skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I present the Dictionary.com definition from 5 years ago, back before it was whitewashed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160314100133/http://www.dictio...

Now I guarantee you that people don't consciously think that "black" people are "bad" simply because of the word, if that's what you think I'm saying.
I don't think a corporate entity like Black Futures Lab can be expected to champion for societal problems.
Serial Passage
Congrats. What app is this?
SteamTinkerLaunch: Linux tool for Steam custom launch options and outside tools
wouldn't it be more useful to show the time difference? Or maybe only show it in case it is larger than 1 second?
Microsoft should probably try a 5 day / 40 hour workweek here in the US some time. From what I was told at a few interviews there, and from friends who work there, 50 hours a week is pretty much normal and expected. Sounds terrible, and I'm not sad to not work there.
if they compare to the last year, they could have at least gone so far and compare to last month as well (probably did, but not in the cnn article, maybe someone who speaks japanese can say). It's a little daunting to just believe a 40% increase only due to cutting 1 day per week, would be quite phenomenal. Also, they cut down on meetings which was probably more decisive regarding improved productivity :) Article is from 2019 btw.
2. Yes, see for example https://chartscss.org/examples/column/ and the feature list https://chartscss.org/charts/
As others have pointed out, Forensic Architecture's analysis[1], in conjunction with Mada Masr, of the explosion is top-notch.

On a personal note: I went to AUB in the late 00s when Lebanon seemed to be on the up-swing. It's incredible that even when it's not outside actors or inside divisions the country still can't catch a break[2]. Pity the nation...

1:https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...
2:https://www.madamasr.com/en/2020/08/05/opinion/politics/expl...
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it may be impossible to add zoom capabilities to charts without JS
You're making the assumption that people would care about a slider and that it would be part of a behavior loop.

People might very well laugh at the slider and not be intimidated into respecting its power of graduated informational judgement. As of now, after two hours, the only two replies to the GP are saying they would ignore the slider.

Why do you believe a slider would force people not to share misinformation? There must be some basis for that opinion.
Google offers protection via obfuscation. I've seen the results of its decompilation and it's practically useless.
Does this mean I could livestream to an arbitrary number of viewers for 99 dollars a month? How does bandwidth factor into this?
That's entirely impractical. "Hey, want to run Blender on your iPad? Just buy a $600+ real computer and install a bunch of cross-compilation tools on it then sideload the app every seven days before it expires! It's so easy!"

Sideloading Blender misses the point. If you need to buy a real computer to compile Blender, then you already have a computer to just run Blender on directly. Furthermore, sideloading isn't exactly Apple-sanctioned. It's actually fairly cumbersome: you either need a Mac to run Xcode on, or you have to run a piece of third-party software that you put your iCloud password into, which then uses some Mail/iTunes plugins to forcibly resign and sync your IPA. Oh, and you need to redo that every seven days or the app breaks. Furthermore, Apple could break or prohibit sideloading at any moment and you would have no recourse.

If sideloading was a useful way to distribute software, Epic would be distributing a sideloadable EGS and Fortnite on iOS right now.
My point was many adults do have unrealistic expectations of success. Sure, most people don't start restaurants, but an irrational amount of people do it thinking they'll make it. This is hardly unique to restaurants, this was just an obvious counterexample to poke holes in his argument. I live in San Francisco and see people start companies for the stupidest fucking shit all the time, convinced of their assured success because of their Ivy league degrees. I also watch as almost all of them fail (some just haven't had enough time to fail yet, but obviously one might surprise me some day).

Questioning his assumptions is not meant to refute his argument, only to question it.
> The unstated assumption is that humans are somehow better than chimpanzees

"Better" always has to carry the "at what?" part, explicitly or implicitly. There's no universal Better, thus humans aren't Better than chimpanzees - but humans are better than chimpanzees at quite a lot of things, including intelligence, learning, preserving knowledge across generations, use of tools...

> therefore that we must reverse engineer and fill in the gaps to justify this

There's nothing to justify here. We just are better - by far - than every other animal on this planet at the things that makes a species rule every other. This is an observable fact of reality. We had no contenders for this status as far as the recorded history goes. But it's interesting why this is the case. Why us, and not chimpanzees.

> any way of reverse engineering the random process of natural selection

Natural selection isn't completely random! If it were, there wouldn't be any complex life forms on Earth. Or, more strictly, for natural selection to be completely random, the universe would have to be a fully uniform blob of matter.

There's randomness involved in natural selection, but that randomness has a strong bias. That bias itself is the part that's interesting to understand / reverse engineer.
SSD is the obvious one.

Robot things. Robot mop/vac and robot pool cleaner.

iPhone. My first was the 3GS.

The standard IBM PC form factor thing. Might have started with 286 processors in 90s?

Drones

Solar cells becoming economical enough to bolt onto your house

Dyson vs. traditional vacuum cleaners at the time (the competition weren’t interested in losing their bag selling biz)

Skis apparently used to be heavy and hard to ski in but now they are all easier but the technique changed.

How damn cheap consumer products are. I remember when owning a kitchen appliance was a big thing. Now we have too many!

Possibly the M1 processor but I’m not an apple “non phone computer” person so not sure.

GPS getting into phones, killing the sat nav market.
Consumers Want Better Battery, Video and Processor over 5G
If you want to trust that go ahead. There's been quite a few changes within the past year and a half that lead people to believe otherwise. All their servers are also US based. Remember Lavabit?
I agree, I was disappointed by the demo: no axis, no hover effects make the charts unusable in their current state.

EDIT: It looks like they have hover interaction, but it's not shown on the homepage.
So let it happen quickly without complaining about it so that tomorrow we can be arguing about something else, instead of arguing about the same thing for ten straight years.

"People get pissed off even by small changes" is a MUCH bigger impediment towards real progress than "people are making small changes that won't fix the whole world" is.

I don't believe most of the people who say they're only problem is that the change is "too small." I think that's just an excuse of convenience to resist any change or challenge to the status quo. If your problem is that the change isn't big enough, the solution is to push for bigger ones yourself! But that's not usually what we see those people doing...
For what project/company?
think you can get that friend to comment here?
Well done! This looks impressive and really useful. I’ve been looking for a lightweight sprite / spark lib for a while. Clients always, for some reason, are very impressed by little charts in a table row, doing this witha normal size chart lib kills page performance. I was literally including very basic html indicators in a presentation today and client where really impressed! This really solves that issue!

And even more. Really great that you van manipulate the elements as css. Most chart libs I’ve dealt with makes non-trivial customization impossible.

I’ll probably be building this in as Lowdefy blocks[1].

Just curious, did you consider just branding it as sparks.css / sprites.css or something? Going the spark / sprite route just sets the expectations a lot lower imo. Although congrats, you are really close to fully functional charts here! Really interested to see how far this can go.

[1] - https://lowdefy.com
So, we’re gonna make abortion illegal and expect women to undergo a substantially higher risk procedure?

Still raises question of who is raising that child... and the societal implications of true orphans.
England already imports significant power from France and has large scale wind production. So, it’s local solar production is no more relevant than McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

That said the southern tip of England is noticeably better than London. So, having some minimal local production is viable.
This looks nice. I don’t see mentioned anywhere in the docs if it supports multiline labels.
Mine does not. I think you would need to step up a level from the MH series with US Cutter. I seem to recollect that was about $100-$150 more for that capability. But check their website.
EDIT: So confusing to me why this was voted down. Please help.

I'm just speculating here -- HN doesn't even allow downvotes to direct responses, so it's not me -- a little more tie-in to the thread might help understand the context and relevance of a music video (HN tends to prefer text over video, and prose/exposition over music). Or maybe there's a bot that downvotes anything with certain words. Or maybe there are one or two people who happened to accidentally downvote because the button was lined up with their thumb when they were scrolling on their phones.
I heard that they have the best work-life balance of any of the big tech co, in exchange for having the lowest salary/equity. Oh well...
Honest response: whenever I read "Great question" (followed either by a full stop or exclamation mark(worse)) my mind goes to "bullshit marketing speak follows" mode. Especially when the answerer disclosed their affinity to the entity in question, in this case stackoverflow.

I have to work hard against this impulse to continue reading the actual answer.
Hmm. You would probably want to implement the actual zoom as a `transform: scale() translate()` regardless, and you could parameterize it with CSS properties like `transform: scale(var(--zoom-scale)) translate(var(--zoom-x), var(--zoom-y))`. But when it comes to getting those numbers and hooking them into the CSS vars, I don't see a way to do that without JS. Certainly, though, the JS could be just a couple lines if you did things this way (mousemove listener on the container, a bit of math to get the relative x/y, and then either a slider or a scroll listener to determine the scale, and these three numbers are plugged directly into the CSS).
At my organization, we are being pressured to change existing repos to use "main" with the implication that we are racist if we do not. But even if we leave existing repos alone, now we all have to remember which repos use master and which ones use main. We tend to have people working across many different repos, so it's a headache waiting to happen either way.
It's easier for turkeys (and chickens) than some other animals. They're unpleasant birds. If you raise them, you will have already lost some to each other -- the "pecking order" is literal, and some die.

If you're going to raise animals, you do have to be careful to maintain distance. A chicken will get cozy in your arms if you let it, not unlike a cat.

Still, the birds are pretty dumb. With pigs, cows, etc. you feel you can connect with them. I've given up eating mammals for that reason. The birds I feel less guilt about, and most seafood even less.

Oddly, I have no trouble cutting into an elaborate wedding cake I've made. It was meant to be eaten. I've known it longer than your wheels of cheese, though the hands-on time may be on par.
How about the opposite. Smart humans could hunt dangerous animals. The causality is not obvoius ...
What Apple is doing sounds like requiring that tracking capability is only given in the case of users who actively agree with a meaningful opportunity to decline.

Whenever there is a discussion of GDPR and cookie popups, someone claims that “By using this website you automatically agree to cookies” is against the requirements of GDPR.

I am aware that my total lack of legal qualifications can make two unrelated things seem like the same thing, so a question to anyone who knows:

Is Apple requiring anything that is not already required by GDPR?
"Language is an entirely human creation with "standards" and definitions that have been changing constantly since humans began creating it."

Your point? Those changes happen as people in the ENTIRE society agree on them. They don't happen because a small minority or some ridiculous elitist in San Francisco pulled it out of his/her/xer ass one day and decided to dictate to everyone what a word means. If we do not agree then you're essentially creating your own language and communication becomes ineffectual.

Equally, one individual doesn't get to dictate what a word means in their own head and expect others to follow along, while accusing them of being bigoted for not doing it. The minority of offended individuals don't get the power to make these decisions.
I don't know if London demographics are the point of comparison, e.g. if you looked at FAANG's demographics you would not compare them to the Bay Area as their hiring pool is much wider than people who grew up locally.
You can buy an Android phone for $25 in the US, and much of the rest of the world is completely priced out of buying apps or subscriptions. There are many people who use Android phones because they're affordable, but they can't afford to buy apps, though.
Disgust always is, is why humans partake in it so frequently.
Uniting people behind a common agenda in a nation as large and populous as India will be a challenge. That is where education is essential so that people who may feel that they have little in common with their countrymen on the other side of the country can be made aware of the benefits of buying in to the vaccination efforts.

I know India is large and there are many social barriers to some things that are difficult to navigate, even perilous for the leaders who attempt it. I hope that as India grows and exerts greater influence globally it will be because they saw the benefit of banding together and had the leadership with the courage and the vision to lay it out for the people and try to make it happen.
If only people would put on their masks and smell the fresh air, right friend!
Though depending upon your tolerance requirements, you could manually align your cuts to a registration mark assuming your material was inserted squarely.
>, I also don't put a value of hundreds of millions on a Rembrand painting yet museums do it all the time.

at the very least with a Rembrandt painting you can be reasonably sure that it's still worth something in a few years because 1. it actually constitutes a significant contribution to art and human culture, 2. it's been recognised as such for a few hundred years

What exactly is the chance that a digitally signed picture of a grumpy looking cat is something anyone cares about in another decade. A Pokemon trading card is high culture by comparison
This is more of an alternative to SVG than an alternative to JS. You could always create charts using plain SVG. Most JS charting libraries just do that for you.
They jumped on it. Ebay and Amazon jumped on the misinterpretation and that is squarely their mistake.

The Dr Seuss estate wasn't afraid of SJW's randomly cancelling them. And neither was Ebay or Amazon, which were instead signalling support for a society retcon that nobody - not even Dr Seuss' estate - asked for. Those latter companies are staffed by people experiencing the same cognitive dissonance in this comment thread.
Everything that is sent over the internet is usually gzipped automatically, so that does not count.
> Some people argue Janet is not really a lisp.

Out of curiosity: on what basis?

Janet is definitely a Lisp, although it's not the (Common) Lisp.
I first learned about Kayfabe from here https://coronacircus.com/2020/06/02/welcome-to-kayfabe/
It's not installed by default, users need to install it (sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0). Previously it wasn't available at all though, at least not in an official way.

These are some unofficial ways of getting Widevine on a Pi (no longer needed now):
https://gist.github.com/ruario/19a28d98d29d34ec9b184c42e5f8b... https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one...
That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired
What? The peacemaker wants to avoid arguments. Going around someone avoids arguments. The peacemaker would follow the advice on the site and go around someone. This person, on the other hand, is saying thats bad, and that a more confrontational (but less passive aggressive) approach is likely better.

That's both more mature and more likely to lead to technical excellence.
Accessibility. If CSS is disabled, it will render the data table.
He's gonna have to pry my Fritz!Box from my cold dead hands.
It also says

> The results may fluctuate and should not be used to make important decisions.

which is the gap.
The media vortex fueling Clubhouse's rise
I find their hypothesis suspect.

> According to the researchers, the decrease in the size of game and the need to hunt small, swift animals forced humans to display cunning and boldness—an evolutionary process that demanded increased volume of the human brain.

There are plenty of predators that hunt fast small prey, but don't have advanced cognitive capacities. Cats, for example, are adapted to hunting rodents, but have pretty small brains.

> As humans moved into permanent settlements and became farmers, their brain size decreased to its current volume of 1300-1400cc. This happened because, with domesticated plants and animals that don't take flight, there was no more need for the allocation of outstanding cognitive abilities to the task of hunting.

There are active hunter-gatherer societies out there (or at least societies that lean heavily that way along the hunter-farmer axis). Do these societies have larger brains than everyone else? Seems like a simple way to test their hypothesis.
Agreed - maybe there is a grain of validity in many of these stereotypes, but it's riddled with misinformation such as:

> Typically – especially on large development teams – low quality is caused by individual developers rather than the team as a whole.

Maybe that's true at whatever firm they work at, but in my experience it's failure of leadership to implement process where it's needed.

I've been viewing it in a comedic light because it feels like a joke, and it is quite funny.
That looks pretty interesting, do you have any examples of what a published page looks like/acts like better than the thumbnails?
Why? Nobody's going to spend the transaction fee, currently about $US16, to buy a coffee.

For big items maybe?
> I think you can go bigger than that for potential positives. Imagine growing clones (presumably without a [fully-]functioning brain) for use in organ donation, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
Bitcoin transaction costs are very high so I’m assuming all these payment processor transactions will be off-chain. Do you think that having so many off-chain transactions that are essentially converting USD reduces the perceived value of BTC or raises it?
What does this look like in practice? A "bitcoin debit card" tied to an exchange as your bank account?
Were your friends working in Azure or were you interviewing in Azure? Asking because Azure is the only place where I've heard about it (and even then, rarely).

I have friends all over MSFT (at their main Redmond HQ campus, not remote offices), and no one outside of Azure works over 40/week. The occasional overtimes/crunches happen so infrequently, they could count the number of those days per year on one hand. And even an average workweek frequently falls under 40/week (all engineering btw, cannot comment on other positions like PM or design).

I honestly am baffled by your info, because Microsoft definitely has a reputation here for being one of the more "relaxed" tech companies. In fact, that's one of the biggest reasons I am staying, because I could definitely make noticeably more by switching to another tech giant, but I don't want to lose my work-life balance, as it isn't easy to find at all.
It is also a bit higher-level than working directly with SVG, but a comparison can be made
Working on a Github app that will present users with a checklist that they must check off before merging.

https://pullchecklist.com

You can create multiple checklists all dependant on

- What file paths were changed

- What content was added or removed

- What branch you're targeting

- And a bunch more stuff in the works

It's still free since theres some edges to smooth over.
Actually, there are only finite ways to fail. It just happens to be a large number. Thinking of interactions of the world as propagations of signals and considering Kolmogorov-style descriptions of entropy would lead one to this conclusion of finiteness. See: "Kolmogorov complexity"

Further, there are a finite number of patterns of failure, which is of course less than the number of absolute ways things could fail.

The biggest detriment is not that things can fail, but that people get overwhelmed by believing that such things are infinite in scale.
The Heritage Foundation's solution to climate change (if it turns out to be real), is more fossil fuels: "How Fossil Fuels Will Help Us Confront Climate Change" [1].

That article describes how in Dubai they handle an average temperature of over 100 ℉ with no problems by having air conditioned homes, offices, cars, buses, trains, and shopping malls. It's abundant oil and a government that promotes economic freedom that allows this, it says.

It then ties it to dealing with climate change:

> The current average world temperature is about 58 degrees. The true believers in climate change are predicting global catastrophe if that temperature rises by a worst-case estimate of 7 degrees Fahrenheit. That would bring the world average temperature to about 65 degrees.

> Dubai, today, is doing quite well at an average temperature 35 degrees higher.

> Obviously, Dubai is on the cutting edge of technology and prosperity as a result of its oil endowment and government policies that promote economic freedom and growth.

> Not every country has oil, but in a globalized market, cheap fossil fuels are available everywhere to spur rapid growth and technological change.

Wow.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/how-fossil-f...
> The sports team thing is really offensive though.

Offensive to whom?

Someone is deciding which groups deserve to be free of offense, and which groups don't.

I'd like to shine a spotlight on them, and their hypocritical abuse of power over others.
You can usually trust the manpage in bsd land. That’s not anywhere near as dependable in Linux land. The system upgrades are much tighter when every component is maintained by one organization. Its historical killer feature (for a while) was zfs, but Linux has that now too. In FreeBSD though zfs is ‘native’.
Maybe the App Store’s ads (e.g. when you search).
A Blast from the Past! Thanks for sharing!