skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it was

Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox

But I had to use IE in some jobs.
looks like they're just estimates and mostly 15 years ago it was either IE or Firefox.
Having been depressed, I think the main fear people have is of pushing people away. If you're not "fun", people won't want to spend time with you. Your friends will support you for a bit, but they have limited patience too. Comforting someone who's feeling down takes energy, and you know very well that there's a limit to how much of that you can ask other people to do for you.

There's some kind of balance to be had. I find that I can express my sadness, but I have to be mindful that when I hang out with friends, even when I'm feeling down, I don't make it all about me. I have to still try to be a good friend and listen, etc. Avoid being someone who's emotionally draining to be around. Friendship is an exchange.
Yeah, I got that impression too
If you're worried about someone MITM'ing you and injecting malicious code on random webpages you should be using a VPN.
Astronomers have spotted the universe’s first molecule
I dunno. I used to be into Big Macs but lately the Quarter Pounder has been my favorite burger, maybe even more than the Whopper.
Yeah it really breaks through the paralysis because once you get the seeds wet the plants are coming on their own schedule whether you're ready or not.

Plants are definitely resilient. I like experimenting with high densities/small pots on the very unlikely chance I find some plants with synergy (or just lack of space).

In 2017 this resulted in tiny (but tasty!) jalapenos (about a quarter of the normal size) growing off a plant that had sat on the windowsill doing nothing for 2 years.

If anyone has advice on plant pairings/symbiosis I would love to hear it!
It's shitty to worry about your kids when they are missing? Maybe you wrote that backwards?
We have two of those in Brussels...
There already is a $78B class action lawsuit against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. $1000 per American whose information was harvested. It's hard to google for however.
They didn't choose to prosecute him because it's Department of Justice policy not to indict a sitting President. They're leaving it up to Congress to impeach him first.
DataGrip is $20 a month for more features. However, after you've paid for 12 months you get perpetual access, so you can essentially pay for 12 months (or yearly at $199) and it essentially becomes a one-time license to that version if you'd rather not keep paying.

(I've been a DataGrip customer for a couple of years now)
I suspect what happened was that Watson started out as a single product or focused suite of products. I'm just guessing, but then as the marketing induced hype started and growth/results were not on target , they realized there was a lot of interest in Watson so IBM pivoted and started rolling everything under the Watson brand - products, consulting, cloud stuff, etc. Basically that way they could say Watson was a "success" and internally/externally it would be opaque as to where exactly the profits and losses were.

I say all this because I'm at a place now where this is happening. Hugh company with a supposedly game changing product that is mediocre (at best). Massive marketing campaign for "Product X" that is 100% buzzwords and 200% BS. After constant missed revenue targets and product disappointments internally and externally, company is clearly pivoting (but not saying so) to rolling everything under "Brand X."
I sincerely hope IBM's failures do not deter further progress in trying to innovate in healthcare technology. I believe healthcare vitally needs GOOD/USEFUL technology and AI applications because medical progress is not advancing quickly enough by several metrics.

I hope IBM continues to fail and becomes a case study in the failure of massive bureaucracy.
This is trivializing real child abuse and a lot of other complicated things about parent-child relationships with superficial "rights" language. Kids are not just little adults.
a lot of these AI companies products are really terrible. Has anyone ever tried the AI API models from clarifai ? Just so unaccurate. It seems like a scam. I've also had a really bad experience with watson's speech to text apis.
I knew before I clicked this would be Madison. I didn't know her but I went to Penn and was a student there when she died. It shook the whole school, and then a wave of other student suicides followed. I'm sure all of these other students had happy pictures on their Facebook too, but for whatever reason Madison's story was the one that went national and still seems to echo back. Nothing to say that hasn't been said ... it's beyond tragic and nobody will ever be able to explain it.

I do think the focus on social media here is misguided or at least not productive. Penn and other colleges need more readily available mental health services and programs to reduce the stigma around accessing them. From what I hear, not much has changed on that front.
Is there a tl;dr on those relevant parts?
I don't think you understand what I said.
I don't follow. Are you saying that they're "shitty" because they're worried about their missing child? Or that the kid got lost in the first place?
> The heavier the ball, the quicker it falls. But if it’s too heavy, it can get stuck or overshoot the target.

This explanation of momentum is somewhere between misleading and wrong. Momentum is about inertia and acceleration, i.e., the ability to quickly change speed.
IMO it’s definitely not a European thing. My son is currently sleeping outside my apartment in his stroller, in a shared back yard. As a kid I rode my bike a mile though many intersections to get to school. It doesn’t seem to have changed.

I find it ridiculous that people can be arrested/get in trouble in the states for letting their kid sleep in a stroller on the other side of a café window. But that happened recently to a Dane on vacation.

As a side note, I recall watching a documentary about Japanese norms, where the kids are literally taught to be traveling alone in public from a very early age. So this is not just a European thing either.
There's an entire episode of Black Mirror devoted to exploring a dark potential future of this sort of thing:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/29/16791518/black-mirror...
There are always alternatives.
For Maps, check out

.) OsmAnd (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand)

.) MAPS.ME (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapswithme...)

For other alternatives to avoid getting your habits turned into money by big companies, check out https://ethical.net/
Notes on Gartners 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Science Platforms
Which is, to put it bluntly, a blatant cash-grab that tries to redirect whatever ad cash flow it could catch into their own pocket.

Best of all, their website puts Brave's selling point as 'not letting other browsers treat you as a product'. Yeah, fat chance.

update: a quick look later, nothing I could not have done using standard open source tools like HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger and/or uBlock Origin.
I would strongly advise not to rely on your DE and use xrandr instead, either via CLI or the graphical arandr tool. xrandr can scale to whatever you want.
I find it fascinating the feats that they managed back in when there were no computers, no powered heavy equipment, and mostly just ambition and sweat. We too often forget that they had an incredible understanding of construction techniques and math we hide in our design programs was worked out on paper, not discounting a bit of gut feel when actually putting the structure up. This of course was not limited to the Middle Ages but stretches back through Roman times, Egypt, and the far East of China and more.

note : the site wants flash for some activities so it may limit what you can view
I concur with the description of the Delphi implementation, as I've navigated it numerous times myself. I guess I don't understand the author's negative tone with regard to the C++/Delphi implementation. There's going to be overhead with any choice made and C++ and Delphi made the choice to sacrifice memory usage for speed. Furthermore, the only part that really scales with the number of objects is the extra vtable pointer for each implemented interface in each newly constructed object. Hardly a significant overhead in today's memory-prolific computing environment. Also, pointer fixup thunks and unconditional jumps are easy to speculatively handle.
I've been using Google Maps for years and didn't even notice this feature. Wow.

If you're on an iPhone there's Find My Friends that I use often.
> News, music, video and premium features on top of things like maps.

I wonder how well such an approach would do. I know that it wouldn't interest me, as I don't want the "premium features" you mention, I'd just want maps. Others might only want the news and not the other stuff, etc.

But I don't know how many people are like me.
But that's exactly my point. Antifa is definitely a bad thing, but it is literally a response to the other side. If right wing extremists didn't exist FIRST, antifa wouldn't exist AT ALL. If nationalist extremists don't exist, antifa has nothing to fight.

edit: to be clear, I think antifa etc should be banned as well and I do not condone their actions or think they are a good response.

But they didn't start the problem. They haven't killed dozens of people on multiple continents.
The first list is mostly people who I don't recognize, and assume are uncommon posters, where one or two bad comments put them on the "saltiest" list.

The other two top lists are more interesting, because while there is a lot of salty people in there I recognize, a bunch of people make the list solely based on total prolific amount of comments. tptacek, of course, as well as literally all of the HN moderators.

Apparently in terms of the raw number of salty comments, I rank 217.
The book of the new sun is probably my favorite series bar none. Wolfe will be remembered as one of the greats I think. Very sad to see him go.
Just to put the statement "35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google" into relation: One year is ~8640 hours. This means 302.400 CPU hours. That's nothing compared to a single research proposal (we count in multiples of millions of CPU hours). Any explanation of this number?
Universities in the US are no longer institutions of higher learning; they are hedge funds with affiliated football and basketball teams. Because of this, universities have decided to drastically cut costs by replacing tenure-track positions with adjuncts. About 58% of faculty at American universities are non-tenure track, and that number is likely to increase over the coming decade as tenured professors retire [1].

[1] https://www.aaup.org/report/status-non-tenure-track-faculty
Well, don't all just sit there: tell your children that social media is poison, and act aggressively to root it out. The current generation of young adults is likely beyond salvation, but the one after - the current <17 cohort, perhaps - may still be helped.

I'm around children a lot, especially the 10-12 age group which happens to be my daughter's social circle. I'm amazed to see how many kids are glued to Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and other such apps that I don't even know about. Either we act now, or it'll be too late for that generation, as well.

It's very easy for an adult to lock down which apps can be used on a child's device, which websites can be accessed, etc. Social media can be stopped, but this must happen one tedious step at a time.
Are you wondering if kids are allowed to walk today? Yes of course, though the school won't generally release Kindergarteners to walk home by themselves. Can't stop parents from deciding to send them to school by themselves though.

Source: I live a few blocks from the elementary school and have two kids going there. Lots and lots of elementary kids walk to & from school without parents.
Flexible and Superwettable Bands as a Platform Toward Sweat Sampling and Sensing
I wrote mine in markdown, with comments and explanation:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

When emacs launches a simple `~.emacs.d/init.el` file parses that markdown, building up all the code-sections into a temporary buffer, then evaluates them. Pretty neat.
I agree with you that IBM is full of shit, Google too to a degree, but Google has used AI in a variety of their products even down to data center cooling processes. I don't think IBM and Google are comparable in this respect.
>I'd really like to see self-driving planes, must be easier than self-driving cars surely? (And, yes, I would fly in one)

I wouldn't, if it was made by Boeing. Just look at how badly they fucked up something as simple as their MCAS system, making it only use input from a single sensor. That kind of incompetence isn't going to yield a safe plane that flies by itself.
Question for people who work with text processing: is it possible to use some kind of statistical analysis to make a guess at what's behind some of the redactions? I notice a lot of them have big blocks of black with footnote references, and those footnotes are often not redacated.
It's possible. I was 17 when I got Facebook, so older than most kids now, but not exactly a fully formed adult.

Interestingly, in middle school, my friends and I sort of built our own social network. We all made websites on "Expage" and would link them to each other. It seemed like everyone in the school was doing it and I remember being pretty happy when a girl I liked gave me a shoutout on her website. I feel like we all learned a lot from that experience because inevitably, there was plenty of drama and hurt feelings.

That's a big part of what got me into software development in the first place.
Cool, or not cool, depending on whether you ever got over the unsafety scandal around Actix.
Have you ever lost track of your kid? Many years ago I was changing my son’s diaper in the SJC airport. My wife had gone to the restroom and left our 3 y/o daughter with me too. In the blink of an eye my daughter disappeared. Now we were in an airport past security. A pretty ideal place to lose your kid all things considered. And it turned out our daughter had just followed after her mom and had gone into the women’s restroom, which is what I figured. But it was still fucking terrifying not knowing where my daughter was for a few minutes.

I still wouldn’t put trackers on my kid. And we were never those parents that leashed our kids. But I don’t judge parents that do.

When we went to things like the state fair, I’d write my cell # on my kids palm and gave them instructions: “if you get lost, ask a woman for help.”

It’s still damn scary losing your kid though.
Hi fellows!

I curate a small online community about career for people in tech. Every month we collect and produce a lot of useful materials on career, engineering, learning, lifestyle, business, and everything else related to building a successful career in tech. And as I said, the community is small, but I believe that such materials are worth sharing with a wider audience. So I decided to manually compile a free newsletter every two weeks and feature the most useful findings.

Hope you'll enjoy it! I will appreciate your feedback: what do you want to see on the digest, how often, and how to make it more helpful for you?
When the Balloon Girl shredding happened some people immediately start saying “those rich people suck because they think they can control revolutionary artists but they got trolled”, and then it becomes clear that the piece was actually worth more because of the shredding then other set of people start saying “those revolutionary artists suck because they think they can troll rich people but they have no control”. I think both statements have some truth in them.
We Made a gRPC GUI Client
For those interested in gRPC - myself and a couple of developer friends put together a gRPC GUI client! Here are some details.

- It's written in TS, aimed at Javascript denizens interested in gRPC and looking for an easier way to dabble and test.

- We have compiled binaries, courtesy of Electron.

- It has basic functionality. There's a long way to go, but you can configure messages and mock basic requests.

- If you care to contribute,

https://muninrpc.dev/

www.github.com/muninrpc/muninrpc

Let us know what you think!
anyone with particle board furniture that's breaking: get yourself a bottle of polyurethane glue. a dab at the seams and breaking bits and You can easily turn a 3 year lifespan yfurniture into a 10 year life furniture.... assuming you never need to take it apart again.
And even if you have the LTE version you still have to pair it with an iPhone.

Tried to explain this to my 8-year-old last night as she was fuming about not being allowed to have my old AW. So many reasons, none of them at all valid to a child that age :)
I liked it a lot, really didn't understand the community hate for it. At first it was not nice but it was pretty nice before it was deprecated.
You say that as if lawmakers never at least try to work closely with those experts or even have some expertise themselves (hint, they do).
Old Unity? No. New Unity (Gnome Shell), yes.
You can and should have a separate, optimal configuration for each monitor. This is pretty easy with xrandr, and it's DE-agnostic
Doesn't this line up with my point? What you're saying seems to be most relevant in the context of unaccountable meddle boxes - eg I fully agree if you want your protocol to work widely, you have to accept the current Internet as it is and set ip.proto = {1,6,17}.

But to avoid creating even more of these constraints you want to keep as much as possible out of sight of the meddle boxes, lest they get ideas to start doing even more filtering. Given that crypto is now computationally inexpensive, this seems straightforward with anything that is not already in IP/TCP/UDP headers.
iPhones don't appeal to me regardless of price point. I would guess that people for whom an iPhone-like experience is appealing would buy an iPhone. You can pick up older used models in the $200 price range right now.
What you describe sounds more like idw than kriging.
You can just not participate. You are making it sound as a do or die thing.

Facebook does not help you in getting any sucess at all.
Given the response to this, i would be interested to hear why you thought the code quality was amazing. We seem to have two people with different ideas about code quality, and perhaps we would all learn something by investigating that difference.
Utterly ridiculous. Parents have a responsibility to supervise their children. This is clearly defined by law in most countries, and for good reason; children are not emotionally ready to exert self-autonomy. They lack the cognitive skills and experience to do so. They lack the legal ability to exert control over their property, to engage in contracts, etc etc.

Now should parents monitor every moment of their children's life? No. But they have a duty and responsibility to supervise their children. Children should be given expanding freedoms as they mature, but this (again) needs to be supervised.
This is unrelated, but you should see the potential that this holds for blind people: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02527
What I wonder is why Google spends tons of CPU resources to calculate routes that would take me much longer to get where I'm going.
Is the site not mobile-friendly? One of the main ways "the web" is consumed these days is phones and tablets.
Humans used to resort to physical violence as well as name calling. Rome had a series of senators brutally murdered in session, even before Cesar. Andrew Jackson used to physically attack opponents. The whole Aaron Burr story.

My unsupport theory is that we've pacified to the point where anyone can say anything without getting beat up or killed, which allows people to push the envelope.

I'm not suggesting we should go back to violence, but i think the lack of direct violence in a person-to-person setting have enabled more and more wild speech.
I went through this and the other kinds of abuse growing up, and so did people close to me. Psychological abuse is still abuse and it has a profound impact on the rest of your life.
Edit: I just saw your other post, this one in isolation made me think you had tried gardening once and given up.

That just happens sometimes!

Hard to explain failures are often caused by one or more of over watering, pests (including at the root level), too little soil, or bad soil PH. Symptoms of pests include visible bugs, mold, eggs, or webs (check under the leaves) or a weird smell. PH problems sometimes manifest as discolored leaves.

Also like animals plants have very different levels of vitality, there is strength in numbers!

If you want to try again let me recommend herbs and leaf vegetables. Mint, basil, arugula, lettuce, and mustard greens grow fast and mint in particular is somewhat invasive and hard to stop it gets going.

It can be tough to grow a tomato that looks like the ones at the grocery store without experience and more time and care. There's an art to it.
I can see the appeal of these. Just holding one makes you feel you can soak in attention to detail and beautiful handwriting through your fingertips. But the reality is different. I don't have the patience to wait for the ink to dry when I want to turn the page, nor to muck about with blotting paper. Everything just ends up smudged.

But it seems I'm not alone here in being a pen geek, so maybe it's a good place to share a discovery that has been revolutionary for me: Erasable gel and ballpoint pens!

Bright colours, no sharpening, easy and effective erasing of my mistakes. Yayyy. I've tried quite a few, my favourite at the moment are Pilot Kleer.

Now I'm no longer afraid to write in a new moleskin!
Agree. The last versions were pretty and (still) very stable.
Teranos could have been worth it if it hadn’t been a scam.

If you can lower the cost of insulin that would be boon to humanity, but good luck bootstrapping that.

Better glucose monitor. Lots of medical thing are worth it from an ethical point of view but not bootstrap-able.
Microsoft buys Real-Time operating system vendor Express Logic
The top guy is someone who's shadowbanned, I see him often.

Also heartwarming to see Terry Davis there, haha.
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I feel sorry for her and condolence for her family.

BUt, at least in my circle, there are some people who do the total opposite. That is, they keeeeep complaining about their life/boss/politics/etc but actually they're a nice person and totally normal in real life.
>For example I was hoping that electric cars would lead to a reevaluation of the basic design of a car and we would see something new but instead electric cars look pretty much like cars with a gas engine.

What were you hoping for? There's only so much you can do with the basic design of a car. It needs to have crumple zones in the front and rear for safety (really old cars with radically different designs didn't have this, but they weren't safe in a crash), and a car that can't seat 4 generally won't sell, so you're not going to get anything that looks substantially different from today's cars.
Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox

IE only if it's REALLY required by badly designed products/sites.
Depends a lot on tooling as well. If you have tools that give you effective jump-to-definition, find-usages, etc, then the file structure sort of fades away, because you jump from fragment to fragment without really worrying about what files they are in.
I can understand that feeling of "keeping up with the Joneses" but for me it's easy to ignore. For awhile I'd look at Instagram and see all the cool stuff my friends were doing and be disappointed that I wasn't doing cool stuff too.

Then I realized that my mindset was all wrong. I should be stoked for those people! I do cool stuff too, even if I'm not always doing it.