skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that and tried to compensate for some of the trade-offs with the CSS available at the time. CSS that the browsers seem intent on not supporting and maybe dropping. I do find upsetting that I end up having to apologize a lot for trying to do some things that I thought were fun/unique/unusual/personal touches and the browsers just getting worse about it with passing years rather than better.

It is interesting how many of these comments have fallen into style of substance fallacy over the contents of the arguments themselves, and I am listening to all of this feedback. This current CSS was designed to make 90s kid me happy, primarily on "Edge Classic". It's not aged as well as I would have liked, and I don't know if/when I'll revisit it, but I am listening.
I am at 30 and the last year has felt just as long as 2011 did for me. I've been seeing these articles and comments about time speeding up since my teens and I am still waiting for it to happen to me. I am inclined to think the perception of time is tied to routine or behaviour and ageing is merely a confounder. This would explain the lack of time dilation for me - my life is still somewhat unstable and filled with novelty, so I don't really forget large chunks of time doing routine stuff.
I guess my town sounds just like what you describe, especially since my town does have some low-rise apartment buildings, though not exactly in my area.

I guess the difference would be - the greater density becomes, the fewer of your neighbors you know, etc. Also, because of how our town is, everyone who lives here is either a young family who moved here for the space and community, or people who have lived here a long time (ie raised their families then stayed). Once you mix in 10+ apartment buildings, I assume you get a higher mix of single people etc, which is a totally different vibe.
The argument is that because vaccinated people are still at severe risk (*), it follows we should vaccinate everyone to reduce the risk of severe infection in the vaccinated population (we have written off the unvaccinated). Following the logic, the worse the vaccine performs, the higher the risk of severe infection, thus the more we should vaccinate. All predicated on unproven models fed aging data, no public longterm VE studies, known unknowns and possibly unknown unknowns.

A glaring ethical problem is that there is no "buffer of safety" allowed to account for future evolution of vaccine effectiveness, either waning (documented in the literature) or mutations (documented in the literature, e.g. Delta). There have been a couple studies showing VE agains infection in negative territory after the 6 months mark. Not claiming they are some sort of authoritative gold standard, but the possibility exists.

One more thing. It is entirely unclear, given the minuscule risk for children and the tenuous link between potential child infections and potential severe covid in adults, why we can't wait a year or two to gather more clinical data. Like we did with every vaccine until covid. The clinical trial norm used to be ~10 years and not 6 months. Nope, it's a rush to vaccinate kids right now.

(*) At this moment vaccines are good at preventing severe infection, this is not a post to discourage adults, especially older adults, from getting vaccinated.
That one was removed, but a number of others remained: https://www.politico.com/story/2009/12/payoffs-for-states-ge...
It's not just the "knowing some lib". It's a way of working that is not compatible with the outside world. I had every single character i type having to get director approval. I sopped counting broken things that required human intervention (on rota). The style of programming is... well.. . bankish? I would have had to take a big gamble hiring most of these guys.
Now that it's been a few years, have there been any studies into macro effects from the refugee crisis in Europe? Most of what I saw (from a US perspective) mostly treated it as a humanitarian and logistical crisis along with some relatively, shall we say, "culturally defensive" responses from local advocates, but I haven't seen a concrete "x damage was done by migrants to the societies they ended up in".

The humanitarian crisis (concern for the migrants themselves) and logistical crisis (where do we put the migrants) would, to a global perspective, be a concern whether or not those migrants got stopped by a wall at the US's southern border.
Water meters exist, and pot growers are sometimes discovered by their excessive burden on public utilities.
I have never understood the rejection of walls as an effective means of preventing access. Ladders, tunnels, battering rams, and 'going around' have all existed for millenia, but we've kept on building walls the whole time. How could the whole world be deluded about that for so long?

If you enter your bank password over unsecured public wifi, someone there could steal it. But my advice to someone who does banking in a wifi cafe would not be "don't use a password at all, it does nothing for you".

Or am I missing something?
Seems to me at first glance that this could make for a great carbon offsetting scheme
Because there isn't a proportional performance gain, and the heat generated will degrade the computer, at what cost? A few irrelevant percentage points?
It reminds me how young AI and computing are as fields still that there are so many people still alive from the misty predawn eras like McCorduck. To put her life in perspective, in 1960 when she started, the term "artificial intelligence" had just been coined 4 years before, checkers programs still couldn't beat an amateur, the very first automated theorem provers were being written, McCarthy had just published his theoretical LISP paper and was about to be surprised by Russell pointing out it could be directly implemented by an interpreter, ELIZA wouldn't be written for another 4 years, backprop wouldn't be well-known for decades, DeepBlue was almost half a century away... But she lived to see not just the deep learning revolution but AlphaGo/MuZero, GPT-3, CLIP, Codex etc.
When I got online in 1996-1997 there was some website that played with font sizing and graphics to make the biggest Fuck on the internet. Like it would take a couple minutes to scroll on an old 640x480 monitor. Good times lol.
I've recently discovered Tailwind, and after a day or two of getting used to it, not only does it 'feel' more natural when styling than what I've used recently, it also opens up a lot of doors for performance. Speaking from a traditional business website stack perspective (non react).
Just a thought: ``document.getElementById("co").onmousewheel = function(ev) {
this.scrollLeft += ev.deltaY;
}``
The shallowness of rusts correctness has pretty much killed my interest in it.

Much of its purported virtue seems to be mostly lore and myth, and doesn't keep its promises under close inspection and scrutiny.

For example the "Rustonomicon" is only half finished and doesn't have that much real insight that couldn't be gained from a lot of basic-ish rust tutorials.

The memory model is not propery defined and only kinda sorta borrowed from C++ as the article mentions.

The borrow checker has only been formally specified and veryfied in a much simplified form and only very recently [2] ,with the actual model "just being what the borrow checker implementation does".

Having a fancy datalog based borrow checker is cool, but I'd much rather have a formal specifiation of the semantics.

Rust took the big bang approach of building everything at once, implementing stuff first without any formal semantics and just floating on an iceberg of implementation definedness, with endless discussions on how things COULD be formalized.

That's pretty much the antithesis to rusts safety philosophy; it's teaching water but drinking barrels of wine.
It wants your code to be well defined and follow its rules, but its rules are completely arbitrary, not properly defined nor written down.

I wish instead they had just started with a small borrow checked core language, and grown it from there, like described in Guy Steeles talk on "growing a language" [1].

I feel that Zig is doing a much better job in this regard, they have a tiny well thoughought language with a rigorous semantic description, and a good reference document.

I'm sure it would be much easier to add a borrow checker to the well-defined-ness and correctness of Zig, than to make Rust well defined and correct.

Super friendly community though.
Who knows, maybe someday the language that people think rust is, will crystalize from that community through their collective effort, like a self fulfilling prophecy.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00982.pdf
Wow. You're more verbose than I am. I'm impressed.

<Puts on network-protocol-guy hat>

A "server" is a program (loosely speaking) that provides a service. Typically, it is more long-lived than a client, starting before the client, awaiting requests from one or more clients, and continuing after a client goes away. A canonical server is an old-style print server: it's a program that is started on the machine attached to a printer, it awaits requests from clients (those requests including that PostScript that describes what the printed page is supposed to look like), and it multiplexes access to the printer.

A "client" is a program (again, loosely speaking) that requests services from a server. It is typically shorter-lived and performs the active steps of making requests to a server.

You will note that there is nothing about "local" or "remote" machines in these definitions. There is also nothing about the number of servers a client can request services from, nor even whether a server can itself be a client of another server. (But do not ever use CORBA or any other RPC mechanism for that kind of thing. It is not worth the pain. In fact, just skip RPC stuff. Bleah.)

Now, the X server is a server; it starts up, takes over the display and input devices and waits for clients to connect. X clients connect to the server to make requests, either to display some pretty colors or whatever or to request notification of events, as the server is multiplexing input devices to multiple clients. Simple?

(Haven't we been through this before?)
'A comedy for those that think, a tragedy for those that feel.'
I think there's actually a helpful analogy to software development here.

If your company can only release once every 2–8 years, then naturally the releases would become huge. Unfortunately, our government is so bogged down by divisiveness and the filibuster, etc, that is the state we're in. Except in cases of near outright catastrophe, the only substantive thing they can pass is the budget reconciliation bill, which only requires a majority instead of a super-majority. As a result, that bill becomes enormous, just like the software release.

As with software, the fix is likely to make it easier to pass more small bills, but the very systems that lead to the current status quo make reforming it nearly impossible.
I think you're touching on really common mistake a lot of new urbanists make, and the linked article generally is about. The problem is there's a lot of demand for dense neighborhoods but not enough supply -- not that suburbs and rural developments are objectively bad or that nobody actually prefers them. In many cases certain interests, hobbies, preferences and lifestyles are completely incompatible with the dense developments preferred by certain opinionated urban planners.

New Urbanists should focus on "why dense neighborhoods are good" over "why suburbs/car-oriented neighborhoods are bad", because they probably need the support of all of us suburb-loving car-driving folks in the first place, and a lot of us interpret criticism of car-driving and suburban living as a heavy-handed attack on our way of life rather than as a reasonable argument for having affordable options for both lifestyles.
You mentioned 2 essential things:
1. You say it's hard to find good RoR developers
2. Good RoR developers have become super expensive

Ad. 1. To have more Ruby or Rails developers on the job market, you need to train them. Ruby is not a good language to start with because it offers many ways to solve a given problem. Juniors prefer to hear "do it like this" and not "you can do it like this or one way or another". The responsibility lies with the companies, they should patiently train and encourage developers in Ruby because of its advantages. The Python Foundation does a good job because they always say that Python has the best web framework, has the best X and Y (although that's not true). But it works for juniors. In contrary, Rails is a good framework for beginners, as it allows you to hide a programmer's shortcomings through built-in "good practices". It allows you to quickly create a relatively safe advanced product, at the same time giving developers some time to make up for gaps in their skills.

Ad. 2. The developers you knew 10 years ago are now expensive because they gained a lot of experience and are in a different position than they were 10 years ago. New developers are not "good" yet, they have to gather this experience. It has nothing to do with language. Hire less good RoR developers in your startup and let them grow under the watchful eye of 1-2 experienced (expensive) RoR leaders.
> This turns into a [marketplace] where the rich win out over the poor.

Same could be said for gambling and sales tax.
That doesn't say L5? /s

I missed that part :-)
Amazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
Interesting to be reading all this about SecDB. About 15 years ago I was offered a job working on SecDB (I forget exactly what the position was now). It and Slang sounded really interesting.

I do sometimes regret not taking the job because the people there were wickedly sharp and the tech sounded great, but in hindsight I'm not sure I would have thrived in a bank long term. I did a 3 month internship at Lehman's which I enjoyed, but I don't think I'd have suited a career in it. One thing I did get out of it was a total lack of fear around job interviews, if I could survive the 14 hours of interviews at GS and come out with an offer, then I can handle pretty much any recuitment process :)
My understanding is that pretty much all marine mammals eat a ton of calories relative to their body weight compared to land mammals, and I can't think of an explanation of that besides needing to keep warm in the water.
What do people think the last thing on this would be (for human condition, but not for Earth)?
> Angular development is reliable. You know what you're getting

You get a product built on top of a framework which does 200+ things you never asked for, can’t disable, and whose the complexity of is reliably causing your simple code to crash in ways which are impossible to analyse, debug and explain.

I’ve been burnt a few times on this, and months down the line, my simple CRUD angular apps still have unexplainable, unfixable issues which is destabilising some of our backend systems.

And we can’t fix it. Because nobody has any fucking idea what goes on with Angular internals when shit blows up like that.

And yes, you can rely on that.

I’ll literally take anything not Angular over Angular at this point. At least I should be able to reason about what I’m shipping and fix bugs once reported.

May it die in a fire.
It’s not new. The ability for people with little context whatsoever to cancel something just because is new. The democratization is the problem. There is usually little due process, if any. It’s not different from East Germany where is you wanted your neighbors bigger apartment you convict a story about them listening to west German radio programs.

It’s stupid.

In Korea they use this to cow people into behaving “properly” whatever the fuck that means. There is no reason to maintain the belief it will only be used to smoke out the “bigots”.
I wonder how human history changes if you change the order of discovery of inventions
The needle they use is short and does not extend very far inside the eyeball. (No, you can't see the needle.) If the eye jerks while the needle is inserted, it won't move far. Eyeball tissue is thick and strong and the presence of the needle will limit the eye's motion to only about 2-3 mm, doing no damage. The needle enters the side of the eyeball, peripheral to the sensory part of the retina.

An eye flinch is exactly what happened to me when I got my latest injection of VEGF-inhibitor to counteract macular degeneration due to 20+ years of diabetes. It was no big thing, just a little disconcerting.
I don't know how to browse the internet anymore
Except we aren't tracking names, addresses, and SSNs of the holder of each ETH wallet, which is required for the IRS reporting under this proposed amendment to the statute.
SEO: What do bad links look like?
That's the reason why I postponed selling my Jaguar X308.
When time comes I will convert it to electric without dependency of software-updates over the air, no trackers, and maximum privacy and style:)
Code is speech.

Edit - To expand this thought: If I exercise my freedom of speech by writing a smart contract and publish the code, how can I be liable if someone else uses that code on an actual blockchain?
Except the post you said “This” to is wrong on almost all counts about how updates work. Updates are opt in.
personally I find tailwind to be atrocious looking and can't understand anyone preferring it to styled-components
I was on the mailing list where the original paper and first implementation was released.

Of course I can't speak to what was in "Satoshi"'s heart. But I am convinced that person was a member of the list, and shared the anarcho-capitalist goals/dreams that many of the members had.

More generally, other attempts at digital cash were highly discussed topics in those crowds, and the interest was primarily in the ability to transact anonymously and confidentially, because of what that would do to taxation.

If you're interested in what that crowd was thinking at the time, there's an exhaustive "FAQ" still available, written by one of the more vocal proponents of digital anarcho-capitalism:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt
iirc the hosts file was the primary DNS at the time, and would sync every 24 hours from a master hosts file online. Thus not needing TLDs to resolve hostnames.
Genshin is very hard optimized on using the right team-combinations. To the point that it becomes impossible to solve tasks if you don't have the matching elements for it. But of course this only comes into play on later levels, when people have become addicted.
Exactly. Same here.

I have a CFFA 3000 card in mine, so they have a whole bunch of stuff to run and play with
> To play Genshin Impact on PC, you are required to install kernel-level always-online DRM on your computer.

True of a lot of things, such as World of Warcraft and Steam.
There are relatively large differences in performance between implementations of ARM X1, so yeah, there is more to it than microarchitecture.
Docker at this point is just a wrapper around OCI spec… why would you go back to Vagrant rather than just using any of the other tools that can build OCI images? Vagrant and Docker seem like fundamentally different tools to me.
Intel Disabled AVX-512, but Not
When I wrote this CSS the columns themselves were supposed to do that and supposed to "peek" across the edges. Browsers decided to take a different, worse layout approach to multi-column and broke my intended CSS affordances. There wasn't intended to be "nothing". Just time and tech debt.
Someone pointed out they're using a Windows 11 version that cripples AMD. https://www.neowin.net/news/charlie-demerjian-intel-used-uno...
Width in the sense of how many instructions can be executed at the same time.

If you’re really interested in this it might be worth finding a copy of the Patterson and Hennessy book. It’s a big read and expensive (but older versions are on the internet archive [1]) and covers all these design issues in quite a lot of detail.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ComputerArchitectureAQuantitativ...
This is still very long compared to our size vs the size of the universe though.

There are an estimated hundreds of billions of galaxies with billions of stars, and they are all very spaced out too. Most stars are significantly bigger than our planet, and our planet can fit over 7.5 billion humans with a lot of extra space.

There are 8760 hours in a year, so according to the above humans have existed around 1/4380 of the time the universe has. Meanwhile idk the exact amount but we occupy less than 1/1,000,000,000,000 of the space of the universe.
If you're concerned about proportional performance gains, this product isn't for you. So why are you complaining about something you're not gonna buy anyway?

Most tech products that are the tip of the spear are bad value for money and less energy efficient than the ones down the range (Nvidia 3090 vs 3080 for example) as they pass the point of diminishing returns of what the design can do and what's cheap and easy to manufacture.

But they exist because there is a marke of enthusiasts for whom efficiency or price does not matter, they just want the best performance money can buy because maybe their business use case benefits from the 10% shorter render/compile times at the cost of 50% extra power consumption. Who are you to judge?
big bang at 13 billion years ago and life on earth started 4 billion years ago. We can't honestly believe earth the only life planet.
agree. I don't understand this fad at all.
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For those who, like me, didn't get the joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving
I dont think the swedish legal system uses precedents though. Does that matter?
Its all automated, so it depends on the contract, I assume if the USD value of ETH drops too much, the borrower gets margin called.
Former. The latter became a thing after V for Vendetta.
It's a long article with an admirable examination of history.

However, I feel Carr has made a mistake with his attempt to differentiate between private communication and broadcasting based on "number of followers".

I think the better distinctions looks something like:

private communication is anything delivered ONLY to people to whom it is addressed or who have actively opted-in to receive communications from the sender. some authentication must be implied before they can read what I have delivered.

any other communication, regardless of the medium, number of followers, etc. is considered to be public.

So, if I tweet about something, since anyone could read my tweets, they are all public. If I DM someone on twitter, that's private.

If I post something on my own private blog that requires a subscription to read, that's private communication. If I post the same thing on a medium where it can be read by anyone, that's public.

If I email my family about something, that's private; if I post a comment on a tiny open wordpress site with less readers than I have cousines, that's public.

This differentiation says nothing about what the difference in regulation between public and private should be. There are good arguments for many different schemes, some of which involve zero regulation for either form. But to discuss the merits of them, we need a clear distinction between private & public communication, and I think Carr's is wrong and mine is (roughly) right.
> But because it is stripped of the virus’ RNA genome, it can’t hijack a cell’s machinery to replicate and burst out of the host cell to infect more cells. “It’s a one-way ticket. It doesn’t spread,” says Charles Rice, a molecular virologist at Rockefeller University.

Did these people not take Jurrasic Park seriously? Life finds a way!