skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sufficiently complicated" can mean different things. E.g. a document that's long enough, or one that has a lot of vector primitives in it (basically PDF as a vector graphics format).

For the former, ISO C++ drafts are a good test case. For example, here's C++20 final draft - 1841 pages:

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4860.pdf

However, when I tried this in Chrome and Firefox, Firefox not only loaded it just fine, but it is also noticeably faster when scrolling.

For the second, USGS publishes their topographic maps as free PDFs. These have several layers, one of which is the vectorized map, and another is satellite bitmaps.

https://store.usgs.gov/filter-products?sort=relevance&scale=...

The ones with a lot of roads and contour lines (i.e. any city that's on hills) take a while to rasterize. Say, Seattle:

https://store.usgs.gov/product/499688

This one is so slow in Chrome, it's practically unusable - if you zoom in and try to pan around, it can take over a second for it to actually move. This despite the fact that it doesn't even render the satellite layer.

In Firefox, you get the satellite layer (and no way to turn it off, so far as I can tell), and yet it feels more responsive. I think it's because the viewport is always adjusted immediately - actual rendering still takes a while to catch up.

In Adobe Reader the rendering keeps up with scrolling, so long as the satellite layer is not enabled. If it is, it gets jerky when rendering any part for the first time. But it seems to be doing better at caching rendered parts of the document - once it's all rendered, it's smooth panning all around. Chrome and Firefox readers both keep re-rendering parts that go out of view and then back, if you scroll far enough.
The challenge of doing that, is that there are apparently a lot of proprietary IP blocks (both analog and digital) that are in the FPGA (like the Viterbi decoder as the parent comment suggests) that would need to be redesigned before you could tape it out into your own chip.

I am not sure what other IP blocks are being used in these FPGAs, but a viterbi decoder can be pretty area and power heavy (relatively speaking.) I'm not sure if you would be able to get enough performance [speed] with modern WiFi protocols by implementing it in normal FPGA fabric hence why those blocks are woven into the FPGA.

All that said, this is still a very good thing, because it marks a step forward towards a more open source hardware ecosystem.
Just a note, this isn't past tense. The court case is only beginning. This was only about the initial injunction. The court just told Apple and Epic "cool it, stop fighting each other in public and harming your customers, fight each other in court".
> Tim Sweeney is such an arsehole, and Epic’s behaviour is so self-serving

I have flashbacks of the original iPhone release and the hate it got from established gatekeeping ISPs. "Man, Steve Jobs can be such an arsehole, and Apple's behaviour is so self-serving", but in the end they did the world a favour by pushing back greedy carriers a little bit, forcing them to accept the possibility of distributing largely-untainted smartphones. Kinda the same with iTunes.

Progress is made by unreasonable and often unsympathetic people who are clearly looking after their own self-interest, which ends up actually matching the general interest. I think this is one of those.
The new development appears to be that the province is allowing the test track to be built on crown land in a place where it could become a part of the full line, if actually built. Previously, the test track would need to be removed even if the line went ahead.

While it's still unlikely a full hyperloop line will be built, this agreement does goose the odds upwards slightly at little public cost, provided precautions are put in place to ensure the company building the test line does actually pay for its removal if the full line is not built.
Not in this time frame
Thought I already Hurd about this when I saw the title but the article is from June upon checking it.
Definitely noticed a difference in getting a cat on heating requirements in Seattle. I got two cats now, and my heat is turned off year round.
Wow I sometimes I understand the downvotes but this one doesn’t make any sense...
Totally agreed. There is room for something better. More modern than foundations than Wordpress without going too far into the JavaScript black hole.
The problem is when a company can leverage that loophole to make even more money, which is what Amazon is doing.
Worked with someone that had bought into the cult of Zappos as an HR/Head of People/Whatever the fuck you want to call it these days.

They were gross. The happiness culture is toxic and if you don't buy into it and aren't projecting rays of sunshine 24/7 from all your orifices you're expected to just fuck off.
That's an ideal. You have to be reasonable with the expectation that people are going to want to use their card in places where it isn't securely convenient to do so. Otherwise, you will end up creating a niche with no mass market appeal, and there's really no point in developing out infrastructure unless you're replacing the old one completely. Again, credit cards exist for convenience. If it's security you're aiming for, you're targeting the wrong market.
There are open platforms, and due to convenience of distribution developers have reluctantly chosen these platforms over open ones. Now while I am not defending Apple's position here, developers who have chosen to distribute only on such platforms for the past few decades are partly to blame too.

The success of Apple (etc.) are due to choices that developers have made, closing themselves in and then citing anti-trust when they themselves locked the doors and gave away the keys.
I disagree this is broadly unknown outside of a niche...

Even if the company practises seem to have had a knock-on effect. .. if the article is accurate of course.
IMO if you're not familiar with the story, this alone makes it worthy of deeper inspection:

"Would you like me to post the last modified times for all of the 35,813 emails? And include the Podesta email last modified times for comparison? Because the Podesta stuff was hacked."

Again, in my opinion, but there are major inconsistencies.
It's better to trust the spec and code itself than what either company says about it.
Eric Gilbert is a fairly well known person, but I still think the title should mention the full name as opposed to just "Eric".

There are probably hundreds (more?) of professors called "Eric" in Computer Science alone.
he's a good guy

built a good company

AMAZING service

Amazon tends to buy up all the companies that could become a threat to them, and then slowly kills them off (Zappos, Quidsi/Diapers.com, etc)

What Tony could have and should have done is

get someone like Marc Lore and have him expand Zappos to the EVERYTHING store

Zappos customer loyalty was insanely high
Search Engine Optimisation uses various methods to make your website rank highly on the search engine.
Social Media Optimisation is a digital marketing method that focuses on making your social media platforms.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2019/11/search-engine-optimizati...
an MoU lol
This could just be a clever way to say they do not sell data, they just buy it.

How useful would this software be without data from other companies?
I would be happy to buy a non Kindle device if someone can explain what the library loan story looks like there. I use a combo of Libby, OverDrive, cloudLibrary, and SimplyE (nuts that 1 need four apps for 1 library system). Afaik there is no good way for me to borrow books unless I stay on Kindle.
Do you have a rebuttal that's NOT an ad hominem?
If only society valued paying for most of the content they consume. Reality is the money has to come from somewhere.
Did that exist outside of Maemo? I don't remember ever seeing XUL extensions on Android...
Well, it's factually incorrect. You can't go door to door from Edmonton to Calgary in 2.5 hours unless, perhaps, you are going from the outer edge of one city to the outer edge of the other, and only then, by exceeding the speed limit (which I grant is pretty standard on that highway).
The reddit thread made a great example of "an aw" being used as a substitution for "also", so I'll round that example out to illustrate.

In a nutshell, his dictionary has provided him "also"->"an aw", but it's better translated as "and all" or "as well".

So "I had eggs for breakfast; I had toast also" works as "I had toast an aw" (I had toast as well). But "I also had toast" does not work as "I an aw had toast" (I as well had toast).

"I had eggs for breakfast; I as well had toast"; As a native English speaker you'd find that perfectly intelligible, but jarring.

I'm not Scottish, but I lived there for most my childhood - so I have a reasonable gut for what just feels wrong. And many the examples I've seen so far, look like spam that's been wrung through a thesaurus. The meaning's there but it doesn't make it correct.
Yeah, the redeeming feature of Vegas as a conference destination is that there are great long weekend or week trips to have from there. Also Death Valley. (Grand Canyon is >2 hrs though.) Utah NPs beyond Zion. Etc. Don't like Vegas itself but lots to like about the general region.
Make sure to use them every once in awhile, otherwise the issuer may close them.
I guess the question is something of a chicken and egg, then. Why did all your friends already set up Venmo, when it seems to be strictly worse (worse in some ways, not better in any ways) than the existing solution (Paypal)?
In vitro means a petri dish. Bleach has antiviral properties in those conditions.

In vitro results are much less meaningful than in vivo results. It can be a useful early validation step, but is far from telling us anything about real world efficacy.

There's enough in vivo studies at this point that in vitro studies should no longer be part of the conversation.
Ok... sounds like it would take longer at online checkout then.
I would love to see proper training, but it seems that much of the training is on pseudoscientific nonsense. See https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/blueleaks-law-enforcemen... for some examples.
Cat lady was on to something.
I wonder. Have humans managed as a collective to do anything responsibly in their entire history?
If the bundles are different than the bundles themselves will have different URLs.

If they're served by a 3rd-party then you block on domain or address to the bundle just like today. If it's 1st-party then they can already randomize every URL.
Issues with HSTS is that it is opt in. It should be an opt out with a list of legacy sites that ships with the browsers similar to how hsts preloading works.
I grew up in Brazil, where customer service was bad-to-terrible in 90% of the companies I had to deal with.

When I moved to Australia, I thought it would be a lot better. It wasn't much different.

When I joined a wine subscription startup in 2016 as the technical co-founder, I wasn't just building the recommendation engine. I was also helping to pack the boxes at the warehouse.

We all got fascinated with Tony's book "Delivering Happiness" [1]. As I packed boxes, I listened to the audiobook several times. Then I read it later on again.

I'm still surprised how bad customer service is in most companies. Don't talk to me like a robot. Just pretend you're messaging a co-worker in plain-friendly-English. And be genuinely interested in solving my issues knowing that you will have higher LTV in the long term if you invest the time and resources to make me happy now.

A few years later and our customers are obsessed not just about the wine we recommend. They also write love letters about how happy they are to deal with our customer service team. I'm still writing code on the other side, but it makes my day to see that part of the business working so well.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happi...
Yeah, the random barely-trained Amazon drivers keep putting packages just outside my garage door. Many of them have gotten run over.
Is more public companies a good thing or not?
It's never split in the 21st century.
Nevada lacks the three laws/regulations which make California, imho, popular for entrepreneurs:

* Limited non-competes

* Limited IP assignment clauses

* Limited anti-moonlighting clauses

It's hard to start a business when your current employer can block you from doing so.
I had to dry out my boots once with a panel heater, after a passing driver decided to enliven my rainy-day walking commute by driving through an overflowing gutter and drenching me from head to toe.

I wouldn't have liked to try it with a cat instead...
If you put aside economic problems Detroit just has so much more going for it in terms of history, culture, location, small business, family ties etc. than Las Vegas. That is why dumping money into it has shown immediate returns. When you say Vegas 100% of people are going to (justifiably) think casinos and not much more.
Yeah, but as a developer of Unreal Engine itself I'd like to be able to test it on iPhone…
Silicon Valley is big because of products, not high-end consulting.
Evan Czaplicki's ICFP20 Keynote – Thread
And who adds or repeals constitutional amendments? The government.
Okular can do all that, might not be as user friendly but definitely gets the job done. And yes if you run Windows it is available on the windows store.
That happens in every country. We call it "Illegal face possession", it's called profiling.
I think mismatched-axioms misunderstandings happen all the time and it really is a useful mental model to ask people about their axioms. In fact, I think it's even helpful when people are arguing in bad faith. If they have to state their axioms you pin them down and there are then at least some things they can't redefine on the fly.

I think even really high profile debates suffer from mismatched-axioms misunderstandings, such as the abortion debate. For instance, I think a lot of people have very different definitions of what constitutes a person. You're probably not going to have a meaningful discussion about abortion if you disagree about that, you probably have to argue about the definition of personhood first.

I think your characterization of maths is spot-on and most people don't understand what "mathematical truth" means. But my impression is that the 2+2=5 guy understands all of this (I think he was a maths PhD student too) and his point was completely valid, including its application outside of mathematics. The reactionaries who caricaturized his argument, however, don't understand any of this and believe he was making a different point entirely, namely that all truth is relative and that every person's point of view is valid. Of course, this misunderstanding is on them.
I believe it’s only things that would fall under the category of “idol” or “false god,” for what it is worth. There are tons of prehistoric mounds and weird rock arrangements all around highways in the middle of nowhere.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply plowed right throw such historic sites with cops indifference if it was in the way of a highway or oil field, however.
The Toronto/Montreal highspeed route once was desperately needed but as the years go by and other options that are available made this less attractive. The cost doesn't match the benefits. Trains exist now (some would say at too high a price point and they would take a greyhound) and they are much faster than driving. If speed is needed flying makes more sense. That leaves a small group who want to go slightly faster and are willing to pay more but not as much as an airplane ticket.
Not a bad idea. But I think the issue would be durability and quality of the Chinese parr’s.
Here's the Target story from 2012: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?
Hmm, for me the text is almost white on almost black making for a lot of contrast and very easy to read from desktop Firefox.
That looks very interesting! About managing YAMLs like we'd do with kubectl as explained in the article, how does topicctl differ both in concept and operation from Strimzi's Kafka Operator for Kubernetes? I know, they are a different company etc but that Kafka operator is gitops-friendly and everything so I'm honestly trying to compare them as managing Kafka is a REALLY HARD problem, so kudos for trying to make it easier!
Last time I was there was for CES, and they had a "completely" autonomous bus that went around the arts district of downtown Las Vegas. The autonomous bus was disappointing, but I actually thought that particular part of Vegas was looking pretty good. It seemed very hipster/gentrified and not at all touristy.

I think the revitalization project was at least somewhat successful.
I believe that’s what they mean by “check digit”.
Run a honeypot in a VM for a few weeks. https://www.honeynet.org/projects/

You leave a small enticing ssh listener which is actually a Python or similar daemon process that fakes its output and logs usernames and password attempts. Obviously that thing is on its own DMZ with no outbound access.

You can harvest the latest crop of usernames and passwords that the baddies are using with a little bit of effort, but not much! You can also slow them down a bit with a sprinkle of tarpitting. Take that list and use it as a password blacklist for your own systems. You might allow the list to decay by say six months after the last sighting to avoid it getting too big. Actually you could allow decay with a normally distributed six month spread, centred over one year to avoid predictability. That may be going too far - once a password is on the list, I suggest you keep it.

Usernames that are not simply given names is a very good idea. Service accounts should not be able to login interactively if they don't need it (set your RDP groups up properly, PLEASE!) Give service accounts odd names and sha1sum style passwords. Administrator, Administrateur, Administrador etc should not be able to login at all to anything and nor should root. Those four names come up in my logs so often, it isn't funny. If you've got an account called sql or ldap or mail or similar, then get rid of it. Please.
Zelenco has been thoroughly disgraced for ethics violations. His work was so riddled with issues, that it was the subject of ridicule for weeks afterwards by legitimate scientists. It's not worthy of discussion in a good faith discussion on the efficacy of HCQ.
Why don’t we teach schoolchildren the NATO phonetic alphabet? Seems like it wouldn’t take that long, and it would be a useful skill for their whole life.
Hinting is what that's called.
A memorandum of understanding from a startup to create a capital-intensive public transit system in a time where existing public transit is in severe financial distress, in a province that is in severe financial distress, and also one that loves its pickup trucks. Sure.
“ A 3kg cat has a heat output of 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours...”

Playing fast and loose here. That’s 129.65 kilowatt hours per year. 14.8 watts is 0.0148 kilowatts of course. Kilowatt hours are a measure of total energy output over a given time not instantaneous output.
The headline is a bit misleading.

Is it “Reddit” as a company shutting it down, or an unpaid mod team?

Is the AMA mod team employed by the company?
the radical transparency thing is very interesting

When you embrace it, you will definitely piss off a LOT of people

society is all about 'being polite' and 'wearing a mask'

if you stop being polite and stop wearing masks, while still maintaining common courtesy

life becomes MUCH easier

I'll give you an example

2 of your friends have problems which prevent them from having a good relationship

you have a frank talk with them

Hey, Jack, you need to get over your abandonment issues and commit to a woman and marry her. You've passed on some pretty amazing women just because your father walked away when you were 4

Hi Sophie, perhaps the reason you only date losers is that is your type. Perhaps your type is guys who will cheat on you. Perhaps when your mother divorced your father after he cheated on her with her sister, his secretary, and the school principal, you should have realized that's genetically your type. So you can either accept that you are making this choice and be at peace with it, or you CHANGE your decision making process

*

guess what's going to happen

usually, 1 of them will get mad at you, then realize you are right, and then make a change, and then your friendship will be much stronger

and the other will hate you for life. Well not hate you. Will avoid you forever

So that's what radical honesty and radical transparency does

*

of course you have to be prepared for people to also be radically honest with you

you find out things that are painful. Then you have to decide whether you will embrace the honest feedback you are getting or run away from it
Seems completely baseless.

There is no difference between an URL without web bundles, and an URL that refers to a "web bundle" and a path within in.

All the things that they claim can be done with Web Bundles can be done without just as easily by putting all dependent resources in a versioned subdirectory.
The artist drawing doesn't seem to have enough support for the span between pillars. It looks nice but not realistic
I'd love if Reno was this good, much closer to Tahoe.
I am not in any way pro-Google and I feel what they are doing with AMP is a perilous path, but your article was not convincing. It’s trivially easy to rotate a JS name and serve it from the same cached edge file (eg with cloudflare workers) and not incurring any major additional cost. It’s not hard to imagine advertisers doing something similar with their own CDNs. This could even be done at the DNS level with random sub domains. Unless we are ok blocking (star).facebook.com/(star), every other part of the URL is trivially easy to randomize.
Your comment is ridiculous. The number has structure, you don't get random IP addresses if you're a company. You get a block, likewise card issuers get a block (BIN - Bank Identifier Number) then add in the checksum, that definitely means you can't just assign random number. Imagine you have a random number. Visa get's the number and a charge for $20. Who owns it? They now have to search through all possible issued card number to find the card issuer. However with the BIN, they can do a pattern matching and send the info to the card issuer to determine if the card is valid. Think of the implementation details, those before you are not idiots as much as you may think they didn't think things through.
That still doesn’t negate that if you are on the receiving end, you might be a little hostile to the police.
SPACs are playing a huge part too.
The ideal number of cats per home in New Zealand is zero. Cats prey on local wildlife, much of which is near extinction as it is because of introduced predators including humans. Those who advocate for banning cats in New Zealand have a pretty strong case.
I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a plugin-based, customizable SaaS?

Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem to have taken the repo of a completely unrelated Angular animation library that has been inactive for 6 years and converted it to be Tipe, presumably to make it seem as if Tipe has earned 2.1k stars when it was actually the Angular project that earned those stars.

They claim to be open-source but I see zero source code. Maybe the source is in one of the two different CLIs that seem to exist? But the one that actually seems documented and usable hasn't had a commit in 10 months.
Unless somebody wrote an app, or the store cooperated like PayPal, or 100 other things.

Lets try to imagine a better future?
Plus one on bridgewater
Its amazing, this is so far away from what. If I got a hand crafted note I'd assume it was written under duress and not something I'd want to be party to.
Do you know of any tools that do this?