skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees. The whole environmental problem with plastic in well managed landfills is filling up city landfills where land is expensive. Rural landfills will never run out of space. It's a non-problem as long as it does actually make it to the landfill and not washed down a river or something.
Covid-19 case data is contrary to Benford's Law
Which won't happen anytime soon (despite what Elon says)
The jet cannot be carbon neutral. The operations of the jet can be if the operators choose to offset the carbon. Boom is not an airline, so it can't say whether or not the jets will be carbon neutral.

It could contractually require buyers to offset carbon emissions but that's a dubious idea.
I guess everybody has different experiences, but by and large, the subreddits I frequent are reasonable enough
1283 = continue
1432 = license
1766 = gnu

So for every loop continue statement there is a GPL license text :D
Microtargeted ads just don’t work
Tip: Try saying “$0” instead of “free” to increase conversions
Very true and these sites quickly move to a blacklist in my case. Almost all sites can still be displayed in FF though.
Apple Maps, improved a lot in past few years, especially noticeable in the US.
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/register...
Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenza and pneumonia
Fujitsu is the longest standing large company.
Developer Originated SDN?
I don't see any damage, when lots of happy families are able to do a decent living from business of their parents are hired to do.

And with that money contribute back to the wheel that drives world economy.

We aren't in the 1960's any longer, though the music was nice.
"management has been more receptive" - that's a corpspeak for "nothing has changed", i.e. a bunch of vague statements with no substance that lazily nudge the reader to attribute something (severance pay) to someone, without saying that explicitly because that would be a lie (with potential legal troubles). If there were meaningful changes, they would be attributed to the union explicitly: "thanks to our union representative, we've come up with a revised agreement that gives all employees 8 weeks of vacation, 40% higher pay and eliminates the non-compete clause."
Combination of somewhat high barrier to entry (they're unlike most other languages so experience isn't as transferable), and network effects - those in charge of choosing a technology for a project generally make the subjectively prudent decision to use technology that is already in common use, leaving the less common languages in a catch 22.
But did it actually work better? I am inclined to think not as lots of people moved from ./ to HN.
The MiG-25 was unusual in that it was designed to go mach 2.8+ which overheats normal materials. Boom said they were limiting their design to mach 2.2 so as to be able to stick to normal safety approved stuff.

It's interesting to see the Mig-25 steel design come back pretty much in SpaceX's starship.
Passively getting news that starts to include more political op-eds is a very different issue than actively participating in a toxic community though.

Not saying either of you are wrong. Just saying they are different issues.
It's not necessary to account for R&D costs if the R&D has other benefits (e.g. putting Airbus on the map as an alternative manufacturer to Boeing, giving Europe technology with military implications independent of its reliance on the USA, etc.)
I remember in Usenet there was often a competition how much you expand a thread sideways. This might the optimal format. A discussion board with only one thread branching infinite. You could then search for significant node points, which have created more discussion and node points. Now to avoid endless wallowing in same shit year after year, I suggest automatic AI system, which does not cancel anything, but moves an arcticle to the node it mostly belongs. And as high as possible regardless of creation time.
Multi-Agent Resource Optimization (MARO) Platform
That's not the point.

Companies exist to reward their shareholders. Employees at most companies get paid as little as possible, as long as they don't quit. At tech companies, employees are shareholders and therefore they get to be part of the group of people that the company exists to reward.

If you approach your stock compensation with that understanding, you'll be fine. If you expect the stock to only ever increase in value then you are being stupid. In my experience, tech workers at public companies are pretty savvy about their stock compensation. At startups, it's another matter...
A reasonable person might reason as follows:

1. If the government is to restrict speech, then it must be granted the power to restrict speech

2. If the government is granted the power to restrict speech, then it may misuse this power in its own perceived interests

3. If the government misuses its power in this way then democracy will be threatened

4. Democracy is good

Conclusion: the government should not be allowed to restrict speech
Strange, I am using Windows 10 with Chrome version 86.0.4240.75 (Official build) (64-bit)

https://imgur.com/IrPQCXH
This seems about as useful as a man promising to not cheat on his wife after the divorce.
> Why would users expect that?

People are impatient and expect everything on three computer to be as fast as the faster things on it. Anything slow can feel like there is something wrong.

They don't expect things to be instant, but your page turning example is relevant: if losing a new page take the time of a physical page turn or two then it is probably fine and feels smooth. More than a few hundred ms and things feel more "janky". This is something some people cite as why they don't like e-ink devices.

> some SPAs are much harder to navigate because they are over engineered

This is definitely true, but also holds for many non SPA sites too.

> > blank screens

This part of the parent post is significant IMO. If the previous page vanishes I find I'm less patient waiting for the new information. This is worse if there has been a delay before that happens too.

Though likewise if nothing changes I might think something is amiss: did my click even register? Some extra indication of action (the click target changing colour is sufficient) helps here, when the background request doesn't show in the browsers built-in activity indicators.
3% less garbage is good, but 100% less would be preferable.
This might be the case in many Asian countries too. Me and my classmates grew up watching American (and Japanese) high school movies, but the stereotypes never stuck.

Bullying exists, but the bullies were often the ones who did well in class. Bullies are those who pick on easy prey weaker than them, and those who got isolated into the "dumb classes" were easily bullied. Move up in university and boarding school, and bullying became a lot more extreme, heavily controlled by the ones with good grades.

The kids with bad grades tended to have less willpower, come from poorer families, smoked and had less stamina, dressed poorly and couldn't afford tuition. They had a lot of discrimination stacked against them, and were easily oppressed by the "nerds".

I would categorize myself as a nerd in that I didn't bother with how I looked or dressed, or that I had bad handwriting. But that attitude lent me a more regal reputation in school; similar to punk or "bad boy" instead.
> If I have to split $2,000,000 between you and me, but you don't know how much money there is, then you might be happy with me giving you $400,000. That's $400,000 you didn't have before. Hell yeah, $400k! That's loads. The fact we're both going away happy doesn't make it right though. There's a big disparity there. If you found out that I'd kept 4* what you got you'd have every reason to be pissed about it.

Do you honestly believe that every penny a company makes ought to be given to its employees?

If not, then why should employees expect to make more than the market rate for the labor they provide?
I used to work for an education-resources publisher that had a problem with lecturers photocopying their books. We created a portal with value-add features, and put the ordering-user ID on every page of every book. Photocopying all but disappeared once those measures were in place - people valued and used the bundled services. The institutions that were buying the books were slow to ship IT services. But we were fast. The lecturers started asking us for forums and work-submission and marking-workflow features to help them work with their students, and we did.

(The software lead had an idea that users should be able to just store and share stuff on the site. She moved to Canada during the project to join a new team, and did the same thing for the game they were running. They noticed that a lot of people were using the feature to share photos. So they focused on that, and that became Flickr.)

Newspapers are already well down the road towards this future - as part of subscription you get comments sections, and forums, and dating sites, and wine clubs. Still, I see significant unused potential. Each newspaper should view itself as some mix of bloomberg/twitter/linkedin, and encourage interaction between its members audience.
Twitter has to be the worst major platform. It is a rollercoaster of misery, disgust, and annoyance.

And there isn’t even a proverbial nugget in the turd to make it worth it.
Luca Concept Car: An Electric Vehicle Made from Plastic Waste
What does the article mean by "polyfill"?

Edit: from Wikipedia

In web development, a polyfill is code that implements a feature on web browsers that do not support the feature. Most often, it refers to a JavaScript library that implements an HTML5 web standard
They actually built it:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2351459-eindhovense-studenten-present... (Dutch)
Slashdot is insufferable trash today. If you read the comments, every article gets sniped by Nazi swastika ASCII art, which they still haven't bothered to ban. (You would have thought the teenagers doing this in the 90's would have grown up by now...)

How hard is it to ban the same post being made repeatedly, over and over?

Slashdot stopped trying.
The quote about "exceptional ride due to lower center of gravity and essentially middle engine design" was taken from Tesla PR in the comment I've replied to.

The 0-100km/h times for M3 and Model 3 is 3.9 and 3.2 seconds respectively and, essentially, 20%. The difference in peak torque (helps in acceleration out of corners) is smaller, 550 N/m and 639 N/m, about 11%. Power (helps at high speed) difference also less - 317kW and 340kW, yet Tesla win here too. Model 3 is even slightly wider (2cm, about 1% wider), which should help in track too. And after all that, a whopping 0.1s of win.

Tesla borked their very first Roadster, despite the fact that they had to provide only drivetrain to it and everything else was done by Lotus. The analysis above suggests that they are still do not get driving as opposed to drag racing.
For the TL;DR; crowd,

> If you come from Direct3D or console world, you may take every single one of these for granted – trust me, in OpenGL every single one of these is unusual and is met with excitement, especially on mobile where you are used to dealing with occasionally broken drivers, no validation, no GPU debugger, no GPU profiler that is helpful, no ability to gather GPU scheduling data and being forced to work with a text-based shader language that each vendor has a slightly different parser for.

This is the main pain point with any Khronos API, just doing paperwork for standards and then let the partners come up with something, which most of the time just don't.
Hear hear, this is what racism is, not an algorithm that underperforms in certain situations.

For any algo, I'm sure you'll find features where it underperforms, and since, well, photos are 90% race-determined, of course there will be racial differences.

Bureaucracy doing its best to not deliver what the law says it should is, meanwhile, blatant racism. Just sounds less exciting than a Skynet-style racist operation of white men forcing Asian women to join a different queue at the airport.
>It just widens the discussion to also include what oppression means.

Those first two quotes are literally dictionary definitions of racism. You are free to disagree, but you aren't just disagreeing with me. You are disagreeing with the dictionary.
From what I have seen downvotes get used a lot here on posts that users disagree with, which seems like an unfortunate side-effect. You'd want to reserve them for rude posts or other posts that aren't helpful to a discussion.
That error is what you get if you try to download something over http (https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/07/google_chrome_blockin...). The link I used was https. I wonder if you have something rewriting the URL on your PC...
What neighbors? What data are you using? As far as I can tell, it is pretty much middle of the pack. Behind Italy, Spain, and the UK in Europe alone. Somewhere like Belgium is far far worse.

Not to mention the fact that Sweden specifically used this strategy in order to avoid government control over people, which as we have already seen, other countries are not doing. See: Australia. “Good policy” expands beyond a single metric.
Address Quality in Openstreetmap: A Comparison
No, that's not what the quote was about, the quote was saying that their economies should be managed the same way. Your interpretation of that quote is much narrower and in particular, it only applies to foreign debt.
GMC Hummer will be the first car with software built using Epic’s Unreal Engine
There are two/three groups of users on twitter:

- the "celebs" (anyone which is moderately famous)

- the "old school" (which usually forms tight groups and doesn't get as much hate mail)

- the newcomers (anyone that joined, let's say < 5yr ago). Those are mostly wallowing in a pit of sadness
Yeah, supposedly playing your normal music with a notch at your tinnitus frequency can also help. Alas, I have yet to figure out what frequency it is - tried several apps and I just can't pin it down (although to be fair, that's me rather than the apps, I have an abysmal sense of pitch.)
Things You Need to Know About Golang for Web Development
Golang helps the developer to develop highly scalable applications. These applications are easy to develop and are highly performant out of the box. Golang has inbuilt support for HTTP/2. Golang has good compatibility and support for various databases such as MYSQL, ElasticSerach, MongoDB.
To serve content over the web you don't require 3rd party web servers like Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, etc. You can create a web server using Golang itself and it is far more performant then 3rd party web servers.
Did they find any new properties of Al or other alloys after the DLP production ?
Everything. Why do you think it would not?
This is why clear copyright and licensing is so important. Unless something is in the public domain, don't use it unless you have permission.

> The entire software industry is built on the idea that APIs are not copyrightable.

The entire open source movement was built on copyright (ala FSF and the GPL). So this doesn't even make sense. It's not anarchy as you imply and copyright has a purpose.

Also, copyright is far more limited than patents. Patents are dangerous because it's like claiming ownership over a mathematical formula that anyone can derive. It's completely different.
> Is this a good idea?

If you want electric delivery vans, yes.

Delivery companies that own their own vans and pay their employees hourly are in price competition with 'gig economy' delivery companies where the driver brings their own vehicle and gets paid per-parcel - so traditional companies are limited in their ability to absorb or pass on higher costs.

A diesel class B van with a 3.5 tonne weight limit, set up as a delivery van, can carry perhaps 1 tonne of cargo. In inner-city areas, where the density of deliveries is high, vans having a shorter range isn't a problem - but the vans will leave the depot at the absolute maximum weight capacity.

If electric vans have 20% less cargo capacity due to the weight of the batteries? That's a profitable business turned into an unprofitable one.

While there are some delivery companies (UPS for example) that use a lot of class C1 vans, and hire employees with the special licenses required, the supply of people with C1 licenses is much lower than the supply of people with B (i.e. car driver) licenses and the hourly wages are higher accordingly.
How does the union react to underperforming engineers?
When Mantle was created Vulkan wasn't in sight.

Mantle became Vulkan when Khronos realized they weren't going to be able to deliver anything worthwhile using, and AMD gently gave Mantle to Khronos .

Metal was already on their way when this decision took place.
GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/maro
Docs: https://maro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Notes on reviving and extending Marvin, a typeface for Visions magazine
I would recommend reading "Misbehaving" that talks about economy and people behaviour. It is quite an eye opener.
Besides Metal preceding Vulkan, Vulkan has already turned into the same extension hell as OpenGL.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php
MorphOS 3.14 – Public Release
Thanks, cool link!
I feel slashdot stopped trying ages ago when the editor had to fight to not put ads (or excessive ads) on the site. They were bought up and its been on autopilot for years.
> why use F# when you can use OCaml?

I have looked at both without any prior experience in them and OCAML tooling is horrible. Also, with no support for unicode in Ocaml, F# is just much better in this regard - even if it lacks modules, functors, etc.
I quite enjoy programming new stuff from scratch, but most of the time my job is keeping other peoples crappy code running.
The same holds for N QUIC streams though.
Dress code – If you go down to the woods today: adventures in nudist Paris
What Company Culture Is
Cool stuff.

Does it have to be the exact original photo?

e.g. if I scale it down by 50% and change it to jpg, would it still work?

and how do you generate a password for a specific service? and how would you rotate the password?
Thank you for providing that link. That would explain the error. I don't have any extensions changing the url, I am however in Europe (Sweden) which probably allocates me towards different mirrors.

I will make sure that the mirror url provided by eclipse is not affected by anything on my setup, and if that's the case report it to the Eclipse foundation.
I'm using the web and it's crazy how much memory consumes this website. After a couple of clicks the browser starts to suffer.
This problem is good because it illustrates a good way to think through any counter-intuitive problem - increase the numbers to amplify the effect. I remember being taught a similar thing in physics class, to make the weight stupidly heavy or the charge stupidly large, and then see what happens. This kind of thinking can be applied in a lot of different areas.
Indeed. The disagreement over abortion is, roughly, whether killing a human fetus should ever be legal. The disagreement is hard to resolve because it’s not clear which principles to apply, so that arguments pro or con can take on a semantic flavor, but there’s nothing semantic about the underlying issue. (It might be that the author harbors some feeling that all ethical questions are merely semantic; this is putting a lot of weight on a distinction which became discredited in 1951).
> Racism used to mean that there was a belief [...]

Yes, the key word is "used". And the point why it isn't is because we pay now more attention to the target of racism than the perpetrator.

> You need to look at if there was an intent or a conscious prejudice.

Or alternatively, you need to look at what happens to the people being subjected to racism. Practically no one wants to be seen as a racist anymore. Intent and conscious prejudice is now hidden.

In my eyes, that is progress. We move forward from assigning guilt to trying to improve the situation for people subjected to racism.

I kind of doubt, that it will mean, more people would be happy or neutral being called a racists.
> you don't even want to pay the type annotation tax for.

95% of annotations in the average haskell codebase are unneeded for compilation. People still write them, because they are a useful source of information when reading the code.

So tell me, if you feel like you don't want to write down that one line of comment which happens to be checked against the compiler, I guess you probably don't write tests or documentation either?
I don't see the story on r/teslamotors nor anything related to the story.
$10 says this guy got told by the developers it was a breeze so he'd leave them alone.
Norway's sovereign fund doesn't invest in companies which only carry out exploration & production, and invests in fossil fuel companies only if they also fund renewable research (although that may be token efforts for some). In all that's about 6% of the fund. It also invests a lot in renewable focused companies. Not perfect, but steps in the right direction and Norway is very aware of the contradiction in it's energy usage and fossil fuel production.
Not really, most tech starts in industry or the military. Most things aren’t pioneered by billionaires- you could make the argument that millionaires are often the early adopters that commission/bring tech down to the rest of us.

But there will never be a future where private jets are economical for the masses (even private cars aren't really economical for the long term for everyone globally), and I doubt the tech Boom are developing will make it into widely used commercial planes, but perhaps it will.
The conversation in America, on any topic, is between two extreme sides which get further apart and further unreasonable as time passes. Fast forwarding circa 2021, one side wants to throw anyone with 1g of marijuana in a 30ft radius from their car into jail for 10 years, the other wants free heroin dispensing machines in schools.

More seriously, the big distinction is between drug users and drug dealers. The former are usually victims and deserve our collective help, the latter are usually predators and deserve to rot in jail. I haven't followed Hollywood in the past decade, but in my recollection Hollywood used to correctly vilify drug dealers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrant_(plane_geometry)
In Clojure it's common to develop your application by building it inside a running system

Every REPL form sent recompiles the running program, I don't want that fast loop to be force lagged by the program checking types

I'm more than happy for that to happen at edit time, independent of compile time outside of my application process

So I heavily encourage using clj-kondo to check for mistakes doing primitive type checking etc

To reiterate, I love static analysis but I also need control over how and when it runs, I like it in CI and during editing

Otherwise it comprises one of the best things about those old languages, (Smalltalk lisp etc) being able to dev your application by injecting code and recompiling while the app is still running

The feedback loop while coding a live image is hard to explain but anything that makes it slower is disastrous for me, I can lose focus so quick

When deving Clojure idiomatically partial recompile happens at a much greater frequency than most languages, compile time is very important
let's have an emergency based test with adults dropped into a slightly stressful situation and no other choice but to speak foreign.