skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I conclude you're trying to do the Russian propaganda technique "whataboutism"

Please don't take HN threads further into political/national flamewar, and please follow the HN rule against calling names in arguments a little more broadly. The epithet "whataboutism" qualifies as the latter—it's a label that's used to silence argument rather than respond to it. If someone brings up an example that's not relevant, a counterargument should explain what the difference is that makes it irrelevant—not simply denounce it based on what side it's on.

Past explanations here if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism%20by:dang&dateRan...
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#flex-baselines

first/last main-axis baseline set
When the inline axis of the flex container matches its main axis, its baselines are determined as follows:

[...]

Otherwise, if the flex container has at least one flex item, the flex container’s first/last main-axis baseline set is generated from the alignment baseline of the startmost/endmost flex item. [...]

It uses the first flex item (the first child controlled by the flexbox) to set the baseline for the flexbox.

(for https://codepen.io/jsteel64/pen/rNrPYNQ) The first img sets the baseline for the .wrapper, which sets it for the pill, and then two pills are aligned according to their baselines.

https://imgur.com/Bt4e6gU

And yes, anything that has to do with baselines is a source of pain and bugs, it sucks.
As coined by Heinlein in A Stranger in a Strange World.
VB.Net had features that didn't have a C# cognate expressly to simplify migration.
In hindsight, it could be a good thing so that they catch up. concentrating all the power to one country could be more dangerous than all countries having the same weapon.
I check the receipt when I'm charged. Same as with Amazon Fresh.
I think Merriam-Webster has this a little bit wrong, actually. It's not that it's a different meaning of the word, but that the word is being used hyperbolically. When someone says "you left me waiting for days" we don't say "sometimes days means minutes" and fret about how anyone will understand time. We say that people exaggerate. The fact that this use shows up pretty much right away is evidence that it's not a different sense of the word, but people doing an ordinary thing they do with any word we hand them.
Copy-Paste SVG Shapes
I've been using Google Keep mostly, but tried Obsidian for a bit. Is it worth the transition?
I agree with your overall point that cloud resources probably shouldn’t be a problem for Amazon that factors into the hours of processing time. But is it true that AWS could provide at-cost resources to sister companies?

More of a legal/organizational question. But assuming Amazon Fresh is a legally-distinct entity with service agreements with Amazon Web Services, wouldn’t offering those services at below-market-rate be considered anticompetitive (and also call into question the legal separation of the two entities)?
RESTRICT Meta
I think this is more marketing copy than virtue signaling.
I'll never give up my wired studio headphones. I've only started using wireless ear buds for sporty type things, but for everything else, I want my wired connection without whatever it takes to get it to me wirelessly.
It will reduce jobs drastically for sure, whether OpanAI or another LLM. What happens next is anyone's guess.
Blackberry is suprisingly good even in 2022
People are smart - they'll pick a self-checkout line or a cashier depending on which will reduce the effort they have to expend. So, even with varying shopper preferences for which is intrinsically better/worse, it'll average out to roughly the same effort required across all queues.
You can make it mirror Tailwind's nomenclature if you want it.
It's in the first thread I shared.

This tweet in particular:

https://twitter.com/guidorosso/status/1639080107301306369
I mean... gestures at latest mass school shooting
It has some issues. It would only respond when I said "Hello??" after long silences, and would ignore anything else I said.
Or maybe my voice sucks
The way I see it, VR is no different than what 3D was to TVs. Yeah, sure it's cool once in a while, but I don't want to spend time in it or put something on my head every single time I want to do something. It's impossible to beat a phone in that sense. There are very few things I care about that have a life in VR. So that is the biggest limiting factor, VR will always be a niche. They need to find killer use cases, and pushing cartoonish characters and marketing it as a second life equivalent is absolutely the wrong way to go.
Not sure about NYC, but the Seattle locations are next to office buildings that are pretty empty compared to when the stores opened.
Screenshot of GCC 10.2 compiling its own source code
Original author(s) Richard Stallman
Developer(s) GNU Project
Initial release March 22, 1987; 36 years ago
Whoa! What a blast from the past! I remember using Qt in ca. 2002 when interning for a robotics institute. My advisor wasn't available for the first week or two so I had free reign to do what I want. I ended up using Qt to create a robot simulator which uses laser eyes to navigate through a simple maze of obstacles.

It was a super-simple algorithm (I'm hardly the scientist, more like a pragmatic developer), but it seemed as if it were doing complex things and Qt helped make it look relatively cool even with my basic coding abilities.

Finally, first time I can contribute a "I remember a couple of decades ago when I was using tool X". I'm a web dev now and I have a more laid back stance regarding new tech, so I never write "Oh, I wrote a SPA-transpiled prototype with RustJs 0.0.4rc" or whatever (been burned too many times; e.g. bower, grunt, gulp, AngularJS 1, etc).
The retort is that you should rely on specificity, by way of selectors.

Good thing that we have the specificity checker, that makes sure that the semantics of your application of styles remain sound if you change the structure of the document in ways that could affect the selectors!

Oh wait, there's no such thing, bummer.
This is a really inspiring article and the best demonstration of ChatGPT's capabilities I've seen so far.

I've repeated the "experiment" here having converted the queries to bash:

https://journals.appsoftware.com/public/76/227/4223/blog/sof...
The author wrote a book about how AI is all fake and its a bubble so consider the source. I don't think you could get further from the truth right now. Basically the analysis here is 1/10 level.
EDIT See comment above, mostly related to vertical-align things, not flexbox. The author's point still stands: CSS is hard.

Smells like baseline / vertical alignment issues. The author hones in at the end,

<div style="display: inline-block">
<span style="display: flex; align-items: center">
<span><!-- empty --></span>
<span>Text</span>
</span>
</div>

The presences of that empty tag is what changes the alignment. This also requires the flex container to be wrapper in an inline-block element, and for the flex container to align-items: center.

The flexbox [spec][1] talks about how flex items become "blockified," but I don't see anything that indicates empty children which demonstrate this weird behavior.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#flex-items
Emergent Mind’s UI designer here. Thanks, and I already asked it here: what do you guys think about something like this design as a Hacker News redesign?
>How is the economy to be structured to meet human needs according to Degrowth and who gets to define what those needs are?

Humans, collectively, instead of a few fancy lads obsessed about how Line Must Go Up while the rest of us drown in poison.

>Without economic growth either the number of human beings has to remain stagnant (at best; more likely that number would have to be reduced to make such a system sustainable) or the overall standard of living would have to be lowered.

Human beings are currently yoked to the economy. That is to say, we are already mere human resources: feedstock for a machine that seems to exist for its own sake and only serves our needs as a byproduct, allowing us to reproduce so that we may all have the 'freedom' of being consumed. We cannot opt out of this arrangement.

You conjure up fears of a vague dystopia (god forbid we "stagnate" aka exist in a steady state!) while ignoring the actually-existing nightmare all around us.

Fretting over the ability of hypothetical future humans to buy plastic junk while choking on petrochemical fumes is bizarre, to say the least, given the rapidly decreasing chances of the planet being able to sustain complex civilization at all.

>While thermodynamically the resources on planet Earth - and ultimately the universe - of course are finite, for all pragmatic intents and purposes they are not.

You're right. We can pump all the oil and dig up all the coal then burn it to release enormous amounts of energy and enough waste products to kill us several times over. But why?

>Merely redistributing wealth doesn't cut it either, because without growth there can be no further creation of wealth.

What is wealth, and why do we create it?

Is wealth a Juicero in every home? Mountains of Funko Pops, fields of crossover SUVs, an endless grid of office buildings?

>Given continued technological progress and ensuing paradigm shifts

This is neoliberal word salad.

>it is entirely possible to sustainably live on this planet under the premise of both economic and population growth

What is the purpose of an economy? Is to make spreadsheets happy and to reproduce itself, or do you accept the radical notion that economies exist to serve humans? If it's the latter, then our economic machine is obviously unfit for purpose — it is the Orphan Crusher [0] on a global scale.

Yes, we can expand this Orphan Crusher and generate even more orphans to crush. We could capture all the energy of our sun and dedicate it to making and crushing orphans. We could crush orphans on an intergalactic scale, transmuting half the matter in the universe into orphans and the other half into the machine which crushes them. But why?

[0] https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432
Code improvements. Indices aren't taken into account at all since that's so workload dependent. Having said that, the index advisor can make finding the right indices to improve performance there more easily as well. Vacuum management handles figuring out the right time to do garbage collection for you, etc. None of that is part of that 2x improvement.
Fundamentally, I think AI alignment is an ML problem

I disagree and think this is one of the great fallacies. The current predominant view of alignment theory is that we need to align the AI with humanities "values". This makes it a human problem and all the discussions you see on alignment issues could be described as human behavioral issues.

Most critically, I think AI alignment is a solvable problem.

I strongly disagree and I know I'm in a significant minority on this point of view. However, at least under the current premise for which alignment theory is based, it is a paradox. A logical contradiction. It will not be solvable.

My case for this I've expressed in detail at the following - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
There are plenty of bigger "human ending" concerns on the table right now than AI and we certainly aren't pausing anything for those.
I've had to manage those folks. The relationship tended to not last, but I didn't need to fire them. I won't back down from requiring results, and they tended to have kind of "stress meltdowns." It wasn't a very good experience for anyone.

For the people that performed well, despite their personalities, my team was a dream job, unless they were so bad that they broke the team (see "stress meltdown," above). I didn't really tolerate folks that wouldn't work well with others (lower right quadrant).

I was fortunate enough to work with folks that fit in the upper right quadrant. I don't think I ever had anyone up in the corner. Most were near the middle, sometimes, middle right. My bosses tended to be lower right.

Me? Depends on who you ask. I was probably middle top, for folks that worked well, and lower right, for folks that did not. Most of the folks that worked for me were technically better than I was, and that was fine.

I didn't run a day camp, and did not insist that everyone be on the same "psychic wavelength," or whatever. I hired experienced people with diverse backgrounds and drivers. It was my job to manage each one, individually.
This is really easy to say for someone who doesn't experience these issues firsthand. Not reading the news isn't going to make your existential anxiety go away if you or your parents give it to you, either by helicoptering or living paycheck to paycheck.

Also, you really don't think that, in between building aqueducts and nuclear missiles, nothing has changed? You really think we have the same problems today as we did N years ago?
Frankly it might just be that children's desire to kill themselves wasn't considered something to hospitalize for in the past. I knew when I was a teenager I participated in all sorts of nonsense and said all sorts of shit to adults around me, and most of the adults just told me to man up and stop being a pussy about it. Now that I'm an adult, I can see times where I definitely should've been considered to evaluation as a suicide risk.
Show HN: vfplot 2.0.0
Show HN: Smart Rabbit answers children's questions and is funny
My Story :
There was a group of parents who struggled to answer their children's difficult questions. They found themselves stumped by their children's curious minds and wanted to provide them with the best possible answers. One day, a developer student decided to create an AI project that could help both parents and children. He worked tirelessly, designing and developing a system that could analyze and understand children's questions and generate appropriate responses. Finally, after months of hard work, the Smart Rabbit project was born. Parents and children alike were thrilled with the results, and the project quickly gained popularity..

website:https://smart-rabbit.netlify.app/
thankful for your review!
> I later learned that if you use a portable solar panel battery pack, let the pack charge and then plug in your phone. Don't plug a near-dead solar panel battery pack into your phone and let. There's something about the low-voltage trickle-charge that can be terrible for electronics. I'm not an EE, so I don't understand the details. Perhaps someone else can explain it better.

I'm interested in learning more about this. I recently got a USB solar panel (with no battery). I wonder if it has anything to do with voltage dropping way below USB spec (which I've seen when the panel can't provide the current the device wants, which seems to be pretty easy when the panel is small and/or not in full sun).
When it comes to emotional well being, “real life” is what’s in your head. If people are experiencing unattainable pressures and that’s causing them stress, it’s real. I guess you could make a distinction for dreams, hallucinations, etc. But social media isn’t that.

It’s actually dangerous to think it’s “too pretend”. My bank account is just squiggles on the screen, but I can somehow buy stuff. Same thing that online relationships can have physical outcomes, even if just by turning it into cash first.
My understanding internally at amazon is they have the same cloud tools that smaller companies have with AWS. I seriously doubt amazon is keeping some secret AWS sauce for internal-use-only.
The short answer is that everything is streaming — as tokens come back from ChatGPT we send them as soon as possible to the synthesizer. The long answer is found in our code[0] :).

[0] https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python/blob/main/vocode/...
Wait wait! We need to catch up!

This is the real motive. Remember, some of the alarmists are working toward the same goals.
All the introverts lining up in the self-checkout queue.
I realize my tone was a bit offensive, but yes I am a naturalist by any meaning of that word. In fact if you knew me you'd call me a complete utter quack, so misaligned are my views with mainstream tech worldviews. What I know about GMOs is that the GMO variety of bananas here (the natural base called Prata, the GMO I don't remember) is tasteless and has awful texture compared to its base species, which is delicious and creamy.

Avocados the same, I don't know if GMO but the selection breeds in supermarkets, local or imported, cannot compare to the weird little avocados which only grow on my father's ranch during autumn (now). They are superior to every type I bought except those from an organic shop I got once, but they don't show when they ripen, they do not go soft. the skin just blackens and cracks finally when it is all but rotten. How could supermarkets educate a public to know how to buy these anyway, but it stands that they are much more creamy and tasty.

I love vaccines and I am not a flatearther or right wing conspiracist, I love all good worthy science anyhow.
I agree with exactly one sentence in the comment thread so far. "CSS requires experience"

If you're interested in actually learning css, and don't just want to complain about how poorly written css is bad, this website is invaluable and provides concrete examples of how to build layouts and style elements.

https://web.dev/learn/css
switching to a dumb phone does not equal voluntary social isolation.

It's perfectly possible to have a dumb phone and with it time-box your screen time to when you are in front of a laptop (that doesn't fit into your pocket). For me it's still 2 hours a day after a long day at work. But that's a lot better than looking at life through the screen nearly every waking hour of a normal day.

I've been doing it for years. And it saved my life metaphorically and also literally.
Can you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately and we have to ban such accounts because we're trying to be a different kind of site than that, and would prefer not to burn to a crisp. Scorched earth isn't ineresting. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> has this place feeling like Reddit lately.
100% I'm a huge PG fan as well. This should absolutely be "PG + performance and QoL improvements". Where it's not, we want to hear about it.
Old Versions Are Cool
GTK has bindings to modern languages. The gtk-rs project is actively working on Rust bindings. I'm personally working with some others on Kotlin Native bindings and I know a new JVM effort is in progress using the new JVM FFI capabilities.
I never enjoyed making graphs with most APIs whether it was products like Matlab and IDL or xvgr, not to mention pyplot, highcharts, etc.

I was initially apprehensive about making plots with D3.js but once I got over the hump it was such a breath of fresh air. Instead of the usual second guessing, head scratching and "you can't get here from there" it was just... easy! Want bar charts by date where the weekends are a different color... easy!

I'd also point out the endless complaining people have about things like puppet, terraform, kube files and such. I always found that building out cloud infrastructure with Java or Python programs that use the AWS/Azure API and write bash scripts that boot up on the machines or Python programs was... Easy! Often I'd have complicated systems up-and-running and checked into git while people were still fighting with leaking abstractions with various value-subtracting tools that never absolve you from knowing bash.
Ah. I always thought it was the Flatiron.
Thank you for your analogy. Demand shapes supply is a capitalism fairy tale. For most markets you just can't buy what you want. Even if you would be willing to pay 2 to 4 times. You have to buy the mass produced sameness. We do not choose what there is to buy. In 95% of products and shops the supply dictates the demand, often with a simulation of choice.
Look closely, for many applications there's only one or two products used nearly world wide. Often they are neither the best nor the cheapest. And don't get me started on the "choices" when it comes to smartphones.
Musk, Wozniak and others want to stop AI development
line-height ?
> Their market is big legacy companies where tools aren't chosen based on merit

the thing that most people don't understand is that Microsoft doesn't make only slack, and their other software is usually pretty good.

Excel for example is a marvel of software engineering, Word is pretty great too. Outlook works well in an enterprise setting (though i wouldn't use it for personal needs). And their groupware works remarkably well. And their ActiveDirectory (Domain controller + LDAP/Kerberos) is fairly good.

And guess what? If you're a 10-people company sure, you can do without Excel/Outlook/Word/ActiveDirectory/etc.

But when your company gets bigger it's just the choice that makes the most sense.

Oh and guess what: most of the software in named is native software and works offline too.

So basically your company is not buying Teams... Your company is buying an office suite and gets Teams for free.

Also... People (developers mostly, I must say) tend to forget they're not the only people on the planet. People from the accounting/hr/logistics/marketing departments are probably just fine with Teams.
no need to even get into ML.

amazon seller inventory reports may have 2 or 3 days of delay on a bad day.
It’s not difficult.

You don’t hire them, but you go out for beers with them.
With simple linting, I think, you could make sure to disable the vast majority of these guns. But I care to hear your take about it.
There was another HN thread not long ago about the "quest for a dumber phone": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415704

I dropped a comment there where I said that while I spent hours researching the "perfect dumb phone", there's certain features that are nearly exclusive to a smartphone or just plain work better on a smartphone, including having a decent camera and GPS/map with me at all times.

IMO, I think it's easier to simply dumb down your existing smartphone by stripping it of all apps except for just the bare essentials. For example, my phone only handles calls, SMS, maps, camera, books, etc. No web browser, social media, fancy messaging app, or even an app store. Though this may change sometimes and I'll sideload F-Droid or some other app depending on my needs (like traveling). https://chuck.is/phone
I remember a psychological experiment where they averaged faces artificially and the averaged faces consistently would be ranked the most beautiful.
I think this sums up modern microsoft perfectly actually

no matter the potential future value of the product, they can't resist putting shitty ads into it to make a quick buck today

imagine what windows is going to look like in a few years time
A program for plotting two-dimensional vector fields with curved arrows.
Hardly a long career, no? :p
The abortion changes don't seem to have been major enough for me to easily find (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States), but I've definitely become a lot less confident in my initial opinion that it's nearly-universally better to be a white liberal teen girl today, so thank you for the interesting conversation.

I still think social media / smartphones / etc as an explanation fits the trend more simply & cleanly, but I'm much more open to the idea that I could be wrong.
If you notice part of my comment was "generally"

Drugs tend to be an exception to most things
Army movement is mostly limited by food, see https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...
Climate and Earth Observation
Not for Omni no. End-users are responsible for any HA/DR/Replication needs. Cloud AlloyDB has all of it built in, but since it was so tightly tied to the Cloud infrastructure it was simplified for Omni.