skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outlier successes are rarely because of one factor.

YC was started in Boston and worked well there. They moved to the SFBA because they wanted to scale it up and knew if they didn't, someone else would do there.

Had they stayed in Boston, it likely would've continued to be successful but would not have had the enormous impact it has had.
> when it's clearly not as bad as they're portraying it

by any global or historic standards, none of it in the US qualifies for the apocalyptic media portrayals

this is what happens when your media is all rich, urbane, etc.
Right, but the move towards cheaper and lower-quality is more the fault of the current economic system and its incentives than it is the fault of software.
The JVM actually had a lot of features that are slowly appearing in JavaScript. Standard bytecode format (like WebAssembly), security/authentication (origin, content security policy)...

One day JS engines will add cryptographic signatures to replace the complex origin rules and they will unify the WebAssembly workflow with the JavaScript code pipeline and we'll have a full JVM again.
The US is not at war in Syria. ISIS is deemed to be a threat to stable governments in the area including Israel, Iraq, and even Turkey, and US is assisting those governments in fighting ISIS back. The seemingly endless civil war in Syria is still a civil war although US had at one point been supporting certain groups.
Realistically this is a nice recognition for the handlers and the program that also has a cute news angle. It's a win-win, if the program has attention and funding the rat keeps getting lunch
True, but roundtripping speaker -> microphone is lossier than a cable carrying electrical signals.
> Actually I am using a Retina display. I’m still noticing the difference very much.

I'm curious why you think you notice a difference? Macs have never had subpixel rendering for Retina, so if I'm understanding you correctly, it's not something you could know from experience. Why do you think it would make a difference you could notice if they did?

(And of course, Retina rendering is far sharper than lo-dpi subpixel rendering.)

I suppose you might be able to take an image of subpixel-rendered text e.g. at 24 pt, scale the bitmap to 50% width/height on a Retina display, and put it next to the same text at 12 pt, and see if you could tell the difference. Although you'd need to be careful to get the same precise vertical baseline alignment.
Stump experts? This happens after nearly every epidemic or pandemic. Avoid over-exerting yourself if you suffer from pvfs, as that can either turn your illness chronic, or worse if it's already chronic.
So you're open to any suggestion except one which changes what you wrote?

If the documentation claims that unsafe rust introduces new types, then it is wrong. It is demonstrably false. You can literally fire up a text editor and disprove this in about 15 seconds (if you're a slow typist).

As someone holding themselves out to be a teacher you have a responsibility to fact-check like that, if not from the beginning, at least when informed that there's a mistake. Adding to the volume of incorrect documentation instead of fixing it can only come from a desire to be (rather to seem) right and be recognized rather from a sincere desire to actually teach and assist.
I agree. Or to take it further, if the US had even made a serious effort to help the country / people of Afghanistan live a better life, and build up some sort of institution, instead of invading Iraq.

Or, after even the terrible decision of invading Iraq, if the US had been halfway competent / invested in post-invasion administration...
Mainstream journalism is elitist, is the problem. They seem to see entities like Wikileaks as fake journalism, that circumvents their gatekeeping. Assange isn't a hero to them, so they won't come to his defence.
It tends to be linked from the outage itself, probably here: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20010

For example, PM was posted on this previous outage: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...
Assange was not tortured or imprisoned for a decade. He voluntarily entered and remained in the embassy to avoid legal criminal proceedings, and that gambit failed.
It's definitely not limited to Windows. I am exclusively a MacOS user (for my workstation, at least) and I have had to disable it on any new Firefox install.
This is only true when playing with others attempting to play optimally. If you only play optimal poker it may be difficult to take advantage of sub optimal players without modifying play.

A simple example is a rock paper scissors tournament. The nash equilibrium says you must always simply pick each with 1/3 chance. But if you play this you are almost gauranteed to finish in the middle of the pack. The winner is going to be someone who can take advantage of other players. There used to be a rps AI tournament years ago (UofAlberta I think), and this is why they wouldn’t take submissions that only played nash equilibrium play.

But you are right, in that usually the first step in getting good at poker is to simply play the strength of your cards based on your position. And this becomes more amd more important the higher the stakes since players tend to be better there.
We built the Chrome DevTools Issues tab
Anecdotes from Donald Knuth and Robert Tarjan
Firefox is a dead man walking.

If you want privacy, use a FF fork called Librewolf
How anyone thinks its acceptable to reference initials/acronyms before first defining them is beyond me.
Covid-19 pandemic induced opportunities to spring up in the Mobile App Industry
I’ve heard TechStars is a close second mostly because batch sizes are so small. More intimacy and focus on the individual founders.
Facebook feels more and more like illegal substances that alter ones mood or behavior. I hope Congress and the President are able to grow a spine and relentlessly go after FB — perhaps through regulation or something else.
This gets close but I don’t think it will then allow you to easily see which of these periodic tasks you can work when you have a few hours to spare today.
Do you know how hard it is to produce a book from nothing? Make paper, all the same thick, print and so on. Or just a steel tube .. all can be done without computers and software. The process behind is difficult for every step.
I work in industrie automation and I can tell you, right now, with this quality in software and "computer everywhere" we are building a super high tower in the softest sand.
I am the same. I have a motto, actually, for more than a decade: the more software you add to something, the worse it gets.

I coined it watching the robotic soda vending machine crash and reboot frequently.
Why not just launch the drone from inside the US and use a generic explosive? Unexplained drone swarms near sensitive targets have been fairly common.[1,2] Them not being weaponized seems like more of a choice for reprisal like you said than a lack of capability.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/07/30/drone-...

[2]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34662/faa-documents-of...
I prefer open-source tools because I know where the agency for pain lies: myself. With modern Rust and Go tooling you can download an application's source code, modify it, and compile it painlessly in half an hour.

So why do I tolerate bugs in software like that? Because I know I can fix them. And I also know I won't always. Small gods have handed me tools to remake the world as I would see fit and I do not use them. Are they at fault for not having made the world as I would prefer? Or am I at fault for not using the tools?

In any case, I've noticed a sort of dichotomy among users in their reaction to tools that fail. There are those who go "this tool sucks how can I do my work" and there are those who go "my work is what I want to do which tool can I use instead". The latter set get a lot more done. Once observing this I have attempted to modify my behaviour to be like the latter and have effectively become better.
There is nothing illegal about security education in the abstract, just as there is nothing illegal about providing medical care.

Physical strength is a necessary component of committing a crime in my analogy, and the doctor is supplying it even though they know the person is likely to use it in furtherance of illegal acts. Still it is the doctor's duty to heal their patient, and the patient's responsibility whether to commit more crimes or not. Even though they're helping their patient, the doctor is not conspiring to rob a convenience store.
Agreed, layout is probably more difficult problem and definitely the area with more potential for improvements ("forced reflow" anyone?) whereas JS engines are already at the point of quickly diminishing returns.
I think it became the Mozilla web browser.
Later Phoenix was created from Mozilla.
Phoenix was renamed to Firebird.
Firebird was renamed to Firefox.

All of them had NSPR which was the Netscape Portable Runtime.
> It is still very cool to be able to tune fonts that precisely on Linux, and it's a major feature.

Agreed. While much of the discussion surrounds making font rendering more Mac-like, fontconfig enables people to modify font rendering to suit their personal needs. For example: one user can turn off anti-aliasing to enjoy sharper fonts, while another turn it on to enjoy more accurate font rendering. Heck, you can even tweak things down to the font and application level without relying upon each program exposing that functionality.

This is not the sort of feature that will appeal to many people, but it is incredibly useful for those who use it.
I have absolutely no clue if this actually played any role, but pg is also one of the people credited with creating what's considered the first web app, and it seems plausible a vision of a future giant world of web apps could've influenced the startups he picked and the advice he gave. For example, the reddit co-founders say the site was his idea:

>The next morning, on the train back to Virginia, hung over, somewhere in the middle of Connecticut, I get a call from Paul. He says, "I'm sorry, we made a mistake. We don't like your idea, but we like you guys." We got off the train, and I was able to sweet-talk the Amtrak lady into not charging us to turn around. In our conversation, Paul said, "You guys need to build the front page of the Internet." That was all Paul, and that became Reddit.

(https://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis...)
With whom exactly? With Syria? Then why have the Congress never declared war on it? With some terrorists who happen to be in Syria? Then why is the US fighting them there, not the Syrian government? What's that? The Syrian government is actually fighting them too but demands the US forces to leave the Syrian territory, which demand the US ignores because why wouldn't it? It can't be declared to be engaging in a non-provoked aggression against a sovereign state since it has veto in the UNSC, after all.
> The dilemma they face is no matter what they do, some people will lose trust and won’t comply.

This is speculation. There are an infinite set of approaches for complex situations, that we have not found an approach that is consistently effective in no way proves that "no matter what they do, some people will lose trust and won’t comply", it only proves that they won't trust & comply under the approaches we have tested.

Such things seem to be easy to conceptualize when we are performing computer system analysis, but it seems like when we are embedded within the system being analyzed, we lose this ability.

> So the process inevitably involves some mixture of politics and data, and multiple points of view that differ. There's no getting away from it.

This seems true. But it seems to me that when making strategic decisions about how to go about this, we make plausibly unnecessary mistakes on a regular basis. One problem might be though: if we start discussing some topics in an objective, truthful manner (more facts & logic oriented, less "truthy" narrative oriented), the public might expect us to start discussing all things in this manner.

> public health policy people face this dilemma, and are not just incompetent, blunt instruments, or trying to hoodwink everyone

If the government, media, and health professionals would explicitly acknowledge the fallibility and errors of institutions, perhaps people would have more trust. But instead of describing reality as it is, we seem determined to stick with the simplistic fantasy land approach. This approach was extremely effective prior to the internet, but it seems insufficient now (except sometimes, like politics - here it continues to work like a charm, albeit with fairly disastrous outcomes).
I don't agree with the idea that YC "left money on table". YC made a ridiculous amount of money and is one of the most successful VC funds of all time. It's true that PG and Jessica did a lot of things to defer making money in the short-term. But I'd argue that over the long-term, it was the right optimizations both for having an impact on the world and for making money.
I don't think people are failing to notice. That's one of the most common complaints.
Am I the only one who immediately chased down the end link and typed "Dr. Who" into the search form only to be disappointed?

Who cares if you can get a snippet of “South American parrot talking and screeching,” I can get that anywhere. Cool Dr. Who sound effects (or whatever your favorite show is) in good quality is what I think of when I see BBC sound effects.
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To provide an anecdotal counter-example, AirPods have worked seamlessly for me so far. Much quicker to connect and more reliable than Bluetooth. So their marketing isn't completely off-base :)
My Windows 10 Desktop runs very well.

My FreeNAS, Arch Linux and my Android phone as well.

I think, we get paid because we are building new stuff and have to maintain shitty stuff. If my job would literaly just desigining it high level, clicking it together and then it works, no one would need me.

Yes its frustrating sometimes.

I would like to cure cancer instead of debugging why this update broke our system.
Here's a list of all the channels:

* Traversy Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

* 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

* ThePrimeagen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw

* Gaurav Sen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRPMAqdtSgd0Ipeef7iFsKw

* Jon Gjengset: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

* Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

* Raymond Hettinger (no channel): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Raymond+Hetting...

* Simple Programmer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxWW_Ncs308nW4An23Yeig

* The Coding Train: https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman

* Academind: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w

* Derek Banas: https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas

* Mark Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrMarkCLewis

* Dev Ed: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb90NQQcskPUGDIXsQEz5Q

* The Net Ninja: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5YeuERMmlnqo4oq8vwUpg

* Fun Fun Function: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

* Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

* Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit

* ThinMatrix: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThinMatrix

* Gary of Destroy All of Software (non-youtube): https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts#:~:text=Destr....

* PatrickJMT: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT

* Ben Awad: https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg

* Google Chrome Developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDevelopers
That we are increasingly self sorting into politically isolated bubbles (based on where we choose to live / work) so we are less likely to encounter diverse opinions in real life [1]. Definitely agree that virality/discovery/engagement need to be carefully balanced, but I don't think that they are inherently good or bad. Virality/discovery/engagement can absolutely lead to the spread of misinformation, but it also is clearly a big driver for awareness of social causes like police brutality / BLM.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Big-Sort-Clustering-Like-Minded-Ameri...
About symbolic violence, is what Marx says too?
> Overall a good thing.

I wouldn't be so sure. The ultimate issue here is the casual use of cold blooded extrajudicial assassination via drone. Anything which makes the decision to do that easier is a net negative. The whole reason we got to the point of regularly doing this over the last 20 years is because the technological means to do so have become commoditized and extremely "hands off". Colatteral damage is not what we should be worried about, but whether the act is even just in the first place. These are not battlefield commanders engaged in tactical decision making against our front line troops we're killing. They are strategic level beaureaucrats. The argument that this is just warfare doesn't apply. And if those people we were targeting had the means to do this to our own military officials driving down the street in Washington, we'd be hauling them into war crime tribunals.
Well that's the thing... None of the superpowers are actually at war with anyone there.

It's mainly a local conflict with the superpowers backing different factions. Kind of like a proxy war during the cold war. A lot of countries backing opposing local factions while trying not to escalate.

A full blown declaration of war would give us WWIII in no time due to it being such a complex mess of alliances they're.
Free software, not open source. The difference matters. Copyleft is important.

What OS are you running on that Linux desktop? I switched from Ubuntu to an Arch variant, Ubuntu was getting too corporatized for me what with snap and everything. Eventually I'm going to rip out the desktop environment and go window manager only.

When I said, "only use tech that the people that use them can modify" I'm not messing around. Any time I have an issue with tech, I go looking for where proprietary software invaded my life, rip it out, and go on with my day.
Phrasing it like that makes him sound like a cat, which is a fantastic mental image for the entirety of TNG.
Nazi Germany declared war on the US first.
Yes Apple will terminate a dev account for not respecting the terms but I am not aware of Apple or Google trying to bring to justice developers that sold private data, at least in US there is a big resistance against having a GDPR like law so you could use the courts to punish some developers. Also we know that Apple (like Amazon and others) used contractors to have them listen to private recordings of users without asking consent (like hey user , I do not understand this can I send it to the cloud so strangers can listen and do stuff with it ?) , so for Apple privacy is a tool for making money, it aligns with your interest until a point (but as with Siri example you can see it is not 100% aligned with your interests)
Rayiner, I wrote this response to you before you deleted your comment:

If the US were targeting the House of Saud then I might believe what you say, but those guys going untouched undermines claims that the US is combatting radicalization coming from the euphemistic "rich middle eastern countries with fundamentalist ideologies funding schools"
I would go a little farther back and say the biggest reason was the Civil War... after that things played out.
> These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form.

Rest assured, there are people who wake up every single day plotting how they can kill Americans or Westerners, or training to do so.

This may be the West / USA's fault - but it's where we find ourselves, regardless.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_St...
For me you're not the problem, you just have no power here. Google services are more convenient to use with Google email accounts, they are more prevalent and there is no point in burdening an organization with another email provider if there is a choice.
I have witnessed this first hand comparing two systems.

One system has no patching, and updates incur some non-trivial amount of effort on the part of the installer. Releases are a few times a year, at most.

The other system has patching, updates are lighter weight, and as a result, the system has THOUSANDS of patches released over the last decade, north of 2 per work day.

Guess which system is higher quality? The former.

Much, much higher quality.
No you can get additional monetization options for 10min or longer videos, they incentivize the padding.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-making-a-10-minute-video-on-Y...
parents actually killing their child is rare. Parents actually making their child eat specific food, with threat of physical force, not so rare. You don't have to search for a figurative meaning where none is needed.
...psychoactive technology
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I'm sorry friend, but 10% is a huge incremental improvement. This could save me hours over a year.
>As a buyer, I don't expect my software to need maintenance. I expect it to work out of the box (just like I expect every physical product to work out of the box)

Software is far more complex than most physical products. There are only so many failure modes for a screwdriver or a couch and they're all pretty foreseeable. The most complicated physical systems, like a car, house, or even a human body, do need maintenance.

I'm frequently frustrated with software bugs like everyone else (my building and apartment have this awful smartlock system that's riddled with bugs and which bricked me out of my own home due to a bad app update a few weeks ago--shoutout to Latch) but I'm not sure I'm on aboard with an anti-maintenance attitude. If there are bugs I'd like them to be fixed!
"Something can be factually true but contextually nonsense."

This strikes me as the problem with most "news" organizations these days: They give facts about something that happened, but they place it in the context of their (the news organization's) narrative. This is true both of Fox and of CNN. And so they tell true things, but they don't tell the truth. Instead, they use true things to tell their story.
Of course it isn't just Apple. But when you build the foundation of your computing life on Apple, you're asking for pain. I applaud your dumb appliances and car.
> years doesn't have long to live

the market share is really worrying but OTOH Mozilla just secured another multi year deal with Google so in the short-medium term they are fine financially. I hope that a reason for all those projects cuts is at least partially creation of finacial reserves, in theory they do have enough cash and momentum to stay technologically relevant for at least 10 years.
I would say that the recent interventions in Libya, Syria, Iraq have only destabilized the region, thus resulting in a huge loss of live and miserable living conditions for citizens of affected countries, which in turn supports and revitalizes radical Islam organizations and further destabilizes situation in Europe, which has to be on the receiving end for refuges created by those interventions.
You claim it's dead, but suggest using a fork that can't hope to keep up if Firefox dies? They benefit from all the architectural improvements done to Firefox, including this.
We already invest billions abroad. But economic development cannot happen in the absence of security. Recall that in Syria, we got involved because our allies around Syria got freaked out about that the civil war would mean for their own countries’ security.
Even if true, why would it not be?