skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bauhaus kind of discourages things that are easy to copy in functionality though.

It's easy(In large quantities) to make an empty box with a tiny class D PCB in it, and add some LED fake vacuum tubes and digital correction for your crappy speaker.

Try to make a real tube amp and you might need actual quality parts and design to sound as good.

You might be able to make something better than the fake version, but just matching the fake will probably cost more.

When form and function are the same, it's almost like a closed form equation. There's not as many knobs to turn, so you're relying on the ones you have to be high quality.

You can't have much fault tolerance in a system that believes making stuff that still works when faulty is a type of lying.
The linked article. Relevant quote:

> In this context, a unique identifier is assigned to each visitor. This identifier (which constitutes personal data) and the associated data are transferred by Google to the United States.

This is an accurate description of GA's pseudonymous identifier. It is not accurate as a description of an IP address. And if CNIL meant the IP Address, they would have said so, as they did in other rulings.
So you've left your old job, and now want to negotiate? No one's fooled about who has leverage.

Story here not too long ago of a Google employee being let go on his first day because he did exactly what you're suggesting. I'm sure my company would do the same. When you hire over a thousand people a year (let alone thousands), they're not going to modify their efficient procedures for you. It's cheaper to hire another person.

I'm sure they'll let you take the contract home, but your only option really is to quit.
There was plenty of reason to believe inflation would be transitory back in the summer when it looked like Covid was on its last legs with the distribution of vaccines.

We are however in February now, and people are still not back in offices, demand for consumer goods vs services is still much higher than pre pandemic, China is shutting down some of the biggest ports in the world for weeks on a moments notice, and supply chain issues abound.

The bigger issue now is how many of these factors simply represent a new normal.
Read his previous articles or comments on hackernews. Stop crying if you don't even look 2 inches further than your mouse pointer.
Let's take this question serious for a moment.

Modern X applications render bitmaps which get shipped over the compositor and the X server to the graphics card driver. That is not a good model for the web, because it would mean the web server has to produce rendered bitmaps, specific for the fonts, window size, and display panel led configuration over the web. The browser cannot even select text or provide a search dialog. That is almost VNC.

But originally, X applications didn't render bitmaps but submitted drawing calls. Sun used to use Postscript for that. So using that approach, it would be possible for the browser to select text, to scroll, to copy text, to search text etc. A clear improvement. But resizing the browser window would still need a complete re-transmission from the server.

But if the web server sends static html, css, and a fixed JS library, which is used to replace parts of the dom, the browser can do a lot more locally. And still the whole application logic resides on the server.
Bit harsh? Log4j was caused by a URL leading to bad code being imported.

This let's you import code via a URL, seems quite similar?
You’re blatantly ignoring logic here just to make yourself feel better. Vaccinated people catch the disease 90% less with 90% less viral load and somehow you’re equating that to an unvaccinated person’s ability to catch and spread the disease. Ridiculous. Vaccinating saves lives and reduces the spread.
Don’t Get Fired or Quit, Get Laid Off Instead
Yeah, you'd have to prepare for it by doing things like starting to read articles about the benefits of written communication, then moving on to starting to do other things by mail, and then start using it for personal correspondence.

Or better yet, just have a long history of starting and stopping doing random things. Then you suddenly doing something new and weird doesn't stick out.
Where are you seeing that? Here's the latest CPI [1]. Click "show table" for the full info. Food is at 7%, housing at 4.4%, clothing at 5.3%, etc. I don't have the 2022 weights for each category handy, but here's 2020 [2].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
I disagree.

> You can't have -5 rocks

You can have 5 rocks destroyed in the future. That to me, is what -5 physically means: a guarantee that the object associated with the number will be eliminated out of existence in the future and decrement the negative number by 1.

Some people call it debt, but to me, emotionally that word feels too financial. So I prefer “a guarantee to be eliminated out of existence in the future “, or something like that.

Conversely, 5 cows means: 5 cows currently in existence.

5 cows - 5 cows means: I see 5 cows and now they don’t exist any more and there is nothing.

I wish my math skills were better, I am optimistic that I’d find a similar thing for imaginary numbers and maybe even complex numbers.

With that said, I do get where you’re coming from and I find it a compelling perspective as well. It’s simply that I feel the perspective I described as well.
That's what I thought you meant. So in the analogy that means we should ensure people have a source of income that means they don't have to compromise their (anti-ad) principles as the author did. Which I agree with.

If you didn't mean to further the analogy but instead were expressing a general desire to live in a Star Trek like post scarcity world then I'm with you on that too, but I don't see the relevance.
Yes, I understand that they see patterns and trends and a lot of valuable data: my point is that they have no way of tracking shopping habits of any individual purchaser unless they trick them into some loyalty program, coupons etc.
Those things are hated here too.
> The only way to do analytics in a way that's respectful to the visitors' privacy is with an installable on-host software. That's it.

How is that more respectful? I can fingerprint you pretty much the same with server logs (IP, user-agent, ...), don't I? I can even use cookies without any JS.
> we want to load JS from a CDN like literally everyone does

Well, carry on and load it, it's your server.

Oh, wait, you mean you want ME to load it, into MY browser? That's a problem - my browser only loads JS from the origin server, and only if I give it explicit permission.

As a developer, I deplore the use of CDNs to serve javascript libraries; you don't know what the CDN is going to serve to your users, it could change without warning and break your site.
This whole set of laws is so absurd. I should have the right to retain my server logs as long as I want. I bet in the future in Europe people will have the right to have others' brains forcibly zapped to remove embarrassing memories.
come to think of it... there should be password encryption that destroys the content by using a certain (pre-defined) password.
Cringe rapper/Forbes contributor allegedly found with billions in stolen Bitcoin
I'm also very happy with htmx; I've used it with both Django and ASP.NET MVC. Factor out your partials wisely, and it really makes life easy.
Microsoft did a comparison between UTF-8 and UTF-16 for Sql Server and found pretty much the same results.

I can't find the more detailed article, but this summarizes it:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-blog/intro...

From what I can remember, UTF-8 consumes more CPU as it's more complex to process, has space savings for mostly ascii & European codepages, but can significantly bloat storage sizes for character sets that consistently require 3 or 4 bytes per character.
I must not understand technical debt...all of the scenarios you're mentioning seem like they could easily map to a technical debt scenario

- a developer takes a certain strategy that is no longer valid (even technical debt that isn't recognized early on as being something that will have to be changed more than likely soon, is still technical debt in my mind -- your ability to recognize technical debt early on just means you know you're incurring it)

- developers often incur technical debt without explaining to stakeholders about it because a) they don't care b) they don't think the stakeholders care c) they want to get the work done and not get dinged

- developers who have to pay for technical debt may be the creators of that debt to begin with...(of course, I'd wager that most technical debt is handled by someone else who comes later because I'm rarely given the chance to fix problems I created, project managers can be judgmental like that - and project managers have to be convinced that we can just apply some more duct tape)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30250223
I think ransomware was around before crypto, but crypto really blew it up. However, I think if crypto vanished, ransomware would still be as big of a problem if not worse. Without crypto, the risk of collecting ransoms increases and I imagine they would go up quite a bit and be harder to navigate in some ways.

That's not to say I don't agree with your take.

I think the second killer app for cryptocurrency these days are DeFi and NFTs, which are perceived by most to be high risk and vaporware.

Personally I love NFTs, but that's an aside. I can acknowledge that it's a territory that's full of scams.
I think there is some truth to that - I live and work remotely and love it. But I have maxed out. I am doing just fine, and have product-level leadership roles under my belt. But I won't rise higher in the ranks because I am never in the office with execs. (A true 100% remote company would not suffer this problem, naturally.)

This is OK by me. It is balanced by being able to afford a home that is far more than I would afford in a coastal city and having a living space I love brings joy to my life. Not to mention all the other benefits - no commute, etc.

WFH is definitely a balance - it is not for everyone, and each person needs to decide for themselves whether the benefits it brings matches their own goals.
And if the cost of fixing those issues (like building new chip facilities) will continue to affect price.
Did you read their docs? They aren’t setting cookies or collecting IP addresses. There’s no question to me that EU authorities would approve this method.
CPI is taken using an average family's basket of goods. If you have different consumption patterns from the average family your effective inflation may differ.
I'm not engaging in some elaborate research project here. This isn't that important. If the guy has previous statements about a "sworn principle" against advertising then good for him I guess. But it's not in the article we're discussing now.
Wage growth was flat when taking into account inflation. It was not flat in and of itself. In other words, I believe inflation adjusted wage growth was 0.1%, or a wash when taking into account inflation, per the #’s.
> What is happening here is a big rift in the programmers community between the "I'm productive in it so it is great" and the "I prefer to use strong typing and proofs to ensure it does not break at runtime".

I think the opposite, the rift has been healing. It seemed that it was pretty big in the 2010's (Python/Ruby/Perl vs Java/C#/C++) but these days we have TypeScript, Rust, Kotlin; Java and C# are getting better too (type inference), Python and Ruby are getting typechecking.
> Reading the article, you might think they're lucky not to get pulled over. But they do get pulled over.

But if you get pulled over, can you still beat the current record? The recent record-breaking account that I read seemed to imply they did not get pulled over.
You want Table 1 in the linked doc. The summary is the things getting more expensive fastest are also things that have lower weighting. In household budget terms, our biggest expenses by far are:

- housing

- health insurance

- childcare

Those have not gotten much more expensive (our health insurance got cheaper this year, housing is flat, childcare had a modest increase). Meanwhile gas for the vehicles costs much more, but comparatively fuel is a minor expense. When we weigh everything for our household, 7.5% seems high.
I'm not against eating at familiar places for the exact reason you give. Even to experience how a McDonald's, for example, makes cultural adjustments to their menu (ie Beer on the menu).

Of course, there was that time after a long drive, we stopped at KFC in France because my wife loves their mashed potatoes. KFC in France does not have mashed potatoes and I ate undercooked chicken which kept me in bed for almost a week (we were there for 5 weeks, so luckily were able to absorb that downtime).

Not to dissuade anyone from travel. ;-)
Chinese Uni fears they are behind on tech and US sanctions make catching up hard
My company made a big point that compensation adjustments did not include CoL and was just based on merit.
What matters is the US CLOUD Act, because that's the thing that lets US Intelligence have access to data stored in EU servers. If legal arrangement is covered by the CLOUD Act, it's a GDPR violation.
Plausible founder here. There's nothing automatic but you can track your campaigns with utm_campaigns manually.

Google has made sure that analytics for Google Ads works best within their own walled garden. Same with Facebook and Twitter with their Pixel products.

Instead of using the Referer header or utm parameters as intended, these large corps send obtuse random IDs (gclid, t.co/<id> links) which only they can correlate to an ad, search query or tweet using their internal database.

So until there is anti-trust action in this space towards more oppenness and competition, you're stuck with the ad provider if you want tight integration between ads and analytics.
This is always the first addon/extension I add to a browse; installing uBlock is like "sudo apt update && sudo apt update -y" on a freshly installed system -- you're asking for trouble if you don't secure things as soon as possible.
You just need to get a job at a FAGMAN company so you can live at the office and eat all the free food. Shower in the gym and sleep in the lounges. If this is not possible you need to stop spending. The only things you should be purchasing in this type of environment is food (real food it's cheaper), fuel and paying bills. No spending on anything else, clothing, going out, Chinese crap. Save what the Government is stealing from you through inflation.
I'd be mostly fine with ads if they were:

* first-party hosted: no needing to fetch content from 10 different servers

* verified by the site publisher: all ads are relevant and are not obviously malicious

* predictably sized: this goes with the other two, ads must conform to a size that fits in the content and does not push content around

* oh and of course they must never, ever autoplay video or audio

I don't particularly care if this is all too hard to do. If it's just too much, make your product a paid service. Or just don't make it at all, that's fine too.

edited: formatting
I tried this Figma plug-in a couple weeks ago. It is quite magical!

What previously took me hours in Webflow, now only takes 30s (+ the extra 10-20 mins to format things correctly in Figma).

I’m looking forward to using this next time I make a portfolio.

The feature set still has some gaps but I’m quite impressed for how far it’s come in a few months.
Log4j was caused when arbitrary log strings were interpreted as code imports.

In this case the flag has to be manually set and the code manually added as a dependency.
How to Live with Covid
India bans foreign drone imports
Definitely USA. My government doesn't drone strike people based on communication patterns or disappear them to black sites without ever being put in front of a judge.
Why brands are burning NFTs?
Wow. I have read a bunch of cult-escapee biographies, as the cult dynamic fascinated me. All of them had an extreme narcissist at the center.

Somehow I had never connected that with the famous tech company with an extreme narcissist at the center. But you're right, that pattern of retaliation against people who dare to leave fits perfectly here.
> It feels like I’ve been hearing that this is transitory

Where? The first couple months of high inflation numbers there was some of that, but while reactions against it as if it were common remain frequent, it doesn't seem anyone is saying it anymore.

> And, I can understand that coming from the Whitehouse

The White House isn't saying that, in fact it's leaning on present inflation as a reason to pass it's legislative priorities.

> but news organizations, economists, journals, Twitter, publications

Major ones of all of those also seem to not be saying it.
"I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO, which as a CEO of a technology company, that’s kind of rare."

I can't not read this as a joke.
That CDN will know your IP and what site you’re from, and likely can do a decent job correlating visits with other sites.

The internet is just not designed for privacy at a technical level.
The worst offenders seem to be news sites run by traditional newspapers. Friends share links to these quite a lot, and very often I follow the link to an article that sounds quite interesting, and then... As you say, text jumping around, giant pop-ups, videos playing. I put up with it to a point, but if it's taking me three/four seconds and I'm still trying to close things down to read the article, then I'm thinking "That's a shame. I was interested to read the article... but not _that_ interested". I don't really understand why this happens. Isn't it just obviously bad web design at that point?
Luckily there is plenty to choose from.

We entered the market recently with Wide Angle Analytics https://wideangle.co. But there is plenty alternatives. Depending on your needs.

Some focus on visuals, we focus on filters and soon attribution. There is more on the list: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

Competition is a healthy thing. You DON'T HAVE TO use Google Analytics :)

And if you wonder, yes, the fines are real. Enforcement of GDPR is picking up the pace: https://wideangle.co/blog/you-might-be-facing-gdpr-fine
I'm familiar with (and partial to) the geometric algebra literature, but I think it's a bit disingenuous/clickbaity to say that it implies imaginary numbers aren't real. I think of it as meaning that the algebra of the imaginary numbers arises as a slice through a more useful, bigger algebra.
My casual (non-expert) observation is that covid disproportionately affects the heart more than other viruses we're familiar with.

We know its related to the spike protein, but do we know why? What makes it harmful (is it basically protein-sized shrapnel?) and why does it prefer the heart? (maybe there is no preference and effects on the heart are just easier to observe)

Further, if the spike is whats dangerous, what are the effects on people who have had 2 shots, a booster, AND then got covid anyway? This makes up the majority of my friends and family.
Yes, before there was electronic bookkeeping businesses hauled stacks of paper to their accountant. This is standard business practice since literally centuries.

If they want to send you a letter, they have to give your data to the postal service. Again, no consent needed.

This is legal because our whole economy is based on devision of labor. Privacy laws account for that.
Derangements
As currently set up, with proof of work, it is an environmental disaster.
Here in the Midwest, I see plenty of people stretching yellow into orange, particularly on left-turn arrows. It's very rare for me to see someone just charge through a light that's been red for any significant length of time, but sometimes it comes up in the news headlines.
A good description, and this is described in the video that all of these comments are about. :P
Sorry to tell you this, but it sounds like you have a bad manager. Your story is like not how healthy teams operate, which in my experience actually are much more like the post you're replying to.
Housing vacancy rates will go up. Landlords and those selling houses just need to keep pushing the price higher until the market will no longer bear it; there is some price at which people will no longer occupy such a high fraction of houses.

I think widespread disbelief of inflation, and hesitancy to embrace the 'new normal' has lead to sticky prices. These sticky prices means some goods and labor is 'cheaper' than it would otherwise be, leading to 'shortages.' In part I explain such low unemployment rate at present due to labor being a couple percentage points cheaper than it was a year or two ago.
To shreds you say?
That's exactly OP's point. It's only worrying IF you believe car factories are stuck making less than 2019 numbers for years and years to come

If you believe they'll be able to get back to normal numbers in the next 12 months, you believe inflation will largely go away, maybe even before the midterms
1. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Is-omicron-as-co...
2. https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-03/omicron-the-fastes...

Further the new BA.2 strain (which is causing a slight re-uptick of cases in the UK) is reported as 1.5x more infectious as well. So this is literally the most infectious disease ever recorded, and possibly the most infectious ever full stop.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ba2-omicron-coronavirus-cont...

My interpretation of this is health measures can slow it a bit, but 100% of the population will be exposed, so given the less pathogenic nature of it, getting it over with faster would likely be a net benefit.
I just checked my emails and it was always $500 credit offered after returning for me, so maybe some DTK folks were offered $200? Either way, it ultimately was $500 however by your own admission, even if initially stated to some as $200.
Bill Gates: My new pandemic book is coming soon
FYI Natural immunity provides a fraction of the immune response that being vaccinated does. People were getting reinfected with Covid after six months during the initial wave before any mutations cropped up.
this tool looks amazing. dependabot but open-source, with a plugin system, and you can run it locally. great idea, looking forward to trying it out!
>In my personal life experience - I’ve not seen utility prices go down, ever.

I think it depends on the utility. My town dropped electric rates a bit a year ago[0] and I think it's even more common for rates to fluctuate (both up and down) with utilities like natural gas or even oil heat, where it's more closely tied to the price of a single commodity.

[0] https://www.cambridgema.gov/news/detail.aspx?path=/sitecore/... with a caveat that this was for the "standard" rather than the 100% green plan, where prices went up
> Because people have money, they want to buy cars

That would be true if we were talking about new cars, but apparently the big rise is in used ones. That is likely due to a combination of factors, with liquidity being only one of them - the others are scarcity from the supply side due to covid, and the sector trying to push a new technology (electric) on masses of conservative consumers.
If node shares import syntax with browsers, it’s easier to write code that runs on both platforms. As far as leftpad, this isn’t that much different from using a package manager. You either cache your dependencies, or rely on a third party (npm repo/cdn).
"More people than ever being tits" would be people with guns shooting other people?
> So is it likely the European Commission did this in an attempt to block US companies from offering internet services to the EU

More like the European Commission did this in an attempt to protect European citizens from having their personal data exfiltrated against their will to the US on order of US law enforcement agencies.