skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s been good for our clients! WYSIWYG is a required feature for many of them and I’ve found Redactor better than a lot of alternatives we’ve tried. What issues do you have?

One thing that’s helped us is making heavy use of Craft’s matrix blocks. That keeps a lot of styling and inline elements out of the WYSIWYG itself. Then we can turn off a lot of the WYSIWYG buttons/features and keep it simple.
Yeah, but it's hard to shake the image of McLaren Honda and Alonso and Button suffering from 2015-2017. Those were some miserable races, and the stress was being publicly taken out on two well respected drivers towards the end of their careers.
Look at the consequences of personal bankruptcy in Germany [1]. They are severe and permanently close off entire career paths. Europe’s culture is less risk tolerant, fundamentally, than America’s.

That said, entrepreneurship isn’t the sole path to innovation. Germany has a solid history of non-entrepreneur value finding.

[1] http://www.privatinsolvenz-hilfe.org/en/german-bankruptcy-la...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13125258335050588...
Each of those moves to the left were made possible only by a very angry and mobilized coalition of communists, socialists, trade unionists, and other desperate working-class people. Nothing like that exists currently, and also we never had to contend with a hostile digital media empire. Just look at what happened with Trump's impeachment, compared to what would've happened at any other point in history.

Corrupt oligarchs are also capable of learning from the past.
Surely there is room for innovating outside of ICE and electric engines; what about land based rocket engines? I'm sure there's a lot to work on there ;)
Yes! There is even further context to break down about what we originally formulated our natural rights to address; it's something I think all American's interested in their rights should read into.
It might depends on the bars, but those where I've been in France usually don't have it
It's a good train to keep going, and the end of the line will be the realisation that allowing some people to receive better treatment for any reason, birth, wealth, looks, intelligence, or anything else, is inherantly unfair.

I hope that some day in the future we'll look back on the way poor people are treated now with the same horror we have today if we hear a black or gay person was refused healthcare or another service.
> Owls don't flock, so a collective term for them is pointless.

That just makes me enjoy the term even more.
Plank Time would be the smallest size of a grid in that Wikipedia animation.
Fellow TJ grad here ('99). I also entered this conversation proud/grateful for my experience, and worried about the politicization of the entrance process. (I also believe in structural racism and have been concerned about the ethnic balance at TJ, but I would have said the solution should come way earlier in the educational process, and still think that most effort should go there.)

However, I think treating this as the abandonment of meritocracy is a straw man. Discourse with other grads changed my mind. A key factor is how much the test is now being gamed.

Based on some facebook polls of ~500 alumni (not scientific but moreso than any other direct evidence presented!), the percentage of accepted students going through specialized test prep has climbed from <2% in my day to >50% today. Some of these programs cost thousands of dollars for a chance to change your admissions outcome.

A test that draws this much financial investment is no longer a tool of meritocracy. And the plan that replaces it is not devoid of meritocracy. It includes a baseline GPA requirement, a holistic application package, and a lottery. I think we can and should do better than the lottery, but the test isnt it.

Those of us who are activated about keeping TJ meritocratic and advanced, let's put energies into fairer approaches than this test, which wouldn't be viable with Covid anyway.
If you are rich enough and have the correct corporate structure, you can poison anything you want in America. I think WV had shown this.
I believe lots of people bought sonos, who then changed the deal over time.
> it is not equivalent to depriving one person of their entire life.

Why not?
Here is my story. A few years after coming to the US I started developing some neurological symptoms: confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness.

1. The GP first blamed it on dehydration and sent me home and told me to drink plenty of water. Went back a week later and she prescribed antibiotics thinking it was some kind of infection somewhere. "Let's just try the strongest antibiotics and see".

I did the full course despite some non-trivial side effects and was still not better, but at that point my heartbeat had gotten a bit faster from the whole situation so I was referred to a cardio.

2. Seeing a fast heartbeat, the cardiologist put me, a 24-year old at the time, on beta blockers. Two weeks later, still no improvement.

3. So I was referred to a neurologist. Did a brain MRI, did not find anything so he assumed it was some kind of epilepsy/migraine combo and put me on something called topamax. Mind you, all these prescriptions were given to me within 10-15 minutes of seeing those doctors. Topamax had its own side effects and my health at that point had spiraled out of control. Reported the side effects to the neuro and he thought he'd give me one more medication to counter the other medication's side effects.

When I went back to the GP they said the whole thing was probably caused by "stress".

4. I just stopped all medication, got sick leave from my job, and went back to my home country for a couple of months. I asked my old family doctor to just do a general check-up and see if anything was up. Within weeks my situation had magically started to improve.

Turned out my vitamin D levels were at 7 (forgot the unit, but the minimum was like 30).

None of the doctors thought about it, every doctor had arrogantly assumed that the problem could only be from their own field (neuro assumed it was neurological, cardio assumed it was cardiac), and literally none of them put the slightest amount of effort into looking at the whole picture. This was in one of the most affluent areas and those were supposedly some of the "good" doctors. I am still convinced that a machine trained model would have performed significantly better than these people since they were literally like bots following a rule book.

Side corollary, if you are from a sunny country and move to a state or country in Northern latitudes, keep in mind that vitamin D deficiency can slowly creep on you and basically turn you into a moron. This should be a PSA.
> Government is instituted no less for the protection of the property than of the persons of individuals.

Obviously there is nuance there as Madison and his constituents depended on the power of the state to deprive their laborers of their natural rights.

Madison in particular struggled with the notion of human chattel and the paradox of standing for liberty and slavery. He banished import of slaves and advocated for profound government intervention on the market — a federal buyout of slaves.
Why does it have to be one or the other? It’s both. We are all human and flawed in some way. So, naturally, those flaws will be exposed or even exploited in a platform like Facebook.

The difference between humans pre and post social media is that the we have a platform now that amplifies many voices.

We also treat it as a news source - and as we know, bad news has always outsold light fluffy good news when it comes to competing for our attention.

Couple that with the issue that engagement (comments, likes, shares) increase how visible a post is and you get the recipe for how to rapidly help polarize a society.

This is of course to say that we were already polarized and already arguing with each other, but now we can do it with more reach and with a louder voice.
Are you kidding? You need to see more of the outside world. Tesla has zero tech advantage on BEV. Go to China, every mom and pop factory can build a new BEV vehicle on a weekend. BEVs vehicles are so easy to build that cars will be a comoditized item. Infinite amount of battery suppliers. The only reason traditional car makers are not focusing too much on EVs right now is because there is not enough profits currently.
Isn't that what .pyc bytecode is for? So you don't need to interpret the source of a library?
Estonia has one of the best governments in Europe if not the world. Romania does not.
Similar story: I went to the doctor with sharp hip pain a few years back, aged 32, relatively fit (running 5 miles every workday and swimming 1+ mile most days), but the hip pain was getting worse by the day. I was referred to a surgeon who wanted to re-route tendons or ligaments in my hips. It made no sense to me. I realized, with a little reflection, that I had been wearing heeled dress shoes far more than I normally did. I started wearing zero-drop shoes and the pain went away in a few days. Neither the GP nor the surgeon did any digging about possible causes.
It's actually less forgotten now than it was in 2002.

Apache's FastCGI support was atrocious until mod_proxy_fcgi arrived only a few years ago. This severely limited FastCGI adoption in Apache territory. But sometime in the mid-00s lighttpd came along, and then nginx. Both of them not only supported but required FastCGI to interface with PHP. So the lighttpd guys developed spawn-fcgi, which was a huge step ahead of Apache's mod_fastcgi/mod_fcgid. With the increasing popularity of nginx, PHP itself adopted FPM (FastCGI Process Manager), which went yet another step ahead of spawn-fcgi. The performance gains were unbelievable! That was sometime between 2006 and 2008 IIRC, just when PHP was starting to clean up after itself.

PHP-FPM is now the preferred way to run PHP no matter what webserver you use (perhaps with the exception of IIS). It keeps things running fast and smooth without giving up PHP's straightforward, CGI-like execution model.
I used the term in a conversation last week. The birds in question were actually Tarsier Ravens, but the term murder of Crows was most appropriate, and understood completely by the person I was talking with.

This might be generational, I'm well read and the other party was of an older generation.

We all live in valleys and it's hard to see over yonder hills, to other worlds and peoples ..
Google just killed SEO.
I'm trying to visualize that in my mind. But what is BETWEEN the molecules? Vacuum?
Taken symbolically it's also dumb. How can it not be?

This is a ancient document written to be taken as truth yet the writer decides instead of just writing everything out plainly decides to make everything cryptic and to be taken not literally.

The writer was so dumb that instead of writing 7*10^n days which he CLEARLY knew he instead wrote 7 days and fooled a bunch of people. It goes to show that even god isn't perfect and probably accidentally picked someone who didn't have much going on upstairs if you catch my drift.

My buddy told me that all of this stuff is just excuses people make to reconcile the science and reality with the fact that they've been worshipping an ancient misguided document for most of their lives. I told him he better wise up because that kind of thinking leads to getting burned in hell.

No guys it's just that sometimes god chooses a vessel to convey his information and that vessel is sometimes not too bright. That's all.
What's even worse is it's disturbingly easy to not just break the law, but it's surprisingly easy to commit a felony. That's a situation that just shouldn't be. In my opinion, a felony should almost universally be something either egregiously reckless or done with nefarious intent, and it should be something that people can universally agree is an obvious problem. (And by that, I mean an ACTUAL problem, not a side-target of the thing that's really of interest.)
I know Scala is complex. Many languages are. No language starts out with the goal of being complex. They all want to be simple and elegant but the clash with real-world use-cases makes them complex. Like Bjarne Stroustrup said–there are languages that people complain about and there are languages that no one uses.
In the US, ADA may help. Bipolar is a recognized disability. https://www.eeoc.gov/publications/ada-your-employment-rights...

I've listed my accommodations on another comment posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680004
Your comment reminds me of the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Most automakers were capable of making electric vehicles decades ago.
A legendary bouquet of epithets!
I guess you are right. It wouldn't be the first time technical definitions and common language are in conflict.

Very common in biology: tomatoes and coconuts are fruits, bugs are a specific order of insects, electric eels are not eels, etc...
As long as we all agree that Facebook is one of the most meaningful and useful contributions to society, then yes, capitalism determines ideal value.
Here's a simpler, but more technical, attempt at an explanation.

---

while (true) {

Treat your initial 64 bit random value as a fixed point fraction in the range from 0 to just under 1.

u64 fract = random64();

Convert it to a 128 bit type, still treating it as a fraction, and multiply it by another 64-bit nonzero integer, S. The result is a value between 0 and S (excluding S), with the fractional part in the lower 64 bits and the integer part in the upper 64 bits.

u128 upto_s = (u128)fract * (u128)s;
u64 fract_part = (u64)upto_s;
u64 int_part = (u64)(upto_s >> 64);

Because we multiplied by S, the possible resulting fraction bits increase by S between each sequential random value. This affects the number of possible fractions for each integer part. For example, with S=3, you could pack like

. X . . X . . X . . X . . X . .

or

X . . X . . X . . X . . X . . X

This is NOT the case if the number of possible fractions (here 2⁶⁴) is a multiple of S. We can therefore reject some of our possible fractions to make it a multiple of S. This can be done by rejecting the first 2⁶⁴ % s fractional values, and thus only accepting fractional values at least 2⁶⁴ % s.

# Faster early test to avoid modulo
# s > (2⁶⁴) % s
if (fract_part >= s) {
return int_part;
}

# 2⁶⁴ % s == (2⁶⁴ - s) % s == (-s) % s
u64 min_fract = (-s) % s;
if (fract_part >= min_fract) {
return int_part;
}
}
F1 technology is a lot more than just power-trains, I wish people would understand that better.

Fuel chemistry, aerodynamics, functional simulation, driver ergonomics, safety dynamics, tire chemistry, metallurgy, analytics, data recording, composites, suspension, real-time telemetry and communication, digital systems management.. the list goes on forever.

If the device/technique/procedure wasn't invented by F1, it was made better by it, and tons of it have trickled down to consumer products in the past 70+ years.
+1 to upkeep/maintenance, this really is what separates developed countries from developing, not just in Europe but anywhere in the world. Any third-world country can build a shiny new showpiece airport, the real test is what it looks like 10 or 20 years down the line.

That said, if finding a competent tradesman is becoming harder (demand exceeds supply), their income will eventually increase to an equilibrium point where it starts making sense for them not to move to Germany/UK.
> but the government decided to take all your profits

I recognize you're responding to a post that was somewhat extreme, but it's worth noting that right now America is nowhere close to this point. There's a trade-off to be had between equity for citizens and allowing individuals to reap the rewards of their choices and work in a way necessary for a capatalist society to function. I don't know exactly where that balance is, but I think it's pretty clear we are way off the mark right now!
Can we talk about the countries that are doing better than the US like Germany, Austria and Switzerland?
How does self-reliance fit into your worldview? Wouldn't you agree that it's generally a bad thing to be reliant on an entity you can't control for survival?
This is all in the name of reducing expenses of course, but it has the opposite effect.

I always thought it was more like, Ferrari will always spend gobs of money and a small player can only spend a tenth as much- the amount of money spent will not change- but how can we narrow the gap between the high budget & low budget teams, such that a really awesome low budget team has a chance of catching a high budget team napping.
This reminds me of the BP oil spill that leaked for months... they had to pay a reasonable fine, but they purchased so many gas stations in the region afterwards... I think to prevent people from boycotting them.
> ...that means that industry (and therefore industry jobs) is more useful to society. Because it is generating more wealth.

I feel that this is a rather narrow view, since there are a lot of companies who generate wealth by being detrimental to society at large (usually those who are just rent-seeking instead of continuously creating value).
It's not Tesla's technological prowess that is killing F1. It's their marketing dominance that's reason for their effect on F1. They have dominated mindshare to the extent that governments are fully invested in building the infrastructure for electric vehicles, even in developing countries where hybrid tech would be a better idea.
For the same exact issue, you can go to a cardio and get prescribed some cardio-related medication, go to a neuro and get prescribed neuro-related medication, etc. To a hammer everything is a nail.

I was put on antibiotics, beta blockers, topamax and a couple of more serious medication for what was ultimately just a vitamin D deficiency that they had been too narrow-sighted to try catching. I lost a lot of respect for the medical profession at that time.
Get ready for a lawsuit if you build iOS app interoperability
I love fastcgi - a quick and easy way to have lightning fast C/C++ backends. Unfortunately there aren't many maintained fastcgi libraries out there.
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I think I may refuse to turn on video during interviews now as a 46 year old developer. I'm not landing anything, nothing on upwork, nothing on LinkedIn. I keep interviewing but no offers. I got fired in March due to pandemic....had a few consulting gigs for pennies on the dollar but it just wasn't worth the effort to pursue those jobs.
I don't understand why you think that. I will freely admit that I don't have a great grasp on Silicon Valley investor relations but I just assume when you're the head of the company something like this falls back on you. I don't know this just seems to me like a CEO's responsibility not to do.
People will always want to better themselves versus another, it’s part of the mating process. If it’s not appearance, something else will be used to signal rank.
I would argue that the most recent principal has likely done far more destruction than the Lodal -> Glazer transition did, but I have heard that sentiment before from older alumni. (I was a student near the end of Glazer's tenure.)

As to the latter point, the school has definitely been trending in that direction. In my time, I would wager that around 50% of students had primarily a science interest, 35% had primarily a technology interest, and the remaining 15% had no strong inclination between the two. (From what I have heard, in more recent classes the tech has become more popular than the other sciences.)

At the end of the day, though, as long as the curriculum still requires sci-tech rigor, it's entirely beneficial that the school also have strong humanities and arts programs. 13 year olds are applying to this school, and people's interests change throughout high school in unpredictable ways.
I really don't think this is the case here. Cities like Lafayette are just plain inefficient, and the inefficiency scales with growth: the more growth you have, the more sprawl you have, which means the more expensive things are, which leads to more inefficiency. This is probably one of the forces constraining the growth of cities like this.

The problem with most of suburban America is that it's completely unsustainable. Almost all suburban cities in the US require a constant injection of Federal funds to maintain infrastructure. Most people don't realize this because it's really something politicians score brownie points for, hence the accounting subterfuge they engage in (as mentioned in the article), as do most small cities in the USA.

We have no idea how long this Federal subsidy will be maintain, making it difficult to plan for. So many Americans want this idyllic, unsustainable suburban life-style that no politician will keep their job if they try to "take it away" (read: address the issue). But the longer we wait to build more sustainable cities, the worse things will be during the inevitable implosion.

America needs to be building medium-density, car-adverse cities now. The country can't afford to continue subsidizing driving to the degree that it has post-WWII. If this doesn't happen, most of the country is going to enter a serious depression.
I watched 3000 people march past my house in a city of 100,000 this summer. And remember those “deplorable” people who fell for the Trump speil are still disaffected and still have no prospects.

Society is a powder keg. A spark can come from anywhere.
Your comment reminds me of the members of the Peoples Temple hehe.
Build your idea in 5 minutes
This is not true. Ideas may die, but they may become immortal and spread like a virus. This is completely irrespective of how true or false in actuality an idea is...
> their cutting edge technology. Which they don't fundamentally create for racing but for the versions of it that trickle into production vehicles

Nah. Open-wheel racing has not been about actual research, already, for more than 20 years. The standard-bearer itself, Ferrari, was a racing team first and a manufacturer later; even today they are not in F1 for research but for marketing purposes (merchandising is basically their prime source of revenue). Open-wheel is largely a show, and it will continue to run as long as the show gets viewers, one way or the other.
You didn’t read the whole thing if that’s what you drew from it. Safari on iOS is used by everyone with an iPhone, Tor Browser is used (typically) by people with something to hide or a lot at stake, which makes it a singularly desirable target that is especially dangerous because it doesn’t receive security patches at the same speed as mainline Firefox. The monoculture is only part of the problem, the bigger part is using a browser with an inferior security model and leaving it hopelessly out of date. Using Tor with an up to date version of Chrome is much less hazardous to your health, and I really recommend that approach if you want to use Tor.

> It's extremely identifiable as Tor, but that's exactly why most people should use it more of the time, so that it isn't regarded as suspicious when somebody has a more serious reason to.

No. That’s just not going to happen, for a number of reasons, and hoping it does happen is not a strategy for helping the significant number of people who are already using it because they do have a serious reason to, and are consequently at risk because of how vulnerable their browser is.
I think the California Public Utilities Commission deserves some of the blame here. They dictate the rates and profit margins.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Anothe...
I think one of the issues ex-FBers may have is the inflated expectations of total compensation. FB is a place where you get excessive comp relative to the rest of the industry. A hiring manager needs to consider that when reviewing resumes.