skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * “We don’t need to ban travelers from China, that’s absurd and xenophobic!”

Fauci and the CDC were the ones who told Trump in January to ban travel, if you didn’t know. Fauci spoke in public in January 30, 2020 in favor of the ban.

Trump claimed many months later the opposite but he is a known liar.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fauci-china-restrictions/

“ According to a March 2020 Wall Street Journal article, it was HHS health officials (including Fauci) who had to convince Trump to agree to the China travel ban, not the other way around:”

> 2 weeks to slow the spread, then this will all be over”

Unclear why you put this in quotes. This was the message from certain politicians like Trump, but it was never said by anyone who would typically be called an expert.
> Except we have plenty of evidence of Scams,

Not really - we have a few press pieces. Nothing like the millions of scams that are stopped.

> and plenty of evidence of Apple blocking the perfectly valid apps.

Not really. We have a few prominent examples which are generally resolved by the developer adhering to the guidelines.

> And more that App Store isn't only about protecting people but also act as competitive advantage.

The App Store is a competitive advantage because consumers want a safe, trustworthy, and curated place to buy software.
Figma does use canvas, Framer doesn't if that's what you meant.
Interesting. Looks like each page is a separate canvas, and the canvas are reused as you scroll the pages (just like how list view reuse cells when you scroll in a mobile app). The canvas seem to be only used for rendering text and tables though, images and graphic elements are still drawn as svg dom elements.
They said there's no way a hacker's crime can be worse than a rapist's. And that's just an absurd statement to make; comparing them in general for which is "worse" is already an exercise in futility.
RE: Why track, I think it's for both:

* I want to be able point to past achievements and see the value I'm adding (both for personal well-being and also CV writing/interviewing)

* I want to be able to see what I've done in a day/week/month/quarter to see if I'm performing well and delivering what both I and (potentially) my manager expects.

* If asked why X hasn't been done yet, I want something concrete to point to so I can provide my reason, without fumbling around for excuses or reasons I can't remember.

Is there any reason you chose RTM specifically? I happen to use Bear for my daily notes, but I'm wondering if perhaps just a to-do tracker (Kanban, RTM, whatever) and a single achievements.md file might be better.
Money? Just like any other job. It pays better than fast food.
What makes Google Docs a better product than MS Office? Can you provide some examples of features that are better in Google Docs?
Oh, I think you're referring to the "Computer Modern Serif Slanted" sample (not the "Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic"), right?

Yes, the @font-face rules for that family have 'font-style: normal', whereas they should really have 'font-style: oblique' which would have avoided that ugliness.
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Actually, I am. I benefit from a lot of public services, and I'm sure you do too.
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Thanks! Though I have to say, credit for the open access is entirely due to librarians of the UC system. I just had to click a button saying I wanted it to be made available. The work was already done via this 2019 agreement with Cambridge: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relation...
Cool, but I don’t see it being viable, commercially.

Suppose they make this, how many would they sell? How many of those customers would have bought an (more expensive, I presume) iPhone if they wouldn’t make it?

They stopped making iPod touch for similar reasons. I doubt adding this feature would attract enough extra buyers to change that.
When ad blocking on web becomes impossible/nonviable, I will retreat from using it, as I have retreated from using most popular sites, unless absolutely.

I already don't have a TV, don't have any news apps on my phone, don't have any newspaper subscription, and I find that all the important news find their way to me no problem. I will add large degree of WWW to it and be mostly fine.
Traditionally, the value of a business was related to the net present value of its future earnings. I don't know if that's an ironclad rule in today's investment world. But I think that reasonably anticipated future revenue is still a form of value.
Really cool stuff, here is my microsite i made for the music i made that i uploaded to youtube: https://mmm.page/danstar.main
My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1
A lot of reports on the internet about this.

I updated this morning and continued working on an iOS app. Everything felt slow. I thought I did something stupid in my code. Apparently not. As per this Geekbench 5 test, the phone scores ~1200 where it used to regularly score ~3000+ (!!!).

There's a lot of rumors what's the cause of this but no official explanation from Apple as of right now that I can find.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
Figma uses canvas to render the document, just not for the editor UI.
Ask HN: My company wants me to give up my own code / utilities is that legal?
I work as a cloud engineer. With so many years of being in this business. I have developer many custom utilities do to a lot of stuff much faster with cloud providers. a lot of it are custom scripts python /bash / that helps me do a lot of my work more efficiently. These are tools that have grown over time that do help me a lot and mainly i use them myself just to make my job more efficient. During a presentation i had my boss saw my utility folder on my terminal and asked me about it. I showed it and then said I should put that into a git repo and make it accessible for everyone. I told him that I am not interested in doing that because this is NOT company code as it existed before and also the repo only makes sense to me and that I don't think i want to make this into a company asset to then maintain it for the company.

These are utilities that have grown through time a provide a lot of value for me but i don't feel comfortable sharing this. Is my employer allowed to ask me to submit this code and give it to them so that other engineers can use it and probably i have to then support it. ?
> how would breaking Apple's monopoly on Apple's products affect Privacy?

Currently you are forced to use Apple's AppStore and payments. Apple invades your privacy and tracks your activity without any ability to opt out.

If you could install other software on the devices you own, you would have a choice to avoid this tracking.
Adblock / pihole technical impossibility, too.
HTML and CSS are fantastic; when used what they were designed for. Document markup and display. I blame webapp developers for the scope creep and subsequent denigration of a perfectly reasonable set of standards.
The "about rich people" part is probably a distraction now that I think about it. With regards to culture building, I think it's much more important to focus on who is telling the story, not what the story is about.

Poor people telling stories about rich people still enables the poor to have agency in culture building. (And, in fact, it is probably most effective to have them tell stories about the rich so that the rich can be seen from an outsider's perspective.)
There's 600+ patches needed to build chrome on BSD, and upstream is constantly churning, which means they need maintenance.

Upstream refuses to import anything related to BSD support, so they need to be maintained out of tree.

And this is for a much more popular set of projects.

"Not an easy task" is a bit of an understatement.
That's a good point. It's not clear how to square the circle of making your content sufficiently accessible that it can be indexed by Google properly, but ad blockers can't get a grip on it. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not clear. Any website that wants to go to 100% pure WASM canvas code is going to have serious problems with getting indexed properly. Anything they do to scramble ad blockers will scramble the indexing as well.

It makes sense for google docs because the contents of the documents shouldn't be indexed (mostly). And of course there's the special case here of Google having both the document and the web engine so they'll always be able to index the public documents, even if nobody else can. (I'll pencil in the antitrust hearings for this for 2027 or so.)
High-performance brain-to-text communication via handwriting
A dystopia. You can't control-F in the page. Can't copy and paste a word you don't know into a translator or dictionary. Can't share text unofficially - like copy a sentence into a email, etc.
Personally I tend to find the "Tales" less interesting -- the creative constraints imposed by writing everything in terms of containment procedures are where much of the fun comes from in my opinion -- but in general I can't say I agree that over-explaining is a new problem. Finding the right balance of how much to explain vs how much to leave to the reader's imagination is pretty much the whole deal in this type of writing (or horror writing in general!) and not everyone hits the mark, that's been the case all along I think.
I wholeheartedly recommend "The hungry brain" [1] for a fascinating view on obesity, brain and genes.

This is not to say that your post suggest that obesity is just "laziness". On the contrary, I wouldn't have recommended the book if that were the case.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29243729-the-hungry-brai...
The US has one of the best freight rail networks in the world. It is far from a boondoggle. There is potential to further expand it, and reduce carbon emissions through electrifying tracks.

Passenger rail is a whole separate problem.
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On Wikipedia it says that Find My is enabled for certain third-party accessories [0], so you could probably join if you wanted.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_My
The grid needs to smarten up to reach clean energy goals
I give the gdocs team credit for reaching out to developers of Chrome extensions that may be affected. My accessibility Chrome extension [1] will be broken by this change, and I reported this when asked by the gdocs team a couple months back.

I don't know if feedback from my company and others might sway this decision, or if it's set in stone (it's kind of weird to ask for feedback on something that has already been fully decided). I also don't know if they'll be providing more details regarding the timing of the rollout, which seems important since this will break third-party products.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
Are you not feeling anything from green tea?
I think they're implying DRM laws associated with the data-streaming.
Try having kids. Your hard-earned wisdom runs like water off a duck's back. But, keep giving it. At least you can say "told ya so"
Browser's built-in search feature (e.g. "find in this page..." on firefox) doesn't work though.
It's my understanding that it is illegal-ish, depending on the exact circumstance.
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_a...
Indeed. There are whole sites and communities devoted to this question, with rankings and data.
That’s a superstition created exactly by the other information-gathering they do—and the information they share.

You might think that Facebook knows about what you’re thinking about buying on Amazon because you’re talking to your spouse out loud about buying that thing. But more likely than not, it’s because you also mentioned it on Facebook Messenger — or Instagram, or WhatsApp. Or, because you already searched for the thing on Amazon, and Amazon sold that data to Facebook. Or because you watched a video about it on YouTube, or read a review article about it (which is what inspired you to be interested in buying it in the first place), and YouTube or that media conglomerate sold your data to Facebook/Amazon/etc.

Likewise, if Amazon knows about your Facebook activity, that’s likely an example of data-sharing in the opposite direction — Facebook selling to Amazon.

Of course, both Amazon and Facebook also partner with tons of other smaller third parties as well, to do ad-tech targeting that those third parties don’t bother to do themselves.

Something people always wonder about is how Tumblr still exists, despite having the worst internal ad-tech ever. Well, they don’t need to make money showing you ads themselves; they can just sell your data to Facebook/Amazon/etc., to improve their ad targeting of you.

Same goes for, say, Wordpress. Just because a blog doesn’t have ads on it, doesn’t mean it isn’t collecting your data and feeding it into one (or multiple) of the big five’s ad-tech backends.
Show HN: I made a service for check website broken links and forward to snapshot
In technical book publishing, the publisher is a good signal as to the quality of the contents inside. I have never seen a worthwhile book from APress.

10 books from an author of technical books is a negative signal. There's not a lot of money in writing technical books so there's an incentive to pump out books without concern for quality. I remember trying to learn C++ in the 90s and nearly every book I read was complete garbage (the authors seemed to think that C++ was C with different comment syntax and using cout << in place of printf). It wasn't until I read the first STL book that things finally clicked.
I should have chosen my words more carefully, but the blobs with ads will have some sort of DRM on them, which is technically illegal to decrypt and cut out.
The delay is all in compiling exs files. It uses Kernel.ParallelCompiler to compile every .exs file, so it's very CPU/core dependent. On my weaker laptop, `mix test` takes nearly 10 seconds to just start.

I've looked into this in more details in the past. We've had success just writing our own test runner and avoiding exs files. But re-implementing things like running tests based on line number, or integrating with external tools (like excoveralls) has been a dealbreaker.
> We're certainly not there yet though.

Won’t it be too late when we are there?
Is there anyone in the know on this thread as to how hydrogen compares to the other 'greenish' fuels? Ammonia, methane, methanol/ethanol etc.

It always seems to me that hydrogen is just so, so hard to store, that just about any other fuel ought to be more practical. Cars running on natural gas already do exist, as does some infra - so maybe it's not such a far cry?
Bermuda has a 1 year pass for entry for $260 USD. https://www.gotobermuda.com/workfrombermuda

I'll be there next week if anyone wants to meet up!
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> I think successful musicians already know this struggle so luckily I kept struggling through the hard parts.

Love the analogy, it does feel like that with music indeed!
This tech is called CanvasKit, and it scares the shit out of me. Google has, in this case, carefully written a proprietary custom API to take the role of Web Extensions (albeit with far more controls/restrictions/less flexibility) for Docs, but as more and more web properties switch to using Flutter with CanvasKit, we'll see less and less of the web be hypertext, less of the web be scrapeable, less of the web have good accessibility, less of the web be able to use extensions.

To me, pushing pixels in people's faces is not the web. The web implies hypertext, the web implies user-agents that fulfill the user's desired agencies. Developers switching to Canvas obstructs everything good, unique, & empowering about the web, converts it to the same terrible awful anti-user mess that everything else in tech is.
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>Google wants more control over their stuff. The web is becoming less open.

That's because the old problem "web-document vs web-application" hasn't been solved properly. HTML was designed for documents. It wasn't designed for applications. No wonder as applications become more sophisticated they try to squeeze out HTML/DOM where possible.
Is there a way to ...see this design aesthetic outside their main page?
Babies in particular cry so much because whatever discomfort they’re experiencing is literally the worst thing that’s ever happened to them.
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time in Docs, some speedups would definitely be welcome... but if this is going to break the workflows I'm using now (most importantly Zotero integration) you can be damn sure I'll go back to Word.
The article says it cannot be done from home. FB requires these moderators to work in the office.

It's probably done to prevent them from sharing what they see with other members of their household, just like the NDA they have to sign.
That's a great way of putting it. As a tactical combat game it is amazing, but as an exploration game it is lacking (and actually getting worse, imo).
If news websites can use this to bypass ad blockers then it might still be worthwhile, and I imagine a lot of traffic comes from social media sites these days.
I played for a few minutes, and when I refreshed my page my entire progress was lost.
I don't, we are going to have hundreds of different accessibility and IME implementations, all with different quirks and bugs and many websites won't care at all so even writing letters with accents will be a hassle (if possible at all). Or think about websites assuming your keyboard layout is US QWERTY. Or websites not properly handling subpixel rendering or retina displays (and looking upscaled and blurry). Those are all solved problems with HTML and CSS that will have to be solved again, this time not by 3 rendering engine dev teams but by each web dev for each website.
They couldn't stop you: either the interaction is handled in JS (in which case you can programmatically call the JS) or it is handled in WASM (in which case the interaction is actually still handled in JS, and exposed WASM functions are called).

In neither case can programmability be blocked.
Why? They are the best layouting tools we have to this day. Or do you want to go back to

TextElement textElement = new TextElement();
textElement.position(100, 100);
textElement.color(Colors.RED);
textElement.alignment(Alignment.CENTER);
...

and the likes? These kind of descriptional ui tools are horrible in my opinion.
Anyone know how to exit the TECO text editor? The `EX` command I found on a manual[1] doesn't seem to be working:

teco
ZEX$$
BAD E
Z-1EX$$
BAD E
Z-1EX
$$
BAD E
Z

[1] http://www.copters.com/teco.html#RTFToC159

EDIT: Got it :P

Z2+3$$
Z1/0$$

Error: Attempt to divide by zero at teco$|2051
(>system_library_tools>bound_teco_)
system handler for error returns to command level
r Guest.Guest:>process_dir_dir>!BNLFBlpbBBBBBB 11:44 05/12/21 0.193 5 level 2,13

Guess I have to read more to understand why it's putting me in a math expression evaluation (?) `Z` prompt (which I haven't found mentioned in a manual) rather than the `*` command prompt.

EDIT 2: Seems `eq` is the proper way to exit on this TECO:

Zeq$$
r Guest.Guest:>process_dir_dir>!BNLFBlpbBBBBBB 11:56 05/12/21 0.034 3 level 2,13

I don't see that mentioned in other manuals online. I guess this TECO is different from others?
> making web applications more like real desktop applications

You mean, abandoning web applications and migrating to network-delivered desktop applications?

Because nothing 'web' remains about them: no HTML, no links, no open standards.
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I agree that a materialized view is a lot more ergonomic and probably the correct choice in most cases.

Refreshing a materialized view blocks selects from it though, rendering it inaccessible while the refresh is taking place. There is the CONCURRENTLY option but that may be more costly and requires a unique index on the view.

There's also the issue of rebuilding several dependent views. Say you have 3 dependent views that are all being shown in some dashboard: 1, 2 and 3. You refresh view 1 OK but view 2 fails for some reason. Now view 1 and view 3 are out of sync and view 2 is broken.

Encapsulating the 3 dependent views in a schema and only doing the name swap once all steps are OK prevents you from ending up in this state. If view 2 breaks you wont do the name swap so you'll be serving stale data, which is probably better than no data for 2 and out-of-sync data for 1 and 3, until you can fix it.
I followed a similar path with Computer Graphics from Scratch [0], somewhat accidentally. You'd be surprised about how much valuable feedback a publisher can give on such a technical topic! When No Starch Press approached me I thought "the content is almost finished, this will take a month or two". It took two years, and the book is significantly better after I went through the process with them.

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/
The last thing you wrote is something I indirectly think about quite a lot. Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?
lol - have fun waiting for the roast duck to fly into your mouth!

BTW - this is why I hope to hell we never get the government involved in healthcare in this country (US). If you think screw ups around cable internet are fun, have fun trying to get decent health care in a timely manner. I have too many close friends who are vets and watching how the VA jerks them around is disheartening. If you think average citizens are going to rate any better - ha!
I have a vague memory of some people who installed the https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt extension for fun, thinking it only
modifies text on the screen, but since it modified the dom it caused the changes to somehow end up modifying the open google docs
So the previous jank did not go away?
Sidewalk also has the advantage of mostly being home internet connection instead of metered wireless plans
So I think this is an excellent point. I'd love to do something like that for my product as well.

However, there are a few considerations, some of bigger consequence than others:

- How do you keep users from losing their data when they leave and come back? Cookies with an ID are a brittle solution. You could have a unique link, where the user's work is saved right up until they want to register

- How do you deal with the inevitable onslaught of people using an open system? If you're bootstrapping like me, I don't think I could possibly handle the influx of an HN frontpage's worth of people simultaneously hammering the system

- When do you clean house? You won't necessarily know whether someone wants to build a site, disappear for a month and then come back to it. Feels unlikely, but it's still possible.

All of this would be solved by having (at the very least) a quick email-only signup, which auto-generates a password and a welcome email, but also takes you straight into the system. It's a small barrier to entry, but perhaps one that's worth putting in place to avoid hammering the server(s) too much?

What do you think of video content showing off the system, could that help as a sort of interim solution?
Gladwell tends to pick up on interesting and plausible sounding assertions that are often poorly backed up by actual research and weave compellingly written narrative yarns out of them.