skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar for me, but in Sweden and I'm only a couple months in.

My ideal societal contract would be something like this: I want to be free to focus my energy on my work, relationship, and interests. I want the state to focus on programs that reduce the need for individuals like me to have to focus their energy on anything else.

In practice, this is stuff like equal access to healthcare, education, childcare, social security, time-off...

In the US, access to these things is not a given, and they often end up as rewards, distributed very unevenly. ...Even worse, this leads to anxiety/worry/focus by individuals like me to try and fix or mitigate those problems.

As you mention, the scale of change in the way the US operates seems unlikely anytime soon; at least for me, removing myself (my skills/labor/knowledge) seems like as good a way as any to try and coerce change.
What about Elementor ?
Isn’t it basically self-hosted Wix / Squarespace ?
I always wonder how these approaches can deal with:

- people who want to use the evil stuff to kill their enemies

- people who want to be heroes and defeat the evil demons once and for all

- telling people to reproduce the message for future generations and capturing the key elements of the message
Yeah. Centralized content silos defeated personal websites by being more attractive to both creators ("all viewers in one place") and viewers ("all content in one place"). It's a tough nut to crack.
I think Apple does lay it out very clearly in their iPad marketing. They consistently show people doing two categories of work:

Creative, meant the way an ad agency uses the word: graphic design, video production, photo editing, desktop publishing, etc.

Office work: reading and writing emails, reviewing and editing and signing documents, messaging, etc.

I can’t remember any product marketing that even implies the iPad is a platform for coding. I think developers get hung up on the word “Pro,” thinking it refers to them. But in Apple’s world, “Pro” has covered a wide range of professions and often leans more toward the “creative arts” as listed above.
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I actually get the desire for convergence between the tablet and laptop. After all, the hardware is basically capable of both roles, potentially ergonomics aside (I haven't encountered a removeable keyboard that really works like a laptop does which I often use on my lap).

At the same time, it may be worth observing that tablets took off when Apple basically threw out laptop compatibility and made tablets their own (well, phone-related) thing. So convergence would be interesting but I don't want them to de-optimize either the tablet or the laptop to do so. (Though I expect they'll get there at some point and have no doubt they're experimenting internally.)
> The process of side-loading apps should not be as simple as downloading them from the App Store. just have an officially-sanctioned way of doing it.

This is the biggest thing holding the iPad back from being a developer machine. I can’t install what I want on it. I can only install what Apple approves of. Until this limitation is removed, the iPad will never be for pros.
That's not capitalism, that's libertarianism. The two are not really related, just confused by some biased media. Much the the American concept of 'socialism'.
In my country, you call 112 and they inform you on how to proceed. They decide whether an ambulance is necessary. The decision is made by a trained professional, not a panicked parent.

You can call 112 when your cat is stuck on a tree.
Don’t quote me (I haven’t used Windows in years), but I believe this feature has existed for much longer than Windows 7.
Exactly. There's always a layer of apprehension when buying an accessory device because you know it will always be beholden to either your other computer or some third party service for certain functions. If I needed to, I could use a Surface or even one of the old Bay Trail windows tablets to cut together and burn a DVD for one of my technically-inept relatives. Ipads can't. They couldn't even access generic flash drives until last year.

Any device that can't make its own reinstallation media feels like using a house of cards.
Hosted FrontPage also simplified quite a bit the hosting issues with FrontPage.
What's annoying about this kind of plugin, is that it forces sites to fix their easy-to-bypass paywalls, and then _I_ won't be able to bypass them anymore (display: none; anyone?)
Youtube existed back then and for me line rider was a phenomenon that increased my use of it, one of my first liked videos was line rider jumps the shark, from 25sep2006. I remember watching many line rider videos back then.
You re talking about top speeds which have incremental improvemetns, but people's popular choices are not roadsters, but rather bulky and slow SUVs. And if we re talking about flying cars, we don't know the demand they 'd have, but even now people don't move outside of crowded cities just to avoid congestion.

> efficiency of said planes

And yet planes are slower and smaller. Sure, i m talking about what travelers want. Turns out people arent willing to pay extra for faster or bigger planes like the concorde or A380, and airlines adapted
Given the same conditions (i.e. people don't die) the same outcome would present itself. We have a history of bridges falling down, so much so that Wikipedia has a list on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures

A particular one that caught my eye:
Cimarron River Rail Crossing Dover, Oklahoma Territory United States 18 September 1906 Wooden railroad trestle Washed out under pressure from debris during high water 4-100+ killed Entire span lost; rebuilt Bridge was to be temporary, but replacement was delayed for financial reasons.[8][9][10] Number of deaths is uncertain; estimates range from 4 to over 100.[11]

Emphasis mine. How is that different from software engineering?
Chronic pain does affect the brain, which we already know has long term physiological and neurodegenerative effects. However, we don't have any evidence that psilocybin causes any lasting harm, especially against cognition.

Opiate harm is also not limited to addiction. Overdosing and liver toxicity from (abuse of) prescribed opiates is real and driven by their steep curve of tolerance. Opiate withdrawal for many can be harsh enough that it's worse than the pain being managed, leading to perverse outcomes like theft, violence, exploitation, and addictive cycles. Inhibitions are also altered under the influence and during withdrawal leading to riskier behaviors and accidents.

Those are the low-hanging rebuttals. We already know the societal cost of opiates far, far outweighs the damage of other recreational substances because of its availability, potential for harm, effects on interpersonal relationships and mental state, and propensity for addictive abuse. Psylocybin has mild potential for mental addiction but none of the cofactors for abuse or deleterious side effects on health.
It is a chicken-and-egg problem though. DNSSEC requires additional infrastructure, especially for key rotation. Yes, it's not that hard (I set it up for the domains that I control) but it's also not just a record that you can set once and forget. It is beyond unsreasonable for widespread DNSSEC support from domains when browsers have been dragging their feet for years. There needs to be an actual benefit that comes with setting up DNSSEC before most will do it.
yeah, it sucks, but can we admit that we have no power over what happens in healthcare? Everyone here is talking about the problem as if we can actually make positive changes. But I don't think we can. I don't think obamacare was an improvement for most americans.

Congress is bought and paid for by the lobbies, and no matter who we put into office, nothing about healthcare is going to get better, and it will probably get worse.

First we have to understand the problem and admit what the problem really is. The problem is that we have no control over our government, and there is no path in making that better. Can we please just admit that?
Yeah, but then the developers start to require that the users give access, and when the users are fragmented they are weak. A good example of this is WeChat that will require that the users give the contacts on Android but will not require it in iOS because Apple didn’t allow those shenanigans.
There are only so many package managers out there. Most languages have a "preferred" one which makes things even easier. Stuff built with ad-hoc systems might be more difficult, but I don't think that's the norm.
Thanks for posting this and for everyone else adding similar suggestions. I dove into web extension development earlier this year and couldn't find anything at all on automating testing. It was hard to Google testing for web extensions instead of web extensions used for testing. Couldn't find anything in mozilla's otherwise excellent docs either.
It's not a just matter of finding a 'golden mean' on the spectrum of nationalisation/privatisation, there's another dimension: competence of execution.
I agree I also hope they lose

Actually this sort of case could have quite far reaching implications. What other data would fall under similar protection? I can think of quite innocent use cases, like IMDB or other databases of who worked on artistic product like a book or game. If your name is in one, should you be paid? Where would this end?
Why shouldn't you call 911 for an accident? You aren't trained to triage these sorts of situations, the people answering the 911 call are. If you call, explain the situation, and they respond by sending an ambulance, then surly that indicates that an ambulance was necessary.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I found myself strongly agreeing with the post, and it's really helpful to get a counter-perspective.
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Not only that, I tried to look up pricing prior to an emergency visit. I got a massive excel spreadsheet that was every single name for each codified medical procedure they had. On top of that it’s often not possible to anticipate what all treatment you’ll receive. I was expecting to just receive stitches real quick but ended up in surgery overnight.
Yeah - but without the "touch" stuff added to the desktop OS. Touch should be constrained to iPad views - both fullscreen and windowed - then there would be no temptation to create desktop apps which respond to touch - which is what makes the surface so horrible, IMHO.
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> 1. I need to know whether this is a fair pricing for the service,

That answer comes from you, not the content producer. He's said what he considers fair, for him. You need to decide if it's fair, for you.
Expatriates represent less than 1% of people, and market analysts categorize movement between countries into “inbound countries” and “outbound countries”.

https://www.finaccord.com/Home/About-Us/Press-Releases/Globa...
It is our fault too. But most people don't care. It is easier to just be A or B. It doesn't help that government officials keep stacking the deck to keep things as is and let money run the game. It is hard to break the corruption cycle when a $1M donation to both political parties all but guarantees you a $1B government contract. We really a way to pass resolutions that bypass Congress sometimes.
FrontPage have built-in FTP publishing.
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Chromium Blog announced the new "Tab Throttling" feature a few days ago [1]. Turns out that it impacts nested iframes which are being whiteout after some inactivity.

Many integrations rely on nested iframes, such as Dropbox, Google Workspace add-ons, etc.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/11/tab-throttling-and-more-pe...
Note that Julian runs an SEO and growth marketing company, so the type of writing here is more for that purpose, to sell your product, than to become the next great author.
The Commonwealth Fund

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/14/nhs-holds-on...

Seems slightly surprising to me - I would have assumed it would be France or one of the other EU countries.

Edit: I'm a supporter of the NHS but it has been chronically underfunded and had too many management consultants trying to "improve" it over the years.
What is Area 51? And why is it so secretive?
Ask HN: What are some ideas about software performance that are now outdated?
Prompted by a comment on HN (1), I bagan to wonder, what are other examples of outdated advice regarding software performance? What about other aspects of programming? What changed between the time of the old advice and the new advice?

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209932
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The problem with this theory is that non-state organizations that did that, existed for a while, but were defeated in combat, or by threat of combat (ie: the threat of combat made them change to mount a defense) by states.

For example: During early Roman Empire era, they had a few rivals that were states themselves, and they dedicated most of the resources defending against them, but there was lots of wars and skirmishes with "barbarians", many that were considered a nation in the ethnic sense (Germania, Alemannia, Lusitania, etc...) but weren't states, they were bigger than dunbar number but their coordination in the nation sense, were more of a league of settlements and warbands, not an organized state, they had many things modern states do, like ways to provide for the old, law enforcement and so on, but had no central command for the army.

Many of these people were just crushed by states that did exist, often outright genocided (for example the Helvetii), the ones that survived (for example the precursors of modern Germany and France) eventaully became states themselves to be able to defend themselves.

The major exception was peoples living in places where agriculture is not possible, seemly agriculture is a sort of requeriment for a state to exist, so in the eurasian steppe/desert, african desert and so on, some non-state nations survived for a long time (for example Mongolia, although now they are a state too, still, they moved their capital to a place where agriculture is possible).

Seemly the "weirdest" states now in some senses, are the states that became possible because of our current oil-based economy, states that became fully sedentary despite not having enough food, because they export oil and buy food or irrigation equipment/water (for example UAE)
Except that apparently he didn't actually send it, at least according to this account: http://www.historyworld.net/Articles/PlainTextArticles.asp?a...
Maybe. Big Sur is already moving towards touch with its bigger icons, and larger spacing.
I used to run an FX hedge fund, and I know some people who got into the FX retail broking thing.

The FX retail brokers are essentially providing a casino. They aren't really offering investment services, though it may look like that from a legal perspective. FX is also an area where they can give you lots of leverage, which they love because they collect more fees that way. Naturally they market in a certain way to a certain clientele, and that's why it might feel shady, because they tend to use the get-rich-quick marketing toolbox.

If you look at FX volatility, the actual stdev of the price moves is much lower than most stocks. It's the leverage that allows you to make it risky. If you can find an edge, it's not much different from any other asset class. Bunch of prices that change, if you can find any predictability, you can make some money. No need to always go one way.
I don’t think it’s design by committee so much as it is sales needing more ammunition to close deals. That has for my whole career been the primary motivation of almost all features outside of the “base product.”

“Hey we got $so_many million dollar client who wants to use our product but they want to
auth with their AD and can’t use our three other SSO options.”

And thus was born the company’s pluggable directory over VPN connector and auth strategy.
What are you hinting at? The Bush administrations?
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So in layman's terms you're saying the system the author tries to prove incomplete by definition removed the parts that would prove it's inconsistent?
MS surely won't like this, when booted into the developer mode you don't have access to normal games and if you only use this for emulation they will lose a lot of money.

I think they are taking a bit hit on each console sold.

But it seems to be good value for the buyer :)

I have a hacked PS3 that does the same thing with retroarch, but it might be time to upgrade that as the xbox systems are almost like a PC in hardware performance and should be able to do things like Wii U and perhaps even PS3 emulation?
Seems like it worked well enough to me. There's two mental frameworks with which to view manifesting. One, you are literally influing the sway of events. Two, you are only trying to placebo yourself into thinking (1) is true. That's where the real power is. It boosts your confidence.

The catch I've found is, you kinda can't half-ass it, as the stronger the internal skepticism is, the more it undermines your confidence.
All central banks are "investigating" CBDCs. I interpret from their statements that they have everything developed and tested. They are just waiting for the right moment to introduce them.
Ripple has also signed partnerships with numerous banks all over the world so their XRP is most likely to become more popular.
Why only "intellectual jobs"?
I would blame the lack of motivation for content production.

Oh sure YouTube is full of great content but most is motivated by income generation through ads and patrons.
Logs that can be tied to individual users are PII and very much a liability.

Their privacy policy states that IP addresses are anonymized after 9 months and cookies after 18 months[1].

[1]: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US
devs don't trust wizards until they understand their magic.
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Great, so there isn't really any 4800u laptop yet (not here in the UK anyway) and now they're going to launch 5800u. Are they actually going to release laptops with this CPU this time?
alternative, with reacher features set and free: http://camtwiststudio.com/
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It's strange, I think that python and C++ are great languages to complement one another. You can write your critical stuff in C++ and use python to glue it all together, and it'll be a pretty effective solution (especially with the sheer amount of options in the python library ecosystem).
Has anyone used Golang for high speed trading? It seems like it hits all the sweet spots, yet it doesn't seem to be used that way. Does anyone know why?
You can move vertices by clicking and dragging in the empty space around them. I appreciate this isn't immediately intuitive and I'm trying to come up with a better way to reveal this to the user.

I also agree that fixing the view to the vertices with B can be confusing. My plan is to change this.

Thanks for your comments!
While the Netflix movie pushes for more regulation, it is only centralized oligopolies that can afford to comply with more regulation.
For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel
That reminded me of OSP Rocket Olympics, a Quake 2 mod based around rocket jumping skills. Was fun playing that on lan parties: https://www.orangesmoothie.org/rocketo/
And Apple clearly pitches the iPad towards creative types, not just consumers, but mostly draw rather than code or otherwise type. (And they don't emphasize that you probably can't begin to draw like all the artists effortlessly doing so in their ads :-))
People move to many countries but China is not one of them. Those of Chinese descent are the one exception in Chinese immigration.

If non-Chinese started moving to China in large numbers this would be a notable change, and the OP’s question makes sense.

“ In 2016, China issued 1,576 permanent residency cards. This was more than double what it had issued the previous year, but still roughly 750 times lower than the United States’ 1.2 million.[1]”

“ The only significant immigration to China has been by the Overseas Chinese, who in the years since 1949 have been offered various enticements to return to their homeland. Several million may have done so since 1949. The largest influx came in 1978–79, when about 160,000 to 250,000 ethnic Chinese refugees fled Vietnam for southern China, as relations between the two countries worsened. Many of these refugees were settled in state farms on Hainan Island in the South China Sea.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China
You can in an emergency, but it's not recommended. There is special medical glue that is non-toxic, more flexible and designed to come of the skin easier.
The point is that your critical thinking journey is a journey. Yes, most people would think "oh, homeopathy in a doctor, what went wrong?" but what people should be doing is going through the thought process of what to believe about claims and evidence in the medical sphere.
Yes, but my company is not going to do that.
The style of this article reminds me of Wittgenstein: short, clinical, almost mathematical statements, with no poetical ambition whatsover. I understand that there might be situations in which such a style is appropriate, but this article is just very annoying to read. I would not definitely not call it "good writing".

The kind of "clarity" presented here as good writing works well if you assume that everything that can be thought can be directly expressed in words, without substantial loss. This is clearly not the case. Language is a very poor medium to transmit throughts and feelings. So the "trick" every good writer uses is this: don't describe something directly, but instead try to construct some secondary clues, hints and a general atmosphere that will start a thought process in the reader's mind which leads to the conclusions you want to bring across. This is the poetic approach, it could also simply be called "writing between the lines".

In my experience, this approach is a much more effective transmitter of ideas than trying to describe them directly, also for the simple reason that the reader will subconsiously assume that it is his own idea.

You need beautiful prose, rhythm and images to achieve that, as those open up this additional dimension. The article undertakes considerable (even pedantic) effort to leave that dimension closed.
I don't know if I agree... Ok, UI creation has gone down, but never the web had so much user created content. From tweets to videos and long texts it's easier to create content on mobile and in a much bigger volume than ever it was created.
I wondered a while back around the potential of newer Xbox consoles given their PC-like architecture.

When I tried to do some research, I was surprised to find that most modders / casual hackers have had no luck with the Xbox One and basically nothing interesting from security researchers on it.
There's currently no direct textual input: I have considered it, but I feel it would be less efficient than the diagrammatic approach. Let me note that there is full keyboard support, which can be faster than drawing the diagrams by hand: you can see the keyboard shortcuts from the "Shortcuts" toolbar button.
Regardless of how shady or legit it looks, make no mistake: the house always wins.
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Yet, you have full blown communities with people creating art for their role models / artists. Take like pewdiepie and his subreddit, the creations there are nothing more than amazing, from video to even handcrafted art. Several artists have fun communities like this and they can interact with them directly.