skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days you actually can use <table> without compromising accessibility, by adding aria-annotations. So if you prefer this to CSS, go ahead.

Most of the angst around <table> was before aria support, so using <table> purely for layout impacted accessibility, which meant it was not viable for most real-world scenarios.

That said, if you need stuff like colspans for a layout, you are probably better of using grid.
People are always susceptible to propaganda. The Nazis used all medias including radio, movies, newspaper, music, etc.. Every regime did (does) the same, i guess?

My point is that in a celebration day, there are so many positive things to talk about in the first paragraph. 100 years, of an awesome technology, that changed the history. Let's celebrate it!
Telegram was planning to launch their own cryptocurrency named "grams". If they had launched it, it would have been massive.

Due to drama with the SEC, they shut it down.

https://telegram.org/blog/ton-gram-notice

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/12/21256407/telegram-cryptoc...
Would be cool to be able to parametrize namespaces.
While I love paper maps (especially for hiking), digital maps are more convenient in cities. Also, I'm running out of pockets.
Nim has merged first class view types and their lifetime tracking:

- https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/178

- https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#view-type...
While all sensible and well reasoned I can not go along with the conclusion:

> that this is a story for methodical and well-resourced on-going regulation, not slogans and breakups. It’s a story for legislation, much more than litigation.

When it comes to break-ups let's just focus on the biggest part i.e. Google and the way the ads market is run. The argument of Dina Srinivasan (on which Warren and the case leans) is of Google's integration of functions which exist in other financial brokered markets in competition and that healthy tension drives down prices there. Car and indicator or PC and word processors are not useful analogies here.
Calling unions "labor cartels" is cheap. You might just as well call democratic systems "law cartels" by that logic.
But... how to learn it? How to truly internalize that you can "change" the world?
You may realise (and perhaps just be yet to switch, like me..) but uMatrix is no longer maintained; the repo is archived. There is a fork intending to continue maintaining it, called nuTensor.
Thank you again for the clarifications. You have given me something to chew on over the holidays.

I wish you and your family a happy Christmas :)
yes, I got that :) but can you say more? what kind of database services? what data is stored, what is the scale, what are the requirements, etc.
I would like to hire a physicist (probably particle physicist) to write a paper about an idea I have for a battery. It would be really great to have a verdict on it with an in depth reason of "why" and "how".

I have considered studying physics myself to answer the question (free education FTW), but won't have the time for another 3-4 years (unless I happen upon a hundred thousand euros or so to pay my living expenses during the 3-5 years of study). Paying an expert to do it seems reasonable.

Do free lance researchers exist?
The right to a free press is universal, all that is required to be a journalist is to cover events to other people.
And then sent to the hospital in Germany to again get his underwear and remove traces of Novichok before it could be independently tested... does that sounds believable to you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny
Some of these tips may backfire.

Parking illegally may trigger a $25 fine. Or a $1,000 tow.
Would be dead simple for them to offer a Google Voice like app that links to a standard terrestrial phone network backbone.
With all the garbage sold on Amazon these days, branding and trust are more important than ever.

I mean, Amazon Basics has already proven this strategy.
Man, i did TMB with the help of maps.me..literally a life saver on those mountains! So glad to see this efford
The old rule is reminiscent of:

1. legal restrictions, in some states, prohibiting craft-beer brewers from selling directly to retailers or to the public, and requiring them instead to go through middleman distributors — and of course those wealthy distributors wield lots of political power (via state-legislature campaign contributions) to keep those restrictions in place; and

2. similar auto-dealership laws, in states like Texas, that prohibit car manufacturers (e.g., Tesla) from maintaining in-state showrooms of their own to sell directly to buyers — again, the wealthy middleman car dealers are politically powerful and have successfully lobbied hard to keep those dealership laws in place.
I don't understand the connection. Surely inflation hawks would want generally smaller bills? But even then only the stupidest among them would also think this could be achieved via printing specific denominations rather than interest rate and other real fiscal policy.

My understanding as an expat was the same as alasdair's - 2010-2015 I saw plenty of Germans drop a couple 500s to pay for hotel stays, major appliances, etc. Few people had a credit card and those that did didn't want to use it domestically. It's changing now but people still carry more cash and true credit card payments are still often impossible even as bank cards are now more common.

I guess you could argue this is also related to Weimar inflation, but I don't think it's so specific. Germany has seen multiple major regime changes in the space of one lifetime.
wrt. defunctionalization, another resource that requires only basic understanding of functional programming (lambdas and ADTs) and equational reasoning to understand it is lecture 4 of [0]. The procedure is quite straightforward if approached from a program derivation standpoint; first convert the program into CPS (see end of lecture 1). That is, solve the equation `progCont e k = k (prog e)` given prog. Then convert the closures into first-order structures by identifying the free variables they capture and deriving the closure-free version.

I really like Bartosz's blog post on defunctionalization and Freyd's theorem[1]. It's probably better to understand Freyd's theorem in the usual categorical presentation as Bartosz dualizes many things (because instead of a huge product of all environments we have a huge coproduct of possible environments, then select the "best"/"minimal" one using some universal cone as opposed to a maximal product).

Truly, defunctionalization is one of those things that can satisfy curiosity on many levels of abstraction from assembly to categories.

[0] http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszjlh/pcalc.html

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2020/08/03/defunctionalization-a...
Telegram to begin monetizing the app as it approaches 500M users
That is not why you're not supposed to use tables for layout. It is for accessibility reasons. This is routinely ignored because approximately 0% of rich web apps are accessibility-friendly and people with screen readers have pretty much just learned to make do.
It works for most paywalls, NY Times being one I remember, so it is handy beyond one article.

Likely there are a bazzillion reasons you can't optimise the current browser to turn off JS, and what are the chances anyone has Opera, and would find running it in JS off mode problematic?

YMMV, but I think it is a lot easier to install a browser as a cheap, easy, JS free paywall buster than the alternatives.
If your underwear is stolen twice by the same guy you may want to improve your security. This story sounds very hollywood to me.
I'm afraid "for the time being" is going to be "for ever" then.
> an engineer is someone working on something they know everything about.

That seems completely contrary to my engineering training. The engineer motto is about "be prepared for the unexpected" i.e. escape hatches, manual override, overprovisioning, assume that your temporary "train", "power plant", "airplane" will be in service for 40 years instead of 20, make it serviceable even without infrastructure.
They claim:

> Pure functions by default

but all this means by their definition is: no global mutable variables, sort of, because you can enable them per compiler flag.
>no negative consequences

Meanwhile politicians tell us that double digit unemployment is the new normal.

There are people that are not skilled enough to warrant certain minimum wage. There are jobs that are not feasible at certain wage levels. When you put a floor on what people can agree between themselves that their work is worth, you price people and jobs out of the market. It is self evident when you look at it.

Now, the problems we try to solve with minimum wages are real. Cartel formation of labor demand, coercive bargaining, these are real problems. Minimum wages solve them to a degree, hut not without a new set of problems.

Did you know Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Switzerland have no minimum wage at all?
> People are always susceptible to propaganda.

Not exactly. Propaganda is easily amplified by new media forms. FB radicalization, streetfights fuelled by IG influencers, politicians declaring laws and wars on Twittter are something new.

Have radio had any golden era? Nowadays I can continuously listen to radio, including public ones, maybe 20-30 minutes - until the occurence of first advertising block. The moment the radio starts shouting at me that I need to buy something, it's switched off.

Among the few good things coming form radio is maybe radio drama [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama
The US is by far the worst aid giver in the western world. Most so-called aid is "you can have this gift if you use it to buy X, Y or Z from businesses in the US".

Look to Scandinavia and you'll see actual aid instead of (poorly) hidden state sponsoring of defense contractors. They even give more per capita than the US without those strings attached. US aid is embarrassing.

Besides, US bases are not aid to the host country but aid by the host country to the US.
MAPS.ME is already Open Source. The issue for maps apps is the cost of hosting the tiling service.
Nope. And I will tell you why. To read my email I need the app to load. Gmail did not load for me in several countries and takes forever on a train wifi for example.

I never leave an email tab open, but even if I did, I first need it to load...
I've been trying to stop myself from commenting further but you've forced me to!

> They’re not nearly as good as the actors in the film, and they’re used to a much lesser extent. (Seems a little mean but you did force me to spell it out.)

Factually incorrect on both counts and very unfair to an outstanding cast.

> The positive comments make me feel I do need to give the series another watch someday soon to understand where the fans are coming from. I think I had a much more positive view of Smiley’s People than some, which I’m curious about too...

Maybe a good idea to have a recent watch before criticising. Actually Smiley's people suffers from many of the flaws you've highlighted with a much weaker cast beyond Guinness.

> You’ve got me wishing it was filmic - unless I’m mistaken it’s 576i :(

Yes it was made for TV and made in 1979. As a result it is also utterly authentic.

I have many, many criticisms of the film which I'm not going to express because it may just be my taste and I'm glad that lots of people enjoyed it. I just don't want anyone to be put off seeking out the TV series because of an assessment that is so far out of the consensus.

Edit: for an independent view the LA Times gives a good assessment of both.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-nov-27-la-...
Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling
Almost all companies do not "sell the whole company" in their IPO. 10% is closer to the average than 100%.
overpromising and underdelivering != con artist, though I do understand where you're coming from as the very initial (postponed) release and asking for donation gave a scam feel.
OsmAndroid sucked so badly with its seemingly hours of loading time. Search queries never worked well unless you entered exactly the string, including case and sometime whitespace. It would sometimes not find anything, unless I entered a useless whitespace after my words. In comparison to maps.me it is really really bad user experience and not to be recommended on any old phone. Your old phone will just laaaag and you will curse the search function.
It's great to see a lean app without hundreds of dependencies.
Them: CSS is unintuitive.

You: Learning CSS is like taming a wild horse.

I think you are in agreement.
I think telegram is one of the operating systems of the future, most just haven't realized it yet.

Using their API and System to develop apps is a breath of fresh air after years of bad and broken web APIs, non portable and cluttered native GUI frameworks, and app development riddled with incidental complexity.

They give you everything you need, including payment, custom keyboards, embedded media, room access. But in a super straightforward simple way.
It's just ridiculous how quickly you can iterate on apps that use telegram as their frontend, so much cuft is left behind.

Telegram allows you to write apps that solve real needs, in a humane way.
And as a dev that gives me hope that our industry isn't lost just yet.
We have like 5 different `with` macros including one in stdlib.
I grew up in a leafy village in rural UK. But at one point in the early 90s my dad got an offer to move to SoCal and we went out, I remember visiting schools and stuff, but we never actually went ahead with the move.

Apparently while we were there my dad witnessed the car in front of him being robbed at gunpoint, but decided perhaps that was a one off, don't tell the family, perhaps it's fine... then the exact same thing happened the next night at nearly the same spot.

So that was the end of my potential US childhood.
I've tried it, but probably I don't have that "you are done sleeping" signal. When I'm awake from "long enough" sleep (10-12hr), I'm tired and lazy. When I sleep 8 hours flat, I'm still sleepy when I get up, but I'm functioning normally after morning routines (washing, breakfast etc).
Agreed. CSS is a more of an artistic design task than a programming one. You have to have the mindset of a sculptor, meticulously chipping away, fiddling with tiny bits as the figure gradually takes shape.

Now that I think about it, I feel like this is what CSS Zen Garden was all about. You have to embrace the fact that you’re gonna sit there tweaking margins and experimenting with various incantations.
It's only when you are confronted with really crappy furniture that you start to appreciate "IKEA quality". You shouldn't of course confuse "quality" with "luxury", but for the price you pay, you (usually) get stuff that looks Ok and will do its job reasonably well for a pretty long time. Also, everyone likes to complain about how difficult IKEA furniture is to assemble and how bad the instructions are. We recently ordered a custom-made bed from a smaller company, and the quality was undeniably better than IKEA (OTOH it also cost about 5x as much as the average IKEA bed), but still the instructions skipped about half of the information required...
Are you saying that people actually wanted themselves to become slaves?
Agree, training feature processors is important. I also added basic functions to fit feature transformers automatically based on input, but I would not expect it to be used actively.

Rather, I expect data scientists or analysts will load sample data, cleanse it, visualize in their notebooks, perhaps make sklearn / R pipelines and serialize them and export to JSON. Then go-featureprocessing can use it.

DS people have interactive traning, visualizations in their favorite tools. Backend team has native Go. Win for everyone :)
Tesla Mania vs. Economic Reality
FYI They currently have a sub deal for like 8$/year!
Yes! The APIs are really nice compared to other alternatives.
> Now you'll look amazing even with the cheapest, crappiest webcam.

I just bought the cheapest, crappiest webcam - a Trust Exis Webcam[1] - and I can assure you that nothing could ever look amazing viewed through that 480p blurry POS no matter what you do.

If you want cheap and crappy, I strongly recommend going for something slightly less cheap and crappy than this one.

[1] https://www.trust.com/en/product/17003-exis-webcam-black-sil...
If I already have an production cluster up and running for a while, how can I get it git tracked now?

Another question: how about things like autoscaler which automatically edits numbers in deployments, how to git track that?
If you go the other way, you only have to change 2020 years worth of dates instead of 14 billion.

Just sayin.
Cloudflare Down in Frankfurt (FRA)
And scooters.

and revamping the US highway system with assisted driving beacons/lines etc - because they're the only ones with enough money to do so.
Show HN: Film/music/TV critics' year-end lists aggregator 2010-20 [Svelte]
It was not really a silicon valley startup. I would have made 4x more at a cushy corporate gig over that time. But it was a good adventure. After, I realized that instead of paying $6000 a month for living expenses, I could restructure my life and pay just $1000. So I sold everything and left. The stress disappeared and the freedom to do what I want each day is great.
But we have it back - Mapy.cz. It's basically like Maps.me but better across most dimensions.

I'm always confused why nobody know about it.
> A decent IDE should make the type information available when you need it.

A decent programming language shouldn't need an IDE to understand the code. What happens when you post a snippet online ? Or when you look at a diff in github ?
LiveView does not need Redis, nor does it depend on any particular background job processing solution. It's plenty fast and minimal. On the other hand does not support or plan to support mobile use-cases. Others can chip in to expand on this ;).
everytime an article about haiku comes up, I want to set up a haiku workstation, one of these days..!
Is there a way we can block part of the subdomain, like a proxy firewall. Used to see this thing called mcafee web gateway. That used to block all ads,banner ads and even instagram ads !! Is there one such open source project out there ?? Where we can download and add the fanboy type block list to block the ad crap !!
Generally I agree, but if you don't know exactly what RocksDB is and why you'd want to fork it, this just isn't for you.

There's probably a mutually beneficial filter being applied here by not letting beginners stumble in.
The other benefit to your full solution is that you won't get a 50 year sidebar in your GitHub contribution profile too.

Until seeing your suggestion it hadn't occurred to me to use a fake user. However, using UNIX epoch was something I had been doing and I do have the 50 year sidebar ;)

https://github.com/JNRowe#year-list-container
The reality that they have created for Foxconn workers is that they have a job that they would die than quit. It's that important to them.

Why do you assume that it has to be Apple's fault that China is fucked up?
> ...when Fly.io launched, it had a pretty simple use case: taking conventional web applications and speeding them up, by converting them into Firecracker MicroVMs that we can run close to users on a network of servers around the world.

Technically, when fly.io first launched, its usecase was fast, anycast "middleware" for web apps: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/pushi... :)
Why does btrfs have those issues compared to other filesystems? I'd love to use btrfs too. Note that I deeply respect people who can write such complicated code, which I couldn't.

Would Rust solve the non-speed issues? Rust-in-kernel discussion from August: https://lwn.net/Articles/829858/
Check mibo, getmibo.com for the webcam on avatar. Desktop chrome only.
"Want a .50 cal automatic machine gun?"

IDK where you are, but automatic guns are very hard to buy in the U.S. You may be able to buy a pre-1986 model, but the bureaucracy is exactly as onerous as you wish it to be, as is the price tag.

Or are you confusing automatic and semi-automatic guns?
Well, within 10 years of this 'golden age of radio' we had Hitler delivering speeches and effectively using the medium and it's reach to dismantle democracy. Within 20 years they had society on board with genocide.

I have great respect for German public media highlighting this and keeping it alive today. Especially at a time when in nearby eastern european countries the media infrastructure has been turned into a shameless propaganda machine which has been rewriting history with 'cultural broadcasts'. Not to mention operations such as RT further east.

Publicly funded media is wonderful, don't get me wrong. But when the conditions are right it can turn Orwellian pretty fast.
The universe didn't form uniformly, so if a bunch of dark matter formed as a clump, it would remain like that.

Also dark matter is gravitationally affected by light matter, which does interact. My intuition tells me that the interaction of light matter that creates clumps of light matter will also create clumps of dark matter indirectly.

* note: 90% my dark matter knowledge comes from HN. I'm just spitballing here
For years you could buy YouTube red in the US but it wasn’t an option here in the UK.

Today you can buy it but it’s more expensive here $16-$22 despite lower median household incomes than in the US and i think it might be missing some features - Iirc the US version includes YouTube Tv.
The last thing the r*rals needs is more internet.
>there's a bonus "heck yes!" no swears version [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1327291869471059968
"but if you don't know exactly what RocksDB"

So things I don't know exactly about are not for me? That seriosly hinders my personal development.

As a two decade CTO I think I should be interested in things I don't know about.
Yes, that's the thing, a lot of people died of asbestos, but more people would likely have frozen or burned to death without it.. It's good that we're getting rid of it, because we now have the technology to replace almost all of its uses with sufficiently effective and less dangerous alternatives.

It does not mean that its use was a mistake, but it's continued use would be, as we have an intrinsic responsibility to always seek safer alternatives when we discover the negative effects-
I've used their DS-200[1] product as an election officer for years.

Relatively reliable.

The issue is less the hardware and software, and really more the peopleware.

[1] https://www.essvote.com/products/ds200/
LeBron James, Anthony Davis Lead 6 Lakers on ESPN Top-100 List
> that’s why CSS syntax looks nothing like HTML syntax

Also because CSS is rule-based rather than hierarchical.
Maps.me uses it's own map file format and it's own 3D map renderer. It was created in 2014, — OsmAnd used to be quite slow and clumsy back then (not sure how they compare today)
Thanks, this puts my mind at ease a bit.
I still take contracts from time to time and do other work, even just because I find it interesting. I think it made me happier because, I'm free to follow things I like and enjoy.

Unlike the OP, I DO do paperwork though.
My family never had neutered dogs, male or female, but we were living in a rural area where people and dogs had a "culture" of good practices.

Every households had hunting dogs, guarding dogs, shepherd dogs or just, you know, family dogs. I guess their role in this "society" was much clearer than in dense urban areas.