skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this piece seems to have major anger issues. I got banned from being "uncooperative", despite being very respectful in my criticism [1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ZkaLuRT.png
This won't scale like this, also for deep learning CUDA and CUDNN will be still probably 2-5x faster then AMD/Metal drivers as was proven before (in case of AMD shitty deep learning drivers)
Back when I was doing one of the first raster to vector converters, CAD/Camera, I used that book for test cases.
I have some personal projects I might finally get a chance to work on a bit and they were all intended to use remote-browser, now you have me worried.

however I see no reason why firefox should follow chrome on this? Also my natural paranoia in regards to the motivations of Google make me think maybe executeScript is too powerful and allows the extension makers to do things that are not malignant, but just against the corporate interests of Google.
This article has more details:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/08/senate-c...

Senate approves sprawling $250 billion bill to curtail China’s economic and military ambitions

And it links to the actual bill:

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAV21A48.pdf
Sharding would also introduce additional complexity into the system, which is also risky.
> How do you know this is better

I don’t, and I’m not making the claim that it is.

I’m saying that the fact that billionaires get to be billionaires by a combination of ability and inclination at maximizing their personal benefits from transactions, while true, doesn’t provide even slight counterevidence to the claim it was offered to rebut.
> Since the military benefit of Israel's actions was quite small and the likelihood of non-combatant casualties was extremely high

I think its unclear (to us, the public) what the military purpose/need of the strikes were, so its unclear how porportional they were. As pointed out elsewhere,iron dome is really expensive to operate and probably has limited capacity. If the military goal was to get the rockets to stop before iron dome ran out of ammo, that doesn't seem disporportionate to me, especially if Israel took steps to minimize civilian casualities where possible.

I dont know enough to say if they actually did or not,i just dont think its as clear cut as you make it out to be that it was disporportionate.
Could you give examples of these atrocious code bases and programs that are as slow as you say.
No, it wasn't:

"where a family member was told"

That's second-hand. Accusing me of bad faith is a bit off-base.
>” 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.”

I see we’ve discovered the idea of DLLs for the web.
How can a patent from 1999 still provide any leverage? Isn't the lifetime of US patents (or patents in general in most countries) limited to 20 years, so this patent should have expired in 2019?
In terms of marketshare, Blackberry's began to decline in late 2010, during the meteoric rise of Android. For context, Android eclipsed iOS just 6 months later.

But that's also my point - Blackberry killed Blackberry, not iOS or Android. Should Blackberry have been protected from it's competition?
I love how this is written from the perspective of an engineer exploring chess. This studying method is used by top chess players as well, where computers prepare variations for their opponent's most commonly played openings. Bobby Fischer had only one assistant to help calculate variations against Boris Spassky's team of Russian grandmasters in their famous match - nowadays, both amateur and professional players alike use computers to prepare against opponents.

The result of the final match from the post is actually a great example of why centipawn advantages don't matter as much in human play - humans don't always make the best moves, and there is a psychological element to chess which is hard to capture with a computer. The example that comes to mind is a famous match between Rashid Nezhmetdinov and Oleg Chernikov where Rashid sacrifices his queen for a brilliant attack: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1260278
I don't not use DDG. I also don't not use Google. I tend to mix it up depending on what sorts of results I'm after and how private the search should be.

One thing I like about IS compared to DDG is that DDG is still funded by advertising. This means that people are still paying to bias the results I see.

By paying money to a search engine which doesn't rely on advertising at all, I have more trust that IS are really vested in showing me the results that I think are best. (They don't always succeed, but I trust that it's not about the results being undermined by third parties, it's just that they are still fairly small.)
I’ve seen quite a lot of people complaining about this on Twitter. Is there some negative to this I’m not aware of other than companies losing customers? I’ve come across more and more sites in recent years with no account deletion option and it’s hugely frustrating. One I discover it and manage to shut my account down via a support channel they have lost me for good. There is no way I’m ever becoming a customer again because I can’t trust them with my data if they’re going to hold it hostage. If they’d included the account deletion option I very well may have returned in the future.
This is considered a critical security vulnerability. [0]

[0] https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A6_2017-Security_...
But then one day your Google account is closed by AI.
Or the product is abandoned by Google.
If I would do a kind of bet, I would bet that the event which will trigger the market crash will apparently be like nothing real (like Pandemic, natural disaster ...) happened, yet one day the "market" will start selling everything after a normal-like event in the market (a company buying another company, or a corporation selling their division ... or announcing a third quarter loss). And like probably other stuff once the spiral of the market will go down more and more people will start going out, wanting their money back so making the spiral faster and faster.

I think the difference between what I explain and COVID is that COVID can be seen like an external event but we had big hopes we can solve it. So there was not need in the market to react to this long term. Hope made the market rise up very quickly after the first months of 2020.

Of course I am just reading articles on the internet, I don't have any experience in money/markets/financials so I see this mostly as a funny possible situation.
Remarkable how much spending has ballooned over the past 13 years, and this is coming from someone who is receptive to MMT. This is about 1/3 the size of the 2008 bank bailout, which at the time was a monumental undertaking and not without considerable deliberation, yet $250 billion now feels like an afterthought, at a whim. We really are in the era of free money. We're nowhere near the boundary what is possible.
Half of adults in UK watched porn during pandemic, says Ofcom
That diagram is very confusing if you aren't aware that (1) the object being projected is a shed; (2) the perspective projection is incomplete.

Full article: https://www.guidetodrawing.com/linear-perspective/two-point-...

I'm taking an online drawing perspective class right now, and finding that much of what I've been learning is covered right on that site! Pretty neat stuff.
It's kind of like bootstrap except it's more focused on the developer building styles instead of having a number of prebuilt styles.

It also is more based on what css can do instead of having it's own abstraction. Most of the class names in Tailwind are very close to their css key+value equivalents. For example if you wanted to write `float: right` in css you'd use the Tailwind class `float-right`.
There are a lot of shitty companies that require you to contact support or even wait weeks before you can delete your account.
What platforms does the algorithm work on?
... and blending the search eith the address bar.

I spent a good 1 hour to explain the difference to a tech illiterate on why typing "mywebsite.com" was different from typing "mywebsite com" and picking the first result on Google.

I'm not sure he understood, but I really have to admit that this trend of dumbing down things is only make them worse, in a way.
Error rate = (number of requests which returned an error) / (total number of requests)

You can choose plenty of time periods to satisfy a 0% error rate for most services - somewhere from milliseconds to days or even years.
Apple writes these rules, and as platform owner of iOS they can design the rules not to apply to themselves. I don’t think that’s a good defense against the obvious hypocrisy here. A major part of Apple’s playbook these days is to design some policy that has the effect of advantaging themselves vs. competitors, while also helping the consumer. I think it’s an effective strategy, but it also deserves some criticism. The consumer would be helped more if Apple treated their own services equally.
Show HN: A bootstrap landing page editor
Hi

I am working on a landing page editor, I just added a bootstrap template, here is the link if you want to explore the editor and check it out:

https://landing.listws.com/landing/canvas

Let me know any feedback, thank you!!
A related question about this: if an account was flagged for something (e.g. the account was shadow banned), is it OK by GRPD standards to:

1/ not tell the user this info.

2/ keep track of the fact this account was flagged after the account was deleted, for instance by keeping a hash of the email address of the accounts that were flagged?
The iron dome defends against saturation attacks. You see the average HN poster come up with swarm buzzwords and then talk about how defense against saturation attacks is impossible meanwhile the iron dome intercepts 90%+ of hamas rockets even though they are sending thousands of them.
People need to stop acting like the law is the same everywhere. "X is illegal, period" is probably only true for murder and theft, and even then, with a lot of regional variations.
True, and even if only a small percentage of people leave it could reduce housing costs in the cities.
Do you happen to know what good sleep means?

I've done polysomnography and they told me nothing except I don't have sleep apnea, and got a lot of microawakenings -- to me it felt I didn't sleep at all with all the wires and noise by other patients in other rooms snoring, nurse re-attaching wires, nurse walking on hallways to check on other patients and so on.

My smartwatch tells me I spend 60% in light sleep, 20% in REM and 20% in deep sleep, but I get very little continous deep sleep.
Hi, thanks a lot for this work! A possibly naive question from someone that dabbles in tech/web only for pleasure while working in a completely different realm:

I understand the how of using a site builder like yours, but not the why. I see you allow e.g. use of react or svelte - don't they already allow you to build static sites? And i know e.g. Hugo, Hexo & co that allow static site generation, but presumably don't need use of another framework.

What is it that Astro does beyond or better than those tools? Why and who would benefit from spending time learning and using it? E.g. if I start to learn svelte what benefit will it bring me to learn also Astro and make my hobby project dependent on it? Could you give a few use cases where it would or would not add value to use Astro, to help less informed people like me?

Thanks again!
The ability to easily delete an account they don’t want anymore? Without jumping through hoops like contacting support. Not sure your question is serious or not.
Seeing you mention MBOX parsing/extraction reminds me that back in the day I used lbdb, integrated with mutt.

The little-brother database allowed looking up contacts from LDAP, and similar, and pulling from local files.
Which pill will you choose? Red or blue?
It's certainly true that political winds are driving the reversions. But what's driving the politics?

Wealth taxes face three classic problems: (1) they're very hard to set in any fair sense given complexities of markets and assets, (2) they can induce liquidation in ways that are net bad for the economy, and (3) capital flight.

3 seems to have been a problem in Norway (https://archive.is/L6kyZ), as it was in France and elsewhere in Europe prior. If your tax system causes a net decrease in receipts because you're golden geese have fled, that's a workability problem!
I've found it easier to maintain CSS-in-JS since I know exactly what will be affected when I change it. I'm always scared to touch the .css files on large projects.

I haven't used SCSS modules though.
Cheap Car Hire, Compare Rental Prices – Rentalcars.com
Now do subscriptions.

For all the people who fall prey to misleading tactics and don’t know how to cancel.
Can anyone give some references on that Web Components have bad dev ergonomics? Is it just that Web Components don't allow passing of complex types so you have to stringify everything?
What? How else would a tax on unrealized gains work if not mark-to-market at a fixed day of the year?

This is exactly how Wyden’s proposal works as well, so I fail to understand the point you think you are making.

Personal wealth taxes are literally a tax on personal wealth including unrealized gains.

“I was wrong” is much easier to type than your confusing reply. :)
Windows 2008 R2/8.1 introduced Applocker, which was a more advanced replacement for the older SRP.

Current Windows 2019/Windows 10 offers WDAC, which is more advanced still.

There's a lot of security discussions that really don't give these technologies credit. For example, a WDAC policy can prevent early launch rootkits ever loading, and will be enforced by Secure Boot.
Yeah whatever, I'm not a product guy and I do not pretend to have any clue about what people really want.

My point of my anecdote was that "connected" is not a boolean property.
We’ve been in a bubble for a while and everyone predicts a crash every other day.

The question is: are you going to not make hay while the sun shines because the weather forecast is unpredictable?
The value of playdate is that it’s not yet another emulator/mini-console. I find it more comparable to pico8
> You actually never needed to wear a mask outside.

This claim is patently false. Even though outside spaces are safer than indoors, it's still possible to spread covid-19 outdoors, moreso if you do not respect social distancing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-55680305

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

It seems that anti-maskers grab the claim that masks are not necessary if you're sitting quietly at a table on a plaza on a sunny day while preserving the min >2m social distancing, but completely disregard all other scenarios such as the journey to said plaza and unexpectedly finding yourself in high-risk scenarios while you move around.

To put things in perspective, there are documented cases where COVID spread through person's that stopped to chat outdoors while not wearing a mask.

What makes this sort of argument regarding the use of mask particularly dangerous is that it starts with a premise based on a very specific scenario combining key factors that are known to be safe (i.e., sit outside without a mask on a sunny day while preserving social distancing) but ends up trying to justify discarding each and every key safety factor (social distancing while outdoors in sunny, hot days, and even the need to wear a mask while going to a public place).

Lastly, although wearing a mask is important to keep you from catching COVID (or any airborne respiratory disease) the main goal of wearing a mask is to ensure that asymptomatic people (and specially symptomatic people) don't unwittingly spread the virus.
In my example the coder would be the general and the soldiers are the code :)

The easy way is to use all of the latest fancy gizmos, you'll have microservices on a kubernetes cluster and a sharded globally distributed schemaless database - all done with $hype_language and 4200 different npm packages. Because you don't have the knowledge or experience to cut through all the hype and masses of different options.

You need to have experience, education and/or training to come up with the simplest possible solution.
Global debt to GDP
is at an all time high, though: httpss://www.axios.com/global-debt-gdp-898959ed-f96a-4c4d-85a3-5d3cc419631f.html

Personal / corporate savings is a fraction of public debt.

This is why people think there's a "bubble". But you don't really have an "everything bubble" - that just means fiat money is worth less than you think it is.

It's a reverse bubble with your wages.
You have so called ‘whales’ controlling and manipulating the coins, only those who got in early and the institutions can control the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The whole thing is so volatile a single billionaire can say anything causing the entire crypto market to crash, leaving those who got in extremely late holding a huge bag.

Bitcoin is useless and has no usecase at all and Ethereum spurred on the useless energy inefficient and vapid NFT craze which is yet another money laundering scheme. Don’t get me started on ransomware as that is for another story.

This experiment should not have been allowed to run it’s course at all and all of it needs to be shutdown.
I feel like this misses the point a bit.

Memorizing a text book has very little to do with learning a text book.
But does this grow operating margin or does it keep it around 20%?

Labor costs have gone up, if by enough, then this is simply maintaining margins.
Billions would die and a few more billion would be impoverished if oil magically disappeared. If oil wells ran dry in the medium term (10-30 years?) the world be screwed. Petroleum products are so ingrained in every part of your life, most people have no idea.
To be fair the “right to be forgotten” is, in fact, a law in the EU, it’s just that often you need to go through great lengths to exercise this right.

Apple’s playing field is just much more narrow, which allows it to enforce rules like these in an elegant manner which makes for a much better experience to the end user.
> I sell enough shares to match my losses

Which changes depending on losses. What you are missing is you needed to purchase the portfolio in the first place - The more tax you can write off, the more it mean you lost in the first place.

assume tax rate 25%, portfolio of startup portfolio cost $X.

$UBER_CG_BILLIONS - $X is portfolio unrealised CG. I'll assume this is positive, meaning $X < $UBER_CG_BILLIONS.

Assuming "I sell enough shares" means uber shares (as opposed to some other share),

I sell exactly $X worth of my Uber shares (ignoring what I paid for the Uber shares themselves), which I offset against losses to pay no tax. Since I had to pay $X initially, this is my original investment restored.

I retain ($UBER_CG_BILLIONS - $X) worth of Uber shares.

Where does the $175mil come from? Assuming it isn't the $X I had to invest in the first place, I could sell more Uber shares, but I would have to pay full tax - I already offset all my losses in order to get the original investment back.

TLDR; you suggest $175mil was gained without tax, but without mentioning how much was lost on the portfolio in the first place - presumably more than $175mil.

EDIT: Now assume that $X is $100 for the whole portfolio, per last sentence. How common would an Uber-billions unicorn be for such a small investment to rocket like that. The more diversified your portfolio, the thinner you spread your investment. Uber stock would have to increase by 10,000,000 in value to be worth just 1 billion, even if you only invested you $100 in Uber. It would need to increase by a factor of 1,000,000,000 to be worth "100s of billions".
Anyone who has learned an alternative keyboard layout will tell you this is true. When you get a new keyboard (say, with linear layout), you will struggle like crazy during the day doing typing tests like https://monkeytype.com/ back to back like 20 times, and your speed won't improve –it will deteriorate.

But give it a good night's sleep or at least a few hours not doing the exercises, you will come back at higher WPM speeds. And at some point you wake up and it just "clicks" in your brain, congrats you just re-wired your brain.
» Good examples of simple and safe password managers are keepass and keepassx, or even pass if you’re a nerd.

» I’m generally skeptical of these online subscription password managers, and that’s going to be the focus of the rest of this article.

I may be wrong but he talks about online password managers only, that's why his conclusion is «if you want a password manager in your browser, sue the one that's built-in». Otherwise, separate password managers are good, but author isn't talking about them.
We're not ready for that. For example, how can clean energy replace plastic? Billions would die as the sibling comment points out.
I took one of the questions from this article: https://blog.seekwell.io/gpt3

Instruction: Given an input question, respond with syntactically correct PostgreSQL. Be creative but the SQL must be correct.

Input: how many users signed up in the past month?

And it gave me a pretty nonsensical answer compared to the output from GPT-3 seen in that article.
GDPR data package request should return an empty set.
This is a very good sign you should be looking for a different employer.
Cool, really great to know.
Do you mean to say that the family-owned shares lose their extra voting power when transferred?

A bankruptcy judge would not hesitate to void this clause if those shares were being transferred by virtue of bankruptcy seizure.
I’ve come across more and more sites in recent years with no account deletion option and it’s hugely frustrating.

It’s just not something that developers have really had to account for thus far.

You ingest data and then it and derived data goes god knows where in your organization. How do you track all of that down?

(There’s “should be” and “actually is”. I’m referring to the latter.)
lol

I've directly engaged with 100+ comments today. I stand behind my work in ways that virtually no writers do. All I ask in return is a basic bit of respect in the form of default rules of engagement. Forcing me to address the same concern in two places is bad form. When I informed you of that, you implied (per your own screenshot) that I was trying to get away with something underhanded. I don't need to be treated like that, so I blocked you in the space I control.

You can be as butthurt as you'd like! You can complain about it wide and far! Or you can reflect. It's up to you!
What worked best for me was to have paper next to me as I read, and every time I felt like I did not fully understand what I read, write down the questions I would need to answer to feel better about my understanding.

Often, the answers would appear later in a chapter. Sometimes, re-reading the chapter would allow me to catch answers to questions I'd missed. If questions remained after reading and re-reading, it was time to talk to someone else who had already studied the material.
I think in coming decades, homeschool might be the more sought after education for families that are able to afford it (which will be sad for public schools). It makes sense to allow kids more leeway in what they study and apply, especially with how available knowledge is on the internet (eg. Khan Academy and Wikipedia). Literally just playing Wikipedia races to get from one topic to another is probably more productive than some history or science classes.

I do wonder though how you managed to get enough socialization time with other people. Scheduling that seems like a massive pain unless there are also a lot of other families homeschooling nearby and in the same age group.