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Assembler CSS doesn't look very good and I wouldn't use it ... but I have come to absolutely love utility CSS through Tailwind. Tailwind's documentation does a good job explaining why:
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first

It's really not very similar to writing inline styles, nor is it about saving keystrokes. It's about very quickly and confidently translating a design in your mocks (or your head) into working CSS which draws from a finite design system that you control.

It't not something I'd use on mywebsite.com/about.html but it pairs really nicely with modern JS frameworks which allow you to create custom elements with scoped styles.
Ask HN: Is snobbery widespread among developers?
Definition of snobbery in this context: condescending or looking down on other developers, users, languages, or products.

We've all done it. Yes, me too, but it's not a nice trait.

We all know examples of languages, tools or roles we instinctively judge (often silently or unsaid).

Or put another way, we instinctively make negative assumptions about tools, languages or roles for which we have superficial familiarity e.g. the WordPress developer or the VBA developer, and no doubt a multitude of other examples.

Why is this snobbery so widespread among developers?

Interested in people's experience of this in real life too, not just online.
I expect real mining spaceships and colonies will just have the same regular fonts we use now. They're the most readable. Not space/future fonts.
This, or add another cat photo to assets
It's actually not particularly friendly. The old joke is that Aussies call people they don't know mates, and people they do know cunts.
All of these are fundamentally related to the structure of our society and land use policy, not anything technological.

There's no real reason to have to pay for college when we're already paying for public education.
Yeah, that seems like a strange sentence coming from a language designer who should know better. Just on the surface there is the differences of statically typed VS dynamic, class-based VS prototype-based, the implicit global state in JS, JS having first class functions and so on.

Longer quote seems weird as well

> To really get the performance improvements you see, it helps dramatically to have a statically-typed language. For dynamically-typed languages, like Python, it's really, really hard. And often, what people end up doing is adding annotations to the language so that you get languages like TypeScript, which is essentially JavaScript with type annotations. And it's really funny because JavaScript is essentially Java with the type declarations removed. So TypeScript is essentially Java with permuted syntax.

He seems to be saying that TypeScript leads to faster code execution as TypeScript has types, but fails to understand that TypeScript still compiles to JS and the browsers run JS without types, so should have the same performance as just writing JS directly (probably less performance, as TSC adds bunch of wrappers and other unnecessary stuff you would avoid if writing vanilla JS)
For one thing, a very different disease. For another, how long did it take him?

And depending upon how you count, it took decades to develop a polio vaccine.

I would not bet on a COVID vaccine being developed and tested in about a year in 1990.
What is your source for this information?
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Bitcoin fees would simply double if that? Also one of the benefits to a mature proof of work system is that miners incentives align with the success of that currency. Imagine spending thousands of dollars on special purpose hardware only to attack the only system where they are useful. Bitcoin miners are bitcoiners, people seem to forget that.
But you'd only be competing against other similarly hampered project managers. Depending on how well you worked without the modern internet, you'd simply find your same place in the bell curve.
Look up MISD. I think that’s the idea you’re getting at, there really isn’t a lot of hardware support for it which is why for more complicated structures you’re pushed towards higher level languages.
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The Yes & No monogram in our studio’s identity is also the URL – ꑮ.com. We repurposed a Unicode A46EYI glyph (Yi Syllable XYP).

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

(For instance, all versions of Safari display the symbol in the address bar.)
Framing relationships in this "triangle" is not new. As parent says, reality is a lot more complex, and this kind of frame-of-mind can be very detrimental:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
Plenty of papers yet you cite none. Given the ad hominem attack, I looked through your history and I'm not very surprised at your being a Xi Jinping apologist and making constant broad, unsubstantiated claims about China's motives. Hence I won't bother with you anymore.
I meant reading Twitter, not writing. You had to learn the things you believe from some opinions, most likely Twitter or people paraphrasing Twitter for you.

> the consequence of your study shouldn't be

Well, you are free to make your own conclusions and I am free to make mine. I repeat myself, but this is an example of people actually "using their head" as you suggested instead of doing the opposite just to piss you off.

>I'd be highly interested in the rational explaination of the GOP policy

Sure, direct me (e.g. provide with a link or some other reference) to the points of the GOP policy you are interested in. Ones that you mentioned do not seem to appear in any GOP policy I could find, to the contrary, "the virus does not exist" had been the topic of the Left in November 19-February 20 e.g. https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/079-20/mayor-d... or is this the old HN's trope "Ah, I am an European so all Americans are GOP to me, that's how far to the left we are in Europe!"?.
"Experience is all the little edge cases that cropped up over time."

Absolutely. I will be using this one.
Definitely depends on race. As a white guy '91 would have been easy sailing.
And then brings in legislation like the Cookie notices and Link Tax, but does absolutely nothing to protect and drive the European Tech industry (where is the European FAANG?), allowing monopolistic American corporations to ship all the high-paying jobs to the US.

Europe had ARM, a whole slew of microcomputer companies (and still the Raspberry Pi foundation today), Nokia, Linux, MySQL, etc. - all largely sold off or destroyed. Such a loss of potential.
I expect they will be cost-effective conglomerates of many manufacturers, possibly refitted multiple times. They may likely be a pastiche of decades of decisions about fonts and styles!
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There's an app? Why??

It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...
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It's still missing modern privacy features, such as the "right to be forgotten".
Being a white guy in 2021 is easy sailing.
> Human neurons aren't much different from mouse neurons

We don't actually know this. Yeah the cerebellum and substantia nigra and other regions preserved across mammals are probably conserved in the neural structure as well. But the human neocortex has quite radically different gene expression compared to rats (which results in the morphological differences). There very well could be "more processing power per neuron" in humans vs rodents.
Not always, but a lot of times people pick the number that supports their conclusion. For example, worker pay. If you want to make it seem higher, include the executives and do a mean average. Life expectancy works the same way. It's not that adults typically died at age 30, it's the number is a mean and includes child deaths which was a lot at the time. If you have 4 people, 2 are 60 and 2 died at birth, the mean age is 30. (60 + 60 + 0 + 0) / 4 = life expectancy of 30.
Would it be fair to say that this chart shows real US median incomes to be stagnant since the late 80s?
> Chat: Beta-level support for Matrix servers (set chat.prpls.prpl-matrix.disable to false)...

Oh, this is neat! I didn't know matrix support was coming this soon; nice!
Yes, it is kind of public, at least one version of it. You can find it here as it's bundled with Arc, the language HN is coded in: http://arclanguage.org/install
And many kinda work but are no longer mantained.
Such is the fate of the iOS app previously mentioned and of Materialistic (Android)
>it is quite hard to keep a grid stable with such high penetration of renewables

Perhaps worth pointing out the recent Texan outages were caused by gas freezing in the lines. An extreme weather event derived from climate change. So it's literally the fossil fuels causing the instability we've come to associate with the Texas power grid.

Then the governor came out blaming renewables.
> "NVIDIA is a software-defined company today," Huang said, "with rich software content like GeForce NOW, NVIDIA virtual workstation in the cloud, NVIDIA AI, and NVIDIA Drive that will add recurring software revenue to our business model."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/nvidia-i...

It's a very similar story for Intel. NVIDIA and Intel are selling hardware because of their software portfolio. How many GPUs would NVIDIA sell in the HPC market if it wasn't for CUDA and the various support libraries around it?

Intel's non-client solution revenue was over 40% of their total revenue in 2020. This includes their (software-) AI solutions, applications, licence business and services. So Intel, too makes a significant amount of money from software and services around their software ecosystem.
Back when I was in college in the mid 2000s, some people found a key in the grass outside one of the dorms. They set up a website with a photo of the key and sent the link to the general "HelpMe" mailing list.

As a tiny Pandemic project, I bought the domain and resurrected the site (from the Internet Archive's copy) for the nostalgia.

https://wefoundthiskey.com/
Dropbox remains for me the best syncing software especially with Delta sync. No issues like file name restrictions that I have encountered in OneDrive. I like Google Photos and it remains my favorite photo storage solution. I find Dropbox more user friendly with features like folder rewind. For sure, I would like cheaper pricing plan with 200GB Storage.
indeed. couldn't agree more.

any anarchy is just one step away from despotism. when power lies on the ground, it doesn't take much for anyone to pick it up and wield it. you really need a strong government to preserve anarchy.
So banks actually produce about 1.5M tons of emissions then according to your link.
I suppose it could be a form of sandboxing the HTML rendering
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Variolation already exists back then, but with a survival rate of 1-2%. What Edward Jenner did was to confer scientific status on the idea of vaccination and investigated cowpow as a much safer method of inoculation against smallpox.

Heck, decade earliers, George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox against the wishes of the continental congress.
> that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing

I've been using HN for 10+ years but I don't think I've ever found anything that was broken. What are you referring to exactly?
Well, sure. It would just be incredibly frustrating. As would lack of information generally.
> the commit hash being a checksum of the commit contents will never change for the same commit

It will if the parent changes, for example on a rebase. Now, it is up to discussion on whether that is a different commit (technically the parent hash is part of the commit), but most people probably consider the content changes to be the actual commit.
Use a VPN to UK via e.g. friend with fiber or your parents or other family. Not sure if you need to mind the TCP/IP stack, such as TTL?
This is a refreshing perspective. Thanks for sharing!
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> Of course not. All of this effort costs money that obviously Netflix wouldn't be paying if it weren't required to. It's doing so because it's contractually obligated to.

I feel like this was probably true five years ago, but not today. The whole point of publishers slowly setting up their own streaming services (like Disney -> Disney+) and streaming services slowly vertically integrating with studios (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video + Amazon Studios) is to bypass this stupid shit.

If Netflix financed the show, and Netflix streams the show, and Netflix has global distribution, then why, pray tell, does Netflix give a shit any more about whether a user is using a VPN or not?
If you've never seen a slippery slope in action, ask someone else if they have. It always starts with something everyone can agree on. It's the inevitable slippage over time as the population replaces itself with people who arrn't intrinsically cognizant of the "before" state and the implicit normalization of deviance that represents. We may only live for about 100 years, but I challenge you to look at the size of the United States Code and what has been specifically carved out as illegal or aberrancies normalized just in 200 years.

It all adds up.
minor/major makes sense for, when a company plans to support a major for longer period of time, if the development is continuous, the date sounds good
Indeed, now white men are discriminated against in a lot of Tech companies under the guise of fighting "white privilege" and promoting diversity (note this does not include class or background) - meanwhile class differences (inheritance, home ownership, etc.) are more important than ever.
I use materialistic on the phone. Design is nicer for mobile, plus I'm addicted to dark mode.
I agree; and war has a way of closing borders. I have a feeling that international travel going forward is going to be only for the rich and well-connected.
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> Car Theft is rarer, and in particular, we no longer have to worry about our car windows being smashed to steal our car radios

> Remember when physically detaching your car radio to avoid leaving it in the car was considered a 100% normal thing to do?

Why is it rarer, I wonder? I do recall having a detachable faceplate on my car radio. I sold that car in ~2010 or so but stopped bothering with the detaching long before then.

> All Day: because you won’t be yelled at for tying up the (only) phone line

... missing phone calls because I was occupying the phone line. My university claimed to have been "wired" but it was always "going to be enabled 'next year'".
I 100% agree. I was mostly referring to the fact that '91 was more difficult for other races, genders, and sexualities.
*yawn* Is this guy the new Kurzweil, and "the metaverse" the new singularity?
Likely our experiences of electric stoves varies. I recall electric stoves which take a few minutes to heat up & didn't get very hot at that

Another nice situation was during the 2003 blackout my father was able to crank a turn table to play some records while lighting the stove with a match to cook dinner
You're not going to go to jail based off tripping a scanner, however a judge will authorize a search warrant based off tripping a scanner. If you trip the scanner the police will be paying you a visit with a search warrant in hand. They will confiscate all your electronic devices. Come to think of it, that's going to be interesting in the new world of work from home - because those devices are going to include your employer's devices. It'll be interesting to see how all that works out.
Not all exchanges are like this. The JPX exchange in Tokyo provides PTP over dedicated cross-connects, and is super accurate, within +/-25ns. It’s pretty neat seeing a PTP clock from Seiko.
Does returning the funds across a bunch of transactions also make blocking transactions harder? Assuming you don't want to block any "give back"? Maybe they are hoping for enough confusion there results in some of the stolen funds being spendable?
Nice quote in the article:

"Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive." -- Bruce Schneier
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Gas stoves creates high amounts of indoor pollution. The amount of pollution gas stoves creates inside are often illegal outside, the US doesn't have indoor pollution standards.

Children living in homes with gas stoves are 40% more likely to develop asthma for example, according to some studies. Other studies have it closer to 10%.

Anyway, it's clear that indoor gas combustion isn't advisable from a health perspective. Not to mention the climate, burning methane for energy should be phased out, full stop.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

https://qz.com/1941254/experts-are-sounding-the-alarm-about-...
It was so fun reinstalling old terraform versions so I could unfuck my cluster infra... not to mention the joy of finding they removed the .13->.14 migration command in .14 so you have to roll alllll the way back... Good times indeed.
Aren't most of the rewards due to the generation of new coins? Currently 6.5 per block as far as I know. I haven't done the math to know if the fees are substantial compared to that.

Edit: Recent block 695416 generates about 6.5 BTC to miners and has only 0.0748 BTC in total fees. Fees would have to increase by more than a factor of 64 to make up for the difference. https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/block/00000000000000000001c...
I would love to have something like this for OneDrive!! Open Source OneDrive support is so poor right now. There's https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive which is OK (I don't mind it being console-only) but it lacks virtual files and syncing my entire box to every system is just not an option.

Even if MS would build a client it would probably be Linux only which still won't help me for FreeBSD.
side question: what does decentralized have to do with the issue?
Good question. I'm 90% sure that fallback function is actually implemented in byte code by comparing the byte code against all the method signatures. Then if none match, the assembly jumps to the fallback. So, what you save in 0s in the input byte code, you pay more than that in the execution gas.

Yeah, for gas tokens you're right. This was all pre-Flashbots, so talking about February or March at the latest. Flashbots kind of wrecked the whole game. Now it's a whole lot simpler, just ship transactions to Flashbots and bid as close as possible to breakeven. Consequently 90%+ of the profits now go to the miners.
I use Hermit to appify often accessed pages, you get a Hackernews icon on your Android desktop that behaves exactly like an app, has its own cookie jar that does not leak browsing information etc.

The interface paradigm of mobile devices is built around apps, mobile browsers are a pain in the butt - deliberately, most likely.
I have seen completely opposite things in my previous startup I worked for. The product wasn't event production ready, they would call it version 1.0, version 2.0 and now version 3.0

Versions were bumped now and then, without real major changes.

They use this as marketing gimmick to create buzz that something major is being released but actually it was same old stuff just not ready for primetime.
I would assume that the birth rate going down considerably amongst poorer people is a big factor too.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/562541/birth-rate-by-pov...
Reporting is country specific and US only yes, but the profiles are delivered baked into the OS. I suspect this is so that pedophiles can't buy a phone mail order from Canada and bypass the system.
really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.
We've arrived at the sad day that discussion is being surpressed on any of these subjects.

Galileo would have been de-platformed for stating views contrary to the narrative and spreading misinformation that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
I don't know about the metaverse, but I think the most interesting things currently happening in CS are in computer graphics and geometry. I wouldn't know what to do with it but it is (just by itself) more interesting then things happening in blockchain and even AI space.
I don't work for tech companies, but I've never been "discriminated against" as a white guy.
1991. Less Orwellian. Back then, 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual.
Mosh is very popular. Most devs I know personally have used it at one point or another in their careers.
The UK is running at 40% non-hydro renewables right now and we have a very stable grid https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
More likely to avoid the UX of 1x5000px sized images or so, I'd think.
Exactly, it's like saying "wealthy homeowners are fine"... no shit?
There is also anarki, the experimental public fork[0] of Arc and the forum. Like everything else, it differs from HN.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
This story is somehow even worse than the headline.

The CEO wanted to create an elaborate system to rank employees based on their engagement in certain tools like Jira, Confluence, and company chat. Don’t chat enough? Your ranking is low and you might get laid off. Should have chatted more, sorry.

Even stranger, the CEO claims he wanted to let employees view their own engagement scores so they at least had a chance to pump up their numbers (time to spam more e-mails and refresh more Confluence pages so I don’t get fired!) but he went on record in another article blaming the development team for not releasing that feature:

> The company also planned to implement the so-called “digital mirror,” so every employee could learn what AI thinks of their work and engagement. However, the development team wasn’t enthusiastic about this idea, so its rollout is pending.

That’s right, the development team who works on the employee ranking tool “wasn’t enthusiastic” about letting other employees see their ranking or how it works, so they’re withholding it from the company supposedly against the wishes of the CEO. The CEO is then going on record, in public, blaming those developers for not letting these other people see their own scores before they get fired.

This CEO sounds like the type of person who wants to be in charge but also wants to dodge as much responsibility as possible. Create an algorithm to fire people, then send them an impersonal e-mail letting them know the algorithm has chosen them for firing. Then explain that he wanted to let them see their score and have a chance to react, but those mean developers weren’t enthusiastic about the idea so, sorry, you can’t see it.

I’m sure the developers of the secret employee ranking system have high scores for themselves, somehow.
To the CRT (and evolution before it) issue, it's an ideological (rather than practical) debate.

To wit, neither side is making arguments in support of their position in good faith. They're saying whatever they think will accomplish their goals, because they're Right (tm) and the other side is Wrong (tm), and thus anything is justified.

Which is the real tragedy of polarization, in that it reduces thinking, independent human beings into mindless ideological automatons.
Well found!