skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would it be slower or use more CPU or memory to render?

With flexbox layout, probably (?), but likely imperceptibly (don't quote me on that, I haven't actually done the math to check if the benefits from decreased DOM elements would outweigh the increased cost of flexbox, maybe it would get faster just by virtue of shipping less HTML).

That being said, GP is being kind of extravagant, there is arguably nothing on HN that requires tables or flexbox. I always felt like inline spans and maybe a few floats/margin:autos for stuff like headers/menus would probably handle the majority of the layout.

This is part of my criticism of "HN picked the simple answer" takes; even if you go back over a decade and even if you take flexbox off the table, tables weren't really the simplest answer after CSS `margin:auto` was invented. This really isn't a website with columns of data, it almost doesn't need any layout tool at all.

I think the, "now flexbox exists so we can do it correctly" takes are also wrong in their own way; HN is a single-column reading experience with very simple menus, why bring flexbox into this? I always try to temper this claim because I haven't technically ever sat down and built a pixel-perfect replica using normal HTML, I don't technically know there's nothing that wouldn't require modern CSS. But I have poked around at different pages of the site and messed around with resolutions, and I've never seen a situation on the site that I felt required all of that extra HTML and complexity.

I almost wonder if the point of the embedded font tags and image spacers and crud is that site is trying to make it sort of render the same even with CSS turned off. But if so, that's bad practice and the site should stop doing that. Anyone who's turning off CSS is doing that for a reason and the site should just respect that and ship them the pure content.
This is double speak , '... immunity due to vaccination against/infection by other variants gives only limited protection ...'.

In the real world, it can not provide both immunity and limited protection. Those at risk may want to consider if they can reduce their risk profile by maybe losing weight or increasing their cardiovascular ability.
> With hindsight, we've never really tried to use that flexibility in the real world, but the capability is there if we need it.

Maybe not in public networks, but if you run your own network you can easily make use of auto-subnetting.

e.g. see [0], [1]

[0] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/examples/gnrc_ne...
[1] https://summit.riot-os.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/...
Nope.

Romans invented concrete, and it was so good that still today the average concrete can't compete with it (its resistance to cracks is one example)

Rewind history and roman buildings would still be there.

They are thought to be one of the few things that would survive human extinction.

The only thing that would outlast them are Giza Pyramids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Would you consider binary lambda calculus [1] [2] a real language?
The 650 byte interpreter written in obfuscated C also sports garbage collection and might fit in a bootsector when translated to x86 code.
Its metacircular interpreter is only 29 bytes (232 bits),
and looks somewhat readable with some syntactic sugar [4]
(analogous to how x86 looks more readable as assembler source).

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html

[2] https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

[3] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/int.lam
I would turn that question around. How have the US become this hub for tech-companies? Probably culture and momentum. The same reason a small country like Sweden managed to become the third-largest music exporter in the world.

And also European companies are moving to the US to start and/or grow their businesses there. Why is Spotify even listed on the NY stock exchange?
I rarely use CSS grids like when I’m doing layout. The only times I use grid-template-{columns,rows} directly is when I’m using the auto layout (e.g. a stack of cards). Whenever I do an overall layout I use named grid areas with different sized cells (i.e. not repeat()). A layout scheme could be something like:

.container {
grid-template:
"nav . header header header" auto
"nav . . . . " 1ex
"nav . main . aside " 1fr
". . . . . " 1em
"footer footer footer footer footer" auto
/ 40ch 1em 1fr 1ex 15ch
}

You could achieve something like this in Tailwind using nested flexboxes, but that is not the same as doing layout in CSS as you have to work with the shortcomings of the framework. Now I’m not saying it is not worth it, but saying it is the same is missing a huge aspect of how we do layout in modern CSS.
It's difficult to say what feels less risky investments are these days! I've been slowly moving profits out and DCAing a portion of those into my traditional investment portfolio (i.e. index funds). I think the second part of your answer is the key - trying to adjust the current balance between my side hustle and day job piece by piece rather than all at once. Thanks!
> Since OnHub routers were introduced 6 years ago…

I’m curious, does anyone know when the product stopped being sold?
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Are there strong counterpoints to this? If that is possible it seems extremely more likely than aliens or whatever else people are coming up with.
Both you seem… normal. Neither positions are unreasonable. Consider that OP’s personality could be very different from yours - maybe they have a very strong and closed circle of established friendships, or a preference to keep the personal life unattached from the professional life.

Who knows! But it’s not extreme.
SWC is built in Rust, esbuild isn’t. /s

Realistically they have fairly different goals:

- esbuild’s goal is to be a fast JS/JSX/TS compiler and bundler with a simple plugin system to extend its behavior. It’s expected to largely stop adding scope there.

- SWC’s goal is to be a fast JS/JSX/TS compiler, bundler, and extensible code transformer with broad compatibility with Babel and direct support for AST transformation. It’s also integrated into Deno, in a lower level way than APIs exposed by esbuild, so it’s a fair bit more general purpose (whether that’s intended or not, I don’t know).
That bomber is also likely quite low, since it's based out of an air force base in that area.
Gpt-neo
Talking with my former coworkers, I know the bank I used to work at as well as others my ex-team have migrated to are still insisting they will be 100% work-from-office once things return to some sense of normalcy. This policy doesn't seem to be different between their US and UK locations.

We had a townhall where the CTO first congratulated everyone for making 2020 a very productive year - with no loss of productivity from WFH. Then concluded by saying we would return to 100% work from office ASAP because it is scientifically proven by data that working from the office is more productive.
https://archive.md/pog41
As they should. But it's a bit late now, airtravel has already spread this all over the globe so we can all enjoy a re-run. Hopefully the vaccines will help enough to take the edge off but it isn't looking all that good.
I really don't understand why you are being so dismissive of many users, just because they don't meet your personal definition of "professional". This change makes some use cases objectively worse, and telling thousands of people to spend hundreds of dollars plus some amount of time to mitigate a change they didn't ask for is not a respectful position, IMO.

I think this change would be fine as a default, but it should be configurable by the end user.
I know, it's unironically amazing!
A rationalist community? "Never mind the data, we've seen viral videos!" That's rationalist?
You can easily avoid negative percentages by rephrasing. e.g., "Walmart profits are down 15% because of retail theft."

Theft loss makes sense to present in relation to profits because the thieves in these cases resell the goods. The profits that the retailer would have made are literally transferred to the thief. The retailer still has its fixed expenses (rent, utilities, labor), so the theft basically comes directly out of the bottom line.
This smells like lead gen for a consulting shop.
China Ordered Amazon to Delete Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book
Ugh there goes all our CI stuff.
There's this thing called an "auto-coup". It's where the one currently in power seizes power that he does not legitimately have, in order to avoid handing over power to the one who beat him in an election. Trump either was trying to do that, or came very close to trying (depending on how you draw your lines).
Letrec requires either laziness (which implies some sort of internal mutability, as thunks get replaced by values at some point), or "internal" mutability that may not be visible to the programmer (like in OCaml, where in a `let rec` some variables will initially be null pointers, and get updated once other definitions have run).

In languages with no mutability at all (not even internal mutability like with these two features), you can't create cycles and refcounting becomes possible, but I'm not aware of non-academic general purpose languages that actually fall in this category.

Esoteric functional languages like Unlambda do make that guarantee, and implementations can use a ref counter as their GC.

I've written more about this here: https://terbium.io/2019/09/cyclic-immutable/
You also will be working on boring tax software from 9 to 5. That gives you hours every week to build your own toy games, potentially even with friends making something cool.
Yes, the project started 5 years ago IIRC and completed this year.
From what I know about it it got delayed twice by more than a year and isn't operational.
I'm curious which was the cause and which was the effect.
Offshore near the Oregon border, closest to Eureka and Fortuna at the Mendocino Triple Junction, where three plates (Pacific, North American, Gordo) meet, and a zone of high seismic activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendocino_Triple_Junction

The epicenter is about 40 km (25 mi) offshore. The area is not heavily inhabited, though some earlier earthquakes have caused strong damage either from direct seismic activity or tsunami.
tons of pagan roman and greek statues were destroyed. what's left today is only a tiny amount
The Romans weren't any more significantly wealthier than other contemporary Old World civilizations/empires - China, Persia, or India, for example. Conquerors being assimilated is a common theme that runs across most of these civilizations as well. However, monumental buildings that survive invading armies just tend to be dismantled/repurposed by the locals for the building material over time. I suspect that part of the reason for Roman monuments surviving is that the fall of Western Rome lead to an overall decrease in the urban population & subsequent demand for building materials. China, India, & Persia likely saw no such population decreases.
It was scheduled to complete this year (in fact, it was originally scheduled to be completed in 2019, then 2020, and then it was supposed to be 2021), but it has as far as I know not been completed yet and has not been taken into general service. Proof to the contrary would be gladly accepted, if they get it to completion and it functions as advertised it will instantly be the largest of its kind in the world.
Practical Seed-Recovery for the PCG Pseudo-Random Number Generator
> How is giving people $100 to give to a politician / $50 to a journalist a blanket solution?

Why would people even want to give this money to politicians? ANY of them? Could I simply get the money and pocket it? Why not?

More seriously though: why do you think is more likely to happen with such "journalist" money? Do you think people will suddenly promote rational discourse or they will just give this money to whoever confirms their biases? Imagine Alex Jones getting millions of dollars of government money to fund his lunacy. What will be the reaction on the liberal side? Will they just say "it's all fair" and try to compensate by over-funding NPR and PBS, or will they try to find ways to rig the game in their favor?

> You need an organization to do things like collect taxes.

That organization does not need to be centralized. As an example: You could have tax collection at the city/municipality level, and then have these municipalities paying to theirs state according to their pre-agreed budget and commitments, and having that bubbling up.

> Maybe my responses could be more useful if you spoke specifically to why you dislike different policies of Yang

It is not about the policy, it is about its scope and the idea that you can apply the same kind of thinking on a country as large, diverse and uneven as the US.

UBI in itself is not a bad idea. Thinking that the way to implement it is by pushing it at the federal level is a catastrophically bad idea.

I would give Yang a lot more credit if he went to run for mayor of a small town in the Rust Belt, tried his ideas there first and then went on to promote them. But when he goes on to think that he can run a country in the same way that people run a SV startup, big red lights should be flashing in our heads.

> Don't you think washing out $4 billion of lobbyist money with $32 billion of eligible voter money would shift politics to getting more citizen-wants oriented politicians elected into power? If you say no, then why?

"Because populism" is the short answer. The long answer is "if voters were rational, people would be able to filter out politicians who are not aligned with their interests and lobby groups wouldn't exist. Adding more money to the system will not solve the issue."

If we want to get politicians that do what the citizens want, we need to reduce the distance between the citizens and their representatives. How about we get rid of the $4 billion lobbyists AND the $32 billion "voter money"? How about we got rid of all forms of Federal taxes and started favoring again a state-centered union? How about people started to be more interested in discussing their own town budget plans (where they can actually SEE the results of their choices) instead of giving them money to only pretend they have any say in these multi-trillion sausage factories?
Cellular landscape visualization
I didn't say it was a fully functional team but if a group of people decide that the person who refuses to come into the office is more trouble than they're worth, it's at least somewhat understandable from their perspective.
In France main numbers for emergencies are still 15, 17 and 18. The 112 redirects on these.
What to Expect from Apple in 2022
Talking about Rocket Lab’s Neutron with Peter Beck
Everyday Astronaut interviews founder of Rocket Lab about their planned reusable rocket, Neutron.
You made it sound like they lowered your salary because you weren't performing well.
Compared to, say, calling something the height of foolishness and not knowing the source's experience?

I've had some great middle managers, but I've had far more (and even some of the good ones) that the company's and my own productivity wouldn't have suffered if that entire layer in the organization had never existed.
The huge 30% commissions charged by Sony, Microsoft, Valve, Nintendo, Apple, Google are a huge negative factor to the potential profits of the industry. On top of that, you have sales taxes from every country in the world, which are creeping upwards globally. For every $1 of customer spending, typically only 50-60c reaches the developer.

In most other Tech sectors, you can go straight to customer, without platform commissions or taxes, and the profitability and salaries reflect that.

All of the profits in Gamedev are taken by platform holders.
Only those who started would need to stop. What percentage of actual US or world population do?
And being comparable to any of those big names isn't something I would brag about. It's more an insult than a sign of quality.
But do such consumer services mask military targets? Probably yes.
That is true. But the Tesla powerwalls would be using Lithium Ion tech, and that is used here too but 50 MWh worth of it. So the whole installation is considerably larger than what you write.
EPS is just PostScript that's designed to be more embeddable. It's a PostScript program that contains some metadata like a preview image (so you can display a thumbnail when embedding it even if you don't have a PS interpreter) and a bounding box (since PS has an arbitrary coordinate system, in order to represent an embedded document without actually interpreting it, you need to know the bounds of what it's going to draw).

The big problem with PS, EPS and Flash as simple graphics formats is that they're all turing complete and you can author documents that will never terminate. When importing EPS, Illustrator used to have a timeout and would fail if the render didn't complete in a couple minutes. I assume it still does, but haven't tried it in years.
You're all over this thread trying to gaslight people into believing a constant dot is somehow the same a rare chance at an OS notification that you forgot to disable. People plug there mac directly into shit and that worked fine; now it doesn't end of story.
I recently found out an acquaintance of mine (didn't see him in a long time but sort of keep on touch online) almost died of covid. He wrote his experience in a local magazine -- did not get vaccinated because he was on the fence, got sick, followed every doctors orders but it progressed quickly and he ended up in the hospital. He was the first person in two weeks he spent there to leave the room alive, on the worst day it was six people that died. Nobody died peacefully. The medics advised him to look through the window when somebody was getting reanimated. Some were brought back to life, only to succumb in the days after that.
If I had a dollar for every time I said that.

While correctly pointing out that it is algorithms at play I can't be amused at the history of the word algorithm itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#History

The word algorithm is derived from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, whose nisba (identifying him as from Khwarazm) was Latinized as Algoritmi (Arabized Persian الخوارزمی c. 780–850).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

The term algebra itself comes from the title of his book (the word al-jabr meaning "completion" or "rejoining"). His name gave rise to the terms algorism and algorithm, as well as Spanish and Portuguese terms algoritmo, and Spanish guarismo[18] and Portuguese algarismo meaning "digit".
Even ignoring parallelism, images increasingly need to go straight to the GPU, so improving the performance of access on-GPU (I.E. using a GPU compressed texture format) can have a bigger positive impact on the user experience than making the file on disk smaller. Adopting Basis to compress your images could in practice be much better than adopting QOI, and it should be benchmarked against options like that along with PNG or JPEG.
> but I also think the orange dot is, for almost all users, a perfectly acceptable solution - visually obvious without being obnoxious.

That is why the user should be given the choice to activate it: make it a sensible default choice in the respective settings. The experienced users who know what they do should be empowered to make a different choice if it makes sense for their workflow.
To me it's missing the point to describe that as Brainfuck versus Lisp. It just turns out that lambda functions and linked lists are higher level abstractions than arrays and pointers. I'd like to see some more variations on that concept and what the size is if using another esolang that has lambda functions.
That's rough, and I'm sorry to hear that about your colleague. No one is beyond developing mental health issues in trying times... but do you think it would have saved him if he had to come into the office once a week? I have my doubts.

Personally, I don't think having to do that would improve anything for me either. I love being full remote and after having gotten used to it even mandatory mondays seems like they would be an unnecessary burden... but all teams are created different.
My favourite recent incarnation if this is when YouTube has its JavaScript go sideways and then it blames the internet being out instead of doing anything productive
Destroying symbols of a previous rule was (is) commons practice. Constantine realized that some building and monuments were worth preserving and repurposed them as "Christian", thereby ensuring their preservation for hundreds, or even a thousand of years.
For a few minutes I was convinced this one had crashed on that mountain top: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lake+Tarni%C8%9Ba/@46.7229...
I wish that issue would also link to the rebuttal:
https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html
Amazon still has them on sale. Google still promotes them - https://on.google.com/hub/?main=retail
Thiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4.

Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.
You can still buy the TP-Link one new on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Google-WiFi-Router-TP-Link-Managed/dp...
>Flash died, because it was proprietary and Adobe did not open it up. (and flash was vector animation btw.)

I think the iPhone refusing to support Flash had far more to do than the underlying business practices or IP.
Please don't make inflammatory posts about divisive topics—that just leads to flamewars. And certainly please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One good entrepreneur said that focusing first on 2 markets would be ideal when starting out. They went for 5 markets and said it was too much hassle. In the end focused on US/Polish market.

IMO language is big barrier as just testing different text in UI is a lot of hassle when starting out - not to mentions laws, cultures difference, dealing with business partners etc. is much harder due to that.

IMO common law/company to easily hire people across EU would help.
> it was a defacto paramilitary arm

Which means it wasn’t ever a paramilitary arm of the state. You just want to pretend it was because that way you can act as if the KKK and the state were part of the same thing, which they never were.

> It was who would come for you if you didn’t do what you were ‘supposed to’

Yes, because there were a bunch of racists who were operating a secret paramilitary organization…

> and for a long time the hardliners and ‘secret Baathists’ (or not so secret) used it as their enforcement arm

As you admit here.

Nobody is denying how bad the KKK was. It simply not true to say that it was ever part of the state.

Try this quote from Wikipedia:

“Organized in the Southern United States, it was suppressed through federal intervention in the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South, especially by using voter intimidation and targeted violence against African-American leaders. Each chapter was autonomous and highly secret as to membership and plans. Its numerous chapters across the South were suppressed around 1871, through federal law enforcement.”

It was a terrorist organization which attempted to overthrow state governments and which the state suppressed.

That is about as far away from being an arm of the state as you can get, ‘defacto’ or not.
But is that actually different from trying to get any budget for e.g. IT security software, redundancy, backups or any kind of nonfunctional investment in an IT network - especially in smaller shops? Putting up my ignorant penny-pincher hat, I cannot see a difference between a hardware output card and an HDMI cable in a laptop, at least until apple put an orange dot there. So let's rather buy more flyers.

I'm very much not surprised at saving the wrong pennies.
Anecdotally, speed limit enforcement is much more vigilant in small towns.
Have you ever actually tried drinking? I'm not a fan of alcohol, but it's obvious that it and other recreational drugs help people relax.