skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of the reasons why i love firefox? the Tracking protection. it makes webpages faster to load. Cool
> The feds always got them at the money drop.

That's one problem bitcoin is solving.
Aaah... Sorry.

I'm guessing this is also why we perhaps should avoid even "example.com"-URL's if it's really bad if someone receives the traffic :-)
The Articles of Unity
I do wonder whether video calls have become the next reading, television or video games - this horror that will destroy people's brains. It all feels rather reactionary. Surely different forms of communication work for different people in different circumstances. We can't make these wide pronouncements.
The UI you see on screenshots is for Shoes 4 which is a rewrite of the original library in JRuby + SWT. The original is it's own widgets, but there existed ports to GTK and maybe others.

The main part of shoes is the API design, all implementations follow the original API as described in the book.
For my work project I feel like the debugger has got slower, like when you press Ctrl+P to load a js file(we are using source maps) in debugger it takes so much longer in present where it was instant in the past - does anyone feel this slowdown or is something on my side only.
HN search shows a couple of previous threads from the last 12 months:

Ask HN: Best Office Chair? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725339

Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371095

Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20460559
Because to me designing a piece of software is the analytical work: making estimates, picking candidates for data structures and algorithms, doing back-of-the-envelope calculations, considering trade-offs, maybe making a little prototype in a toy language.

The coding proper can be done in a less vigilant state: it is like laying bricks or folding napkins. The hands know what they are doing. (Exaggerating here, but not too much. God knows I have coded tired or drunk or stoned, and not even my worst work.)
Same reason we call our pocket computers with voice chat "phones"
Hi,

Antirez thanks for the Redis.. even though I have not used redis in real time.. some what I got attracted into redis and when I have attended redis conference in Bangalore got to know much about redis and got a chance to see and listen your talk.. all the best for your future hopefully you will come back with new thing where I can learn more from you.. partially missing you from github mail nofications which I didn't thought....all the best
Yep, given the choice, I would too.
Redis works well until the point it doesn't - like a lot of other tools.

A half-ton pickup truck works well until you need to haul bigger loads. At some point, you either need to haul smaller loads or change to a different, bigger truck.
You shouldn't be forced to subsidize anything. That's the whole point. At a minimum: the government should recognize the market power imbalance between card processors and small businesses, and ensure that the stores can set their own prices appropriately. If cash or debit is genuinely more expensive, let stores reflect that fact in their prices offered to consumers -- rather than prohibiting it via a contract they can't say "no" to.
>> Third-party login systems like Sign in with Apple cause many user experience and customer support headaches.

It’s not. It’s perfectly slick , simple and powerful and even non technical user can use. Please enable.
A few days ago this gem appeared in my inbox: "Hey folks, we had trouble setting up the Cisco zoom this meeting so we're switching to a Google zoom, here's the link"
Unpopular opinion: why do we care so much about making it cheaper for rich people to move money around? Do we think somehow that will “trickle down” to us mere mortals and put western union and their ilk out of business?
>I have no idea how reading would work without at least hearing it though. If you told me to read without doing this stuff it would be like telling me to think without having thoughts. Impossible.

I read a lot - and the story unfolds in my mind's eye. But I don't hear the dialog as sound, unless I explicitly want to (if I wish to hear a sentence in my mind, using a friend's voice, I can). I don't even "read" the book (including the dialog), except at the beginning. When I get into the story it's just in the mind, I don't consciously read. And the dialog is also not voiced, it just "is". Which is one reason I've never felt that strange, foreign, or difficult-to-pronounce names are a problem (a complaint I often see in e.g. Amazon reviews). Never had that problem. And if I try to add a voice to a spoken sentence the reading slows down to "natural" speed, which is way way too slow for me.

(As for hearing sounds in my mind in general - I'm very susceptible to ear worms, and I don't use a car stereo - if I want to hear music I just hear it, in my mind.)
That's true of all high-frequency/high-core count hardware. Which is why running Java or Python codes on this hardware makes very little sense. Rust is more like it. Golang in a pinch.
> my goal is to show that Apple's debilitating lockdown of the Mac is not justified by alleged privacy and security benefits. In that respect, I think I've proved my point

If every attempt to improve something were disproven by the presence of flaws, it would disprove all attempts to do anything with software ever. I get that people don't like the macOS privacy protection efforts, but that's no reason to construct a logical fallacy.
I personally think that FF dev tools are better that Chrome. Every time that I'm forced to use Chrome Dev tools, I get confused.
Actually the web site uses Redis as the only store. And Redis is using 0.1% of CPU. The problem is that Ruby sucks at doing anything scalable. It's just a Ruby/Sinatra app. If you do that in PHP, it will work out of the box with many concurrent accesses. With Ruby not the case. There are ways to deploy it better, but it should be fast as default, which is not the case.
How to create your own site with static site generator
This needs examples throughout. I agree with the sentiment but I might argue that initially studying the pencil is the best way to trace back to the problem it solves.
There's little doubt that face-to-face communication is more 'human' than video chat, and better for building rapport and intimacy.

But where is the evidence that video-only (or audio, or text) is bad for the workplace? It could actually be a 'leveler', and in fact better, if it reduces cliques, collusion, physical intimidation, etc, and therefore fosters more open and widespread collaboration.
What's the wavelength of the red you see when facing the sun with your eyes closed? I remember seeing some claim a few years ago (can't find it right now) that doing that every day would improve eyesight.
Restyaboard gives you perspective over all your projects, at work and at home. Whether it's managing a team, writing an epic screenplay, or just making a grocery list, Restyaboard is your sidekick for getting things done and staying organized.
...And who wants to take bets for how many years before Intel starts being a contract manufacturer of chips for Apple and others? Shall we open the bidding at five years?
Peer review, while extremely useful in bringing out some, or many warts of a work, is not a substitute for quality control, which depends only on the authors.

> Don't expect that you, the average HN reader, knows better than reviewers with relevant backgrounds.

After what happened with the Surgisphere paper, where the first problem was the statistics (caught by post-publication comments) and only later there was the problem of fake data, the mere presence of a secret review does not mean the work is up to anything.

P.S: yes, I work in the fields of biology and pharmacology and have written and reviewed a number of papers myself.
Check out the "Developer Tools" category on hacks.mozilla.org[1]. When new features are added to DevTools, it's pretty common for blog posts to appear there, often with videos or animations. These are sometimes linked from the official developer release notes of the browser. It's probably not quite what you're asking for, but it's a start...

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/developer-tools/
Hey! I'm not part of how the new setup will be. I don't liked to maintain, and selecting a new development setup is the most mantainer-ing thing ever :D
What does PUC mean in “PUC Lua”?
Where are you that has a transaction tax on account transfers? Not the US certainly, and not anywhere in the EU.
https://decrypt.co/31956/an-ethereum-user-lost-5-2-million-i...

And if you fat-fingered the transaction, you could have transferred $0.48 for $1B in fees with no way to reverse that.
I suspect a lot of it is quality and UI/UX woes.

In a default video app you struggle to see everyone, only one speaker can be heard clearly and usually there's audio/video sync issues. Add a sprinkle of bad hardware and suddenly it's more like talking to a robot over dialup than any semblance of a conversation.

On the other hand, have the participants use good hardware, high quality connections and fix the audio issues and the problems greatly get reduced.

Anecdotally, comparing my work meetings to my video-chat social calls seems to reinforce this. Work folks typically use just their laptop and have questionable wireless, and we use Google Meet which seems to get worse with every update especially on the audio front. Meanwhile the social group is primarily streamers with high end cameras and microphones and better networking, which when combined with Discords significantly improved audio muxing dramatically improves call quality and reduces "Zoom fatigue".
Simulating a wide range of network conditions feels easier between VMs (they go from almost perfect, way better than especially the older Pis can offer, to as degraded as you want), but contention for other system resources is a good point.
Can you get a licensed copy of OSX without Safari? If not, it's part of the OS.
Good reason to dump support for Firefox imo.
I don't disagree that it has improved a lot, but shortcomings still continue to exist. It surprises me since Firefox is Mozilla's core product - I personally would have expected them to crush Google Chrome in usability and functionality.
I think this swings a little the other way¹, with things like:

> The Netherlands became rich, not poor while adapting to life below sea level

However, most of what I can see is not rhetoric, which is unusual. I think this is worth a read. It's got stuff like:

> The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium

> 100 percent renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5 percent to 50 percent

mixed in with the usual bad arguments, so I expect it to be informative, even if the author's intermediate conclusions are shaky.

¹: By this, I mean "using rhetoric to argue against something" – really, this is swinging the same way, but with a different aim, but… well, that kind of wording gets confusing.
We're having a discussion on HN about a specific person moving a specific amount of money around. That by itself is basically the opposite of privacy.
We’re one step closer to `println` as a service.
FF gets most of it's revenue from Google Search, a service that was extremely profitable long before Google started personalized ads. Sure, Google might not like losing browser market share or having fewer tracking opportunities, but none of those hurt nearly as much as losing search engine users. I expect them to pay Firefox for quite some time (and if they don't, their competition will).
That's the whole idea behind the blockchain.
Everything is recorded in ledgers
This is very sad to see. I lived in Hong Kong in 2011-2012 and you could already see the tension whenever "mainlanders" came over, bought suitcases, then filled them up on luxury shopping trips. A lot of the spirit I saw from the people of HK seemed similar to that of Americans: fiercely independent, very entrepreneurial, and believed that things kept getting better.
This is not first time Antirez quit. 10 or 8 years ago he deleted his Twitter account with 10k followers. I think today it reached critical mass, and he does not want to be public figure anymore.
This implies that a lot of the politicization of open source projects has to do with outsiders making power plays (for in group status or just because narcissism). I think this is part of it, for sure. I also think it can also manifest when parts of the community get trapped in a purity spiral, which is somewhat related but comes from within rather than without.

Advice? I don't know. Stay underground and ignore the mobs, they will get bored and move on if you ignore them.

Ironically, I think lowering the barriers for involvement in open source has let in a mass of people who have no fucking business being there.
Ok, so many thank you here, thanks! It's very nice to read the comments here. But I hope to interact more on HN, since basically the idea is to write more blog posts, write more OSS software too. Just totally random :D I'll just do whatever every morning I want to do for a long time. Then maybe I'll find a new long term interest.
I'm not aware of any government that taxes money transfers. At least in any country I have lived in you can move around your money as much as you like without any taxes.

Now if you're trying to avoid income tax or something like that that's a different question, but then using Bitcoin doesn't magically make that disappear either.
> if FF is successful in their mission they will cut off their major revenue channel.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Their mission isn't to break search engines, just to prevent privacy violations.

If Google Search is unsustainable with any less than Google's current level of tracking/etc, then I suppose a successful Firefox means an unsuccessful Google.

But Google didn't start out doing this much tracking, and there are other search engines out there that still don't. A paid default search engine that shows a few search-related ads on its results pages doesn't seem opposed to Firefox's mission?
When Google made moves to hem in ad blocking, I switched back to Firefox. It's not ideology. It's about being able to visit a site and read the the story without the text dancing around as the page fills with ads and animations.

Security is also a practical concern, not ideological.
> At the same time, they are unwilling or unable to create an environment that is safe for the folks in the communities working or shopping there.

One thing I'm curious about is the liability for having armed security guards. I'm operating under the assumption that unarmed security guards are unlikely to have a real impact on the armed robbery rate, so I'm assuming that armed guards are what we're discussing here.

Quick Googling says Dollar General generates $2.3 billion in profit per year, across "over 16000 stores" from their site. So the average yearly profit per store is roughly $143k (which is surprisingly low to me). A security guard per store is going to eat a lot of that, but it's probably feasible to do. I think the bigger question is whether Dollar General could potentially bear any liability in the event one of their security guards shot someone, and I would be stunned if they didn't bear any liability. Even the legal costs associated with winning a wrongful death suit could eat an entire year's profits.

I strongly suspect that is the reason why they fire any employee who is carrying a handgun. As an agent of Dollar General, Dollar General probably assumes some liability for shootings that happen while on the job.

I also suspect the violent crime is part of the reason other groceries moved away. Being undercut certainly doesn't help, but other groceries were faced with the same economic decision regarding customer safety, as well as damage to their brand from being associated with violent crime.

One solution would be to place police officers at or very near these stores. I lived in a college neighborhood at one point, and there was a convenience store that was well known for being robbed almost weekly. The police set up a substation there, and it basically vanished. On the other hand, that was one store, not an entire chain, and it was the campuses PD that set it up. And campus PD had precious little else to do at night other than rounding up underage drinkers.
The most famous example is when Sears was internally organized around free market ideology by an Ayn Rand adherent. It did not go well. Declining profits drove a viscous cycle of back-stabbing and secrecy among competing units inside the company.

My impression is that the people who argue against central planning always rationalize backwards from a pre-established conclusion. The fact is that the experiment has never been allowed to proceed on a national scale without violent undermining from the forces of private capital, both internal and external.
The _only_ reason I use webpack and friends are for JSX and Typescript. For me, those two tools are worth the compilation step. Qs soon as it's possible to stop using compilers while still enjoying the benefits of both, I'll dump them from all my codebases.
> Does the first sentence not cover that fairly well?

Not for me. Almost all of what you copied there seems like intrinsically meaningless fluff. "a set of formats"? "a set of protocols"? "software"! Of course it's software! "for modeling"? "in the post-PC era"?

I would have preferred GP's ~"imports data/files from cloud services into a local database and provides a search interface for it". Because THAT tells me what it does, not any of the other words you posted.

Someone made a really well done cartoon mascot for it, but the copy isn't _helpful_.
Various governments will be more than happy to apply their large resources to a $1B Bitcoin transaction if they can find a hint that it's in their jurisdiction.
Digital ~230 USD - https://www.mcmaster.com/pressure-gauges/pressure-and-vacuum...

Analog gauge ~100 USD -https://www.mcmaster.com/pressure-gauges/pressure-and-vacuum...

Both of the above gauges come with Calibration Certificate Traceable to NIST
Doomsday bunker companies enjoying big increase in business since pandemic began
True, I realize my comment comes off like it's towards you as opposed to those proposing the measure. Sorry about that.
In what way is it hate speech?
> Yep it's the open source, and in general the "spontaneous" development world, that happens without big money, just for hacking. This "place" once was kinda free and not observed much.

Thanks for explaining.

> Now you can't say anything, if you don't respect a good practice (LOL) people yell at you on Twitter. Even saying that commenting is a good idea is a problem. Not cool.

Just because they're loud does not mean they're correct or that they're the majority. I can understand not wanting to deal with any of it though.

The larger than life you become in your space, they more your words, actions, and non-actions get parsed and twisted for political intent. It's either step away entirely or hide behind the mask of a pseudonymous alt.
Thank you for the suggestion. I added notes about typical sizes depending on the complexity of the regex.

TLDR: ~30 chars is too long for exponential regexes. 1K-5K chars are too long for quadratic regexes. Higher polynomials blow up somewhere between 100 and 1000 characters.
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Probably a lack of time resources for unbounded experimentation with unsupported configurations of expensive, non-mainstream hardware. Not all of us have the luxury to be a recreational sysadmin in our spare time.
Weird. I found a few forum threads from last year saying it isn't supported, e.g. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/support-for-wildcard-doma...

Might be worth reaching out to support and see if they can suggest something. Even if they didn't intend for it to work, it now suddenly breaking is kinda bad.
We aren't, only those that keep fighting against MVC, HTML Templates and Web Components are.
He deals with this kind of question explicitly. Humans have evolved to be able to work efficiently at tribal sizes - this is Dunbar's Number. So yeah, you'll see organization around this size doing very well. But as companies grow beyond that, you'll see them turn into the hulking dinosaurs that can no longer operate agilely.

Hayek talks about the error of trying to use in government that in-built but limited capacity for managing relationships at too great a scale.
It looks like microservices from the high level. But then you dig into each component, and realize that other than using APIs, they still require all the other components, use a shared storage layer, sometimes use non-standard protocols. The kube-controller-manager alone is literally a tiny monolith: a single binary with 5 different controllers in it. K8s operates like a monolith because you mostly can't just remove one layer and have it keep running.

Compare that to HashiCorp's tools. You can run a K8s-like system composed mostly of Hashi's tools, but you can also run each of those tools as a single complete unit of just itself. Now, each of those tools is actually multiple components in one, like mini-monoliths. But in operation, they can work together or as independent services. The practical result is truly stand-alone yet reusable and interoperable components. That's the kind of DevOps methodology I like: buy a wheelbarrow today and hitch it to an ATV next week, rather than going out and buying a combine harvester before you need it.
Just a heads up that the contact sales link on the blog is broken: https://gitguardian.com/contact should be https://gitguardian.com/contact-us
I don't want to sound like a narc, but it seems like a really good idea to have some degree of oversight and safeguards on financial transactions of that magnitude.
Your descriptions of dreams is what my visual imagination is like, but my dreams are completely vivid. On rare occaisions, I'm aware of the transition from non-dream to dream which is like a lightbulb switching on and suddenly my visual imagination goes from "there exists a face" to "I see a face, with color and texture and motion as if it were in front of me".

For sound, I can imagine sound and hear it essentially exactly as if I were to actually hear it, but the only sounds I can imagine are sounds I can make myself. I can't imagine a song per se but I can imagine myself humming it. Same as above, when on the verge of sleep my sound imagination can switch on and I hear music as if I were at a concert hall - dramatically different from my day-to-day experience.

Because of this, I can assure you that there are real differences between people's experiences, despite what others might tell you.
I agree with this. If I needed a surgeon, I most certainly would not be using video as I do not have CT/X-ray/Ultrasound at home. I would love to have my own ultrasound. I predict some day there will be a low cost portable unit that allows people to upload ultrasound images in a standard format. Same goes for epigentic methylation. Today the equipment takes up half a room.

I have been getting voice mails daily from my doctors office to do a zoom call for a routine checkup. They appear desperate for business.
Similar in what their attitudes are to so many things in life. Thoughts on having a family, marriage, treatment of women, ideas on social status, work, career, material wellbeing, and down to things like hobbies, and free time spending. And their tourists... especially northeastern ones...

Everything within cultural gravity of Beijing, and Northeast has been molded very early in history of PRC, and was pretty much an attempt to copy USSR 1-to-1 before Mao cut ties.