skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Scripting languages are by definition interpreted" [[Citation Needed]].

There are Common Lisp implementations of both Python and Javascript (ES3) that compile to Common Lisp and then the Common Lisp compiles to machine code: as I said before, whether or not a language is interpreted or compiled is an implementation detail, not part of its spec.
> The eBay prices were sometimes even higher than regular vendors, hoping to catch people in the place they happened to be looking.

Before sales tax was mandated on eBay, it may have made sense to pay a little more than retail but save the amount in tax.
Apple: We're totally LGBTQ friendly!

Also Apple: We make all of our products in a country that brutally oppresses these people!
Factor 3 (7 km/hour) is very fast walking for ‘normal’ people.

Speed walkers can go over twice as fast, but they don’t really walk.

https://www.iaaf.org/responsive/download/downloaddirect?file... defines it as

”Race Walking is a progression of steps so taken that the walker makes contact with the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs. The advancing leg must be straightened (i.e. not bent at the knee) from the moment of first contact with the ground until the vertical upright position.”

and also states:

”All the Judges shall act in an individual capacity and their judgements shall be based on observations made by the human eye.”

Of note here is the “to the human eye” phrase. If one were to introduce electronic aids similar to those used in fencing to detect whether there always is a foot on the ground, speeds would decrease significantly.
Citizens United

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
This is true, but personally I've often found that this also prevents me from forcing a link to open in a new tab (via cmd-click) and have that new tab share cookies with its parent. Clicking on a link with target=_blank does work, though, which actually makes it more annoying that cmd-click does not.
Even simple stuff like finding text on a page... I use the highlighting of occurrences in the scrollbar WAY more than I ever realized.

The breaking point for me to go back to Chrome a few months back was Mapbox was chewing up SO MUCH MORE resources in FF. As someone who does a lot of GIS dev in Mapbox that was a no-go =/
Acorn is my go to graphic editor, it is lesser known than other editors.

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Well, at least they own the product ... Roku did something similar with their remotes for a while (dedicated app keys ... and their still at it ...) Several of those apps no longer exist/function. Of course, this being a keyboard on a general purpose computer probably means the key is configurable for other purposes. May be the people who came up with the space cadet keyboard had the right idea ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
I used Firefox before Chrome and have tried to swap numerous times in the past (and have been using it for the last few weeks).

Advocates for Firefox often say "Firefox is better, just try switching!" yet when people point out reasons it's not better the response is "Oh those don't matter, you're just being nitpicky!"

But it's not a very gentle push back, it's forceful.

In this thread someone says "I don't like how much ram Firefox uses" and the response is

> I don't know why people choose their browser based on resource usage.

and

> Exactly. Come on, we're engineers we understand basic tradeoffs.

Firefox, as a product, has many issues when compared to Chrome. Why does everyone spend so much of their breath arguing against the real concerns and problems people have with it? Chrome has been getting worse in lots of major ways, Firefox has a chance to be the better product for a wider audience.

But Firefox won't become better with a culture of downvoting and arguing against criticism rather than trying to understand it. This is not the culture of Mozilla as far as I know, but it's the culture of many Firefox advocates all across the internet.
Nobody said those aren't a problem. Is SF only allowed to work on one problem at a time?
> The people I know who dismiss climate activism and its acknowledgement don't disagree with the science. They resent people who use climate change as a proxy for another agenda that is unrelated and inconsistent with the needs of reducing human impact on the planet

What if preservation of the environment is simply incompatible with some political/economic ideology? how are you supposed to propose solutions without challenging the culprit ideology?
Eeeehhh... He's arguing for principles and I'm not comfortable with the claim that not having principles is every bit as valid as having them.
How does it usually work? Does one fully vest upon firing? Vest several months upon firing?
> snipers and bid shilling got ridiculous

Since you've worked there, I've always wondered: What did eBay think of this? Did they not care because it indirectly benefitted them?

I feel like they could've done much more to prevent snipers and automated programs from putting in a last second bid.
> Seems strange to express displeasure with a corporate policy about a website by being disrespectful to unrelated individuals.

What are you even going on about? Whom have I disrespected?

Allow me to repeat myself: It’s one thing restrict offensive language but it’s a whole different beast to mandate specific language.

If, e.g., you tell me to not refer to a certain group of folks using a particular racially offensive term, that’s fine and pretty reasonable, but if you tell me that I must refer to a certain group of folks using a term that you or they chose simply because you or they said so, as far as I’m concerned, we’re slowly walking ourselves into a dictatorship. For the first option, I can simply not do anything and avoid being a “bad” person, but for the second option, I’m implicitly a “bad” person if I don’t explicitly do as told (in this case, aka, ordered).

There’s no way I could ever accept that. Nope. No way.
In either arena, which group is the rising power against straight white men? Latinos? And what are the straight white women doing in this portrait of power? Where are women in this narrative?
But that means the private sector only has to focus on what makes them money,and they must do it well, or else they go away.
Given the situation Chrome should not be called Web Browser anymore. User Tracker seems better category.
Would it be possible to create a desktop app that acted as a third party chrome extension store? Chrome let's you installed developer zip files without needing approval, could you make a desktop app that automatically downloaded the latest version and uploaded it to all devices as a zip file in chrome?
None of this is surprising or remotely new for Google. As someone who has dealt with Google’s moderation process from other products, it’s basically the same shit as it was 15 years ago. This isn’t a Google Chrome Webstore specific issue, this is a universal Google issue.

I imagine the sloppy processes were the result of keeping things automated early in Google’s life and as they grew, to obfuscate spammers. Then, as Google got bigger over the past decade and morphed into a dis-functional bureaucracy, any hope of improving those processes was lost. Smaller companies can get away with these sorts of things, but once you are under the lens of politicians and anti-trust regulators, it starts to cause a material impact on the business. The price is going to be paid eventually, by Google’s stockholders.

In the short term this specific uBlock Origin issue may look good for Google. Less ad blocking users for Chrome means higher revenue per install. Many of the bad decisions the Chrome team made were probably strongly supported by user cohorts and revenue data (like forcing Google logins on Chrome if you logged in to Gmail.) That might be enough for some of Google’s executives and middle managers to earn self directed bonus stock options. In the long term, we all know what happens when the early adapters move on to other products.
Yes -- it's a good talk, but it focuses mostly on tricks you can do (spatial indexing, geometry subdividing) on the PostGIS side to make lookups/calculations faster, but discussion of actually scaling to multiple databases is a bit light. There is mention of Citus (which Microsoft has purchased and rebranded as Hyperscale), but it has a minimum cost that is more than I can afford right now.

I didn't know if there were other architectures to consider for rails -- like having a few read replicas for web traffic, and then a single large writable master for sidekiq/background jobs, for instance.
No, but it seems like SF has made the choice to ignore one and restict the other, and most residents would probably prefer the opposite.
Image Search Options is an add-on for Firefox that lets you right-click an image to search for it on Google as well as other image search sites. Also available as a Chrome extension.

- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-search-option...

- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-search-optio...

- Website: https://saucenao.com/tools/
> Phoenix will ever be able to do better than about 80% of Rails's productivity.

It took me 4 hours to learn LiveView, 3 to get it up and running with Phoenix PubSub (which I didn't know before either), and another 2 to get Presence in there. So I now have a live dashboard for the backend of our service (and it will probably be similar to the frontend). The rest of the week was developing a system so that I could run acceptance tests concurrently (you have to shard your Registries and your Channels and use a secret erlang feature to track who's what). Everything "just worked".

I think this 10 hour enterprise would have taken me at least a month to do with a standard RESTful interface and a backend off the shelf PubSub like RabbitMQ, and probably two months to do with an non-featureful backend websockets system (I find websockets confusing).

It's hard for me to believe that any other system is as productive.
So basically there are separate founder and employee shares and negotiated different terms for the two (hold-back and options)?
I just looked it up, and apparently I misremembered a bit, it was actually because the app allowed YouTube background playback: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/08/kiwi-browser-remove...

The fact remains that Google was acting as a total monopoly when this decision was made.
No mention of the scope. What types of emerging technology falls under this office? Will it require approving every new app used within city limits?

My cynical take is that this is just another gatekeeper to pay off and appease. The city wants more money from tech.
As a San Francisco native, it has always astonished me that people would want to start tech companies here. The city government is just so hostile.

Kevin Erdmann wrote an interesting thesis about this. In the past, American cities were built densely, but in the 20ᵗʰ Century they all embraced cars and NIMBYism.

The few existing densely built cities thus have become a sort of limited natural resource, impossible to replicate elsewhere in the country and (in purely economic terms) worth the extreme cost of entry.
Center passed north of Tokyo, Typhoon is massive though. Geography of the coastline and mountains had a big effect on impact.

Everyone is generally going to be safe except those in rare situations (a vehicle accident, a safety worker swept up in water, and generally those affected by mudslides or moving water in rural areas).
Chrome has something similar built in called profiles, each profile is a unique session (like incognito except it persists)
You're using this trope entirely out of context.

There are only handful of companies (Google and FB come to mind) that make products for Apple's platform that Apple can't easily replicate itself.
What amount of government repression does it take for the citizens to revolt?
Their pricing model is besides the point. Apple extended interest and kindness towards them and then copied their products. It's just kind of cruel. These are the types of rotten actions that make people more generally cynical and disappointed about large corporations and the valley.
Inferring the mental state of another entity would more fall under 'theory of mind' rather than empathy, which is not only inferring their emotional state but also feeling it yourself.

I guess you could define 'empathic behaviour' as per your last paragraph, as a synonym for 'considerate', but unless it's driven by empathy it's really just mimicry of empathic behaviour.
Googling "Directive 10-289" would give you more context.
It's seemed to me for a while that you could take an infosec-style approach and use voluntary controls, policies, procedures and third-party non-government certification via accounting firms to give the public more confidence in the press, something that is obviously fundamental to a democracy.

Just like in infosec, controls (etc) do not guarantee safety (accuracy), but they let you know that processes were followed and that fact is documented. Third parties (accounting firms) confirm that you have the evidence of having followed your processes. Corruptable? Sure. Better? Definitely yes.

Just like in infosec: if you have evidence that every week you've plowed through the access logs, you're more likely to have caught an intruder/mistake. The approach tends to route out single acts of sloppiness and subterfuge and turn mistakes in to conspiracies, which is a much harder thing to pull off than a single actor looking for fame or a raise.

For my part, I genuinely believe these organizations are trying their best to do something very hard but that their own efforts at fairness can be undermined by a lot of factors, especially money. The natural incentives (clicks/$) need to be counterbalanced with self-imposed "regulation" that is third-party verified.

[EDIT: s/factories/factors
This is also why "endless scaling" is a fud. At some point or some level, there is either a physical, soft, standard or some kind of limit
ACLU does not believe the Second Amendment provides an individual right to gun ownership, but they have become more willing to insert themselves on issues where gun owners other civil liberties are being trampled on.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/civil-liberties/mobilization/aclus...
This is a pattern that shows up in other contexts as well. Linux on the desktop, git etc. have communities of advicates that tend to dismiss complaints and criticism far too strongly. That isn't to say that there are more reasonable people in these communities - there are plenty - but the forceful pushback is very visible and tends to be quite offputting.
It currently uses the Microsoft Store, but it -can- use the Chrome store.

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons?hl=en-US
As for the name, I figured it has a couple connotations.

AT&T's Bell labs.

Belle is French for Beautiful

Bel is the 7th ASCII character and it use to ring an electro mechanical bell in computers, before they had speakers or sound cards.

B is the second letter after A, with which Arc, his first Lisp variant was named.

And both have three letters.
Honestly, I would LOVE to hear Tim Cook give his honest assessment of why staying 100% reliant on China was the correct supply chain move for a company with one hundred billion in cash reserves.

It seems unfathomable to me, a person who doesn't know much about supply chains etc
Space X Astronauts Training for 'Demo-2' Flight
Do you normally destroy things worth millions of dollars that still can do their basic function (house offices)?
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But you don't need origin because preview blocks pretty much all ads by default.
No but with limited resources what they prioritize is telling. Scooters should be near the bottom the list, not the top.
It's no skin off my nose if you want to feed Google, but personally I have no idea what you're talking about as there's never been something I couldn't do on firefox.
No the purpose of this legislation is to provide a one stop shop for businesses that would have to interact with city departments anyways: scooters with SFMTA, rental startups with DBI or planning. It is not in theory supposed to be a gatekeeper for businesses that can operate independently of local regulation, though Mar has written bad legislation before.

The Hacker News outrage is non-sensical. These are businesses that would have to interact with the city no matter what; a single department instead of many is a strict improvement from status quo. The United States used to have an office of emerging technology too, and it was for the most part very good. Their reports are fun to read.
You missed the most important reason of all.... “It’s a huge waste of time and all the cool people stopped using it forever ago”.
So, if you had piece of software that worked fine on Windows and ran like crap on Linux, you would blame Linux?
There were definitely a lot of flash sites around back in the day. But anyway, flash support/popularity had nothing to do with IE losing control of setting browser standards because IE never set browser standards in the first place - in fact it quite often flouted them.
Vuescan is very useful and incredibly feature rich but it’s interface is ugly, and that’s also because it’s not a native Mac app, it’s written in some rather obscure cross platform application framework.
How can I connect or edit my profile? Nothing happens on the page
Counter-point: every fourth person wearing Birkenstocks this weekend.
Yeah, of course, but that doesn’t by itself lead me to the conclusion that those are all first converted to another type before being passed on the stack. They could be passed as-is and type-cast inside the printf implementation.

The more interesting printf example would be %f, since according to what I learned today, it’s not a float, it’s a double.

Are you saying you already knew doubles were passed in variadics instead of float, and the reason you knew is printf?
I've read the whole article and I've literally no idea what either product does.

I use a Mac for work - and most of user that I know don't slavishly follow the glorified press conference that Apple holds. I dare say most users don't know about most of the new features in the utility laptop they buy or are forced to use at work.
You're surprised geeks are talking about open source over microsoft?
Ecological disaster taking toll on scientists’ mental health
Apple products have always been premium items that people choose to pay more for.

Apple could have simply raised their prices to account for differences in domestic manufacturing costs or swallowed the cost with decreased profit margins.
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I'm aware of the context, as you might have been able to tell from my mention of d'Anconia.
> Success doesn't teach you anything

I can’t think of any sense in which this is true
I just read Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (from 1202). I think I'm not too far off the mark if I say Lisp in our day is what the Indian numeral system was in Fibonacci's day. A new writing system that has significant practical advantages.
Mozilla is the real hero here. GO with the good guys!
She began to talk – then mysteriously fell silent. Later her parents learned why
This is really crummy. If they want to support charities, just do it. I already have to buy from them for them to make a donation. Now I have to grant invasive permissions as well?
I'm using Firefox Developer Edition as my main browser, but anytime I have to work with the Google ecosystem I use Vivaldi - and I only use it for that.
> But first they have to stop denying warming is happening

I believe that they can see that reducing carbon emissions is entirely incompatible with their usual line of thoughts and policies. They need either to renounce to their ideology, or deny/minimize climate change.
Unless something has changed, the Chrome functionality associates an entire window with a particular profile. Firefox lets you have tabs in different containers, colour coded and all in the same window. I find this much nicer to use.
Wow HN is especially negative today.

Count me as interested in a terminal that supports “infinite” scrollback, while keeping memory usage deterministic. Apply color styling heuristically based on content is interesting. I’m assuming this only kicks in if color is not applied inside the term? Being able to cat an xml/json/source file and get decent styling sounds quite cool. Also hard.

You might want to setup a non-github landing page. While you certainly can use github for anything (within their tos), user expectations are that open source tools are hosted there.

Spin up a quick landing site (even just use something like squarespace) and capture some animated gifs showing your distinctive features in action.

I agree that you’ll have a hard time selling this as a product - there are too many “pretty damn good” versions of terminals to get folks to pay.

Have you thought of offering an embeddable component? I can imagine a number of great uses for a lightweight, native, customizable text control with the features described. I think we’re reaching peek Electron, and fully baked native text control/editor would be a differentiator.

Perhaps offer the terminal for free and commercialize the component?

Either way, HN is a tough crowd, especially with commercial products, so don’t take it to personally.

Take the constructive part of the criticism and pursue your passion.
AFAIK the main source of blockyness is due to the quantization of low-frequency components, such that the decoded signal doesn't quite match from one block to the next.

The ringing around edges in the source signal, Gibbs phenomenon[1], is due to almost or entirely discarding higher frequency components.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon
If chrome profiles are anything like Firefox profiles then they are a lot more heavyweight than container tabs
I bet they will.
Yes, those absolutely feel similar. It's a real shame because I think it holds back those communities and products enormously.

The person who takes the time to complain isn't an enemy, they're making an effort to bring something to attention for the community. You want more complainers instead of people silently rejecting your community and product.

The 'argue against the messenger' first reaction of many projects creates insular communities and insular communities create worse products.
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I switched (back) to firefox after the quantum update and havent looked back. I haven't used chrome in years so im not able to compare performance but I've had nice issues in that department with ff. I use brave for mobile.
A cellphone, a cheap data plan + prime will run you ~$500 at the most.

Or ~$1.50 a day. And you get the rest of the internets knowledge included.

No hours of operation, no librarians giving you dirty looks
Making Peace with Imperfection
I’m saying that IE and Flash’s popularity didn’t decline because of government intervention - the tool that seems to be the go to of HN posters anytime there is something that they don’t like - even though what ended IE and Flash’s popularity on the web wasn’t the government.
That's irrelevant because you can use AGPL if you don't want your software exploited by a cloud Corp.
DJ Zedd perma banned from entering China after liking tweet
He ran with prototype shoes with carbon fiber in the sole.

https://www.believeintherun.com/2019/10/09/a-breakdown-of-th...
Counter-counter-point, of course you'll see people in open footwear but in many busy, populated areas (especially near where people work) such as around market, civic center, soma you'll see needles and feces everywhere. Open toed shoes near those things is probably unadvisable
Do you enforce that automatically? or is it just part of the review process?
Modulating Anxiety and Activity
Seems a bit like pot calling kettle black considering what Facebook allows to be advertised these days.
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