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I don't see how this article is noteworthy or relevant for HN.

We don't need mainstream news, politics, geopolitics, or conspiracy theories here.
Author here, trying to get awareness to the latency URL Shorteners force onto every user that clicks on them. You can read more about it here: https://link.warpurl.com/DrMbLW but below is a quick summary.

Double Linking - Shortening a URL that has already been shortened. The biggest culprit is social media sites shorteners:
- Twitter ~189ms (+-81ms), max ~420ms Mumbai
- LinkedIn ~447ms (+-245ms), max ~850ms Mumbai
- Facebook ~148ms (+-66ms), max ~240ms Singapore

Average URL Shortener: ~300ms (+-150ms)

When a user in Mumbai clicks on a Bitly link (~300ms) shared on LinkedIn (~850ms) then it adds ~1150ms of latency, which is more than 1 second before even reaching your website!

WarpURL(https://warpurl.com/) is ~6 times faster (<50ms) and ~5 times (~30) more consistent.
Yes I did, that's why I'm of that opinion.

What it does is force you, as other frameworks, to learn all its intricacies, design decisions, use an heavy and complex development environment (that besides that reads files it doesn't have anything to go about reading?) so that you don't need to learn the underlying language.

Then it nudges you to write a soup of classes (that you need to learn, and need to learn the config because it seems by default it has -400 but not -500, or whatever, and need to learn their priorities), that you need to keep changing and copying pasting (yes you can write classes that coalesce your styling... but that's kinda the point of CSS and/or any other pre-processor), and forget about semantically marking your html. (I'm not saying you have to write it badly, it's just that writing it poorly seems much easier - and is the same with CSS).

I just don't see the point - with the exception of the pre-processing part of course - CSS can use some little help in some places to generate programatically some things but I think those are better served by a pre-processor and not a framework as the framework tends to guide the overall design of the remaining things.
ML cares about predictive generalization, stats cares about understanding and interpreting drivers
The issue seems, to me, that we're picking between propping up the incumbent (by preventing anti-competitive pricing) and propping up the competitor (with VC funds). Neither of these is a neutral choice, really. Competitors should win when they have a fundamental advantage like a technology jump -- switching because one company can temporarily price below the cost of providing service is not much of an improvement.
Or a good lawyer who wants to get famous for suing the tech giants and doesn't care about their client at all.
Well I have to support legacy browsers so I won't be using tailwind, but that doesn't mean I won't "cheat" on css by using material design lite. I literally have a 14 day deadline with no designer on hand. I know I need a framework its just in my case the less sexy MDL is more useful because it has great support for legacy browsers.
That is a fascinating read. The aftermath section especially.
...and far less data collection, dark patterns, and helps to eliminate the temptation to soil ones' self by responding to the horrendous comments on that site. At this point, Reddit is just Facebook for people who think they're too good to use Facebook.
> More often, these companies explicitly don't want to know you. Personal information is a massive liability.

Data accrued can be sold as an asset to other firms which don't directly compete with the firm that accrued the data, or even compliment the value prospect of that firm. Amazon to US Gov. Search engines to banks. Facebook to Linkedin. Etc.

This increases the threat surface that your data creates, beyond whatever firm you think you can trust for having mundane motives.
Putting aside discovery, I've always considered SVMs to be in the realm of optimization rather than ML or statistics (though I suppose you could then also put modern deep learning under optimization too).
The labor shortage is something that doesn’t make sense to me, and it might just be basic ignorance, but I have a few questions:

1) if we so often hear about how corporations have the money to pay more, and they’re simply using it to line corporate pockets, wouldn’t they rather pay a livable wage to employees over shutting down restaurants, businesses, etc. entirely?
2) is it primarily affecting small businesses, or are the posts I’ve seen about Taco Bell/chains not finding labor true as well?
3) how is it that only now employees are realizing they can make more money from unemployment than working - what uniquely changed? Was it just the absurd amounts of money being pumped from stimulus checks?
> …"I've not clicked a single ad intentionally since Ads exist on the internet."

You and me both. I actually actively block ads on the Internet except on the very few sites that have earned my trust (https://readthedocs.org/, DuckDuckGo, etc) or sites where the advertising is directly connected to my existing purpose (to buy a thing) such as Amazon, eBay, Humble Bundle, etc. Everywhere else gets the block because they simply can't be trusted anymore.
The scope of the biological study of sex is, in fact, broader than the presence of a Y chromosome.
>The printer stack which has barely received an update since Windows XP is a perfect example.

The big change was the shift to XPS based drivers in Vista (which was back ported to XP). The trouble is the printer manufacturers have largely ignored this and continued to produce GDI based drivers. I sometimes wonder if Windows has too much backwards compatibility.
The catchphrase is "neurons that fire together wire together".
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The plant kingdom is almost entirely mono-food-sourced. They almost all rely on the sun, which, pending a nuclear winter, might indeed become a scarce resource. Do plants deserve to go instinct?
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> this braindead idea that websites should hassle you based on your IP address

So if you only ever log in to your financial institution from NY city, they shouldn't be suspicious if they see an attempt to log in from North Macedonia?
Don't forget you are saving for all this while paying an ever increasing cost of living. Your rent has already increased 40% before you realize that it is time to go.

Also, where do you go? It isn't like there is some perfect spot right now where jobs match cost of living. Not to mention...a lot of people have long term ties in areas. Most of my family is here. In my case I have lived in my town for 40 years...but I am being priced out of the town.
Not if you want to actually have a life and not be confined to a series of small boxes.
You elaborate. Graph databases cause expensive writes and cheap reads. Something anybody typically never ever needs. I worked with neo4j and cypher. Same garbage.
A whole lot of major Substack writers seem to be writing articles of the form "Look at this bad thing that's happening, aren't you upset about it?" Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=greenwald.substack.co... , for instance.

So yeah, I don't think that Substack is solving the "rage" problem. It could be, as this article says, that major authors need to cultivate rage to get new subscriptions. But it may simply be the case that people are happy to pay for rage, which would directly undercut the point Substack is trying to make in https://on.substack.com/p/breaking-off-the-engagement , the article that TFA is responding to:

> While platforms that depend on ad sales must harvest attention any way they can, platforms that depend on people’s willingness to pay must foster trust and satisfaction. Writers succeed only if readers are happy, and in turn platforms succeed only if writers are happy. In this world, users are finally at the table rather than on the menu.

"Happy" is a funny word. Regardless of whether you agree with him, it should be pretty clear that most of Greenwald's Substack isn't things he intends the reader to be happy about. What's probably true is that paying readers want to see the information and are happy that they are receiving the information, but that's very different from saying that the readers are paying to be happy.
You can’t strip stolen iPhones for parts this way.
The video had been removed. This one is still up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZkG7iK38Co
Could you point me to some good criticism of him? I've sought it before because he does feel that way to me, reading him, but what I've found has mostly been low-quality.
I found this funny because a large portion of my job has morphed into designing reports for different departments to measure performance. It boils down to a lot of binary yes/no formulas in excel and measuring those yes/no as a performance indicator.

KPI forever indeed. I never expected as a sysadmin I’d be creating excel reports to measure the performance of others.
Neat hack, but why would you want a fan on the internet?
I think it's on purpose. The cryptic title doesn't help either.
Got a very good result (bottom left corner of scatter chart at the end) by keeping masks on and banning risky businesses for the whole time and limiting events to 100 or 10 people and keeping schools closed until summer.

Probably wasted money on vaccine promotion. It didn't feel like a vaccine did much difference in such short time-frame and number of immune people rose super slow even towards the end.

When they extend the game till the end of 2021 and beyond vaccines may make huge sense.
> Then there comes the point where I have to use Tailwind for work and I am blocked by an offical account and – that feels kind of stupid? Getting blocked by a company entity for having an opinion is kind of… strange?

I don't understand comments like this. You still have access to tailwindcss.com for documentation.

The company doesn't owe you space in their social media conversations. The company has real customers and potential customers who they want to engage with. Engaging with people who tweet "Tailwind is a terrible way to write CSS" [0] and "Refactor tailwind out of your codebase" [1] isn't a good use of the company's time. Blocking those people will also downrank their comments in @tailwindcss threads, which seems useful from the company's perspective. They're running a business, not a grievance forum.

Maybe, one could argue, the company should engage strenuously with critics like this to try to convert them. But for me, no, they should focus on supporting the people who want to be their customers.

[0]: https://twitter.com/wolfr_2/status/1310887766595637248

[1]: https://twitter.com/wolfr_2/status/1280949237820383232
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> when you become the smartest person in the room, assuming...

Also assuming that there are other rooms - once you really work your way into a niche, and are the most senior guy in the room... you may also be the most senior guy in the world for your niche.

At that point, you need to think about whether it is time to go to a new niche, or if you are OK just sitting on top for a while.
I disagree, it's a great tool - T-Mobile has roaming agreements with Softbank, NTT and DoCoMo, not KDDI.

The biggest issue is the phone bands, if your phone does not support the local bands, it will not connect.

I had no issue having a secondary phone in Japan w/ my T-mobile sim and having a local NTT sim. With dual sim/esim even easier nowadays to run both networks.
Iceland cuts working hours for majority after shorter working week trial
Most people don't actually do design systems, because most organizations aren't set up to make/reward systematic design approaches.

Like any system that doesn't plan/support for its own maintenance, this means that most systemic/semantic approaches break down. The larger the team/projects, the greater the entropy inputs.

Solution: don't do it. Drop your styles (or some mediated subset) directly into a component. This also "solves" the overhead of separating style from content and other ways in which CSS suffers from "everything happens somewhere else"-itis.

Personally, I think tailwind is the wrong solution to these problems and we'll see posts about how this turned out to be a local maximum at best in about 2-4 years (or, hey, recently by the author of this post), but people climb to local maxima for a reason.
South Park dramatization of this argument:

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/ji7j1k/south-park-god-d...
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A lot of oblivious green bubbles in this thread
These forms of knowledge do grow the pie, they just haven't formed a monetization/product loop. The scarcity of jobs to fund their work (which we need vastly more of) is a market failure.

-An unemployed STEM
Parkour, skydiving, downhill skiing, motorcycling, drag racing, autoerotic asphyxiation, Russian roulette.

Out of all the things known to nature, humans find the most incredible ways to entertain and please themselves to death.

If you remove the element of pain and replace it with pleasure, people will find new and exciting ways to chase that pleasure too.

Run into unsafe neighborhoods at night and feel the joy of running back home. Roll around in broken glass and let the euphoria of stitching yourself back together set in.

> And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?)

They'll do whatever you want them to do, because they are neither real nor human.
spot-on
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Carriers probably display different prices for different people.
> You can definitely make snapshots on APFS.

Apple can. I can’t.
Making APFS snapshots requires special entitlements, which they’re not going to give me.

> It also use checksums for filesystem integrity.

It doesn’t check integrity of the actual data though. But I care about my data.
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Forcing companies to break up can have the unintentional effect of creating cartels where the previously joined companies of similar size work together to push out smaller companies with price fixing. If there is only so much business to be done and there's no realistic way for you to cover a majority of the industry, you can make more money pushing out any of the competition that won't keep prices fixed.
Original article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/heres-a-bluepri...
Or even undoable because it is a dependency of dependency, that vulnerable major version is no longer maintained, and your dependency heavily relies on specific feature of that major version.

At this point, what should you do now?

The author of dependency of dependency is probably not going to touch it because it is fixed in the new major version. The author of dependency is probably also not going to fix it instantly because it requires major rewrite.
> [...] because the only purpose behind such categorization is to assign value judgements like "a 'real' programming language can be used for systems programming".

And the other unstated purpose is gatekeeping. Oof, for such a relatively risk-free, comfortable and privileged profession, we're such an insecure lot.
Thanks for sharing! That's currently an uncommon change but I must admit you explained it well.

Quick question for the team: did you consider or try Consul as a service mesh ?
> No need to be so extreme, you need only make them be near the riffraff to get similar results.

Thing is placing tents near the Mayor’s house would just result in either a rezoning or other form of criminal sanction.

Tents are just a way to sweep the problem of homelessness under the rug not to solve it. Soon enough this mayor will be re-running on a platform of having solved the homelessness problem and successfully housing “x” people all while helping business keep wages down.
One thing I've wrestled with with the rise of online news and its effects on physical newspapers is how much I miss certain things about the physical newspapers. I don't miss the physical format, but I do think the old-school paper newspapers were much more enjoyable to read than most online equivalents.

At some point I realized that one major issue is that advertising in many of the paper copies was based around content area: if I went to the performing arts section, for example, it would be filled with ads for performing arts events. I loved this as it was actually useful and informative to me. I went to that section looking for performing arts, and that's what I got.

In online news, though, if I go to a performing arts, I don't get informative, unintrusive ads for performing arts events in my area, I get bombarded with random ads for things unrelated to what I'm looking at. Even if, say, earlier in the day I was looking for shoes, I don't want to see ads for shoes if I'm browsing performing arts, I'm interested in performing arts.

What you're talking about is a broader observation about identification of individuals per se versus patterns of interests and behaviors. However, I'd argue that a major failure of online advertising (with very important exceptions, including Google, DuckDuckGo, and many other places) is the recognition that what matters for ads is interest at any given moment, and not interests at any other time. I suppose someone might say "but a good ad is something that gives you what you are interested in even if you might not recognize it" but this is really difficult to get right, especially given that my interests in a given moment can shift from minute to minute.

If I'm moving from, say, shoe shopping to, say, performing arts, I'm deliberately moving my attention away from the former to the latter. Showing me ads for shoes is something that's specifically going against my current attentional goals. It's like saying "hey Honey, I'm done in the kitchen and am going to go into the garage to work on something" and then having some random stranger show up and pull you back in the kitchen.

This seems to be a fundamental screwup with a lot of online advertising: the failure to recognize that I'm functionally a different person from moment to moment, and when I move from one page to another there's a reason for that.

Email surveillance is maybe going even further in a worse direction, in that it's even more decontextualized and time-independent. Part of the brilliance of Google search ads, and things like DuckDuckGo, is that they catch you exactly in that moment when you're looking for something on a specific topic. Newspapers and everywhere else needs to take better advantage of that paradigm. Show me what I'm looking for now, don't take a shotgun guess at what I might want based on what I was doing in the past.
> Just like I don’t like React I will probably never really like Tailwind.

>But that doesn’t mean that I can’t be a professional and write the best Tailwind code I can if that’s what’s asked of me.

This is something that I can’t understand. Maybe it’s just me, but we’re incredibly fortunate to be in a market with huge demand. It’s not like we live in a React only world.

You can make a pretty good living writing in whatever language, framework, ecosystem you choose. I’m terrible at self promotion and still I manage.

It’s great when what’s fashionable matches your personal taste. It happened to me a few times. But when it doesn’t, it’s pretty fine as well.
Idaho did the opposite in 2017...they created laws preventing any town from blocking vacation rentals in any way.
Also, they have non disclosure laws which make the state very nice for real estate investors.

I wonder how many people moving here know that the lake was supposed to be a superfund site...or that their nice little cottage was a meth lab just a decade ago.
It also has some false results.
Like package x has a vulnerability in version 1.x
And you have a private package @company/x with version 1.x.
Than npm audit will blame your private package, even if you dont have used the original package x.
Nobody false-flags the US... Do that, and you'll probably have a drone fall on you overnight...
This is the only way to vote in the US. The election system does not tally individual ballots, only number of inhabitants in blue and red states/counties.

Given that system, this is a very democratic and rational move.
>It largely seems to be a matter that at some point became politically useful in the US and elsewhere, rather than an actual concern.

It's diabolical. The ruling class, who benefitted the most from slavery, have figured out how to use it to keep people from uniting against them. According to them, it was white people who enslaved black people, not rich people who enslaved poor people, and we should all be upset the former and never think about the latter.
Why you shouldn't obsess about Rust “features”
AFAIK cheaters still manually input moves into engine, so cheating on 3min blitz against a super GM won't so be easy.
I prefer tea leaves and coffee grounds. :)

HN has been gradually colonized by Trump truthers, anti-science, antivaxx, conspiracy theorist, uneducated individuals, trolls, and people outside startups who can't out down irrationality or their egos.
I think you can use some enlightenment, as well. You should visit the US/Mexico border to see the "some".

Generalizations are never 100% complete (by definition). But so much poverty and corruption, and so much desperate migration, sustained for such a long time (decades) is a picture of overall failure.

Mexico has the fewest excuses. It is perfectly positioned in the middle of the earth, with coasts on both the Atlantic and Pacific, and with abundant resources. They could be an economic _powerhouse_, with trade relations with the entire world (thing manufacturing, shipping, ...) if they could get it together (and I hope they do). But, history seems to show that isn't likely for a long time, if ever.
Thank you. Can someone please break security questions next so I don’t have to store four passwords instead of one to login to my accounts?

Please kill opt-out-less 2FA while you’re at it. (Thanks Amazon, been enjoying that change!)
Wayyyyy too close to the U.S.A. to do that. I am virtually certain it would result in a military response from the US.
You are not correct under any lens in any context
Windows Phone is their old attempt, I would be interested to see how their modern design would adapt to mobile devices.
Right, but the alternative in question is banning surveillance-based advertising. I'd prefer to curb surveillance itself, having the side-effect of eliminating surveillance-based advertising.

Separately, yes, I'd like to see practically all public advertising banned (billboards are blight), and while I'd have to think on it some more before supporting a blanket ban on all advertising (I'm not sure it's workable, for one thing) I'd also not be sad if I woke up one morning and learned that such a law had been passed.
Thank you, this really well summarises my article.
We're trying to find the balance between semantic classes and utilities now with @apply. I've always found layout to be easier with utility classes (regardless of Tailwind, this counts for Bootstrap 4 too).

I like "atom"-like components better with semantic classes. In BEM/ITSS I'd make a component for -everything-. But in Tailwind we'd only make one for common "atoms" such as buttons, tags, inputs etc.

Code example: write ".t-button" and then use @apply to put the classes there. Keeping the design constrained to a set of tokens.

.t-button {
@apply border
inline-flex
items-center
px-3
leading-5
font-medium
rounded
focus_outline-none
focus_ring-2
focus_ring-offset-2
focus_ring-blue-500;
}
It's both! Sorry I'll see myself out.