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You know what I'm tired of? Slow apps. Google Docs is a great platform but performance has always been slow compared to native Office. I welcome this change. Draw the document quickly and make me more productive.
I'd be very curious to hear if they looked at SVG. I assume it's less peformant, but maybe for word processor it would be about equal. Easy to imagine canvas outperforming SVG for a spreadsheet app.
I read somewhere that because people don't live that long, we don't have a collective memory of previous disasters or pandemics (anyone who was alive today during the 1918 pandemic wouldn't really remember it), so human history simply happens in cycles or waves. The underlying conflict is the same, but a new set of humans deal with it with the technological tools of the day.

Simply put, if the human lifespan were longer, we might give less fucks about natural disasters because we've seen them before.
I guess if grown adults are akin to puppies for you in this situation and the writer is cruel and rude for not writing another book then we see things too differently to agree in any meaningful way.
I do like seeing the new Writer interface consistent across multiple applications, and it's very intuitive to use.

I do find this interface is slow to load of even semi-large documents, especially when large tables are involved. That and a few formatting/editing quirks are the only real complaints I have. Otherwise I find Writer a great alternative.
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> The web is becoming less open.

Canvas and WebGL are both open standards, no? There are a million and one examples of losing openness, but I think this isn’t one of them.
Another thing that blew my mind recently was that Rollercoaster Tycoon, a fairly complex game, was hand written in x86 assembly...

Although, this is less crazy when you think about how heavily you can use macros, and sort of roll your own high-level language yourself.
The problem is that the escape hatch from document to application is completely broken. The DOM is fine for documents, but it's completely awful for applications. Admittedly, some things on the web that should be documents insist on being applications instead, but many things on the web aren't documents.

For these things, using the DOM is painful. When the pain becomes great enough, the biggest available escape hatch is pure native 2D rendering (canvas), which is a nightmare for accessibility and affordance to end-users. It would be awesome to have something else to escape to.
Sounds like a reasonable position and that clause is something that needs to be addressed.

I would get into specifics. These are my projects A,B, and C. They are related to this position, but I would like to maintain full ownership of my work.

If they say they will claim IP on the projects then what you really have to talk about is /selling/ your projects to the company. If they won’t offer anything, then they have no value to the company, in which case they should let you keep full ownership over the projects, but I wouldn’t surrender them for nothing.

This isn’t an acquihire, it seems that the projects were not part of your interview process, but the job offer is the start of the negotiations. You can just counter their offer rather than asking for permission to not accept the terms.
"Poor boy shuffle"
Did you try using dev/canary Edge? It should pretty much be the same rendering engine and JS engine as Chrome. Definitely report this to the Edge team if you have the time (very easy to do from the dev version of Edge). In my experience, they are very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions.
What have I learned in the corporate world over the past years?
People talk according to their profile status; CEOs talk about money and moving forward while technical teams talk about code and metrics.
JavaFX's text rendering is busted on macOS since Mojave in 2018:

https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/229#issuec...

So I give it an 'F' for the "look" part of look-n-feel.
> Documents are the quintessential use case for the Web, full stop, and they're the direct object of whatever the verb form of "Google Docs" would be.

You seem to be basing your whole point on the misplaced idea that the web is great at displaying, nay was specifically made to display Google Docs' class of content. This is incorrect. At its core, Google Docs is a typesetting engine with semantics and features that don't align well with HTML+CSS. Typesetting is about graphics, the web (and HTML) is about content. They're very different use cases.

> [...] what this is is just shy of an abrogation of their responsibility to act as a steward for the Web

Google has no obligation, either moral or legal, to be a technical leader. They're simply a market player. The only way in which I care about this change is how it affects me as a user and it's nowhere near as catastrophic as you make it sound imho.
Sample doc isn't editable affect, presumably to hide the fact that in addition to overriding standard scrolling it also doesn't support international text entry or, 50/50, standard and custom key shortcuts from the OS

[edit: I was right - cmd-f doesn't use the proper find ui, cmd-e doesn't update the search pasteboard, and cmd-f doesn't track the system search pasteboard.]
Sure, I was just addressing my parent comment's proposal and providing more context.

I don't really care for it, although I will have to say it would probably work better in the case of opaque public bodies very few people vote for elections in (e.g. a local American school board)
You're right. It's been a while and I forgot the exact issue. I looked it up on StackOverflow, to refresh my memory [1]. It is indeed possible to thow exceptions within a lambda.

My issue is that for something as everyday as "throwing exceptions", you have to define a separate interface, or catch it inside the lambda. The first option being the Evil Verbosity everyone is on about, the second essentially rendering the exception useless as an instrument.

[1] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18198176/java-8-lambda-f...
Or, hey! slow SpaceX down with regulation!1!!
I constantly wonder why so much work on CSS and absolutely zero work on implementing basic primitives like <input type="slider" min="0" max="1000" step="10"> and <input type="toggle"> and <tabviewpager><tab></tab><tab></tab></tabviewpager> and <input pinchzoom="true" src="foo.jpg"> and other utterly basic UI elements with full support for swipe gestures.

It's 2021 and people still do div and javascript hell to implement these things.
Yeah, I agree that error handling is not entirely on-par with the rest of the Rust developer-friendliness. I just use anyhow everywhere :D
The next step will be that they just send you images.
Doesn't the Mirai have less passenger and cargo room than the 3 due to the inherent packaging issues with hydrogen?
Liquid Democracy is a quirky concept that would probably resolve the problem you're describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
The absurdity of our modern markets in a nutshell: the only thing that matters is the Fed.

"Largest miss of jobs numbers in history" = "Stocks hit new highs as traders expect long term low interest rates"

"Largest increase in inflation in many years" = "Stocks sink as traders fear Fed tightening"

Things are so bonkers now that bad news about the economy pushes stocks up, rather than down, because it means the money printing will continue.
Canvas is already a thing, but ultimately the biggest advantage of HTML-based UI is the layout engine. People want to throw together some <div>s and a stylesheet and call it a day.
you may not be as far off as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
This has been bothering me for years, long before covid-19. Avoiding risk has become such a huge part of our culture that most of our standard salutations revolve around this: "stay safe", "have a safe trip", "drive safely", and so forth.

I'd much rather that people would wish me a fulfilling life in which I available myself of many rich experiences.
If you made me put a number on it 1 and 4 show HN posts that hit the front page are pretty impressive. The other 3 get there from a mix of "hot" tech, a good title, and a slow news day.
I need to invent faraday cage paint :p
I can just imagine going to that HOA meeting:

Here's the plan for the reactor installation. Does it look good to everyone?

Yes.

Okay, next item: What color shall we paint the bike shed?
> use macros, and sort of roll your own high-level language yourself.

See also Engelbart & Co. Amazing how productive this approach can be.
That giant reaper skeleton model is a favorite of mine. I'm impressed by the artistry on the Bezos head they've added to this one, but the frame is spot on for the ones I used to see around SF all the time.

After a couple of times seeing it in different places, I noticed a marking on the black fabric in a specific place - Just a white paintstain. It was the same reaper, repurposed again and again; And then I started noticing that the dude with the protest sign was the same each time, too. Must be a sucky job, carting that thing around. I wonder how many portable installations there are.
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Yea, but let's metaphor the boogey man issue to driving a car. When you drive, you're often avoiding collisions. Mostly passively. If you drive faster than the car in front of you, you will crash. If you dont brake at a red light, you will crash. Most people dont crash most of the time because they respect the threat. You cant just go, "you know, I haven't crashed in 5 years. I dont have to brake at this red light." Sure, inflation issues aren't that prevalent in the past few decades. Doesn't mean you stop assuming it's not a possibility. You do things to avoid it. The longer you do that, the longer you avoid problems. You cant stop your precautions just because it's been a while, then whine why the problem reemerged.
The best approach for a desktop first cloud-backed solution is possibly to have a VDI with Windows (on AWS for example), and use Microsoft Remote Desktop from your preferred physical computer to access it.

I have multiple desktop Macs in my various homes but I only use them for web browsing and RDP to the same Windows VDI.
> ... it's hard to beat just drawing on a canvas or using WebGL.

Both of these APIs perform quite poorly for what they're doing.

To compete with native, the web platform needs simple low-level APIs that do not have a lot of Javascript marshalling overhead and other performance cliffs. You can always build a more convenient library above low-level interfaces, but the opposite is not true.
I don't think naming it "etelegram" would have changed anything. It's just a name.
It's complicated. Two points:

* If you keep your baby, you are nearly-guaranteeing hunger of your family or your village in 10 years or so. And people in your community would hold a grudge against you and your child for it, from day one.

* The cultural norm regarding when life is sacred was different. Many people in the US believe in-womb abortion is not particularly enlightened either.
Isn't this well known since at least the "people crying at their desks" series of articles?
This is physically impossible perpetual motion.
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Please note that I did not hack the Apple Airtags, I'm just using the video's title :). All credits to stacksmashing of course.
gallery coming soon — i've been resharing some nice pages on https://twitter.com/xhfloz in the meantime!
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Great to see Deno going from good to better and better steadily over the past year. It is such a pleasure when compared with Nodejs projects. Always appreciate products that make life easier.
Any chance for AsciiDoctor support?
I have been following the progress of Deno for a little bit, and slowly but surely the project is evolving from a full-scale Node.js replacement to a serverless/edge compute platform. I get that it's the hot thing in tech these days, but to me that just isn't very appealing.
I dunno - I could see a huge market for wallpaper with embedded wire mesh in it :)
In theory but they're still vaporware.
Are the unit behaviors coded in C, or some scripting/config language?
But are those major? Major would be if someone could blow up so much that we take down Lehmans again, despite all the stuff that's been put in place since.

The PB thing is interesting to me, I never took a massive position across PBs but I had assumed if I did they would ask whether I was doing the same trade everywhere. At least when executing FX trades electronically, they all said it was a big no-no to split the trade across banks.

> I'm fairly certain we'll see some overhaul on the swap side to shed more light on what positions they hold, similar to what hedge funds have to file quarterly.

I bet someone with a bit of crypto knowledge could invent a way to report this without revealing exactly who has what. At least it sounds like one of those zero knowledge games.

The FO thing yeah, maybe they shouldn't have that loophole.

Single price mover, yeah, I don't think it's healthy. In general I like transparency.
This is like saying "electricity also had negative effects because it's used for meme-y things like Christmas tree lightning or controversial stuff like Bitcoin mining". Yeah, fine, but literally our entire modern way of life is based on electricity. I wouldn't go as far as saying our entire way of life is based on the Web, but the Web definitely plays a huge role. Even if you want to ignore the Web personally, if you go out to buy bread, the bakery probably ordered the inventory via a website, so thanks to the Web.

And if the Web's application layer is not HTML, CSS or Javascript, then what is it?
And then you have to shut down lots of supply chains. You could just route the tracks a minimum distance from active volcanoes and not worry about the next eruption disrupting transportation.
They don't need to be better than native, they just need to be better than the DOM plus have the advantages of web-based distribution.
Hey, nice! I have a notes file experimenting with a similar tree-style minimalist data notation; it's definitely an area that needs more exploration.

I like what you've done with it, I'll need to take a closer look.

While I was thinking about it, I also decided to take a look into prior art, which took me all the way back to Landin's "The Next 700 Programming Languages" from 1966 which introduced the hypothetical language ISWIM, which was the first to introduce indentation based syntax and inspired the ML and Haskell family of languages (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf)

It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it's fascinating to see how long we've been thinking about these kinds of issues.
Already posted a few minutes earlier. It's better to keep all the discussion in one thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27133156
Like Amazon Sidewalk?
This is a great model, because then the neighborhood can use the reactor waste-heat for district heating!
A good place to start with pricing is tiers at $49/$99/$249.

(As recommended in Jason Cohen’s classic and awesome talk “Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business”: https://youtu.be/otbnC2zE2rw)

Customers at very low price points (such as $9/month) tend to churn quickly, and, counterintuitively, send more customer support interactions per customer than at higher points. You’ll never earn enough from them to cover your customer acquisition costs.

Getting rid of the cheap plan also removes the, shall we say, more difficult customer.
And launching to lower orbits means higher payload to orbit per launch which means they can launch more of their constellation per launch. (Although they probably a larger constellation at those orbits just due to how short the orbital periods are.)
Very interesting and well-written. Thanks.
can you try it again? this should be resolved
> Natural disasters are a part of living on our planet.

No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid.
Presumably, can't provide an example. You provided an example, so you can't.
>Also, expect to have very strange windows.

I have screens on my windows so I can have them open yet not have bugs wandering in and out - just pick wire mesh and ground it. Done!
If you operate under the same restrictions as React (single-threaded, you must call a setter method to modify properties rather than accessing them directly, code outside your class is responsible for deciding whether to call its "render" method) then yes, it's the same. Change any of those and it gets harder in basically the same way it would for Hooks if any of those changed.
> The champions for electric trucks should push for trash pickup, route sales, local delivery, etc. and not bother with long haul for now.

Indeed, and earlier we discussed plans for battery electric trucks by Volvo (one of the company's described in this article):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24999239

Batteries for short-haul, hydrogen (or something else) for long-haul.
> HTML and CSS were/are all built-around describing and styling textual content, and computer program source code files are invariably all textual content files.

HTML and CSS are fairly well optimized, but dynamic HTML and the DOM were an afterthought. If you could throw out a lot of the guarantees about DOM behavior, you could make a much faster browser, but you'd also break the web.
That logic has a few holes in it. Being bailed out by an entity that was bailed out by the government does not make you bailed out by the government.
> Hooks are class-declaration except your properties and methods are read FIFO in declaration order, rather than by a lookup table.

React Hooks are equivalent to React class components all of whose state management is done through setState, but with the difference you describe. Personally, I find hooks more natural than classes whose state management is done exclusively through setState, but that’s obviously a big YMMV.
That’s fine but I think it’s disingenuous to pretend there are no losers here.

When schemes like archegos blow up, it often costs a lot of people who don’t even know they have invested in stocks (e.g their pension fund does) some of their life savings.
Exactly, spectrum is the scarce resource here, and it already is regulated. There is no need for additional regulation regarding that, and there already is regulation of orbits between FCC and FAA.
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That's the goal smaller safer and economies of scale, PowerPoint size reactor complexes are rarely built and are one off designs with high level similarities.
There are so many large issues that this could be spent on:

1. Pushing pension funds toward solvency (perhaps the rising stock market has helped a bit there already).
2. Reducing fire hazards by burying power lines.
3. Improving the dire housing situation by providing funds for development of more housing, or incentivising cities via money payments to encourage more housing.
4. Providing incentives to companies that are leaving for Texas, thus boosting long-term employment prospects.

Are any of these included in the spending plan? It appears that a huge bulk of it is simply a giveaway to the voter base that is likely to vote for this Governor next year.

The only positive I see is that there appears to be some work to alleviate the housing issues by reducing pressure on renters (and landlords), thereby averting further catastrophes in housing (even more people becoming homeless).
Blowing Up (2002) [pdf]
Buy now, pay later for rent and healthcare?
Tips to finding good domain name for projects
I did not. I'm not saying the game looks real, just that it looks less "wrong" somehow, to me.
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Maybe, but we could create a transport infrastructure that has 99.9999% uptime instead of 99% uptime.

It would be more economical for Google to use 99% uptime systems but they do go the extra mile for 99.9999% uptime.
There are primitives like that, such as https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

There's even a color picker in native html now.
Well, it may not have blown up any banks, but Credit Suisse is kind of imploding right now.
> It’s like people think monetary policy either only happens in the past or only happens in one direction.

You can make a very strong argument that monetary policy for the last 20 years has has little effect on CPI and strong effects on asset prices.
I really like that scenario, but I don't think market forces are moving towards it.

Then again, we got wasm, and that feels like a miracle in itself.
I thought there was some kind of separation between ownership and management in an llc? Like, the company is its own entity, it makes its own decisions, and it can borrow money by itself. And then the individual shareholders are not liable for the company’s debts.

But you’re saying that the sole shareholder can also be the management?

I guess in that case it’s really up to the bank or brokerage to have enough sense to not lend your llc money if the business plan is to fly to Vegas and put it all on red..
> These compact reactors will

> smaller design concepts will

> Most designs will

Sounds like these are goals not accomplishments.
Seriously?

> The most recent example I can think of is Melvin Capital (a few months ago). They were bailed out by Citadel.

Citadel buying a controlling interest in a fund that was historically very profitable and hit a huge a landmine, allowing them to buy at a huge discount, isn't really a "bailout" in the same way you're suggesting. Citadel didn't slide them a couple billion dollars under the table and say "don't worry about it, you get me next time".

> Citadel was bailed out by US tax payers in 2009 via AIG

This was, quite literally 12 years ago. These events are in no way related. Almost every bank was subsidized in 2008/2009. This isn't some unscrupulous "tax payer to hedge fund" hidden money pipeline.
Many are ignoring the fact that his leverage increased partially because the positions went up (a lot). If you buy $200mm of Viacom on $100mm of capital, that's 2x leverage. But if VIAC grows 2.5x (as it did between January and end of March) that's a $500mm position, so 5x leverage.

Yes, you're entitled to the gains, but at the end of the day the prime brokers hold $500mm in VIAC stock and $100mm in cash. The prime brokers should not have been lied to, should not have been allowed to get these positions on swaps, and finally should have had an internal risk alert that says "this client is way past their leverage budget!".