skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep trying to switch back to it on my Mac Pro (I've tried three times in the last 12 months) but after a week or two I always end up switching back to Chrome because the CPU/battery impact it has.

I can have the same amount of tabs/workload in Chrome and my laptop copes fine with good performance. If I do the same in FF (with likely less plugins installed) it often spikes to 100% CPU usage, chews through my battery like nothing else and just gets bogged down/slow. I _want_ to use FF but can't sacrifice having a burning hot laptop with terrible battery life on my lap.
Most of the locations near me close up fairly early in the afternoon, so those of us who can drink caffeine in the afternoon have no choice but to take our business elsewhere.
Humans have enjoyed living next to their workplace (their fields) for millenia and enjoyed it. The industrial era is the uncomfortable abberation, not the other way around.
If you want to know the beneficiaries you want to look at banks. Due to all the pressures from US pretty much all banks require to know the end beneficiary regardless of company structure and "appropriate" authorities in US generally have access to this info.
Support for multiple accounts in drive is pretty great (minor papercuts here and there) as long as all but one of your accounts is an Apps account. This feels like an issue that they've fixed but not rolled out.

Except this has been a problem for years, and according to a friend of mine who's had a "personal" Apps account from back when it was free, never has been a problem for Apps users, so I'm not sure what's going on on their end.
I knew back when everyone was worshipping Musk that in a few years everyone would turn on him.

It's something we do as a culture: pump people up to celebrity status and then ritually sacrifice them (or their character at least). We do it to our celebrities and sometimes political figures too. It's our version of the old wicker man ceremony. Maybe it guarantees a bountiful harvest.

Neither the hero worship of Musk nor the vilification is true. He's not superhuman. He can be an asshole and he overpromises and makes mistakes. But he's also someone with a record of taking on soul crushingly difficult problems and delivering major advances, and while he might be a hard driver he does not trip my sociopath alarm.

In short he is an ambitious human who tries to lead immensely hard projects and sometimes succeeds.

Seriously. Mass producing an ambitious new kind of car and reusable rockets. Those are literally two of the hardest things I can think of to attempt. Any degree of success in either is miraculous. He's succeeded to some extent leading Tesla and to a (IMHO) greater extent with SpaceX. That is pretty incredible.

I get the sense that Tesla is really in trouble. Personally I'd be happy to see Elon sell it and double down on space. I think that's his true love anyway. Electric cars have enough momentum now they will tip with or without him.
28 year old here. I was buying starbucks 5 days a week and started drinking the office coffee back in january. I haven't spent a dime on starbucks ever since.

I realized at some point I want to buy a home and also retire. Tightened the belt a bit, wrote out a strict budget, and now i am adhering to it.

Also, the crazy stock market prices are making me fearful. I still have my 401k and sp500 fund contribution each month, but I sold individual stock I was holding (mostly just faang's)... some of it is now in a cash savings account, in cd's, and a bit in just some vanguard mutual funds.

Typing on phone, sorry for typos.
Nice startup idea in the article for anyone interested:

>A better model would be that of the FOQA program, where information from flight data recorders is downloaded and analyzed periodically in a no-hazard environment. The pilots, the company, and the FAA each get something valuable. It’s less stick, more carrot. I would also add that this sort of program is in keeping with the Fed’s recent emphasis on compliance over enforcement action.
Why not InnoDB Cluster[1] with single primary? There is a slight decrease in write throughput as it is effectively similar to a synchronous replication on a majority, but you get native failover and very easy cluster membership management.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-innodb-cluster...
Use the mobile app. Works beautifully and 99% of the time my order is there when I arrive. I've even used it after I arrived and there was a long line, they make it almost immediately. One time I showed up and it wasn't ready because there was a group of 15 ordering frappucinos but one of the baristas looked me staring and then went "Mobile order?" and I said "Yeah" and then they made my drink immediately.
Tcl works well for configuration files. You can strip away the extraneous commands in a sub-interpreter to prevent Turing completeness and add infix assignment to remove the monotony of the set command and what you get is a nice config format. If you need more power in the future you just relax some of the restrictions and use it as a script without breaking existing files.
I think you're deliberately confusing what they're talking about. Sure, having a walkable urban center where everyone lives close to the things they need and they don't create dystopian traffic is great.

But company housing, tenements, indebted servitude, working hours from can't-see until can't-see, is all a spectre from our not-so-distant past which we have mostly forgotten about. Well it's coming back. A labor revolution gave us such amazing leaps in dignity and basic humanity which were sorely lacking after the eruption of the industrial revolution. We take that entirely for granted now, like it can't come back and get us. It can.

People in America are just not educated enough about the horrors of the labor revolution. Our own, not the communist's overseas. Unions exist in this strange historical agnosticism, and people only know them as some kind of cartoon, a mob-ruled bureaucracy that enables hilariously lazy laborers to cite ridiculous rules and get in the way of progress. Well they weren't always that way. It is not common human decency that stops the captains of industry from merely hiring private police forces to mow bad workers down with rifles and artillery. That's our past as well as our cyberpunk future. That stuff can come back if we don't keep maintaining the levee between it and us.

People have an instinct to normalize and rationalize things which happen slowly compared to a human lifetime. Well there's a very real and disastrous difference today in how people work and maintain a decent living. It's becoming more and more like back when a decent living was only reserved for the insanely wealthy, the richest of the rich. Everyone else toiled in disease and squalor fourteen hours a day, breaking their bodies, without any possessions of their own; everything belonged to the company, and they worked just for the privilege to live a week at a time. It really wasn't that long ago. We like to hope that if it comes back we'll still be behind the fence of the upper-middle class, safe from the horror. But the vast majority of us won't.

Working is taking up more and more of our days. Gone is the 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours leisure. It's going back to "as many hours as you can physically go without sleep" once again. No benefits, no retirement, no healthcare, no affordable higher education, no affordable family housing aside from company closet tenements with communal utilities, next to a corporate campus but far from a town center. Out in the suburbs with one company store. That will come back in our complacence. Fewer opportunities than our fathers.
Same experience here on a MBP. Tried to switch a couple months ago and the fans run in overdrive.
> Daimler (parent of Mercedes) reportedly rented Model X and disassembled it to learn how it works.

> Apparently there are plenty of companies interested in how Tesla's cars are made.

Disassembing a rental car is ..uh.. rude, but other than that this is completely ordinary, and not even done in secret.

When I worked at BMW, we once went down to a big room where an entire VW (Golf?) was disassembled and on display, all its components laid out on long rows of tables.

I can't remember any access restrictions on that room -- it was just a place you went to look at how other engineers had solved particular problems, learn new tricks, or get inspired.

It's essentially the code reading of the mechanical engineering world.
The API is neater, more expressive, and easier to use. Also, it is single-header only, easy for drop-in integration.
IBM is offering a free blockchain course for students in India
You can set a count hook to defend against infinite loops.

Lua is great.
No, the math on bloom filters already assumes a random oracle.
You can use the ap to order in advanced if that's available in your region
Usually, when you want your financials vetted you go to an accounting firm. I find it curious that they chose a law firm

This was already mentioned in replies a few levels down. But I think it's important enough to repeat:

Earlier this year an accounting firm walked away from them: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito....

That comes under the category of "things that make you say hmmm ..."
I use Firefox but I find the developer experience constantly lacking. Many times I have no choice but to switch to Chrome to carry out certain tasks.

For example, in the developer tools, you are not able to pick an element when the page is frozen using `debugger` command. Also there is no way to hijack a particular event and enter debug mode.

There are many things like these that make me constantly go back to Chrome while developing. Although small, they really add up. As much as I like and support Firefox, I do not think it is quite there with the same level as Chrome.
Yeah I’ll dig up he bugzilla link and add to this comment.
There is such a thing as respecting a differing opinion. I see more and more tendencies to view differing opinions as something that is simply not acceptable, even for opinions that have been ordinary just a short while back. That is bizarre to me.
After looking at the Quote Investigator post, I was idly wondering if this quote that you mentioned might have been misattributed to Churchill, but apparently it's correctly attributed to him.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Post-war_yea...
Unless you have insider information or are a very good part time quant, I don't see any reason to think you can time the market.
> Radioactive material causes cancer so we've clearly caused at least a portion of higher rates of cancer.

I don't think anyone argues that radioactive testing has significantly (or even measurably) increased the background radiation level on Earth. Contrast with carbon dioxide, where we have increased by ~40%.

If we had evidence that nuclear testing had significantly increased background radiation levels, then the assertions that it's increased cancer rates and that we should try to clean it up would both be true.
Midnight Commander (mc) is also a great file management tool.
My only point in that you should be as careful about creating problems building a team and adding ramp-up time to your product when you attempt to optimize. It's a decision that doesn't go away without lots of heartburn and having employees lose morale rewriting their own work.
It's completely valid. It's just not conforming.

No the compiler is not entitled to insert a segfault. Segaults come from architectures and operating systems, not from compilers. The compiler is free to leave in the dereference of the null pointer and then, who knows what happens. But the compiler can't break the code by deleting a perfectly conforming null check on the theory that a previous dereference means that the pointer is not null.

The original Bourne shell used signal to catch memory faults so it could operate dynamic paging! If your OS/implementation permits, C is supposed to allow you do do things like that. The compiler is NOT supposed to insulate the programmer from bumps. (Disclaimer: I am not endorsing the horrible design of the Bourne shell which was also written in a macro style that made C into pseudo Algol).
I'm on Vivaldi right now and I love it. The window panel is so much nicer than tabs (for those that don't know, it's tabs along the side, kinda bookmark style). Tab stacks are amazing. The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. There is a lot of little stuff too, like in the window panel you can select multiple tabs and copy the URLs. The closed tabs stack. Oh, and backspace still goes back a page.

I don't usually shill for products but Vivaldi is a really good browser.
Whoops, you’re right. Thanks for the correction.
I dug into this myself just now. At it's core, uMatrix is "default deny" so it doesn't need all the blacklists. But there are things that uBlock Origin provides that uMatrix does not perhaps including cosmetic filtering, popup blocker, zapper/picker element, etc. The author Raymond Hill (gorhill) has switched back to uMatrix himself and dedicates more development efforts to it now.

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-umatrix/5131/179
c++ does a good job
The article states that this matter is at “temperatures of around 1 million degrees Celsius”. This seems incredible, if true. Is my expectation of how temperature works in a near-vacuum simply flawed? Google seems to say the average temperature of space is around 2 Kelvin. How can 30% of ordinary matter be almost as hot as the sun, but apparently not affect the average?
I'm just now hearing about Vivaldi for the first time. I'm not sure how I never heard of it before.
Democrats using identity issues to leverage pro-business legislation is the cultural, social, and economic spoil of our time. But worse is it won’t be stopped any time soon. Neoliberal Democrats are officially addicted to the cheap and easy returns on identity politics, just as republicans have been for decades. It’s gonna be long downhill road ahead.
Why did you feel the need to create a new account for this comment & thread?
I've been having the exact same problems. Been trying to use Firefox primarily for the past few months but it gets frustrating having to restart it all the time.
Meet Instagram's YouTube Clone: IGTV
> assuming this post was made in good faith

That assumption is exhorted by the site guidelines.

> https://xkcd.com/1732/

The problem is that this is merely another "meta report" that the parent specifically found unconvincing.

It neither provides hard numbers, nor methodology (which would demonstrate the "hardness", as it were, of those numbers).
Especially since it's a race condition, depending on the exact environment someone might never see it, experience it once in 500M operations, or see it every few minutes.

Many of the hardest bugs I've seen are related to multithreading. Writing code while being mindful not to create buffer overflows is almost trivial in comparison to writing correct multithreaded code with fine-grained locking. I've experienced many cases in the past where someone thought a certain set of race conditions would "never" happen (as documented in FIXME type comments in the code) --- and it basically always does. "I didn't know another thread could be doing that..." is a common sentiment my coworkers have expressed whenever I find bugs of this nature.
Why the downvotes? Arent we just having a discussion?
Of course the more logical part of my brain says "Foobar Flappers Inc is over-saturated, local flapper shops have surpassed FooBar in many ways, and people are starting to realize how horrible FooBar flappers are for them."

This applies to a lot of things. It's a broad trend, and I hope it sinks in rather than passes as a fad.
I suppose this is true. I tend to think of the known scandals as one-off abnormalities, rather than a common occurrence. Perhaps this is naive, or perhaps when you're at this scale, even if 99% of what you do is safe and honest, that 1% can do massive damage.
The git commit says "focus vs modify race" so it sounds like a race condition.

I don't understand the "notion" either - to me it reads that the probability is so low it happens for a pair of operations once every 500 million operations or so. If it is a race condition you might have the issue after doing just two operations.
Honestly, just wanted to give a huge thanks for such an awesome language! I’ve truly been converted as a huge Python person into Julia and it’s been slowly taking over my research workflow since it’s just so fast and actually fun!
Funny that decreasing growth is the main cause for concern in this article. Talk about ubiquity itself not being enough for investors.
Whose utopia is this, when people have to sever emotional links and leave where they grew up to find dependable work?

Oh, how rich. As if this is new.

More of that American ideal (aka delusion) that a 1950s style lifestyle is The Natural Order Of Things. It's not. It's very much an anomaly.

It's a terrible article that very much throws the baby out with the bathwater. As someone who likes moving around and did so a lot as a military wife, the sneering tone of the article that frames anyone who moves a lot as some kind of victim who has been denied a real life really does not go over well with me.

There are, no doubt, genuine criticisms to made of the current trend towards jobs with long hours and no benefits and the like. This has really nothing to do with the trend towards digital nomads.

Further, some of what he criticizes likely falls under the heading of "Excess student loans are ruining the lives of modern Americans" rather than the heading of being a digital nomad per se.

There is a real need for genuinely affordable housing. But if you are a single parent, working from home -- the way most of humanity basically did for thousands of years -- is a boon, not a problem. It allows you to take care of family and also make some money.

I just have nothing good to say about this article. I'm also personally offended at the use of the term homeless in the title to basically mean something like rootless or without a real sense of belonging. It is a really inflammatory and misleading title.
The idea was essentially the same, except instead of HTML + JS it was XUL + JS. And XUL provided a far richer set of built in controls, and was far more powerful and flexible than HTML, especially at the time it was conceived and still arguably today. Critically it tried to render all the standard GUI elements we were accustomed to in the 90s and early 00s using the native APIs of whatever OS it was running on.

Webdevs have tried for 20 years to recreate these interfaces from scratch in HTML with still highly questionable results, and of course no real integration, visual or otherwise, with the host OS.

For me, the biggest impediment for writing XUL, when I was into FF extension development, was the extremely lackluster documentation. Despite Mozilla's ambitions they never seemed to promote the app development part of their platform much. It also suffered from much the same problems as Electron does today with performance and bloated memory usage compared to native apps. Though I imagine if they stuck with it, with the much improved JS and rendering engines (and multicore CPUs and 16gb standard RAM) in-use today, it would have become just as good enough as Electron is considered.

Fact is, HTML/CSS/JS benefits hugely from it's own inertia, and the near instant answers to most any question on Google/Stackoverflow. Hard to compete when you are basically an internal Mozilla project.

I'm sure Mozilla, or someone, could package the current Firefox stack in a similar way to Electron as an alternative, but it would be largely the same thing and have similar issues compared to native. So why bother I guess.

How's wxWidgets doing? Does anyone still use that?
Its Lancia you are thinking of:

https://www.facebook.com/thegrandtour/videos/732926230239254...
I know that at least for the Jetstream benchmark, higher scores are better (ie they're not just time measurements). If you make an assumption that makes the parent comment contradict itself, it seems like it would make sense to investigate your assumption instead of thinking the parent comment is contradictory.
This only raises more questions.

The law firm is seriously sketchy. https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/8slnho/freeh_spor...

And... they didn't actually verify anything. Look at these disclaimers!
https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/1009433789456666627
Thoughts yes, now try and express those thoughts to get me to agree and you will understand what we are talkingabout.
> Why can't there be a way to get a regular, no frills coffee without waiting for tens of minutes?

Make it at home with an aeropress, I stopped going to Starbucks when I realized I was spending $5 on venti iced coffees multiple times per week when $10 worth of beans easily lasts me two weeks of a daily pot (2x venti) of coffee. One pot of coffee with breakfast usually keeps me going for the day, with the free side effect of not having trouble going to sleep at a decent hour
I worry that text files promote local minimums. Like, the standard GNU tools or whatever editor you use is "good enough" for what you expect to do with them, but there exist better tools for your specific task that you never even look for.

With a binary file, you of course have to be using something specific to work with them. And if lots of people were doing that, that would in turn drive a lot of specific, good options to choose from. The tools would be better at their specific task. They could provide actual _user interfaces._

But there's not enough standardization in user interfaces for to reduce the cost of relearning each tool, and the tools would need both an interface and an API to automate them (we don't tend to get both for free), and we don't have anything great for chaining together APIs. So text files it is, which kind of provide these things, but they don't extend too well.

The trend in computing tools is to slowly invent what you could get easily with more specific formats... using text files. Automatic formatters, so you can pretend your project files are really the AST you care about. Smart IDEs with autocompletion, because you're not really typing arbitrary characters. IDEs that will collapse a lot of unnecessary information for you, like showing only the first snippet of JSDoc. Type systems that show you what's available and what you can plug together in a sane way. Version control that pretends it knows how to solve the problem of diffing/merging.
Since -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks works in both GCC and clang and, nevertheless, the compilers are able to do significant optimization, you might want to think it out again.
Will a wink suffice? How about a photograph or a song?

Edit: Language is fascinating, of course. However, I find the underlying mental layers that support it to be equally fascinating, if not more so.