skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason tables for layout were so bad was that the table as a whole couldn't be rendered (laid out) properly until every cell was fully rendered first, including images with unspecified width/height attributes as well as dynamic cell dimensions based on free-flowing text, etc. Floating div tags still cause redraws for containers with content requiring dimensions to be determined at runtime, but at least something would display. It was also easier to see which divs were causing redraws because their dimensions were not fixed, and thus developers could focus on those specific regions to try and add fixed dimensions.
I can't tell from the homepage or the blog post what this does and why it would make my life as a developer easier.
TechIngredients: How to make sorbitol and composite solid rocket motors [video]
> - Oh! and last but not least, the fact that the last year+ has not been what Remote / Remote-Hybrid work should look like. It's WFH during a pandemic, yah?

This! I wish I had a more constructive comment. But people forget that remote / hybrid should not mean working and childcare simultaneously or massive society stress while working.
The Hutter prize [0] is based around the idea that compressing Wikipedia will lead to more advanced AI research. It doesn't seem like it has so far, but the solutions aren't all open source so it's hard to say, but it's definitely along the same lines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
A GPT-3 bot? If you're getting into an argument online with a brick wall, who's to blame?
Found this confusing to read because consciousness is never defined but then the author starts giving examples of behaviour that indicate consciousness.

Does consciousness mean “can solve a variety of tricky tasks?”

Is it having emotions?

Is it self-awareness?

Googling the definition I get “the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.”

If I have a computer with a camera running image recognition that can detect itself in a mirror is that consciousness?
Absolutely. Credence, i.e. degree of belief is a thing. We can have a high degree of belief in things outside of our experience.
Listening to only people you like sounds like a privilege to me. I bet, a few years down the road Twitter will stuff the feed of such purists with a more diverse set of viewpoints.
Here's a simple suggestion:

You can't make a charitable donation to an organization created after you were born, or created by an ancestor. It's not perfect, but it's a sharp line in the sand, and prevents bullshit like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I'm stealing those analogies. They're great in the context of techno-fixes.

The exponentiality of the changes are hard to grasp, but people grasp cancer and that both luck, very skilled doctors, and future tech is needed to treat advanced stages.
> Dubbed Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, or ODoH for short, the new protocol makes it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.

> Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around the DNS query and passes it through a proxy server, which acts as a go-between the internet user and the website they want to visit.

A proxy server provided by Apple or Cloudflare? That sounds a lot less private than what I have now honestly.
So if you decide to refinance your mortgage that would subject you to a tax? What is wrong with just paying increased property taxes?
> Racism is thrown around as a justification for anything today, but _real_ racist policies like:
> different sentencing laws around crack and powder cocaine
That persist today are almost never mentioned.

There are lots of explicitly racist policies in the US; you can't really understate it. Almost all land use and zoning policies were created out of very explicit racism, as in you can look up anything from city council meeting notes to Supreme Court arguments and they'd just say they did it to keep out black and Chinese people.

Robert Moses built low bridges surrounding NYC to prevent busses from being able to use those roads, and the reason the US has highways running through instead of around cities is literally because the planners wanted an excuse to demolish black neighborhoods. In California it's also the reason there are so many small cities in SF Bay (Palo Alto/EPA and Piedmont/Oakland) and several public parks like in Manhattan Beach.
Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ - normal chronological feed and no trending anything. Then prune your following. I don't see any witch hunts; my feed is generally very positive.
National Review is explicitly a conservative magazine. It’s like Jacobin, but for conservatives.
OG sovereign citizen
I don’t understand how any of this is relevant to Astro, beyond “JavaScript”.
You’re right. The compromised account had 63.7 BTC.

And from the verbiage here it sounds like the FBI might have already compromised the private key before the transfer?

https://threatpost.com/fbi-claws-back-millions-darksides-ran...
As an aside, it’s really strange how this book picked up so much steam at its time of publication.

The book mostly centers around the mom pushing her two kids to be world-class violinists and her pushing causes one of her daughters to abandon the instrument. [1]

If, anything, it’s a cautionary tale.

[1] the violin is an incredibly difficult instrument to begin with and becoming a world-class violinist requires a metric fuckton of effort...Amy Chua’s experiences w/r/t raising her children are hardly unique in the classical music world.
No, because they're explicitly giving away all their funds, not passing it on to the next generation, nor leaving it in a permanent trust.
My grandpa donated a whole bunch of mechanical watches for me to dissasemble. :)

Sifting through garbage for discarded electronics was another favorite hobby of mine.
Never used it, but it says:

- Uses sendfile() on FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux

- Event loop, single threaded - no fork() or pthreads

- Supports If-Modified-Since, Keep-Alive, IPV4, 301 redirects

And appears to be just a little larger than Althttpd. Sounds good to me.
Definitely should be aware, and I would highly recommend static files over large JS apps. The options are there to have both now with frameworks like Gatsby and Next.
As a content creator rich snippets are such a bugbear. If you don't play the game then someone else's content and name shows up. If you do, there's a huge chance people get what they need and never visit your site. It's a Google wins, consumer wins, creator loses situation.
money != intelligent

people make this mistaken assumption constsntly.

also, if a criminal had enough intelligent, they tend not to be criminals. very rarely do you find full blown intelligent criminal syndicates.

mostly youll find that basic human heuristics, like security through obscurity is the height of security.
But if everybody tried as hard as they could to "make a difference", then nobody would be supporting the arts.
Not a unique German thing, I am afraid,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

"A practice by diesel vehicles including the Volvo S60, Renault's Espace Energy and the Jeep Renegade, exceeded legal European emission limits for nitrogen oxide (NO
x) by more than 10 times.[1] ICCT and ADAC showed the biggest deviations from Volvo, Renault, Jeep, Hyundai, Citroën and Fiat."
I know that can be an issue but like you say, there's a balance and I don't think we know where that balance is for the non-existent AI technology with unknown error rates.

Newborn babies undergo a whole lot of simple and inaccurate screenings. I guess those are cases where the harm due to inappropriate treatments is lower than that due to leaving diseases undetected.

Either way, I'd rather the technology exist and then people work out how best to use it, rather than the decision being forced on us by it not existing.
cool

but what's that got to do with this?
That's known as "tying" - an illegal use of a overwhelming market position to leverage the market position of other products of the same company. That's the key thing that determines illegal monopolistic practice.
You can create a sensor for everything perceived by humans though.
You can file bugs using the Feedback Assistant app in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications, and you can ask questions on the Developer Forums at <https://developer.apple.com/forums/>. Both will require you to have a (free) Apple ID.
> I can't tell from the homepage or the blog post what this does

The passage below, on the linked page, is a dead giveaway of what it does, no?

> - 100% Static HTML, No JS: Astro renders your entire page to static HTML, removing all JavaScript from your final build by default.

> - On-Demand Components: Need some JS? Astro can automatically hydrate interactive components when they become visible on the page. If the user never sees it, they never load it.
> do not have to put profit maximisation above all else

Neither private nor public businesses have to put profit maximization above all else. It's entirely a myth that that is a legal requirement or responsibility.

That is especially the case for private companies (ie most businesses), which further do not typically have the pressure of huge numbers of shareholders or large institutional investors / funds.

Sometimes one might wish a company would actually focus on sustainable profitability, not just on the short-term appearance of profitability. You'll routinely find incompetent management that does a poor job of focusing on sustainable profitability at all, and the business always suffers for it. From IBM to GE. Instead, their management put a focus on financial engineering - creating a conveniently expedient fake profile of profitability, while the bottom rotted out from under them.

Berkshire Hathaway by contrast - a $500 billion company - has openly pointed out to shareholders for 40-50 years now that they had no intention of pursuing a strategy focused on merely maximizing profit above all else. Simultaneously they have one of the greatest records of the last ~200 years for business performance. Berkshire knows the winning formula is to focus on the long-term and focus on having healthy businesses (which always means not only focusing on profitability), that the opposite is like a high sugar diet, maybe a bit of fun in the short run, and it'll kill you in the long run.

Most businesses that last a very long time and generate great returns operate more like Berkshire Hathaway, rather than the opposite (and certainly during their heyday they do, which may provide fuel to last a long time even as they rot). There are a seeming infinite number of ways a major corporation can try to focus on profitability at the expense of all else, and that's always a mistake. Smart, long-term thinking managers know that. If you find a company that actually focuses on profitability above all else, sell and don't look back, it won't end well; it never does. Focusing on profitability above all else means paying all of your best employees very poorly, which means you'll always be starved for talent and your business will fail given time.

There is a large amount of nuance involved in operating a for-profit business. Choosing to focus on the long-term vs short-term, financial engineering vs investing for the future, sacrificing shorter-term profits for a healthier longer-term business. The best businesses typically focus on the longer-term, not the shorter-term, and do not focus just on how they can blow out quarterly earnings or max out their profits here and now (inevitably that catches up with the business, and it all implodes).
> so naturally there's a monopoly.

And, just as naturally, the government actually owns a lot of the distribution network. The producers provide into the distribution network, the customers receive from the distribution network, and the government regulates fair (by some definition thereof) access.
Because it doesn't matter
This is exactly it. You are the BEST!!
Ah, the holy grail of not forgetting what you read and learn.

For this author, visualizing worked well, for others maybe not.

The sad fact is that all memories fade over time unless recalled.

My opinion: commit only the most important ideas to long-term memory. The rest can be looked up.
To be more clear, it seems they've disabled the native browser scrolling via javascript.

I have wrist strain issues so I have a programmable keyboard. I don't use a mouse to scroll and click, I use a layer on my keyboard. I don't map the arrow keys or page up/page down because they generally aren't useful. I literally have to change my setup to scroll on the page. I imagine there are others in need of even more specialized equipment than mine that is broken by this implementation.

I have yet to find a good reason when developing a webpage to reimplement scroll. Certainly not for a fancy progress bar which is presumably the reason this was done. This is a legitimate accessibility concern.
>Foundation, not charity.

I'm no expert on German stiftungs, but I tend to think of foundations as a subset of charities and that "not charity" wouldn't be quite right.
What is being crippled here? The API is being moved to another objects and restructured in a way that's not as haphazard for actual extension development and distribution.

If this doesn't work for your specific use case, write a wrapper object - your point is that the API was stable with V2, but it will still be with V3 and you should be able to rely on that.

Am I missing something?
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As others have pointed out in the comments, the implications of humans breathing carbon in the range of ~1000 ppm is minor.

However, I am terrified of some recent science indicating that carbon levels ~1200 ppm may prevent marine stratus clouds from forming, which would result in an additional 8 degrees C of warming very quickly (on top of the ~4 degrees we already expect at that level of carbon). [0]

In fact, there is evidence in the geological record that this terrifying increase in warming at not-that-high levels of carbon concentration is real, and has happened before. More terrifying, the estimated carbon ppm at that time was only 600.[1]

I don't know what the error bars are on the caltech climate study; 1200 seems like maybe I won't be around for it but 600 I definitely will be.

[0] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/high-cosub2sub-levels-can...
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/extreme...
With their income, and they get to write off most or all of the income tax with the interest paid.
I just learned Colonial shut down the pipeline because of the hack to their billing system. Not the pipeline.
Recent related threads:

We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434307 - June 2021 (463 comments)

Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440881 - June 2021 (ongoing)
> We built Runway to connect all those dots. It pulls in all Jira tickets and code relevant to the release, side-by-side, to surface and resolve any out-of-sync tickets or code. You can set up custom, interactive checklists with item-specific owners to replace the monster Google spreadsheet, and our Slack integration will ping the appropriate people or notify everyone when important milestones happen. Design/marketing can enter ‘What’s New’ release notes directly in Runway for all localizations (with a handy list of new features in the release to reference) without you having to hunt them down. Plus, Runway helps teams maintain good workflow hygiene by automatically tagging releases in GitHub and applying missing labels to Jira tickets.

How do people do all this for plain web-apps, deployed on a cloud? I don't do anything with mobile apps, and this all sounds great - especially the non-code stuff, like Jira integration and checklists.
Apparently, Google Flight Search is not even close to the best alternative.1

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-w...

This is interesting because I always thought Matrix from ITA Software, a company Google acquired in 2010, was quite useful.

Wonder if links to Skiplagged get subjugated in Google SERPs.

If Google thinks it can replace other websites by providing better alternatives, that's great. But then the company should get out of the way and let users have a neutral source for a comprehensive inverted index of the rest of the web. If there is nothing else better out there, then let web users determine that for themselves. The index should be a public resource not controlled by one company that can see what users are searching for and engage in "front-running". (Websites that allow crawls by Googlebot, sometimes exclusively, are of course enabling the Google monopoly.)

1. Google bought Frommers in 2012 and nearly killed it. Thankfully the founder reacquired the rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frommers
> arguing with randoms online

> mad about this entirely self-chosen behavior
firefox has serious performance issues, i had to switch to chromium.

i really want to support firefox in my development but their tooling is just not presented in a rational footprint. when i inspect a vue proxy object, i dont want to see all the setters and getters.

they are losing mind share because neight to user facing components normthe dev facing have a well considered presentation or pefformancd
> As long as the user in question is informed and alerted to the potential security risks shouldn't it be within the user's purview to decide what to allow and what not?

If you've been following the Epic v. Apple case, you'd know some folks like Tim Cook strongly believe the answer is no, or in his words "they shouldn't have to [decide]."

The freedom-less future sure seems pretty bleak.
> informed and alerted

and here I think is the issue - it's hard for a closed source project to fully inform and alert anyone, at all. It's impossible to get a full understanding of a codebase that doesn't allow me to look at it, and I don't see why that would be different here. I can't understand security risks to Chrome (proper Chrome, not Chromium) because I'm not allowed to, therefore any extension at all could be dangerous in some way. So it is actually best to not allow the user to think about security for themself, because they can't have the necessary information. A developer can't look over every extension because they have better things to do with their time, so I think it makes sense that we end up with this incredibly restricted platform.

If your strategy for security can't be having an open and audited interface and implementation, the next best thing seems to be no interface.
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Wow, and here i thought your other comment was leading towards some unrealistic, if everyone made hugs not guns nobody would need armies. Guess i misjudged that.

> There are no more repeat Al-Qaeda attacks on US.

Would there otherwise have been? Its not like there were a bunch of 9/11's prior to 9/11. I think its risky to assume thd usa's plan worked when there are a lot of other factors involved like if they even had the capability to do a repeat performance at all. And the (long term) cost to the usa has been high. America's over-reaction to 9/11 may even eventually cost it its place as the world's sole super power as geopolitical rivials take advantage of the mistrust it has sewn.

Regardless, what are you suggesting? - that Israel should pacify the region by extreme force, crushing it under its heel to whatever end? Because, even ignoring the humanity of that, it sounds tactically stupid when you consider the geopolitical situation in the region. They'd essentially turn themselves into the world's common enemy, and that's usually a bad play unless they're desperate.
Can you explain why you think it's wrong?
The only problem I see with this set up is that the computer being backed up has the ability to delete its backups.
The “Lab Leak”: It’s Not Enough to Say Accidents Happen
"governments need to act to put a cost on negative externalities, which in turn will allow a market to develop, leading to private companies provide solutions for said market."

when you say it like this, it def sounds like a more reasonable proposition to debate. i mean we already basically capture that in our military R&D, don't we? like didn't they say that climate change needs to be contained to reasonable parameters and stuff, years ago? i'm sure they're funding lots of work and making contracts available. it's a matter of nation defense after all lol. and didn't Elon announce $100 million for a proven idea that works for sucking carbon out of the air?

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

seems like both public/private are poised to have an interest in solving big problems via technologies and that's great.

that's about the only existential or national defense externality I can think of that needs more funding. and it's already picking up steam. AI research is getting a boost too.
the idea that people who play games other than the games you play are "not really interested in games" is bizarre gatekeeping.
Don't let the kids get you down. My deployment scripts look something like this:

rsync --rsync-path=/usr/bin/openrsync -r --delete
config lib mix.exs mix.lock priv server:my_project

ssh server "tmux respawn-window -t my_project:1 -k"

It's only weird if it doesn't work, right?
I don't know why were speaking as though we disagree about something. I agree with everything you said.

I have my own CO2 meter inside, which I watch with some curiosity. I've observed that CO2 levels vary far more where my sensor is located, inside in an urban environment, and I was surprised to see that the CO2 levels are so steady elsewhere. [1] measured CO2 levels in an outdoor urban environments and found that sometimes the CO2 levels were about 20 times what they were at other times, 16 units vs 0.8 units. I say this as a curious observation, not as an attempt to argue against anything you said.

[1] http://www.co2science.org/subject/u/summaries/urbanco2dome.p...
People were really thinking all that money printing during covid would be free?
Astronomers probe planetary nebula NGC 6302 with Hubble
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I miss iTunes U. :(
This is what I use for my CLI email client (aerc). I keep mail and contacts sync'd using fastmail as my backbone with a couple of crons using:

- https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer

- https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html
I don't think I like any of these proposals. None of them add something that makes me think, "hey, I really need this". Heck, I don't think any of them would even be nice to have.

Go error handling in practice actually works very well. I've been writing Go for a long time and I've never had an issue with it. It's not as fancy as Rust but it works and works well, so if it ain't broke, please don't try fixing it.
Not only that, it can also be used as a jumphost to other machines in your network.