skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that's quite interesting. Video conferencing does seem to hold a lot of potential for these kinds of proceedings. I imagine it would allow for a much more efficient use of the court's time. But Zoom seems like an absolutely terrible tool and the court has been abysmally trained on it's proper use. It looks like a big missed opportunity for Zoom and a big unmet need.

The stream I watched was a landlord-tenant dispute hearing. It was sad to hear people's pretty desperate circumstances, but also fascinating to learn just how long a leash the court might give you on debt and eviction if you know how to work the system, as some tenants and the anti-homelessness orgs helping them seemed to understand. We have a pretty weird system all in all, patch after patch on this "Capitalism OS."
> Do you really think that businesses are going to jeopardize the workflows of their $250k/year assets over a very core piece of software for $250/year?

Not just "think" - I know for a fact.

Finance refuses to spend money if there is a "free" alternative, and Architecture rejects all software that isn't OSS licensed without a lengthy review process. It would take us at least 3 months to get approvals and POs for all the devs, if it even got approved, but more likely it would be in "batches" of licenses, further delaying roll-out. So instead the devs are beginning to install Linux VMs to run Docker from, or looking at podman.

People forget that just because there's a "rational" decision, doesn't mean people (or businesses) will choose it. Businesses are run by humans, and humans are irrational and dumb. Path of least resistance wins.
If you're viewing this website on a computer, what dimensions are your browser window?

On mine, it's roughly the size and proportion of my last CRT monitor. I didn't do it out of nostalgia, but it's significantly less comfortable for my eyes to scan horizontal than vertical.

It's not that I want height as much as I don't want width.
This is all in Korean but I think a PDF with a text of the bill is available here: http://likms.assembly.go.kr/bill/billDetail.do?billId=PRC_E2...
New San Francisco Initiative to Pay Individuals Not to Shoot Others
Don't forget Yocto(guide here: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/build-your-own-linux-image-...).
> No, the conclusion is that more buttons are always better.

Not really. There was a time where laptops, especially 15", had front speakers. If the choice is that or numpad, I pick front speakers. Its a bummer smartphones don't have them anymore these days. More keys might seem like a no-brainer, but its always also less is more and keys you don't use are useless keys. As power user, it seems (re)binding of keys is in order anyway.

1080p and numpad is a downgrade from my MBP 2015. It also doesn't specify much about the AMD graphics card. I'd rather get a modular laptop instead, but with 1440p minimum.

The thing with a trackpad centered to left (let alone its gonna be as good as a Magic Trackpad 2 by Apple from 2015 and onward), is that if you use your right hand your arm can get hurt if you let it rest. And, you should let your arms rest. Also, the arm is in the way. Apple had a neat solution to it: large(r) trackpad (though I prefer the previous one, centered).

But I was never in the market for this because if I order something like this from USA I get to pay a large amount of taxes on top of it cause the price never includes tax. Let me know if its available in Europe and I'll have a look, but the above remain serious concerns so I doubt it.
Harris could have refused
You are not required to use your personal Apple ID at work. It just means you’ll carry separate devices, and most don’t want that inconvenience (including me). It also makes it harder to debug real world scenarios if you only test on non-real world data.
Pay the tax you greedy prick.
Blocking cookies for twitter seems to work for me... sometimes I need to refresh the page a few times however.
Not in the titles. "X is harmful" could instead be "X is unsafe", "X is often slow", "X has non-obvious corner cases", "X led us to maintenance hell", ...

"Harmful" is less information and kind of suggests an overall judgement for all cases vs "things to consider" (which was e.g. also a criticism of the original letter, that it lead to rules like "never use goto" which forced people to do bad workarounds instead of discussion on where to use it and where not)
> The touchpad is awful

Have you tried it with Wayland?
> the vast majority of recent censorship pressure has come from the left

I don't remember left wing governors collecting data on the political leanings of university faculty.
Also, was the Erlang VM written in Erlang? Probably not. So I'm skeptical about the universality claims of the language.

The article states the opposite opinion: that you should use the right tool for the right job.

Change the requirements... and the spectrum-of-ridiculousness for any option changes drastically. The language matters, deeply.
Winning the Global Battery Arms Race: A 100% Active Silicon Anode Li-Ion Battery
I think the author is making a case that modern design tools (e.g. Figma) are so much quicker to work with today, so it’s not a ton of overhead to use fancier mock-ups when seeking user feedback.

>> I’m not saying you should stop wireframing or sketching. I still do that. I’m arguing that you should stop using those in your visible process.

Makes sense to me. That said, the last end-to-end app that I designed was in Balsamiq. It was great for a fully interactive prototype that took days to build, rather than literally weeks to code.
Birds are cute. Ants are creepy.

This is the current evolutionary force. Over time, all life on Earth will evolve to be cute.
Honestly, it has become a shill site anyway. I like RTings for displays. Otherwise, it's rough out there.
As an American with staunch opinion about civil liberties, I love France for this matter. I recall Charlie-hedbo and their stance towards freedom of speech/press during the shooting that killed several cartoonists a few years ago. The entire world mourned that moment. It was sad and beautiful to see everyone raise their voices against supression of speech.
The source for Erlang/OTP is 71.6% Erlang: https://github.com/erlang/otp - but yes, some of the lowest-level parts are written in C.

As for universality, not sure where you’re getting that. No one’s saying you should use Erlang for writing device drivers or OS kernels, or the lowest-level parts of the VM. Erlang is a medium- to high-level language, and should be evaluated as such.
While "Axiomatic CSS" per se has (unfortunately) not quite (yet?) gone mainstream, its origins -- see https://every-layout.dev -- are a profoundly excellent resource, and have been highly influential.
Oh cool, didn't know that was a thing. My JSON schema is loosely based on LinkedIn's categories.

It would be really nice if everything were standardized. Something like the relationship between HTML and CSS would be perfect. Part of my goal with making the final output so bland and straightforward was to improve the likelyhood that automated systems would be able to parse it correctly.
Earthships – America's Off-Grid Desert Community
I would also expect that doubling the dose would probably double the spike protein and produce more antibodies (I'd think double or less) It might produce double the side effects too.

Moderna hit me like a load of bricks with flu-like symptoms. I drove my son and a friend to town to get Pfizer and neither one complained about it.
Podman project recently introduced a lot of content addressing features. Some are still experimental though.
I'm not going to bother to read the article because it's pointless, but I must admit I love the title: "Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad"
The public data on the stationary SM-1A rated it as 20MW and was built around the same timeframe. It's in a remote, low population location. The base was decommissioned and the reactor is still there, soon to be decommissioned according to the link.

https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/SM-1A/
Things You Didn't Know About the Las Vegas Chinatown – Chinatown Vegas
Any limit on free speech is short-sighted in the extreme, and only makes 'sense' in a totalitarian regime which will never become democratic. At some point the speech you agree with today will be illegal tomorrow, and at that time the laws that restrict speech that you so cherished will make it impossible to ever go back to the previous position, making violent overthrow of the regime the only option.
These benchmark things reminds me of an anecdote I saw today in the D group:

>Back in the 80's (!) computer magazines regularly ran C compiler benchmark results. (At one time I counted 30 C compilers available for the PC.)

>I took a class at Standford on compilers, which included a lot of info on data flow analysis. I decided to implement it. Data flow analysis optimizations basically deleted the benchmark code, because it didn't do anything (lots of dead assignments). This compiler was released as Datalight Optimum C.

>The article writer concluded that the compiler had a giant bug in it, because it ran the benchmarks impossibly fast, because it deleted the dead code. Instead of being lauded as the only C compiler on the PC that did global data flow analysis, it was labeled as a buggy piece of crap.

>By the time we dug ourselves out of that PR disaster, other compilers had implemented it, too.

>Ironically, these days DMD gets repeatedly charged with not doing data flow analysis, and clang is assumed to have invented data flow analysis.

>Just goes to show the power of marketing
I remember seeing a graph where http/af, a http server, was close to Go net/http. I'll try to run https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/retro-httpaf-bench and report back. I also found another graph, but I'm too colorblind to read it properly https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/554131/131155247-f....

Edit: the benchmark fails to build
> If managers provide detailed feedback about what went right and what went wrong

I'll let you in on a management secret: most of the time managers can't articulate this even to themselves unless they are talking about the few people in their organization that truly, quantifiably kick ass. They're human, they live by perceptions. The only limiting factor that grounds those perceptions is whether you're solving the hard problems your manager's manager wants to see solved. You could say this is biased (and it is), but bias is not uniformly bad, woke corporate edicts notwithstanding.

Before I get lynched over the previews sentence, let me explain exactly what I mean by it. For the record, I don't mean any kind of bias based on unchangeable traits. Simply put that has no place in a professional environment. However, _any_ manager worth their pay will be biased in favor of an employee who makes the impossible possible. Most of immediate peers would even view this as "fair". But even slightly remote peers (perhaps another, nearby team), would not have much, if any, visibility into why this "bias" exists. Worse, even immediate peers who are angling for greater rewards (often without merit - their mom just told them they always get a trophy when they were a kid) will perceive the situation as deeply "unfair".

TL;DR: hot takes are not helpful, it's a difficult landscape to navigate. My opinion on this is not particularly strong because I don't see it making much of a difference. Kickass people will still get disproportionate rewards, and whiners will get pissed off and leave. It's the potential strife that I find objectionable.
I'm sorry to say this but your comment reads like some core concepts from Econ 101 were absorbed but the part about how economics theory is largely descriptive not prescriptive was missed. You're not far into your comment before having the "in theory" qualifier.

There are lots of reasons why volume discounts exist:

- To encourage more use;

- It's aspirational in that users believe they can get big enough to get that lower per unit price;

- Every customer has fixed and variable costs. Volume discounts account for fixed costs. Generally speaking, a large customer will be less overhead for the provider in cost per dollar of sales;

- Bargaining power. Some customers are price takers. Others are price makers;

- Anchoring. Supermarkets in malls will tend to pay lower rents (per square foot) because mall owners know their presence brings in customers that frequent other businesses. Likewise if a customer is accustomed to buy Fortnite skins through your ecosystems they're more likely to spend on other things;

So basically I don't accept your premise so the rest is kind of irrelevant.
What you’ve just described is most post secondary institutions, public utilities, government, etc.
That's an interesting idea I hadn't considered. But it involves a lot of the same problems: you need to get from where you are to where the laptop is, and back, without popping up on any sensors.

There are a lot of sensors. Gait detection + god eye is what convinced me this is probably impossible.

In my case, I was using NSA as a threat model for added security against the actual threat (cartels), so I wasn't as paranoid as I needed to be for NSA dodging. But in your case, you have quite a chicken-and-egg problem of getting that laptop to your doorstep in an untraceable way.

One optional step that I took, which is probably useless, is to live close to a wifi source that you can tap into from long range. I used a directional wifi antenna to a local restaurant. That way, if you do screw up and blow your opsec, it's traced to somewhere close but not equal to you.

(It's probably useless because once your physical location is traced, you're basically doomed – all they'd have to do is realize that someone's using the restaurant as a proxy. It's also quite unethical, since you're illegally using someone's equipment in a way that could very well land them in prison, depending on what you're doing. "Reasons not to fight the cartels" could fill up several notebooks, which is what ultimately persuaded me to stop trying.)
First rule of “build a union” is don’t do it on company tools. Noobs. Probably another 5-10 years before employees do anything more than performativ to demand less exploitation from their bosses. I hope I am wrong.
1. South Park, SF
2. Brew Pub
To drink a beer? To hire them?
>You do not have to experience the difference

Except, I think every dev on here knows from "learning" the diff between =/== yet has had the typo error in an if test where == was meant, but ended with a single =. Yes, it gets much easier to know why things are misbehaving after experiencing it enough, but it did require that experience to really "learn" it.

Same with any skilled trade. You can learn it by watching or reading, but the real learning comes from the doing repetitively. Some might call this practice. Pilots call it hours on stick. Devs with enough of this are called senior. Of course there are people that are naturally gifted with skills that will excel more than highly practiced people, but that doesn't mean practiced people can't get to the same levels.
Anonymous anecdote on the internet vs objective statistical measurements that prove overall efficiency?
Ethernet has not worked like that since the 1990s.

Even WiFi avoids relying on collision detection by routing client-to-client traffic via the AP instead of being peer-to-peer.
Enjoy it. You’ll miss it when it’s gone.
I think CSS is approaching the point where it's equivalent to assembly because it's impossible to keep up and write good CSS. It's no longer easy to do it by hand which is why there is a whole ecosystem of tooling that handles CSS.

Not to mention that CSS is essentially platform-specific due to differences between chrome, safari and firefox.
Is Erlang good for regular web application building? If so, what's the recommended way of doing so?
> There is less magic, less hiding, which yields much, much greater clarity. No surprises, ‘it just works’.

I think the author of the following article would disagree: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
That does sound interesting, though I get the impression that many such people simply don't want to bother making their ideas precise enough for publication. For, example Stephen Weinberg says a lot of things and claims to be oppressed/censored. I can't evaluate what he argues, but many who are qualified to do so have basically indicated that it sounds interesting but needs to be systematically documented for real people to actually evaluate.
podman-remote with a Linux VM?
This ^^ I’d be surprised if Apple has any new learning to offer or if they have surveyed the landscape and decided this is the way to go.
You’re right, “everyone” was a stretch, not everyone has retirement accounts. But a large portion of Americans do.

And what do people do with those returns? They spend them! People don’t want to die with a huge 401(k).
New ruling reverts Clean Water Act protections to 1980s vintage
I’m not convinced a script-less element protects privacy: recall that subtle differences in how different machines (running the same browser) render certain <canvas> operations, it’s a given that the same underlying hardware differences will lead to subtle 3D model rendering differences (e.g. subpixel antialiasing, measuring shader render time, etc) and thus add another way for unscrupulous websites to fingerprint users.

Another issue is that it’s inevitable that support for fragment and vertex shaders will be added, which is another huge issue (MS put-off supporting WebGL for years out of plausibly legitimate concerns about possible vulnerabilities in WebGL shaders).

…of course that’s all fine on Apple’s uniform hardware: fingerprinting MacBook users with their identical GPUs will be harder compared to PC users with their huge matrix of possible GPU chipsets, GPU drivers, and GPU performance/quality settings - which all affect how simple 3D models are rendered.
Surely this depends entirely on the total runtime of the program. A server-style program which will run for a couple of weeks can accommodate quite a bit of JIT compilation overhead.
Yours is a good point.

It's orthogonal to mine, however. I noted the importance of brand awareness, not specific ad awareness. There's miles of difference between those and nothing I said isn't consistent with "cycling creative."
Rock, Paper, Scissors Says Go
I get that, and as I said Fastmail has the best tools for managing email, so since none of the other major email providers have the features I want it wouldn’t do me any good to move my own domains to any of them. I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear in my previous message.
Notice the lag when dragging the tooltip!

It takes seconds for the tooltip to appear!

Being microsoft, wouldn't be surprised if they started deleting negative feedback.
Not every communication is best conducted over slack, many things are much easier in person in my experience.
The worst of these early COVID symptoms can be eliminated almost entirely by taking NAC (N-Acetyl-Cysteine).

NAC breaks down mucus (also good if you have COPD). Even better, there are no negative side effects with giving it a shot unless you have some sort of super weird medical condition.

Look into it. Take 500-600mg at the first sign of breathing issues.
The problem with titles like that is that they don't convey the same thing. "considered harmful" has entered the lexicon at this point, so you know what you're going to get when you see it, which is someone attempting to make a reasoned case about why some behavior that people do and consider okay is actually worse than people may suspect.

In that way, it's much more informative and less likely to have people arguing pedantic points about the title being "correct" than "is harmful" or "is often slow" or "has non-obvious corner cases" or "can create maintenance problems", which might all be items together in a "is considered harmful" article.

In other words, it's come full circle. There was the first, then there was the numerous copycats, then the backlash, and now we're all the way around to the point there it's a fairly succinct way to describe exactly the type of article people use it on and most people know what it means and what to expect when they see it.

All that's left is for people to realize it's not going anywhere and actually has some beneficial use and that there's no point in complaining about it anymore, but that might be asking too much.
That's very kind of you, I think I will take you up on that offer. I've only been in the field for like 5 years as of next month. Do you have a preferred form of contact?
Fixed link: https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/README.html

Note that while this is a handy tool, its use is apparent to anyone observing the connection.
In other news, employer tells employees what to do with employer's facilities.
Scratch Directories with Overlayfs (2017)
I have a custom keyboard I designed, and I configured it so that the tilde key turns the right-hand side into a numpad (ie the yuiohjkl etc keys). It's great, no need for extra unused buttons and very convenient to use (as the left hand is typically not used when typing on the num pad).
I see where the disconnect was: the article had a subtitle of "68% of laptop and desktop users block Google Analytics"

Yet, their stated cause ("how difficult it is to install an adblocker on Chrome") refers to mobile users

A logic shift there - a bait and switch?
Not sure if this is an error, or outright manipulation

This puts the entire article's credibility in question

Proof: in case they modify it like they did in HN's title

1. Title: https://ibb.co/Q87pDPr

2. Subtitle: https://ibb.co/nDshDCT
This! The wonderful world of reflowing webpages that assumes anything less than 1080p is a mobile is so frustrating. I too find WQHD a good fit for my 14" Thinpad.
Fair enough. Yet it might be difficult to summarize the tradeoffs succinctly enough for a title.

"Harmful" conveys enough information to raise awareness of a topic which might not be usually considered. Both examples show this pattern: schema-less is often considered a good thing, when it is not (in Stonebraker's and my opinion); also subtransactions are usually considered a good thing, while the OP shows they can have notable negative effects (of diverse nature) in the database.
Discussed at the time:

Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344345 - Sept 2014 (98 comments)

one other bit here:

Melting Asphalt: Ads Don't Work That Way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342073 - July 2019 (1 comment)
See layer8’s comment above. Let’s say there’s a sweet spot somewhere between ultrawide and square. Why would 16:9 be ideal? The golden ratio is pretty close to 16:10, which is the basis of A4 (etc.) paper.
Just in case anyone hasn't seen the old classic, Erlang: The Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78
Amplitude is NOT a great product when you actually try to implement it. I have seen at least 3 companies pay for them based on how good it looks and all the promises but only to realize that the integration is actually very hard, and the data in Amplitude is often wrong! Also they dont do a good job in sending data back to things like SFDC and what not.

Telling it from real experience.
Some group used to have a drill team of serious-looking people who folded and unfolded lawn chairs in synchrony.

But that's not extreme ironing. This is extreme ironing.[1]
(From the leading company in a boring but profitable business.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd900ehE9M
Exactly. In the office, I spent an enormous amount of time on scrolling Reddit and playing games on my phone. At home, I might do the dishes, fold some laundry, take a quick walk, or get some exercise in my small home “gym.” I’m just so much happier working from home. I desperately hope I never have to return to an office.
A resolution far higher than the resolution of the eyes of someone with bad eyesight, at a normal distance.
Mutt2 (2020)