skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've refreshed myself on web components, templates and shadow DOM, and I understand how each of them works, but I only see immediate benefits from templates. The rest seems a bit like abstraction for abstraction's sake and syntax sugar over existing capabilities.

What am I missing, what's the elevator pitch for web-components and shadow DOM?

Scoped styles seems to be something that's pushed with shadow DOM a lot, but isn't <style> in the page body illegal HTML (despite yes, it works)?
I'm confused. Do you mean that you stop looking for results once you've seen what you're looking for on reddit?
I hear ya. So much content farm crap there.
Does anyone know of something like this that works on mobile? Couldn't find a Firefox mobile add-on that does this.
Focus is a mental habit connected to reading habits which are mostly just habits of eye movements. If you train your focus by reading long books or similar activity you will get it back, dark patterns are brain/mind damage.
https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 is an amazing application. I was once in a similar situation and this app just automatically determined the used protocol!
Yellow is a stand-in for "any skin tone".
Your objection on the grounds of lack of standardization applies to language as a whole. Dictionaries describe, not prescribe. It is our job to evolve a mutual understanding of what symbols mean and sort out any misunderstandings; it is Unicode's job to provide us with those symbols, whatever symbols we want. And to evolve that mutual understanding, we have to use the symbols. You might ask why bother, why not stick with the language we have? Well, you hear the same objection every time language evolves, and the answer is always the same - some people find the new way expressive and useful, is all.

By the way, we don't struggle with deciphering hieroglyphics - it's a phonetic alphabet, not a pictorial language.
In my opinion it’s part of the famous hackernews shallow/middlebrow dismissal that PG described almost a decade ago. “This isn’t my use case, and is therefore worthless” is also very similar to the famous “This is silly, anybody could build this” top comment on the Dropbox launch post. It’s not limited to HN either - see the Reddit comments on any movie not targeted at the 20-30 male demographic, or hackaday comments on anything looking to improve usability.
Have you tried boarding glasses?

https://www.citroen.com/en/Highlight/55/citroen-launches-the...
Google search is one of the most used products on or off the internet with billions of people using it billions times a day. So no, it isn't dying. It's about as far from dying as any product can be.

There's a different question about the quality of the results and how that's changed over time.
Boarding Glasses for Motion Sickness
Quote regarding their previous work: "However, there is still the risk of security holes resulting from (...) the compiler and kernel developers interpreting the C semantics differently."

Was that really a "risk" ? I think it's a given.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Knuth

also: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/7/229036-c-is-not-a-low-...

In light of that, I'm not convinced by the current increment either.
Usually insurers get make/model/year of the car, and do a Kelly Blue Book or equivalent lookup.
Find five positive integers whose reciprocals sum to 1
> This all reaction reminds me of the “new” skin tone palette of band aids: some people were happy with the change, and it seems to me the impact for everyone else who liked the standard ones was null. But there was sooooo many reactions against the very idea that more than one color was now available.

And now we have superheroes band aids, Elsa band aids, transformers band aids, teddy bear band aids.
It used to be that "plain text" was pretty much impossible to make malicious. Security conscious people have the option of only interpreting plain text emails, for example. This seems to be another example of the human imperative to increase the complexity of everything until it become problematic and then unusable.

I suppose in the future there will be people that refuse to interpret emojis...
Had the same suspicion when the order to install Splunk everywhere came from above.
We already had central logging for years... No reason was given. Just. Do. It.
(Disclosure: I work for a car insurance company. I am not an actuary and have no special insights into how premiums are calculated.)

Gender famously matters too - a 18/M is (statistically) likely to be a worse driver than a 18/F. Rates reflect this. Having once been a 18/M, I have no trouble believing this.

That said, it's very difficult to compare across states. Car insurance is regulated at the state level, so inevitably different states (or territories, or DC, etc.) have made different choices over time. You can do a dollars-to-dollars comparison between any two states but there's a good chance the elements of the policies and liability rules aren't the same.

I suspect there's also some adjustment to premiums done for how much it costs to repair things where you live. Medical care, building repair, and car repair are all things that likely come up a lot on claims. If you're some place where these are twice national averages, you might have higher premiums than you would in a place where these cost half the national average. In addition to the chance of a loss varying by location.
Apple marketing material - its worth watching Iron Sky: The Coming Race the sequel to Iron Sky, Just for the Religion based around apple.
Rename the emoji to "person with two right hands clasping them" and you're done!
Then why do the companies give them out?
Brrr, what an implementation nightmare to even scratch the surface on these topics. It's OK, it's not like I needed to sleep today.
Hehe, sometimes feels like that but we have family stories in my family about incredible things in people's lives. Even if your descendants only get one amazing story out of your life, it adds up when combined with all the other stories from other lives.

For just one example: one of my great great grandmother's was living in the desert and quick thinking when a son was hit in the face with an axe blade, stitched it up with her sewing kit and needle. He survived and recovered. Its just one story, but it's fun to tell in the family
These elite glass-office dwelling executives all know each other from their elite college experience.
Ah so now it’s my fault for being attracted to the wrong women huh?

Nothing can ever be a woman’s fault.
Its best to punish only one side of a bribe arrangement -- usually, the one granting access in exchange for cash.
The reason is that the more parties that have a strong incentive to keep the bribe arrangement a secret, the more likely it will remain a secret.
This is especially true with poorer countries' police forces. If you punish the guy trying to get out of a traffic ticket, you just cement the corrupt cop's power. What you want to do is turn the bribe-taker's position into a very lonely one.
Wokeness at Work: Is the Pendulum Swinging Back? Coinbase, Basecamp and Google
Generate Beatles Lyrics Using a Markov Chain
"San Francisco's experience" proves my case. I suspect that if you poofed one or two of the larger tech companies or VC firms and took the delta in housing prices from reduced demand/speculative pressure and put it towards building, NIMBY laws notwithstanding, you'd solve homelessness in SF. That is the magnitude of money (that is, our past and future time, energy, and belief in our own produftive capacity, converted to fungible currency) that is being siphoned from society in order to prop up an industry with, frankly, a mixed record of public good ROI. That's just one case of many.

The anti-moon mission people were right, in the end. The advances solely attributable to it were few (to ask someone to name them is akin to asking a government official what assets and missions, exactly, Edward Snowden's leaks compromised), and NASA and the government abandoned the effort not when the possibility of further advances dried up, but when the prestige of beating the USSR wore off. This, of course, is the fundamental issue: that the shininess blinds and then dulls, leaving the problems that were ignored still unaddressed. The people protesting the moon missions were:

*Environmental advocates

*Anti-war protestors

*Black and PoC Civil Rights advocates

Consider then, in good faith, the troubles that continue to rock our society, some 40-50 years hence. Interesting parallels.

On the other hand, welfare works. Full stop.

Like I said, we've been conditioned. And by "we", I mean "you."
This article is so true!

I have the feeling that the scientific and critical thinking have greatly disappeared of our modern countries in the recent years.
I'd wager that the popularity of dark emojis has more to do with their contrast and less with politics. Most dark people in the world aren't minorities where they live.
Seems like prions only "infect" the same kind of protein, so a misfolded spike protein that the vaccine might produce would only cause other spike proteins to misfold, and they almost surely don't occur naturally in human tissue so there should be no risk at all.
I feel like the rule "you must stock split before the value of your shares reaches $429,496.7296 per share" isn't going to put too many people off :)
Ah, my bad. Thanks for the correction.
This sounds like an extremely naive and optimistic outlook. Large scale command and control situations are getting increasingly close to reality. Anyone who has followed US foreign policy and the like won’t be too surprised that this guy worked for the military (which is sad, really).
I'm not sure about that, after knowing people at Google who had to sit through HR bullshit like "how to respect your direct reports who sexually identify as Otherkin" the notion of a workplace with a hardline stance on none of this bullshit at work sounds highly appealing. Yes this new policy will cause some devs to avoid Basecamp. But there are many many devs who are sick and tired of woke culture infecting their workplaces who will likely flock to Basecamp and other such companies with similar policies.
European b2c company US sales tax?
We are a Scandinavian company that sells electronic services to consumers internationally.
We pay EU VAT but no other sales tax.

Around 20% of our sales come from American citizens.

Our accountant brought up the question whether we are obliged to pay sales tax in the US for these sales.
There’s a known case 'Wayfair vs South Dakota' from 2018 that ruled that more than 100k USD _OR_ 200 transactions per year in sales to consumers living in that state mandates sales tax from the company. We are way beyond the transaction threshold in many states since we sell low cost products.

We have talked to 2 independent tax experts regarding this but they are not sure and we find it weird because there must be a lot of companies above these thresholds.

Is anyone else in this situation and can shed some light on how you solved it?

Let’s say we are required to do it, based on the Wayfair prejudicing case, are there any American accountants out there that you can recommend to handle this?

There has to be a lot of companies in our position, how do you solve it?
Did you get as far as finding out the level of bribe that the sales guy was offering? I'm curious about the going rate for corporate graft.
Unless you understand IAM, the scoping of individual users from the sftp service can be a bit confusing. What you need is a scope down policy:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transfer/latest/userguide/scope-...

The more annoying part is that the service only supports public/private key logins. If you want user/pass you have to write a lambda. The lambda is pretty simple though, it checks the credentials (so it can hit any backend you like), and if they pass it returns a 200 with a json doc of role (which is just sftp assume role), policy (the scope down from above), and home dir.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/enable-password-authent...

This touches on a larger issue with AWS though. It's that they are trending to leave out functionality and point to lambda as the solution. On one hand, I get it. The lambda solution is infinitely more flexible, but what if I just wanted an sftp for a couple users that uses user/pass?

To your final point, it is so much less maintenance. There is no server to manage, and since I want all the data in s3 anyway, it's already there. This solution replaced a server with chroots, EBS, scripts to move data to s3, etc...
This kind of assassination has a potential if you want to make it look like an accident. Especially when poisoning failed Russians so many times.
Mitigating Cold Starts in Serverless Platforms
Wynter is 1 year old: retrospective
Unistroke recognizer are super easy to write and a nice little afternoon project:

Take the time derivative of the trajectory, and ignore it until it's "large"

Once it becomes "large" normalize it to one of 8 directions (N NE E SE S SW W NW) and push the direction into a list then repeat until the derivative becomes "large" in a new direction or you stop getting input.

At the end you have a string you can look up in a table to get the character.

EDIT: after reading the comments apparently the algorithm PalmOS uses is slightly different.
There is ongoing surveillance from the National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit: https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/figs.pdf
Yes, it's a terrible idea to label them that way, so let's not. Still, we all bear some responsibility in keeping society sane, which might mean just declining to talk about evidence like this until it's solid.
Two of the Most Famous Pirates in History Were Women
A lot of the larger ones have a Code of Business Ethics and is a required training you take yearly. Either Netflix didn't have this, or this guy just didn't care.
I'm assuming you meant "extra-class wasn't really just for bragging rights" because I, too, am an amateur extra and self-taught as I am, learned quite a lot of stuff preparing for that exam that I use regularly in and out of the hobby! And so, let me take this moment to encourage anyone reading to also go for your extra license: You won't regret it! Impress the girls! New and interesting bands to operate on! Bragging rights (just kidding but not really)! Amateur Extra has it all!
I didn't care when it was only utm_ paramters, but the incredible amount of garbage that facebook throws in made me install the plugin
Yes, but at least you are recycling.

Reminds me when they closed a china assembly factory because of online activism, and the chinese people there started starving, because they had no other income. They would gladly have their factory back.

Also most of the help for african countries does the following:
1) There are 1 Million people starving
2) a lot of food is sent there
3) There are now 2 million people starving
It’s worth noting that we’ve never targeted perf on any of these benchmarks, so these are just the results that fell out from optimizing for our production workload, which is a totally different beast.

Most of the hits are due to the default “JIT everything” behavior which is really bad if there are a lot of rarely called functions, but would be easy to fix. This is discussed in the README.
Oh - original counter strike (mod for half life) came out in 2000 - I’m old!
The distinctions between self-control and grit as articulated in this paper speak to one of the fundamental issues that start-up founders face. Defining a superordinate goal that will be pursued with grit, passion, zeal and persistence over a period of years or decades. Versus the self-control at a more granular level which has much more to do with productivity.

But the key is what to do when something (usually market fit) isn't working. Do I persist and pursue alternatives but still all directed toward meeting the same superordinate goal? How long do we persist? How many alternatives do we explore? At what point do I determine that a pivot is needed? That merely changing a lower level approach is failing and I need to take these resources including core team and deploy them to a different superordinate goal?

How do you go about deciding when persistence in the face of failure is enough and it is time to change the superordinate goal?
> On iOS, at least, it's a simple 'press-and-hold' to get the variants which then persist.

actually i believe on first use i believe the tone picker opens, making you select one, which it remembers. Then you can change with press-and-hold
Interesting viewpoint. Not a lot of empathy towards users.
Unicode weirdness has been used to exploit ios multiple times already.
How it changed indeed! Reading my journal for the first four months of 2020 is fascinating. I must have read over those first few months ten times since. So much has happened with advice and guidance changing as we learn more about the virus and the disease. So much mis- and disinformation. Crazy behaviours all over. I am so glad I keep a journal as it will be quite something to read back in a decade or two.

Especially for my 8 year old son. He is old enough to understand things are not normal but young enough to not fully understand the gravity of the situation or have memories of much outside of his little bubble.
That depends on the room. Robert Anton Wilson was generally respected, as was William Burroughs. You could add Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Isaac Newton to the list.
What’s wrong with the Bengali character set? A Google search doesn’t show any discussion on limitations here. And while power and privilege do inevitably play an unintended role in prioritization, Unicode successfully encodes several entirely dead languages - so it’s not like everything not relevant to English speakers has fallen by the wayside.

And while you’re correct that emojii do require some amount of UTC resources, it’s worth noting that most of that work is done by a special subcommittee to not distract from the mainline work of other languages, and that emojii have brought new attention and new volunteers to TUC - so I’m not sure how significant the impact of adding emojii to their workload really is.
Am I alone in thinking that in case of a war between advanced countries every single one will come to a halt because of no power, no gas, no water no anything? No bombs required.

Contingency plan: go back to the technology of 50+ years ago. Remember the old unwired unhackable Battlestar Galactica vs the newer ships hacked by Cylons.
[*] Re-launches.

The White House has had an AI.Gov site for a few years, operated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. For a short while during the transition, the AI.Gov site redirected to a subsite managed by NIST, but now it is back to having a self-managed site.

You can see the old AI.Gov site here: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/ai/

The HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19446726
Needing oxygen to survive isn't really the level we need to be thinking at. Actual life at the bottom of our oceans also doesn't need oxygen to survive. Nor will self-replicating robots, which we're close to implementing and then they'll fit all criteria of life.

Electrons sticking around longer is probably questionable. Do we stick around for 60-80 years? All our cells get replaced in the interim, multiple times. What if the same is happening in electrons?

We know for a fact that it's happening in protons and neutrons. There's no such thing as a "proton" that exists for a period of time. It's a configuration of colored quarks that are constantly in flux, replacing each other.

Also the idea that electrons act the same is incorrect. Many people don't realize, but things like the weight of an electron, charge of an electron... they're APPROXIMATE, and they actually vary a little. We only know the average properties of an electron.

But we also know the average behavior of a voter from an exit poll. Does this mean people are 100% identical? To someone who only analyzes our average behavior it would seem so, but they'd be completely wrong.
Yeesh… feels like a deliberately misreading of what I’m saying yet also you’re inadvertently agreeing with my point.

I have pointed out a couple known and realistic examples why wages in one country doesn’t imply they’ll work in another, under the umbrella of a single corporation.

As you say, making that implication as OP and you did is spreading a claim Without doing any work to justify that claim.

That work needed is financial statement analysis, starting with breaking open a 10K. It’s
not my job to do that, as you’re the pair that made the implication in the first place.

I’m pointing out that by you not doing the work to justify the claim, there are numerous straight forward financial accounting reasons for why the claim could be wrong.

If you don’t know much FSA, that’s fine, but from that knowledge base you should know that you’re basically saying it could rain purple and it’s my job to use standard weather data to disprove why that’s not the likely answer.
> Kail created and controlled a limited liability corporation called Unix Mercenary, LLC,

This is like if Bernie Madoff named his firm Ponzi Holdings, Inc.
That’s pretty bad. I think TikTok’s risks are higher than people think. It’s better to avoid it.

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/

Any company running out of mainland China is going to have serious privacy problems due to CCP influence and their need to comply with both local laws and the government’s interest in influencing public sentiment.
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May I ask how much do you receive as your 5/7 9-5 job's salary? €560,000 a year?
The fact that men, in general, are so scared to show their emotions suggests that this is extremely common.
Thanks for sharing this. We filter some of these from submissions to Lobsters (https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/f25fc62d7603c1bf70...) and I'd be glad to expand it.

In your second list, are those the names of query params? I'm puzzled by the inclusion of @ in many of them, maybe you're saying that '_encoding' is a tracking param on any amazon domain, 'sk' is a tracking param on bing.com? What does the $ in the first entry indicate?
The chances of dying in an accident in a vintage car far exceed the chance of being hacked. Choosing to drive that car is fine, but definitely not “for safety”
We're pushing the envelope with CSS grid in interesting ways to make it resizable along any dimension. The end result is content agnostic since we're only touching grid properties.

The focus is on building a super minimal yet robust tool. JSFiddle uses the previous iteration of this library, Split.js.
Yeah that's why there are people who argue non-free software should be illegal entirely but it's much harder to convince people of this (although Apple and Google certainly have made it an easier case to make.)
It’s also likely that this change, which is a big win for our prefork production environment, drags down our benchmark results. It makes every incref and decref more expensive.
Both great points. Regarding your second paragraph, note that this isn't so bad for multi-core processors. For randomly scheduled processes, the (expected) maximum response time is the maximum time between yield points divided by the number of cores. And the OS could maybe do something smarter by making sure that at least one core has a time-to-yield which is very small. This would mean that you can still have very large time-between-yields for some processes without affecting the maximum response time.

And my hope was that simplifying the hardware would allow us to fit more cores on the same chip. So your first point means that the per-core performance is worse but maybe for some workloads the processor performance as a whole is better. But yeah not sure if that's realistic.
FORTRAN is still the performance normal any numerics and linear algebra language is measured against. Up to now, most fail or require very ugly code to get up to FORTRAN levels of performance. Others cheat and just link FORTRAN libraries to do the heavy lifting.