skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps one of those features which should have been made a toggle, but yes: pinch-zoom is an essential feature which all sorts of sites were disabling for no good reason, and so this toy gets taken away from everyone. This kind of tragedy of the commons stuff is why we can't have nice things on the web.
Of course a cheap computer can run the modern web. Even a cheap phone can run the modern web. What are YOU talking about?

You can get a Raspberry Pi 400 and do stuff, for example. With a used computer you could get there even cheaper, presumably.

If you really, really claim you can not even afford that, ask for donations. There are many people who are willing to help, if you are making a credible case of really wanting to learn.

Maybe going into IT is not an option for everybody, but it shows that the broad claim that "poor only get one shot and have now chance whatsoever" is not generally true.

As for tooling, you can still create websites with vim on the command line.

I don't recommend selling drugs. But people growing up in very poor environments got rich selling drugs. Another case showing that poor are not condemned to remain poor simply by virtue of being poor.

Maybe if you are in such a poor environment, and you don't want to sell drugs, sell counselling for drug addicts.

You already seem to have a computer that runs the modern web, or how are you commenting here?

If you can't afford a computer, go to a public library. Or ask at a school. Or ask a local business if you can use their office computers after hour. Or whatever. Do something!

Another idea: since you already seem to have a computer, help out a homeless person by giving them your computer over night, while you sleep. Most modern computers are capable of multiple user accounts. Most computers are idle for 99% of the time (or something).

I'm sure you are aware of the story in India where somebody installed a computer terminal in a wall, and the kids taught themselves how to use it.

Why is it so important to you to believe that everything is hopeless and nobody has a chance in life, unless government rises the minimum wage and instates a UBI?
Fun project: create a favicon using just the right tones of gray so that it appears one way against a light background and another way against a dark background.
Complexity never comes for free.

Running a bunch of services creates all sort of failure modes unrelated to the tests you are running and requires maintenance in the long term.

Adding docker to it only increases the overall complexity.

There are good reasons for doing unit and functional testing with mocks.
strong female engineers exist, so i would ask why you're not seeing them as candidates.
Though I'm sure it's a fascinating interview, I thought the article was really well-written and helpful. I really enjoyed the pace of it all.
I think your phrase "with subpixels" directly contradicts "exceedingly crisp squares". I'm actually somewhat curious what you think a subpixel is, if you think it can combine into an exceedingly crisp square.

For instance, this is the Nexus One screen under a microscope:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nexus_one_screen_mic...

Each of those lights is a subpixel.

The bottom half of this image shows some other common LCD pixel layouts:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixel_geometry_01_Pe...

As you can see, subpixels can be square but usually aren't, and pixels can't be square because they're made of subpixels.

Out of curiosity, I took a picture of my monitor, and this is what it looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/Ce7186v.jpg

These look very different from the microscope pictures because the light sources are "glowing", which I think is probably more accurate to how we actually perceive pixels. But as you can see, "glowing" makes them not square, but round!
"Long says she doesn’t see how Monzo can become profitable without a “radical change” to its business model."

In the article they allude to Monzo not doing much (enough?) lending, such as offering mortgages or credit cards.

This is a very interesting point about what a bank is supposed to be. Starting to sound like that's all a bank can do to become profitable (this is obviously not true, data-mining customer purchasing behaviour has to be a really strong option as well), but that's not my main point. The main point is that Monzo, at least initially, lead with an extremely attractive, mobile-focused, well-designed online experience. They had the 'hip'-factor going for them (I vividly remember, while working at various advertising agencies, how suddenly everyone had the bright-neon-orange debit cards).

Later they also had a reputation for being crypto-friendly, which made a lot of my techie friends get an account with them, after the horror-stories of other banks just closing people's accounts for trading crypto.

But it would appear that customer numbers and a modern attitude alone are not enough to make a bank profitable.

Some more random tidbits: Here is a talk on Go microservices architecture by Matt Heath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiCru2zIWWs

I think this may have been hotly debated on HN as well. It seems they are running well over 1,000 Go-backed microservices these days. This is just staggering. My little project is at a grand total of 4, and I find I spend enough time on interop, to have almost considered monolithing the whole thing again.

And a last one, for a chuckle, here's Halifax's (then) design agency using Monzo assets in a Halifax design deck, presumably because Halifax wanted to modernise their offering and 'be like Monzo': https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/04/15/monzo-clashes-with-h...
C io APIs are sync, but there are so many that are not such thing.
Potentially would even be possible to expose something like the io_uring async api to the browsers I guess.
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I find the boundaries which the "On Politics At Work" blog sets to be very narrow and centered around what that the author thinks is the most pressing issue. The author names 4 points out of which 3 are about equality on the workfloor and one vague one about "what problems do we solve?".

I find it odd that no one even speaks about questions like: "Is this company a net-win for society? Are we perhaps making the world a worse place?". For example is it not important if you work at Uber to discuss how far "disrupting" is allowed to go? When does "disrupting" become eroding workclass rights? Shouldn't you discuss if it is ethical to get a large group of people to work below minimum wage? Or in case of Apple if it is acceptable that the supply chain becomes time and again "contaminated" with suppliers who use forced labour?
The article was pretty clear about that in my view, yes.

> Pfizer is keeping schtum about the detail of the lab tests it has completed but says it has demonstrated “potent in vitro antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2”, as well as activity against other coronaviruses, raising the prospect of a cure for the common cold as well as future pandemic threats.
There was an artile on HN about the influence of movies on "cool".

After Jurassic park, there was a huge uptick in paleontology, and everything else related, even Veterianism (!).

Most of the currents that kids get from movies are destructive to society IMO, but if it could be tapped into - it is a source of influence. Humans naturally copy what they see.

If a series of movies with the hero being an entomologist came out, it would do us good. If there were a bunch of farm boys that played with nature in a way that made it cool, we would harvest the benefits for generations.
In junior high, my best friend and I spent weeks doing exactly this, and spending hours in our math teacher’s classroom, excitedly showing him our work. Thanks for reminding me of this. I can still remember some of our approaches.
That's a start, but having your own domain means that you can choose to host elsewhere later. There is a quick start github project https://github.com/indieweb/blank-gh-site
VS Code themed interactive developer portfolio
10x Decisions, Not 10x Engineers
Stellar Nucleosynthesis
The US has pretty much only two borders, as big oceans make for really good natural barriers.

If you want to see "porous borders" you only need to look at Africa, Asia or Europe, all of which can be walked in-between. Walking from the ME to America? Not gonna happen.

Crossing the Mediterranean is very doable with limited resources while crossing the Atlantic/Pacific with the same resources would be impossible.
"not giving a fuck about differences" is 100% the goal. But there are differences, so ignoring them is just sticking your head in the sand.
How exactly is the US going help India in fighting against Covid-19
Well, I still don't think there's any souls/free will etc in the academic or "objective world" that is provably out there.

However I don't think we're living there. We live in our own minds with a limited view and understanding, mostly dealing with social problems day to day, and emotions coloring that view however they see fit.

So IMO the "soul" and "free will" (or whatever other beliefs one may have) are ultimately metaphors for navigating the complex inner world. They can be very important/useful for the individual and society yet non-existent in the "objective world".
> the browser works out what encoding to use.

Historically, letting the browser guess anything at all has been a disaster. Although IE is all but dead now, there's no guarantee that another browser won't try something similarly reckless in an attempt to be a little too convenient.
I think the probability of Apple allowing that is pretty slim.
> In the European market the range advantage might not be a big deal,

It wouldn't be a big deal if charging time was < 5 minutes.

I do occasionally (once per month or two months) go somewhere that's 800km away.

Driving at 180-200km/h avg speed and refueling once that's a 5 hour trip.

If I have to drive at 120 km/h and charge multiple times I'm looking at > 8h trip or more.

I also drive to some places at 300km distance or so for the weekend, and these places might not have a charger close, and/or harsh conditions (e.g. some small village in the Alps).

I'm a bit skeptic that I can do a round trip to those without charging, and even if I charge, i'm skeptic that at very cold temperatures the battery will hold up well for the last 50-80km part of each way in which there might not be any charging stations (e.g. holding charge for 200km over the weekend or a full week at less than -20 C).

Also, in Europe, a significant chunk of the population rents and lives in apartment buildings, often without parking spots, which means you can't charge an electric car over night. Combine that with few charging stations and waiting at a charging station at 6 am for 1 hour is something people having electric cars actually do talk about. So if your commute is 80km, you probably want 800km of range to only have to charge the car once per week.

Also, charging in the street (there are very very few parking spots outside that do have charging) is extremely expensive (much more than just using gas).

Maybe all these fears are unfounded?

But in a nutshell: battery kilometers at high speed, battery holding at very cold temps for a week, and the ability to cheaply charge at night are what I see people talking the most about, when discussing electric cars.

In pretty much all discussions, diesel cars just sound like the better deal (they are cheap right now).
Because they _do_ have something to do with _actual_ free will.

But this is the problem right there, you call it actual free will and someone believing in magical free will will deny this and call magical free will actual free will. Sure, one can do this, overload the term, and figure out from context what kind of actual free will is meant in each instance. But would it not be much easier to give up on the term free will and use new different terms for different things?
Summary: The Blue hole is a natural sinkhole off the coast of Egypt. It is very accessible, there are many beginners, and there are many unscrupulous dive guides which lead to diver depths.

Some basic diving rules which when broken lead to deaths:

- Not diving with a partner

- Diving below the depth you should be

- Diving after partying the night before

- Rising back up too quickly
I don't think you can call it "irrational". The moment when people buy power plants just to mine bitcoins you have to admit we have a serious problem. So when you say:

> The environmental impact of the first generation PoW systems, mostly Bitcoin at this point, is a waste of energy in the mind of HN. The trust and security that it provides to the blockchain is not valued.

First, we don't care what generation it is: the fact is that Bitcoin causes significant environmental damage. It is not "in the mind of HN", it's physical. As for what you call "trust and security", Bitcoin is an instrument of speculation (or investment, depending as you see it) and as such is extremely unstable, so for me it provides much lower level of trust and security than fiat currency. Not to mention alternative coins that appear and disappear every day.
* 4 dozen == 48
It's true that they tend to miss the big picture, but their attention to details is their strength. In my line of work we take german stuff because they took care of the annoying little details that competitors just ignored.

On the other side when they finally accept to take responsibility over something, you can count on them to do the job! Unfortunately you already lost months negotiating it, you would have been better off doing it yourself.
So you are able to determine the infinite universe, or is this a belief-model?
It does seem weird. All I can say is that changing the tip amount is rare. I’ve never seen it happen, or perhaps I’ve never noticed.

Additionally, I don’t worry about it thou because my past experience suggests I can reverse the charges if I call the credit card company fairly easily.
I'm not really sure what you were expecting?
Well, yeah. Easier to advocate for something if it has a name, I guess, especially when the primary discovery interface for the modern web has become largely a brand search engine.
TIL:

- The term hydronic heating.

- That most Americans don't have hydronic heating.

That's so weird, here in France radiators are just ubiquitous.

This is the detachable showerhead thing all over again. How do you people survive like that? You're supposed to be the highest GDP country in the world!
Find co-creators to write Substack newsletters or produce podcasts
Hi,

I wrote a Substack newsletter once but couldn't keep up. I found it hard on my own. Which is why I created cocreating.tech so people can find co-creators to produce newsletters, podcasts etc. with. After all, quality and highly successful newsletter sich as Petition are run by multiple authors.

So: cocreating.tech

Hope it's useful for you. Also, I'd appreciate your feedback.

Rgs

Alex
I rented Model-3 in Norway. Self-driving just did work not on curved mountain roads unless one is prepared to tolerate constant jerks to left and right. So I quickly turned that off.

But I was impressed by how well the car could stick to the car in-front and keep the safe distance under all conditions including heavy rain at night. This is a mayor safety feature.
Show HN: RSS with Ruby
Yup. I’m in Germany and I get cash back points on my Amex. Same experience that it’s very rare not being able to use it, I carry a Mastercard for that case.
The difficult part in renting is compiling the documentation and to get accepted as a tenant. The dividend and capital gains taxes of 26.4% efficiently cool down unexperienced individual investors. The last 10 years have basically invalidated the possibility of buying housing for any individual on employment contract. Before anything will pop within next 10 years, German boomers will be chocking the remaining population even with their last death throes (while the elites holding the industry will be only consolidating their influence). ie. "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, young, and sane".
Does this mean we can trick Big Sur into not treating TypeScript files like DVD rips?
If the 25mph speed limit doesn't make sense on that road it needs to change. If it makes sense, then the self driving car going at speed limit is the right thing to do and human drivers should do the same.

It's as simple as that.
This is sort of just a proof by contradiction.
I wasn't involved, but I remember considerable interest in Strand from parallel programming people in the lab about the time it appeared. I don't think that lasted long, but unfortunately I don't remember why it failed (if I knew then).

SISAL was probably a better bet as a dataflow-ish language, but I don't remember anyone else looking at it, despite Manchester being "just" down the road.
Some noteworthy caveats from my experience with CSS grids:

- Particularly in Firefox they are much slower. When grids start to pile up on a page, performance goes down the drain

- Implicit row-sizing is not really a thing in Safari or iOS -> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44770074/css-grid-row-he...

Quote from that SO post: "This is not a Safari bug. It's just a different interpretation of the spec.

When dealing with percentage heights, some browsers (like Safari) adhere to the traditional interpretation of the spec, which requires a defined height on the parent.

In other words, a percentage height on an in-flow element will be recognized only when the parent has a defined height.

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, have moved past this interpretation and now accept flex and grid heights as an adequate parent reference for a child with a percentage height.

But Safari is stuck in the past. This doesn't mean it's wrong, invalid or a bug."

Just worth noting, as I had a lot of fun with that one.
May I ask what kind of diabetes does he have, and what vaccine did he get?

Asking as some people close to me are diabetic and will be getting their shots soon. Thanks a lot
> If they were able to make drones work

Yes, let's put powerful lasers on drones flown by AI. What could happen? I just hope the human recognition model doesn't shoot more of one race than another.
> xhtml was never supported by all major browsers.

Source? https://caniuse.com/xhtml says otherwise

> You couldn't do stuff like <div/> and get away with it.

I just tried on both Firefox and Chromium, they parse it properly.
I have run into issues using KaTeX and some other rendering libraries without the <meta charset="UTF-8"/> tag. There are likely other problems that could occur without it.
Those are just statistics or hypotheticals. It's only facts after the action is made.
ID Kiosk skimming or shimming perhaps. Some kind of MitM
> In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

This is good advice but you should definitely include love.
I don't see the link with ICQ here...

Telegram lives on big communities where in many of them trading is already a fact, making it easier to do in app is just another useful feature to then, not something pushing away (or that you are forced to use).

Plus, nowadays there are so many ways to send money, that if you don't like one, you can just decide to go with another path
Apart from the lack of public IPv4 addresses, the other reason that people cite for NAT use is security.

IPv6 does not need NAT.
The hard part is finding out if you managed to achieve it.
> I'm pretty sure you can remove these: <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico">

The presence of the SVG favicon, with the same rel, may throw the default-finding off. I haven’t tested it, but I would expect various older user agents that don’t support SVG to fall over if you omit the favicon.ico link once you’ve provided the SVG link.

> By default servers add the charset as an http header.

This is not true: it depends entirely on the server configuration. Maybe one serves `content-type: text/html`, maybe another serves `content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8`. The reason people recommend <meta charset="utf-8"> is so that you don’t depend on server configuration that the authors of the HTML commonly can’t control, and which may not always be possible: specifically, what happens if someone saves your HTML page locally?

> And since utf-8 is the only valid charset for HTML5 it shouldn't be the default.

UTF-8 is the only valid charset for HTML now, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only supported charset. See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#determining-the-character-enco.... The default varies by locale and even user configuration (see the table in step 9). If the default was changed to UTF-8, many non-English old documents would break. Maybe eventually the default will be changed anyway, at least where the short <!doctype html> doctype is used.
So i guess the question is — should we keep markup for the case where someone downloads our webpage on a legacy browser?

For me the answer is yes, if people are using an old netbook on a dialup connection and they save your site locally to save data. That could be a good idea. I'll do some testing though because I think even old IE defaults to utf-8.
What’s the Deal with NFTs?
In the stream skip to 13 minutes and 50 seconds for the talk about NFTs. The first part is about CBDCs.
Do people respond to insults? Why not just walk away or engage in what is banter?
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
Okta’s Platform to Outsource Identity Management for Busy Developers
Even if you have IPv6, you will be firewalled so that no ports are open for inbound traffic.

You can buy a 4G modem and have the same issue.
It's something out of nothing. It's the same rope with the same properties. You haven't added any extra materials. But now you have a strong loop.

I think it's a similar feeling to building programs. You combine small elements together in the right way and you get something more useful than the sum of its parts.
Is there a paper or more in depth resource for this? I've done continuum mechanics and FEM, but im curious to learn how SDF is unique. The projects looks very interesting!
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Depending on the lender, they might actually be after people who are always in debt, and who pay their credit cards bills each month but never entirely pay them off.
That's not really a thing in Europe.

Renting a big nice car for a 1 week holiday (so ~10 days) sets' you back 1000$, which is a bit over the average net monthly income over here. You can rent a small shitty car for much less, but then you might as well just use your own car.

If money is not an issue, renting a car, picking it up, etc. is a bit of a pain. Since money is not an issue, you might as well spend more on a better car that doesn't force you to do this.

Very very few are going to buy a car that forces them to spend one month full of salary to rent a different car for larger trips.
I found it, Greg's chapter `The Linux Kernel Driver Model: The Benefits of Working Together` on page 267

- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beautiful-code/97805965...

- https://github.com/stormtrooper96/books/blob/master/software...

So I'll definitely give it a read. Thanks!
You might also like this story about a dive in Boesmansgat: Raising the Dead[0]

[0] - https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead
Alzheimer’s Detection Challenge ($50k AIcrowd competition)
Contextualization Engines described in a single comic strip: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KcaUTcaA_xk/TiHCK4inQhI/AAAAAAAAAH...
I've been wondering about this for a while, do you have a reference?

Do you know how humidity affects transmission?

Pre-pandemic I used to go indoor bouldering where there tends to be a lot of chalk in the air and I was curious how that affects transmission. Couldn't decide if the dryer air meant less transmission, or the larger particles meant more maybe. Couldn't find anything about it.
Nope, I haven't been working with C recently.
Yes, but autonomous vehicles with AI don't scale at zero cost like web apps, so the valuation shouldn't have the same multiplier.