skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - constraint-based layouts

https://gss.github.io/

> 60fps animations on actual HTML elements.

There are plenty of demos reaching 120fps animations either with CSS, or JS in DOM, or in canvas (with or without WebGL), so this issue doesn't sit.

Obviously a cross-platform solution is not as efficient as a platform-specific solution. But it's quite good these days.

> Things like "animate a list item being removed from a list" (and you're not allowed to say things like "we know the height of the item beforehand")

Look, JS is fully exposed to the DOM, so you don't get to tell me "you're not allowed" about features that the browser allows. We're not arguing whether the imaginary HTML in your head is capable of what you want, we're arguing about whether the real one is.

> customisation of built-in components like selects

Implemented by your next point:

> almost literally anything from Sencha's/ExtJS' kitchen sink

Those are libraries that run in a browser. So they count as something the browser can do. Your initial complaint was that we're so constrained that it's "nearly impossible" to do what you want. If Sencha and ExtJS does it, and you can just use it, your argument is invalid.

> Oh yes, some of them can be made at great expense of time and manpower. And some of them have become easier to do (some layouts like grids).

Uh-huh. So what is your complaint again? That it's too much effort to use this great expense of time and manpower by downloading it with your package manager?
The funny thing is, those old hippies may well have been doing LSD that could be traced back to the CIA's efforts to flood the 60s counterculture with it. I don't think they did that -- or, more recently, that Peter Thiel is working on companies offering psychedelic therapeutics -- because they thought it would genuinely enlighten people.
Absolutely, the second paragraph:

"On the weekends, he’d take computers apart and put them back together, so he could understand how they work. He rarely reconstructed them in the same way he dismantled them, though. For the joy of play and the pursuit of efficiency gains, he searched for new ways to reconfigure the machines. Every now and then, he’d find a performance improvement that even the designers didn’t consider."

I guess this sounds impressive to some people, but to someone in the field it is absolute nonsense. And it sets the stage for the rest of the article.

Here he gets all gatekeepy:

"Charlie Munger calls this the difference between “real knowledge” and “chauffeur knowledge.” "

Ugh. It just goes on:

"The alternative is Quantum Thinking, which is holding multiple contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. "

Aaaaand I'm done.

This type of writing is better suited to the self-congratulatory content over on Quillette.
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If your are in a job shop, and have 50 jobs set up on the machine that each only happen a few times every year or two, replacing the controller means months to years of hell as some little tweak is going to be needed for each of those jobs as they happen.

Quite often, CNC machining is not the first step in making a part. Thus scrapping a part is a very expensive, and could lose a client if it happens more than once after you "update" a machine.

There are very rational, very strong incentives to be conservative with computers used in industry.
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Hah, bingo. I suspect all the people who left Basecamp will soon realize this when they finish their paid sabbaticals and move on to other companies.
I'm not sure I understand the question: What are the two products you are swapping between the employees?

Problems with scaling production also are more complex than just labor cost, especially when starting up.
I guess he learned how tough it is to get people to read your blog...
I had seen them on the street, but always said v6 on them, and I don't care about power, would rather have better gas millage.

Looking it up, they do have 4 cylinder versions. I think the other problem is the sight lines don't look great but admittedly I have not been in a Vernza. I see the 2021 version is now a basically a SUV and not a wagon.
Oh, please. Softer version of this practice is well-known in tech industry since 2000s: when company demands perf curve from the manager, managers hire and keep low-performers on the team to satisfy the curve demand. Everyone who worked at Microsoft, Amazon or Walmart has seen this happening. Hire-to-fire is just logical extension of this practice. It doesn’t really matter if it’s internal transfer or new hire.
I wouldn't be surprised if portions of it were bought within the US, or if it was largely made from off-the-shelf components legally imported and then assembled. Unless there were capabilities demonstrated that haven't been made public (Like some new low-power high-intensity jamming) this doesn't seem too far off from the capabilities of a non-state actor. The main reason I think this is a state actor is because of the motivation (terrorists would have actually tried to use it as a weapon to do damage).

It doesn't need to be some super-advanced weapon or capability. Sometimes all it takes is a demonstration to make people aware of vulnerabilities that have long existed. Think about the billions spent on airport security after 9/11, that frankly aren't doing much to prevent future attacks. This incident, and others like it, don't have a body count and haven't provoked a massive public outcry, but they are unnerving people. You can bet funding is going to be diverted to securing airbases from this sort of threat.
If Microsoft were serious about 'low code' we would be looking at Visual Basic 7.
Is that how you would feel if "we were talking about your favorite high school teacher who just had their career destroyed because some dude needed to get a few extra [upvotes on HN]"?

Saying "my statement may or may not be right, I'll let the general public decide" is lazy and shirking responsibility. If you have reason to believe that your statements are wrong, you should retract those statements or at least put a disclaimer on them. I think that's the bar you would hold Inc to, and you should hold yourself to it as well.
Stack Overflow destroyed a lot of its social capital and pissed off its own community in the wake of the Monica Cellio affair a little under 2 years ago. (This one was touched off by the Judaism Stack Exchange moderators asking questions about pronoun policy, but ended up with basically every community involved up in arms, including many in their LGBTQ+ community.)

One hopes the new owners will do a better job of managing community relations. It will be difficult for them to do worse.
The dynamic makes sense: the more popular the question, the more likely it is to get asked early on. That means early answerers will reap benefits from the popularity of the questions down the road.

There's definitely an "interest" dynamic to it, but there's also something like consuming the solutions with a good effort-to-reward ratio inside a search space early and then subsequent solutions get harder (kindof like a cryptocurrency?)

Niche questions do present an interesting opportunity, though. My highest-ranked answer was about rolling your own setInterval / setTimeout function for JavaScript implementations running on the JVM that didn't have them. Not a hot topic, but apparently a few dozen other people cared about this over the years.
I kept hearing about this blog he started, but had absolutely no idea where it lived. I think I once tried to Google it, but the results were all news articles about the blog and I didn’t care to try to look any further.
I loved this podcast. It came about when we were a year into our first startup (freeagent.com if you wondered) and it was really influential. I loved Spolsky and he was a major influence, and we ended up colocating our infra on our own hardware for 10 years and I can attribute a lot of my faith in that strategy to some of these early discussions! Worked out very well indeed.

We’re now on AWS, go figure ;-)
Facebook’s causal mental health harm and a regulatory strategy (Comment to FTC)
Haven't read thoroughly but it seems they are investigating ResNet models [0] trained for image classification.

> We apply CKA to a family of ResNets of varying depths and widths, trained on common benchmark datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet)

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385
The sign up bonus over the first two years is pro-rated and paid every month and it makes up for the lack of stock vesting during that time.
Different states are allowed to draw up different allowances, but Ketamine has shown significant promise in the realm of long-term depression treatment. I'd imagine this is mostly to allow for experimental treatments in that field to be allowed.
Those questions, anybody having spent time answering thousands of questions had to think about it. When you realize an SO account isn't really worth much for your brand, you may realize other benefits of your participation: the rare pleasure of really helping somebody (sometimes, not when answering trivial questions), the enjoyment you get from a very fun game (if you're into it) and the knowledge you build for yourself (I forced myself to watch some tags just because they were about technologies I didn't knew and that I wanted to learn). IMO you have to stop when it becomes boring. I stopped participating for 3 or 4 years before I learnt Rust and felt the need to see what other people were asking about the language and the approaches other people had to solve problems.
Candidates can also just be coached. A friend of mine interviewed for Amazon and was surprised how much he was told about what to expect.
The problem with this argument is that it demands we apply a false equivalence. The key word in your comment:

> hacks

Flash was not standardized. Same with IE's proprietary recommendations (and Mozilla's for that matter—XUL is proprietary, even though people often use "proprietary" as an antonym for "open source"). Most of the "web features" that people have in mind are in the same boat: experimental and draft-level proposals that eventually fall by the wayside for one reason or another. The Web is actually the single most successful attempt at a vendor-neutral, stable platform that exists. It's why we're having this conversation now.

The argument is that, because some people did something hacky or bleeding edge and then bled from it, then there's no real point in any amount of stability, so we should punish everyone. What a double whammy that would make for! First, you spend all your time taking care to do things correctly, so you pay the penalty inherent in that—what with moving more slowly than all those around you—and then someone decides, "ah, nevermind screw the whole thing", doubles back on the original offer and then breaks your shit? I can't say I'm able to abide by that. Imagine all your friends getting drivers licenses and receiving a bunch of speeding tickets for their recklessness, then one day you get pulled over and ticketed, too, regardless of the fact that you weren't speeding.
Exactly. It goes to my advice to beggars and solicitors in-front of wealthy retailers: the rich are stingier than most, on average; if they want to collect more money, they need to go to the poor part of town. Billionaires will almost never be charitable except to rehab their image and legacy. Furthermore, relying on a patchwork of charities for social welfare isn't comprehensive enough to meet the needs of the less well-off.

Governments also have more capital and individual govt workers aren't necessarily personally-invested in commercial interests (unless they're strategic / MIC).

If the people could/would/and should gain control of the government, it might be possible to hostilely-takeover some key businesses with poor labor and abysmal pay records in order to turn them into mostly co-ops to raise workers' up to livable wages.
Conde Nast also owns Ars Technica, which personally is my favorite tech-news site and has high and consistent quality.
Good Code Criterion
https://archive.is/nf8tn

Leaked internal memo shows that if an org doesn’t meet the target this year, they have to make it up next year.
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A great book on this topic: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett

A world-class philosopher of many decades (I read many of his books, highly recommend) shares his thoughts on this topic.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AR354AQ
isn't there more vertical whitespace now?
An alternative to reading this awfully preachy, condescending blog post is to instead watch this clip of Andrei Tarkovsky[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vvdtaaprzw
Any person in the US can improve their lot in life. Nobody said it is easy. Success is hard work with a measure of luck. But, it is absolutely possible to go from living on the streets to living in a mansion in a lifetime. How is that not equal opportunity?
On the flip side, do you really thing every conversation Aristotle had with his students was a cloud of gilded exhalations that would echo down the millennia?

I don't think I would be surprised to learn the majority of the conversations that took place over the decades of Aristotle's life were a grueling, repeated, and mind-numbing grind to a treatise. As that is what is usually required to produce something original and authentic in my tech world.

If someone were to lay out a transcript of all of his discussions, could it be possible they read like today's internet posts? I've read books of correspondence between great minds (Einstein, Feyerabend, Franklin), but those were carefully curated exchanges. Not free-flowing arguments like discussion boards.
I was recently surprised to learn about how big of an industry already exists around ketamine therapy. A search in your area (if in the US) would likely turn up several clinics nearby.

Bay Area: https://bit.ly/2S3VNjW
Austin: https://bit.ly/3ccj2zk
They'll double-down on the enterprise offer I would think. I don't think jobs was the money-maker they planned on, and the public individual site doesn't have a lot of revenue approaches that justify ~2B purchase price. I'm sure they original VCs made money but not sure it's their typical unicorn multiple.
Oh yeah, great point! I was thinking of installing packages from apt/yum/aur directly with something like nix-env, but you're right, there's no reason you can't just use apt-get directly.
James Meredith, shot 55 years ago marching against racism, with different ideas
That’s funny, so do I!
Do you think those policies are anywhere on the scale necessary to meet the climate change goals he has set out?
Ketamine is currently a schedule 3 drug, it's actively used as medication.
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Huh? Businesses need to expand by demographics or by categories. This is what Amazon did. They started with books and then continually inched their way into new categories, new businesses, and new demographics. Zero to 1, then 1 to N. That's how to grow a platform, or at least the holding company that comprises a collection of platforms. Keeping brands separate also reduce objections: Disney and (what was) Touchstone, Toyota and Lexus, Technics and Panasonic, Trader Joe's and Aldi.
Well, I think the government buying American is probably a precursor for anyone else doing so, because they're not at the constraints of the market to find the cheapest viable product.
Over the last 8 months I had 158 billable hours on average per month. I get about one to four calls per month offering projects (full time, 3-6+ months) in my city or fully remote at that rate without doing any active marketing. I just have a Xing profile and I am listed at a couple of job adviser agencies such as Gulp or Hays. Also I only do full time projects (for me they have been by far the majority anyway).

So either it's webdev specific right now or I am just incredibly lucky but even as my current project is near its end I have about 3 options to chose from to continue elsewhere seamlessly after. Other freelancers I met in the field have reported similar situations but that's just anecdotal evidence.
Would you have a reference of where that 50% unpaid time comes from?
Windows is very epic, but they did break compatibility a few times: the new driver model since Windows 7 (?) for example.

The Web probably has a longer history of not breaking things, but also has a smaller feature set to keep track of than Windows.

All in all, very hard to compare. But both undoubtedly epic.
This stuff is really prevalent. I'm a programmer and I'll happily build out some low-code solution in Google Sheets or whatever.

Since it takes out of the equation a whole host of potential workloads (deployment, environment maintenance, source code control, etc), these low-code solutions offer rapid deployment of prototypes. Often times, these little prototypes end up being used by 100s of people within a company.

I love it because I bill out like $x0k for a few days of work. Once it's done, I pretty much never have to support it, since Google is managing that for me.

Clients love it because development is done in a few days and they never seem to have to contact anyone for support. The successful ones always lead to more business. Especially with megacorps with lots of brands. Brand X will show off their new dashboard, and Brand Y wants their own version and will happily pay pretty close to the original price for basically a copy-pasta job.
> For example, I wanted to just... create an arbitrary directory in my home directory (~/workspace). Does Home Manager do this? If so, how? Do I just have a shell script that is called within a package? That seems excessive. Is this not a use case for Nix? It looks like it can do arbitrary tasks across the system but the documentation is so bogged down with theory that it takes forever to find practical applications.

You are definitively trying to do too much at the same time. Before using Home-Manager (that is a community project, it is not endorsed by NixOS except by allowing to be hosted on the nix-community group on GitHub), I stayed at two years playing with only NixOS. It is only after I got comfortable with Nix and NixOS that I decided to migrate my configuration to Home-Manager. Not saying that you need that much time to use HM, just that HM assumes that you're know a reasonable good amount about Nix and NixOS.

So I would say, start with less: try NixOS first, it is kinda easy to use compared to other "advanced" Linux distros like Arch and Void. The easy things are really easy, the hard things can be really hard at first but I don't think you need to know much about Nix to be proeficient on NixOS nowadays. Also yeah, you will need to search some things, but since the scope is reduced it is easier to find answers.
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The change in tone is very concerning:

Before: https://paste.debian.net/1199777/

After: https://docs.fosshost.org/en/home/what-do-we-expect

And then: https://nitter.42l.fr/nicolas09F9/status/1400121795458523136
And that's why this line of concern is worthless: SO already exists. GHD can refer to that all day long without having to reinvent the Library of Alexandria (which in hindsight could have used a backup, but still).

Unless..."Prosus" pulls a Google+DejaNews and obscures SO's availability or paywalls it or, or, or...
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You still have to upgrade your CentOS machines to the interim point releases to maintain support don’t you? With CentOS version X.y becomes unsupported as soon as version X.y+1 is released, that’s why it got turned into Stream, so it was always getting updates instead of having dead periods where sometimes systems would go weeks or months without support from packages released in RHEL.
One of the first 300 users, SO was revolutionary when launched, I followed their development via Codinghorror and Joelonsoftware blogs (probably in an RSS feed). I've since moved into management and away from day to day coding, so I use it very infrequently, but, I have to imagine more than a few software startups only exist today because SO democratized software development Q&A.
Ketamine is schedule III in the US. That makes it less restricted than meds like adderall and most prescription opiates. Decriminalizing it wouldn't really matter for research studies.
Many things that are deemed socially uncomfortable are a part of the same board on which the socially comfortable game is played.

Moreover, the vast majority of examples one can come up in science are not truths, and in fact a core premise of science is each state of scientific knowledge is contingent and not final, i.e. it's not True, but it should be a more faithful description of what is happening than we had before.
There can be other factors like tax credits for certain types of spaces / work / areas for adding employees etc that can drive some weird behavior.

This can be really obvious with some govt contracting work which can have additional requirements on labor matters.
Well, I guess they won and experts-exchange.com now finally lost? :)
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An under-appreciated aspect of most traditional engineering disciplines is how many unknowns there are from materials science, physics, quality control, and manufacturing precision.

You could know the shape, mechanics, yield, make-up, and components of the Fat-Man device while still being thousands of experiments and a multi-billion dollar industrial infrastructure away from being able to build one.
I don't think the Reddit transition has gone very well. But there is still a lot to be seen on that front. Ars is an example of a successful acquisition. I totally agree.
I was at the receiving end of this. Not at Amazon but at another similar Silicon Valley tech company. When I was hired I thought it was a great opportunity and moved my family to SV. First day I go in, I realized that just about couple of months before my hire date about half the team was laid off.

A few months in there were lots of red flags —
1. the director who is above my manager used to do code reviews and not my manager. He used to point out minor things (think linting or similar) such but was did not point out any major flaws in the code (I also reviewed others code)
2. Zero transparency- the director used to say he is going to give hints about professional development and used to ask random questions such as if I would be ok to move to another location etc - this was his prompting not mine. Hint based leadership leads to lots of water cooler talk among employees about what is going on.

About 8 months in, my entire team was laid off and my manager already about a month before that. It turns out I was only hired as a scapegoat to replace the negative morale in the team, people would start to leave because of previous layoffs so the director hired me so that he could tell others - ‘See, we are hiring right now’. In reality he had a 2 year plan of what he wanted to do.

I don’t mind layoffs I can find a job quickly but the biggest problems are for my family who I have had to relocate. After this I sweared I was never to work in SV again.

I now work on wall street, the team I work with is far more transparent and my manager is great.
Well, if so it's a problem, because the article says that Chrome and Safari handle prefetch exactly that way.

But I don't see that problem. On this case the a.test domain can not see what is on the cache, only b.test sees it. (At least by what I understood.)