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I mostly agree.

I've been using web browsers since the mid 1990's and with the exception of when I first started using them I have never only used one. These days I regularly use Chrome, FF and Safari every day for different tasks.

I'm not alone in this. When I peak at other people's computers I regularly see multiple browsers being used there as well. Even the less computer savy people know to use different browers for different websites depending on what works.

This is all to say I don't quite grasp naive understandings of the browser horse races. There is likely little actual switching going on, and the concept of market share in browsers needs to be reexamined.
I know this is humor, but I never knew about using Ctrl+R (<C-r>) within insert mode or within an Ex command.
I am all for scrutiny of claims like this but I cannot verify some of your statements. I would encourage you to actually look at the report that is the basis for the claims. (The report btw is not the work of a single Uni professor but four authors are named.)

First, the press release specifically says "revised his estimate of the number of animals killed in bushfires in NSW to more than 800 million animals, with a national impact of more than one billion animals. " [1]

You say: "Third, for almost all species, there are no density figures, so he just picked the number 10 (lol, yes, seriously)"

When looking at the original report, linked in full text below [0] it reads:

> Many species were excluded from estimates because there is insufficient information on their abundance. The largest
omission is the entire NSW bat fauna (37 species), for which
no information on density could be found.

Regarding the birds, there is section 3.4 of the original report where the authors elaborate their stand. For instance, the loss of woodland (in this study the conversion to grassland) drastically reduces the number of birds in that area "90-95% fewer than in intact woodland". Given the size of the current fires it is a stretch to assume that 99% of birds are able to move to other forest and into other birds' habitats and be able to survive their alongside whatever lives there already.

[0] - 2007 report by Dickman et al, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318029981_Impacts_o...

[1] - press release: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/08/australia...
After beating Diablo 2 on a few characters I started to always used maphack. It took the guess work out of some of the repetitive actions. I feel like most hardcore, not the mode that is, players used it since it could take minutes off a Cow/Baal/Pindel etc. run. It didn't feel like cheating, although it certainly was, and at a certain point I felt like the game was unplayable without it. My point with all this is, I think there are certain quality of life hacks/addons that make games more playable in a way and then there are the other group of cheats, that remove skill gaps, such as click macros in games where combos are needed, aim/wallhack and others.
Someone apparently did it with n-grams in 2015, and it reaches move 13 or so: https://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1214713412963291136

Someone else tried this with GPT-2 a few months ago on algebraic notation and their engine seems to get to move 40 without blundering: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/el87vo/a_ve...

Board state + algebraic notation might be the trick to make a strong engine.
I used an app called Boom for years to boost the volume, when I only had my laptop around and want to boost the volume. I haven't used it in a while however as my recent Macbook has much better speakers so I'm not sure if the v2 update is as good as v1.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boom2-volume-boost-equalizer/i...
Single Biological Neuron Can Compute XOR
Happy new year to you Ravi!
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Fun read! My next bash exercise will be to try and understand some of these commands, quite a feat! greping the ps output would work with any program, right ? That was pretty cool. Killing it from emacs was def a good laugh !

They should add the script kiddie way: `sudo rm -rf /` ^^
I think you’re right. Especially since they just started to focus more on the health aspects of the Watch with series 4. They figured that this is apparently important to many Watch buyers, but it took them three series to truly understand this.
A/K/A Unicode considered harmful.
Not until JVM supports value types, low level pointer manipulation and reiffed generics.
Thus why upgrading is complicated. Requires writing the upgrade yourself
Which ought to mean that the company that owns the plant goes bankrupt, the plant itself is sold by the receivers, and the new owner runs the plant profitably... IFF its operating cost is low enough, which ought to be those dozens of staff and the materials they need.
I highly recommend The History of Western Philosphy precisely because it’s highly opinionated. It’s got many things to like, including being frank about not knowing the answers, and treating figures such as Augustine and Aquinas as philosophers in their historical context. A very engaging book.
Food 'made from air' could compete with soya
> It has been my primary browser outside of work, the major reason I use Chrome now is for Chrome Dev Tools.

That's pretty much what I do in the past few years. Firefox is my primary personal browser, while Chrome is strictly for work only. Hopefully I can fully transition to Firefox for work stuff this year as almost all debugging features I used are available on Firefox. It's mostly just muscle memory that holding me back after years of using Chrome dev tools.
Arguably Skaffold and other container tools are approaching Webpack in its nonstop build-edit-rebuild workflow. But it's still not part of the code's build process. I'd like to see something like Webpack for native code.

The hypothetical build system can, whenever files change, run the build again (in a container), execute tests (complaining when you break one), or let you keep the debugger open while you're editing (best attempt made to fast forward).

This is probably better suited for modern languages with proper modules and incremental builds, like Rust, C++20, Java9.
Sure, but... wouldn't it have been simpler to have the functions in the .c file?

This is just a odd way of doing things. There are good reasons you don't usually see this, add one more .c file and things get awkward real fast.

Sure, it works in this particular instance, but it just makes me feel itchy. Maybe it's past trauma where I saw real weird codebases with static functions in .h files used across multiple .c files. It was just horrible to work with and reason about.
Pebble was such a cool platform, and it is a damn shame that FitBit was allowed to purchase the company and immediately shut it down. Predatory competitor-purchasing like this should be illegal.
Mocking Hans – An open source tool for creating fake APIs
Let me put it differently. If a military force thinks sending soldiers even as little as 5km out from the base is best avoided, that military force is not in shape to start a war. The Pentagon has analysts enough to say so.
that's certainly annoying...
Are news not supposed to make it on HN? So many Boeing MAX stories have made it to the front page, you wouldn’t think that’s the case at all.
Having tried everything from Plex, Emby, and JellyFin to casting on various platforms and RaspPi with HDMI, I found the best experience for me was to get the VLC app on my AppleTV. It plays straight from my NAS over SMB, doesn’t need any transcoding, and let’s me download subtitles on screen directly.

I don’t much care about browsing through a pretty interface and would rather be able to rewind/forward as needed without buffering hell. I wish VLC app had some better features like saving settings or autoconnecting to my default server. But it is great for playing hidef videos. If you want to watch stuff more than organizing and polishing your library, give it a shot.
F# lacks the Visual Studio tooling support that VB.NET, C# and even C++ enjoy.

It is also not officially supported on UWP, and needs some hacks to the generated MSIL (as .NET Native doesn't cover 100% of all MSIL).
I have a hard time believing e.g. most european countries have less regulation in the medical sector than the US. Probably less corruption/"lobbying" (because corporate campaign distribitions are more strictly regulated in most other countries), but corruption quite different from regulation, even if both affect how law gets written.
But imagine what we could do if we didn't have incompleteness or the halting problem
I've been using Firefox for the last 10 or so years. (Used the "new Chrome-Opera" for a while but went back soon)

These recent developments are awesome. As a frontend developer, I also find the devtools absolutely competitive with Chrome's.

The default ad- and tracker blocking is nice, I only need to use uBblock Origin for Youtube (whitelisting only that), since Youtube became nearly unusable due to the massive amount of ads.

Edit: also, they are fortunately tackling two prominent annoyances of the "modern web" i.e. push notification popups (for those who don't turn the whole feature off outright in about:config) and video autoplay.

So sad that Firefox's market share is still just 9-10%. :(
Yes it is, but this article highlights what an achievement it is that webpack is possible at all. I think Bracha would gladly struggle through some config if that was all that stood between him and his holy grail of liveness.

Plus webpack got a lot better even in that regard, and there's alternatives like Parcel pushing the curve. Web devs sometimes don't realize how good they have it :-)
Usual method followed by a lot of academics is: read abstract first, then figures, and if it’s still appealing read the conclusion. If the paper is still appealing at that point read the whole thing. That way you can cycle through a lot and stay on top of the literature.
It's most useful in design. Honestly it's not that useful otherwise and just kills attention span in my experience. Basically we went from doing design WYSIWYG-style to completely in markup languages and CSS. So hot reload bridges the gap.
I'm aware of what they mean and how they are confused.

You should know that the author of that article failed to mention that node is free of race conditions caused by context switching, this is a huge deal and in many cases worth the trouble of async await syntax.
And once "the internet" (some nasties behind it) found the way to make these "two minute" increments compound (e.g. YT showing a more extreme version than the one just watched), combined with profiling etc, then boom, CA and FB win elections ;)
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This lunch-to-go packaged plates of blended greens, wraps, sushi, shop put in the city level in the principal Street access to stimulating Horton Plaza in downtown New york is to some degree out of sight the nearest shoreline (that may possibly Coronado Beach) and isn't actually an industry (anyway this a long fly ball from Ralph's grocery store). Or on the other hand possibly, it might be something with a middle high society self-serve store offering pre-packaged regular and too gainful to even think about being in any capacity heavenly finger sustenance an amazing okay shop and a juice tag. Subtly, Joe moreover endeavored marriage again. This time he married performing craftsman Marilyn Monroe in 1954. Sadly, the administration wound up unpleasant, and they were isolated inside the Health and Wellness first seasons. In 1955, "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio was drafted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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http://masterzgaming.esportsify.com/forums/league-of-legends/5687/how-does-sex-change-for-men-after-50
CES hasn’t been relevant in the past decade. Why would we care?
Or the inverse: because someone had to work harder, the experience of finally winning only made the feeling so much better, and released a ton more endorphins.

Or maybe .. neither really contributes or detracts from “gamer addiction”.
Oh look, it’s only been 10 minutes since somebody complained that a post shouldn’t be on HN or that a topic is over represented and what a bubble HN is!
The earth is about to flip !

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31FHHH9is4

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UJKZTjGCss
What I do is I set a 25 min timeout, so not only it exits vim it also acts as a Pomodoro timer for me. Two birds, one stone.
You bought a game from them... you are already letting them run arbitrary code on your machine.
Support for .NET Native would be an example.

Default interface methods, not sure about the current support state.

The accessors protected private.

I am also not sure if all low level programming features added to C#, taken from Midori and until C# 7 only usable from C++/CLI, are also exposed to F#.
That might delete the executable but the process would still be running.

Yep, `ps | grep` is a common and useful idiom!
Yeah, that would be very helpful since there's no dependent type in a foreseeable future.

For example, As a front-end heavy language, talking with other systems is quite ordinary -- a very useful case is reflecting GraphQL or SQL type without code generation.
What Is Modern BI and How Is It Different from Traditional BI?
Well I'm having both the smooth scrolling bug and the constant beach ball of death for 5 seconds issue on my macbook.
Node.js now has official certification
Gilad Bracha is one of the Smalltalk luminaries (his dialect is called Newspeak) and so he's really alluding to the ST way of doing things, where textual code is instantly compiled to machine-code or JIT-ed ... he's basically against the idea of a compiler as a separate binary that spits out an executable.

I believe that's why he goes on about 'live-ness' which is a very smalltalk concept of a "live-image" of the running program. I doubt what he means is directly translatable to the Javascript world, although perhaps a running browser with JS in it can considered to be the live-image (like, say, the Clojurescript/React/Figwheel way of working).

But as you note, in the JS-dev world, very often you do need to reboot and start again (say if an external resource like a CSS has changed).
> "dairy consumption is very strongly linked to prostate cancer: Dr. Miller gave a huge talk about this. You can find it on Youtube."

Who is Dr Miller. Does he present his research in medical journals, or just on YouTube? Got a link to a research paper? "Look it up on YouTube" isn't a valid response when someone asks for proof of something...

> " Also, there's the China study..."

China's a big place. Lots of studies going on, I'd imagine. Again - got a link to a research paper?

How about this:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...

"Milk and dairy are good sources of calcium and protein which are needed as part of a healthy, balanced diet. Calcium is important for teeth and bone health.

Studies looking into the link between cancer and dairy products have not given clear results. There is evidence that dairy products could reduce the risk of bowel cancer, but we cannot say for sure that this is the case. There is no strong evidence linking dairy products to any other types of cancer. We need further research to find out more about the links between dairy products and cancer risk."
I do not like the grep -v grep pattern. I think the regexp trick should be prefered:

:!ps axuw | grep [v]im | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

This can also be merged in the awk command:

:!ps axuw | awk '/[v]im/{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
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Check the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, in particular:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Planes are interesting for HN in general, most of us (I think) enjoy learning about how things fail and why, and learning from big business failures is a must if you want to get a startup running. That's why most Boeing MAX stories are usually fine.

"Regular" news stories, on the other hand, tend to be off-topic.
"We do it because there is demand"

That should not be a valid reason. Child pornography, slavery, drugs and harvested organs all have high demand.

I am sure these guys won't have any qualms about, say, defending and promoting taking homeopathic remedies instead of chemo for people with cancer. Or helping anti-vaxxers get children killed, if they decide to approach them and have deep enough pockets.

In addition to these "immediate" problems, there's also a long-term, perhaps nastier one.

As a species, what we know is what we are. Given enough time, every one of us is dead and gone, our physical and virtual wealth will dissipate. One of the few things which will perdure, and will always help our descendants, is knowledge.

Every bit of truth that we can collectively find is a hard-fought treasure for the future. Be it via scientific rigorousness or journalistic professionalism. Finding truth is one of the single most important things we can do for humanity, present and future.

What these people are doing to benefit themselves I see it as a crime against humanity as a whole.
As we should. Reputation is the best tool we have for tracking credibility throughout society. As a pioneer of clickbait garbage, Buzzfeed has a deservedly poor reputation, and a little bit of brand diversification doesn’t change that. If the Sackler family started opening rehab clinics, it wouldn’t change my opinion on what a bunch of scumbags they are.
Microsoft Is Winning the ‘Cloud War’ Against Amazon
"Does not have any known safety issues" sounds like bit of a stretch, every airplane models has few safety issues at least. Issues range from faulty windshield wiper motors(I just checked and there is such one for 738), to "may spontaneously explode and kill everyone in and out". The problem is whether the prevalence and/or severity of issues are under control or not.
I'd like more details about who is behind it and what their goals are. But it sounds better than Ethos at its core. The fact it's not being run for profit puts motives well above Ethos who pretend 10% per year price increases are reasonable and accepted. ORG hasn't raised prices in years and hasn't had a need to. It was one of the arguments for uncapping the price is that they were a responsible steward not taking advantage of their annual 10%, so why would it be abused? A PE company acquiring it is exactly why.

If Internet Society imploded and had contract taken away and their revenue stream of .ORG revoked it would be karma for selling out the community they were supposed to represent. I suspect if this were to happen the new COOP would be required to supplement ISOC budget at least for a while. But personally, I would love to see ISOC get nothing. It should be a harsh reminder that representing your community properly is important.
I honestly don't know how vim deals with unsaved changes upon shutdown and don't use it enough to look that up, so that's why I'll first exit.

As to why shutdown: cultural thing in the end. I was raised with the idea that wasting is bad (and objectively speaking it's very hard to argue with that) so if I don't need the machine running after I'm done with it, I just can't stand the idea of the thing using energy literally for nothing.
If you are looking for a proper introduction to western philosophy and a history of ideas, I recommend instead Antony Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy, which academics think is an excellent introduction.
...stray tools forgotten in the airplane after assembly, metal shavings close to cables... yeah, I read those articles too. However, the fact that the Iranian authorities already concluded that the cause was "engine failure for technical reasons" seems a bit suspicious.
Did I miss it or they don't at all mention the blatantly obvious arms length distance between this 2-person newly formed Ethos and ICANN?
F# is great, but it seems to be somehow slowed down by C#.

If there's a feature that takes time to implement (eg: Type Classes from Haskell or Polymorphic Module from Ocaml), people would rather wait for CLR or IL to support the infrastructures first.

As a result, there are many essential features waiting to be implemented forever.
1995/6? Went to the pub. Founder told me I was getting a pay rise from £13,600 to £15,600. He then made a pantomime of patting his pockets before saying he’d left his wallet in the office...

Simpler times back then.
(Wild guess) If you pronounce the command aloud - "Zee-zee" - it translates to "Willy" (penis word used by children) in French. Easy mnemonic.
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Probably because it doesn't outwardly appear to affect young women so much?

People should be able to make such observations.
Breaking changes in the C# and VB.NET compilers
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Early Out of Memory Detection Set to Land on Clear Linux Desktop
Well if there are already two remarks on that matter - I'll fix the issue! I know the profits, yeah. Things haven't exactly worked out the way I thought they would - there should be a border between simplicity/bad design.

Hahah, yeah it smells, can't argue with that. I believe that everyone had a trauma like that in the past :)
I got one: stop paying the electric bill.
Pro Tools is a large part of the industry market and that’s multi-platform.

What do you mean by “audio engineers are tied to apple”?
I'd try F# if it were hosted on JVM or better yet LLVM. Unfortunately .NET is borderline nightmare inducing so I wouldn't want to spend my free time using it. And it doesn't seem to have any better adoption than OCaml which is its supposedly outdated predecessor.
Read it main years ago and found it both enlightening and a good read. There were parts whre he was clearly struggling to understand the work of particular philosophers, but he had no secret of the fact in the book. It was interesting to a great mind grappling to understand the work of another. Parts made me chuckle, too.
A relative of mine had a saying "one fish per square mile" when we'd catch one and then get skunked the rest of the day.
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Indian education startup Byju’s turns profitable
Here is their demonstration with sliding panels together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVLgJFRwBA

You can see a little line on certain images (for example at 0:20) but maybe it's caused by the sliding mechanism, because there is no line on the left side assuming they are put together from two square panels same as the sliding one.
I totally get what you're saying, but there's some contradiction which I don't understand: you say a decade ago it was 'dead silence' but also that it ended when 'busses started announcing' which seems to imply the busses were there already before. So with 'dead silence' do you mean 'all the usual traffic noise' or ... ?
I would say there are at least 4 subgroups that are active in the Elixir community: distributed systems (alongside Erlang), web dev (Phoenix, Plug, etc), data pipelines (GenStage, Broadway, etc), and embedded systems (Nerves, Scenic, etc).

Gaming, as far as I know, is not one of them.
Thanks to NHTSA being mean Comma is more or less or fore-er running(than Tesla they say...yeah okay?) so
And here I am with a sister who thinks that vaccination for a newborn should be "weighed against the risk". The reason we don't know measles as a deadly disease anymore is because vaccination works so well!
Just had maintenance. Could have been someone being lazy and left FOD in the aircraft that finally made its way into the engine.

Could be any number of things, but probably FOD.