skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post… probably doesn’t really mean anything.

Firstly, judging a web browser’s compelxity by judging the spec catalogue is already unfair. The catalogue is basically a dump of things related to the web, for example the specs of JSON-LD. (Which probably has almost no relationship to implementing web browsers, since that’s just a data format of JSON.)

Also, word count doesn’t correlate with complexity. That’s like…. saying that a movie will be more entertaining than another one because it’s runtime is longer. Web-related specs are much, much more detailed than POSIX-specs because of their cross-platform nature: we’ve already seen what happens if web-related specs look like POSIX: anybody remember trying to make web pages that work both in IE, Safari, Firefox in the early 2000s? (Or, just try to make a shell script that works on both macOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and Fedora without trying out on all four OSes. Can you make one with confidence?)

Really, it’s just tiring to hear the complaints about web browsers on HN, especially the ones about ‘It wasn’t like it in the 90s, why is every site bloated and complex? Do we really need SPAs?’ Things are there for a reason, and while I agree that not every web-API is useful (and some are harmful), one should not dismiss everything as ‘bloat’ or ‘useless complexity’.
should add support fpr multiple ppl in households
Great layman explanation! I'd suggest one extremely minor modification to your ping-pong metaphor: Cauchy sequences don't necessarily have to bounce back and forth between being smaller than your target point and being larger than your target point. They can always increase, or always decrease, too. To give a concrete example, one possible Cauchy sequence for the square root of 2 would just be {1, 1.4, 1.41, 1.414, 1.4142, 1.41421, ...}
Cool. Maybe fit a logistic function instead of an exponential, though :)
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Don't most corporate bailouts negatively impact their employee retirement prospects? I'm thinking of GM and Hostess in particular at the moment. The only winners seem to be the investors.
> Did you really expect a bunch of public self-flaggelation? They are telling us clearly that they did what we asked for. Perfect.

What ? No. They are telling us they refined it, not that they fixed their mistake. It's not perfect, it's lame and cheesy.
It probably doesn't, and in some sense, that's the problem.

Really hoping that the next major redesign of this looks less like an Intel NUC and more like a slightly smaller Mac Pro.

An actual mini tower! What a concept.
I appreciate the touchbar every day (esp. with bettertouchtool) but the soft escape is horrendous as it's used in so many of my workflows and isn't 100% responsive and doesn't give any tactile feedback.
Here, 900 factories closed from 2009 to 2011:
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/12/28/pres-de-9...

This has been more or less the trend from 2001 to 2016. There was a slight upturn for 2017-2018, then it went down again in 2019.
Yes, the trick of soap and water, it is surprisingly powerful.
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Edited, sarcasm removed. Wrong forum.
Except for all those companies like Apple and Google and Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway that are sitting on $100B+ cash reserves each [1].

The idea a business might be prepared to weather cyclical downturns doesn't seem that unusual to me? Seems more like competent management?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...
Like Google's Fuchsia, oh wait...
Have prices spiked dramatically? The only variable costs to an airline that I can think of are fuel and parts. With worldwide travel demand evaporating, it seems unlikely to me that either of those things are in short supply.
Then it's up to you to average the number sheets and toilet visits, appropriately weighted to get the correct results!
This puts Point Roberts WA in a weird spot!
You assume that given a positive result you can gain certainty, but that is not so. Medicine is a statistics game, even for individuals with test results, and even when adding even more tests on top you don't turn it into certainty. What is abnormal for somebody else may be normal for your body, and trying to do something about it may actually be worse. Weighing risks and benefits sounds easy, but it only really works for doctors (looking to optimize their overall success for all their patients) rather than for individuals - for large numbers. Plus, it's always based only on the "known knowns". There is a huge amount of "known unknowns", and the amount of "unknown unknowns" is unfathomable (thanks Rumsfeld, famous American philosopher, for popularizing those terms). What is "normal" is not based on a complete understanding of every individual as a complete system but the parts are compared among individuals after abstracting away the context that they are in. So knowing what is "normal" or not does not give you nearly as much information as you may like.

Sure, your method works for a lot of cases - but it doesn't work or not very well for orders of magnitude more.
I don't think I'd call it worse. The original implementation treated the DOM as, at most, an undesired wrapper environment and mandated Java as its implementation architecture. I think wasm's approach improves on both those issues.
> Feyerabend is easily read as continuing to conflate the two: "Hey, all knowledge is provisional, so you might as well study astrology." Maybe that's useful from an epistemological standpoint, but it's not helpful for grants committees to think that way.

It isn't helpful for anyone and we have very concrete examples of that to hand: Anti-vaxxers love to point out stuff like Vioxx, but never say a damn thing about all the drugs and therapies which are helpful, do much more good than harm, and which are "proven" to work for all practical intents and purposes. Being unwilling to attack stuff like anti-vaccine nonsense head-on because of some abstract epistemological nonsense kills people. There's no upside to that.

Saying "Nothing is absolutely certain, therefore it is absolutely certain that we know nothing" is bad enough. Actually believing it is dangerous in direct proportion to how much of a hand you have in shaping policy. The bus driver might believe in utter epistemological nihilism, but they'd better not veer into oncoming traffic just the same.
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I'm not clear how true doesn't work as the identity for AND.
Yes, but that's still only one event.
CEO of a company complained to Congress about Windows file extensions (2019)
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The Pi can be powered by 5V through the expansion connector at pins 2 and 4 (with pin 6 and some others for ground). You can also get/build a 'hat' for your embedded application that provides power over Ethernet, 24V screw terminals with a regulator down to 5V, or whatever connector you require.

However, I disagree that the Molex connector is inherently superior to USB-C. I am abundantly familiar with the incongruity of a wall wart in an embedded application, but all you need for the power supply is 5V delivered over a USB-C connector. I understand an appeal for a latching or screw-secured connector, but a pin header connector is neither of those. USB-C doesn't easily fall out, it's just another connector.

Another answer is to hack a USB 2.0 C-C cable [1] in half, pull back the shield, heat shrink over the shield and 30 AWG data wires, crimp ferrules on the 26 AWG power wires, and run those to my screw terminals of the existing embedded 5V power bus.

[1] https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=27907
While I agree with the logic you present, you don't really disprove the US-first mentality OP is mentioning. Which is pretty fucked up approach for anybody outside of US (like it or not, its 95% of the mankind). Where would this finish? Should we treat only US persons (a number which is rising exponentially just like anywhere else), and only after this is fully covered should we care about the rest?

You might have not intended to make it look that way, but after what Trump pulled (yet again) with trying to bribe German company to produce vaccine ONLY for Americans (German government confirms that, so I have 0 doubt its true), he pissed most of the world pretty badly with this selfish approach.

I get it, he has absolutely 0 morals and would sell his mother for profit, but this is lower than low.

This is a global problem, and we need to treat it as such. US specific ones will simply get little support from elsewhere. Just like nobody would expect too much US participation in solving mainly Lithuania issues.
Out of curiosity, do you develop professionally in VB classic?
That’s a fair assessment and is probably why they’ve launched their high core count CPUs and $400 range GPUs in this order. I’m more than happy with my 2700X but I wish I didn’t jump on the 5700 XT. It’s too loud and hot.
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Yeah the barrier to entry with HTML/JS is so low for anyone to make a thing that the whole world can see and frankly ... that's kinda awesome.

From there you can just be a simple site or scale up to some really impressive applications with a TON of free resources available on the internet. That's pretty amazing IMO.

As a webdev who has been dipping my toes into C#... I fire up a new command line application in VS and the fans on my laptop take off and there's just a lot of boilerplate ... come on man.
Anybody know what's the cheapest setup you could get away with for iOS/xcode development? Would it be a (used) Macbook Air, or can you not really run xcode effectively on them?
>We need a way to include "black swan readiness"

Black Swans cannot be prepared for, that's what makes them Black Swans.

One of the principles is:

The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).

How do you establish an emergency fund for something with a non-computible probability? How much money should you put aside for it?
Not sure if it fits your requirements, but i've been very happy with my System76 Darter Pro with those stats.
cmd and powershell are "console programs". They launch conhost.exe which is the text window you are interacting with. Another "console program" for example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager. Or you can write your own.
When Windows is asked to run console program, it spawns conhost.exe and the console program is putting the text inside conhost's window. That was architecture since Windows NT time.
In Windows 10 timeframe there was an attempt to modernize conhost.exe and minor changes were made but ultimately the new approach was chosen.
Windows Terminal is the result of that approach. It's essentially new conhost.exe (more complicated than that, but good enough for this one) and it provides the text window for all the console programs such as cmd, powershell, Far, ssh etc. to run

Now let's get to wsl/ubuntu.
WSL - windows subsystem for linux. It allows Windows to run unmodified linux binaries. for example you can run Ubuntu on it. Or RedHat. Or CentOS, or Kali or a few other Linux distributions. Main way linux programs interact with the world is usually a text window (terminal) so originally conhost.exe was used for that. Now you can use Windows Terminal for this.
Think of Windows Terminal and conhost as "window" for text programs.
Or the complexity is irreducible and making something on-par with browsers that have had decades of development will require real effort.

It isn't "ladder burning" that countries already have electrical grids so it's hard to build a competing electrical grid.
You're forgetting that businesses can jack up prices after a crisis. Let's say there are 10 restaurants. One of them survives because it has taken a loan and others just crumble. Suddenly all the competition is gone and people are storming your place.
yes, 2 sheets folded together
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B-b-but my scientific consensus!!! My 97%!!! Scientific truth is clearly
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Oh wow that’d be really cool. You could pretty much consider that to be L4 cache.
I'm in a similar position, bought a 2019 13" Pro. I've got to say, I'm really happy with my 2020 Thinkpad Carbon X1 and won't be looking to upgrade again for a long time.
Failing doesn't mean that the airline disappears. All of the planes and personnel don't just evaporate. Failing should mean replacing the current equity holders with the current bondholders and continuing to operate.
If you only use one sheet you risk poking a hole.
I remember this slightly differently; the change to C# was swift and rather brutal, but VB.Net was very much the default choice for most organisations transitioning from VB. In 2001-2002, seeing C# in production eluded a response along the lines of "wow, you guys are quite brave, kudos". By 2003-2004 though, the switchover had pretty much happened, nevertheless there were still swathes of legacy code to be maintained. At least, this was my experience in the handful of companies I worked with around then.

I've seen several moderately large and active projects (5+ developer maintenance team) still surviving to this day, running on VB.Net. In most cases though, these were started in the mid-2000s, simply due to manpower questions, not language advantages. I recall being moderately surprised even circa 2008 that the author of CSLA.Net (an interesting object-oriented framework) was mostly using VB.Net. I guess from their point of view, they were more proficient in that languages, and the cost of switching was too high. I definitely don't see any rationale for benefits, akin to say F# vs C#.
After researching this a bit, it appears that Andreessen and Thiel actually have similar ideologies, which might be described as libertarian. Even though they are both very successful, I feel that focusing on them is a form of framing that limits a broader discussion about how the distribution of seed capital affects innovation.

Does anyone know of any VCs who might be considered advocates for social justice?
> It's meant to be used with WMs

WT is meant to be used on Windows, where WMs aren't a thing.
> Thousands of manual, slow tests are being run every day.

Yeah - separate labs spread all over the world, using different protocols collecting different data points on different populations and answering to different companies and/or governments each of them with their own laws and regulations. You can't just "get all the data" in this case.
It's not supposed to be TMUX. It's more like xterm or iTerm2.
You can run tmux inside of it.
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This ^

I wish there was a way to take notes on my iPad and join the call from my iPad. This it the main thing that keeps me from making the leap 100%.
The explorer mindset is how scientists discovered penicillin, x-rays, and vulcanized rubber. Science isn't as cut and dry as the scientific method suggests.

I'd say to the extent that this behavior contributes to the reproducibility crisis, it has more to do with not backing that exploration with rigorous experimentation.

But more to the point, I'd argue that the lack of funding and publish-or-perish atmosphere has more to do with it. Academics don't necessarily publish because the results are noteworthy, but because they have to, regardless of the robustness of their methodology.
And I suspect their employer is right that they get their job done a cheap Dell. Excel works well on a cheap Dell!
The difference with those other platforms is that they were all still single vendor with no open standard behind them. I’m skeptical of the ability to create a new system because the surface area is so large that you need the massive resourcing of large corporations, but those companies will not willingly create new open standards that would put others on equal footing, at least not in today’s economic culture.
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I think you are misjudging the "common case".

The front camera is 7MP (close to 4K) and records 1080p. I don't know of any videoconferencing software that uses more than 1080p, and there's always massive compression applied anyways which would defeat image improvements. The quality is more than enough.

There's also very little practical issue with it being on the side when in landscape mode. It just means that your eyes appear to be looking sideways rather than downwards (arguably an improvement, as eyelids don't move down -- much closer to how people actually look in an in-person meeting when not looking directly at you) and that your head is about 10% off-center. So a non-issue. I've never seen anybody even notice it in a conference call, much less complain.

Finally who is taking selfies with their iPad? That's what phones are for. It's too big to hold with one hand.

The common use case for cameras in the iPad Pro is actually the rear camera. iPads are being increasingly used as professional tools in shooting production-quality video as well as all sorts of other commercial applications.

So I think the balance is quite right.
Which is kind of horrifying, if you stop and think about it. You're wondering whether you need another 32G of RAM to run a basic working environment, a glorified text editor, and some communications software. I used a BBC that could do that in 32K of RAM in the 1980s! Obviously I'm not really suggesting the functionality today is equivalent, but the idea that ultimately you're meeting the same basic needs yet it now takes a million times as much space is... unsettling.
I would guess 3 is a closer to average.
At this point you might as well just require a plaintext password to update the screen, and forget the XOR.
The existence of DNA will never be falsified. The experiments which discovered DNA happened. New experiments don't make old experiments un-happen. Similarly, the fact DNA->RNA->protein is how it works at least some of the time isn't going to become false.
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Come on. Powershell 7 (next version after Powershel Core 6) was released just 2 weeks ago.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.0.0
> Can't really put it to good use unless they release WSL 2 to Windows 10 1909 stable. Opting into the Windows Inside Program requires that you enable full diagnostic data being sent to Microsoft.

I use WT and native SSH (windows 10 now has openssh compiled for it and I think it's in default install these days) to connect to Linux boxes instead of say Putty.
But where else would they get paid for their work? They can't leave to "The other blockbuster animation studio" because there is only a handful, and they've all agreed to fix wages at a certain rate so they don't get into a wage-war. If demand for their talent drove their wages, their wages would be much higher. Small studios don't make enough money to pay higher, so big studios hold all the cards and exploit that fact to draw down wages.

It's the same issue airline pilots have. If they had the choice to move to a different airline paying higher, they would, but they accept the conditions they're given because the whole industry pays similar rates, and their skills aren't transferable to any other industry. Essentially they're trapped, lest they choose an entirely new career.
You wouldn't get the 11-hour battery life then.
The MU stands for multi-user. Maybe talk to the other people more?
Yes, but multiple wipes per BM - about 6-8 sheets for me on average.
Fuchsia seems to be an exception that proves the rule.

And it doesn't find the rule wanting. Three years since it stealth-launched, and forward momentum on Fuchsia seems... Questionable?
This article is mainly about the programming competition. What's wrong with that kind of evangelism? I think it's a great idea. It certainly attracts attention to Smalltalk (Pharo), a relatively obscure language.

If you're grousing about the author's comparison to other languages, he's not showing disrespect by pointing out that their approach to language promotion hasn't produced the desired outcome. He's simply stating the truth.
Love my 2018 iPad Pro, use it everyday for school work and for personal things. Hope to see more options for development on the iPad in the near future (requires Apple to open up developer options).

There are some cool apps that I think you guys would like. They don't have a lot of marketing behind them.. Carnets (offline Jupyter notebook) [free] and a-Shell (interactive terminal) [free].

Took some digging, but note that the new trackpad keyboard is compatible with the 2018 released iPad Pro models. Looks like the keys are bigger, resembling their laptop keyboard a bit more. I really enjoy typing on my smart folio so I hope the experience will be similar!
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Can you give an example of what innovation we've lost?
I mean, yeah, that’s the point of a rent strike. To apply pressure
Mac mini with at least a 2K external display.
It's ironic, but I've transitioned from using Ulysses and other apps for text editing to Blink + Mosh +
Tmux + Neovim (with Goyo plugin for focusing). This is on a 12.9" iPad Pro.

It's a smooth setup. I like iOS, but am tired of dragging apps from the dock.

(Note: I use Working Copy as a local git client & editor for times when I'm without internet or when I need to copy to another app. Great combo.)
Maybe. Perhaps it is a PR-move to bring the company into the spotlight. Perhaps it was Trump wanting to be seen as capable. Perhaps we will never know.
Bah. Terminal emulators are ancient hacks that should have died out long ago. Microsoft is just doing this to accommodate the Linux ecosystem that still thinks a teletype is a good idea.
> "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry."

Yep this is the right move, and as someone else says, this would be worthy of respect.

I think we've all just about had it with corporate bullshit -- and to be sure that says more about this moment in time than anything else.

Apple is consistently guilty of blowing smoke up our collective asses. It would be nice if they could give it a rest and simply be honest. But here we are.
waffle stomp?
The security model being that debugging requires the user to take significant steps, and isn't something apps can just do silently, yes.
Exactly. I've had iPads now since the 2nd model, and have used front camera about 2% of the time, and the rear about 98% of the time (great for snapping whiteboards). But, truly, I don't use the cameras much at all, and would prefer to not have fancy cameras on an iPad. The phone is where the fancy cameras should be. And, I also carry a 'pocket' camera with far better close-ups, better video, and more storage and effects which I don't use as much, but is indispensable when it is.
I think I've used one of these Gigabyte rack servers:

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/ARM-Server

I'm not sure offhand what the pricing is, but my guess would be less than $10,000, depending on the configuration.