skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone says “accessibility software is brittle” and your response is based on a “should”?

Great. Another developer that sees accessibility as another specs compliance fetishism exercise instead of actually being way to make things easier to use for more people.
The school system seems completely antiquated. I was driving back from Switzerland to the Ruhrgebiet with some Germans and we drove past a Hauptschule in their home town and they pointed at it and said to me “if you go to this sort of school you are completely fucked”. Factor in the likelihood that these kids are much more likely to be non biodeutsch and it seems like institutionalised shit education for Ausländer.

It’s a pity because Germany has a huge immigrant population but it’s hard to imagine a country with a culture more poorly suited for immigration. The destiny of these kids is to fill all the shitty jobs whilst the white biodeutsch get the good ones. And the school system is set up to ensure this happens.

I have a phd and I work in Germany as a scientist but I guess if I had kids here they would be forced very early on at the age of ten towards the life of a baker or a bus driver or something similar. I will leave Germany, thankfully.
Dec 2022 NFT article
Yes, Iridium SBD requires transmitting before you can receive.

I did not know about Global Data Burst; I think that's what you're referring to. Holy cow it's expensive though, although I guess it has to be since you're using a lot more bandwidth*footprint. Like $6.00 per message per delivery area expensive. And they're kinda vague on how big a "delivery area" is.

https://apollosat.com/featured/iridium-gdb-pager/
Instead of sources we got a lecture how to be professional :(
I guess..? :thinking: https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html#materialization_hints
Note that the not-insanely-priced Iridium paging service requires you to transmit before you can receive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072714
Company fires employees that oppose business.
I'd be curious to know in what part of their business they were replacing humans with AI?
I agree partially, but I also noticed on some projects that not everything looks better when absolutely centered. Sometimes something is centered but looks weird. You nudge it a bit off center and looks perfect.
Google fired James Damore for writing a memo.
Nice work.If I travel frequently, I would use it.
I think this is a great idea. eBay did something vaguely similar when it introduced local agents who would sell stuff for a cut of the sell price. I used it and it was really useful for people like me who hate packing boxes working out post etc etc. I have a ton of stuff I'd love to get rid of if it was frictionless.

Maybe the existing delivery gig network could be used? Uber, Deliveroo etc? I like the idea of donation or paying for disposal, because that makes sense.

I guess it could start small if you could find a garage to store it in?
The dark mode on that site... funniest thing I've seen all week
Erm, but do we always have to end up with extremes?

I think that pixelart games became somewhat of a cult at this point...

And no you don't need gazzilion polygons and GPU that requires private power plant to tell a good story - a while back I played Limbo and it was amazing.
It's actually a specialty from belgium / north of France called speculoos, biscoff being just a brand of that type of biscuits that managed to export them worldwide.

In the north of France where I lived for a while, it's an absolute staple akin to what peanut butter is to an american maybe or Matcha to a Japanese. Speculoos butter is spread on bread, lots of pastries are speculoos flavoured etc.
More website user clicking the main action button. Could be signing up to an email list, creating an account or buying a subscription. Depends on the website.
Depends on who you want to be able to access your site. Not everyone had 10Mbps+
>How does starving children solve anything?

Ask HAMAS, they are the ones hijacking the aid trucks at gunpoint.
This seems trivially false. The risk that a worker stops being paid because their capital holder no longer has income is always going to be there, and that could be because one or more workers were unable to accomplish one or more tasks necessary for the capital holders to sell a product or service.

Of course, some workers are also capital holders, and should be negotiating appropriate terms such that their mission critical contribution is appropriately rewarded. And no one should be compelled to sacrifice their life without this “appropriate reward”, but exactly what that is is always in flux depending on many parameters.
Nowhere in this quote (or the article) are they calling Humane a scam?
In my opinion, protesting just after the events in October is a message itself too. My understanding for their griefs is very, very limited here.

That of course is not applicable to these sit-ins, although I wouldn't want to support them either.
Horray for industry deregulation..
This is truly lovely. Whether you're faithful or not, the wisdom of these lines resonates to this day. Thanks for sharing.
Curve-fitting has demonstrated impressive results, but it's definitely not the end of science.
that's what archive.org already does, but if you want to re-implement it, you would have to crawl all the web, eventually save thumbnails of pages with screenshotone (https://microlaunch.net/p/screenshotone)
That is another axis around quick feedback loops. A shell script comes with a repl you don’t even need to invoke!
Yeah. It seems by the author is effectively arguing that general recursion and primitive recursion are equivalent. There seems to be a pretty fundamental failure of logic here.
Yeah I've tried both and prefer JB single-line completion. Being local only is great, but it's also just better trained. Copilot multi-line completions are often too distracting, take too long to check and are frequently wrong. The JB implementation seems somehow less aggressive and error prone. It won't show up unless it's more confident, which works better.
I would challenge the assumption that rats have evolved notably-superior stomachs or immune systems or whatever.

Just because the species can survive scavenging human trash doesn't mean individuals aren't running risks and getting hurt. Just because I always see some rats around the dumpster doesn't mean everything's going well for them.
This is a practical tool. Does it support source code searching and function locating?
That doesn'f fix the ugly diff spam though
Good news! Someone did that, check https://github.com/gameflorist/dunedynasty.
Would be okay, if it wasn't required to be subsidized by california via the state- and the result of the failed experiments be parked at other peoples doorsteps (as greyhound homeless or superfund sites) all the time.
While I don't think it detracts from your position that perhaps funds would be better spent at home fixing domestic issues approaching crisis, you don't really seem to be that up-to-date about developments in the war. I suggest you write to a local MP and ask to meet with them about accounting for equipment losses of loaned equipment - it is intensively well documented, to try to avoid corruption. All MPs have access to the full papers on request.

Challenger 2 tanks, for example, have only had one loss as far as i'm aware. They've mainly been used in a short-range artillery role, firing at field fortifications from 3km or so away, a role in which i've heard they are considered capable. They cannot operate in a frontline role, no tank on either side has or can.

HIMARS has singlehandedly caused a full russian shift in tactics, placing their fuel depots, ammunition dumps, and supply lines more than 100km away from the front line, which has contributed massively to their ongoing supply issues.

Yes, evolution of tactics of drone warfare has changed the face of the battle considerably, leaving some weapons less useful. They would also be useless in the hands of our own millitary. They have already been paid for, there is no "spending", we are literally sending kit that the regular army has had for decades to the frontlines. If it proves useless, then we can be glad that the ukranians found that out for us.

Yes, some equipment is lost in war. It's perhaps worth noting that a weapon used in combat and lost is a much more worthwhile one than something sitting in storage and brought out once a year for training. That scenario, to me, is "weapons fetishism", and contributes to inane cost bloat.
Something somehow similar to openalternative? Have a look at their product, maybe it already fits what you need: https://microlaunch.net/p/openalternative
Honestly, that itself sounds bad too. The concept of floating sounds like something invented back during manual typesetting or earlier.

I think anyone ever trying to write a paper or book with images in it using tools like LaTeX knows how bad it is to let the tool position images for you. It's always wrong, and one of the first things you learn is how to pin the image in between the text lines/paragraphs you wanted it to be between.

Text-to-diagram tools like PlantUML (and arguably even Graphviz) make this mistake too. The moment you put more than a couple things in your diagram, you discover that auto-layout can't ever make the result readable, and you look for ways to pin parts of the diagram relative to other parts; something these tools don't let you do either.

And then all three classes of tools here - HTML, typesetting, diagramming - violate the principle of least surprise in the nastiest of way: make one little change, add a letter or word somewhere, suddenly the result looks nothing like it was before, as the auto-layouting flips everything around.
It's not a new thing, every time a new consultancy is hired to "help you" and begins process of "discovery" it's a signal to get your CVs updated.
I’d be skeptical of a claim like this.
Monetizing kills passion in 99.999% of cases.

In the US, or many other developing countries (i.e., those without a robust social security mechanism), the only way most of us can afford to pursue our passions to a high degree of performance is through cross-subsidization with a "real job".

The benefits that passion provide to a rounded life, better mental health, sense of perspective and so on are far worth the price paid, assuming your day job can finance it appropriately.

It's either that or poverty, which works OK for some until they have or want a family, get sick, have to take care of their parents or worse.

Monetizing passion is a shitty Faustian Bargain imposed upon us by the time and place we live in, unfortunately.
The Aztec Code is cool
We are living in the future /

I'll tell you how I know /

I read it in the paper /

Fifteen years ago -

(John Prine)
Make money for the provider of AI.
From a business point of view the problem is that you're rewarding your managers for the price of the stock. If managers get rewarded for the price of stock, guess what they'll be spending their time on?

Now if you're a free market fundamentalist, you probably believe that increasing stock price is the same as increasing business value. After all, the free market is always right.

The rest of us know that the two things aren't the same, and that there are easier ways to push stock price than building value. So obviously that's what he spends his time doing.

The quote comes to mind: when a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measurement, at least in the sense that it's not measuring the same thing as before it became a target.
Depends on the aircraft, some small planes are basically stall-free, as long as they have sufficient height they can recover using the speed gained by falling.
Please let such a filter exclude videos and Twitter/X.
I'm a founder working on organic channels to showcase https://microlaunch.net which is a B2B2C platform.
It really comes down to your goals. I would generally advise having a diversified approach with cross-channel marketing on social, SEO, Ads and affiliates. You'll have to adapt it depending on your use case. Don't forget that traffic acquisition is important, but retention (DAU/MAU) is at least as important.
Buyers choosing to buy equivalent or sufficiently “good“ products or services sold at the lowest price is a very, very old thing.
> We can teach and train a chemist to work in a lab - but one who groks it?

This happens a lot in mature fields. Mechanics generally can't design cars. Doctors generally can't come up with drugs. IT staff can't generally write software. Pilots can't generally design aeroplanes. Homeowners can't generally build houses. The operator/builder split is real!
New Rules of Brand Strategy
That's called optical alignment. He somewhat mentions that with the Apple logo example.
I honestly miss them
The only constant is change. Always be selling, and always be closing.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/always-be-closing.asp

Also, Wayfair is in the business of selling low quality, low profit margin goods, competing with Aliexpress/Amazon resellers/Walmart/etc. I would not expect much from working there. If the business is earning crumbs, then workers will also likely get crumbs.

Wayfair also does not even earn crumbs, it loses them.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/W/wayfair/profit-m...

And the people who study businesses’ performance think its value has not changed in 7 years, a time period when other businesses have skyrocketed:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/W/wayfair/market-c...

All signs that workers are not going to get much. Can’t squeeze water from a stone.
9/11 tragedy pager intercepts (2009)
> the idea that chemistry is not part of tech is a big part of the problem

How so?
Are you of the opinion that the attack on Israel was justified?

Btw. there is also a history before Israel even existed that would also be relevant here.
There's some tools to filter in the browser https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=hacker+news+filter
CSS margin collapse has a lot to answer for. Makes people who don’t know how best to combat it make poor choices.
Hint hint...your mental firewall will do all that very very soon.
who's building that?
I wonder if the insult prat came from prattler
Care to be more specific?

You use Google on any browser, a specific app isnt necessary.
What an odd bod hey?
The size is part of the problem. An airship's huge size means it has a gigantic sail area. Weather that can't be avoided becomes super dangerous. Even a gentle crosswind during take off or landing could be disastrous.
maybe it's just not that important
It already did that for an empty title; the issue was with a title that was not empty, but contained only invisible Unicode characters (there are a number of such -- Unicode is very extensive and flexible).

(Min-width is also already present, but doesn't ensure the tab is visible when inactive/unhovered if it has neither a visible icon or title; it'll just be some blank space in the tab bar.)

As it happens, a patch is just landing that will handle more cases of "invisible but non-empty" titles, so that change should appear in a couple of months or so once it works through the release channels.
I used to volunteer inputting data into Cyc back in the day. And I get massive déjà vu with current LLM's. I remember that the system ended up with an obsession with HVAC systems lol.
I haven't built/done any of these and yet notice misalignments and it drives me nuts. Hundreds of thousands of dollars (equivalent in INR) spent to on buildings and they don't bother to align bricks; it's as if there's no value in aesthetics, visual beauty, symmetry etc.,

/rant
I ended up manually creating several dmg files to get the data I want from my home directory and air dropping each one to the new Mac.
I think "heaviest rainfall in 75 years" undersells it. It's not like there was a heavier one 75 years ago, that is the record holder or something. It's just that records only go back 75 years.

A "100 year event" would have around 66mm of rain in 24 hours, and this one had over 140mm. It's likely the worst in several centuries.
Moldova has the biggest number of vineyards per capita in the world
Show HN: Puck (Visual Editor for React) now supports viewport switching
We've been working hard to add viewport previewing to Puck, our MIT visual editor for React, over the last few months.

In order to get device-like viewport previewing with CSS media queries etc, you need to render your content within an iframe.

Drag-and-drop is a core part of Puck's experience, but is famously difficult to pair with iframes.

We didn't want to compromise Puck's experience, so we released two new packages to support this effort:

1) @measured/dnd, a fork the underlying dnd library (@hello-pangea/dnd, a maintained fork of react-beautiful-dnd) to support both iframes and CSS transforms
2) @measured/auto-frame-component, an iframe package that syncs the styles between the host and same-origin iframe.

The result is a seamless drag-and-drop experience across iframes with true viewport previewing that we're very excited about!

Thank you to our wonderful contributors and the HN community for such great support!
To me was always weird how a company whose only means of doing business is a website, always had friction towards testability, to the point where I was continuously told by managers “we’re not a tech company”, while also having to revert multiple commits per day because of broken / untested code
I'm a little confused by your anecdote. High ability students who coast along gravitate towards physics, which is easier for them. But your professor said that the chemists had coasted?
Could you expand on that, and perhaps provide an example? I've heard similar claims, and people using the phrase "consciousness explained away". Certainly Dennett is an unashamed materialist. The word "dogmatic" however suggests he holds that position as a matter of faith, which I think is a misrepresentation.
Yes, table for layout and table for tabular data is different things. This was usually very clear in advices. Don't use <table> for layout. DO use <table> for tables.
My memory doesn't extend that far back :) Even though I've been "in the biz" since early 2000s
I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
That would be proverbially trying to close the barn after the livestock have escaped.
Dear sir, I live in London and I can assure you that we do have mixing taps. We keep installing separate ones for the amusement of the foreigners looking for the remnants of the British Empire.
I thought this would be about optimizing or tuning SQLite settings, but it's about query and schema optimization.
Can you elaborate? What was Google is the past?
Yes, that was not intended as such. Thanks!
the months leading up to C&C release were quite exciting as game magazines were releasing details left and right , and when they released the demo https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_demo it was such good times. those graphics, the gameplay mechanics, the voice lines. And when the final release on several CDs was there, we got to enjoy those sweet video sequences. Still up there in TOP 10 of best RTS
> (also don’t ask why justify-content became justify-items)

It didn't. `justify-content` works with grid too, and will bunch all the grid cells into the center. `justify-items` is if you want the contents of each grid cell to be centered.

Also, `place-content` or `place-items` for grid does both the horizontal & vertical at the same time.

I admit that CSS isn't always obvious how it works, but it seems like the author didn't care to check
That article puts nuclear in a "list of technologies that failed to make the grade". So I question everything else in the article.

I agree that nuclear is underutilized, but putting it on the same list as an electric bike that flopped is.... I don't even have words
No more than offshoring. I don't see much news about those failures.
Good to know.

At least twice, I've accidentally set my iOS devices to the Do Not Disturb focus mode. First time made me miss a job interview calendar reminder, leading to me (1) learn there's no way to disable this 'feature', the 'do not disturb' focus cannot be deleted, and (2) setting the DnD-focus-mode-specific wallpaper to something radically different from normal just so I'd spot it faster next time. It did happen again, but the second time I knew what was up even on the lock screen and turned the focus back to normal before it did any harm.
Just want to say thank you for your comments here. Impressive writing and argumentation.
You've lived a life of privilege.
Also, it has been a very long time since I read Lucky Jim, but I don't remember it mentioning Wales or the Welsh. Amis's The Old Devils is set in Wales, and makes a certain amount of sport of both.
These kind of people are detrimental to the whole sector, I am kinda happy when I hear these stories, maybe in his next job he will work contract hours
That's mentioned briefly in the optical compensation bit - visual center is what looks like the center, mathematical center is just the middle of the bounding box. Triangles are the obvious example, but even more annoying is logos where you have the ® or ™ at the end, which have very little weight but are included in centering math on badly cropped logos.
Linux, as a project, could also decide ro require every patch to be formatted via clang-format. They just don't.
It's on the capital holders to make sure that the deadlines are reachable and appropriate to the amount of time you actually have working normally, rushing as a worker doesn't make any sense.

Either they miscalculated the number of employees they needed or they just aren't profitable enough to sustain the workload, both cases are failures on the company side.

And sure, if the company is willing to, they can share some of that risk and reward associated with it to the employees
No, it's always there, pointlessly distracting. See e.g. 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735801#37737256
That sounds terrible, I hope someone who can truly help you appears. If you are close by, could you possibly report this issue directly to Meta company?
Graphite is a pretty common word, and it's easy to make the connection between that and what graphene is. Same goes for gold and goldene. Not so much for chrysos and chrysene.
It'd be funnier if that was a valid Dell service tag. ;)
This is spot-on. HR is bad, but at least writing is not their main job, so I'm willing to cut them some slack.

My main concern is the writing I see coming out of the Public Relations and Communications departments. Writing is not exactly tangential to those fields.

It wasn't always this way. What has happened?
Oh yes, Wayfair. In this case I’m pretty sure AI will be an improvement. Their customer support was abysmal. I needed to send a package back, they sent a company to get it and then refused to refund me because they somehow lost a piece of furniture and it never arrived.

I sent them the documents showing that the package was collected and then came a reply if I could check the apartment better, maybe I’ll end up finding the missing piece of furniture
Which I find very interesting. I’ve seen that there are constructors in India that are very much capable of recognizing and correctly implementing the alignments, but you pay so so much more than the average constructors- and then you are often in a conundrum where you have to choose between paying market rate and getting equivalent precision, or to pay 5x market rate to get a very good standard.
Well, at least the kid can get a meal at school; sure not getting anything at home.
The Bill of Rights (in this case 4th amendment) applies to all people in the US regardless of citizenships.
Takes two to tango
As usual, there's an XKCD about this: https://xkcd.com/1015/.
At some point patience wears thin.

You're either a troll or have a reading comprehension issue. I think it's the latter.
Is that the same McKinsey that helped start opioid epidemic?
Could you introduce your background and skills? I believe this would help in encountering some new collaboration opportunities.
Capital gains still less than Income Tax?