skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advent of Code 2019
Great tool and also quite easy to use.

I've actually used it to simulate/chose my furniture and furniture placement quite recently.

Here the result using the ray tracing renderer:

https://mirror.kakwalab.ovh/misc/Sejour_5.png

https://mirror.kakwalab.ovh/misc/Chambre_3.png

Yes, that's mostly Ikea furniture. And consequently the 3D models are likely to exists and can be grabbed from 3dwarehouse/sketchup.
A small dumb group of people works better in your opinion?
There are still a lot of QoL features that Firefox DevTools misses. For example autocomplete for CSS classes, a tab for handling Service Workers, commands to perform actions (like disabling JavaScript), etc.

I find myself switching between browsers just to take advantage of the different features each one provides which is slighly annoying. I would sincerely love some kind of unified DevTools.
studies are bs because

We should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
The problem is that we do not currently know how to carry out studies on the efficacy of programming language paradigms under "controlled laboratory conditions". It's known to be hard. Feel free to change this and become famous! The studies discussed in the article are but first steps towards:

- a better empirical grounding of programming language & software engineering research;

- more emphasis on reproducibility in science.

I'm glad that Vitek, Berger et al are starting serious empirical PL/SE research, and care about reproducibility! Bravo!
Seems to be a MacOS only feature.
I did, but it doesn’t seem to work very well when I’m on my phone. I may be alone in this but even though old isn’t particularly mobile friendly I still prefer it to the mobile web app.
It's like the joke: but do they call me "McGregor the bridge builder"? No!

Point is in life there are things you can't walk back.
I'm sure you only use systems with 100% uptime too.
There is at least one established anti-reddit, Voat and there's an open source version of it.

Voat is a great place to go for people skeptical about Jews, non-whites, the overweight and transsexuals to freely share their... concerns.

So I don't think software is sufficient to compete, you need heavy community moderation.
Even a very modern Debian GNU/Linux still runs tolerably well on lower specs than these. Just pick a lightweight desktop environment, and expect to set up some swap space if you're on 512MB only.

Of course the requirements of something like Alpine are a lot lower, but it's kinda hard to describe that as a general-purpose distro.
It's probably because its cheaper, and most web developers are using macOS anyway
Calm down man, i'm just very interested by this subject because i'm doing a lots of music where im trying to spread some love because when i was in college i was used to be bullied, so im trying to help kids who are in the similar situation. But even when im trying to spread that kind of messages, there are haters so YEAH im looking for some studies or elements which explain the psychologic side of these people, im not high or crazy, i just want to learn more about the human nature.
Bill Gross, Heliogen’s current CEO previously founded eSolar. eSolar proposed using an array of Heliostaticly controlled mirrors to direct light toward a solar cell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESolar
So... that part of the eSolar approach is carrying over into Heliogen.

Last time this was posted the “AI” component of the play was less clear... But with an array of mirrors, in particular being to generate heat in some volume I guess a more complex feedback/control system may be required.
Because they all eat a lots of RAM...
You forgot that they posted the news the same day that it happened was fixed. Should they have delayed the fix until after the weekend to avoid the bad optics?
Presumably the implementation is platform dependent and they wish to start with where they believe the most relevant developer mindshare is. I'd guess it's still somewhat tricky for them to playback different replays across platforms.
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vivaldi put a ton of effort into presenting each update, fancy graphics etc, but yea creating a unique domain for a feature is pretty strange alright
I recommend this one:

https://examine.com/store/keto-guide/
Do you really think the web developpers that use advanced dev tools can make a real difference in their market share? (real question)
> Except of course that there is no such thing as "the firefox foundation".

D'oh! Allow me to use the excuse of having had a 14 hour flight when I wrote the original comment.
I think you underestimate the impact of GNU on your daily life. Sure, someone else might have made the same things, but in this timeline RMS did and by removing him, most of the software you are currently using falls apart.
The moderator error may not have been coincidental. It was was corrected by a senior moderator and reinstated quickly.
It just seems like a sloppy solution to do this at search engine level, especially when most of these search engines are outside of european jurisdiction.

I think it would be much more sensible to require the actual sources to anonymize their online content after a certain time or just whenever something like this goes to court instead of having private companies keep registers of "forbidden" links.
Oďd, it seems like most of their stuff I buy is from eastern Europe, especially Poland.
> After all, every stakeholder in this vertical is an at-will participant, with no compulsion to stay if the economics do not work out

That's not true. There are only 2 aggregators to choose from. Staying off one is not a feasible option for most.

> the government is baselessly capping their earnings.

They are not capping earning, they are capping percentage of fares. The cab driver puts in most of the cost.

> Encourage competitors and allow the free market to set prices and revenue shares. A vendor undercutting prices will get higher ridership

How? A company trying to enter this market would have a loong cash burn ahead of it with no certainty of a profit. Like social media, there's an inertia to users platform switching.
Why Is Same-Sex Sexual Behavior So Common in Animals?
A study that captures a correlation instead of causation directly is not completely useless. It seems wise to try to draw some conclusions from the massive corpus of OSS software that is available given that it's hard to imagine any researcher will ever get the budget to do even one controlled test on a meaningfully sized software project.

Anyway, it's not hard to imagine an improved version of the study that knows about the years of experience of each contributor (even if that necessitates reducing the size of the dataset a bit) and controls for it. I suppose that would be the "empirical software engineering" equivalent of econometrics.
If it is a killer feature, and that's a marketing move - why not. Looks like that Firefox been working hard lately to change trends in browsers' market share.
Can you do that anywhere? From what I've been able to gather contact lenses are stuck in patent hell, the only cheap ones are low quality ones using 90's materials.

Alcon and Coopervision are the only manufacturers with high quality contact lenses, and they charge a ton for it. 6 pairs of Biofinity's is ~26USD ($2USD per lens), totally absurd.
There was an interesting article a couple of years back, positing that the years that humans won coincide with unusually warm weather.
The takeaway was the humans have a superior cooling system for efficient long distance running, compared to most animal's superior sprinting capabilities.
Here is what I would like from IKEA if they truly want to embrace the climate.

I would like them to move towards durable quality furniture that last 100 years instead of furniture as a fashion business where you redecorate every season.

I would like them to stop creating mazes designed to maximize impulse purchasing.
Ah but couldn't you, once you've gotten your essential tools back to a working state, get the missing kernel bits from the internet before you reboot?

It'd be an interesting challenge. Get a linux vm, sudo rm -rf everything, and then see if you can get the system back to more or less the original state.
In the UK people in criminal cases are always fully named (except minors).

In fact, at least in local news it is customary to publish name and residence location (to avoid confusion).

E.g. a newspaper article would say that "John Doe of Dodgy Street, London has been sentenced today at the Old Bailey to 10 years for drug trafficking", often with the police mugshot as illustration. My local news site runs an article every month with these details for all the people sentenced locally during the past month.
It happens because applications will stop working on chrome if developers never test on it. The recommendation when a user hits a bug will be to check it in Firefox and slowly Firefox will become the reliable/advanced/working option.

It’s happened with IE, Chrome before and will swing back away from Chrome eventually.
Not necessary but they are the ones which develop websites. I use Firefox daily for my job and that ensures that whatever I build will have a 100% Firefox compatibility.
“Almost all implementation work so far has been on macOS. Windows port work is underway, but is not yet working. The difficulties are in figuring out the set of system library APIs to intercept, in getting the memory management and dirty memory parts of the rewind infrastructure to work, and in handling the different graphics and IPC pathways on different platforms.“

From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
Orba – A musical instrument designed for your hands
same here. also missing ublock.
I believe that IKEA is climate negative by design: it's H&M / Primark of furniture world. Because just like fast fashion, fast furniture encourages extreme levels of production and consumption of short-lasting goods, which are later often thrown away, rather than being resold and reused.
They plan on releasing the usernames of the deleted accounts for users.

____

previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off - though Twitter said it would be a gradual process, beginning with users outside of the US.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50567751
An Internet of Tires? Pirelli Marries 5G and Automobile Wheels
This didn't work for me.

1. I installed the nightly build as told.

2. Open nightly build

3. Went to the "Save Recording" option

4. The first two times, I got a [javascript error] saying I could not record.

5. The remaining couple of times - after I open a "New Recording Tab", whatever that is - I didn't see the javascript error but the website whose clickthru I wanted to record using this tool didn't even load in that new recording tab.

Just this morning I recorded a clickthru like caveman using Quicktime. Can't wait for FF to iron out the kinks in this feature.
Or you can work with what exists and make a beneficial improvement to the world
Its the people living on less than $2 a day who are most likely to feel the worst inital effects of climate change. Us rich brats will be insulated for a while yet.
You can use it to estimate model uncertainty, Yarin Gal has some nice writeups on this: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/blog_3d801a... (in this case using dropout networks as GP approximations).
Only macOS is supported right now. Web Replay's architecture should allow it to work on any operating system: the OS features needed are not specific to macOS or to POSIX systems. Still, porting it to other POSIX systems (Linux, Android) will be easier than Windows, due to the overlap with macOS. There is, however, a partial Windows port from an older version of the architecture that can replay a simple page but not rewind, which should make writing a complete Windows port easier.

From: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
Transport on the ocean has a relatively low carbon impact per kg. Spoons are small. It might actually be more efficient to build just one factory that can make spoons for IKEAs store across the world, rather than build a bunch of small local factories all over the place. Don't make assumptions.
Is anyone else suspicious about the results?

Claiming a 4000% return while staying market neutral seems a little too good to be true.

First: those levels are insanely high, so the algo must be taking some absurd risks and have the worst sharpe ratio, or getting pretty close to being 100% accurate.

Second: if you can scale this across markets, and assuming the same return, that investment will turn into 12 billions in 4 years. I doubt that you'd write a blog post about it if you had found such a gold mine.
Growing them to restore grazing or otherwise degraded land works, though.
In my experience, IKEA furniture is handed down multiple times.

I myself have IKEA CD racks that I bought, gave my parents when I moved, they gave them to my sister when she moved and needed them, and after fifteen years or so they are back in my current apartment.

(OT: why the hell did they discontinue this absolutely classic line? Just because it didn't really work for Blu-rays?)

Actually, my apartment looks quite eclectic, since I have lots and lots of IKEA furniture from my student days mingled with "solid" furniture bought later and a few high-end furniture pieces bought much later.
So in its scope this somewhat similar to Cypress.io?

https://www.cypress.io/
You are being selfish, no one cares about your personal brand.

Even if your wildest dreams came true and someone started posting crap using your alias on twitter, still no one would care.
I actually really hope they continue with this. I have old twitter accounts associated to myself that I have no access to. There's nothing bad on there, but I'd still like them deleted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace

"started operating in 1970", "Temperatures above 3,500 °C (6,330 °F) can be obtained in a few seconds".

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace

Not dismissing this press release, but at least some scale of progress should be used to compare against. Or state where the economical/industrial/regulatory innovation stands.
This is a good comment, I use FF Dev and Chrome RN, the current project I'm working on is Chrome only. It's nice for context switching (docs, etc in FF, debugging & development in GC) but I was not able to do this (1y ago) on my 2013 MB Pro, it was simply to slow.
I don't use Cypress anymore as it didn't work for me but doesn't look like it. This is for debugging rather than testing.

Also the timeline in Cypress didn't actually work too well for us.
I am unable to add a custom search engine even though it is listed as a feature. Anyone else tried to add one?
Is there any way to make this work in automation? This could really help with debugging failed e2e firefox tests.
If i had to define whats a hater is i would say that its a person who are very rude and disrespectfull towards what you are trying to defend, an idea, an ideology, etc... But he will not even try to understand what you are saying, he just hate you because, for example, your personnality will bring a lots of people to you around the world, so he can be jealous of that, and hate you but for no reasons. Its my definition of a hater.
Seriously? Those living on $2 a day do so just to comfort some rich brats?
Both google code and sourceforge existed before GitHub. I'd say the experience wasn't streamlined for collaboration like today, but it was definitely easy to share code if you choose to.

GitHub mainly flipped the default view from "project description, forums, and downloads" to "code" which was the massive change.
My relatives who died have fewer followers than your relatives who died so yours stay and mine go? Doesn't sound fair!

(my relatives also didnt tweet very often but when they did they were amazing)
In the very distant past (late 1980s, early 90s), Olivetti changed their PC keyboard design; it went from having the keyboard PCB assembly inside a metal clamshell to a bare board with a metallised plastic sheet on the back of the PCB (they 'cheaped out').

We got to know about the design change when a rather large and sprawling local leisure centre reported that often when someone used their walkie talkie near a PC, the screen filled with random characters and sometimes the dot matrix printers would 'go haywire' (CTRL-P = Print what's displayed on the screen).

In effect, the rf signal from the walkie talkies was 'mashing the keys'.

The immediate fix was to swap in some older keyboards, the longer fix was down to Olivetti using better shielding and some appropriately-placed capacitor decoupling on the power and signal lines.
We actually have something similar for this for tests at Testim (https://testim.io) but only for tests with screenshots and state.

Would people be interested in us open sourcing that part for regular debugging? I have considered it but I didn't think people would be interested in using this in a non-test case.
> The justice system is, and should be, always primarily about punishment

Not in Europe, since "Dei delitti e delle pene" (On Crimes and Punishments ) from Cesare Beccaria.

It was 1764, we were already aware of that.

Justice is not a way to inflict punishment, the sentence, as Beccaria put it "should be in degree to the severity of the crime" and should work as deterrent, not as retribution (which is usually the case in US especially the death penalty, that have the purpose of giving "an eye for an eye" to the victim's family).

> Humans have a strong natural instinct towards justice

No, they don't.

Homō hominī lupus, men are very social animals, it doesn't mean they lean naturally towards justice, they just defend their communities against other communities.

> This worked pretty well for thousands of years

It didn't actually.

That's why we constantly reformed our justice system.

Think about the code of Ammurabi, does this work in your opinion?

"If the wife of a man has been caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the waters. If the owner of the wife would save his wife then in turn the king could save his servant."

It never really worked, especially for the regular folks, still today has a lot of flaws let alone thousands of years ago. In Italy it was legal to kill the wife that cheated (but not the husband who did the same), it was called "honor killing" and it was abolished only in 1981.

So, no.

> The right to revenge is one of the most important human rights of all

It is its greatest fault indeed.

And it is what makes USA a country where the risk of being killed by a stranger is 10 times higher than in Italy (5.63/100,000 vs 0.55/100.000), it is higher than many third world countries or countries that are at war like Sudan, Kenya, Niger, Libya, Syria or Iran.
I suspect that this number is much higher. 127% maybe.
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It's a complete rewrite and it's much much faster than the normal one.
The biggest corporations pay lots of "taxes".

It's interesting how corporations "aren't people" until taxes come up :)
They might, indirectly. If web developers use chrome as their main browser, they test their sites on chrome more, and in the end websites just work better in chrome. And this is what can make a difference in their market share.
It makes sense to start with OS X. Lots of front-end work is done on that platform. If you are targeting IOS or Safari, you pretty much need to be on OS X for testing.
I feel bad for him :(
An obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots (2018)
There was a chance for the US Constitution to apply, in translated form of course, when West Germany was initially created. I'm really sorry that we didn't share. Freedom of speech is something worth fighting for. The fact that the people currently running your country can legally oppress the speech of their political opposition is terrible. Politics shouldn't include the possibility of prosecuting your opponents for campaign speeches.
I think it depends on your mindset. If I look at the Ikea furniture in my house, about half of it is second hand. I specifically search for Ikea product names on second-hand sites instead of more generic terms like cabinet or table because I know the quality of Ikea products, where for others I'd have to guess.
TLDR (tongue in a cheek): Review your assumptions, why would it not be?
Uber tapped into a market that is completely dependent on cheap, insecure, unorganized labor. A market that creates disastrous externalities.

How any of this gives you reason to celebrate them rather than question what the f- went wrong is absolutely beyond me
Well, 2 things:

* There are, right now, online browser-based versions of most of their office applications available, which work fine on Linux.

* if [1] is anything to go by, we might see client-side Javascript/Electron based clients, which would make the porting to other platforms a lot cheaper/easier to maintain. Even if a "native" (read: electron-wrapped) Linux client wouldn't be in the works, the browser-based versions will probably be just the exact same version.

[1] https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128
My prejudices about Apple missionaries are no coincidence.
no, the parent is saying IKEAs efforts are just a matter of comforting "some rich brats", and that these efforts are "a billion people living on less than $2 a day"
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Have been working in web development for years, also with many coworkers. I don't know anybody with macOS except design people...
For those interested into how this works, look into Time-Travel Debugging and the WebReplay API
That thing is the size of a building though.
The title is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State which discusses "legibility", the process of mapping messy reality into convenient categories for systematic control.

The characteristic item of legibility is "papers": ID cards, passports, and so on; but also things like title registers. In a transparent rule-of-law society the control systems enabled by these are generally to the public benefit, which is why they get instituted in the first place. But at every stage there's people and situations that don't "fit", and a huge temptation to hammer the square peg into the round hole. Impositions ranging from "no you cannot have the right gender on your passport" to wholesale ethnic cleansing.

And the stuff about the inability to correct mistakes in authoritarianism leading to scientific and technical error is spot-on. That's how the Soviet Union got Lysenkoism, and its space program only survived due to the personal political effectiveness of Korolev (who had already been in a gulag!).
Why does it have to be specifically the tech holding them back from doing it?

Personally the permanence of internet content is terrifying and by far the worst aspect of it. Potentially there are people like me who would be at the table whenever "what to do with accounts of dead people" is discussed, strongly advocating for deletion. Lacking clear consensus they just left the decision until it had to be made.
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy
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