skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am strongly of the opinion that the fixed yearly release cycle is almost unequivocally bad for macOS (and most years it ain't so great for iOS either -- 13 is still a mess).

My Mac is, and has been for many years, a 100% work machine. 'Leisure' computing for me is done on my phone or iPad, and I think the same likely applies for a lot of Mac users.

The yearly cycle mostly makes sense for iOS because they want flashy new features to go with their flashy new hardware, but the Mac has basically no schedule for hardware updates. Even when they happen, they're usually spec bumps and not the sort of update that requires new user-facing OS features.

Of course I want the Mac and macOS to continue to steadily improve. I love the platform. I am utterly apathetic towards Windows, and using Linux for 8 hours a day at my day job has confirmed that I could not possibly stand to run it full-time on my personal machine. I don't want the Mac to die off. But for the love of god I wish they'd just wait until the software is ready before releasing it.
Despite all the comments here it’s not particularly uncommon, at least not in places that have either adventurous fine dining or throwback old school steak type options.

Head to Minetta Tavern in NYC’s west village and sit at the bar and order it with a glass of wine, you’ll thank me later.
I would love to see that too, but I think that's likely never happened. Because Rust is kinda hard and takes quite amount of time and money to train new people, add more stacks on maintaining projects, and important thing is that I don't see why they have to use Rust. Go is good enough and they can work around with Go's disavantages.
The company that is running the HK subway, MTR Corporation (a
public company, but 75% owned owned by the "HK government", i.e. China), is also handling operations for some none-HK/China locales:

* London: TfL Rail: Paddington to Heathrow Airport and Liverpool Street to Shenfield (100%)

* Stockholm: the subway (100%)

* Melbourne: the metro (60%)

* Sydney North West Rail Link (60%)

More details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation
No finer way was there to lose data.
Microsoft Displaying Ads in Powershell
I'm so used to scrolling by keypress (i.e. any of the vim-like extensions), with smooth scrolling disabled and a higher scroll step, that I just recently noticed that this reduces resource usage/heat.
Blue light isn’t main source of eye fatigue and sleep loss, it’s your computer
> it'll be bad because Google can force features into standards and essentially do what they want with no recourse.

Again, not the way it worked with IE 1-8

> Everyone who doesn't see that is just a Google-apologist.

Well I don't and I'm not.
You could run what you type through an analyzer.

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main
Google is certainly not a corporation that has ever shown to have an interest in the best for their users. They have already done quite a few things that benefit them or hurt competitors (youtube's UI is slow on firefox, changing the scrolling UI for no reason, trying to kill adblockers and now blocking uBlock from their store).
Something must be weird with your machine. My mbp is from 2009 and Firefox scrolls smoothly.
For me it’s competing with leasing a car. If it can be cheaper than that I’d consider it.

But yeah, perhaps I’m overestimating the cost of real drivers
The 64-bit binaries were temporarily pulled due to an issue with Sparkle (auto-update framework), but they're back online as of a few minutes ago.

"macOS 10.7+ 64 bits with Sparkle Disk Image" on the downloads page, might have to refresh.
Hell, if we're talking about the next emergent layer of software, autonomous code / artificial intelligence, I'd say LISP has a better shot than most languages. Performance-critical code can still be refactored into C but LISP has much more built-in capability for advanced genetic coding and reflection.
You can stop video from playing as well in Chrome settings. Either globally, or on a site-per-site basis.
When looking at these radar systems, I always notice there are hurricane like spirals south near Antarctica. Does anyone know if those are actually as powerful as hurricanes, and do they make landfall?
finally the city is doing something about those whizz-kid whippersnappers and their goofy gizmos. i'm tired of shaking my cane at these freaks when they blast by me on an electric ouija board or whatever new-fangled gadget is in mode this week. between this and the city banning all new housing developments, we're finally going to clean up the problems that really threaten quality of life here.
Hyped to have you back in here pg :)
Hey, I'm really glad to see you've continued to work on this - it's one of those projects that is just naturally fun to watch be made.

How far has the GCC port come? Is the project anywhere near self hosting being a feasible task?
Reddit, Firefox, Pixel is noticably slower to render, scroll or click than in Chrome.
it does though, at least in beta
Large tech companies have the resources to clone any single piece of software engineering or hardware engineering. The marginal cost of developing a new "feature" of their existing "product" is so small in the grand scheme of things. As long as you have software engineers, money, and an idea, you can make something like sidecar real; this company needed to create all three from scratch, Apple has oodles of the first two and can easily steal ideas for the third. With that being said, if the only definition of a product is something that Apple can't replicate, then I'm afraid we are damn near out of products.

(Again, this applies to every large tech company, not just apple)
I'm not sure I see the relevance of this. Could you elaborate?
I wouldn't imagine they're impossible to challenge in cases like this. In fact I wager this post amounts to a challenge as it's nearly guaranteed a Chrome extensions developer will see it.
>baffled why they allowed for uBO for such a long time

potential "10,000,000+ users" pissed at Google is the reason, but why if we made it look like extension author was dodgy/to blame? ... :(
That’s not a business as usual scenario: https://www.carbonbrief.org/extreme-co2-levels-could-trigger...

> The Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 scenario (RCP8.5), a very high emissions scenario examined by climate scientists, has the Earth’s atmosphere reaching around 1,100ppm by the year 2100. But this would require the world to massively expand coal use and eschew any climate mitigation over the rest of this century.

Also, it’s clearly a “tenable position for life” because temperatures were that high as recently as 55 million years ago, and mammals survived: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150914-when-global-warming-...
What doesn’t work on iOS? I use it all the time.
Wow, this scares me a lot. So if you upload an update to an existing extension that has many users, if a human reviewer arbitrarily decides to reject the update, the entire extension is removed from the store? Or just the recent update?

If the entire extension is removed that makes updating an existing app a terrifying process. Do they apply the same standards to top paid extensions like LastPass and Grammarly?

I run a freemium SEO Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io) with 30K active users - if the extension got taken down suddenly it would anger + confuse existing users and directly impact sales. As a backup, you could ask users to download and install the extension in developer mode but this would crush the conversion rate for the free version and you'd lose all organic traffic via the Chrome Web Store.

Google already killed Chrome Apps (taking with it functionality you couldn't do in Chrome extensions) and Manifest v3 is going to introduce yet to be decided restrictions. At least these restrictions don't rely on the whims of human reviewers though.

Right now, my stomach drops whenever I see a Chrome extension development announcement.
That seems unnecessarily cheeky. If you can make money on it, its a product, if someone builds it in to their product line, perhaps they did it better (though not always).
switch to brave
Well I'm not sure either who would rely on extensive calling of this function but why would you call it "whining"? Apart from the fact that earning six figures still isn't the norm for most Objective-C developers.

> The prototype is changing to break code that was poorly formed in the first place.

I guess calling it directly would even be poor form by itself so who knows.
lived it ! was fun, everyone knew the finance people would f- it up
And again, that's what Google is already doing, I'm not saying they're doing the exact same things that happened with IE1-8 but a browser monopoly is still equally bad regardless of how badly a browser is maintained.
In Rust, we also say that it’s the right to destroy.
I suspect this does have to do with whether or not it is a fast scripting language, considering a language compiled into machine code is by definition not a scripting language.

Sure, flag me, but my comment was relevant to the discussion.
Actually, my Creative Director and I have noticed some Google Fonts have changed over time, producing significant enough (read: negative) changes to the UI of clients’ experiences we have out there that we decided to start downloading and storing them locally to lock in state (and for perf, but that’s another topic). The average user who comes to the site once will never notice it, but we have.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it were a hidden vector of some sort, but I haven’t put effort into digging into it.
I didn't know where to bring this up. At this point it just feels like remote code execution. I filed an issue on PowerShell's github page. Please support me, maybe I can make my voice heard. I am tired of stuff like this. Notifications here and there, ads here and there.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/10779

I have been anoyed with my Android apps for a while now since every other update seems to change the UI randomly, I thought my shell was safe. This is not a desired piece of information, it is simply remote code execution. Somebody runs software on my computer and I don't get to decide what it is. I had Microsoft Teams installed, and now my shell is showing ads. If it wasn't for steam and photoshop, I wouldn't even run windows. So tired of your s*, Microsoft.
Seems like wishful thinking given that there's been no significant anti-trust action taken by the U.S. government in years.
Many lisps compile to machine code too. Compilation vs. interpretation is a feature of an implementation, not a language.
But, the comment wasn't speaking in a generalization, just why they themselves don't use Firefox on Android while also indicating the exact device. It doesn't seem there was any argument being made, just that they seem a little disappointed that it doesn't work well on their specific device and they wanted to add that to the conversation.

Honestly, every bug/glitch/criticism is important, even if it doesn't affect a large portion of users. Ideally, it should be reported in Mozilla's bug tracker if it hasn't already, but still important nonetheless.
Already made the switch as well
In the last years, Apple has only shipped security updates for previous versions of macOS when the .1 release of their new OS came out. So you either dive into a buggy .0 release, or you live with well-known security issues for a month. It's ridiculous.
Do you have a reason to think this is endemic? Have you ever talked to people who like their union? You sound like a bitter old man.
I always argue the software is a new form of literacy - and if you think of it like that, it is not at all unusual that someone will keep reading and writing well into retirement.

Have fun with your unproductive beautiful coding :-)
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If any firefox devs are reading this

- Can you please make this a default?

- Can you please fix text rendering on mobile? Sites like reddit render at desktop resolution on mobile screen, and there is no clear text sizing that works. With Chrome I just set my size option and move on with life.
your phonetic russian quote is not the same as what’s written on the poster.
Someone needs to create a rival search engine to Google. I have tried switching but Bing and DuckDuckGo aren't anywhere near as good.
Guile + guix.

I work in devops and that replaced a horrible mess of god knows how many containers with a straight forward, boring and reproducible single large instance of Guix SD.
It’s a whole different thing to try and picture it than see it!

I ran a 1/2 marathon where a highly ranked runner was competing in the full.

He passed me at mile 11 of the 1/2, so about 23 of the full. His pace for 26 miles was absolutely faster than I can run for one, maybe two blocks.

Just giant effortless strides, with a damn smile on his face. Iirc, his marathon time was 2:12.
I mean you would think their process would be smart enough to say "Hey, we just rejected upload for product X that is THE MOST POPULAR PLUGIN. We haven't rejected any of the prior versions. Maybe let's get a human review.

Certainly google employees and the chrome team will be aware of this within an hour if they aren't already. You can bet it's intentional if we don't see a reversal in the next 3 days."
I haven't gone through this yet but I really like the idea of each new concept being described in the context of a useful application. Thanks OP
>The problem is that "our way or the highway" only works when your way is actually good. They have a responsibility to their users to never break things, if they intend to provide no means of workaround.

Yes, but seeing that no human endeavor is 100% perfect, it's enough that they don't often break things, or that they get it right a lot more than they get it wrong -- I wouldn't really expect them to never break things.

In the end, we get to vote by using another OS if they fail at this too far...

And we can of course complain when an individual feature or other is badly implemented.

But my point is, if one adopts macOS, they should agree to the general idea ("we think of the better way for most things so you don't have to") -- and not complain on that level (which is basically amounts to wishing macOS was not macOS as opposed to being better in X or Y).
Scripting languages are by definition interpreted. The question was about fast scripting languages. I'm skeptical that Lisp compiled to Lua would count as in that category, but Julia unequivocally doesn't.
This is crazy but smart on Amazons side saves them a lot of money
The real solution without TLS will come, in my understanding, after generators improve. Specifically, they cannot currently take arguments on resume.
You should try installing the extensions that help FF become faster than Chrome: Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and optionally HTTPS Everywhere.
very cool -- for CA locals this one is a classic
http://www.met.sjsu.edu/~wind/BigSFWindJS/streaklines_nocach...
BlackBerry's first and only tablet (the PlayBook) actually shipped without an email app. Was it courage or a company falling apart, you decide :)
Setting aside the morality -- which is its own reason to treat people well -- it's damnably effective.

Something I got from a book on negotiating:

It doesn't matter how good of a negotiator you are, if you develop a reputation for being a jerk, you're going to fail.

Why?

Because for every room you're in being the best negotiator, your reputation is in ten, negotiating the other way and talking you out of deals you didn't even know about.

Conversely, if you develop a reputation for being a reliable partner and a fair dealer, then your reputation will do the hard work for you. People will talk you into deals without your input, because they want to work with people like that.
I don't know why people choose their browser based on resource usage. You can have a browser run by a company looking to loot the public good for their own gain, or a non-profit looking to keep the web open and free.

Hold on I'm going to pick the one that's marginally faster and more ram efficient...
It should be seen as feedback for devs.

The comparison app (Chrome) _just works.__

Firefox has gaps for a noticeable fraction of folks.

No one complains when their software works as expected.

[Edit] I say this as someone who prefers firefox on all their machines wherever possible.
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C is pretty far away from the hardware these days.

We are missing the true low level languages that C used to be in the 80s/90s.
> This can alienate the 8.3%+, and is probably one of the reasons why that percentage is that low.

That "probably" there isn't justified, in my opinion.
As others in that FAQ thread have pointed out, StackOverflow isn't a place where a lot of third-person interaction is taking place, so I'd consider it a stretch to make that out as a reason that non-males are lacking there.

Maybe it's just that women often have better things to do than to ask strangers for help on why their Haskell state monad is acting up.
I can't notice any real difference, having been using Nightly (dev) edition for a full year now. Incidentally, my company (one of the largest tech in the world) uses Firefox by default (and nobody had any reason to switch).

Google simply can't be trusted with all that ads stuff
You will by definition be standards compliant if you are the main mover behind the eternally moving standard. Chrome powers the living standard. Other browser engines follow.
So I thought/researched/wrote for 10+ years about possible legal frameworks and regulation for the 21st century; and in the end it seems an untenable proposition to 'force' such evolution by way of law, if we look at the actual history of most sectors — energy, construction, steel, media, telco... and now electronics and tech. I mean it's wishful thinking and whatever 'law' ends up being circumvented. Concentration is inevitable.

What does seem to 'work' is the subversion of one sub-market by another, e.g. when we transition from radio to TV, or when began the post-Facebook era. These are technological innovations. Political science taught me one thing: what changes the world is not what we think or say, it's what we do, and the most groundbreaking actions are those who create the everyday things that change our lives in dramatic ways — mobile phones, cars, planes, TV, YouTube, Netflix, Maps, chats, what-you-use.

Ergo, if we want a truly "fair" network, I think there's no other way but to make one. A real innovation that pretty much owns the market of inter-human communication, eventually. Something the magnitude of netscape/javascript at the end of the 1990s, or SMS, or Facebook versus everything else before, or streaming video and audio... a real shift in 'what you can do' or the way you do it.
I'm not convinced this is worth the effort. I assume that typing speed is rarely an issue for touch typists. It is also not clear that different layouts do help with RSI.

But the main issue for me is having to switch between layouts. Actually, it's an issue I used to have living in France, where I occasionally had to switch between my QWERTY layout and some AZERTY layout (for instance, to show something to a colleague and friend). Even though I know both layout, there is always some adaptation time.

Slightly unrelated, I noticed that what breaks my typing flow is to add/remove pairs parenthesis/braces (which happens all the time when coding). I still haven't found a good solution to this. I think that even Vim doesn't have a good default solution for this. I wonder how efficient typers solve this issue.
It used to be Cmd-Z, interestingly. I kind of liked that. Haven’t tried in a while, has it changed to be in line with other browsers now?
No, it was going to be open to partners that Facebook picks and chooses. It was very specifically not to be a fully decentralised blockchain, which essentially means it's actually a big permissioned database, which the database owners get to control.
Congratulations on qualifying for Boston. I found "Jack Daniel's Running Formula" an invaluable resource in learning how to obtain the best performance from your body. His V-Dot fitness estimator can predict your marathon time (with optimal training) from your 5k race performance. I also had a goal to run a 3 hour marathon, but my 5k race time was just a few seconds too slow to extrapolate a 3 hour marathon. I did hit my predicted marathon performance (3:06), so I was able to give up the 3 hour goal with no regret. I recognized that it might not be realistic to improve my leg speed and 5k times at age 40, having over 6 years of good training, coaching, and racing experience under my belt.
I find it fairly clear.

- each vertical line is the flight of an airplane

- each horizontal/diagonal line is a refueling operation

So, planes take of from Ascension Island at the bottom, only one reaches the Falkland Islands.

Ignoring the gray vertical lines (they are for ‘insurance’, in case other planes would have hit a problem), we have:

- 6 Victors taking of

- 3 of them refueling the other 3 after a short while (presumably because taking of and getting to flight height uses more fuel than steady flight), immediately returning to base afterwards.

- the bomber taking off

- a seventh Victor taking off, refueling the bomber twice, and then returning to base

- one of the 3 Victors of the first wave refuels the bomber twice, then refuels another of the three before returning to base

- that second one refuels the third one and returns to base

Etc.
Agreed. Twitch is nearly unusable in firefox. I have to view all channels in 480p to keep it from freezing constantly. It still freezes occasionally.
If you're referring to the DirectView cameras, they are closer to being practical, but not really. They cannot run 3rd party software, and don't even have an SDK for external development. The body camera industry produces recording devices, not mobile video enhanced computing devices.
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> The comparison app (Chrome) _just works.__

Except when it doesn't. I initially switched to Firefox on Android because Chrome was crashing often and was noticeably slower.
You can make money off many things that aren’t products. Pedantically we might be right that anything revenue is product, but I think it’s the difference between a real product and an add on that people only buy because hey are buying something else.

The advice is useful because if I’m building a feature I will either be purchased by a product or eventually be added into a product.
With the new manifest V3, it’s sounding like this won’t be enough sometime in the future
The finest way is to run Catalina on a $5000 iMac Pro.
Google is no different than any other for profit corporation. Their first interest is making money by getting their customers to pay them. Their customers are advertisers. Their users are what they sell to their customers.
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At the moment I only have one issue with FF. I can't use bookmarklets on pages like FB and Twitter, because of some wrong implementation of a content policiy or something like that...
I think that's an interesting comparison. There is definitely some merit to it.

It's kind of hard to sum all the good and bad of google or microsoft off the top of my head though.
I did not mention any industrial processes, like soda caustica for a reason. They suck.

Salamoia pickling is basically marinading and pickling together. I'm not a fan, personally. Too much salt for my taste :)

Ranno is really nice. If you marinade them after, they will last for upto half a year refrigerated.

Thanks for your input!
Also, there's now a paperback available!
I've traveled Ryanair a fair bit. I have never been assigned a seat together with my traveling partner. It is not random, it is explicitly assigning seats which are not next to each other but preferably a row or two apart.

I'm done with Ryanair incidentally because of this and other policies. After adding all the small things, the cost ends up being higher than EasyJet or other more customer-oriented airlines.