skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard that technical books and pdfs don't always render well on e-ink devices. Is that just for kindles which do their own conversion on pdfs, or is that true of most e-ink devices?
This is nothing new. In the 1980s I was into photography. The local camera shop sales guys were always complaining about the people who would come in, spend hours talking about and looking at gear, and then they would leave and order it from 47th Street Photo, or Adorama, or one of the other NYC mail order sellers.
And even if that were true, Haber and Bosch were not the only nitrogen chemists and chemical engineers working near the state of the art.

The processes might have different names attached, but we'd still have them.
Yes, directional hearing is quite sensitive to phase, but there are often multi-reflections inside the outer ear that allow some people to hear phase discontinuities in mono.
while i agree with you that we are overanalyzing things and are "optimizing" things that are not worth optimizing I believe the bigger point still stands: a collective strategy that would yield better results for everyone is not selected. instead a sub-optimal strategy is selected that attempts to maximize the outcome without relying on what others do.

I would also go ahead and say that the "tragedy of the commons" is an even better way of looking at this (i think that's basically a N-player prisoner's dilemma)
Yes, the current order is a liberal order. Authentic conservatives want to undo all the damage that neoliberalism has inflicted upon the various so-called liberal democracies in which we live. Many (most?) republicans are actually liberals from a policy standpoint just to be clear, including Reagan and Trump.
I assure you, there is plenty of outrage directed at Shimano, over many years. And little has changed. Any retailer that is furious at their customers is misdirecting their anger, for sure. The customer would be a fool not to seek the lower-priced option.
(2019)

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507251
Virtually the entire point of middle management, in any industry, across the world, is to over optimise. It also isn’t about who is doing the optimising, in the real world, but who is affected by it. Your 99% figure is a little off.
But with GIMP's export, you can export a JPEG without merging all your layers. They are merged in the image only. Your default filename (like "myproject.xcf") is not affected; Ctrl-S save continues to save that.

GIMP's export is smart enough not to keep prompting you. You are prompted once to set the parameters, like compression and others. Then you can repeat the export operation with no prompting. You have a Ctrl-E hotkey to do that instantly, and Ctrl-S continues to save your project to the .xcf file.
Facebook Condemned for Providing Platform to Neo-Nazi Network
As an American, most every state has a standardized tax rate statewide. In Texas it is 8.25%. Florida is 6%. This means that most of your daily transactions are predictable.

Weird exceptions might be for infrequent purchases like cars that are taxed differently.
> cheaper than they are made available to US retailers

Seems like addressing this problem is important. Why is wholesale cheaper in Europe than the US?
* 2020-11-21T00:35:26+00:00, your link
* 2020-11-21T18:43:20+00:00, OP's link

It's possible there's a bug that rolled out affecting galleries posted after 1AM UTC.
Zathura also exists on macOS..
Well, "politics" is also another form of entertainment.

What isn't, nowadays?
I have a friend that owns a small mom and pop instrument store. He had to finally stop selling guitars because too many people would use his store to try them out before buying online. I can only imagine Guitar Center experiences the same problem.

In his case he was fortunately able to pivot to a very niche market and is doing quite well.
I modified mine to have a NATO strap
Hope it went for the better if the core is a hard macro. As far as I heard, they didn't change the process.
Feeding the flame war with obviously false bullshit.

"People are born with the ability to use the program that I offer in contrast to the impossible-to-use crap being discussed. Literally anyone. Even babies who couldn't latch on to a boob for the first two months of their life can use it, whereas that other monstrosity requires a Ph. D. in computer graphics or signal processing."

Come on; it's not 1995, and this is not comp.sys.os.advocacy.
What size iPad are people using for technical books and documents?

My son has a 6th gen (9.7"), and it seems like it might be a little smaller than I'd like. But, a full-size iPad looks giant after being around his device. I'd love to know what the adults are using for reading.
I seriously hope not.
So hypothetically you are suggesting that someone like Nigel Farage or the Brexit Party could just file DMCA requests against any YouTuber who has made a video critical of them, and YouTube and Reddit would have to suspend the accounts because they're at the mercy of DMCA?

If that were true how come this isn't happening all the time? I know it happens often, but not universally. It seems like this is the easiest way of killing dissent and criticism. How come the folks who have the most criticism levelled against them haven't figured out this tactic if the law is so flawed? How is it that it only happens in some cases but not others? If the law is broken why doesn't everyone exploit it?

I suspect that you are right that DMCA is a flawed law but I think in this particular case there may be more to it than just these companies being at the mercy of a broken law.
> It had absolutely nothing to do with freedom or rejection of totalitarianism.

I don't know Trump's motives, but for many people, this is about freedom and rejection of power tripping bureaucrats and politicians.
What if I don't need that expertise because I know exactly what wine I want?

That's the same stupid reason why we have a dog tax in Germany. Some centuries ago some king - just on impulse - decided "if people can feed a dog they surely must have some extra money to give to their king". And we have to pay that stupid tax even today.
Blockchain: Magic (Probably) Doesn’t Happen: Sam's Class, 21 Nov 2020 [video]
Both Obama and Osama have been photographed wearing this watch. As well, I would not have considered either of them poor.
Sounds like you should do it ;)
I'd like to run the numbers on just the Bain Capital retail acquisitions...
Slapdash (YC W19), a unified interface for cloud apps, is hiring a lead designer
Zander attributes burnout (at root, excessive, sustained stress) to optimising our lives. There is some truth in that. But to write an article in late 2020 about excessive stress while ignoring the major stressor of COVID-19 is naive at best.

Even in New Zealand where we're not in lockdown and life is pretty normal, there's still that "what if we get a big outbreak" sitting in the back of your head constantly.

Modern life comes with a range of stressors and competing in the labour market is just one. There are loads more that we as individuals can do little about. Limited progress on climate change is another big one.
so monetizing the idea,

obviously money for food, if magpies find money on the ground they bring it to you, get food.

soda cans for food.

I was thinking lottery tickets for food, but probably not that worthwhile.
You could start with native CSS variables. :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_c...
There are plenty of esp32 boards with 10-20uA deep sleep current, how low do you want it?
Amazon will just sell everything just above the cost of the good and all the small stores will go bankrupt. We seen this with CPG and groceries with Walmart moving into a city.
Parent said: "Good code requires discipline, doesn't it?"

You retort: "I have yet to see code that has remained secure solely on the “discipline” of programmers remembering to check things."

I think that is a dishonest misrepresentation of what the parent comment said, isn't it?
I got used to them really quickly to the point that I prefer them over regular characters. No mental gymnastics required.
I do the same with clip-on guitar tuners.
i do remember figuring out how to move my selection without moving what's in it. it felt a little bit like gimp was playing a prank on me
I still could not figure out what happened to the "gone" cofounder? Dead?

I cannot help to point out that today's online writing is so much wordy. They dont want to write at the beginning of what going on, or the authors could not realize how wordy their writing has become, possibly trained by the all-powerful need to market your company and organization.
Remember, if you work for FB, you are part of the problem.
And maybe Macros aren't the right kind of metaprogramming mechanism...
It also might be true that we can't predict our own preferences! That could explain why we justify our choices after the fact - deluding our conscious mind to thinking this was what we wanted the whole time.
Gab's New CTO Is a Former Facebook Software Engineer
No, Bain has a unique history of acquiring companies that are doing fine pre-acquisition which struggle post-acquisition because they are saddled with acquisition-financing debt placed on them by Bain and thus cannot afford to invest in product development, renovating stores, or other necessary business expenses.

Worse, Bain takes the money that would have been used on corporate reinvestment in the absence of an acquisition, and which should be used to pay down the acquisition debt arising from the acquisition, and uses it to pay themselves hundreds of millions in "management fees" despite not actually managing anything. Also, PR to congratulate themselves for the wonderful job they've done "cutting expenses," meaning the tens of thousands of jobs that were cut so that Bain could get paid.

Bain is parasite. They've always been a parasite, to the point that they even found ways to turn their few successes (like Staples) into failures.
That is not the argument the author is making at all. The portion of the article you’re referring to begins:

> Her point was that these authors did not avail themselves of respectable intellectual theories to justify their transgressiveness. They immersed themselves in what is basest in human nature and regarded doing so as acts of liberation. Arendt’s judgment of the postwar elites who recklessly thumbed their noses at respectability could easily apply to those of our own day who shove aside liberal principles like fair play, race neutrality, free speech, and free association as obstacles to equality.

The author isn’t criticizing non-discrimination—which can be justified by reference to traditional “liberal principles.” He’s criticizing things like Mozilla’s firing of Brendan Eich for his political donations, or declaring judges unfit because they are members of Catholic organizations that reject abortion. Those efforts go beyond non-discrimination to trying to stamp out traditional beliefs in ways that are often at odds with liberalism.
In Search of Lost Art: Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau (2012)
Internet archive has them all (3 seasons) and downloadable.

https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke

This was shot on film. Which means that a 4k release is technically feasible. ...
> Is there opportunities for startups in HW sector?

Yes, but certainly not in the Western hemisphere.
> Here we go with the tech guilt/savior complex.

The what now?

> Tech people in SF have not been terrible neighbors.

Individually no, collectively yes.

> People who shit in the street are terrible neighbors.

I would agree with that if it was possible to shit in a bathroom downtown, it's hella hard to shit downtown without $$$ in your pocket.

> People who steal bikes and smash car windows are terrible neighbors.

Yes.

> People who do drugs in the open and leave needles on the ground are terrible neighbors.

Drug addicts are a complex problem. I agree that we shouldn't have the open rampant drug abuse going on that we see downtown. I've seen guys shooting up in the metro staircase. It's bad. It's not "terrible neighbors" who just happen to want to smoke crack in the streets though, and it's not isolated from the economic shifts that have rocked the city since ~2001-ish.

> Techies are basically the ideal denizens of a city. Young, educated, well-paid, law-abiding people. You could hardly ask for a better group to populate a city.

Is that the tech guilt/savior complex again?

The problem is they aren't populating an empty shell!

They come as a displacing wave of invaders, made all the more insufferable because they're convinced that they're God's gift to the world at a subconscious level.
This is true of urban areas but not expressways. Motorway limits vary from 120 (Spain) to 140 (Poland) with Germany having sections of unlimited autobahn.
Alas, that's clumsy, and for declarations not possible. I have used it in expressions at times.

Here's a variation that seems plausible: make postfix p^ be like C's p[0], and infix p^i like C's p[i]. (With a tighter binding for ^ than C has.)
The instruments must have been overpriced. You know, I would even pay a bit extra if I could have the instrument in my hand today, and could inspect it myself before paying. But I wouldn't pay that much more.

You'd be stupid not to get the instrument over the counter, unless the online deal offers more than a modest discount.

Not worth the return headaches if something is wrong: twisted neck, fret being out, bad wiring, cosmetic issue and whatnot.

Or is it a choice thing? People try in the store, but get something a bit different online, like a very similar model that the store didn't have?
You can make a usable product using a Windows 95 palette, but I think it may look outdated to users.

Depending on your target market, the color scheme you use can have an effect on how your product is perceived by your potential customers. User tastes and expectations have become more sophisticated since the 90s and users expect a higher level of polish now than back then. That can include color choice as a part of overall branding.
While I concede documentation has slipped greatly the last 20 years to an all time low, Apple did produced the Inside Macintosh series, possibly the greatest developer documentation ever written.
Brave. While I don't agree with your method, not tipping for someone who knows where you live for contactless delivery is ballsy. I personally wouldn't risk it.
Yes, but elite public high schools do. Which feed the elite colleges.

Also, middle schoolers don’t really have a choice in the matter. If it were up to them, they’d play Roblox and watch TikToks all day.
Funny thing about Sweetwater service. (and I say this even though I've got a friend boycotting them because he says their hiring practices are outright racist)

I've got stuff from them, even large quantities of stuff. I leaned on them for special pricing seeing as I was spending thousands of dollars with them, and got some traction with that: moderate extra discounts and price breaks. I didn't like the candy thing, so I told them not to do that. They stopped doing that.

They badgered me to see if everything was okay. I got phone calls while I was making livestreams, stuff like that. I told them not to do that: in fact, to never speak to me again and I would call THEM if I wanted to get anything else. They stopped badgering me.

It's been maybe a year now. Not a phone call.

I did also tell them not to send me postal mail advertising either, because I will just recycle it. They have not honored that one. So: their service extends to listening when you tell them NOT to badger you for more sales, and they listen ALMOST completely.
> UB, memory leaks, memory corruption, implicit conversions,[...]
> In C, 100% of the source code is unsafe

Is it perhaps better to focus on context? That is,cost vs benifit wrt context:

- How much safety and what kind and level of safety assurances does the specific application need?

- How much does it cost in development time/friction, application performance, engineering complexity, [insert other relevant cost axes] to achieve the desired level of safety and safety assurances?
I've been banging this drum for years. Oh we can now get by with only X employees whom now have 95% of their work day spoken for.

What happens when something goes wrong, what happens when someone quits or is sick? What happens when business needs to change/pivot/innovate? This idea that optimized time is somehow 100% wasted is killing a lot of people.
I wonder if Meaningness's posts would be easier to understand with examples of explicit, verbally expressed thoughts produced by each of the three models.
Things with subs (Usenet, Reddit) are not comparable to things without (Digg, HN). I don't know of a significantly growing successor to Reddit.
i keep 5 watches in each pocket of my jacket, in case some of them fall out.
OK, so there are more colors. The example that you show uses colors to signal things that are wrong with the current page. This is somewhat logical: if things look wrong (because there are more than three colors) then they are wrong. Regular wikipedia entries do not have yellow nor orange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_manifold

You are right that there's still more colors: very light shades of gray, and a thin light blue line for separator. They are almost imperceptible on my screen, but I would say that the page would look even better if the thin separator was black, and there were no different background shades.
But that wasn't a sustainable business model so it doesn't make sense to expect that.
It is nonsensical to write the title as such, all tech startups (since we're talking about them, but not only) do politics. They just choose it to do it in different directions. Most often when someone says they don't want to involve themselves with politics they are alright with the status-quo, which is a political position in itself. Politics is not just about a vote at a presidential election, it's the how and why of everything you do and will do, be it in the tech startup or elsewhere.
I think that's just how business works. The technical impressiveness of his "PHP website" is irrelevant—he was in the right place, at the right time, with a strong initial user base.

Edit: I'm not trying to downplay his business acumen, either. Facebook clearly made lots of good decisions down the line that helped them reach the scale they reached. But the reason that the product took off at first had a lot more to do with how it got in front of users in the early days than its technological superiority.
> For us mortals, SELinux is a synonym for "complicated, scary thing that I don't know how to use properly".

This is true, but I was referring more to the underlying architecture of Douane: kernel module + daemon + dialog UI + configurator app. Is a kernel module less scary for mere mortals? Because the downsides of that path are stated in the banner on the main page which says about kernel panic.

> Can you link to something with minimal working "mark and block" examples?

I'm not aware of any myself, but like I said, I was mostly referring to implementation. I also don't quite get the threat/defense model here. It looks like the idea is to replicate something similar to iOS/Androind permissions ("do you allow this app to access the camera?") but for network this seems to be a bit weird. Making such decision for each application would be quite annoying, so you'd like like to have some defaults in this regard, which again is easier solved by two predefined selinux contexts (with/without networking) and some UI for the user to move apps between them.

But then again, if we decide not to ask for confirmation for each app at exactly the first moment it tries to access the network, we have access to a variety of tools to provide access control to the network. For example, we could use separate network namespaces for different processes, some of which wouldn't have access to networking. This has additional benefit of fine-grained control: "allow chrome to only access my.secure.server.com on port 433".

In fact, it goes beyond that: we can have different routing tables per app, we can setup traffic shaping between the apps ("put traffic from qBittorrent into low-priority queue"), we can bridge and mirror the traffic from an app, etc. This is for example what firejail does [1] and it has a UI as well [2]. This doesn't require any kernel modules or even selinux policies and doesn't bug the user 10 times a day.

[1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/basic-usage/#...
[2] https://github.com/netblue30/firetools
There was a similar project — under the delightful name “Crowbar” — to train crows to gather cigarette butts. Ran out of funding. https://www.crowdedcities.com
It sorta has been since a few years now. However, moderated groups will always face the spam problem. Spammers only forgot about it for some years because ISP's rarely include access these days (and text groups had been fairly dead by that time).
This is genius and a great quality of life improvement. $50, I have a watch somewhere in my house that I can find and wear.
Looking through these entries, I believe these are contributions made using Coinbase, not by Coinbase. I.e: political donations processed using cryptocurrency, not ones made by the company or its employees.

Just speculating here based on the repeated small dollar amounts.
You can make persuasive arguments that might not appeal to the scientifically literate rationalist, but will appeal to the somebody who is just using very crude heuristics and might have ended up believing in a conspiracy theory.

For example regarding climate change: you can construct an argument around the ridiculous idea that scientists are somehow taking on the worldwide fossil fuel industries, and the most powerful and ruthless countries on earth, including the US, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, and they are doing this because by inventing a lie about the earth warming up. The very lopsided power dynamics in this scenario expose the conspiracy theory for the farce that it is.
Benioff is mensch
But using boring Python only, you are unable to add fancy Go mention to the submission's title!
The words conservative and liberal are both completely overloaded to the point of being meaningless in the context of their use in comments on an international internet forum.
Validation of the mediocrity principle[1]?

- If you don't know any other information, assume a thing will continue for as long as it has already existed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle
Reading this, I do wonder how long any middlemen will last in the age of the internet.

Manufacturers don’t sell direct for a variety of reasons that steadily become less compelling as the costs and complexity of shipping, advertising, and retail management fall.

How long before non tech firms follow the path of tech firms and sell direct?
Fair points, but the ability of the government to use social security surpluses to fuel massive defense and public works (automotive focused) expenditure and that nonpartisanship in Congress created serious issues that are already defining the 21st century.

The legacy of the unfinished great society, the accommodation of racists and poor infrastructure choices is already haunting us.
Chrome?

Google Ads?