skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Web Shading Language is going to have to pick a new acronym; I did a double take when I saw that Windows Subsystem for Linux was coming to Safari
It's definitely better than the light mode, but it's still a very 'skin' kind of implementation. For an example on the contrary, Twitter's dark mode is a much better reimplementation than YouTube's.
First detection of ringing of newborn black hole: Testing the no-hair theorem
No.
I’ve been really stressed out about work. This was actually a very cool job (8 minute commute, good coworkers) until about a month ago when a former coworker got promoted to manager. Suffice it to say he’s not cut out for the position. Our recent sprints have left me with fuck-all to do almost all the time while being massively overworked the tiny remaining portion of the time. Had a heart attack at work 4 weeks ago. I’m 29 with no other risk factors.

Add to this the fact that I recently discovered in my otherwise wonderful relationship that my partner doesn’t deal with polyamory very well at all, despite earlier expressions. I don’t blame her at all; you can’t know how you’ll feel about something until it happens, but it’s killing me. I don’t want to feel caged in, but I also feel like I wouldn’t enjoy any other relationships without having her to come home to. Lose/lose.

In addition, my increasingly aging grandparents (91 and 90 years old respectively) are requiring more and more care, and get more forgetful by the day. I recently found out they’ve been spraying windex on themselves for some sort of medical treatment? I have no fucking clue. Grandma always asks the same questions and I always give the same answers. I see them every Saturday to pick up my grandpa to get groceries.

Also, my actual home is a fucking mess. I’ve been letting a friend stay with me for over two years now and they have trashed one room and moved on to another because our AC is broken and the portable AC fits better in the window of the second room. Things have marginally improved on this front after telling them some things that seemed to get across how I was feeling.

I’ve been dealing with all this by eating massive quantities of clonazepam and gabapentin every day for the last few weeks, but my supply is running thin. I’m signed up for the motorcycle safety course in a week and I intend to get my bike the same day I pass. Maybe I’ll die in traffic.

Anyway, thanks for reading my novel.

No, I’m not interested in therapy.
Probably not (schools etc) for now I have tried doing January in the Canary Islands (they have Swedish schools there) which is fantastic. Don’t think I’d want to move there permanently.
>For example, the US is projected to go into a $30 trillion dollar deficit by 2030 and there's no telling what ramifications that will have.

Is there a telling on how many dollars will a Bitcoin exchange for in 2030?
I think Firefox went through something similar many many years ago, a Project called MemShrink started after many user were complaining how Firefox were getting slower and bloated with Firefox 3 - 4* if I remember correctly.

It was Memory optimisation in every part of Firefox and mostly in SpiderMonkey.
not sure where jeff got the the initial $800 price of the m365. even his camelcamelcamel chart shows a $600 ceiling. i bought mine at $500 and can confirm that getting it at $350 is a no-brainer.

as he says, it absolutely extends your range for all kinds of situations (yes, even carry one in your car). it’s not very rugged so put slime in the tires as he says and expect some other things to break. i disagree about taking it in stores—it’s awkward but totally acceptable in most places you’d ride a scooter to (grocery store, cafe, target, etc)

definitely looking forward to the pro!
Why does RPython exist? It seems to be a subset of Python that can be optimized.

Why not use a faster language to write the interpreter, like C?

This is not meant to be a hostile question, I am just confused as to why PyPy exists
Isn't markdown just turned into html?
Investments shouldn't be judged in hindsight, the ends don't justify the means, etc.
Yeah, but they got to gradually develop "Slack Kit" and release a blog post patting themselves on the back for doing so to fulfill a 5 year old feature request. You can't just do that in CSS!
Scooters are smaller.
This is a useless comment because it takes a wealth issue and tries to turn it into a racial issue. There are poor white people who couldn't go and rich black people who could go, so it's not even apt to say.

Not everything needs to be a matter of race, especially outside the US.
One can say that as now the second largest economy, China didn't cause financial crisis in the 40 years of opening up, outside crises didn't trigger significant slowdown, part of the immunity is that China just has so many easy ways to simply write it off.
Honestly no. I’m preparing to interview with a big company that I’ve been interning with and I’m suffering pretty bad imposter syndrome. I’m terrified of technical interviews, because I’m worried of being called out on things I don’t know and realizing I might not be as qualified and knowledgeable as I think I am.
To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed this article isn't written in ACE

Or maybe "To be honest, I do not like that the Wikipedia editors chose not to write this article in ACE"
Aye, me too. Though I prefer when they were a little more obvious - now they're a background visual indicator, and essentially deprecated as a control, for being too narrow.

Most of the times I encounter backward scrolling on someone else's Mac, it's only there because they never realised Settings let you invert it to sane and useful!
`1e7` is an untyped numeric constant with a default type of float64.

https://blog.golang.org/constants

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants
Well if the C# and Java implementations use C they're definitely not C# and Java drivers. But you don't need to use C directly, just use the C features that are supported by Swift itself.
is tensorflow going to use this?
That's a sign of incompleteness, not of incorrectness.
I am not okay.

I want to work at a better job, but I also don't want to suffer the stressful, months-long shitshow that is the tech job search, yet again. My current job is boring, but easy, and pays me enough to pay the immediate bills, but not quite enough to get necessary health care or save for child tuition or retirement. But I do have an office, with a door, so there is that.

I don't work on the west coast (US), or the east coast (US), nor do I want to move cross-country for work, yet again. I'm starting to get the sense that some contract manager might be setting up to screw my company, with no recourse for the common employees, yet again.

I'm mainly just tired. Tired of all the bullshit. Tired of all the politics. Tired of having my company bought by another company, and then radically changed from what I was hired into. Tired of cleaning up after people who can't or won't write maintainable code. Tired of having excess expertise that lies idle or is ignored, left over from running on the up-to-date-skills treadmill. Tired of changing the pneumatic coverings on all the bespoke reinvented wheels. Tired of hearing about nonsense that gets unicorn-funded, and bonuses and free lunches and RSUs and talent shortages. Really tired of websites screwing with my scroll bars, and hamburger menus.

I just want to sit in my mid-2007, back when everything was cool. Because it hasn't been good for me since 2008. It has become better than the low point, but my satisfaction with my life hit an absolute peak in 2007, and I have not recovered emotionally or financially, nor do I have much expectation that I ever will.
Interestingly this actually varies by display technology. CRT’s are default black and have light projected onto them. LCD’s are default white and to display black you have to block the light, which is why LCD blacks aren’t as black. I believe OLEDs are default black once again, which is why they have deeper and darker blacks.
It is definitely interstellar in origin:

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html
Your first mistake was assuming not everyone works for a tech company.
AI-Powered Manuscript Submission Marketplace Connecting Authors and Journals
Cook it on an electric stove.
Lots of schools don’t even report rank, and you’re fine to not include it, so that can’t possibly be the only thing they consider
PWA Disadvantages Debunked
I bring mine inside and wheel it around while I shop. It takes up about as much space as a trolley or pram, so it's never inconvenienced anyone.
All higher level programming languages attempt to do this more or less.
People changed their interaction after mice and trackpads started to universally include a built-in scroll wheel / scroll gesture.

In 1990, everyone scrolled up or down by clicking little buttons at the ends (or at one end) of the scrollbar, or by dragging the scrollbar up and down. By 2019, these buttons are unnecessary and have been removed, and the main purpose of the scrollbar is to passively report the position in the page. Dragging it up and down still works, but few people bother.
> Maybe I'm just weak, for not being willing to throw it all away and go live in a barrel up in the mountains.

It's unclear to me if this is a weakness or a strength. I don't know which way is up.

Are you a stronger person if you're willing to say fuck it and go do your own thing and not be concerned with things like health care and financial stability?

Or are you a stronger person by steadfastly holding your station at work, because you just barely have enough grit to tough it out?

I can't shake the feeling that making peace with this half-living state as a daily existence is either the greatest achievement or the biggest mistake. So I remain anxious about it and pretend I haven't committed either way, although my resume would show you that I've clearly opted for permanent half-living through continuous employment.

Maybe it's too much to think about and I should go back to fantasizing about a life worth living while another work day ticks by...
For me, I have less issue with the fact that the technology exists.

My biggest issue comes from where the processing is being done. If it was 100% on device I would be more ok with it. Same for processing photos and anything else that needs to be done with my data.

But most companies instead ship all of your (and other people's data you happen to have) to their servers.
The Location Engine: Some quick notes on trying the DW1000
Maybe for your next lesson you can teach us how to build a social credit score model? You can train us all to be good obedient citizens.
Nationalistic flamewar isn't allowed on HN, so please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been crossing into this repeatedly in HN comments. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing that.
It really should be WebSL like everything else in its space (WebGL, WebAssembly, etc.)
> It is about the quantity of people exceeding what is a healthy balance.

As it is everywhere. If two people don't pay taxes, society functions just normally. If everybody doesn't pay taxes, there is no funding for even the most basic programs. When the argument is "a bit is fine, just not too much", the second part of the argument should always be "and here's how we determine who gets to enjoy it and who is forbidden from enjoying it".
In Ruby land, JRuby is significantly faster than CRuby since 9.0. It has a proper IR for optimization and can inline etc.
2019:

> An Israeli Embassy spokesperson, Elad Strohmayer, denied that Israel placed the devices and said: “These allegations are absolute nonsense. Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.”

2014 (https://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757):

> Aaron Sagui told Newsweek "Israel doesn't conduct espionage operations in the United States, period. We condemn the fact that such outrageous, false allegations are being directed against Israel."

I have to say, placing stingrays around D.C. is pretty bold, but not exactly surprising. It's not even an open secret that Israel aggressively spies in the U.S.; it just is what it is, I guess.
Experimental Economics: the effect of stress on economic rationality
Even if Oumuamua was a probe how would that explain the second interstellar sucker we're discussing here? The closest star system that could harbor life is 4 light years away. So even if Oumuamua signaled home that it found a planet with little brown beings it would take them at least 8 years to send a second probe. Oumuamua was detected just two years ago.
I thought for a moment that Moria is the Mithril Capital of Middle-Earth, so "FBI Investigating Moria" would be a bit...
There were also European attempts:

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Towards_a_Real_Charac...
It's not "teaching not to gamble by gambling", obviously. You have to talk with your kid, explain the methods of the gambling games, and stuff like that.

I don't think shielding kids from everything bad in the world usually results in them being able to deal well with bad things in the world as adults.

Not saying they should play those games that have gambling elements. But I also don't find it straightforward to say it is unequivocally bad.

With sweets I know stories of kids who weren't allowed any sweets who developed an excessive sweet tooth later on.
Growing one burger's worth of cow.

The propane can easily be replaced with a different cooking method.
No Data in the Void: Values in Policy Research and Artificial Intelligence
I don’t know why this question matters but it’s still the cow...
How steep of a hill can you get up with these things? My street is pretty hilly and I would hate to shell out for a cool device that I have to lug the last two blocks to my house.
> That's explicitly not what I meant. I meant that disabled people cannot use either.

So what was the point of bringing it up then?

> The scooters solve no problems bicycles already do not

Sure they do. Part of the issue with bikes is a chicken and egg problem where politicians are hesitant to invest money into bike infra, because not enough people ride. And many people don't ride because of bad bike infra.

Many, perhaps most of the people riding escooters don't ride their own bike around, or wouldn't ride a rentable ebike, for whatever reason. That's why the scooters got uptake much more rapidly than rentable ebikes.

So once you have more people on modes that fit bike infrastructure, because of, say, the ease of use and accessibility of electric scooters, it becomes easier to fight for that bike infrastructure.
Let's have a pity party.

OK

Except that guy. Fuck that guy.

Seriously why are you asking? What are you going to do about it if I say no? Oh, nothing? What a surprise! Fuck you. Fuck all of you.

Sorry guy, politically correct and socially acceptable expressions of misery only.

Fuck you. Fuck all of you.
Signs of sex lives in Neanderthal bones
> How can I tell if image data is being uploaded?

If you have these devices in your house, they are turned on, and you are using them then they are uploading your data.

> Do Google or Apple use my facial data to personalize the advertisements I see?

If it makes them money they will. Otherwise they won't. They probably will if they are not doing it already.

> Can I turn Face Match off?

Yes. Turn the device off. Dispose of the devices in the trash.

This will insure it's not spying on you.

> Can I opt out of all of these as well?

Yes. It's very easy. Don't purchase spyware devices. Stop giving them money. Stop using their products.

> Who else is collecting and processing my facial data?

Everybody from your local and federal governments to major corporations. Anybody who makes money collecting user data and then selling it is going to be doing it if they haven't already.

Your browsing history, credit card usage, legal documents, mortgage documents, driver license photos, and anything and everything they can get their hands on is being used to track you, document you, profile you, and going into optimizing revenue gathering to the best of their abilities.
Thank you for walking me through this. Sorry to keep pestering you, but as far as my disclosure goes, what do ou mean? I'm not entirely sure I follow. Are you saying I should stick to those 3 bullet points you outlined?
So founding Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc. is high school level thinking? I wish I had gone to that high school.
just use width:100vw on body and voila Unobtrusive
Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
I can’t imagine doing 25mph on such small wheels, one small pothole and you will be off.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind."

Given that a Butlerian Jihad seems unlikely, what are our options? If we can't stop it, maybe we need to keep pace with it instead. If this is a Red Queen Race, then we need to give people the tools needed to compete.
Poe's law in full effect, I'm genuinely unsure if this is a joke. "Better for people" reads to every layperson as "good for you".
Yes, but the Ramans are vastly more capable.
At 25MPH, a tiny crack or lip in the concrete would equal a very expensive faceplant. And it's not really even a matter of skill or reflexes - the tiny wheels of the current electric scooters are just not capable of handling imperfections at speed.
It's a bit weird that they talk bout WebGPU and WebGL and then name it WSL instead of WebSL.
I doubt there were many parking lots when cars were new, too.
That would be very interesting. I couldn't find any references to TLA+ and ACE together, so it might be a novel area of research.
25 mph makes sense on the road (same with pedal-assist electric bikes), but on sidewalks 15 mph is definitely fast enough given the small wheels and lack of a suspension. even what look like small cracks/potholes can throw you off the scooter if you’re not paying attention.
Doing both is worse than the latter.
I'm unsure how they're getting better performance. Webgl is using opengl in a sort of sandboxed manner, does this webgpu approach bypass some checks or find different performant ways to do them? Afaik the biggest problem with gpu access from browsers is that the you instructions are not at all hardware secure. So everything has to be managed.
Somewhat off-topic, but is there an RSS feed available for the V8 blog? Their posts are always interesting to me, but I've searched a few times with no luck.
Riastradh's Lisp Style Rules
A friend of mine is a quadruple amputee, so he'll never drive, and the bus sucks. He gets around as much as possible on his electric wheelchair, which is a micromobility device, and he benefits from micromobility infrastructure that bikes and electric scooters use. I pick him up and we go to the pub together, I'm on my skateboard.

It's funny, Handicap parking spots are sacred. What kind of a deplorable, revolting human being would ever park in a handicap spot if they weren't handicapped? Pictures and videos of horrible, wretched human beings parked in handicapped spots are posted online so they can be called out and shamed.

Yet there are so many disabled people who cannot work a regular job and/or cannot qualify for a licence. Everything about cars makes their lives more difficult. Often they just stay at home, because getting anywhere is such a costly and/or harrowing chore. Handicap spots are just more parking lot they have to cross to get where they're trying to go.
Can't we compile those things out of the engine when using it for the desktop?
Growing one cow requires many acres of the Amazon rainforest to be chopped down.

You can cook a burger with electric heat, which can be generated with solar or wind power.
Not really interesting until Chrome adopts it
And their own serialization format
The “backward” scrolling (a better name might be “content scrolling” as compared to “window scrolling”) was changed because the “forward” way does not work for scrolling content on a multi-touch display. If the content moves in the opposite direction from the finger, it completely breaks the illusion that the fingers are directly controlling the content.

People switching back and forth between Macs and iPhones or iPads initially found it very inconvenient/frustrating to have window scrolling on a touchpad and content scrolling on a touchscreen.

It was decided that switching the Mac to be consistent with iOS would cause momentary frustration for Mac users (it requires a few days of retraining to get used to) but would be less frustrating for most users than preserving two inconsistent behaviors into perpetuity.

The option to keep the Mac on window scrolling was included to mollify those few Mac users unwilling to spend a few days or weeks re-training themselves to a reversed gesture.
Yes, but check your sibling comment. I had a high enough score but that's not the only requirement. And no one gave a specific reason I wasn't chosen, I just got a form letter saying none of the sponsors picked me.
> 'playing god with human evolution' concern

Don't mean to derail this entire thread, but even as someone who believes in God, I find it increasingly harder to understand what objectively is wrong about these purported ethical dilemmas (e.g. cloning)
No, the safety issue is cars. Take away cars and you take away 99.9% of transportation's ~40,0000 annual fatalities.
The Turkish lira’s currency code is an unexpected source of problems
Agreed, and would add that latching too much to some idea of a categorized identity can be a crutch. Half of life is showing up, as the saying goes: if you're lonely, you have to get out there. I moved to a new city and joined meetup clubs, played pick up sports, etc. You have to move outside your comfort zone sometimes, there's no way around it; no one's going to swoop into solve this problem for you.

Besides loneliness, sedentary lifestyle, poor diet and low vitamin D3 can lead to low serotonin levels and therefore moodiness and loss of ambition.
If fact databases were written in this language, wouldn't it make NLP much easier? To allow machines to more easily query fact databases and infer new facts?
Letter regarding preliminary fact-finding about MIT and Jeffrey Epstein
Why has the hearing aid industry gone completely digital?
I don't believe in any gods, and I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.

Is that advice actionable for you in some way? What do you take it to mean as it relates to modern employment?
That's a straw man.

The underlying issue is that companies are shipping products that do a bunch of extra shit that nobody expects or can predict.

The solution is for companies to be transparent and open about what their products are actually doing, and then users can decide for themselves if they want to use them or not.
The submitted title ("Palmer Luckey's new startup, a virtual US/Mexico wall, valued $1B by A16Z") broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." We've reverted it to the original now.

Submitters: Rewriting titles has a massive effect on discussion, so please don't do that unless the original title is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A little easier? Seems to me it would make theft a lot easier; it removes the requirement that everything you're buying has to come out of the bag and in front of a cashier.

Self-checkout still requires things to come out of your bag, so the person who's there for when a self-checkout machine inevitably needs cashier assistance can be keeping an eye on several stations at a time.

With scan-and-go, those eyes need to be moved to the shelves, which is a much larger area and won't all be in one person's line-of-sight at once (and the person can easily obscure vision of the shelf).
Uhhh this seems like a silly article. Nobody has ever claimed these things are healthier. It's always been about producing this "food" without slaughtering animals and all the extremely inefficient processes involved (feedlots, methane emissions, inhumane conditions).

In other news, LED lightbulbs still run on fossil fuels!