skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with a lot of what you said, but I do disagree with historic racism not playing a significant part. Being born into poverty, as all newly freed slaves were, means you're very likely to stay in poverty. A significant degree of modern Black poverty can be attributed to the continuation of the poverty they were born into.

What I'm saying is: A large portion of modern Black poverty comes from historic racism and slavery. There are people alive today that couldn't use the same fountains as the white kids when they were younger. Poor people commit more crime.

What I'm not saying: People can't rise out of poverty (I managed it, I think others can to). People shouldn't be accountable for their actions (Moral hazard is a thing). Racism is the dominant factor in crime (Poverty and culture are more the issue now, but those have roots in a history that was not long ago).
Firefox did away with the search bar a long time ago. For a while, it was possible to bring it back through about:config, but I don't think it's possible to make the url bar a clean url bar anymore (this is an invitation for corrections). It's annoying because I navigate to pages via URLs, and all I don't want to send those to a search engine for "suggestions" (though, a locally-indexed history is nice). All too often, I'll type in a url and it will send that to a search engine, and then the page I wanted to go to is buried under ads. Useless. Especially now that Firefox is moving to paid ads in the "url" bar... blech.
You don't have to manufacture individual posts if you can just chain existing posts together to create narratives. I'm not sure if Facebook tries to create a specific agenda, but it is no secret that they certainly try to paint a specific picture: The one that creates the most outrage, and they probably just don't care what that picture looks like.
Yet another reason to never use Facebook!

Using Facebook has been an IQ test - you are below 100 if you use it!
On the other hand, I despise this exact change in Firefox. When I want to search, I use the search bar. When I want to enter an address, I use the address bar. I have a clear picture of what I want to do, and it is annoying to no end if the browser confuses one for the other. For example, by auto-completing a search term to a URL instead (see: computers don't know what users want). That's why I personally prefer the ability to make that choice explicitly.

I get it, I'm not the kind of user this article is about. And maybe I'm just insufficiently exposed to the other paradigm to have become "fluent" in it. But I just wanted to point out that there definitely are users whose mental model differentiates search terms and URLs.
I guess we're further down this road in the UK than you are in the US. Crisps (chips) are now revoltingly unsalted, to the extent that I carry salt around to sprinkle on them should I fancy a bag.
this was (is?) a "feature" that let you answer a call in say the front hall, then hang-up and continue the call in your office as long as the originating caller did not hang up the handset. The scam relies on actually playing a dial-tone and ringing after the victim "hangs up", which is how some people noticed it "sounded weird" and then called their bank on another line or cell phone.
> But did it hurt them to have everything out in the open? You betcha.

Good. Google should not be able to hide anything from anyone, especially the public whose privacy they invade. The more leaks, the better off we are. Especially the kind of leaks that hurt them. Those are the ones we want most. If they didn't want us to find out, maybe they shouldn't have been doing it, right?
In the release notes (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...):

The deb package remains available in the archive and will continue receiving updates for the lifetime of Ubuntu 21.10.
> Google Pixel phones just work, unlike Samsung's

Everything I've heard about Pixels tells me you're not right. They have a ton of bugs, besides the mediocre to bad hardware.

And Samsung moves more premium phones (aka S-series) each year than all Pixel phones ever sold.

You probably live in the US, but Pixel phones are also almost impossible to get outside the US (though things are getting slightly better) and their market share where they're available is minuscule in whichever market segment you're looking.

Outside of the US Chinese phones, besides Samsung A-series, dominate. And in many countries flagship Chinese models are sold more than Apple phones. And BTW, if you thought Samsung adds bloatware, you should see what Xiaomi or Huawei add :-))

Regular users don't care about bloatware. It's a techie fetish.

I've been around the block a ton of time and this discussion is so old and boring it's not even worth having. "Big binaries suck" -> Electron apps winning everywhere. "Lean operating systems" -> Windows never budging on the desktop and Android, which is kind of a mobile device pig winning the mobile battle.

It's actually somewhat rare that techie (early adopter) interests align with regular user (late adopter or laggard) interests.
I heard a few faculty suggest that at my school and my reply is always, if I fail everyone, isn't that also equitable? (I.e., if "equity" in final grades is your single goal, adding 100 points to everyone's grade, and subtracting 100 points from everyone's grade will have the same effect.) And of course people react with horror and talk about how unfair that would be, revealing that deep down, they really do believe that grades should be tied to student performance.
I think it's really easy for programmers to overestimate how much screen parsing everyone else is doing.

I've often joked that one of the core skills of a programmer is to be able to look at a terminal scrolling a full screen of text every quarter of a second or so, and extract useful information from it. I've lost track of the times I've seen something "different" and had to scroll up dozens of screens to find what I happened to see.

This is a job-specific skill like a mechanic diagnosing a complicated machine's problem from the particular way a single knocking sound sounded, or a doctor glancing at you and telling you you have some obscure disease that you've never heard of because you have some particular droop in your eyelids. This is not the way the non-programming public perceives a computer screen.
I picked a gas car of comparable size. The Civic and Golf are much smaller than the Model 3.
What Dinosaurs Looked Like
I don't read it that way at all. I read the witch of Endor as the final step in Saul's failure.

I also read it as the witch being surprised when the spirit actually shows up...
Been there, with a GM with a similar issue.

The manual stated something about putting the spare on a rear, then, taking the good rear and putting it in the front.

The rotors on the rear were smaller and could accommodate the spare. Obviously a moot point if one has two blown tires.
when the house is the loud?speaker:

http://www.scrounge.org/speak/burwen/index.html
I think this comment is giving an (interesting, IMO) example of the claim "Sometimes transparency encourages bad actors" and not making a value judgment on whether it is worth the tradeoff to limit internal transparency just to have stopped this one bad actor.
> At some point they will be viable

Why do you assume this?
A static site generator I've been enjoying lately (and using for my blog) is Metalsmith: https://metalsmith.io/

It feel like it's the best of both worlds, because it's simple to learn and customize, but there are plugins for the things you don't want to spend time writing yourself. Note: it is Node-based, so only useful if you're comfortable with JavaScript.

For example, I'm using plugins to: check for broken links, generate an RSS feed, and run a test server with automatic reloading.

But then I was able to easily add in my own code to handle relative links, generate Graphviz diagrams, and format dates.

One other recommendation: I hated almost every template language I ran across (Hugo's, Liquid, Nunjucks, EJS), but I'm thrilled with the simplicity of Handlebars (https://handlebarsjs.com/), although it is a bit limiting and the "block helper with parameters" syntax is strange (perhaps an indicator that I'm trying to do too much in the templating language!).
I am skeptical that these will be better for the environment. Maybe there will be fewer tires discarded due to flats, but the tires will weigh more. That's more material discarded per tire and more energy to drive them around.
I'm using it right now, it's fantastic. Also been playing around with Deno, importmaps are also used there, it's so much nicer than the bundle and compile everything workflow. It's the direction everyone should be going since it actually uses the browser and browser standards to their potential.

Also if people don't want to use CDNs both Rails and Deno do allow you to serve ES modules from your server.
I am a former Local 600 guy that burned out and who now teaches high school English. I’ve been slowly developing a fiction project centered on ubiquitous AR. As part of my research, I stumbled upon demo from Universal Everything[0].

Are you able to recommend any websites, blogs, resources to discover similar simulations/etc?

[0]https://vimeo.com/429924982?ref=em-share

Thanks!
Valid point, although pedestrian safety is mostly discussed in the low-to-mid-speed regime (<= 45 MPH), while tire noise (at least according to my own observation) dominates in the high speed regime (>= 65 MPH). There might be some overlap though.

Also worth pointing out: NVH is not just Noise --- it includes Vibration and Harshness that are only felt by the people inside the vehicle.
The same claim has been made yearly for the past century and a half.

I don't think that any advancement in materials or mechanical science can create a solution that outperforms the advantages of a standard pneumatic tire.
I always use search for url lookup, it's way more forgiving ( with spellcheck etc)

it's nothing to do with tech literacy, it just allows for faster finding of what you need
> it is arguably the best functional language on .NET,

it is also the only real one. On .NET we have C#, C++ and vb.net then there are some other fringe langs like IronPython or IronRuby and I think there is a PHP one too.
> Firefox did away with the search bar a long time ago. For a while, it was possible to bring it back through about:config

The search bar still exists in Firefox if you want it to btw. I use it daily.
This isn’t all that different from choosing the Linux OS of choice. That decision often is partnered with the package manager that’s desired, and how quickly things are upstreamed in it. Do you want apt, nix, yum/rpm? Then how stable do you want it? Debian, Ubuntu, etc? How much support are you looking for? Redhat, etc.

I guess I don’t see a major difference in the complexity of that decision process in the Linux space, which might have been alluded to.
In the 6 months before their IPO - Square had net revenue of $200 million and expenses of $260 million, also losing $10M/month. Would you have paid $3 billion in 2015 to own that business?

If you had you would've had a 30x return today... (current market cap is ~$112 billion).
If I don't care that you can redial the displayed number and get me this doesn't matter when I spoof my outgoing number though...
If I had that much cash, I'd just waste it on land.
They'd just been discussing bleach and isopropyl alcohol specifically. There's a pic of the slide, which states "COMMONLY AVAILABLE DISINFECTANTS (Bleach & Isopropyl Alcohol) work to kill the virus:: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AA47/production/...

Antibiotics are not disinfectants. Both kill bacteria, but that doesn't make them the same thing.
That's fair. I need to brush up on it's history.

Thanks for your comments!

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EDIT: Upon some cursory research I still am not sure I can agree with your assessment.

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[1] Bill of Rights : 1689

[2] United Kingdom : 1707

[3] Civil Liberties in UK : (various dates)

[4] Magna Carta : 1215

[5] Parliamentary Privilege

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#Kingdom_of_Grea...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties_in_the_United_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege
I have airless tires in the same bucket as flying-cars and video-phones (things that sort of exist, but are always just around the corner from being widely adopted).

(I realize that video-phones are kind of widely adopted now via Zoom/Facetime/etc. - I'm thinking more of the vision from the 90s of a telephone with a screen in your kitchen)
> 11.) Police are quitting, for various reasons that range from mask mandates to anger and solidarity that the DA prosecuted one of their own for use of force during the 2020 riots. Portland already had a very low per-capita number of police to begin with.

The fact that police would quit the force because one of them got held accountable for their actions is incredibly alarming and only feeds the ACAB mentality.
I totally agree with you, but I also love the context of this quote with your username ;)
I don’t pay attention to Twitter. Correct me if I am wrong. Twitter is an exaggerated state of reality with a lot of reactionary takes and complaining or pointing out of issues.

However what do you propose against “eat-the-rich”? More worship of the rich? Where is that at not happening? It certainly happens on Twitter as well as virtually everywhere. The amount of media and casual discussion that occurs because a wealthy person said something is absurdly high. An heir to old fortune said something about our homeless issues? A dozen sites with an article about the person along with Twitter and Reddit threads as well will crop up asap. Meanwhile someone who just climbed out of being homeless and is and will innocuously remain at the median income said the same stuff a month ago…no one cares.
Some EVs have mandatory sound emitters to not be fully silent (and thus dangerous). I thought it was weird harmonics from the synRM engine but it's synthetic and enforced by regulations.
Figma's tech is mindblowing. Their entire engine is custom-built in C++ : https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

> Instead of attempting to get one of [HTML/SVG/JS Canvas] to work, we implemented everything from scratch using WebGL. Our renderer is a highly-optimized tile-based engine with support for masking, blurring, dithered gradients, blend modes, nested layer opacity, and more. All rendering is done on the GPU and is fully anti-aliased. Internally our code looks a lot like a browser inside a browser; we have our own DOM, our own compositor, our own text layout engine, and we’re thinking about adding a render tree just like the one browsers use to render HTML.

To most people, esbuild would be a full-time job. Based on the above, it seems that to Evan it's a fraction of the work he did in Figma's early days all at once!
How Coinbase Interviews for Engineering Roles
WRT "political speech on private property" (Yes, US-specific.)

From https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/583/pruneyard-s...

"In PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), the Supreme Court ruled that California could interpret its state constitution to protect political protesters from being evicted from private property, held open to the public, without running afoul of the Fifth Amendment. In this case, the California court went beyond the federal rule and held that, under the California constitution, a shopping mall owner could not exclude a group of high school students who were engaged in political advocacy. The state court decision has been adopted in one form or another by a substantial minority of states."
While anecdotal, we see a lot of development environments for a lot of companies and the amount using github vs gitlab is like 5 or 6x to 1. So, in that sense I get what the CTO of github is saying.
That is true about the choke, but I bet we could [and this is not an invitation, go away keyboard warriors] start a raging inferno in the comments right now about manual vs automatic transmissions.
Specialized used to make a bike out of coated carbon tubes glued into Aluminum lugs using the same manufacturing process that the aerospace industry used. The Allez.

Beautiful bike, I had one, but it suffered from two problems: it was overly flexible and if you got a nick in the coating on the fiber or water got into the lugs, you'd get the GC issue.

Of course, their marketing claimed they 'solved' the issue...

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/422428-specialize...
Long time ago (2006) I had a client who wanted their educational web-site (Provider of e-signature) to be created with user centric design first approach.

I had a vast interest in the topic due to my exposure to Nielsen Norman Group teachings and research based UX.
In one of the test I introduced a big search field positioned in the top of the screen with clear contrast as a starting UX point.

The test failed miserably. People rejected the notion that they must type, mostly of _fear_ of making a mistake.

As a result all the data suggested that the targeted audience will feel comfortable with "precompiled" list of important topics as a UX starting point. After carefully creating adequate structure I introduced 9 starting points and solved the problem. /Warning: Cyrillic / Retro UI/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20080820012158/http://www.b-trus...)

This was in the time when most of the users associated Internet with the blue "e" icon of Internet Explorer.

I think that this mindset is still present. Users in general are in the same space. Facebook icon replaced the IE icon successfully.
Every EV sold today must make noise at low speeds.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sound...
They all feel different, I would encourage you to install each in a VM and play around and see which one you like the best.
I thought it was a plastic valence rubbing on something.
I've got into generative art lately. Originally it was a way to test-and-stretch my Javascript canvas library, but as time went on I found it was a nice way to exercise my creativity. I do most of my art coding on CodePen.
Google is suggesting replacing the URL entirely. URLs have real problems, which are genuinely really hard to solve. They're also designed for a subset of web content, and a lot of modern web content does not fit into the URL scheme very well. I don't know if Google's replacement will be better, but I am at least willing to hear them out once they have a proposal.
I think there isn't anything I could name as a close alternative to Django/RubyOnRails/Laravel/Symfony in the JS world. It would be even difficult to find an alternative in other programming languages like Go, Rust or aforementioned JS. The landscape, in my opinion, looks like a bunch of archipelagos that are composed of bigger or smaller islands. They are many frameworks who got acclaimed as good ones and gathered a notable community, which has written various libraries to extend core modules (e.g. fastify.js, hapi.js, express.js, Gin, fasthttp).

You can see land of static-page generators, which has changed "the way how to do backend™" recently (Gatsby, Hugo). Generation of static HTMLs made full-featured framework not coherent, because you want to separate website composition and the visual layer. Static-page generators can fetch data from Wordpress or any database, which cuts off some work from "old" backend (no admin panel, headless Wordpress, Contentful).

If you would take a route down the SPA river, you will note frameworks like React (CreateReactApp) or Next.js, which they clearly make backend obsolete in many scenarios. You don't need call Jinja to render the template anymore nor host website on the EC2/VPS server, because there are SaaS solutions like CloudFlare Workers, Vercel or even good old S3 that will completely get rid of V (view) from the MVC.

Finally, there are tons of serverless offerings over the hill - Firebase, GCP CloudRun, AWS Lambda. They will profit you only, if you would have the simplest and the most optimized backend logic (you pay for CPU/Memory time). Personally, I don't see any benefits to have full-featured framework like SpringBoot or Django there, because it will increase operating costs a lot (if it would even work).

Of course, there are also attempts to create frameworks in faith of "batteries included", but they sooner or later end up with same fate [0]. However, composition and fragmentation is the new trend that most folks pursue - nobody wants a big hog anymore. It is especially noticeable in JVM world, like Quarkus or how modular SpringBoot is. I guess Nest.js [1] would be the closest contender to aforementioned frameworks.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/927/

[1]: https://nestjs.com/
France finds growth prescription with health app Doctolib
This is why I've setup my homelab with a hypervisor, you don't have to choose and can run each of these operating systems, for specific purposes they are best suited for. This is what I do:

OpenIndiana: file server (ZFS)

OpenBSD: firewall, router, network services (DHCP, DNS, NAT)

DragonflyBSD: game server

FreeBSD: other general application services

I haven't found a personal use case for NetBSD yet, though I would like to (it is great for embedded systems).
As a fellow linux user, my package manager does the job for both the runtime and the sdk. It should work for yours too.
China wants to build a 8,000-mile train network connecting to the U.S.
Another example of the difference between homo sapians and homo econimus. This makes some sense from a rational, detached, Vulcan perspective, but homo sapiens hates it.

(I haven't sat down and deeply analyzed it and all the second order effects it may have just for an HN comment, but it's not an immediately obviously stupid idea from a Vulcan perspective.)

Unfortunately, homo sapiens was the target market.
Hrmmm...

Let me take a wild fucking guess.

Libtarded faggots wanted no one to go to work for TWO FUCKING YEARS!

TWO FUCKING YEARS these COCKSUCKING LIBERAL FAGGOTS have had everyone in house arrest.

TWO MOTHERFUCKING YEARS!

Want things to go back to normal - KILL ALL THE FUCKING LIBERALS!
I can see why people might not like the concept but I think it's getting more anger than it deserves.

From another perspective, you could also see this as betting on someone, which is actually kind of fun (if I understand correctly and you double your money if they're hired). If they provided accurate statistics on the amount of their candidates who end up being hired, it might not even be a bad investment. I'm curious what the legality of that is though, it seems like actual betting.

I also think friends and online acquaintances might be a bigger source of 'bets' for them than former colleagues. Or even people you don't know, but they know of your work on open source projects, etc.
Infrastructure-as-code management platform Spacelift nabs $15M
I don't know anyone in real life who has a problem with it. Half of the reason Chrome beat Firefox is that Firefox had search in a separate bar and it was unergonomic to use.
> Try to overthrow the government

Was anyone actually charged with insurrection? I don't think so.

> Harsh prison sentence measured in weeks.

The accused have been imprisoned under fairly harsh conditions the whole year already.
URLs are awful; I think they are a bodge. I think the same about domain names, and the whole DNS system.

I mean, I think the DNS was a brilliant invention; it saved you having to memorise the IP address of every site you visited. But talking someone through entering a URL over the phone is a bit like fixing printer problems remotely; it feels like the early '80s.

But I'd prefer real URL bars, rather than a field that doesn't know whether you're entering a URL or search-terms.