skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the OS zooming fights against pinch zooming that you may implement inside your webapp's logic, especially for non-static content (maps for example), multi-finger games where two touches don't signify a zoom, etc. They just broke the UX of a whole bunch of websites.

When will we ever have HTML5 apps that match native apps? When they actually let HTML5 apps do what native apps do, like multitouch without triggering a default action.
Do we need AI regulations? Thoughts on Netflix's CodeBias documentary
In my experience, poor/incomplete applications are something you have to keep an eye out for regardless of what platform you're dealing with.

I've seen audio stutter on a smart TV running the Netflix streaming app, and similar stutter on a network-enabled Blu-Ray player running the Amazon Video streaming app. I've seen 4K playback cause occasional stuttering in the Amazon Video app on a smart TV. Disney+ group playback is currently unsupported on PS4, but is supported on Xbox One. A few years ago, the PS3 Netflix app supported 1080p, whereas the Xbox 360 Netflix app only supported 720p. I've also seen the Xbox One YouTube app insist on playing a video at 720p or lower, despite that Roku will play it at 1080p (perhaps an issue with only a certain codec being available at that quality?). I've seen a paid video service with an iPhone app with completely broken Chromecast support (they fixed it a few weeks after I filed a bug report).
Taking over for a Bad Leader? Follow These Steps
This is such a hilarious statement that you see all the time here.
Unfortunately this won’t happen until the employee:employer power imbalance is changed, which effectively means a worker co-op.
That's just one example, a game console where the video output was typically via composite video or even an RF modulator to a TV. Not so much with e.g. VGA mode 0x13 PC graphics on a relatively crisp computer display.
Never does for me either, possibly because without a mask I have a beard so it struggles to tell if it's a mask or my regular face. ProTip though: swipe up again immediately and you get the passcode prompt.
> it's not considered standard of care. Do you have any links where health authorities in Brazil have made it standard of care?

"Nobody cares" about standard of care. The medical college (CRM) has pretty much said that the doctors are free to prescribe whatever they want

> Ivermectin is incredibly safe.

Yes, at the recommended doses for parasite control (which is a single or dual dose), not for usage for several consecutive days or weeks (and I agree with the Paracetamol criticism)
This is just my personal belief: but I really don't think an AI advanced enough to actually do self-driving will have trouble getting all the information it needs from cameras.

It seems to me that accurately determining signs, construction work, pedestrians, bikes, and even the intention/direction of these, is way harder than just reconstructing a 3D space from the cameras. I think the neural nets will have to do this internally anyway to be able to predict the direction a pedestrian is about to walk.

So I think LIDAR may be a benefit for limited self-driving in the short term. If it's a benefit in the long term remains to be seen, but there's good arguments that Teslas gamble will pay off, as they're allowed to use all their focus on the part of the AI that's most important for daily driving.
Just try to define what free will actually means and see things fall apart. The entire idea of free will makes no sense to begin with if one thinks clearly about it.
Without any insider information, it seems equally as likely that they just better clarified what they originally meant versus backtracking in response to backlash.

"Reminding people not to talk about politics and then moving on" doesn't really seem like a "punishment".
Unfortunately savepoints only work for a non-transactional single connection test. E.g. you can only set a savepoint within a transaction. If the code under test, like an integration test, uses transactions itself, or multiple connections, savepoints won't help you. I would love to be able to globally revert all committed changes to a point in time.

SUPER SAVEPOINT A;
<NO HOLDS BARRED CODE USING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS, TRANSACTIONS, NORMAL SAVEPOINTS ETC>
SUPER RESTORE A;

It could be implemented by playing the WAL logs backwards, I imagine.

Alternatively, just making CREATE DATABASE WITH TEMPLATE fast would be nice. Even on tmpfs and no fsync this operation takes about 300 ms on my (fast) workstation. Then you could consider the template database a savepoint in itself.
They are just equivalent to a password, as knowing the answers allows you to reset the password.
I don't know if it is good or not to have gym benefits so I cannot comment if removing it is a good or bad decision.

With regards to "But what if you have bad knees or live in a dangerous neighborhood or simply don't like walking?"

This is very simple to fix: thing about this in terms of equity not equality. Do not eliminate a benefit but think how can include more people by changing the metric.

If someone has bad knees or don't like walking but still want to participate in this subsidy then the fix is not to eliminate the subsidy for everyone, but to have different metrics for people to opt in.
The debate between "no free will" and "magical supernatural free will" is silly and pointless, and yes, it should have been settled long time ago.

But it bugs me that so many people are eager so claim that because magical free will doesn't exist, that means no free will can exist. Compatibilism is not a new idea either. The usual argument is that compatibilists are moving the goal posts, but I simply don't understand that argument.

Suppose an argument between two sided: "Bigfoot exists" versus "no non-human apes exists". Is it moving the goalposts to point to gorillas?

Or suppose we're in the 1700's, and people are discussing vitalism: The force that separates dead things from living. The two sides debate whether the "vital spark" exists, or whether life is an illusion and it's meaningless to talk about living things at all. Is it moving the goal posts to try to find a non-magical definition of life?

To me it's pretty clear that we have free will, and that has nothing to do with determinism.
> Why can't it use the URL for the url?

Because you can have multiple URLs for the same content and you need a way to say "by the way if you want to link to this page here's the proper URL"

For example, if you have example.com/blog/foo, it's possible that m.example.com/blog/foo, example.com/blog/foo/, example.com/index.php?path=/blog/foo, example.com/index.php?p=1234, example.com/blog/foo?textonly=1 etc etc all point to the same blog post and in many cases you simply can't set up a redirect because the URL is valid.
Why are credit checks part of applying for a job? Isn't the employer supposed to pay you?
If the singularity happens on schedule they'll all be paperclips long before then.
Its not. Schufa collects negative entries. If you did not pay back loans in time you will have a bad Schufa. To the contrary in the US you have to have “good credit” meaning you have to have participated in the “credit system” and behaved well.

If you don’t have any record: Great for Schufa, bad in the US.
Well, migrating to WSL2 brought back memories when I moved from conventional HDD to SSD. Also, that might be how people feel when switching from Intel Mac to M1 one.
You're wrong about it being easy, that's why it doesn't make sense to you.
There are many ethical systems in which both death penalty and abortion are justified.

Death penalty is any easy one. It was considered to be a proper penalty for various crimes for most of the human history in many cultures. It just takes understanding of ethical values of those cultures to understand why it was justified.

Your argument about taking innocent human life is a naive one. We do a lot of things that cost innocent human lives. Allowing diesel cars in cities cost more innocent lives than all death penalties in the history of humanity combined and it's not a small difference.

It's about tradeoffs and priorities. It's natural for a tribe or state to kill for treason for example as disincentivizing treason is more important (saves more lives, prevents suffering and destruction of your countrymen) than occasional mistake. Putting long term survival and well being of your society is more important than individual lives.

Our wealth clouds the picture so well. If it was required of everyone one to spend addition 20 hours a week providing food and shelter for a murderer atop of all the work we need to put into getting food and shelter for ourselves and our families you would be very quick to accept death penalty instead. As the choices would be about caring for your family and making sure the murderer doesn't die in custody. Today we can arguably afford it but if that's the argument then we already agree it's about tradeoffs and where the exact line is not obvious.

Even if you don't agree you can at least see it's a justified view. It's all about tradeoffs.
Seek professional advice. I did, and it helps.

Secondly, failure is highly contextual. Had you not tried, you probably would have hated wondering if it would have worked or not.

Lastly, stoicism is strongly recommended. Read the meditations and take pleasure in the ordinary experiences.

It's not a competition. Being nice to people counts for a lot.
I don’t understand these complaints about breakages. Download Hugo. Generate your site. Now use that Hugo binary till the end of eternity. The Hugo project might add, deprecate or remove features but that won’t affect you in any way. Your binary will continue to work till the end of time. (Assuming we still have x86 or ARM computers available)
Depending on where you live, going on a long road trip can sometimes become a sudden necessity. If I still lived in a hurricane zone, for example, I wouldn’t go anywhere near an EV except as a second car.
What would these do? Fake check your ID? Give you a fake password?
Well there is some:

> “This mission confirms my worst fear: that possibly hundreds of thousands of barrels and DDT-laced sediment were dumped just 12 miles off our coast,” said Feinstein, who said she plans to ask the U.S. Justice Department to look into companies that may have illegally dumped waste into the ocean and whether they can be held accountable

Sounds pretty hand-wavey though.
I did read through this debacle when it came out actually, I'm thoroughly on team Greg. I suppose my question was separate from malicious patches - I was interested in knowing if this incremental "merge tiny patches as and when they're ready" mode of development has ever caused issues with half-baked solutions affecting other parts of the kernel where perhaps it wouldn't have otherwise done so if the release was given more time for polishing and testing.
Or phrased in a different manner:

Tesla needs to double their car production, every year, the next 4 years to get to the size of Toyota or VW.

How realistic is that?
The 80% Energy Principle
How many women are engineers as a percent of total engineers? Given the current ratio in my generation (mid thirties) we are at least decades away of having a significant ratio of senior engineers candidates, so I'm not sure your question is relevant to assess anything.
You both made me laugh. Thanks :)
> font:menu;font-size:1.125em;

As a default for otherwise-unstyled content, it's not very user-friendly to override the user's default font and size preferences.

The browser lets me decide how I'd like unstyled text to appear. Unless you're explicitly doing typographic design, please don't arbitrarily override my choice.
How to register and make an appointment for Covid vaccine for a person above 18
To be fair, the previous ruling party was nepotistic, and everybody knew actual power was with Nehru family. As much as current government does majority appeasement they did minority appeasement. Both are wrong.

Congress failed because of nepotism and incompetency, and they failed the nation with them. It's their fault as well.
I'm not a chemist nor physicist nor biologist, but..

What do you mean with "inert"? I'm pretty sure most radioactive elements are quite happy to react with other chemicals, like salt water.

Some of the new compounds will be water or fat solvable, and can find it's way in to our food chain. The gasses and particles from the nuclear tests around the world was also fairly localized, and if something was spread, it was diluted in a vast vast amount of air. Still, there was long lasting effects on humans and animals, some of which we are still discovering.
Another aspect might be the often seen focus on the law, ignoring the policing aspect: "It's forbidden to do this by law, so we don't need to do X".
There's even a <noscript> tag since HTML 4.01. You can apply CSS to it too.
You are ignoring the evidence presented, ask open questions beside the point and attack him personally. That's not a way to have a discussion and it feels like you're acting on an agenda.

> You don't have to, you misunderstood me. If a contract is flawed, is there a result other than 'misleading'?

Or from further up

> I'm curious if there's a way you can mess up language in a contract that isn't deceptive/misleading?

Of course there is. Especially if you don't conflate misleading and deceptive, because they certainly don't mean the same thing. Not every statement in a contract that might turns out to be against the law was made to deceive one party. And that's so obvious that your question is nothing else but distraction from the situation at hand.

A contract can have clauses made in good will in the interest of both parties that turn out to be against the law. E.g. in my country copyright is absolutely nontransferable, but of course I wanna transfer the usage rights for paid work. If the contract would say my copyright is transferred rather than me transferring usage rights it's certainly wrong and against the law, but it's neither misleading nor deceptive of the intent behind the clause.
The German word "stumm" means silent or mute.
Stylus is exactly it, thanks!

If I recall correctly, Stylish was pegging a CPU in Chrome whenever I was editing a style, which was my motivation for seeking out an alternative.

For those not familiar, Stylus (and Stylish before it) offers a really easy way to override the CSS of sites of your choosing, in ways of your choosing. As an example, for Hacker News, I do all kinds of things: increase the line spacing, constrain the width of the text, make it so that if I've visited a user's profile page then it displays as visited, etc. etc.

While I write my own style overrides, there is a mechanism to download overrides written by others. I've never tried it.

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension) - has some more info. From the intro:

"Stylus is a user style manager forked from Stylish for Chrome in 2017 after Stylish was bought by the analytics company SimilarWeb. The objective was to 'remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI.' It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics."
Yes, in fact those people who enjoy politics and advocacy outside of work should be actively discouraged from working in high performing organizations. I certainly filter them out during my interview process as they are more likely to be a liability than a great worker who gets the job done.
Why is type="module" the opposite of nomodule? This isn't a real question... just a big ol sigh
It's good to see Greg KH and the Linux foundation taking a firm stance wrt this issue. The motivation put forward by the group from UMN is unacceptable.
It's pure sabotage and deep disrespect for the hours of toil professionals and volunteers worldwide put into the Linux project.
Who is Louis Rossman? What are his style of issues? Why should I know this?
Yes, we live in a privileged society where all people are considered equal.

People who practice positive or negative discrimination should get with the program.
It's a good idea in theory but they recommend hosting your pages on GitHub [0] which puts your own data out of control.

[0] https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started#GitHub_Pages_.26_GitLab...
Yes, 13 cents per kg of dead batteries, working out to US$7.30 per kg of lithium.

Actually, though, I see a major error in my calculations. What cost US$13000/tonne in 02019 wasn't lithium; it was battery-grade lithium carbonate. The molar mass of Li₂CO₃ is 73.9 (amu); lithium itself is only 13.9 amu of that, or 18%. So that's US$69000/tonne for the lithium itself, 5.5¢ per battery, and US$1.23/kg for used batteries.

In 02015 the price was only US$6500 per tonne of lithium carbonate and thus US$35000 per tonne of lithium. Most of that was being extracted from deposits like the ones mentioned above: 0.05% lithium mixed in with 99.95% water and other things. I don't think lithium extraction technology has gotten worse since 02015 (maybe it's gotten better, but probably not worse) so I think that's a reasonable upper bound to the cost of refining lithium from such dilute deposits: US$35000 per tonne, US$35/kg.

But, as I said, the batteries represent a deposit that is 35 times more concentrated than the natural deposits currently being mined. That means that it will be much cheaper to refine lithium from batteries than from the natural deposits, although of course the chemistry of the process will be different.

The revised numbers, then, are that old batteries contain US$1.23/kg of lithium (US$1230/tonne); so, if you spend 50¢/kg (US$500/tonne) to buy the old batteries, you can spend 73¢ per kg of batteries to refine the lithium, yielding 18 g of lithium. In 02015 miners were getting paid 63¢ to refine 18 g of lithium from natural deposits, so I don't know if it'll actually cost 50¢ or 5¢ or 0.5¢ to do that same refining from batteries, but it won't be 73¢.

Except at first, because it'll be chemistry Ph.D.s refining lithium a gram at a time at a lab bench, and it will cost US$1000 per gram. But then you gradually scale up the process.
when in flow - does markup really matter then or is it mainly about letters and whitespace in sequence like text/plain?

Not sure but guess for me the latter, what about you?
If "how to be rich" requires you to be comfortable, find an article on "how to be financially comfortable" and act on that advice first. Then come back to the "how to be rich" advice. It isn't rocket science.

And your ramblings about having no opportunities when poor are simply not true anymore. Even poor people can get a cheap computer and internet and have access to all the information in the world. Running a web site only costs 1$/month.

Many startup founders famously slept on the floor in cramped offices while starting up.

And if you really live in such a shitty place, you can still sell drugs and become rich that way.

I sympathize with the poor, but I am tired of these "poor people are such victims, there is nothing they can do to change their condition, ever. They are just victims" type of comments that pop up in every discussion about wealth.
If anything this article is an example how WebAssembly is miles behind of the alternatives avaible in 2011.

Instead of just using Flash Editor with CrossBridge, here we are 10 years later doing low level plumbing into a standard that hardly moved past MVP 1.0 after 10 years.

My favourite talk at Web Assembly 2020 Summit was about the possible failure for Web Assembly to gain wide adoption due to tooling constraints and minimal language support.

This year, my favourite talk equates Web Assembly to the Concorde, that eventually was removed out of circulation, not due to the accident, but the running costs that did not justify high performance cross atlantic flying.

So when will WebAssembly move beyond low level plumbing and compiler toolchains that require npm like dependencies to generate a plain .wasm file?
I mean, as a TSLA shareholder I'm...fine with that? A few years ago people were predicting the company would go bankrupt before they ever became profitable, now the bear scenario is that they become the largest company in their sector by a huge margin until settling into dominant complacency.
Thanks for this article. I'm sure you have seen the materials that the European released in the last couple of days. They touch on the issue of bias as well and, in fact, ban applications that "pose a risk to fundamental human rights":

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...

"The use of real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposes poses particular risks for fundamental rights, notably human dignity, respect for private and family life, protection of personal data and non-discrimination. It is therefore prohibited in principle with a few, narrow exceptions that are strictly defined, limited and regulated. They include the use for law enforcement purposes for the targeted search for specific potential victims of crime, including missing children; the response to the imminent threat of a terror attack; or the detection and identification of perpetrators of serious crimes."
There are federal elections in September in Germany. CDU just fell behind the Green Party in recent polls and SPD (whose Olaf Scholz ultimatively was in charge of BaFin) is a shadow of it's former self anyway. I do not think the everything will turn for the better, but I am hopeful that some actions will be taken. The political style of Merkel - and Germany as a whole for that matter - of a steady hand and waiting for consensus to form to go with, will hopefully be ammended by some visionary ideas.

I feel the German inferiority complex described in the article. I think it is partly built on a misunderstanding: Silicon Valley was not funded by smart engineers thinking in their garages. It was funded by massive military grants. The garages came later. Last time Germany gave out massive military grants it was sadly very able to compete technologically. Everyone knows, who worked on the rockets that ultimatively won the space race.

German universities are indeed world-class. It's not like uneducated people can export this much. The university rankings do not take into account that research in Germany happens at Fraunhofer or Max Planck, which are door to door to their respective university and have shared staff. If all their papers would be taken into account, the rankings would change dramatically.

Germany is capable and cold start investing massively. I think the article exactly gets it: We are just too comfortable. Acting like a big Switzerland might not be glorious but in the end I take a socially relatively cohesive country, where an illness or going to university will not bankrupt you, where your kids can travel alone in public transportation, where police shootings per year are single digits, where the air is very breathable and the tap water is drinkable over world leadership any time.

We can always pump some billions into football or another sport once in a while and watch the nation win the world cup, if we really need to dominate something for no good reason, which is an obvious connection to national pride, the article missed out on.