skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were you under the impression that mozilla wasn't ideologically driven previously? Hell look at the imagery of some of their early logos. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...

Not to mention that this document is pretty old.

I think the main difference is it feels a lot less authentic now. Less grassroots and more a corporate-ish attempt to appeal to the masses.
Seriously? They were welding next to fireworks and explosives.

Oh boy
> 99% of all the times they enter something in the address bar that is longer than just the tld, it probably got there by them pasting it.

Then the existence of the URL is still justified by giving the user something to paste. So what if the user doesn't know what every single part of the URL means? They know that this URL gets them to this page and that URL gets them to that page. It's visible cause and effect. Get rid of it and we end up with "magic" where copying "news.ycombinator.com" on one page will produce a different outcome from copying "news.ycombinator.com" on a different page. This is how it works on iOS today and I think that eventually, users who only interact with iOS devices will not know what to make of that.

Weo hide all complexity from non-technical users then winder why they don't understand the complexity that's still there underneath. I don't believe that we should continue doing that. If the problem with URLs is the URLs being long and scary, let's make websites with better and more readable URLs.
It would be interesting to look at Covid case and death numbers in different countries compared to popularity of nursing homes and age distribution. Has anyone seen this type of analysis?
Comparing numpy to J is like comparing a dirty rag to a designer suit. The examples you've listed are trivial; the power of J and other array languages cannot be appreciated from afar.

The philosophy behind array languages runs much deeper than adding two arrays or transposing matrices.
Does OpenVMS still support logging out via 'DISCODUCK'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWhozyOoZQ
Flat APIs are not affected by the 7+-2 limitation. They do not depend on each other, so we don't need to think about all of them at the same time.
Australian (Sydney, 30 minutes train from CBD) here, I pay $60/m for 45mbps but my line potential is 35mbps. My average speed is around 20mbps (just ran a speedtest and it was 22mbps).

Some places have 100mbps, but most don't live in those areas. I am lucky to get the speeds that I do, honestly.

I'm watching both 5g and starlink with great interest as they will be up and running before the next infrastructure initiative by the government.

Maybe Sydney is actually rural and we don't know it yet
Swimming in Datalakes with Go
I find it hard to disagree with this sentiment.

I don't use firefox as my main browser because it's better than Chrome, I use it because it's not google.
Caterpillar is CAT, but you don't see headlines that say "Blackrock traded Microsoft for cat."
It's a twist ending to the first five minutes of the film.
I view Ansible and Terraform as complementary tools; I can imagine performing rolling upgrades by using Ansible to shoot down a node and then have Terraform rebuild it; and Terraform could use Ansible to configure the nodes, if you're not using images.

For smaller systems one could use Ansible to create the infrastructure too, but I don't think it scales very well.
Another irrelevant but frequently-made point. If you maintain your own stash of nukes, you're effectively a state-level actor. Gun control laws no longer apply. Arms proliferation treaties, maybe, but not gun control.
Again, these are both not true. Even if they were, it doesn’t help astronomers. Quit sucking Elon’s dick for 5 sec and you might let a little reality seep in.
Revenue is secured. They have another deal with Google worth ~500M a year for the next few years.

But for growing it and for the future of the browser that’s TBD imo
How? We can only fix it if we caused it?
In addition to static imports, static fields and functions that belong to the instantiated class are not members of the current object.
Yes yes, in the 90' everyone said that too...but about Linux ;)
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Dollar delta changes as stock rallies. If you want to maintain a fixed dollar exposure, you can trim your position when stocks rally and add to your position when they depreciate.
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Most of them can be unlocked. I paid some random website to brute force unlock one for about $20. It took them about 6 days. Then they sent me a code, I entered it in a secret menu and then I was able to buy sim cards when travelling and it worked great.
I guess that’s the distinction between unethical and illegal?

I don’t think it’s illegal to make a loan you know someone can’t pay and then sell said loan to someone who is willing to buy it even when they know it has a high default risk.
Dataflow SDK libraries have updated their minor version from 2.4 to something like 2.16 in just two years. Guess what, everything below 2.14 is deprecated and not supported.

And yes. Despite these being minor version updates, stuff will break if you go from, say, version 2.9 to version 2.11.
Oh stop the bullshit and hyperbolic hand waving. The Linux kernel community is way more friendly place to work than any of the BSD kernel communities.
> In an ironically cult like absolutism, you dismiss the moral discussion that transpired within Western philosophical traditions that debate this very topic - of Judeo-Christianity, of consequentialism.

There's a lot of this in online political discussion. Strident but, ah, let's say poorly sourced claims about ethics or morality, with whole castles of charmingly clear and straightforward political philosophy built atop them. I usually "nope" out when it looks like we might end up accidentally re-creating the "what is Justice?" dialogue from the beginning of Plato's Republic, but with only one of us realizing it, which is a situation that comes up pretty often, actually.
Who should be at fault in accidents? Tesla? The owner of the car? And if your death rate is correct and they will scale you would still have around 30 deaths every day. Automated driving is not the end all. I don't think we should put it into wide usage hastely for highway driving it may work, but it gets a lot worse as soon as you are off the high way I would believe.
MicroPython
To "own" anything, everyone else needs to acknowledge your ownership ... get too greedy and the majority may suspend their granting of that acknowledged ownership ... just for you, everyone else continues along as before.
> To be fair, they disabled the Steam store page when the game moved to closed Beta because they are porting it.

Thanks, didn't know that. However this was 4 years ago based on those blog posts. If we are considering games over-running and not deliverying then I think Derek Smart and LoD are in a very brittle glass house here.

> You may not like him or his games, but at least he's still making games and he has people buying them. So I don't quite know why you have a problem with that when he has made so many games for a very long time now.

You can see a list of the games made here: https://www.metacritic.com/company/3000ad-inc & https://www.metacritic.com/company/quest-online-inc

You cannot help but notice that none of them are well recieved (with only BC Millenium approaching a rasonable score) and most of them are iterations on a similar/ same idea. This, to me, reduces his authority in regards to game development and how it should be done, to basically 0.

> Didn't he say five years ago in July 2015 (I don't have the blog link, but go to his website at www.dereksmart.com) said the game could never be made?
> It's not over $300 million and there is still no game. Even with almost $100m in additional investor money.

We still don't know if it will be made or not, work is ongoing, dev is happening and patches are being released. If the makers of Star Citizen go bankcrupt without the game being made then at that point he will be correct.

What we do know is that Star Citizen has a huge scope (And to be fair, it does sound like a lot of that scope is Chris Roberts brand scope creep) and lots of technical challenges, it could (probably will) take 10+ years go make.

Basically my point is that Derek Smart is infamous in gaming circles and, given his history and behaviour, I am shocked anyone would consider him an authoritative, reliable, even vaguely unbiased source.
> Is there a universal all-text calendar format?

iCalendar
Unfortunately, I doubt Starlink will be generally available that close to Sydney CBD. The population density would be too high.

Maybe Sydney’s rural fringe? (Dural? Glenorie? Maroota? Wiseman’s Ferry? Camden? Rural parts of Central Coast like Holgate, Lisarow, Somersby?)
FreeBSD and NetBSd are quite toxic places.
Mainframes are completely different beasts though. A VM on a Xeon machine is not a fair comparison to an app running on a Mainframe because by design the mainframe has many redundant systems to stay online for ever. Lots of dedicated hardware for things and redundant systems etc are the selling point to mission critical hardware that is the mainframe

I suspect this is more about not having to pay IBM for the hardware and contracts anymore
During the soft lockdown in Germany we had an internal questionnaire. The results are surely skewed because of the conditions (parents needing to act as teachers, because of closed schools; people having no real office equipment at home like a desk and stuff like that). None the less around 30% answered that they would prefer full time work from home for the future. About one third wanted to return to the office as fast as possible. And the rest stated that they would prefer some days in the office, some remote.
Google Search Console is a great source to help you build on this technique. It’s the most reliable source of data on what your site is appearing in the search results for - even if it doesn’t get a click. You’ll often find your site appearing for queries that you haven’t directly addressed yet with content. Create an article that does address that query or question - and get more traffic.
My tool https://seotesting.com works off GSC data and has some predefined reports that help you find these types of queries - please give it a try.
Let Cloudflare CDN speed up your classic website like it's static
Exactly this. Before the oil age, we were already rapidly decimating forests for fuel. In a way, the discover of fossil fuels averted that ecological disaster and there are more trees now (in America at least) than 100 years ago [1].

Solar and wind energy generation are great, but don't have a high ERoEI in early development. Oil that's gushing out of the ground has an insanely high ERoEI and we used that to advance our technology very quickly.

Also remember that we probably have only a few hundred million years left before the sun expands and heats the planet to the point were complex life can't exist. There will be no liquid water in 1 billion years.

This is all conjecture. It certainly could be possible that future civilizations can become space faring by a different path than we took, but that's a terrible gamble to make if you think intelligence in the universe is worth preserving and expanding.

1. https://www.treehugger.com/more-trees-than-there-were-years-...
I think Google couldn't do better, even if they wanted to.

The reason is the engineering culture and the promotion system. People expect to switch to new projects, and work towards to a promotion within 2-3 years. This shows in all products, and presumalby also the reason for the deprecation. New people come on the project, want and need to do a major overhaul, and do not have resource or incentives to support the old stuff.

The other half is that most projects are done efficiently by relatively small groups of engineers. I remember that Android Market was still a few people in MTV, with no payment possibilities outside of the US, when Apple already had significant revenue from apps. And that shows everywhere. I'd argue Google is incapable of tackling projects that require more than a few hundred people for more than 2-3 years.

But as a billion dollar company, that does not work. Throwing money at obvious new billion dollar opportunities like Microsoft did with gaming and cloud, and following through over 5 years is not possible for Google.
> The root domain is highlighted in FF. This must be enough for visual testing.

I've been using Firefox for years and never realized this. Looking up at the top of my browser, I can see that "ycombinator.com" is highlighted and the rest of the URL is a darker grey. To me, this seems like a good compromise; you still get the full URL but the important parts stand out a bit more.
Definitely surprised to find another Gamecock on HN. I'm a recent grad myself - perhaps one of you students?

I'm curious: under what conditions do you think the threat to Carolina (and other similar regional flagship schools) becomes "existential"?

E.g. classes go online for the Fall semester sometime in Spring, with little hope of reopening the campus for Spring.

Forever to thee.
Wow. Never heard of that in Germany. Seems that in the Netherlands the works council has a different standing.
Inflation wave started in 2008 when the housing market crashed and QE really began.
We get to this place because people see obvious wrong being done and say "it's such a shame the government hasn't done anything about this" instead of doing anything about it themselves.

There hasn't been a time when "the individual" handled problems like a war or a massive pandemic. You "as an individual" haven't solved this mess and neither you nor I are going. I mean, I stop and help people broken down by the side of the road, I tell people what I think and what I think needs to be done. But that's individual initiative and it's not going to fix large problems.

Large questions have always been handled by groups, informal groups or formal, either coming from society. When a society was too small scale to produce a large collective response to a problem, well it failed. Why large nations have replaced small tribes.

It's true that today a lot of people view the government as a thing outside of themselves rather than a thing they create. But that's a slightly different problem.
I find I am not missing anything in terms of features or stability since the quantum engine except perhaps bookmark management being a bit clunky.

If you truly prefer chrome why not use a chromium browser that is not Google? (Brave for example)
I don't think so, i switched to Firefox about two years ago, after the major upgrades, and I think it's way snappier, faster and more usable than chrome.
You may he stationed away, but exposire to many cultures is likely a bit of stretch. It is exposure in very specific way. (If you are in navy, you have some free time to shop and drink once in few months.) Soldiers does not exactly have reputation for understanding tolerance for different cultures.

And it is not in your individual controll to engage with experiences or not. Being soldier is opposite of making individual choices. You do a lot in groups, group conformity and group cohesion are bug things, you get told what to do.
The challenge with not competing with Chrome is that websites are now mostly developed with Chrome as the dev-tool.

Even large companies are just optimizing for that one browser:

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/11/28/please-build-websites-w...

How many users are going to be willing to put up with stuff not working until they switch?
You are right, it's not low quality, it's high quality attack on whole culture.

But please come up with real examples, did linux devs ever like "smashed 16yo"?

Also, why don't you set an example and express yourself politely too?
Why would google fund a direct competitor unless they thought it was to their advantage?

I don’t see how this helps Firefox Users.
Imagine believing in it's not.
People who buy Beats headphones.
Lack of good built-in RSS reader is puzzling. Could have been their way into offering paid web services as the cross platform browser is so perfectly positioned for this feature.
Right, so this is a way to make local economy more efficient that works because people care more about local externalities.

The question is, is there a way to scale this to the whole world by building a global network composed of local networks?
That's not necessarily true. SpaceX has a massive advantage that previous companies didn't – launch costs.

SpaceX is getting all of these satellites up for an insanely low cost.
Proof...because it's bullshit.

EDIT: Ahh looking at you comment's you are a anti-bsd troll, so dont waste time searching for proof.
You didn't read the article, did you? Startup developers don't mind supporting multiple options and backwards compatibility. Often they have to because they don't have the time and the money to rewrite everything, so it's common in startups to run and support multiple versions of APIs, clients etc.

It's Google who doesn't provide backwards compatibility, upgrade paths and migration options.

> But that's your job dude. So what if it costs more money and time. Fucking pay for it anyway.

So why doesn't Google pay for it anyway?

> I feel like startup software dev needs a swift kick in the ass or three with that phrase.... "do it anyway!"

You mean Google devs.
Clearly author is making things up - there were no gummy sharks in micro kitchens. Sergey spoke at lengths about this.

> I considered using Google Cloud Bigtable for my online game, but it costs an estimated $16,000/year for an empty Bigtable on GCP. I’m not saying they’re gouging you

Ok, but they are
We failed by no longer giving anyone the ability or even the right to understand their tools. A computer is just a tool to get things done. It's perfectly reasonable that to a lot of people, it will remain this black box of magic they'll never understand. But now it's a black box to everyone, including non-technical people who cared enough to know more about their tools even if they weren't their primary interest.

It feels to me that tech will eventually hit a point where there's only two ways to interact with it. Either you're a "typical user" who has a glass orb you speak into and pray that it does what you ask without shattering to prevent tinkering, or you're a programmer who gets a command line and that's it.
> 10% decrease in grain yield

Wikipedia has a good article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_agriculture

One thing to consider when you're reading anything about the predicted effects of climate change: The effects will not be uniform in space or time.

For example, warming itself has been highly nonuniform. It's not that every day, every location on earth is X degrees warmer. Rather, that's an average; some days in some places are a lot hotter, and on other days in other places, it's less hot. This means that in addition to the average temperature increasing, extremes are also more common (has to be).

See the first picture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming, or this video: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/video-global-...

I expect that "10% decrease in average [time and space] grain yields" would also be spiky, in time and space. That means some places and times will experience significantly more than a 10% drop.
It is to their advantage. They get all the search ad revenue
I'm not sure we've seen any evidence of Musk's 'incredible' engineering skills.
I really don't understand how that is not enough to fund Firefox and Servo for well over a decade.
Haven't worked on them a lot recently, but AFAIK, the population based nature helps them escape local minima and do a better job at exploring the solution space.
Who cares about the version number?

Come on. People don‘t pick a browser based on a too high or too low version number.
Getting to space is absolutely NOT a solution to climate change. We have to solve climate change SO THAT we can continue on our path to become space faring. If we can't manage to survive on an Earth decimated by climate change, then we obviously have no chance in space or any other planet in this solar system.

We 100% will go extinct eventually if we don't expand beyond Earth. And my point is that if climate change destroys our civilization now and we get flung back into a new dark age, I don't think it's likely that we'll ever manage to spread beyond Earth.

Climate change is an existential threat to our species because it threatens our ability to become space faring.
I question the longevity and/or motives of institutions maintaining any of those builds other than possibly Microsoft.

And believe me, if you would have asked me if trusting Microsoft was the safe bet 20 years ago, I would have said you were nuts. But here we are.
Maybe with signal-cli? (Java)

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
> The problem with articles like this is that the people who already agree with the author will think the article is insightful and focus on the parts that are obviously correct

Raises hand

I agree with your point here, more or less, in that I think the article was written the way it was to achieve the effect you call out, but while I probably mostly agree with the author's political positions I also think the article's kinda bad because it's poorly presented and the "insight" it offers is mostly cliché. (see my other posts in this discussion for details, should you care).
Wow, that's terrible. People like to complain about internet speeds in Australia, but I thought it was OK if you had FTTP. This is the first I've heard of these localised garbage fibre monopolies. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-gets-two-more-years-t...
Maybe there is a better term, but what I meant was how despite claims of religion in practice if one is effectively and completely individualistic they are secular.
Google’s business is search engine and advertising, not browser market share.

Also helps with an anti-trust case.
* If you want to get better with security study for the CISSP and read security literature. Right now I am learning how to produce certificates and trust authorities from openSSL and its a huge pain in the ass even just for localhost.

* If you want to get better at programming write an ambitious open source application. With enough experience you will realize that any given application is just some variable mix of instructions and data structures.

* If you want to be a technical expert in the real world get better at writing. Spending time writing original technical documentation, revise it, and then write some more. Writing ability is what identifies the adults in the room.

* Web development is a contentious subject. If you want to be employable learn a framework. Memorize the framework's API, become familiar with the tools and conventions, and tap into the framework's development community. You can fail at everything else.

If you want to be a strong web developer and make more money spend the minimal amount of time on a popular framework to be minimally employable. Spend the rest of your time focusing on code portability, performance, and accessibility using conventions directly gleamed from the standards. Know how to quickly build a web application with confidence without a framework.
I hope a few people from firefox drop their technical roles and take up leadership in a new foundation whose sole goal is n oss firefox fork. If linux is there without any company, surely firefox can be too?
Some states in India ( Andhra Pradesh ) has started infrastructure projects for laying down fiber optic cables across, connecting all villages( nearly all), for both cable, telephone and internet services. This had tremendous impact on internet speeds in rural areas.

I am writing this message from one of the remote areas with roughly 60Mbps connection.
I have to say this is one of the instances where I’m glad Apple’s hunger for profit and privacy engineering intersect. On Mac at least with Safari there is a privacy oriented browser left.

Maybe Apple could revive Safari on Windows?
...and right thing to do in these circumstances.