineering.
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... crossing the border from Kazakhstan. It's not surprising for border checkpoints to have heightened security. If they had traveled by plane like actual tourists, it would've been less of a hassle.
Oh we(organizations I have worked for) have been hit several times (not IIS, but once it was several wordpress sites we used, once it was outlook, once we never figured out - probably inside job, ... ). But that was 3, 4 times in 20 years.

Updates its 3,4 times per year. Like I said order of magnitude difference
Matt Parker (famous from his YouTube channel stand-up maths and frequent guest on numberphile) did a video on it and visited the inventor

https://youtu.be/iwzzv1biHv8
Unless Musk has secretly invented Romulan cloaking technology, being invisible doesn't help when you are trying to look at the stuff behind
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> outside of your country ... most people do not have a Mac,

I think you mean outside of the Bay Area. For PCs/Desktop Apple has like 12% market share in the US. 7% globally.
To play devils advocate, App developers will loose revenue from ads as they're not as efficient at showing ads users are likely to click on. Those developers may change their business model from 'free - ad supported' to 'features locked behind an in-app purchase' which Apple receive around a 30% cut of.
I personally don't feel strongly one way or the other, both contain shady practices.
>They embraced git, and then rather than building an interface on top of email — the collaboration mechanism that git was designed to use, and which is still used for Linux kernel development — they built their “pull requests” mechanism.

How is git designed to use email?

>Sarah Novotny, Microsoft employee, transitive owner of GitHub, and patroness saint of conflicts of interests

Followed by:

>I represent sourcehut, a GitHub competitor which does what GitHub wouldn’t — interoperate with open, distributed protocols, and in the form of 100% free and open-source software

Yeah no conflict of interest there /s
restart Chrome
I think the guy who made the internet is also trying to fix the worst bits rather than reinventing it. I'm backing Mr Berners-Lee. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_...
It sounds like many of you would appreciate the LTSC version of Windows: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...
The most obnoxious I've seen of US-centrism shining through is a registration page - forgot where - where you could select country (optional) and US state (required, no "none")
It's pretty easy to use Zig as the low level for languages which can take a C FFI. Self-promotion: I wrote zigler which integrates zig as inline code in elixir.
Peak Oil? Banging that drum again? This must be at least the 7th major iteration of it.

For all that expense with fracking it still beats the snot out of solar and wind. Until we get over the hysteria around nuclear fossil fuels are going nowhere.

A real game changer could be a discovery in electrical energy storage. Even out the peaks from solar/wind. Solid chemical batteries aren't doing it - there's some cool stuff going on with liquid electrolyte batteries in Australia but I don't think the capacities or efficiencies of them can still beat out fossil fuels.
It’s not a conspiracy. If customers demanded decentralized, companies would be pushed down that path. They don’t. Customers demand ease of use, features, and speed, and all that is technically easier to deliver with a centralized model. Why impose extra engineering cost for decentralization almost nobody cares about?

GitHub’s largest value add IMHO is search, and that is probably the hardest thing to decentralize.
It's not that I have a lot of trust in the challenger banks, more of the opposite -- I don't trust the old banks much more than I would trust Revolut. It's very easy to exit their (broken) state machine, e.g. if you use the eID card for 2FA login and it expires.
The thing with Revolut, Transferwise, etc is they don't rely on having physical offices.

I agree that it's always a good idea to have multiple accounts.
Love the pricing page. It literally doesn’t list features to distinguish the variations by...
It isn't really a matter of can do/cannot do. It's more about the default patterns promoted by the idiomatic way of writing code. Yeah you could write C++ code that constantly passes around allocators while also using STL heavily, but it will be verbose, unnatural, and ugly.

As well as having nicer syntax in general and real metaprogramming instead of the brain damage that is templates, zig promotes this kind of allocator-aware programming style in a way that's clean and idiomatic
Curious to catch the very crisp English voicing by most speakers, compared with very distinct ways of speaking commonly heard from Indians from different provinces today.
I tried giving it a problem that required matrix power and it couldn't solve it. (this was a somewhat real task where I couldn't google how to raise a matrix to a power in tf).

# A dict mapping input variable names to input tensors.
inputs = {
'matrix': [[1, 1], [1, 0]],
'vector': [[1], [0]],
}

# The corresponding output tensor.
output = [[13],
[8]]

# A list of relevant scalar constants, if any.
constants = [6]

# An English description of the tensor manipulation.
description = 'Whatever the equivalent of numpy.linalg.matrix_power is in tf. Calculates fibonacci.'

I was hoping it would at least return

matrix @ matrix @ matrix @ matrix @ matrix @ matrix @ vector

But it just didn't find anything. (the constant for the exponent is large because smaller numbers give nonsense results)
I know SpaceX is not NASA, that's not a valuable insight.

Edit: It seems the situation is not nearly as clear as you believe: https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2020/08/2...

Considering a less direct relationship with China already has some congressmen evidently perturbed, I think there is a decent chance SpaceX would refuse any contracts with China if for no other reason than to avoid provoking Congress further.
The docs seem quite nice on mobile for me, particularly in comparison to other docs sites I have browsed from mobile. What are your specific concerns?
There's a dinosaur version of Anscome's Quartet:

https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats
Almost every successful Irish female politician was called Mary, for a really long time.
I have a "Mitsumi Standard Scroll" mouse that has a scroll button that you can hold down instead of a wheel that you have to keep spinning.

It's so much easier on the fingers that I'm amazed I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.
What if spacex just didn't pollute the sky for an entire planet?
There are some places where there is no ground, say the middle of the Atlantic. Satellite to satellite is important for that.
I mean that they also saw the reaction to that change coming, ie. they realised if they got rid of the advertising ID, it would make apps force you to log in. I'd be impressed if that was deliberate, but it could have been.
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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on. In a battle between global megacorps over my personal data, I choose Apple over Facebook and its ad buyers. Ascribe to Apple whatever ulterior motives you want, but it doesn't change the fundamentals. "Wouldn't it be nice if no one had control over your data except you" is a pipe dream (in the US, anyway) and the best you can do is pick your poison when it comes to who owns your data.
They might be introducing a GUI or something, which is what it still lacks (there are some 3rd-party products out there, none particularly impressive last I checked).
I think the macOS monoculture is going to go away in the next few years because on one side macOS is becoming more and more developer hostile with each release and on the other side WSL (and WSL2) is improving the Windows developer experience a lot.

I use Windows as my daily driver OS now for both native/web/mobile/devops work and I expect to see more and more developers making that same switch in the coming years.
Is an umbrella organization a good choice for Gentoo?
1) Why do you think people in subsaharan Africa, for example, won't be able to use it?

2) The only limitation on bandwidth (and thus users) is the number of satellites in orbit. If the constellation bandwidth is saturated, launch more satellites and you get more bandwidth.

3) I guess you'll just ignore the use cases for the tens of millions of non-rich people who literally can't get decent internet because it doesn't exist where they live?
[1] https://diffeqflux.sciml.ai/dev/layers/BasisLayers/

[2] https://diffeqflux.sciml.ai/dev/layers/TensorLayer/

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10828
This airplane has a "2 in 1" engine. Two separate engines running on one physical engine block. So there is some engine redundancy.
Isn't "Ri-yuh" how you'd pronounce "Rhea"?
It’s off-topic, but so do I.

Mind I wouldn’t care if I could install apps (native, not PWAs) through Safari distributed through a means that cuts Apple out of the loop and download them right to my home screen, or in future versions, my App Library.
This is really excellent! I've played around with Sonic Pi but always wished for something with more Python. I will definitely be playing with this.

I'm curious if anyone can point to a free library of samples or synths that would be good to pair with this? I can do without Sonic Pi's GUI but the included sample/synth library is a great jumping off point.
It looks like you've responded to the wrong thread.

(I posted one comment on this article, and a few follow-up comments to people who engaged with it.)
That's because the "designers" don't give a shit about the users' actual needs. They just want the thing to be pretty. They'll also fuck with it every once in a while, making random pointless changes, just to keep the look "fresh". Way too many artistes can easily sneak onto your UX staff.

Also watch out for people from marketing and the like who put pressure on the UX people to do that sort of thing. People who don't actually know how to make anything work, and don't have to actually use it to get work done, tend to be obsessed with how it looks.

A few casual users who don't actually need to get anything done will usually support this kind of time-wasting idiocy, and the offenders will point to their feedback for validation. Unfortunately people who write reviews are often in that category, since they rarely make practical use of what they're reviewing.
http://archive.is/XUEO3
You can stream to it over Airplay.
>> The article covers the mitigations already in place and how they only partially resolve the issue.

> So in April, SpaceX instead began launching Starlinks with a sunshade to block sunlight that would otherwise reflect off its antennas, which are the main source of the Starlinks’ brightness once they have reached their final positions.

> So far, only one of these ‘VisorSat’ Starlinks has finished the journey to its final orbit of 550 kilometres above Earth. Amateur astronomers have reported that the sunshade appears to make the Starlink fainter than it would otherwise be.

> But astronomers are still awaiting further confirmation that the modifications have a significant effect, says Meredith Rawls, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle. Regardless, SpaceX is now launching all of its Starlinks with the sun-shielding visor.

It seems that the impact of the sunshade mitigation is not yet fully measured?
I was very rusty with c and found learning zig to be a breeze. If you know c by heart you'll do great!
Right on. Readability is a virtue in its own right, compactness is not.

'Cute' code that leverages language features in creative and surprising ways, generally belongs on code golf competitions, not production systems. If your code is so 'clever' that only you can understand it, that means you're a bad programmer, not a good one. (That's not to say you should avoid making appropriate use of advanced language features for fear of ignorant readers, though. That's another matter.)

Ada was far ahead of the game here, explicitly prioritising readability over writeability, in its language design.

With all that said, an experienced programmer may feel less need to write comments, as their own familiarity with the problem-domain and with the language will be well developed.
What about the tax implications?

If you do your consulting through a company in Switzerland, moving to Prague would be problematic, no?

Concerning your "freedom" point on the blog post, I find that when you're an employee, it's much easier to move, you leave job A in country A and move to job B in country B.
When you own a company it gets complex if you want to make the jump to another country.
Here's a link for something I use on such news and blog sites: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

I works a surprising amount of the time!
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Is it really inconsistent? The technology is there to investigate if someone raises a stink, but if no complaint is made, no one investigates/correlates delivery reporting vs the data you mention.

I honestly believe many delivery drivers (not just USPS, but Amazon, UPS, FedEx, etc) are brazen because they get away with it 99% of the time.
I've hat as programmer many times this kind of discussion, about many features. And the lesson I learned goes like this: if somebody has an issue with something, it means they have an issue with something. Telling them "I don't have the issue" does not make their issue go away. In this particular case maybe they really want to see where they are just by looking - like the commenters above just said. That's pretty natural for them, we must agree.
I'm not sure what you mean that it's verbose, unnatural and ugly. To me it looks the same.

In C++, you have to pass around an allocator to your templates. You can typedef this away if you want.

In Zig, you have to pass around an allocator as a function argument or a struct member. You can comptime this away if you want.

Is there some fundamental way that I missed that Zig changes this? If your actual complaint is that C++ templates are bad and you're saying Zig comptime is better, that's different than having woes about allocators.
It goes beyond that - it affects every part of life, it's why enforcing diversity in your team is a bonus

A good set of examples is here

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-w...
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Amazon "promises" to respect your privacy. Do you trust them?