skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the fact that We The People can organize against something we find heinous to be a pro, not a con.

As for "destroying your life" (i.e. firing you) because you "said the wrong thing", it sounds like you're talking about collective action by people who simply don't want to associate with you, which is their right, and seems totally fine to me, depending on how inconsiderate what you said was, which reflects who you are as a person (who wants to associate with an asshole?)

Indeed, collective action is a feature, not a bug, of society, and peoples' freedom of [un-]association trumps your desire to say whatever you want without consequence

You should report death threats to the police, but they'd pale in comparison to the the volume and nastiness of death threats ("saying the wrong thing") from organized hate that this group tries to fight against
Tailwind isn't included in your final bundle, it outputs a CSS file based on what classes you use.
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Definetly not a better experience for all consumers. Or waiter.

I do know that some restaurant owners are removing these things. They do not want to look like Olive Garden :)

But it really depends on a restaurant: is it high end, type of food / drinks, it is a date place, etc.

Majority of restaurant is all about experience and event payment system should match that experience.
Even if you go to arbitration Apple will still need to justify their actions to the arbitrator.

Literally smalls claims / arbitration works.
> First, compared to the rest of the EU, Germany is a weird outlier with the number of banks they have (which, by the way, has been declining steadily for 15 years).

Still, the absolute number itself seems to be not really the issue here. (I assume the number of US banks has similarly declined in the US, as fusions reduce cost.)

> Setting that aside, you missed the "deregulated" part.

Yeah, that part I don't object to.
I don't do web dev, so maybe I am missing something, but couldn't tailwind be fairly easily extracted into separate css file, and other way around?

That way if you dislike tailwind, just run some script and voila, you have your .css file you can edit separately, like a good old days
People who are paid to have an opinion don't count.
Wild, thanks for that. I see the US version's dog is not called Gnasher (only known example of an Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound).
Dresden...

The Germans did terrible things, but the allies definitely did not have the moral high ground on all fronts. This is for me the horror of war: that because of one side losing its humanity the other side will too.
Scandinavia uses timber frequently. People use what they have and a lot of Europe doesn't have ample timber supplies. North America does so it's used and it's a fine material with a lot of upsides. Modern timber framed homes are quite fire safe and have a few ways to slow the spread of fire down so it doesn't rage. But old ones are generally not for a variety of reasons.
Was gonna post this. That said, this is not what Levine is writing about. Levine is writing about how you can restructure your portfolio to gain exposure to fossil fuels _without_ lowering your ESG metrics by simply investing in companies with fossil fuel holdings (since then your ESG is calculated by the carbon emissions of the holding firms and not the assets themselves). Here, the authors are essentially concluding that ESG ratings are actually poorly correlated w/ the actual emissions of the firms being rated. This is probably because the environmental metrics of ESG scores are forward-looking (thus you can offset current pollution by aggressive reduction projections), but I'm not in this field so I don't know anything more.
As an end user of banks in both the US and EU, the banks in the US seem way, way behind technically and in terms of online usability. Both less secure and more cumbersome to use.
No offense to anyone who is all "yay, life!" but as people learn more, as the blinders fall off, as we are encouraged to question tradition and establishment, what we see at the end of the line doesn't look great. Miserable health if you make it to retirement, disposable marriages, your social institutions crumble. Forget the church and the Elks lodge, we can't even keep bowling leagues and book clubs together. Life starts seeming absurd and has for a long time. Think of that bit in Con Air, where the too-aware serial killer says ""What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years, at the end of which they tell you to piss off? Ending up in some retirement village, hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time."

Everything has been first chisled, then jackhammered, and finally bulldozed away. No rocks to fall on us and hide us from the grim end of Terror Management Theory, no sense in planting a tree which we might never sit in the shade of if it will be scorched to a stick in some kind of global warming furnace. We ought not to be surprised, then, if so many elect to reach for non-thought, for entertainment and distraction, because staring into the abyss can get old. We used to have protections, elaborate and impermeable to questioning, which protected us from seeing how unappealing the inevitable decline and end can really be.
Subsequent to the agricultural revolution, big cities have been more economically efficient than suburban and rural areas. The productivity of cities massively subsidizes small towns and cul-de-sac neighborhoods.

Hedonistically, everyone wants to live on a big lot on a low-traffic road... with friends, family, and work/shopping/services a short distance away. If everyone does have that kind of housing, then - quickly - no one will have it, because evetything will be too spread out; you need to drive a big, polluting car fast through someone else's low-traffic neighborhood to get to yours.

The costs of concentrated habitation are less than the benefits - there's enough tax base and density to support roads and (emergency or mundane) services and businesses. The costs of distributed habitation are higher, and don't work if the entire nation switches to that kind of housing.
Europe is a big place, there are definitely countries that mandate more than one emergency exit in (big) apartment buildings.
> I truly can't believe that anybody who has completely learned Tailwind could posit the argument that Tailwind isn't any faster than writing pure CSS void of emotional bias. Whenever I see someone make such a statement, I can tell it's more of a propaganda piece than a piece meant to spawn logical thought.

I truly mean no disrespect by this, but have you considered that other people might be better than you at writing CSS? Because what you are describing is absolutely not a universal experience.
That's basically the support Google provides for consumer service subscribers. "24/7 support" isn't really useful when all they can do is refer you to their help portal and come up with titles when you ask to talk to a supervisor, manager, etc, in addition to swapping around the communication medium, so from live chat with 2 minute response times to emailing with two day response times, and eventually flat out ghosting (no "your ticket has been resolved") because the support "manager" understands that the conversation is going nowhere.
As of 2017, Casio FX-9860GII. Overkill for actual usage, but cheap -- so why not?

Before that, TI-30XS from 2013 and the TI-36X from 2011. The 36X is still in my laptop bag. Can't remember what I had before 2011 -- some old "programmer's calculator" from the 90s.

My wife (and various colleagues) thinks I'm crazy, but it's actually easier to grab the calculator from the desk and do a quick calculation than to open/use the calculator app.
A sudden discontinuity like that but continuing the same curve and jumping back... that's equipment malfunction 99% of the time.
The accounting and finance departments of every business run on Excel. The Microsoft office suite is an absolute bare minimum requirement for people who work in those worlds, and it's the main reason Windows sticks around there.

(Office 365 may be changing that, though.)
I should have been clear but ChatGPT was one of the "other AI codegen tools" I mentioned, especially as it's the one I used most recently. I tried it for a month or so but then canceled my subscription. I got some use out of it for answering questions for friends who were learning CS for the first time in languages I didn't know, but I didn't get much else from it which felt like it was high enough quality that it really saved me time or effort.

Edit:

And to contrast with junior developers: I find pairing with them something that makes me not only help me figure out the requirements of the things we're working on--which admittedly ChatGPT does do, but I think that's mostly by virtue of rubber ducking--but it helps me figure out approaches I wouldn't have thought of before, or encourages me to write more maintainable code by seeing when another person's eyes start glazing over.
Also, looking up DNS in one direction and browsing (say over a VPN) in another. The destination site doesn’t always get the same IP that the DNS request gets.
this is a nice thing to tell yourself to feel better, however in practice people will judge you and the current market is not going to make that one bit easier.

being career software engineer is dead anyways, time to re-skill. /rant off...
Since this topic may not be familiar to many on here:

MaterialX (https://materialx.org/ ) is a node graph based way to author the surface characteristics of 3D models. It also has shader code generation capabilities for GLSL(OpenGL), MDL(NVIDIA), OSL(OpenShadingLanguage) and MSL(Apples Metal). It was created by Industrial Light and Magic for the new Star Wars trilogy and allows them to abstract the shader definition from the rendering backend. E.g you have the same shader for real-time and offline renderers.

OpenPBR is a shading model (or more accurately a BSDF https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4930030/ ) within MaterialX. It’s the successor of shading models from Autodesk and Adobe who combined their work to make one consistent one.

MaterialX support across the industry is growing. Multiple renderers support it, Blender has a PR in progress courtesy of AMD, Apple use it for their shadergraph for VisionOS development just to name a few.
You'd think smaller towns could just let people build some more houses. Adding more people to e.g. Manhattan is tricky because land is scarce. But a small town should have some adjacent land available, that could be allocated for building more homes.
Well said. I'd add that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, also holds the same opinion. He has ulterior motives for everything he says, of course.

Every incremental improvement in utility of these tools requires exponentially more parameters and training data. Compare GPT4's 1.76 trillion params to GPT3.5's 175 million; nearly exactly 10x more. It's reasonable to say that getting the same relative improvement again will require another 10x parameters, and about 10x as much training data. GPT4 supposedly cost something like $20 million to train, so we're talking $200 million. We're talking entire data centers here. And the bigger problem is that GPT4 was already basically trained on the entire Internet (as far as we know). New information is being created all the time, but it will take many years -- decades, even -- before we have 10x as much useful information on the internet. And more and more of that information is regurgitated hallucinations from GPT4 itself and similar.

I'm not saying AI is ending -- there are lots of other avenues to explore. But I am saying we're hitting the limit of "just make it bigger" for LLMs.
> Cities are out of room and can only grow by increasing the commutes even more.

...or more effectively, by abandoning the flawed concept of single-family zoning, thereby allowing market forces to increase housing supply where it is needed.
This is true, Some of the most creative ideas and groundbreaking innovations come from periods of reflection and unhurried exploration. Allowing thoughts to simmer and develop over time can lead to more innovative solutions than just rushing into things blindly.
It shouldn't be, but this is such a corner case that I would assume that the developers never considered it.
Extremely high consumption levels?
> omedit (the openmodelica editor)

No Apple Silicon version? They recommend installing it in a Linux VM...
Canada actively promotes suicide.
Well, AI really suggests the endpoint: styling is done at the whims of the user, not the site owner. The owner, at most, suggests a default prompt for the content. But any particular formal encoding - language, visual design, etc. - is shredded and reconstituted by AI into whatever form the user considers most digestible. "Productions" are on their way out.
I don't know about that. It brought nuclear weapons into the world in a way that I'm not sure we could have done without. The answer that the question of whether or not that was ultimately beneficial will quite possibly not stop with the end of World War II, but may well carry over into the beginnings of World War III.
> I don't need more people being shamed for being gay, for wearing the wrong outfit or for not fitting in.

You're introducing these things into a thread about shame and drug usage. It's a complete non-sequitur.
You're not crazy. I've used Tailwind to accomplish 75% of the work required to rebrand an enterprise website with over 6k pages of unique content by updating only the Tailwind config. It's not perfect, but it's a reliably productive enough system as far as I'm concerned.
To more fully quote the Chrome PM:

You didn't solve the problems devs find challenging. Frameworks do. The existence of frameworks on the web is a feature, not a bug. Developers mostly don't want the assembly language of the web, they want their chosen frameworks to have excellent DX and the UX they produce to be fantastic.

We're shipping container queries, scope, nesting, style queries, state queries and a host of other features devs tell us they need to architect component systems

In other words, the Chrome team (today) assumes the use of frameworks as a given and sees their job as empowering frameworks. Note that "devs" here clearly refers to framework authors, the sort of people who architect component systems. She doesn't mean app devs.

So HTML as an all-inclusive app framework is going to die, arguably has already died, and the argument between Hixie and stubbornella is just an argument about what specific way to empower framework authors. Hixie argues that the focus should be on features for big frameworks that skip HTML entirely, stubbornella argues for features for smaller frameworks that still use some HTML, but they're both in agreement that raw HTML is just kind of useless and not the way devs want to go anymore. After all "state queries" is not <tabs> either. There's less between these positions that may seem.

Now the real question is not could browsers theoretically ship really great HTML widgets. Sure, there's no rocket science in GUIs, in theory, browsers could do this. Yet after 30 years of immense effort they don't do so. That suggests some deeper structural issue. It might be team scalability issue. Chrome has a truly enormous team, but clearly they're struggling to do everything people might want from a browser. All that code has to be maintained after all, so as Chrome gets bigger we should expect them to slow down. Since the death of plugins the web is a completely monolithic platform. Given a choice between implementing some API that only a browser developer can do (e.g. WebUSB) or implementing an API that devs can hack up their own alternative to (a widget), it's clear why they always choose the former. Anything that browser makers can push off to web developers they clearly will, because there's so much to do that can't be pushed off in that way. Hence why HTML is still a poor UI toolkit and why JS frameworks are so widely used. It's a division of labor issue.
HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce
It is not the text itself that is critical, it is the form of the presentation in conjunction with text contents.
Easy choice: the one that’s protecting me, rather than themselves.
Oh, interesting...

I thought this was already known to be a blend of compounds with ethyl trans-cinnamate [1] among them; I'll have to read up on it. For a Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry in college, my class teammates and I had to come up with a process to synthesize and "commercialize" that particular compound. We jokingly made a hand cream that had the possible side effect of attracting a swarm of female moths.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.214.4527.1359
The last one seems to be 'for now', but it may not hold.
Hypothetically, if we did end up with a worldwide superconducting energy grid, this would smooth load, which I would expect would make generation cheaper (since we can get rid of the need for expensive peaker plants and/or stationary storage requirements to handle local demand spikes). This would therefore make power companies more profitable, no?
If only there was a way that people could communicate, collaborate, and move money around without being next to each other.

If that ever gets developed, it will revolutionize the world.
While this is an accurate assessment of its legality, it’s not a particularly helpful response to the philosophy. And whether intended or not, it has the effect of implying the distinction may justify the practice.

From my perspective, “cops can take your stuff unless you prove your innocence because it’s not a criminal proceeding” is a distinction without a difference. Cops shouldn’t be able to just take your stuff.
> The majority of television historically was produced just to sell ads, but it still created awesome television.

That's because there was an incentive to create awesome television to lure people away from other channels to watch the ads on your channel. Part of the discussion around the writers and actors on strike right now is the streaming services believe they can make worse content cheaper using AI and still retain subscribers.
A better link:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-comput...

Unfortunately BoingBoing has slowly become enshittified itself; they also deleted my account for no reason while I was hospitalized for nearly 2 months, then when I came back home noticed that the ad-rticles where they sell overpriced low quality products (seriously, get better suppliers!) don't permit user comments anymore, presumably because some inevitably pointed to better and cheaper products. I recall thinking "ok, they went the IMDB way". IMDB once had a very active user comments sections, but when fake movie ratings, mostly by shills, became a thing, users started to expose them in comments, so what was IMDB response? Remove user comments, naturally.
> This doesn't seem like a convincing argument that current ML techniques are tapped out.

Absolutely right, I wasn't very clear -- I don't believe "current ML techniques" are tapped out. I do believe that we're not going to see a GPT5 for several more years, and a GPT6 for another decade+ (or if we do, it will be branding, not anything significantly better). We're at the top of the sigmoid curve for the benefit of just making bigger and bigger LLMs.
If you would rather commute than work, sure. I don’t like driving that much though.
How can the state taking something be considered civil?
Yeah, it's really hard to go head up against companies with 100B+ revenue (united healthcare etc) who essentially write the laws.

I think this is a good space for the government to step in with progressive policies, and there are a lot of supporters that aren't as easily influenced by lobbying and under the table bribery.

Our approach is to make something that makes the existing system easier to use for patients, under the assumption that that system continues to exist as-is. We do think there is bipartisan support for price transparency. Something like single payer healthcare is much less likely to get passed and health insurance companies would fight for their lives to prevent it from happening.

There is a ridiculous amount of overhead that the whole insurance dance adds to providers and I think it's unfortunate how much that inflates pricing for everyone.
And when your house burns down or is broken into?
> But honestly, it freaks me out that Google might someday disable my account.

Then don't wait. There are plenty of alternatives such as Fastmail. You pay a small amount of money but you can talk to a human being if anything goes wrong.

I also don't get why people put all their eggs in one basket. I'm so glad that my email, password manager, YouTube profile etc are not the same account.
>The Autopilot and car computer are separate from the actual UI computer.

This is pretty standard for the industry as far as I'm aware.
Still rocking a 2015 MBP with Fedora here. Screen, body, keyboard, and trackpad are so good. This news make me consider buying Apple silicon, which I'd never do if I had to use MacOS.
The biggest issues I've had with Tailwind:

1) Adding it to an existing codebase with lots of global scope. The techniques espoused in the documentation simply don't work well with existing leaky CSS with varying levels of specificity. Adding important to all TW classes and name-spacing all of them invites new problems.

2) Making your own components with lots of variants: the syntax required feels like you're doing contortions to make it work nicely. There's probably some special techniques but it's a lot easier to take advantage of the cascade in my experience.

3) Dev tooling: the OP I think is dead-on in the criticism that you break a lot of browser tooling when using Tailwind. The right hand side of the Elements tab is a complete disaster. The JIT that Tailwind provides to only include styles you need also makes things annoying: If I want to add some classes on the fly in the Elements tab (which is annoying anyway by having to edit HTML), it won't work if you need any classes not currently not used in the built code. You can mitigate this with modifying your JIT setting for dev to include a ton of classes but it just doesn't flow. The TW documentation is very cagey about how dev flows should work and for good reason.

I actually like utility classes as a concept and if I were starting greenfield projects I might consider Tailwind with an existing component library despite the dev tooling issues. I just think it doesn't layer onto existing codebases well.
When I first read about it I thought someone was playing an elaborate joke. It makes no sense why such ephemeral concepts should somehow lead to better investments. If anything, the entire ESG score thing seems like a scam to get people to make bad investments and to then bet against those investments.
By forcing lincensors to refund any license that has been invalidated. The idea that an EULA acts as a magic password to take your money and delete your IP at any time is fanciful.

They've already sued MoviePass for the same kind of abusive shenanigans.

https://buckleyfirm.com/blog/2021-06-09/ftc-alleges-subscrip...
You can configure it to use names like `m-xs`, `m-sm`, `m-md`, `m-lg`, etc if you want, that's the beauty of it. It lets you create your own design system.
time to grind job applications and be prepared to take a financial hit, be extra flexible and approachable, a doormat if you can really. its a numbers game at this point, wish you good luck mate.
Not really, it's a whole field (model stealing).