skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox.
When I first got to use a Computer to surf the internet I remember using Firefox and that is what I have used ever since.

A lot of people here have said that Firefox was a slow and bloated mess pre-Quantum. I suppose I stuck to Firefox when most people shifted over to Chome because my internet connection had been slow enough that internet was unusable without javascript and images disabled (this is no viable as a significant proportion of websites don't work without JS). Hence my browser ran pretty light and never gave me any issues.

At work for development I now use Chrome (for devtools) as Firefox still chokes up on really large javascript files. For anything else Firefox remains my default as it is comparable to chrome now in terms of performance (this only means I haven't noticed any noticeable difference for my web browsing workloads) and has a lot of features that I like (containers, customisability,...).

edit: The above refers to my choice of browser on Desktop.
The entropy of any improper prior diverges. There is no point in arguing over which one maximizes entropy; they all do, vacuously. Max entropy is not useful for discriminating amongst probability distributions unless you require them to actually be probability distributions.
There is no such thing as a license to public domain material. That's what public domain means -- no license required.
Parents today aren’t as sucky as you think. Here’s some data on reading for 0-5 year olds:
https://www.childhealthdata.org/browse/survey/results?q=7196...

The vast majority of parents are trying, reading at least a couple times a week.

I also haven’t seen any data to suggest that WHAT is read is all that important. The important things seem to be that the reading happens and roughly aligns with or mildly stretches the child’s language capacity.

Finally, there is no reason to assume a “twisted ulterior motive” to parents doubting the article- the study was small N (47) and doesn’t seem to disentangle high screen time from low reading/other interactions.
>Despite the effort to liberate the nation from a private US firm this wasn't successful so far: first they tried to build their own kernel which froze at the public demo.

So? Linux, Windows, Mac OS, have all frozen during all kinds of public demos.

>After realizing it was dumb to write kernel from scratch

Is it? A nation state, especially one the size of Korea, should have no problem finding resources for writing a kernel from scratch - to a level suitable for running POSIX software and a modern UNIX-like userland.
The gameplay was surprisingly smooth in a mobile device. Congrats on the game!
But even if we are one of those rare people who feels fulfilled, it is worth cultivating some degree of boredom

I dispute the bored vs fulfilled relationship, at least if it's supposed to be a universal (speaking as someone who very rarely feels either)
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it's not conference season
Weird ^^
Imagine that I'm a scientist and that I made a big discovery X during winter.
But for audience/visibility I only want to publish my results on conference Y during summer.
Somebody, right before summer make the same discovery than mine.
How do I protect the fact that I am the first one discoverer if I publish after the second?
I’ve tried this and failed with a Tiddlywiki. I found the Métis if entering data too cumbersome and gave up. All I want is a single text file that I Can take multiple notes in and link those notes internally in that single file. I wish Apple notes had an easy way of doing this but for now I’m stuck with writing HTML.
There no such thing thing in law as a "public domain license". That's part of why CC0 was created, because public domain is an ill-defined concept, not a license.
Sorry that sounded a little arrogant, maybe I should’ve phrased as ‘my experience’ rather than ‘myself’.
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I'd recommend Manager Tools. They have a whole set of resources for 1 on 1s. https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/one-ones
Seems like the highest paying x easiest occupation is being an airline pilot.
What's the dark thing in the cornfield near the futuristic house? A cow?
This has an odd implication that the metric you care about will be static.

Consider your thermostat. What do you optimize for daily with it? Is it the same in winter as summer? Why not?

To that end, why do we think there is an "optimum" setting?
Well, this seems to match up with the article. Roughly a year for a two hours every day.
Well, now I know why my Scheme class in uni was called CSE 1729.
everyone has the right to use the photo. The standing would be harassment and fraud and SLAPPing, for threatening to sue on false pretenses.
Oh man, the time use surveys in the US are amazing here. I can’t find the data or remember specifics, but the amount of time both moms and dads spend parenting has gone WAY since the 60s, even as family size as plummeted.
This is so interesting and new to me. Do you have links where I can read further about all this?
The reverse process should be easy! Since TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, transpilation is an identity transform. :)
I studied French from 7th-12th grade in an American High School. After that, I could not understand any French beyond "bonjour". I could not have a conversation in French. I could conjugate verbs and I could read some. Fast forward 45 years and I retired and decided to actually learn French. I followed a very, very similar method and after 9 months of self study took a 2 week intensive course in France where I was told I was at B2 level. Obviously I didn't start at A0 but when I first started with Duolingo, I remembered nothing. 45 years is a long gap. What he describes works. Even an old fart like me can get to B2 level with self study if they are motivated and use good resources. It's never been easier to learn a language with all the excellent resources available.
> Browsers are agents of the user, apps are agents of the company behind the app.

Alas, browsers are also apps.
What about the bad precedent of companies like Getty trying to collect rents on public domain works? It's a two way street.

Please don't tell me the solution is better consumer education while corporations are allowed to keep lying about owning IP - that's just shifting the burden to those least well equipped to handle it and treating individuals like the aggregate of all consumers who are presumed to be fully informed about market conditions, a fallacy of division.
Don't forget U//FOUO.
As a Google Summer of Code project, I worked on transpiling Maxima CAS to Python, both high level languages. The approach I followed involved conversion to an internal custom defined IR, and then converting that to Python code.

The full project report: https://gist.github.com/LakshyAAAgrawal/33eee2d33c4788764087...
ActiveX.

See other comments here
If I recall correctly, in the early 2000s, Japan wanted to migrate by default to Linux.
That never happened for an unknown to me reason.
I came up with Nodebook while training for coding interviews.

I wrote this because I wanted to work in the kind of environment used for these interviews, namely an editor in a browser, and I needed a quick way to browse and run my snippets when preparing. That, and procrastination.

There's also the possibility to watch code and run it in the shell directly, without browser UI.

I use it these days when I need to do quick experiments or POC. I think it can be of many other uses.
Italki Italki Italki, nothing has been better for that. I use my flashcards I made on Quizlet, listen to videos/podcasts, re-practice Duolingo, etc., but 3-6 hours per week talking to native Speakers on Italki (or any equivalent service) will work wonders.
What are they using now? I went through the system not that long ago when it was still A* to U.
Ask HN: What SaaS do you pay for?
What SaaS do you subscribe and pay for? What software would you be willing to pay for had it existed?
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I, for example, pay for: Evernote (for archiving PDFs), Bear (Notetaking), Monica HQ (Personal CRM), Goland (Go IDE), Dayone (journaling), Chess.com (games), Spotify, Netflix, Fortnox (accounting).

I’d be happy to pay for any back-up service that would check all boxes, any truly cross-platform, great note taking app, a service which made me not have to ever call any customer support again or last, but not least, any service which made all my mail be electronic (without reading my mail).
You need to be bored AND energetic (or at least lucid) to engage in creativity. Adults give most of their energy to their employers, hence it's no wonder that, in the downtime, little creativity happens. More than one famous author mentioned that during their periods of full-time employment they had no ideas or motivation, they were just barren.
Oh my god you act like I’ve never heard of libertarianism. A worker owned cooperative can be democratic without being a government. And I agree with authors like Murray Bookchin who advocate for a kind of anarchist communism where you have a “government” but not a state. I personally advocate for a state-free society and have no interest in rule by force. I wrote a story about a democratically arranged worker owned cooperative that feeds and houses all its members two and a half years ago:
http://tlalexander.com/corporation/

I’m not concerned with people who don’t want to participate. They don’t have to and we don’t need their support. Such a system can be supported entirely by those who want to support it.

I’m sorry if I come off confrontational but your question seemed to be a “gotcha” that is honestly very simplistic. As an anarchist or “libertarian socialist” I’m quite aware of problems of the state. I will say that in many cases I think local governments may find it beneficial to support these systems, but I like the idea of this being done on a local level so individual cities can decide for themselves. In the same way that some governments operate trains, it is not the case that trains depend on government to be useful.
Classic TV not so black and white
I've just made this - https://1on1hacker.com/. It shows questions from the list in random order.
We already have a better alternative to Windows Server. It's Linux.
Never been a smoker or even smoked until I was well beyond 30 and even then, something like 6 small cigars over the course of 4 years or so.

None of my parents, aunts/uncles or grandparents have been smoking since before I was born AFAIK and I still disagree with you.

I've always liked the distant smell of smoke for some reason. As everyone stops I'll probably miss it a bit but that is OK, I don't want them to destroy their lungs.

But your blanket statements feels weird to me, even as a non-smoker from a non-smoking home.
Big list of 1-on-1 questions in random order
How many of those were folks correcting you were Spanish? I wonder if the folks correcting you just learned a different dialect.

For those not familiar, American Spanish diverged significantly from "mainland" Spanish. Even then Mexican Spanish is quite distinct in its own "charming" way from nearly every other Spanish speaking American country. It's not just the vocabulary, even the verb tenses are used differently in different countries. Case in point, the only time I've heard vosotros used outside of school was in a La Polla Records song (ya ahora que?). Or looking for the baños in the Barcelona airport…. The differences are significant enough it's possible you're both right.

Whenever I've seen language discussed online lots of people come out of the woodwork defending their own niche regional variations. The comments section on Vanity Fair's Slang School series of youtube videos is a particularly obnoxious example. The videos themselves are great IMO. It's not always that bad though. I was trying to figure out how to differentiate between a banana and a plantain in Spanish (yay spanishdict forums) and I didn't realize just how many different ways there are to say banana/plantain. It's like Eskimos and snow.
From the programming language point of view, what's interesting to me is that this means, I think, that there is a differentiation monad. This arises because monads are equivalent to continuations and hence anything you can express with continuations can also be expressed as a monad.

I haven't seen this discussed before, except in the context of category theory (https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/differentiation) I'm not sure how this ties into the programming language point of view.
Deaths of children. At school.

For literally nothing.

They are _avoidable_, that's why they are not overstated.
Yup.

“They’re all dead.”

Doesn’t set a great tone for a friendly conversation. Nowadays I use euphemisms like “they’re out of the picture” and pray they’re not curious.
How a genius hacker made $350k exploiting DeFi
True, but there are documents that have information that is at multiple levels of sensitivity and/or classification. When you work with such information, having such granularity of classification is a good thing (no matter how awkward it looks).
You can't have a sublicense for something in which no licensing rights inhere to begin with. I think you understand this very well and are choosing to pretend otherwise.
Uh, ypu do know there are people who ran BeOS for real work and swear it's better than anything else out there, even today? There's a reason why Haiku exists.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Your comment about cynism sparked a certain honesty - I'm probably being too pessimistic about publicity. I suppose it's also linked to personal ego and wishful thinking on the recognition front.

PS thanks for being a prolific contributor to hacker news!
I like my magma-powered petroleum boiler.

Still haven't built a sour gas boiler, but one of these days I'll get there!
BTW any programming language construct can be expressed in natural language.
(maybe unidiomatically)
The reverse isn't true.

Maybe one day the field of literate programming will come to maturity.
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2. Unpack folder `datsville_master` somewhere on your drive;

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The death rate has very little to do with containment. The rate of infection does. In this case both of these merely represent the time lag, and despite what you think all of the experts agree— we are buying time at this point. Argue with the experts, not with me.
Honestly one of the coolest things I’ve seen on HN. It’s a great display of a ton of things that have just recently (10-20 years) become accessible to the masses. 3D printing for the enclosure, the internet for the schematics, and advanced prosthetics to translate the muscle signal into voltage combined with tried and true technologies like relatively simple circuit design and modular synths. Thanks for sharing!
Only if you're publishing a lot. I think most users mostly just scroll through their feed.

Nonetheless I see your point. Perhaps there is an interesting distinction! Maybe worth investigating, and not particularly suggested by a 'screens are bad' line of thinking
Lord Farquaad: "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

It's not cool to make the most vulnerable people pay the cost of your protest.
No one would bat an eye if you used crédits instead of bons in that context, nor would anyone do so if they said s'inscrire à une salle de sport instead of s'inscrire dans une salle de sport. Maybe they're gramatically incorrect for an académicien, but no one but pedants really cares about what the Académie has to say.
These are the kinds of articles that make me never want to come to this site.
The future perfect is very much used both orally and (especially) in writing and so is the past conditional.

The passé simple is almost never used orally these days, and in writing mostly only in literary texts.

I've noticed that the subjunctive is used less in writing since some change to 'simplify' (i.e. dumb down) the language.

Exotic forms of subjunctive (imperfect subjunctive, anyone?) are hardly used anymore even in contemporary literary texts.
I use quite a few native apps

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-ios
While making no comment on whether it is ridiculous, I'll point out that steps 1 and 5+ are the same as I'd do to send a PR anywhere, so it's really steps 2, 3, and 4 we're talking about.

That is, let's just make sure we're criticising the actions required, not the number of steps involved.
Found a page with some information + a screenshot of Harmonica: https://linuxreviews.org/HamoniKR

There wasn't any english stuff for Tmax distro that I could find...

idk why they don't just adopt Debian + Gnome for their desktop stuff with some Korean development work on top of that. It's a great looking UI/UX and would be perfect especially if most of the software is via the browser/SaaS anyway. Or some occasional wine translations where needed.

But I guess that's just how governments work and their constant obsessions with the sunk cost fallacy.

Edit: Harmonica seems to be doing the right thing already, from the review:

> However, it is, at it's core, just Linux Minux with two special PPAs for Koreans on top.

This isn't something to shame them for, this is how it should be done.
Older APL programs used a 2D layout to show control flow, which probably worked well in handwriting but not so well once APL started being used as a programming language, rather than as a notation for specifying a program to be written. This page has some examples:

http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html
Edit: I assumed you meant to write "way down" but now realize you probably meant up... original comment below.

That's interesting! I'm mainly going by my mother's recollections of her childhood in 1950's rural Finland, but in her words: "We kids didn't spend time with our parents. It would have been embarrassing!"
That's psychosis, i.e. when perceptions don't correspond to reality. Mental illness is a much larger concept than just psychosis.
BS-o-meter: V is not a unit of power.
Why the GPL is great for business
It wasn't posted by iamthatis, so how is it self-advertising?
Those kind of overreactions and bulldozer parenting are in large part the result of 24/7 news, which made unusual events seem common and created an environment of neverending fear.

Additionally, as the world became safer and sanitized, we became more distanced from injury and it seems more traumatic. Parents are more afraid and focused on the downsides. As well as the fact that we have fewer kids than in the past. The potential consequences are greater.

It's also worth noting that the body and brain are anti-fragile. That is, they become stronger and more robust when challenged. Weaker in the absence of it. The end result of all this sanitization, safetyism and overprotection is a fragile human. One that is less able to cope with the challenges and messiness and nuance of the real world.

That negative feedback loop has led to quite a mess. The Coddling of the American Mind does an excellent deep dive on all this: https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Gen...
My thoughts precisely. Well, I guess it doesn't take very much to dig up self-righteous assholes willing to actively harm innocent people with ineffectual and indiscriminate 'protest'.
Show HN: A Mechanism to Combat Phishing
This is a diagram of a proposed mechanism to combat phishing and other computer attacks: https://m.imgur.com/a/MLOVR1y

The fundamental problem: computers require two-way communication to usefully interact with many networked resources such as the internet. This opens the door to the injection of malicious instructions. Once a device is compromised, it can be used as a jumping off point to attack other networked devices.

Proposed solution: One-way data transfer has long been possible through devices such as data diodes. Embedding a one-way device between 2 CPUs prevents a compromised CPU from being used against the other "secured" CPU.

If a switching mechanism for peripheral devices such as mice, keyboards, and monitors was connected to a multi-CPU device with such a one-way data connection, the average user could simply alternate between a "secured" CPU connected to secure resources (e.g. internal business databases) and the "insecure" CPU to access public resources such as the internet. If their device was compromised by phishing or some other attack, it would be isolated and unable to be used as a jumping off point to attack deeper into the network.

Long-term vision: eventually this design could be applied more broadly, for example to mobile devices. A secured network consisting of a small number of trusted entities (e.g. banks, government websites) could be accessed via the secure side, and general internet browsing could be done on the insecure side.

Tradeoffs: this would cause a performance hit to all devices implementing this design, as you would require 2 CPUs to achieve the same effect as 1 in a traditional design. Ideally one CPU could be optimized for performance and the other for security, but this is a detail and design decision outside the scope of this proposal.

Thank you for your time and I appreciate any feedback.
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Apollo's collapsing comment UI could be better - there's a shortcut to go to the next root comment, but I don't want to go to the next root comment, I want to go to collapse the current thread and see the next parent or grand-parent comment.

I'm guessing it's because I'm on an older iPhone 7, but Apollo's makes it very hard to write comments. In particular it loses my place when switching from Apollo, to another app to check something, then switching back. A message pops up about having saved the text, but frustratingly, it doesn't re-open the editor, so I have to go find the comment I was replying to and opening the compose reply there.

As to whether or not it's Apollo's "place" to make it easier/harder to scan, that makes no sense. Apollo's already an alternative UI, so it's already interjecting an opinion on the 'right' way to experience Reddit. That you might disagree with, eg making photo subs harder to scan, is a difference of opinion, but Apollo is already in that "place".
“All the applications” don’t matter. Once you have the OS, Apple’s first party applications, Microsoft, Adobe, and a few Mac only niche apps, you cover most of your bases.

During the 680x0 to PPC transition, almost all of the applications that needed performance were already ported. The same was true for the x86 transition.

But more than likely, this time it will be the low end that would go ARM to optimize for battery life and the high end would stay x86.

Also the difference this time is that the two largest commercial vendors - Adobe and Microsoft already have ARM versions and Apple has Catalyst to make porting iPad apps to MacOS easier.

Also, during the last two translations, there was a lot more assembly code optimizations in third party apps than now. Especially going from 68K to PPC.

And sadly, there are a lot more Electron apps out there that would be easy to port.

Microsoft has struggled to get Windows ARM laptops because they also thought the performance/power ratio made it worth it.
How about we just forbid copyright claims over public domain material, instead of shifting the burden from the large licensing corporation to the individual creators and consumers? In other words, change the law to make Getty's behavior illegal.
Firefox, because it starts up fast, allows me to customize it to fit my system color scheme, and lets me set up autohide for the toolbar. I open and close my browser constantly so startup time is more important than how fast it is when running. Also chrome doesn't fit with my theme and has a big address bar so it looks ugly.