skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. You need consent to store data on an end user's machine, regardless of whether you later track that data or not, unless such storage is strictly necessary for the operation of service explicitly requested by the user.
> Which is why I hate CSS: it demands you know the exact current and future (hahahaha) structure of your webpage.

Replace structure with users, environment or other factor you can't control and you'll realize you must hate every other aspects of development :)
I think it’s fair to say at this point that the “semantic classes with reusable cascading CSS” experiment has lost to local, component-based solutions. Overuse of !important is just another sign of that.

Having “clean” CSS doesn’t have the same benefits as clean, well structured code in other areas. The underlying assumption that you can change the visuals without major surgery to the HTML is basically never true, so if you do put the time in to structure the CSS perfectly it’s often wasted when the design changes a little.

Also (as someone said in another comment) the lifetime of CSS is short compared to other application code and certainly compared to backend data structures and business logic, meaning the technical debt isn’t a huge issue. Iteration speed is often more important.
There is that, but I feel like pixel resolution turns out to not matter pretty often. Obviously it does matter if you’re cropping or blowing it up for a background etc, but even printing can look good with a low res image if you’re viewing it from far enough away.

They do make clip-on zoom lenses for phones but I haven’t actually used any, not sure how much they help.
You can say the exact same thing about US-made Windows software.
Do VCs care or even know about tech stack a startup uses/intends to use?

AI and ML is one thing - it can mean a product that couldn't exist without it. There's nothing about MERN vs PHP that indicates that though.
I think it's pretty absurd that you could in/validate many startup hypotheses with only a few hundred grand. You can maybe pay for two engineers (plus overhead) working for a year for that price, but you'll also need someone to do your accounting, legal, product, etc work.
Would an infinite spinner also show up if the server was up but the connection was problematic? If yes, this would be about not handling network errors, which sounds like a decent rejection reason to me.
You hit the nail on the head- when I used to work for Tyler, the thing that stood out to me was how ingrained they were in so many government systems. Their software isn't great, but they have the momentum of already having sold and been installed everywhere. It's a lot easier for a government agency to increase the spending on a contract with an existing vendor than it is to find a new vendor.
> The upload filter might be a bit different, though, because it's mandated on private servers.

Would it be? They can make you do all sorts of things on private land. Ever tried to renovate a home in CA?
Before GDP, the legal consensus among lawyers I asked was that consent could be a 30 pages long legal document hidden through a 6 pixel text link at the bottom of a page that can only be accessed by trawling the website. It wasn't really what the politicians that wrote the ePrivacy Directive intended, which is why the word informed consent was added.

Now if a hidden 30 page long legal document that no one can read is consent then I have this bridge I want to sell. It is totally legit.
What a crazy story! It makes me wonder if we can aggregate manuals, too.

Soon, we'll allow you to sort by discount you can search yourself. In the meantime, I did find a set of outdoor furniture selling for ~$7,000 on Pier 1 Imports that you could buy on Amazon for ~$900. (Pier 1 did have it "on sale" for ~40% off, which is another dark pattern that is common in the space.)

In general, I find items that get marked up the most are: outdoor furniture, mirrors, and simple metal-and-wood items like coffee tables, shelves or desks.
I see that you have not followed the bit you approved of.
That makes it a 1st amendment issue, regardless of who is ultimately at fault. Which I never claimed to be the ABA - though they are well aware of their legal power, so they can hardly plead innocent for abusing it.
> It tolerates brilliant jerks and has no effective CoC

Is an interesting ones. Do big companies actually do enough due dilligence to know? I mean of course things can get to a point where the entire internet knows, but for most products i use, i have no idea what their internal culture is like and whether or not its full of assholes.
> Find the smartest and most driven 18 year olds in the world

I don't take that as saying take your typical college student, although with the admissions process, I guess you could read it that way if you wanted to. I think we're talking about taking that kid at school who everybody made fun of because he was such a damn super genius it made everybody else feel insecure.

> But as you probably know from your own life (if you're older than 30), this gets harder and harder

It's harder and easier at various times in your life. Again, I encourage everyone who's interested to do it.
That was a fun set! Thank you for posting that.
I believe that There are many things that kick in at 50 people. It's oversimplifying to assume this was due to not wanting to offer benefits.

First google hit: https://www.aeisadvisors.com/california-compliance-is-my-com...
A Russian Court Bans Facebook and Instagram as Extremist
I'm a huge proponent of microservices, having worked on one of the earliest and largest ones in the cloud. And I absolutely think that they provide huge advantages to large companies -- smaller teams, easier releases, independently scaling, separation of concerns, a different security posture that I personally think is easier to secure, and so on.

It's not a surprise that most younger large enterprises use microservices, with Google being a notable exception. Google however has spent 10s, possibly 100s of millions of dollars on building tooling to make that possible (possibly even more than a billion dollars!).

All that being said, every startup I advise I tell them don't do microservices at the start. Build your monolith with clean hard edges between modules and functions so that it will be easier later, but build a monolith until you get big enough that microservices is actually a win.
But rational expectations is just "people make error of random size and magnitude when predicting stuff". It's an absence of auxiliary assumptions about strategy, that's more compatible with complex emergent behaviour or people following a range of heuristics than the various forms of [implicit] consumption/production/etc function that preceded them. Ratex isn't "there's a single rational strategy", it's "these alternative specifications rely on a single fundamentally irrational strategy". You can still get path dependent outcomes with ratex models tending towards equilibria, just like many economists have managed to build many simplistic and wrong models of human behaviour with other specifications of expectation.

Anyway, epistemological agnosticism about outcomes is arguably much more compatible with the laissez-faire positions you seem to hate the most. If responses to and outcomes from public policy are unknowable, why do anything?

The classical physics analogy fits my position so perfectly I'm pretty sure I've used it before. Sure, Newton's theory of classical mechanics has no concept of subatomic particles and quarks simply don't behave like it suggests. But just because it's oversimplification at best and fundamentally wrong in other areas, and careless physics costs lives doesn't mean "caring about stuff falling down" and handwaving about complexity theory will build better bridges than the gravity-obsessed professional engineers you've confined to the cruise ship.
In reality it doesn't. In US the agencies can "convince" any company to do absolutely anything, starting from installing backdoors.
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
> In it, she argued that “[t]he increasing presence of women’s skill and success represents a challenge to tech culture” and that “[w]omen’s success and agency are in direct conflict with an industry culture that caters to the priorities—and egos—of males.” Her words resonated and stuck with me.

Couldn’t get myself to read beyond this point.. someone please do it and tell me if the article was worth it
I’ve just gone through the ringer with Unis here in Australia. Similar situation, except tuition fees are deferred for any uni until I’m working. The best advice is to choose the most enthusiastic teachers. Can you check who will teach you? It may sound silly, but dull teachers have nearly sapped my will to live, let alone complete my engineering degree. I ask them questions, they say ‘look at the lecture slides’. I attend their lectures, they drag it out and obviously don’t want to be there. The assessments are gruelling, cheating is widespread due to poor teaching. It’s an all-round depressing experience.

I attended a ‘lower-tier’ university for a year and the teachers there were great. They would be engaging for their whole lecture, enthusiastically answer questions and they imbued me with their passion for their subjects. Never underestimate how much a teacher can help you.

(When I say teacher you can just substitute ‘professor’)
Well yes, but clearly some tests dont't need to be performed with a needle anymore - we can use a dog
> I agree that $40k isn't ridiculous

That is about the average student loan amount on graduation in the US, but the hidden truth is the average student will end up having to pay twice that amount or more due to interest. The students with $200k will usually payback closer to $400-$500k over 40 years.
When does the NDA expire? 7 years is a long time.
> Anything else is probably misuse, and a sign you may not understand the cascade properly.

I use it in userChrome.css in Firefox to hide tabs because I use vertical tabs. I copied that snippet from some FAQ and it Just Works (tm).
I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the proliferation of System Design interview stages, and resulting training material?

From my experience all of these resources tend to direct you to think in microservices / uber-distributed architectures. I can easily imagine this causing folks to consider this as "the way we do systems now" and taking it to extremes.

The low barrier as well for 1 engineer to decide they want to just get busy on a weekend on their own and build something is another way I've seen this proliferate.
Huh, I had no idea! As I said, I’m not an expert.
>Problem with smartphones is the lack of glass up front.

They have "periscope lenses" in some phones
I think it makes perfectly good sense for SpaceX. They've always made it clear that their real business goal was colonization of Mars based on optimizing the cost of transport to space via reusability and design for manufacturability. Everything else they've done is basically just a way to monetize their current space travel capabilities in service of funding the design and construction of what they really want to do. Making Starlink as profitable as possible was never a goal, just a way to make some more money off of their incredibly low launch costs and probably also develop technology for communicating between ground and spacecraft. So why not launch a competitor too? It's just more launches and more funding for them.
I think his point is that they added it because they had to not because they thought it's a good idea.
I was always impressed with Near's emulators, RIP.
The going rate for USB Accelerators is 300€++ on eBay. MSRP is $59.

I don't need it _that_ much. =)
$1k cellphones are extremely popular with the public and people who post photos online.
Generally agree, but it's not cynicism, it's pessimism. Specifically about human nature - e.g. that people will encourage complexity simply to protect their jobs. I think, at worst, people will NOT make an extra effort to reduce complexity. A sin, but a small one in the scheme of things.
Do you like how that little thing in the bottom corner flips constantly? You don’t find it distracting at all do you?
The person who did that should be shot.
My experience has been pretty different. With lifecycle methods, you had the implementation details of a single concern split across the constructor, multiple lifecycle handlers, and sometimes even the render function when refs were involved. Hooks can express full concerns in a reusable way. This is a valuable abstraction that previously required complex higher order components to do.

People would also constantly get tripped up over `this.props` and `this.state` when it came to computed state values. Now a simple `useMemo` simplifies and expresses that intent way better than setting something conditionally in the constructor and doing a bunch of conditional checks on componentWillUpdate before calling this.setState again.

Edit:

Oh, and the improvements with Redux are life-changing. The `useTypedSelector` UX is so much better than writing a mapDispatchToProps, mapStateToProps, and then having a bunch of merging ceremony there.
The idea of land invasion is laughable. I mean seriously, Germany was basically not even spending anything on their defense.

The idea that NATO would get its finger out of its ass to do that is basically impossible.

And even so, that ignore nuclear power.

I know more about Russian history then most people and was interested in the topic before this war, and Russia certainty has interest there. But strategically this was the worst single plan imaginable.
The argument against strict traffic calming is always "How will an emergency vehicle get through?"

There are some solutions that can slow cars but still allow emergency vehicles through, but they aren't perfect, and still need sign off from the fire department. And that signoff can be hard to get, years ago, my neighborhood wanted to install speed humps to slow traffic -- the fire department vetoed it since the road was the main access from the neighhood firestation.
The placebo effect has control over a person's own perceptions and, to a much lesser degree, their own health. It can make them feel happier or less pain, it can even bolster the immune system by reducing stress, but it won't cure cancer. It also will not manifest money, or turn you into a cat or a banana, or do anything supernatural. It cannot manifest anything beyond a person's own perceptions and mild health benefits.

Whether something is true or not is absolutely relevant. To quote Tim Minchin's brilliant poem "Storm": is truth "so loose-weave of a morn / When deciding to leave your flat by the door / Or the open window on the second floor?"
Translation layer to play PS Vita games on a Nintendo Switch
AFAIK, that is basically how batteries work. A battery is comprised of "cells".
> automatic replacement of faces with leafs

this was confirmed to be fake news.
I mean I get the point, smartphones did feel like incredible wonders, thin, instant, stupid simple.. but if it swaps "reality" for gimmicks then I can see why actual camera brands wouldn't pursue it or at least leverage it in their own products.

Absolute ease is rarely a requirement for quality, be it in photography, music .. or most things I guess.
This really reads like a bad-faith interpretation of microservices. Of course microservices suck whenever someone starts a new one to do something that shares code or logic with already existing services. Likewise, of course monoliths suck when people just willy nilly add code and modules for each thing; low quality programming is low quality regardless of where it lives

Real microservices implementations don't deliver so much from the proposed statement about synchronous web-tier request handling vs asynchronous compute workers in my experience. A few easy rules to guide this development are even touched on in the article, but treated like they could only ever be a tenet of monoliths.

Very strange.
An important note from that article, lest the quote out of context feed any anti-vaccine fears:

SIMON: Now, we should underscore, Jason, this is not the version of the vaccine that's given to youngsters in the United States.

BEAUBIEN: Yeah.

SIMON: Why are other countries still using it?

BEAUBIEN: Right. So in the United States and in Europe and other countries like that, it - we're using an injectable vaccine, which is a dead vaccine. It is not a live virus, and it cannot cause polio. So that should not at all be a concern. The issue, however, is that it's an injection that has to be given. It's given four times between the ages of 2 months and 7 years. So just administering it is difficult. And just frankly, there is not enough global stockpile of that vaccine to vaccinate all of the children around the world, you know, four times over the course of their childhood.
"co-designer of CSS": right up there with "I invented anti-personnel mines".
The company in this case is owned by the government so it's all the same thing.

The actual logistics would change if it weren't, I agree.
I can't believe this is still a thing, from both sides. There is no stopping piracy or greed, maybe some speed bumps here and there. For the pirates its an access issue, that can range from "can't afford" to "can't see it" to simply just "I am cheap". For the companies, it's profits, pure and simple. I always wonder though how they quantify taking into consideration most pirates weren't going to purchase movie/music anyway.
As a mid-level manager, I'd just whip out my personal credit card and expense it. In 20 years, nobody blinked. Ditto with taking a tax deduction from the IRS for my personal consulting work, which depends on FOSS.

IMHO the issue is that users are lazy and have truly-zero risk tolerance, and that in turn means that FOSS developers need a lot more money per donor, which in turn means fewer donors.

I'd like to see a single consolidated donation per unit time, that's then divvied up __based on your usage__ i.e. homebrew/apy/yum nags you from time to time and makes it one-click to make a decent-sized donation to the 100+ projects you actually use.

(obviously, there's disagreement about what "use" means, but the UI would make it easy for the donor to make adjustments...)

(and yes, I'm volunteering to work on something like this and/or help fund it)
One other comment about why GPLing something is important for some like me - publishing my 'secrets' are a great way to turn them into "prior art" - you read it here first, you can't patent it now - I can protect my ideas from becoming part of someone else's protected IP by publishing it.

I spent a few years working on an x86 clone, I had maybe 10 (now expired) patents on how to get around stupidly obvious things that Intel had patented - (or around ways to get around ways to get around In tel that other's had patented) - frankly from a technical POV it was all a lot of BS, including my patents
Well, if you don't have tests to ensure a service adheres to it's original promises, then yes, you'll need to run the full integrated system (I would probably do it anyway, depending on the context).

Reminds me of the fun time a major financial institution had one of their internal services provide fully 6 historical versions of it's api. Interestingly, they had not a single (automated) test for any of these.
Not all problems have to be solved before they become an issue though.

Its often a pointless effort, especially if the problem boils down to "this architecture isn't pure enough"
I thought it was going to be a sortable tree-table like MacOS 8.
I saw a tree like this in Java Applets in 1994.
True, though "thinking they hit a home run" is a nice extension of the same concept: not only do they think that they deserve what they got for no effort, but are actually angry that they didn't get more.

(Coincidentally, I used exactly that expression, precisely that way, earlier today. Unless somehow the OP read what I wrote, which isn't impossible.)
This test is really too short to prove anything (less than half a second). Needs 10x 100x data, or thousands of runs to figure out if it's just the machines configuration/caching making the difference.
This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either
Or they believe the costs are worth it. Trying to convince people to support extraordinary lifestyle changes requires extraordinary evidence that the net result will be positive.
> ...the difference between legal and illegal behavior is not obvious to a layperson.

GDPR and cookie law is not hard to understand, so that excuse is a little bit lame to be honest. Besides, if you really need to understand what you must do by law, you should hire a lawyer. That's the same as with any other law.
How do we know the motives of Brutus?
Humanity can accurately measure electrical consumption, right? Instead of limiting peak loads, why not limit daily use? Hell, you can have prepaid electricity. Charge up a card and put it in the limiter. I know there's a deactivated one in my basement, its more than a decade old.

It's more fair, let the family go right up to the edge of what they can pay, and when everything is 'solved' deactivation costs next to nothing compared to removal.
Those are also cars.
I keep reminding myself that Julius was his last (family) name, and that his first (personal) name was Gaius.
I'm not the post creator, but I'm one of the founders of Instill. I don't think it was intended as such as the HN crowd isn't really our target customer (non-technical health & fitness content creators who need a comprehensive / white glove solution to launching a subscription content platform, not people who can engage in a debate about the cheapest way to set up your own infra to stream videos haha). Ev had some interesting thoughts about Vimeo's huge shift which were informed by us having started this platform some months ago based in part on some pushpack from content creators on Vimeo. Of course, as an early startup, we will also take any attention we can get so I don't hate if this wound up being a little bit of both ;)
Plot twist: you were the CEO.
“The market” as it currently operates in crypto is a greater fool scam, coupled with cryptos being deflationary, it’s not shocking that the price increases regardless of value.
Different grades of sequencing are basically down to the technology and depth.

The short read sequencing you're describing makes reads that are like motes of dust in comparison to the genome.

More modern long read methods can read off sequences with high accuracy and/or length. These tend to be much higher in cost and substantially higher in the completeness and quality of the resulting bioinformatically inferred genome.
My projects, Scheme For Max and Scheme for Pure Data, use the same Scheme as Common Music (s7 Scheme) so you can use it to run Common Music code in Max or Pd. Taube's book "Notes from the Metalevel" on Common Music is really great, though sadly, now out of print.

I've played with a lot of languages for music, including the ones you mention, and for my tastes, Scheme is the loveliest. Eventually I plan to play more with Extempore too.
That's absolutely incredible, thank you for posting it.
"Most people believe in the old gods and are right to do so." I would strongly disagree, but then again, you would follow that by disagreeing with my disagreement :) As long as everything is allowed to be subjective opinion, anything goes.

And so I ask: what objective evidence is there that it is "right" to believe in the "old gods"? What makes the old traditions more accurate than the new ones? What evidence is there that any of them work, beyond stories and anecdotes at best?