skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know how you learned about how media worked, but when I was taught about it in elementary school in Italy, I clearly remember my teacher explaining the concept of Agenda and News Cycle. Maybe I just had an amazing teacher (she is, indeed).

That said, this is not a new development. Mainstream media today are doing this in subtler ways because they are forced to transparency by the rise of the Internet.
As long as media organization need to turn a profit, this will always be the case.
By having a rich media landscape, with different point of views, we were always able to keep a general balance despite the singular imbalances. The radicalization of opinions and the outrage economy, along with the Internet, have disrupted that general balance, with mostly right-wing leaning medias seizing that unethical advantage, and liberal left-leaning media trying to decry it, while having a hard time swiping their own conflicts of interest under the rug.

Surprisingly enough, this is mostly true for generalist media, though. I’m lucky enough to be a tech journalist, and despite having to deal with a lot of companies and a lot of products that they want to ultimately sell, I feel that our conflicts of interest are way easier to navigate, and easier to address.

Picking your news from carefully selected sector-specific publications, and putting together your own media diet, is the equivalent of eating organic and cooking your own meals vs eating out at McDonald’s every night.
The equivalence, sadly, is true also for the level of education and income (and time) you need to have to do that, though.
Granted that the DOM event API feels clunky, but I actually think they got things mostly right:
- low-level storage primitive with support for indices, "you pay only for what you use".
- very fast if used in the right way
- very large sizes supported
- built-in version support, making it easy to do schema and data migrations.
- basic query api that again gives you a lot of flexibility and control over performance
- can be abstracted away by higher level libraries like Dexie

I've built a web-app heavily relying on IDB, and storage operations are generally much faster than the native app on Android using Realm DB. IDB is backed by leveldb on Chrome, which in benchmarks is consistently faster than sqlite. I'm happy we didn't end up with websql for one.

My biggest gripes are:
- The incompatibility with ES6 promises early on (but IE11 still suffers from) was unfortunate.
- The auto-commit behaviour of transactions is somewhat annoying and usually has an impact on your architecture if you want to write multiple things in one transaction, but it would have been easy to have memory leaks and deadlocks without this.
- Quota management and eviction is wildly inconsistent between browsers, even on Chrome you get evicted when storage gets critically low.
- Safari has a history of pretty bad IDB bugs.
> lists aren’t immutable when passed to another function

Well, lists are never immutable in Python; you want to use tuples for that.
A job board to help you find a career where you can work remotely from anywhere
A rooftop solar heater 200 liters, plus an electric supplemental water heater plus the requisite control system runs about 2000 euros here, INSTALLED (Portugal)
the UX focus isn't casual use but operations – showcasing mere mortals can host a webservice as a tool for themselves and others.

But feel free to add any other HTML presentation layer by modifying the XSLT and serving it from your webserver instead.
I don't think we will go that path, I think that VR will fade away when we have usable/portable AR.
AstraZeneca says antibody treatment failed in preventing Covid-19 in patients
There is a proposal: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09317
Just like the chinese nuclear plant that is reaching failure stage, the strategy one is bog enough and large enough can get away of everything. No one can stop it. Instead all should help it to continue to run unsafely or illegally.

Just like the virus, we cannot investigate, cannot stop it, cannot even name (but can say for others abd even now x.x mostly from Uk etc.).

Humanity not just your serial driver is actually at stake. Have to stop or start somewhere.

Wrong is wrong. Say it, do it abd actively buy only real and legal one.

Please.
That's an interesting question. In the late 90s, IBM had a competition in the same S/390 architecture, with Fujitsu and Hitachi mainframes. These could compete with IBM on price, so I don't think this would be a problem. It's hard to discern cause and effect here - maybe mainframes are expensive because IBM held to them and eventually became a monopoly.

But I think the claims "mainframes are legacy and complicated" came sooner than that, and that was the real cause why people wanted to avoid them.

Compare this with Unix in the early 90s, it had a very same problem, being somewhat expensive and inaccessible, even for home PCs. But this changed with Linux... and in general, home PCs changed the expectation of the onboarding, before that, the fact that you cannot buy a computer at home, didn't present a significant obstacle in employee training.

I am almost wondering if any complex enough system is long-term commercially viable. Closed-sourcing somewhat inevitably means bleeding mindshare.
A good start would be to actually mention the low hanging fruit in an article titled that. This is a bad ad and it doesn't leave me with a good impression of the company.
It is misleading to bundle grocery delivery with fast food delivery.

Grocery delivery is done with trucks fully loaded with orders and an optimized route for fuel efficiency.

It is actually much more energy efficient to package 40 ppl grocery orders in _one_ 4.3 tonne 10' truck, and make an efficient delivery route, than to have 40 people drive to their grocery store in an empty 3 tonne vehicle.

I am not sure what the situation in the US is but realistically in Europe if you have a big enough family online grocery shopping is a no-brainer.

I only shop physically for very specific perishables like bread, fruit, cheeses. Have been doing it every since our family grew and our time, mental bandwith, and lower backs decayed.
The academia is institutionally far more diverse than people think. Whatever you may believe about the academia, there is always a country / university / field where things are different.

I'm not sure if the academia is actually more toxic or exploitative than the average workplace. The bigger issue is that jobs are geographically scarce. There is usually only one university in the town, and if you don't like it, it's hard to find a new job without relocating. As a consequence, many people feel trapped in a job they don't like.
> I’m fine with my profile being public — in fact, I want it to be — but I don’t want my data to be vacuumed up and weaponized against me.

LinkedIn is a authwalled garden only available to those with accounts. "We may or may not have a Jake Lazaroff. Who's asking?".

Sounds like you need a personal website.
LinkedIn pretty much tries or at least tried to stop ANYONE from scraping other than search engines, etc.
Probably does not fit the narrative of the article.
What was the tech? Often when I read these patents it is something that anyone working in a given field could eventually come up with. It's like claiming new land and then rent seeking.
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I mean if over 90000 active connections is dead to you I suppose.

> So... at this point, they just purchased the name? Congrats I guess?

And even that is debateable. I feel like this is the main point of confusion for most sane people involved in this whole thing. Who knows what Andrew Lees motivations are here.
Learning to drive in 'snow' has mostly been useful to me when driving in mud or very wet roads. But mostly seeing first hand how small the margins between total control and complete loss of control are has led to me driving far more defensively on wet roads. Just experiencing that feeling of sitting in a car that is spinning off doing its own thing and completely ignoring your feeble attempts at breaking and steering is illuminating.
One shouldn't accept this premise in a country that runs on pure refined greed. From that greedy cynical perspective, I'd think about patents this way. Say you have a voice you use to say things. I'm, a rich greedy racoon, thinking "hm.. how can I own his voice so anything he says would pay me a royalty?" And I come up with a clever plan: make a law that allows anyone to wrap their voice into a "patent" that can be sold or rented like a property. The law is sold as a way to empower good voices and reduce inequality. Then, I manufacture a situation where people in need have to sell their voices to buy food. Now I'm a landlord, I mean voicelord, who "owns" voices. Very legal and very cool. Iirc, this is how Edison got to "own" Tesla's inventions.
Quantitative is more general than computational. For example people who develop new microscopy techniques to quantify biological measurements at new resolutions or precision can also be called “quantitative biology”.
At Google's scale, you don't even need it to be differentiable. You can just do simulated annealing or so.
A good fulfillment system tracks its inventory and communicates with the ordering system, so you can't order items they can't deliver. That's the big problem with ordering online from grocery stores - about 80% of what you order shows up, which is a headache for both buyer and seller.
How much is the scenario helped by significantly reducing the number of SKUs? e.g., customers are choosing from two toothpaste options rather than 10+?
And even Webflow the value for users is mainly unified platform that includes hosting/dev environment and integrated marketplace of themes and webflow developers. It's really handy to be able to just contract anyone you just share access to.

The editor itself is ok but they've solved html/css by making gui for everything. You are writing html/css and you have to learn it. You just don't realize that. Apart from some animation/interaction there is not that much magic. Give it to someone with no html/css knowledge and you get "brute force" style of writing css where everything is inlined, absolutely positioned and has all possible breakpoints for everything. But i guess thats fine for the marketing pages.
> Mr. Cole and Mr. Esposito said they’d been pushed to rush the story to publication

And who would push them to do that. Must be just some force of nature.
Yup, that's likely the case. Same for importing western cars on a large scale.

This will change soon in my opinion. New laws in EU pumping up norms that cars have to meet are pumping prices as well. Demand for new cars is rising, you wait several months for a car even if you don't desire custom spec. More and more people just don't want to deal with "used premium cars as the same price as shitty new ones". Prices went really up. This pumped up used cars prices as well. I see a trend in which a 1-3 year old cars are a bit more expensive then new ones in car shop, but... available.

I'm still wondering if this will end up in something at least a bit positive. It would be nice to have significant new cars sales - we would be finally treated as a market that means something and is worth caring for.
Yup, but it's a bit more actionable and concrete I think. I mean which is simpler? A single line (low LOC!) of some clever functional code, or 5-15 lines of iterative but dead simple code? But you can definitely state that the oneliner is powerful while the loop is low tech.
The value of the Pi is, that it is affordable brand-new. You can buy one or as many as you want and be sure that they are in a perfect working state, no repairs or special set up required. Just having identically machines is of extreme high value, if you are looking not only for a personal item, but something you can rely on for some kind of professional work.

Another nice thing is, that the Pi can boot and work solely on a single micro-SD card. That makes it easy to have any number of install "disks" ready at hand, you don't have to set up the systems hard disk first.

Finally, the Pi gives you a nice set of IO-ports, you can immediately start with any hardware tinkering project.
Do computer science grad students in the US commonly apply for patents on top of writing papers, etc.?

I'm just wondering where the patents in this pool are coming from, I assume the administrators are not going through the research papers and file new patents on the researchers' behalf?
> There's even recent work to add even higher performance APIs into the Filesystem Access API and the reception from Firefox and Safari has been positive.

Positive as in: "FileSystem Access is a significant security risk and we're not going to implement this"? https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6284708426022912

Positive as in "No, we don't want fifteen different file access apis, and we don't think Storage Foundation API is going anywhere"? https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5670244905385984

And even though this is a draft created and authored exclusively by Googlers, even other Googlers are confused: https://github.com/WICG/storage-foundation-api-explainer/iss...
It’s good news if they pay taxes, lobby for public research and education, don’t abuse their power to exploit workers and manipulate customers.
And that's why competition is so important.

That way that company across the ocean that manages to get these productivity enhancers in, can eat the lazy bums' lunch.

Compare https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
Unrelated to WordPerfect, but similar to your story: in my military service I served on signalling station (armored vehicle loaded with radios and antennas) and our job was to monitor the radios using a serial connection from a laptop, staring at a terminal output. Just look at the spew from the serial port, look at a few key numbers and take action (adjust antennas, bring up backup) if the numbers fall below a threshold.

These laptops were radiation hardened 486's running MS-DOS. And they had QBasic installed. And QBasic can interface with serial ports and play a loud beep on the laptop's PC speaker. Well you can guess the rest.

Unfortunately, just as I've had completed the program well enough so I could take a nap while on duty, I was transferred to another kind of command post vehicle that had Windows boxes with no qbasic and CO's seated in the same vehicle.
I think it's really unfair/strange to clump together grocery delivery with fast food. They are not at all the same, I mean sure both get you edible stuff to your home, but that's about it.

We're a family of four, and we do get home-delivered groceries weekly now after a year of Covid and really trying to minimize time spent in stores. Doing the order is easily an hour's worth of clicking, checking fridge/freezer/pantry/elsewhere for what we need, trying to remember if we missed something or if there is some non-food item that we can get delivered at the same time (think diapers, paper towels, toothpaste, whatever) and so on.

Fast food delivery we never do, it's way too expensive for the value-add, and just way more rare as a thing (buying fast food, that is). When we buy pre-made food (WFH lunches when kids are at preschool), we always to go and get it ourselves.
Couldn’t the government counter this effect with tax breaks or UBI? Like how a carbon tax along with tax offsets alleviates the burden on the poor due to an increase in price of consumer items.
I hope every single low code app either fails or somehow increases the demand for real programmers.

Programming is one of the few jobs that e.g. autistic people can do and still earn a living wage.

It is a tragedy to see it replaced by another opportunity for rent seeking and grift by “low code” app companies.
The 'visual beauty' of bricked-up windows
I wonder why nobody mentioned palisade, a mature and open source FHE.

> PALISADE now supports the BGV, BFV, CKKS, and FHEW schemes and a more secure variant of the TFHE scheme, including bootstrapping.

From https://palisade-crypto.org/
Chances are you don't have to spend hours cleaning up an used laptop. 15 minutes should be sufficient to get rid of dust and upgrade memory of an old Thinkpad for example.

I agree about the open source part though, Raspberry Pi is a good fit for teaching purposes.
Hi, I work on web-platform-tests.

I'm not really sure I follow your complaint, so I wonder if there's a point of misunderstanding. The tests written for DOM APIs certainly require running javascript to execute the test — that's a given — but most of the rendering tests are reftests. These consist of two files, one using the feature under test and one avoiding that feature [1]. The test passes when the two renderings are identical. That does make these tests difficult to run "by hand", but in terms of implementation it's possible to automate in anything that's capable of rendering to an image. Reftests are preferred over comparing rendering to a fixed image because fixed images tend to be invalidated due to unrelated/permitted changes in the rendering (e.g. a different font or different antialiasing choices). These will typically apply to both test and reference and so are handled automatically.

Reftests obviously aren't suitable to bootstrap getting very basic things working, so there are some manual tests; I suppose one could hope to avoid that by inventing a special kind of output inspection automation just for those basic tests, but it's hard to justify.

IN general, however, the "the ability to point my software at some .html files, get some failures, add more implementation, get less failures, and repeat" is exactly what wpt offers. There is some work required to stand up the necessary infrastructure to run the tests automatically, but it's common for new implementations of the platform to make use of web-platform-tests (e.g. Servo and Flow have both made use of wpt).

In terms of coverage it's very difficult to demonstrate that all the requirements of a spec, and all its interactions with other specs, are completely covered. There have been various proposals for adding test metadata to try to measure coverage, but these have largely proved impractical. Nevertheless some CSS specs have links from the spec to the relevant test cases. And if you find cases that aren't covered by exisitng tests it would be great to get a PR to add new tests [2]

[1] https://web-platform-tests.org/writing-tests/reftests.html
[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
WebSQL was what we all wanted. But if I remember right, it couldn't be standardised because the W3C requirement insists that there should be atleast 2 different implementations of it in the clients - however all the browsers that supported it only built it using SQLite (which is a very obvious choice). If atleast one of the browser had built an implementation with a different database backend (like perhaps BerkleyDB), it could have become a web standard and a reality today. Instead, we are stuck with crap like IndexedDB.
Awesome list. Double awesome that almost all tools are cross-platform.
How much richer would it be if it went into the other direction!
This is not just the US.
The source code is visible on-chain - it can be queried from the smart contract, but also it has been etched into the data of the “script upload” transaction. This is how ArtBlocks and other projects can fetch the script and display it. But that doesn’t mean the code is open source! Just like scripts on a website (which are also easy to see), the author decides on how to license the work.

I often suggest GenerativeArtistry as a simple starting point if you already know a bit of JavaScript and want to understand how it works on a basic level[1]. Tyler Hobbs' blog (OP link) also has some great essays on generative art[2], as with the blog of Anders Hoff[3], and also lots of other resources in awesome-creative-coding repo[4].

[1] - https://generativeartistry.com/

[2] - https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays

[3] - https://inconvergent.net/#writing

[4] - https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding
> Spotify is a perfect example of a company with lots of revenue that doesn't do anything interesting with it.

As an investor, I'm very reluctant of those typical SV companies who use debt to finance growth. Not for nothing that the investing world is jitterish lately, with an interest-rate increase looming: it's very bad for tech stocks.

I see those as unhealthy or at least very risky (though I have one or two of those in my portfolio: spread)

Spotify is still growing at mad pace; even compared to the COVID/lockdown boom, they are doing well. Spending loads of cash to landgrab the podcast market. Spending loads of cash to move into the audiobook market.

I can understand the grudge some US people feel over a company like Spotify: why not a US-company? Why are they attacking our tech-pride AAPL? Why are they taking hold of our US-media (podcasts) and our entertainment (music)? But Spotify really is what it is: a tech success. Albeit a more typical European one: less debt, slower, more organic growth and less horn-tooting.

(this is not investment advise)
Because this is a bit technical and regulators are not aware of it and its tremendous implications.

Hopefully the anti-trust investigations in the US, the EU and other parts of the world will change that...
That's what I'm saying. I don't think they were sitting on it until McEntee left either.
Not sure what gear Inoes grenadiers is selling to hobbyists.
The scheme is still running - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk... - DWP pretty much forced me to use it when I applied for Universal Credit last year.
Even if you are amazing at testing software you will still have bugs.

Especially for a browser engine where you have a ridiculous number of testing permutations to cater for.
> Nobody gave up any rights to work on the railroad.

Because they didn't have any. Like the right for equal pay. The right to a safe working environment. The right to adequate breaks. The right to insurance etc. You think they had the same rights as you do today?

I'm not saying the project was a bad project, it was amazing. I'm saying that the speed of its development isn't something we can long for, without also mentioning it requires conditions which completely suck for its workforce in 1865, just to mention one thing.

> The railroad also saved lots of lives. Before the railroad, an estimated 65,000 people died on the Oregon Trail. After, they hopped on a train and arrived intact 3 days later.

That's great, I'm happy it was built. You're missing the point. I'm not criticising the project, for its time it was amazing. I'm criticising the fact that it shouldn't be held as a standard for construction today. I'm not sure in what field of work you're in, but I'm sure if you give up half your salary, work twice as hard, take fewer breaks, give up your insurance and workplace safety, that the company could save money, hire more people, get things done faster. But while a project would get doen faster, actual society (i.e., the measure of your wellbeing, which is what much of life is about) would become worse.

For example, we can probably build things faster if we took into Bangladeshi labourers and paid them a fraction of our salaries, let them sleep in barracks, give them no health insurance, no workplace safety, see tons of them die. Indeed, it's how Qatar is building out its infrastructure massively at the moment, at breakneck speeds. But it's no example to me of how we should look to construct things today, nor is the transcontinental railroad an example for today, however amazing it was to build in the 1860s.