skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That means I need two versions of each image: something legacy or proprietary for Safari users (PNG, JPEG, HEIF) and something to appease the Google Gods (WebP) so I don't get blasted by Core Web Vitals.

WebP uses VP8, which requires hardware support to run correctly. Apple's "proprietary" format is also open, and created by a standards body instead of Google. VP8 also has some patent claims on it by Nokia, even though Google has released it under a free patent license. I'd definitely second guess that if I were a legal dept. So really you're arguing that you prefer Google's proprietary format over Apple's. To each their own but know your desired format isn't as free and open as some would hope.

> Chrome does it, too, but at least Chrome users have the ability to choose another browser; no such luck on iOS.

What if iOS users view this as a feature? I know I certainly do. It's impossible these days to know with certainty which apps are running in a browser. And given Chrome supporting all the things it supports it can be a security issue. So knowing an app must be using webkit to me is a feature.

> I don't want to be forced to use Apple's proprietary image and video formats to achieve decent performance in Safari

Again, Apple's formats are open. And further this should be completely transparent to you as you should have conversion scripts in place already.

> My sites would work better in Lynx if I didn't have to spend so much time making them work in Safari

My experience is a bit different. I develop for Safari, then check it in Chrome and FF. It works most of the time with few exceptions that Chrome implements to perform it's magic.

> It can't be that important if nobody even knows what it's called.

That's actually the point. It supports the standards and you get a few extra market participants you wouldn't have if your customers happen to run that browser. You don't need to know the name at all, so long as it supports the standard. This benefits us by having more and more browser engines and competition, instead of the 3 we have today.

> Phones from 8 years ago run sites a lot better when they don't have to download redundant code and JS polyfills to achieve what could've been done with pure CSS.

The question is, is any of this needed? If it's CSS it clearly doesn't anything to do with the functionality of the site right?
Holy shit, you can install and play Doom.
The Maximize button works correctly on portrait orientation mobile, even when nothing else is okay with that width. Good game, Maximize button. I concede awesomeness.
Making a solid attempt to quit this year. I think I've finally managed to close almost all the remaining loopholes I've found. I've been using Detoxify and Purity, in combination with Block (to block Chrome/YT 24/7 and the Play Store at night). I also physically restrict access to certain devices at certain times of day with the use of smart plugs and shutdown scripts.

What I learned is that the compulsion is ridiculously strong. I also learned I don't really miss it. Like... I'm ok without it. Addictions never feel that way, that's what makes it so hard to quit, but in reality it's been really nice to feel OK without it. It's also been much better for my marriage. Honestly even usage once a month is problematic I have found.

Years ago I read chapter 4 of "The Brain That Changes Itself" as that chapter is all about porn. It really opened my eyes. Glad I'm finally getting it sorted. I found it seriously worth kicking it out of my life.
> "Women have to have thick skin" is just nonsense to not have to type "The women are harassed relentlessly".

Which is also a false translation (and thus a strawman) of what I said. The vast majority were treated quite damn well.

> It's also worth noting that the military is a toxic cesspit for sexual abuse.

I did some Googling here and found that in 2013, 0.9% of all military members reported sexual assault. I don't know how that compares to civilian life, and I'll just toss this out there, I bet this varies A TON by military branch, and I will leave it at that.

> Comparing any sane workplace to the military is a joke. Nobody should want to be like the military, including the military.

You sound like a person who would never make it in the military. I learned a lot of good things in the military: Integrity, diversity, work ethic, respect, adventure, confidence, attention to detail, and what an actual 8-hour shift felt like (which I would never see again; most work for corps done since has gone over 8 hours/day). I also had an absolute blast after work and on weekends, it was a happy coming-of-age time for me. Perhaps it was due to it being the USAF and not the USMC, but it was positive for me.
I suspect they're referring to the Elecom HUGE trackball:

https://www.elecom.co.jp.e.gj.hp.transer.com/products/M-HT1D...
I used to use JiTouch which allowed you to draw a symbol with two fingers. I then bound each symbol to an app: C for chrome, T for terminal, F for Firefox, and so on. It was wonderful, but unfortunately development support of JiTouch stopped.
>On the other hand, "Unwilling to respect colleagues they wouldn't personally be friends with" is a valid reason to make a no-hire decision.

And how would you come to that conclusion during an interview?
Isn't this well known already? Don't small volcano eruptions create their own localized weather systems over the crater as well?
Double-click doesn’t work on Safari Mobile, but portrait kind of does.
As a compliment to this point :
Tgings I'd consider valid culture fit criteria :

1) does this candidate have a positive attitude about the work that they do?

2) is this candidate respectful to the clients they work with? (E.g. a coworker of mine routinely calls our client contacts a "fucking bitch" on internal calls.

These aren't really possible to evaluate in the hiring process, but can be a big problem once theyve already been hired.
As someone else posted, https://www.scoremyline.com/ is another metric that is available. GeoWizard collaborated with its creator, and has said that some of his own lines are better with this metric while also stating that the whole thing is of course arbitrary anyway.

This seems like a good match for what you seek.
Imagine the CDC yelling: "Don't throw that away! I need more details! Please! If you won't finish the job, please let me do that work!"

That's my translation of the document I found when looking into this issue. More details below...

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"CDC is suggesting CT value of 28 for detecting breakthrough infections after vaccinations... So that means, a breakthrough infection needs to have 128 times viral load in someone who has been vaccinated to be considered as positive, than it is required to have considered as positive in a non-vaccinated person."

This sounded strange to me, so I searched for more information about it. It looks like you just misunderstood the CDC's policy.

This document regarding breakthrough case investigations was the second result in a Google search for "cdc ct value 28". The relevant text can be found on page 5 of that document.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105217/cdc_105217_DS1.pdf

"If SARS-CoV-2 sequencing will not be performed locally and a specimen is available, the state public health laboratory should request the residual clinical respiratory specimen for subsequent shipping to CDC. For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value <=28 to CDC for sequencing."

In other words... Imagine some lab just found a breakthrough case. And this breakthrough case had an especially high viral load (Ct 28). And the lab was just going to report a positive and throw away the sample...

Imagine the CDC yelling: "Don't throw that away! I need more details! Please! If you won't finish the job, please let me do that work!"

That's what the document is saying. There's a rare event that needs extra analysis. CDC is just letting the labs know in advance that if they ever see this event, and didn't have the resources to fully analyze it, please send that sample to the CDC so it gets the attention it deserves.

Nothing to do with whether the test is considered positive or a breakthrough - just about whether to put extra effort into gathering more details on that particular case. CDC is volunteering to do this extra effort only for higher Ct values. Whether or not they do this extra work, it's still a positive result either way.
I wonder if a small amount of investor increase makes a big impact.

Traditionally the housing market is one-bought, one-sold, plus a small amount of growth. Probably less than 3% type thing from population covered by new builds.

If you throw in funds/investors increasingly into this market, even if they are taking ~10% of the stock that has a huge impact on the 'one-bought, one-sold' part of the equation. Now there are more much more buyers than sellers creating competition on an extremely emotional purchase in an enviroment where people have access to greater amounts of borrowing that historically normal.

Obviously there's a huge number of variables here and agree hedge funds are buying everything seems rumour more than fact but I think a small increase could be responsible for a disproportional large effect. at least as one part of the equation.

This stuff always makes me thing of some saying along the lines of 'housing market can be good for residents or good for investors, the government must choose which one.'
> One only has to act like a robot if they have zero social awareness or tact.

Just noting here that the vast majority of people do not have 100% perfect social awareness or tact, and making this the bar for harsh judgment of human behavior is arguably inhumane.
> users will need to wait until SpaceX has a working network in polar orbits (i.e. not flying on these tilted plains but more or less directly over the poles instead)

Apparently this has already begun, judging by the train of sats that I'm watching fly over the south pole right now.
It is very counterintuitive when you reason in terms of weight though. If you imagine a pile of rocks for instance, it makes sense that the strain on the base of a pyramid is lower than on the base of a column of the same height and base area.

You have to visualize the atmospheric air pressure to reconcile the result with intuition.
Re: Stack Overflow

I think there is still quite a lot of value for solutions that you could devise because of experience.

For instance something you came up with where you had to piece together multiple SO answers for a particular use case.

For example, my blog has had thousands of hits on a page to set up Active directory login with rails even though that question is on SO because my use case was quite specific.

Or, things that you came up with because you have experience with reading the docs or the source code.

Or even where you were skilled enough to override part of existing library for a better solution.

And finally quirks that you discovered while using specific tools that might be documented but might have side effects that are a bit more arcane.
It's got minecraft too? (game named Blocks)
What was wrong with them? I found SupCom had some of the best controls in gaming; strategic zoom was a real game-changer (although many games have it now). I guess left- vs right-click for RTS is a big divisive one, but it doesn't take so long to get used to and there's nothing objective about which way is better.
Age of Empires II Definitive Edition is getting new DLC recently, as well as new game modes (Campaign co-cop, Empire Wars).

Wargame Red Dragon announced a South Africa themed DLC.
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Electric vehicle batteries are quite different from phone batteries and propane tanks. They are heavy, large, expensive and far from being self-serviceable. To build and operate a large network of conveniently located swap stations would require a huge financial risk because the swaps would be necessarily more expensive per unit of energy restored than the charge stations, meaning the swap stations would only capture a portion of charge business.

Perhaps in the future, total swap automation and inexpensive battery restoration or transport will reduce the risk of building the network and EV sales will finally become viable for the small minority who don’t want to take periodic breaks during the occasional long trip.
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I got an iPhone 12 after being a long-term Android user. The difference in quality is just phenomenal.
Co-Working
I don’t pay any attention to what the cloud providers are doing. I have no control over them so….. eh.

ZDB is still alive and well but I have a real job now too.
Rust doesn't have useful functors or monads since it doesn't have higher-kinded types.
I think the bigger issue would be taking the tech developed by Google and porting it over to GCP as a separate company (i.e. like they did kubernetes, bigquery, etc.)

Alphabet Cloud and Google could work out some easy service agreement. Worked for Coca Cola and Coca Cola Bottling company.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german

This New Yorker profile from a few years ago is a long read but very much worth it if you want to get a overview. The beginning recapitulates a lot about her childhood so you might want to skip that part if you're only interested in her career.
Exactly the argument that people are used to all this and hence buttons don't need to be like buttons is such a bad argument.
People did lose money: most of the investors were out of money for years after the fraud, suffering actual economic harm, and even then were only partially made whole by Skreli giving out shares of his other company, which materially diluted that company's other shareholders. It was a sheer matter of luck that the other company's stock increased in value enough that some of the victims made profits, years after the original fraud.

From a legal perspective, it's irrelevant that on a long-enough time frame the victims ultimately ended up better off. That would be like saying that an attempted murder is a victimless crime if the hospital discovers that the victim has a fatal but removable brain cancer while treating their wounds from the assault.
I think this is completely wrong, our brains have reward pathways and someone could just as easily be escaping mild boredom rather than psychological distress. I have known a number of opiate addicts, including myself for a time, and in all cases it was triggered by a prescription due to an accident, or experimentation among otherwise exceptionally happy kids. In two cases this resulted in the person's death by overdose. Now, eventually the addiction did cause psychological distress, certainly, but I disagree categorically that there has to be some underlying psychological root cause.
That seems to be a common misconception. I don't know why anybody thought I wasn't aware of external volumes, I was.

It made little difference, the entire ecosystem was highly unstable. Containers could still fail, the docker daemon could hang, and the host could kernel panic any minute. For databases that meant downtime and potential data corruption.

Besides, there is a major use case to run temporary databases for CI testing. I remember a lot of issues when running performance tests or seeding the database with initial data, basically anything that is performance intensive. I think the unstable filesystem played a role but it was far from the only root cause.

Honestly it's been 6 years now and I've never seen a company running any critical databases inside docker (but I've seen it for testing). I've known a lot of companies that said they did or they had plans to move existing databases, but that wasn't real. At the end of the day there was no sysadmin/DBA/devops who would do it, they understood that it would come back to bite them (many had enough troubles just running ephemeral web services). Maybe it's the harder part to grasp but database is really a different mindset from web development, you cannot risk losing customer data, this would be an extinction level event for your job and for the company.
> In many systems, the mean really does summarize the whole

That's quite true, and the same statement also points to where the arithmetic mean isn't a good choice: where the goal isn't so much to summarize a whole as to give an insight into populations. For instance, if you are trying to figure out the "average" income in a city, the median provides better intuition than the mean.

Furthermore, there are many situations where both the mean and median (and even the mode) fail to provide insight. For instance, the average person has one testicle, whether defined by mean or median (and even the mode is not much help here, with its equally useless value of 0). We should really think of summary stats as something to only be used when a distribution is well understood. In other cases, a simple frequency distribution diagram provides much better insight, and isn't very hard to do.
I think this is the nicest one of these I've seen—seems to actually work in a non-superficial way, from the package manager, shell, system settings, chat app, "p3" ("pseudo peer-to-peer"), system backup (downloads filesystem contents as zip), to running Half-life Uplink or Doom.

Seems like if you were a deeply unusual person you could actually do some computing in here :) main thing missing is a browser.
> Good testing requires wisdom.

I don’t disagree, but I’d be willing to settle for diligence and discipline.
It's interesting that you pick Cybran SACUs as your example; I think the Seraphim ACU/SACUs are more often held up as OP units. Do the Cybran SACUs have any anti-navy defenses? Also worth noting that the Monkeylord doesn't have any hard counters, since it is equipped with both torps and light AA.

Also FAF is amazing, if anyone reading this is interested I suggest you check out some replays on GyleCast:

https://www.youtube.com/user/felixlighta
I want the reverse: a car with good stand-alone phone capability.

With all other gadgets, I want them independent. I want a printer that connects directly to the network, but one that requires a print server. I want a thermostat I can program on the device itself, not one that requires a phone just to program. I want a streaming device with its own remote, but one that requires a phone to work it. And for appliances like washers and refrigerators, well, I don’t want that connecting to a network or other devices at all.

So I don’t want the carmakers giving up on having decent infotainment built in to the car. I shouldn’t have to plug my phone into it. With cheap 5G the car should connect to the network on its own. It doesn’t help that I find Carplay underwhelming: stabbing and swiping a screen while driving is a bad experience.
Amazon bricked high-end graphics cards
Key difference between practices and events. Practices are boring, and parents being checked out or plain absent during practice is perfectly fine. Recitals and performances are a big deal.
just noticed ls and cat work in the terminal
They have a pretty extensive black list of email providers from what I can tell. Throwaway email accounts or services like Trashmail are pretty much completely blocked from what I can tell.
Sure, and as I said before, provide examples in multiple languages, because the demographic I am talking about is interested in FP, not one particular FP language.
The Divine Dante
Also see- Masters of the Universe: Revelation
I have keys for := and !=, and %q %s %d %v %w on a layer.

I also move most of the symbols off the number keys / pinky fingers and on to home row. With a momentary layer toggle on the opposite thumb, jkl; becomes ({}) and uiop becomes &*`~.

That's one of the best layout changes you can make, and it's also nice to move backspace somewhere where you don't have to reach. (I have it on my left thumb, but also had it on my right pointer finger, next to h, which I think I liked more.)
> There is essentially no lateral component to gravity

Yet you can distribute the weight of a structure on larger bases. If you put two columns on pennies on a steel plate, the pressure under the plate will be higher than if you put only one column.

It is easy to imagine the bottom vessel as similar to such a plate.

I think the key to make this intuitive is to realize a few things:

- pressure in liquids are transmitted differently
- water is actually very slightly compressible
- atmospheric pressure is also an important part of the system
internet exploder is a browser (iframe lol, a browser is so heavy it's unreal)
Surprised no one here has mentioned Sanctuary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGfuLXAB1o), an upcoming RTS made by several guys in the Supreme Commander/FAF community.
Monads or something like them are vital to be able to recover imperative programming in a functional context. If functional programming means programming with functions (in the mathematical sense) then it means expression-oriented languages/styles, and how you express conventional (procedural) programming idioms in those is a key part of having a functional programming language that you can actually use.
The greater loss is that the genuine mysteries which remain are assumed to be explained away by someone, somewhere. The assumption that it is already solved leads most people away from exploring further.
There's also one in Atlanta, and I think maybe Orlando as well. Always fun to see the tourists getting surprised by the one bitter drink in the whole collection (Beverly, from Italy). Wikipedia claims it was discontinued 12 years ago, except for the Coke museums.
Is Apple a luxury brand? Their products are priced about the same as their competitors. Just the raw value for money is often better on Apple products than on others. Every other luxury brand I know has very poor value for money.
Will Discord changes their single account system/policy? It's very annoying to use single account for various use other than only gaming community. I think this policy is a bigger blocker than lack of threads.
There's definitely something alluring about "outdated" interfaces.

When a product manager asks me to make something look more "modern" these days that usually ends up being code for flattening the UI by eliminating signifiers/affordances like button borders, link indicators, scroll bars, etc. I thought skeuomorphism was garish, but at least it provided the occasional helpful metaphor.
Widescreen monitor with bettertouchtool. Cmd + Shift with back/forward buttons on mouse to snap windows left/right or over to another monitor. Multiple projects open use mouse 4 to switch through app specific windows.

Similar to splitting the screen into decks of cards that you can flip through or move from one to the other. I like it.
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Agree. Some did it better, but languages have caught up. Even the C you learned in school has evolved
It all went downhill IMHO after Windows 2000.
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I was under the impression that corporate employed inventors in Germany actually have a limited interest in their inventions that follows them between employers. Could be it’s changed, or my source is simply mistaken, since my knowledge is back from when Kodak AG was still a thing.
Julian Assange stripped of citizenship by Ecuador
They also say they will do satellite-to-satellite switching. Let's see if they actually do it.

SpaceX's real innovation is that their base stations are cheap and can go anywhere you can legitimately get a fiber drop. I doubt the inter-satellite switching will _ever_ happen.