skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I don't disagree that options exist. But I think Chakra on Node is extremely niche and almost no one uses it (despite being possible for over 2 years now). My entire thesis is that multiple equivalent equally (more or less) popular implementations is primarily (maybe only) a C/C++ thing. There are niche languages where this is the case, but they're very niche. There are also very niche implementations of popular languages or platforms, but no one uses them.

We extol the virtues of multiple implementations because it makes the ecosystem healthier, but is that even really true? Is Python's ecosystem unhealthy because theres no full alternative to CPython? Is Java's? Is serverside JS?

I generally think we haven't thought through the implications of the virtues of multiple implementations -- mostly I think the opportunity costs are bananas. Platforms that at all approach C/C++'s progress on this issue have longstanding standards committees and corporate-backed engineering teams. It's simply infeasible and a hugely bad decision to build multiple implementations if you don't have that, which, it turns out, almost no language devs do.
Cars are a completely different thing. No one really thinks about it like this, but one of the most appealing things about a car is that it's an extension of your personal space. It's almost an additional room in your house or apartment that you can take with you.

When I get out of work and get into my car, it's like I'm sort of almost home already. Driving sucks in traffic, but I'm in my own, fairly comfortable space I've customized to my liking that I'm in complete control of. When I take any kind of transit, I'm not done with my day until I'm literally all the way back to my own apartment. Additionally, I actually quite like driving when traffic isn't bad.

I'd much rather sit in traffic in my own car than on any kind of public transit. That statement holds until the transit option cuts my commute time by better than 2 to 1. The reality is (at least here in Los Angeles) that taking public transit usually doubles the travel time vs a car. I don't see this changing.
I would say StackOverflow is a pretty good example
I recommend reading some of the other comments under this post - they dig into concepts like cookie leakage, reverse DNS separation, etc.
GVFS is a contribution Microsoft has given git, not a contribution Microsoft can bring to Github. That is why I left it out.
If github had to be sold, which tech company would be a better buyer than microsoft and able to afford a $2 billion acquisition?
I'll be shocked if she does. When was the last time a CEO went to jail for something they did as part of their business? There is one set of rules for the rich and business owners and one set for everyone else
You’re argument is that every company _must_ be involved in corruption and law breaking, simply because there is profit to be found in doing so. This isn’t simply naive, it has no basis in reality whatsoever.
Naming major city ISP POPs by IATA airport codes is a practice that goes back to uunet/AS701 in about 1995, maybe a bit earlier, when talking about reverse DNS for public IP space. It actually predates the existence of ARIN, even.

then appending a number, so your first POP/core site in the DFW area might be DFW01, then DFW02, DFW03, and so on.

On an international scale another non-airport or IATA related method is to group by ISO standard two or three country codes and then state/province/regional internal subdivision two letter abbreviations, so something in the bay area of california might have the last part of its DNS name as sfo01.ca.us.as12345.net
Burnout is burnout. Do you sneer at people burning out on their office jobs too? Because this is the same thing: they voluntarily chose this job, but that doesn't mean they are exempt from sympathy when the job requirements cause them to have a breakdown.
PG&E and the other utilities largely ignored a lot of grid maintenance prior to ~2000. As a result, not much was spent on maintenance and prices were pretty stable. The past ~20 years, stuff started breaking and they have had to put a lot more money into maintaining the grid. This cost gets pushed onto customers in the form of higher rates. Plus, energy demand has largely flattened, so the maintenance costs cannot be offset by selling more power.
Yep! I'm one of the censorship refugees on /pol/.
Ask HN: Why is Gmail search so bad?
Compared to Google search, why is Gmail search so bad? I can rarely find anything, and searching chat history is impossible too.
It's an interesting question.

I used to have a pacifist friend who worked for a local defense contractor. I asked her about the apparent conflict of interest and her answer what that she hadn't quite figured it out, but she hoped that her presence there at least balanced out some of the rampant jingoism.
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I'm usually extremely reluctant to use doubles past 2^52, when the minimum increment becomes larger than 1.0
Ask HN: Name one biggest improvement in your life made possible thanks to AI?
Following the topic about new "AI winter". What has AI managed to deliver to you personally so far?
FTA: “Like, this is the ultimate. And if you achieve this kind of success on this platform, which so many people try to do, like, how dare you complain about it? It is difficult to talk about because unless you’ve been in this position, I think it’s challenging to empathize with it.”

Of course, I think this also very neatly summarizes our views on mental health and mental issues.
Inspiring story. My uncle was in prison for most of my childhood, when he got out my dad helped train him for a job in IT. It wasn’t easy since the idea of making money using a skill was so foreign to him. I can’t help but think a program like this would have ease his transition.
I think so? I'll see if I can double check.

(My understanding is that it's a kind of psuedo-user account, and that it's being used because there's no "virtual user" to "act as the group" when it comes to automated emails and tasks or something along those lines. I wouldn't be surprised if it's more complicated and they created an actual domain user that belongs to no-one and then give the service account permission to act as it or something along those lines.)

Whatever is actually happening isn't supper important though - I think somebody over here just did whatever they thought the minimum effort thing to do was without thinking or looking into it much.

I'm fairly certain each group having an admin panel having a page that allows "app passwords" or Oauth2-integrations to be set up for its address/account by the group owner/admins would cover at least 90% whatever we've got going.

(And once again, it is completely possible that something like that can already happen and just isn't obvious to anybody over here.)
No, the primary difference is that we deploy drones in areas we are not engaged in warfare, and to assassinate various individuals in foreign countries where we are not at war. We could not and would not deploy manned aircraft to do these jobs.

We do not deploy F-35s to assassinate people in Pakistan. But we've been deploying drones there since 2004. Note that a key issue here is that the drone strikes aren't even military actions: They're controlled by the CIA.

There is no technical difference with drones, the issue is entirely in how they are used. This is what makes your arguments about the weaponry being the same mostly irrelevant.
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But also "2017-11-26 Reported the vulnerability to Mozilla’s VRP" because "due to some misunderstandings on our side, reporting the vulnerability to Mozilla was delayed".

So I think "more than a year" is a little unfair to Mozilla.
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Azure, VS... Yes, I know Microsoft has tons of things to offer to their customers. But not everybody in Github is into Microsoft tech. In fact, most are not. So that's what worries me: trying to tie Github to their products and strategies.
Some apartment blocks have parking spaces with charger stations. I don't see why that couldn't become more commonplace?
The important thing is that a reasonable derivation is presented. It need not be historically accurate.

For instance, if I was teaching category theory to CS students, I would try to motivate it with topology.

Similarly, if I were teaching group theory, I would not try motivating it with solving polynomial equations.
I doubt that. It's what, a $9 million contract? Assuming Google is making a profit or at least breaking even, I'd doubt there's more than 15 or so people working on this full time.
This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Baba

Always said that you shouldn't use psychadelics (including marijuana) until age 50 but if you'd already nade the mistake if starting early then you should at least do it properly. He for example refused to smoke with people that slouched or had shallow breathing.

I think it'd be clever to allow psychadelics (recreationally) for people aged 50+ to start with. Slowly it'd become a better understood thing and the age limit could go down.
Putting it on the App Store could be a good idea though.
Working around the clock and having to be perfect all the time and this isnt a surprise.
You're so ridiculously out of touch thanks to lefty censorship, Jewish media and echo chambers.
> If by "easily" you mean use a third party app store that most people aren't going to use

Whether most people will use it or not is not relevant to how easy it is. Just go to https://f-droid.org, click the download button, click on the downloaded notification, and follow the prompts.

> and now you have one central app that has your entire data usage history to sell to the highest bidder....

The apps on fdroid are open source and use a reproducible build system.
People can file for divorce in WeChat
My developer wish would be a redo of the Keychain Services API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...
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They are smart indeed. Apparently they can remember faces (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html) and colors (https://phys.org/news/2011-12-crows-colours-year-japanese.ht...) which is how I'm guessing the crow I've encountered knew which clothes specifically to take a dump on. Really fascinating stuff.
The App Store is Apple's package manager. It's not going anywhere.
Sorry, my comment was quite unclear. I meant it is dangerous to street people to give the money directly. It is much better to give it to you in the Stabley Schomann organization that knows how to deal with their problems.
Sex sells, but you can't put that on youtube, so the next best thing is drama. Everybody loves some drama.
I'm on Google Fiber and 1.1.1.1 is often 1ms for me and googles DNS is ~8-12ms.

It's amazing how fast it is.
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It is based off of the best available information.
Sounds like it's coming soon (or being cancelled soon, of course): https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/22/craig-federighi-apfs-su...
As someone who ran a forum centered around one of my passions, I was happy to help users out with small adminstrative tasks. Like you said, no big deal.

Now if I was legally required to act on every request in 30 days or face potential litigation, that's a totally different story. I'm doing something that's a fun hobby of mine for free that will benefit others with similar interests. The line is drawn when it can have real world consequences and take up a substantial amount of personal time in order to comply with frivolous requests. That's when it stops being fun and definitely not worth risking legal headaches.
Have they ever turned a profit yet? Last I heard they were still losing money in 2017. Not what I would call mature.
OP spends a whole paragraph describing the effort Mozilla expends to ensure devs are able to target at least Firefox in addition to Chrome:

> We have a Tech Evangelism bugzilla component for outreach to sites who use techniques that don’t translate across browsers. When new sites appear that deliberately block Firefox (whether because the launch team took the time to test with Firefox and determine the user experience wouldn’t be acceptable, or because cross-browser compatibility was an explicit non-goal), Firefox engineers go find the performance cliffs and fix them. Mozilla has a long-history of promoting the benefits of multiple implementations of the web platform; some of the old guard might remember “Works best in all browsers” campaigns and the like. If you squint properly, you can even see this promotion in the manifesto (principles 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9, by my reckoning).

I think it ends up that sites happen to mostly work in most JS engines because most sites don't do a lot of difficult stuff, and if they do they're using libraries that work pretty hard on cross-browser compatibility. I definitely don't think significant effort is spent targeting Chakra, for example. I think most FEs would laugh at the mere mention. Most I know push back against even considering Firefox compatibility.
How about block checksums on APFS? Block deduplication, even if offline, wouldn't hurt either.
I don't think anyone really understands what Github is. It's more like a spirit then a thing. I bet Microsoft is prepared to pay a lot for the goodwill, they don't care about the product/tech.
You NEED to check this NY Times article out: "96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million"

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Torrenting through Tor overloads relays, increasing latency and throttling bandwidth for other users. Also, it's unworkably slow. Just use nested VPN chains.
Isn't the second one already available in windows 10?
I am sure that some journalists interview PR people from Microsoft and some self-promoters who promote the idea of promoting themselves on LinkedIn and say it is great.

I think they've gone down the road of harvesting.

I don't know if anybody is left at LinkedIn rather than life coaches, scam artists, offshore development companies, self-promoters, "business development" people, salesmen who can't sell (maybe that is what "business development" means?), recruiters that can't recruit (ex. they have been contacting you for years because you once said something about Cold Fusion and they badly need somebody to move to Nome, Alaska but they never hire remotes...), people who seem to write 20 articles about data science a day that verge on word salad (you'd think if they knew that much they could write a better neural network to generate the text.) And people who are gullible enough to think that there is some value in sending somebody an InMail or using all of those search features they sell so you can do more refined searches of life coaches, self promoters, ...

Numerous design problems with how the forums work mean that good discussions get drowned out. The same fraudulent messages get spammed that were being spammed six years ago and they won't do, don't do, or can't do anything about it

LinkedIn has closed off most access to the API and you cannot get anything interesting out of it... except all of the email addresses of your contacts so if you do that "Lion" thing you will probably need to change your email address at some point. (I think many people don't know they get so much spam because they have a LinkedIn account.)

I am on the threshold of nuking my Facebook account now that I've disconnected all of the sites that I need to log in that use Facebook. I still haven't decided if I nuke my LinkedIn account or just delete 95% of my contacts.
All the Google search sub-feature in their products that's not the Google search product have pretty mediocre results. Gmail is no exception.
This has nothing to do with domain fronting at all, this is industry standard reverse DNS and PTR records for ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, etc IP space.
Linux support doesn't help with unstoppable telemetry, Candy Crush ads in start menu, and updates that run without asking and destroy your work.
My vote is for forcing Microsoft to respect Control-A for beginning of line and Control-E for end within all Office applications.
Author here - do write it up as a blog post, the discussion should be had and a bit more systematically if you don't mind me saying so, and I have quite a lot of things more to chime in with.

Another relevant point for thought that was provided to me as a response to the original article is the design and thoughts behind https://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk - in hindsight it is more than reasonable that the interactive-fiction crowd had been working in the problem space but not attempting to generalize it.

Vis a vis animations, those can still serve a certain point of they are set up for cognition rather than mere aesthetics. A simple example is switching workspaces. Some of the people I worked with refrained from having tag-sets, or tiling with workspace switching and kept a surprising amount of windows around yet knowing about compartmentalising into workspaces. The argument was a problem with finding 'where all the windows went' on a switch, and that feeling, anecdotally, went away when the workspace switching animation indicated a direction, left-to-right or right-to-left depending on if the workspace index went up or down. That is the mental grouping was not in 'specific windows -> workspace number or identifier' but a spatial place, even if not visible.

While I agree between the gui/tui chasm (and often try to use text-dominant or similar phrasing - though in my head there is no real distinction between graphical and text - considering rendering emoji from a font is equivalent or darn well close to blitting tiles from a tilemap), I consider it more of a gammut where you sortof have to draw a line in the sand. The glyph+attributes in cell addressing model is much less complex than 'per pixel' even when accounting for BiDi/shaping/ligatures. Just don't mix the two which is the norm now, drawing a popup with text characters when it could've been... a friggin popup is a tragedy, and not even a good one.

That said, and this touches upon the bigger idea partly hidden behind the many lines - there is a need for what could've been the 'gestalt' of the mobile "app" idea had it not drifted towards such an opportunistic, exploitative and dark-pattern filled anti-user clusterfuck, and that is the notion of a 'one thing, and well' graphical applications. I think we need both, one biased towards the graphical, one towards the textual and that they can come from the same process, just that some kind of system enforced barriers are in place so the meta-ui (window manager) doesn't degenerate into a hierarchy of nested WMs fighting to block one another's view of the system (browser to window manager to tmux to terminal to shell to virtual terminals) sortof all fight to be the same underspecified 'thing'.

I document more than I disseminate, and the article belongs more in the former category, but for what I'm sortof feeling are concerns you'd enjoy in the context of the TUI discussion are two coming articles (monitor the rss, I rarely touch the browser) "rethinking desktop configuration: my UI is a filesystem" and "leveraging the display server API to bootstrap better debugging" (titles being subject to change).
Is "the company flat out lied to everyone" usually considered one of the risks you have to take?
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> The rocket equation doesn't account for thrust. It's terms are mass and ISP (or exhaust velocity).

Only sort of true. If you naively apply the rocket equation like you're imagining, you would predict a nonzero final velocity for a hypothetical rocket that has enormous ISP but thrust less than its weight. This is true if the rocket is starting out in orbit, but it's totally wrong when you're on the ground. Starting from the ground, you also have to fight gravity, so you care more about (thrust - weight) / mass.
It's an app to play music. How bad can it be?
Enron?

Her father did work there after all...
They even go as far as threatening suicide to make money:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBgVlvPXZE
This awesome project's GitHub repo was recommended to me via the list of articles that show up in a new Google Chrome tab on Android. Only had to expand it once.
There is a window manager called stumpwm like that.
Yay for outsourcing.
Looks like an ideal tool for local drug deals. Could this be a new Instagram?
Damn thats illucidating. Do you enjoy making the content at least?
What makes you say that? It is clearly false.