skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for saying "claims to". Copy pasting a response I made elsewhere:

This is making a mockery of accessibility.

It's the equivalent of having a company that actively discriminates against everyone not passing a internally developed test to check whether you are a "neurotypical" and then respond to criticism by pointing at the wheelchair ramp you installed on one of your entrances.

If I can't copy paste words from your websites to put them into a translator, if I can only use your website when I use one of the two corporate-affiliate-selected screen readers (not even platform-agnostic ones), when I can't look at your website from anything that does not have 4+ cores and a 4G or better connection...saying accessiblity is a "first class citizen" or even citizen at all is laughable at best.
I feel like I work on a different web.

> Note: With great power comes great responsibility! With Houdini you could invent your own masonry, grid, or regions implementation, but doing so is not necessarily the best idea. The CSS Working group does a lot of work to ensure every feature is performant, handles all edge cases, and considers security, privacy, and accessibility.

Sounds like a lot of work to display a bloody list.
I didn't believe you at first, but then I gave it a try.

Yes, they actually built an email client from which you cannot copy text: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/reply
Open web is dying...
In 2018 I bought a Jeep Wrangler for $40,050.

Vroom offered me $42,722 for it today
As I get older that is becoming more of a thing, yes.

My long term plan going forward is that I'll likely stay at a "home base" for a year or three so I can have all those things you mention, then hit the road for a year or so before coming back to that same home base.

It's a tough thing to balance, but on the whole I know I wouldn't be happy if i just stayed in one place indefinitely.
Take a look at the devastation happening in India because of the disease.

Lockdowns were (and are) worth it.
An iPhone (or any other receiver except the tag owner) cannot really correlate tags over a long time except using heuristics.
I strongly suspect that part of the reason sales taxes are easy to pass is because it's really hard to convert that into a dollar amount that you'll end up paying. For income tax, you can ballpark it by just multiplying your income by the percentage increase. If you want a better answer, you need to see how much of your income falls into the affected brackets, but you can still get an answer in 15 minutes or so.

It's really hard to figure out how many more dollars I'm going to pay in taxes if the sales tax goes up 1%. I have to figure out how much money I spend on goods that have sales tax. Okay, so I put $X in my savings account which isn't taxed, and I pay $Y in rent, which means I'm spending $Z on other stuff. Oh right, but not all of that has sales tax, so I have to take that stuff out. It gets complicated, fast, and the best you're going to get is an estimate. If any of those numbers change, my sales tax burden changes.

Plus sales tax is deferred until you spend the money, so there's no immediate obvious impact. It's not like you have less money than you did last year, although your spending power does go down every so slightly.

Income taxes are unpopular to adjust because it's easy to see how much you're losing, and it directly impacts your paychecks, which people don't like.
Be aware that the actual recorded minutes can be amended to erase any mention of opposition, so you need to attend meetings and not just request the minutes.
I think my confusion centered around the mismatch between what I thought you were making, and what you likely are making.

I figured that the average senior engineer in California makes somewhere between $130,000 and $170,000, depending on region.

I had simply no idea that an average senior engineer could be making north of $300,000. That is jaw dropping and of course I understand now how you're able to take time off.

I save over 50% of my income but I don't make anything close to $300,000 so yea, taking a whole year off would be a big chunk of my savings.

I guess I need to try and find a job where I'm making $300,000 lol. Do you have some niche specialty or is that literally just a standard rate?
I think DF will acknowledge most of those points, but also point out that current non market political systems don't handle them well either.

IOW, these problems may not have a great real world solution...
I think the government could beneficially move the bar with something like large guaranteed EV postal vehicle order with requirements to site key factories on the vehicles and batteries in the US. That would give businesses the order sheet backing to get loans and investment in place to build the capacity to supply the gov't order, but also as a good foundation for other customer uses.
Money supply has been going way up, and we've seen massive asset inflation. Consumer prices have to catch up to that at some point, right? Particularly since we are hearing more from the manufacturing sector about COGS going up.
The older you get, the more you've experienced and the less any individual moment represents of your accumulated life.

When you are a child of like 5, a year represents 20% of your entire life. When you don't get that toy. That is literally the worst thing that's happened in your life up to that point. You have absolutely no frame of reference. You don't even have the capability to imagine and compare hypotheticals. You are unaware they even exist.

As you get older, you get more experience, you become capable of hypothetical thinking and comparing events to things you haven't directly experienced. And, any given year is less of your total lifespan.

That's what we call maturity, that ability to reference our own experience. That's why children who have experienced great trauma seem more mature. Because they've been given experiences we don't expect even adults to handle alone. Like kids in cancer wards. They're mostly chill because not getting a lollipop after chemo is kind of insignificant to, you know, having cancer.

It's also a perspective we lose as we get older. We don't remember what it's like to not have that life experience. Not really. I can remember being really disappointed at not getting that really sweet Lego space set when I was 9 or 10, but I can't really feel it again. I look back on that kid as almost someone else. Even though I feel as much myself now as I did then.
I love markdown, all my blog posts, TILs, book notes are in it. Even my presentations are written in markdown. But this comment is so obtuse and user hostile. Millions of people know how to use word processors. Let's not take that away from them or even imply that they're doing it wrong. They're fine. Software can always be improved, like the Docs team is attempting here. But we can't overnight tell people that their skills are obsolete because some developers somewhere like Markdown and Latex.
SPAs to Flutter is a much smaller step conceptually than native to Web. Most of the world is using a Blink-based browser of some sort already. Updates are pushed aggressively.

> What has flutter to offer that a regular webapp lacks?

Google branding, novelty, more sane dev UX. I'm not saying those are good reasons to choose it, I'm just extrapolating from how the industry works.

Let's be honest: end users basically just put up with whatever devs release at this point. It doesn't matter if the end product murders battery life, doesn't fit the target platform, and steals their data. It's not like switching to some less-than-web-native framework is somehow a bridge too far for end users.
I definitely wouldn't call myself a cryptocurrency booster. I similarly wouldn't call myself a Tor booster. But if I saw someone advocating that governments should ban Tor ("what's the point except facilitating illegal activity and harassment/ban evasion/spam/malware/DDoSing/hacking"), I'd definitely want to counter that.

If I ever make my own blog or something, I could write a thorough response to all of his own blog posts, including this one, but I think it's too much to ask for in an HN comment. (I also don't have nearly enough expertise to warrant making a blog or writing a blog post just for something like that.)

I already wrote some responses with regards to ransomware in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27096137, where I argue the root of the problem is the Russian government's policy of not in any way inhibiting cybercriminals as long as the criminals don't target Russian/Russia-allied citizens. I don't think banning cryptocurrency would help decrease ransomware that much. Ransomware was still prevalent before Bitcoin existed; it was just a much more immature space, with much less sophisticated and damaging malware. The top ransomware operators are either going to find alternatives, or, more likely, just circumvent the bans through various means.

Regarding the other externalities associated with cryptocurrencies, I think many of his points are valid. There's absolutely no mention of the positive outcomes, though.

I don't know if those positive outcomes outweigh those harms now or if they will in the future; it depends how you calculate it. I don't know if the positive outcomes of Tor now or ever will outweigh the negative outcomes. I still don't want either banned.

And I think a good case could be made that the positive outcomes may outweigh the negative ones, for Proof of Stake-based smart contract protocols like the upcoming Ethereum 2.0, which will likely be out this year. (And please none of this ridiculous "Proof of Stake is vaporware and continuously promised to be just around the corner, like cold fusion", because it's not true. Tons of progress has been made and is being made every day.)

I don't think cryptocurrencies (like ether) are necessarily that interesting, but decentralized smart contract protocols (like Ethereum) are super technologically and societally interesting.

I think I could write an even longer blog post about the core problem I have with this writing. I would feel this way if I read someone writing like this about almost any topic imaginable in the world. It's extremely one-sided, unnuanced, uncharitable, unrigorous, and comes across as very emotionally charged and biased. (And all this was before I learned he's the founder of a company that's trying to compete with cryptocurrencies in many ways.) The tone and style is the main thing I dislike.
Hi everyone, I wrote this post. I didn't notice it on hn until just now, but I'm happy to answer any questions about it.
More money. Much more money. I could afford a house, not just an apartment with a downstairs neighbor who screams at me for making too much noise. I could have a yard and garage. Don't have to work with marketing folks as much or spend so much time explaining technical concepts. Get to just write code and not deal with so much disappointment in models not working. I'd rather crank out CRUD than spend weeks on something without being able to get it to work. But being on call without extra pay really sucks as does Agile. Granted, our DS team is moving to Agile as well. I want a less mentally challenging job, though oddly DS interviews are far less mentally taxing than the Leetcode gauntlet. Grass always seems greener I guess.
Courier Prime is a good font, but one piece of advice.. if you use fonts aliased as I do, you need to use the original release of it.. the later version on the site which was done by someone other than the original designer (as far as I can tell) stripped out all the hinting so it looks bad if you have anti-aliasing turned off. For this reason, I keep the original around.
Some people are unable to refill the windshield wiper fluid of their car. Some people cannot reattach a button. I think we shouldn't continue to tolerate such incompetence from the general population, or at least charge them an arm and a leg as punishment.

But unfortunately, vendors have caught up and noticed that "an arm and a leg" is lots of money, so if they could just make it a tiny bit harder...
Doesn't that have more to do with the automotive/chip supply issues than inflation?
Most QE immediately after 2008 was just filling bank reserves. It helps banks but the money is only available to those who borrow.

>Printing money and sending it to people does.

That money wasn't printed, it was borrowed because the Fed cannot do that. Only the US government can do that. The Fed may have bought treasury bonds but those still have to be paid back.
Oh no. They're google. They make a godforsaken browser. They can pay people to do nothing more than think about code. By all means. They can launch a satellite with css if they want.

But the rest of us plebs...
Right now probably some people seeing this on HN will be thinking about it.
“ I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter.” Blaise Pascal
I read this as sometimes you need to use an exit hatch like Canvas instead of a bunch of hacks to make a WYSIWYG editor strictly with the DOM. Google seemed to come to the same realization and that is why they are using Canvas
In 1944, 29 reindeer were introduced to the island by the United States Coast Guard to provide an emergency food source. The Coast Guard abandoned the island a few years later, leaving the reindeer. Subsequently, the reindeer population rose to about 6,000 by 1963 and then died off in the next two years to 42 animals. A scientific study attributed the population crash to the limited food supply in interaction with climatic factors (the winter of 1963–64 was exceptionally severe in the region). By the 1980s, the reindeer population had completely died out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew_Island#Mammals
What they know that I’m missing, for me, hydrogen is a dead horse.
"Rolling forward" aka 'guix system reconfigure' can typically be done without a reboot (but you need to restart affected services manually -- Guix will tell you which).

"Rolling backward" aka 'guix system roll-back' is not as integrated IIRC and is easiest with a reboot. You can however "roll forward" to a previous generation (in this example generation 117):

cd /var/guix/profiles/system-117-link
guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- reconfigure configuration.scm
To me this is like saying that because we are no longer able to make good bicycles people should walk everywhere.
Outside of movies, how often do you hear about a police evidence building being raided and key evidence going missing as a result? I don't think it's ever happened in the U.S. at least. Meanwhile, the largest companies there are get hacked all the time with a new article each week seemingly.
Do you think the large performance benefits can be achieved for any general web app (e.g. if I rewrite my Vue app's render functions to using a canvas instead of the DOM) or is the canvas' benefits mainly for niche workloads?
Coming from this direction, especially for deep work, I think the corporate choices of offices have failed so spectacularly that the current Immovable Wall of people who refuse to go off remote is one sign of inevitable fallout from chronic, multi-generational mistreatment. I count myself as one of them.

Having thrown off multiple jobs that tried to reduce me to mindless peon, I find that the attempt to force me into their paradigm is explosive and will only explode more in the future. Via me, or the countless others who see, agree, and comment on this and other threads like it. Revolutions don't have to be noisy :)
People are trying to make DOM be a WYSWIG text editor. You're point is dead on.

The response is to write an opaque, vendor-specific "DOM". Which is the complete opposite of what HTML was supposed to be. But the browser is now a platform and not a browser, so the metaphors are horribly mixed to the point where I'm not even sure what a DOM is supposed to be anymore.
Looking at one side of an equation is never going to tell you whether something is worthwhile. You have to look at all sides.

It's not at all clear that lockdowns were worth it, but I wouldn't say it's obvious in either direction.

Rather, we have been conducting a grand experiment on society, far different than our reaction to other similar diseases in which there was no society-wide lockdown. In fact over several millennia spent dealing with plagues, we have never conducted a society-wide lockdown as a response to an outbreak before now.

This is the first time we've done it, and the full costs of this experiment are not yet known - and they wont be understood for decades to come.
Global renewable energy industry grew at fastest rate since 1999 last year
FigJam: online whiteboard for teams to explore ideas together
Or we could take a look at the example Google Doc linked in TFA - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1XaAI4ZlCUHNWJBXJUBFjxS...

Seems like it's fast (on my machine at least), can select text and Ctrl+F works. I totally understand the urge to complain and doom say, but could we at least stick to the example at hand? I'm sure if you went through this doc you'd find things to complain about. That would be more relevant to the discussion.
Best subcomment on a stack exchange in a while:

"Googling "crazy latex" did not return what I expected."
I'm just curious how does HN prioritize posts. TBH I don't think this is very relevant to HN overall, plus it doesn't have a lot of up-votes and 0 discussion (till now). How does it show up in the front page at all?
It’s not like the w3c provides us all with rendering engines. We still use browsers which do it for us. If these canvas techs spread, everyone will rely on canvas framework toolkits that do it for them. Still not great for user power
This would be more funny if it was less prescient.
The article is from a British publication and concerns two European vehicle manufacturers producing new vehicles, initially for Europe.

"The Swedish truck-maker is aiming for half its European sales in 2030 to be trucks powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells"

"About 300 high-performance hydrogen refueling points would be needed in Europe by 2025"

I'm sure there's enough of a market in Europe for different trucks — there's already different designs and different fuel preferences (diesel/gasoline).
Tree Notation – No/low syntax code
Increasing supply to meet demand should reduce prices.

That is the argument and the desire. Have any cities ever proven that it's true? My experience has universally been that prices go up indefinitely, until the local economy dies and there is no money left to pay the rent.
Its YoY but its still viewed as transitory. Given that the period also saw the economic rebound from the COVID sharp drop, including the fastest quarter of economic growth ever recorded in the US, followed by two more unusually strong growth quarters, it’s not hard to see why. Unless that’s a sustained trajectory rather than just a rebound from one-time impairment, you wouldn’t expect strong demand-pull inflation to continue.
Amusingly, the Amiga lacked cut&paste support in most applications, so someone developed a tool that did precisely that.

Leading to questions like this: http://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=10580.0
I love this! Honestly, if i had heard the name "cloudwrap" on its own without your description, i would have thought: the uber of sandwich delivery...but i very much like your idea better! :-)
Doctors, for one, work to fiddle essentially a blackbox, under intensive regulation, and the results of their work is very hard to measure. This has led to a model where artificial processes are introduced that select for the privileged and the smart to become doctors. The artificial education does not mean these people have more skillsets. Like most education, it just signals conscientiousness and intellect.

On the other hand, software design is probably the single best domain for humans to build new skills, with its fast feedback loop, transparency, ease of measuring results, and the fact that the whole system is more or less documented and obeys human intuitions.
There are samples with the "Download PDF" button. There are no samples if you click the https link to GitHub...
Mental Handwriting Produces Brain Activity That Can Be Turned into Text
There's probably at least three different kinds of when we do this: (1) when a subthread is off topic but the parent comment isn't; (2) when a subthread is a step into flamewar or into more generic discussion, or otherwise breaks the site guidelines; (3) when a comment was posted as a child but isn't replying to anything specific in the parent—this happens a lot, especially when the original parent is the top comment at the time.

Edit: oh also (4) when a subthread is particularly good and on-topic and there's some problem with the parent (e.g. it's downvoted or downweighted) that is preventing the good subthread from getting the attention it deserves.

Edit: oh, also (5) when a subthread is extremely top-heavy and we're trying to prune it to make the tree more balanced.

Often I'll post "We detached this subthread" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but not always. Especially if it's a #3.
Airflow is an acyclic graph, but our user experience graphs have cycles (intentionally).

Airflow also focuses a bit more on being a multi-process data pipeline with workers rather than a way to drive user experiences with rendering, localization, user interaction, etc.
Funny. I'm (OP) considering moving to web projects cause those are more conducive to permanent WFH. Hardware requires physical presence too often.
I am not very interested in whether or not the dataset that these authors chose is a pleasing dataset to use as a basis for a video game aesthetic. I am interested in in the technical accomplishments that this model was able to achieve in regards to preserving image features of semantic importance (e.g. writing, symbols, logos), not "hallucinating" new image features, and maintaining frame-to-frame stability in the output video product. These are very notable accomplishments for an adversarial model in this space, and the techniques they used to accomplish them are interesting. That Rockstar could have made their game more Cityscapes-like without this tech is missing the forest for the trees.
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
Actually, it responds to the entire[1] train of thought that follows that statement. Please re-read what I am saying, and consider it in context. You are suggesting that Google work on updating the standards to make their desired use case work better. I am suggesting that Google's desired use case will never be served by document-oriented standards, and that is why it shouldn't mess with those standards.

Again, the world would not be better off if ActiveX were rolled into web standards back in the oughts.

Leave document standards responsible for displaying documents, and don't let the needs of application people get in the way of that.

[1] Well, I don't respond to your point that Google Docs is intended to display documents - because, as another commenter points out, it's incredibly obvious that its most important function is to edit documents.
If you’re catering to Americans and might want to move beyond just short term stays, Puerto Rico might be a great option for tax reasons and that you don’t need a visa. There are infrastructure and other problems there, so choosing the right location is important, and having a plan when hurricanes show up as well.
Random length lumber futures are up 200% since the pandemic began. Copper and soybean futures are both up 60%. Industrial steel is up 133%. Industrial silicon is up 70%. Sunflower oil +114%. Wheat +20%. Platinum +29%. Gold +20%. Aluminum +32%. Energy futures +30%. Natural gas +42%.

SPX is up 25%, despite almost certainly taking a productivity hit as a whole. The money is definitely flowing, and consumer prices will be a lagging indicator as multi-year supply chain contracts expire and are renegotiated on the higher raw materials prices.