skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you’re doing that.

And I’m asking you personally.
In my admittedly imperfect memory, I thought it was Microsoft and not Apple that led the charge with the first wave of “flat” interface design, Google quickly following. iOS 7 was a round of catching up, and could only have happened after Steve Jobs.

Remember the much-derided Corinthian leather of the OS X address book, inspired by his personal Gulfstream? He loved that visual approach.

iOS 7 was sold as bringing the software more in line with the minimal hardware design philosophy. But it was really a response to industry trends.
Nightfall is widely considered to be his best work (and with justification) but Profession stuck with me the first time I read it.

When I first read it in my teens I saw it as a comment on education - a system that churned out little robots to feed the economic machine with robot workers.

Later in life, with more life experience I've come to understand it as both the rarity of creators, and of the need to create. You do not tell a person "go create something", the creator creates because it's impossible not to.

It takes training and experience to make creations useful, and valuable, but creators create - it's what they do.

I used to think everyone was s creator, but observation shows me that while many dream of creating, for most it's only dreams. A tiny fraction write music, or books; poetry or programs. They paint and sculpt, architect and design.

Dreamers dream, creators create. They can't help it, and you can't make them stop.
> Cloudflare is what Google was 20 years ago.

Cloudflare is already much worse. It's relentlessly centralizing the whole Internet.
It is, but its also an indication of how users are accepting to use software which is unnecessarily demanding on hardware. At some point, RAM got cheap enough for developers to stop caring about optimization.
I remember liking the java sdk java source. Great small focused functions and nice use of newlines. You could tell the developers were forged in an era without syntax highlighting and large horizontal screens. Extremely scannable.
White by Kenya Hara

Many ways of thinking about the color white. Its meaning. Its place in the world. Its purity (and yet seldom pure). How it can be something and nothing at the same time. Great design-thinking fuel.
Thank you for this article. It is so refreshing to see a level-headed and sensibly epistemological take on the ever burgeoning buffet of sensational multiverse fare.

It's not that the multiverse is nonsense (it may or may not be I don't know)...its that it simply isn't science.

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I’m interested in seeing how the tone of the comments changes after the title change of this thread.

I’ve noticed posters bringing up two concerns:

A) Framing anything as being the fault of “the rich” is divisive or offensive.

B) Anything that’s divisive or offensive is counterproductive.

without explaining the bridge between A and B:

A2) People are willing to support policies that hurt the climate out of spite because they believe that everyone votes entirely out of emotion.
IANAL, etc. They don't have to legislate the code that you're allowed to write, only what you do with it. In the same way that it's completely possible to write software for an open source cell tower, but there are very tight restrictions on what you can do do with that code before the FCC starts to have an opinion about it.
Yes, im speculating its distruptive design meant to produce some form of anxiety in the user base, add some hard to pinpoint friction so users pay more of their mental cycles in the said software and cause them stockholm syndrome so they’re hooked. It could also be nothing of this but mere incompetence, producing change to resell the old at a future time. Regardless, it’s all to mess with your mind because as a user you never have the option to keep the old familiar and you always have to relearn stupid interfaces, ocasionally click the wrong button, be forced out of the happy path and sometimes get angry and but options to disable this/that.

Im at the point that if something gets annoying I simply drop off. If ads for example become unavoidable Id stop consuming, %99 is utter waste of time anyway. End of rant
Indeed, I let anonymous people run arbitrary code on my system... though I haven't bothered to make it available over SSH.

https://rkeene.dev/js-repl/?arg=bash

It creates a secure environment on every connection, though it doesn't use cgroups, just chroot, resource limits, and other boundary protection mechanisms, etc.
Fond memories of the QuickCam paired up with CuSeeMe. It felt like the future for a little while.
Do you mean they have the wrong macros for you personally or you personally believe the macros are bad in general?

Macros are an interesting thing. I’m far more interested in micros though, and various plants have them more than any animal foods. The balance of macros I get is reliably sufficient to stay healthy, I almost never need to think about it.

I suppose if you’re a body builder it might be appealing to eat animal products, but you can still swing it with plants.
Still much better than the current situation of 8 hour day job and family.
>No one knows what the state standards are? They're all listed right here on their website[1].

Where are they listed on that website? I don't see them. Maybe the standards have been defined in the last few months, but they didn't exist at the time the bill was first proposed.
The speedup you are noticing is probably mostly due to assisted gps, where your phone gets a location using - partial gps information + wifi location + cell tower location all triangulated. Your eg early 2010 car gps unit didn't have any of the addition ways to speed up the location fix
Thanks a lot, I'll read that, looks very promising!
Hm. Do the the elderly and the disabled keep track of the scroll bar length? Does it getting longer actually confuse people? I'm not convinced this is as important of a thing.

Opening modals changes the scrollbar length. Opening accordions do too. The scrollbar doesn't "break" when content is added to a page, it just adjusts accordingly. It seems like this is all good, expected behavior; not an a11y concern.
Common Lisp and Dylan had multimethods for decades, and were both strong influences on Julia, unlike Clojure.
It's a good question. My take is that the quote from one of the sibling comments -- where someone's dad talks about aging as 'boiling down to your own true essence' -- is actually wrong. I think there's a lot less 'true essence' and a lot more path dependency. In my example, is woodworking and European travel true essence? I suppose it's possible, but I don't think so. I think it could have just as easily been something completely different.

If all else were equal, it might be fine to pick something you like and just exploit the hell out of it till death. But I don't think all else is equal. Perspectives on the world, skills, knowledge, versatility, resilience -- an anti-caricature penalty on all this stuff seems good in a whole bunch of ways, even if I concede that you might be leaving some unexploited fun on the table.

Like I said, I am open to being argued out of this opinion; but that's where I am so far.
Many tech products are still sold on feature lists. Few people care any more.

This great (short and funny) internal video from Microsoft was supposed to be a wake up call, but nothing really changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

The fact that Apple doesn't really play that game seems to drive some people wild.
Maybe go work for a bank? I think they pay pretty well too (because the work is boring)
I suspect a more effective method would be for Congress to pass a law that says you aren't allowed to use or trade high-energy-use cryptocurrencies.

It would be difficult to make the software unavailable, that cat's out of the bag and it runs into problems with free speech, compelled speech, etc.

But the prevailing interpretation over the years of the Commerce Clause gives the Federal Government enormous constitutional power to do just about anything it wants when it comes to regulating anything that has any remote conceivable effect on interstate commerce.

So I don't see what would stop them from saying you can't buy or sell goods with cryptocurrencies. They can make it illegal for any federally regulated bank (i.e. all banks) to get anywhere close to cryptocurrencies, such as accepting deposits from customers who traded crypto for cash, or providing banking services to companies that accept or trade in crypto.

The Federal Government can withhold various federal monies from states that don't agree to implement similar restrictions domestically (that's how Congress can get around the "interstate commerce" part of the Commerce Clause--they can just bully states into complying with Congressional desires that the Constitution doesn't grant Congress the power to enact).

Enforcement, of course, is another question. But if high-energy-cryptocurrencies are effectively declared illegal in the U.S., a majority of current users will likely not want to try to get around the legislation and that may be enough to shrink the market small enough to have the desired effect.
Do you think most kindergarden teachers have the money set aside to pay for time off (likely unpaid) and a lawyer to defend them in court from overzealous parents? And would you stake your career on that? Because that's the chilling effect that keeps getting brought up here. Will the lawsuit be thrown out? Maybe. Will you win? Probably. But finding out is a gamble that costs time, money, and stress, whether you win or lose.
async.auto is simply mind blowing to me.
>But I don’t want the government saying what I can and can’t read

So because you personally don't want something, you're arguing free speech should be completely unrestricted even if it's demonstrably causing harm (shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre)?
You're OK with the government restricting how you can physically interact with others (assault/battery etc.) but somehow you believe that the way you verbally interact with others can't conceivably lead to similar levels of harm/danger?
Almost all countries do have government-determined restrictions on what you can say/broadcast in public and at least in liberal democracies with the right checks and balances there simply isn't the abuse of those powers that you seem to fear.
As for the Bible, I would have little problem with restrictions on how parts of it should be publishable today, and I'm reasonably convinced many passages in it have caused tremendous amounts of harm.
However there is a decent argument for treating material written in a very different day and age as a special case - I think it's important that we have a good understanding of historical cultural norms, warts and all. If Bible study were about truly understanding what parts of it reflect attitudes that have now been consigned to history that would only be a good thing, but that doesn't mean I think it's justifiable to be able to preach from any part of it to an uncritical audience.
what would you recommend?

overthetop cgi is equated with bollywood, to my knowledge
Thanks for confirming, that makes sense based on what I’ve seen in the wild.
> fork() should be ditched.

Why? In favor of what?
Well, because that's what "intrusive" means. Your property is being intruded into in order to use it for the benefit of someone other than you. Your property is yours. It's in your possession because you paid for it. It should only do something because you tell it to or because it will help it to better respond to your commands later. It should never act against your interests. You would not buy a microphone that eavesdropped on you, right? It should be equally unacceptable that your computers read your files, perform some computation on them, and send the results to some remote location without your intervention.

On the other hand, when you transfer your data to someone else's computer, you're relinquishing some control over it. Just like how your computer should serve you, that computer will serve its operator, and that operator's interests may be adversarial to you.
Should be possible. Encrypted DVB-S providers can also lock/unlock single smartcards.
Your ISP can collect your traffic history AND trivially connect that history to your identity, and sell/provide data to brokers, TLAs, police etc.

Cloudflare can collect your traffic history, but can only connect that history to your originating IP + timestamp. Their official client may be able to collect more info though. But, warp is just wireguard, so you do not need to run their official client there are shell/python scripts floating around to get the keys / endpoint IPs setup for Warp to use with std. in-kernel wireguard.

Further, all the telcos in the US are known to have colluded in illegal NSA spying on Americans. Cloudflare has not been caught at this yet. So, you can look at it as a choice of exposing your browsing history to an entity that may be not be lying and actually is not snooping vs. telcos that are known to have lied and definitely have and are likely still snooping.
> That's why noscript/basic (x)html is so much important.

xhtml has been dead for a decade
Angular code is pretty complex but well organized. I still have yet to understand most of it.
That's compression ratio estimation, not compression level (or parameter) estimation. I thought you were talking about the latter, as the former is virtually impossible (some archivers do sampling as you suggested, but it's only an opportunistic heuristic).
> Maybe the stakes are lower for movies than engineering and that’s why it hasn’t happened yet.

I really doubt that has much to do with it. The Blender team has been working the hardest on creating sustainable funding, that is the major difference. Blender’s “Get Involved” link takes you to the Blender Foundation page, which is a business entity setup and devoted to funding Blender. FreeCAD’s “Get Involved” link takes you to GitHub. The Blender site lists paid jobs, and has a one-click donate button highlighted with monthly corporate level sponsorships listed, where FreeCAD’s has only a single $5 suggestion behind a menu. There’s a further link to a list on a wiki of a couple more ways to sponsor FreeCAD, but you can feel the difference in scale just browsing the two sites. Blender got started ~8 years ahead of FreeCAD, so yeah maybe if FreeCAD focuses on growing a business model they can get there too. The Blender Foundation was launched about 20 years ago though, and it seems like it look a looong time to get the real traction they seem to have now.
Many commenters seems to state ah, if company makes $25M it can afford to pay.

First, certain amount of revenue, even if it looks high for you, does not mean it is able to pay ANY amount vendor require. Paying Oracle $50.000 per CPU Core to run Oracle (for 100s of thousands of CPU cores) would be steep even for Facebook/Meta

This idea what there are those large evil companies do not contributes to Open Source, and there are same large VC funded copyright holders are just struggling to survive is quite wrong - it is not that simple and it is Open Source which is one of the ways which create balance of power

Second, it is not about money. Having any restriction on who can use it makes it impractical for using as component of other Open Source software, which Is where I think Open Source power really shines. Check out this article for example

https://flink.apache.org/news/2022/09/08/akka-license-change...
If anything is gonna happen it's more likely The Powers That Be would limit use and/or distribution instead of mandating a change to code itself. Half of them probably don't know how to connect to their home Wifi network, nevermind authoring and mandating a commit.
Which is now, according to Google Maps, an Amazon delivery warehouse and has had a new boxy front facade put on so it's no longer recognizable as from the movie.

At the time of the filming it was the headquarters for Countrywide Home Loans.
with anything involving AI/ML, like the shoes-app, you'll likely still have to create or train a model to achieve exactly what you want it to do.
That begs the question, why do you want to work at a FAANG? Money? Supposed “prestige”, new challenges?

If you want to solve tough business problems, outside of the cloud consulting departments - Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all have them - you may not like it, It is a completely different culture. I work with service teams (the developers who build services) at AWS all of the time advocating for features/enhancements that would help customers based on my interactions with the customers. I’m also a contributor to a couple of popular open source projects sponsored by the company.

I have never been tempted to try to transfer over. But I’m at the point in my life/career that the marginal value of another dollar means less than it did a few years ago.
It's not about conflating freedom of speech and having a platform. It's about discrimination by businesses. We have laws in place preventing businesses from discriminating. A shop cannot say "we don't allow black people here" and hide under the excuse of "oh but there's plenty of other shops you can go to". A platform should not be able to saw "we don't allow X people here" and hide under the excuse of "oh but there's plenty of other platforms you can go to".
I think it's more likely to just crash because most software author simply don't care class not found exceptions (If you already being hosted on Google play, why would you?)
I like to use email aliases for privacy and security which works better with domain provided by common operators such as duckduckgo, mozilla relay, apple icloud, etc. If you use a custom domain, then it is easy to link all your accounts through data brokers and spam you because all addresses get redirected to your inbox.
> I would also be cool to sell a single compute unit with the cool fireware for home users.

I seriously doubt that they're interested in commercially hitting that market, but they published enough software as open source that you can recreate chunks of of what they're doing on consumer hardware, ex. https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm...
> it was weird to see my countrymen as the cartoon baddies

I really enjoyed IP Man 2 for the one dimensional portrayal of the British antagonists. Disclaimer: I’m from the colonies.
> can the government enforce that the software has to be written a certain way?

I doubt they would intend to. Instead, they would make it illegal to run, and possibly to otherwise involve yourself with, software written in a certain way. The bitcoin community could choose to either withdraw from the US and any allied country that aided in enforcement, or they could choose to change the software to no longer behave that way. In practice, the latter option would basically force them to move to proof of stake. But given the origins of bitcoin as an anti-government system, they would likely choose some variant of the former option.
I have a lot, probably too many to list, but the Scientific American Library series has some of the best science writing ever, by luminaries in the respective fields like John Wheeler, P.W. Atkins, Julian Schwinger, and others.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/scientific-american-libra...

I'm slowly collecting all of them, as they can be had in great condition for cheap.
I also think you're attributing way too much knowledge to "specialists" at a generic travel agency. As far as they're concerned you can (as most people will) just grab a taxi from the airport to your hotel--or rent a car--however far. I doubt they'd know about BART from SFO to downtown and TBH most of my co-workers likely wouldn't even consider a transit option either even if it were basically as convenient as a cab, as in the example.

As I wrote in another comment there are specialist services that deal with mostly pleasure travel in particular locales but that's different from the traditional travel agent who mostly booked cruises, flights on major carriers, tours, and business or resort hotels.
You can’t exactly pirate a youtube video, since they’re all publicly available.
Another option is the free tier of ESXi. It works well, but having tested Proxmox recently, I really liked it.
- Designing Data Intensive Applications

I think it should be read by all software engineers not just data engineers.
Thanks for the recommendations!

I bought Silman’s book on endgames a while ago and you’ve given me a nudge to start reading it.
> a lot of essential complexity but little accidental complexity

Nice one. I'll copy that.
This isn't really JS, it's a purpose built evaluator that's only for evaluating a particular script on YouTube, assuming a huge list of things are true about how YouTube JS is written.

Ex. Its got a hard coded list of methods for String, and it doesn't respect prototypes. It only supports creating Date instances, and won't work if you override the global Date. It parses with regexes and implements all operators with python's operator module (which is the wrong type semantics) etc. Nearly none of the semantics of JS are implemented.

It's sort of the sandwich categorization problem:

If I write a C# "interpreter" in perl thats only 200 lines and just handles string.Join, string.Concat and Console.WriteLine, and it doesn't actually try to implement C# syntax or semantics at all and just uses perl semantics for those operations is it actually C#? :P

I say "not a sandwich".
I like how you laid this out as a tension between two worldviews. I'm curious: as a seeming master of the "bag of tricks" worldview, do you feel like having fully absorbed so many "tricks" has given you a kind of empirical insight into things?

In other words: have the tricks, when crashed against the real world over and over like you describe, oozed into something akin to a larger theoretical sense of things? Or do they remain isolated tricks that you apply when they seem to match?

(I wish I could frame this question better, but I don't know this field, sadly.)
> "Could someone explain to me why the mass downvoting of the above comment is not hypocritical?"

If the poster is saying that "no one should tolerate any person who is intolerant", by definition, that includes themselves. The poster has waived their own right to tolerance from the POV of literally any group who views said poster as "intolerant" according to the very principle they are advocating. It is a practical demonstration of the glaring flaw with that tiresome Popper misqoute; it can be wielded from any POV, no matter how ridiculous.

So there is no hypocrisy; they have asked for something and it was given to them. Hopefully the lesson sinks in and we hear no more misapplications of the paradox of tolerance.
Just spend an hour on TV Tropes and you'll realize you spent a week on TV Tropes.
> I think at a certain point the Midwest will have had enough of the stuff going on on the East and West coasts

Why should the Midwest care about what goes on on the East and West coasts?
My ISP has openly stated that they're selling my data for marketing purposes. If CF claims to not be doing that today, then they could at least be temporarily superior.
Australia does have some geographic and climate advantages when it comes to solar installations. Most of the interior is basically desert. It also helps that it has one of the lowest population densities of any continent.

It's also important to note that plans to phase things out do not indicate success. See California right now.
Would it make sense to merge the 2 projects, given that there is considerable overlap?
It's not too bad, you just need to know TypeScript.. And not like "I know TypeScript." on a resume, I mean "I know TypeScript™."
Any system using PurgeCSS (like Tailwind) would have the same bloat removed right? (minus the bloat Tailwind adds to your HTML)

Is there a replacement for CSS Modules' "composes" keyword? Tailwind has @apply, but that defeats the purpose of a utility framework somewhat.