skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of the same as clock speed, though Intel was on the other side of the coin a decade or two ago, pushing the idea that clock speed is the only performance measure that matters (until it changed it's mind with the Core architecture).
I don't agree; it violates the principle of least power (Berners-Lee).

You would inhibit accessibility, including the transition the web made from desktop to mobile -- e.g. consider how <select> is rendered on a phone. The browser needs semantic knowledge of elements on the page; it can't just be code.

You may also inhibit web crawlers and search engines, which are essential to the popularity of the web. You can't write an infinite loop in HTML, but you can in PostScript.

It's also not clear to me that PostScript can handle responsive layouts better than CSS (and a sibling comment hints at that, e.g. adding JS to do layout). CSS handles this at great cost, but it's also a hard problem.

In other words, it's reasonable for the web to HAVE vector graphics, but it can't BE vector graphics. Just like it has WebAssembly, but it isn't WebAssembly (nor would have that been a good idea from the start).
Well, you're not going to park a Tesla outside because you need to charge it overnight. And many people have to park their ICE cars in a garage not because it gets too cold, but because they live in a place (like San Francisco) where cars out on the street will all get broken into, vandalized, or stripped.
I was just looking at your pricing page and the greyed-out-but-still-ticked items in the comparison lists are very confusing. Being greyed out makes it look like their not included, but there's still a tick, so maybe they're still included but less capable? Or available as an add-on? I can't tell what, exactly, you're trying to convey to potential customers.
Seems like something that should be easy to test, right? What are your thoughts on starting another account that appears masculine or makes no indication of gender, and seeing what happens?
While definitely a risk: this seems extremely easy to prevent. Put a plate dangling below each carriage, so there's no human-size gap between them.

There are still moving things with small gaps though, without non-moving times, so some number of injuries seems unavoidable. Given enough time, you can always discover an inattentive person.
Worth noting is https://ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-thre...
We don't know that the universe is infinite.

Also, even if space was infinite, that doesn't mean that low-entropy energy/matter (to extract energy/work from) is also infinite.
I've tried slicing and dicing the part numbers, but couldn't come up with anything. I've found that Google is not bad; the biggest problem is IC suppliers who list basically every possible part number with no information. I think their business model is that if you want to buy the part for a high price, then they will see if they can find it somewhere.
In the vast majority of US mortgages the bank is the government. It’s deceptive because borrowers deal with private originators and servicers, but they are just contractors for the government.
Very! serverless-framework helps a little bit but overall is missing a lot of what we are used to in the development cycle.
Opening the link in a new tab doesn't work cos you're using a JS link. That's poor behaviour especially for this power user audience.
I remember writing an application in PS. That was my first job, in IT support, over 20 years ago.

I was asked to prepare employee cards and I found doing thousands of these manually was a waste of time. So I wrote a script in Perl to download employee data from database, write it to file and then merge it with a PostScript program.

The PostScript program would read the list of employees and format cards, 8 cards per A4 page. The names would be automatically scaled in PostScript so that they fit the predefined space nicely and the background would include nice procedurally generated pattern that would otherwise be very difficult to get.

It is fun when your application actually runs on the printer!
All these programs that subsidize the cost of borrowing merely drive up the price of houses. This is why things like the mortgage interest deduction or zero percent financing are not in the long term interests of home buyers when they are "scaled up", and when they are niche programs they are basically a convoluted form of charity. There is nothing wrong with that, some people like their charities to be convoluted and have a penchant for financial engineering, but at the end of the day charities, by definition, cannot scale: A large group can give money to a small group, but when the society as a whole gives money to itself then it is no longer charity, it's just spending money on yourself in a convoluted way.
What's in the Box?
Emotional manipulation was scare quoted for a reason. Consent to "rank posts based on unknown criteria to maximize relevance" will incidentally, at least on some occasions, cause "emotional manipulation" in the consumers of the feed. So again, consent is already provided for the possibility of emotional manipulation. What's the difference between accidental and scientifically valid emotional manipulation such that extra consent is needed?
Sphere movie plot via 1998? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120184/

spoilers = we cant handle (arent ready for) the truth
This is an important point if true, do you have a citation for that? I can't find anywhere in the documentation indication that sites are only included in the FLoC model if they call the FLoC API.
The traffic people avoid the word, the people that study commute patterns and write policy papers about how reducing the number of vehicles reduces accidents (have a phd for that one). The people who design crumple zones, who decide traffic light brightness, who build the brakes that prevent crashes and the seatbelts that make them survivable ... the people who represent 99% of your safety still call them accidents.
>But what previous thing is most analogous to batteries on cars?

Large tanks of volatile, flammable, potentially-explosive liquid in proximity to ignition sources in the car?
Understand that feeling but Huaweis existence is born from corporate espionage stealing IP from Nortel networks in the 00s. Not a great starting point for a company and it really doesn’t take much of a stretch to see the concern about Chinese party wanting to spy on the rest of the world given the lack of freedom of their own people...
What if they are like a space fungus.
But it makes little sense, Intel fabs were not even in competition with TSMC and GloFo, they don't sell their fab capacity.

Apple/Nvidia/AMD/etc buy fab capacity, they understand the differences on a node per node across the various providers. They then manufacture a semi conductor product that has many other factors beyond the process node which others buy, such as consumers/data centers/car manufacturer/etc. Knowing the processing node makes little sense in the buying decision of the latter.

The lines for evaluating the end product are even more blurry once we get into chiplet or big.LITTLE design, both of which mix processing nodes to a lesser or greater degree respectively. Once we actually get to products the overall package needs to be evaluated not the processing node.
If you want a self-hostable thing, https://www.adminer.org/ is a single PHP file you can put on a webserver and use to manage a database[1] that the webserver can talk to; put in the server name and credentials and have a low-effort useful GUI management tool.

[1] It claims: Works with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SimpleDB (plugin), Firebird (plugin), ClickHouse (plugin)
I switched to Chrome Dev a few weeks ago (Debian Stable doesn't quite understand "browsers really do need to update faster than everything else" yet) and have been seeing this for a little while now.

I really like it, because of what it enables.

For appropriately recent browsers, Google occasionally incorporates text fragment snippets into search results. So I can jump straight from reading the result synopsis to seeing that synopsis in context - the new page loads, a bunch of text is yellow, my eyes get drawn to it immediately, but it's not overly intrusive and I can decide where I want to start reading in any case (for scenarios where Google's algorithm gets it wrong).

I'd say it's worked in almost all cases; the one exception I've experienced was a scenario where once the page had finished jumping around on load and showing all its modal popups, the hilighted text was slightly offscreen.

The way the feature works is that the hilight disappears the moment you click anywhere on the page or scroll. So of course I needed to both scroll the text into view, and click to hide the popup, at which point I had no idea where the hilight started.

I guess this is the general antifeature of this feature; this has probably already been taken into account and accepted as a generally unfixable quirk.
Maybe their teenagers are just out having fun surfing on a cosmic gamma ray blast and we happen to be in it's way.
I'm on this site. I'm on your team.

The point is that this—however easy you might consider it to be—is a first. Nobody else has done this specific setup.

Also, it's an emulator not a virtual machine. 68K vs ARM.
For those who didn't click the link, this is a joke response to the author's tweet:

"I am bracing for the inevitable comments about C++ being the most terrible thing since forever :("
If you can't intuitively understand the relevance of where my parents live (more specifically my pregnant mother) to where I am born, then I am not going to be able to make you understand it.

You seem to be getting hung up on the fact that when two people decide to create a car they are creating an inanimate object (which they own in totality) and when they create a child they create a person with human rights and that will develop into it's own autonomous individual.

But this difference has absolutely 0 relevance to the question of whether or not the circumstances of your birth are the result of luck. Either they both are (which I think you can see is silly) or neither are (which is true but seems to be an idea you are resistant to for some reason).

Like I said at the start, this whole "the circumstances of your birth are luck" is a truism (in the philosophical sense) without any real thought put into whether or not it makes any sense. It could be luck in the deterministic sense of "the entire universe is pre-ordained" but if you believe in free will for the individual at all in any area, then the circumstances of one's birth are not luck.
Ask HN: For engineers you saw level-up fastest, what did they do differently?
Thanks for pointing this out. I think there is a possibility for both preserved, text-based comments to exist alongside live, audio-based discussions.

I wouldn't want the HN experience being degraded by not being able to access relevant discussions about posts in the future, but I think those who are deeply interested could benefit from the ability to speak live about posts with others (including the OP) in a more intimate and fast-paced setting.

The roundtable for this post is a great example. There have been some super valuable comments in this thread as well as great discussions held in the audio chat room (except for the rick-roll, that is!).
You can block FLoC: switch to Firefox, or at least to any Chromium derivative that isn't Chrome.
My dad told me about those, in the factory where he worked. He said that once a guy put his tool caddy on the platform, the guy at the top forgot to take it off for him, and the whole place was raining tools.
I don't think I would get a straight answer asking any of those questions. I rather ask indirect ones which tell me how it is, e.g. instead of "Do you fully disconnect during holidays and vacations?" I ask:

-How many people are there in the team?

-In how many projects is a developer at once?

Small teams with resources stretched out to multiple projects mean that time off is essentially non-existent.
> He did not fly with the intent of staying in Russia. He was grounded and his passport revoked by the US gov. mid travel, stranding him in Russia, in the airport, for over a month.

From my memory: his passport was revoked when he was in China (I think Hong Kong). A confusing sequence of events followed, and then he ended up in Russia somehow.
I cannot disagree strongly enough, this is how you end up working on teams that are just disconnected, hostile fiefdoms.

Solving an issue that is intractable via discussion is when you escalate. Probably to a tech lead, or even to a manager.
The dysfunction and stupidity is only bounded by the populace's tolerance for it and money to indulge in it.

Poor cities and rural counties might have underfunded services but they don't generally have the dysfunction you're describing because the money to support the dysfunction simply isn't there.
That line in the movie has always stuck with me. It was almost too good, since it was so correct and insightful that there was no real comedy and it took me out out the movie.
So much for "It'll take years before we get the GPU working". Obviously this is far from a full implementation but seems like progress has been quick. Hopefully the power management stuff will be equally quick.
Generic solutions are hard to get traction with.I think go-to-market is a tough one. There is so much to unpack here and perhaps you have already thought of it but ping me, details in profile, if you wanna chat more.
> make the engine weak enough that it can’t do major harm.

This doesn’t make sense to me. Outside of sensors that can automatically shut the motor off, the motor is definitely strong enough to do major damage in an unlikely crushing incident - it could easily sever or otherwise destroy a limb without even slowing down the carriage. The motor in any elevator has to be extremely strong: it’s not like paternosters slow down due to strain when people enter them.

To put it a bit gruesomely, the motor doesn’t notice the difference between lifting a 100kg passenger or applying the same amount of shear force to a trapped arm.
Sure, this shoe is a marketing piece, but this kind of tech could be the way forward to end forced/child labor in china used to produce the average shoe.

If Adidas can solidify the tech and pave a way forward, this could be huge.
It is not clear to me at all what the overall view is on FLoC. Brave and Vivaldi don't like it, sure, but they already ship with built-in ad blockers so of course they don't. People here who don't like it also seem to be against advertising in any form beyond direct deals between publishers and advertisers for <img src="https://advertiser.example/ad">.

If there are people who are (a) ok with personalized ads, providing they can be done sufficiently privately and (b) do not like FLoC, then I'd love to read what they have to say!

(Still speaking only for myself.)
I've seen two links to this domain in as many days and I absolutely can't stand the developer's treatment of links. I can't actually click on them, because just hovering them opens them in some ephemeral pseudo-popup, and I can't read the main article, because scrolling will invariably hover over some link which will then open that popup and cover up the article I was reading.

It's absurd to me that this apparently independent blogger's website is the best argument I've ever seen for "JavaScript should be disabled by default."
"Overtravel in lift is not fun" would probably make a better deterrent.
what's the difficulty
During my time interviewing for my FT first role as a non-founder, I've been asking the engineering leaders this question. A few responses so far:

* Proactively take on projects, don’t wait for someone to give a perfectly scoped out task.

* When things go down, the engineer doesn’t shut down, they tackle the challenge logically, and will also reach out for help appropriately.

* Hunger to learn

* Go above expectations to fixes systems or builds things that makes it easier for engineers or other teams to operate.
This is standard practice for EVs in the towing industry. Nobody parks a crashed one near anything they care about.
If the shoe is strong enough, you could just chuck it in the washing machine on a low impact wash to remove all dirt.
What's the safer alternative?
Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but I write a good bit of Lambdas by getting the boilerplate for them to run through Express.js for local development. Makes it possible to interactively debug with Visual Studio Code pretty easily. It requires a little initial startup cost for a project to connect them but works great afterwards.
I was always surprised there was no play to get direct merchant buy-in.

There's a spec to support direct submission of highly detailed receipt details (Level III Data) but it's traditionally mostly used with corporate cards. Plenty of shopping carts don't even bother submitting it, and there doesn't seem to be huge momentum to demand it.

I could see a scheme where the merchants would use a subsidized processor, whose API demanded Level III data for everything.
More houses can be build, transportation can be improved, people can work from home.

People want to move to expensive areas to work because companies chose to create their jobs there.

If a business is not profitable enough to be there they should move some place else. If you want to allow mediocre businesses people will have to sleep under the bridge, on the sofa with friends or find some other way to live packed up like sardines. The mediocre salary demands it.

We can apparently fit a lot more jobs in a city than it can deal with. The jobs are not the scarce resource. They will continue to exist some place better. Some place where the salary buys a good life.
I'm not sure how I'm going to use this yet but I think there are going to be some great opportunities for prototyping here.
Nothing, in the same way that there’s nothing stopping me from selling you the Brooklyn bridge.
This is great work—I'm glad to see this being tackled with such speed.

From the Phoronix comments on this post[0]:

> I have an idea. Why not support exclusively Vulkan, and then do the rest using Zink (that keeps getting faster and faster)?

> This way you could finish the driver in one year or two.

(For context: Zink is an OpenGL to Vulkan translator integrated into Mesa)

I had the same thought in my mind—Zink is 95% the speed of Intel's OpenGL driver[1], so why not completely ignore anything but Vulkan? On the Windows side, dxvk (DirectX to Vulkan) already is much faster (in most cases) than Microsoft's DX9-11 implementation, so it's completely feasible that Zink could become faster than most vendors' OpenGL implementation.

I have no knowledge of low-level graphics, so I don't know the ease of implementing the two APIs. I could envision, however, that because this GPU was never designed for OpenGL, there may be some small optimizations that could be made if Vulkan was skipped.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-95-...
Every crash that is not deliberate is an accident. Even if from negligence (drunks) the actual crash is accidental. Ascribing intention to every mistake, turning every tragic death into a homicide, ends in dark places. We may hate the person whose mistake causes a crash. We dont make them a murderer.
Protocols being tightly bound to their implementation in Java is a real bummer. Makes using them much more difficult and brittle than an equivalent CLOS-style system.
Sea startups use ESOPs to their advantage
What if a team starts sucking?
I think GP's implied point about copying ideas still stands. Like the US in the 1800s, they're not just making clones. They're making better ones. They're innovating.

Taking good ideas and improving them is - and will always be - the fundamental corner stone of human development. That's why "ripping off" more advanced competitors worked out well for the US when they did it, it worked out well for Japan when they did it, it's working out well for China now that they're doing it, and it will work out well for whoever decides to work hard next.

Do you know what isn't fundamental to human development? Made-up concepts like intellectual "property" that only serve the stagnant that aim to rent-seek (and not innovate). These concepts are what lulled the US into a false sense of security and allowed China to excel.

The reality of the matter is that IP laws are nonsense. They only serve to hold back those it binds. Instead of being upset when other people don't play by your made-up rules, you should work harder and become competitive again.

Disclosure: I have no love for China. It is a horrible country with disgustingly abhorrent views. That said, I don't think we should put our collective heads in the sand and avoid addressing the giant elephant thrashing in our room.
This is a brilliant idea I'm stealing for the next time I'm doing Lambda dev.
Verizon announces Hyper Precise Location service
You have no friends.
Just a guess, but you may have in mind certain PS files generated by TeX/LaTeX from the 80s and 90s, back in the day when both PS-based workflows and raster (bitmap) fonts were more common than they are today. So, although it's not really a limitation of PostScript, for purely historical reasons there may be a correlation among academic documents between PS files and raster fonts, which (because of a lack of hinting) look worse on the screen, at resolutions other than the one they were tuned for. For such documents (try this if you have one of them), there is the amazing pkfix tool by Heiko Oberdiek: I had once written a blog post about this (https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/converting-old-p...) but you can read the TeX FAQ (http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-pkfix) or even Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pkfix&oldid=71250...) or see it in action in this answer by the author: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120260/making-low-qu...
Interesting information! "...can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly
to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire"
Too much information and text on your site. Cut it down to salient information. Same with pricing page, too many plans and too many features. Consolidate features at high level.
Prediction: Rising food prices will cause protests and instability
Ahh, that explains it, my "speed limit offset" is set to zero.

One could speculate that maybe the guy 'driving' from the passenger seat tried to plant his boot on the brake and got the accelerator instead?