skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly think this is a factor of prior experience. When I started using Rust my background was in OOP languages, so I also went through the exercise of fitting trait pegs into a class shaped holes and it was painful. But this doesn't mean that traits and ADTs and how they interact is harder to learn or understand than Objects with its inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation and abstraction concepts, it just means that if you already know those, you will have to learn new concepts to learn Rust, which can be surprising if you aren't told about it ahead of time, particularly when you already know several languages that don't use traits.
I mean I already knew something was weird when I couldnt su into root and do... root things without a bios hack on a Mac. Thats just not how Unix works at all... The whole concept of root is you are root no exceptions.
For nostalgia they should have towers capable of their old phones.

Remember this nokia ringtone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4KK-gh0FM
I grew up in rural UK in the 70's - TV was only available for ~4 hours per day (total - no breakfast TV, no daytime TV, just in the evenings). And because of where we lived, half of that was in Welsh, which we didn't understand.

I watched maybe half an hour of TV per day, at most. And that would have been "educational" programs like Blue Peter. I remember coming home from school and waiting for TV to start broadcasting - staring at that weird test pattern with the girl and the clown head, willing it to start quicker. Though we did get The Clangers and Magic Roundabout, and weird stuff like The Tomorrow People that I never understood.

I spent my days riding my bike up and down the lane, building treehouses, rambling through the countryside, playing with Lego, plastic Airfix kits, all of that.

Still no superpowers.
For what it's worth, my comment wasn't meant as a complaint that it was posted again. I just wanted to make sure that folks saw the previous submission, since that one has comments by the Matrix lead.
Youtubes Algorithm is polarizing people in The Netherlands.[video](Dutch w subs)
There are many other developers who have made huge contributions and have not asked for money.

But in the new corporate Python world this might be the logical conclusion. The losers are the people who made Python what it is today, for free.
They took multiple parallel approaches to bomb configuration and fissile element enrichment (at great expense) because they didn’t know what was going to work. Sort of like what’s happening with vaccines right now.
Without the fluff, what the hell is beam?

Also, per HN guidelines soliciting upvotes [1] is forbidden, which explains why this is in the front page even though no one can understand what this is.

[1] https://twitter.com/domleca/status/1318593216363569152
Well, the same argument can be made for lots of things. As in, why not provide poor kids with better school lunches when we've spent $100B to build the space station?
This sounds like an interesting optimization possibility. Do you know will this be patched?
I think everyone here agrees that American DMVs are awful.

I don't, see my sibling reply. I'm perfect content with the WA state DMV and the service I receive. I'm a little peeved that they recently tack on 3% if you use a credit card, but I can understand why.

Indiana and North Carolina, OTOH, only contribute to the poor reputation of DMVs in the U. S. and can go suck a bag of dicks.
WindDev owns Windows and C++ development related tooling, meanwhile DevTools is responsible for .NET and Visual Studio.

Since the introduction of .NET, when you seen Microsoft going all .NET, or having a cycle talking about why native is good and .NET should only be for LOB, it reveals which division is winning the political shots.

Some examples, Longhorn's failure, only to redo many of its ideas with COM in Vista, which ended up in WinRT.

WinRT/UWP looks suspiciously similar to ideas that gave birth to .NET, before it was decided to create a managed runtime instead (Ext-VOS) project.

Midori also proved it's capabilities by running part of Bing for a while, but it wasn't enough.

Joe Duffy has a remark on its Rustconf keynote, that even when proven wrong and given the opportunity to test drive Midori, the Windows team wasn't willing to change their mind.

Then you have them killing C++/CX in name of ISO compatibility, although UWP is anyway Windows only. So now DevDiv has to wait for the day ISO C++ supports the reflection and metaclasses, so that they can replicate the C++/CX tooling experience introduced in 2012.
Some pokemons are inspired in real world animals. Many people know the pokemon and not the animal.

They know about drowzee but not about the tapir.
Same here, with my recent OS install I've gone Full Fox and loving it.
Eh, there was going to be SOME form of war no matter what. Hitler was intent on getting a war, just as the austro-hungarians had been 20 years earlier
The bones of her argument are not semantic. She's saying that there is a sharp difference between consensual power and non-consensual power. The fact that she uses the word "power" to refer to the former and "violence" to refer to the latter is not that interesting. The distinction itself is what's interesting.

I agree with her that there's a distinction to be made between, on one hand, a group of people agreeing to follow a set of rules to accomplish some goal and, on the other, a slave driver forcing his slaves to accomplish that goal.

The idea that there is no real distinction here, that all power is based on coercion, was popular when she wrote the linked essay and it's popular today (as evidenced by the replies here). I used to think that way but I no longer do and, I have to say, it's quite a relief.
Child Sexual Abuse Content or something along those lines, I imagine.
I don't understand the need for additional SMB website builders (as the use-case described says "company") — problems I see:

- Squarespace/Shopify may seem like "website builders", but the bigger play is to manage parts of online business (transactions, reservations, point of sale, etc.), and ultimately everything. "Website builder" is just an entry point.

- Online presences need to manage multiple web properties (i.e. a restaurant = yelp, tripadvisor, facebook, etc.). And lets be real, a restaurant can just redirect their domain to whatever the hottest social platform is (chances are it's going to load faster).

- Websites aren't the only channel anymore.

Website builders are commoditised imho, and have no value as a pure tool.
So I said you were inexperienced. You said I was. I listed my experience. You said it was the wrong experience, but conspicuously declined to state your own.

So I'll just leave you with this. "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." You've got your theory. Nice theory. Use it for a decade of actual real-world work, and let me know how it works out. I'll be especially interested if any of that work is in embedded.
A cursory reading lead me to believe that while the range for "peak" cognition between 35-45 seems comforting (because of my own age), it also has some implications for the any sort of "lifehacks" when it comes to cognitive performance.

It seems that the range can only be generalized to a society/population level, since chess was used as a proxy and there's a lot of things that can shift the "peak" at an individual level. It can also vary based on how solved the game is, for example go vs chess vs tic-tac-toe.

It is interesting to see it was a bigger range at a point later in life. But I can easily think of things like formula 1 where the age of the peak performer has slowly shifted towards younger drivers simply because the drivers get into go kart racing and work their way up to formula 1 faster.

Regardless, it seems like a promising study to demonstrate that it's never "too late" to improve yourself, which is a problem people start feeling in places like the tech bubble where age is intentionally or unintentionally used as a signal for findind a good candidate. And the "too late" sentiment also comes up when people decide to get into things like chess later in life.

The the flattness of the curve seems like a double edged sword, it means time to reach peak has no special technique to accelerate when you reach a peak or how long you stay there, but it also means as long as you started with a proper foundation, your performance will decline is a lot less than the lay person would imagine.
>> Or you pick up a guitar, then go to YouTube and see some kid who's been practicing twelve hours a day since infancy and lose all hope.

On the other hand, that same thing can inspire you.

I was never a musically inclined kid in any way, shape or form. Nobody in my family played, I never had an instrument as a child, but when I heard Days of the New for the first time, I ran to Guitar Center and bought an acoustic.

For about a month, I practiced and played and played. I never got anywhere, gave up after a month, and looking back on it, I should have realized that level of playing was going to be years away, even if I had a professional teacher. But I didn't care at the time.
Yes, this! I start my days by jumping into an unheated swimming pool (or stepping into an ice-cold shower, when the pool's covered for the coldest months), and one of the main reasons / benefits is the self-mastery involved. "No, I don't want to do this. Yes, I can do it anyway, and start my day with a small victory."
or check about:memory and about:performance
It lacks all the ... quirks ... that made IE6 such a joy.
OK.

1. Why do you think anybody would care about your software when you have provided no concrete description of what it is, what it does, or what value it might provide for them, and have largely described it in terms of what it is not?

2. Why do you think it will build good will to waste people's time with content-free masturbatory screeds?
VirtualBox 6.1.16 Released
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: Fixed random memory corruption and XMM register state corruption inside the VM when Hyper-V is used (bug #19695)

* VMM: Fixed VMSVGA 3D support with Linux guests when Hyper-V is used (bug #19884)

* GUI: Fixed some Qt related crashes on macOS Big Sur

* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Fixed network integration not working behind some proxies

* USB: Mask out remote wake capability to avoid unresponsive devices

* Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)

* Serial: Keep transferring data if the status line monitoring fails

* Serial: Fixed blocking a re-connect when TCP mode is used (bug #19878)

* HPET: Fixed inability of guests to use the last timer

* VBoxManage: Fixed detection of system locale when running 'VBoxManage unattended install' without --locale (bug #19856)

* macOS host: Installer on Big Sur is now reminding user that system has to be rebooted to load the installed KEXTs

* Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.9 (bug #19845)

* Linux guest: Workaround to improve resizing of 32-bit VMs with VMSVGA graphics controller, and do not try to use RandR version 1.3 due to bugs causing the X server to hang

* Linux guest: Fixed VBoxService crashing in the CPU hot-plug service under certain circumstances during a CPU hot-unplug event (bugs #19902 and #19903)

* Linux guest: Fixed Guest additions build for RHEL 8.3 beta (bug #19863)
What a great story! And congratulations on getting a great tool into use.

Way back, I was getting to know about stock market analysis. I concluded that the recommended (technical) analysis was, by any individual recommender, just outside their area of mathematical competence. Someone with very little math would be impressed with (say) moving averages, but someone who understood some statistics would denigrate moving averages, but be impressed by Bollinger bands, etc.

Since no one understands neural networks :-) everyone was impressed by them.

Seems like a similar thing with AI/ML -- "Hey, this is beyond my level of understanding, it must be magic! Buy buy buy!"
AI will have huge value here (assuming it’s doable in the next decade):

-driverless
-robotic piece part manufacturing
-new approaches to graphics production (games/hollywood)

Any others? I know there are other things being tackled, but not sure if they will scale to be world beating.
The parties most likely to pay would still have reason to pay.

The PSF couldn't merge the code until it has the right license.

Large tech companies like Google wouldn't be willing to use the code until it has the right license.

If releasing the code under "look, don't touch" terms helps convince them that paying is worth it then that seems like a good idea.
What makes you think that the implementation of dicts is a low hanging fruit? Only asking because there has been a lot of work to make them faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
I read this as a poetic choice by GP—it evoked Apple's "Think different" tagline in my mind, although now I'm not actually sure why. I could be wrong though!
Just wanted to add another compliment for KDE (specifically Plasma). I've been using KDE Neon as my daily driver for a few months now and it's amazing. Connects to my android device to share notifications and clipboard content, is heavily customizable and themeable, the whole OS feels very snappy and uniform in terms of UI/UX, and installing alongside Win10 and macOS in a hackintosh setup with full LUKS disk encryption was a snap through the installer GUI. Absolute 10 out of 10.
Good one :)

For a next version of this sketch they could borrow some inspiration here: https://darkpatterns.org/
If you aren't paying directly then aren't you the product? You may be a consumer of a service but the customers are primarily other businesses who are trying to get your attention so you'll buy something they think you might really enjoy like the coffee maker you just bought from Amazon a hour ago.
There's labor force participation and it is measured. It's just much more complex and can not really be understood as a single number - people can be out of workforce because they are retired, because they are sick, because they are wealthy, because they can't find work, because they are in prison, because they rely on somebody else to supply their income, etc. etc. Probably too complex for an average newspaper headline.
I'm not aware of us ever having doing any en-masse removal of /?/ style rooms from Matrix.org server. However, it's true that we do remove individual rooms from the server if they break the server's T&Cs (https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matri...) - but that's completely different to unilaterally blocking other servers or shutting down rooms based on the pattern of their name(!), which we don't (so far, at least).

There's a whole bunch of conspiracy theories that we do block servers though - but ironically this tends to be due to federation problems (often the remote server hasn't tuned its rate limits, and so as its users get more active, busier servers trying to talk to it get rate limited. matrix.org is one of the busiest servers, therefore the first symptoms of the problem are that it looks like matrix.org is explicitly blocking the server. comedy, eh?).

However, if folks want to believe the conspiracy theory instead, we're not going to shed too many tears.
So then what difference does it make? I am not going to fix the code myself anyways and visibility of the source code is irrelavant.

It is like buying a hammer to nail some nails, I don't care the metallurgy of the hammer as far as it gets the job done. If it fails, I buy a better one.
Not only political. And likely not only "too much" but "any"

See book "Don't read the news" by Rolf Dobelli.
I also don't. I've never had a problem with service or wait times in one. Portland and Seattle, both have been fast, comfortable, and helpful.
Is your kernel extension public?
>Won't argue that Mozilla/Firefox has been comprehensively out-manouvered by Google/Chrome.

And sometimes without being at fault really. I remember a key moment when firefox was bleeding users was when google decided that H264 would be the standard after switching for a while and mozilla having to run after it trying to get implementations going and then still having a laggy af experience on youtube and the like because the implementation google went with was proprietary.

>I'm still puzzled why Moz haven't tried a paid-for Firefox option.

and what functionality would the paid version of firefox have?
Chances are it would cause an outrage and user-loss due to cries that functionality would be premium only tbh.
It would also probably make not much of a dent in the budget.
What's the extension/addon/plugin situation? The last time I tried, I was annoyed with it and moved back to Firefox.
For that website, get a Chrome plugin called User Javascript and CSS and set it up to inject:

#hello_banner { display:none !important; }
.grecaptcha-badge { display: none !important; }

I know it's a lot of work to inspect the DOM and do this for every site but I just hate banners and popups that much, and very often multiple websites reuse the same banner code so my efforts start paying off after dealing with a few dozen.
Here's my ugly duckling: naminus.com
Except when you want a browser that actually does what you tell it to. For example (something that I ran into the this morning): try taking screenshots of a video from a streaming service (in this case Hulu). I don't need a lecture of why Apple is broken here; two screenshots is 100% fair use, and the legal ramifications are on me to manage as a responsible adult.

- Hulu app on iPad: black rectangle

- Hulu site on Safari on macOS: black rectangle

- Hulu site on Firefox on macOS: works

Now, I prefer Apple's products because they've been historically been more accessible / high performance. But Apple's recent user-hostile behavior is slowly pushing me to switch.
I remember when I flew in to buy a car in Elyria, OH and got my temporary tag from the DMV in and out in 10 minutes and was on my way.

Even in suburban SC the DMV there was very painless.
I really hope someone in the community is able to keep the project active, it's my favorite extension by far.
Same here, WA DoL is quite pleasant, especially with the online appointment system.
The T2 has its own OS, so that makes sense.
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Yes I agree with your first part. There are real drawbacks.

But it's like installing a custom HTTPS cert in your OS to inspect potential traffic that malware may use through, say, a Google Doc or Sheet. It's helpful to true professionals dealing with highly sensitive information, but it's ultimately a bigger source of compromise for the vast majority of software users.

I don't think there is an easy answer here. That's why I said I thought it made the world a "touch better" and I can see from your response that you understand the tradeoffs roughly as well as I do based on the wording of your response. The fact is that contemplating these hard tradeoffs belie the underlying truth: Securing computers is hard and getting harder and the stakes keep going up. I can't say if this move by Apple will ultimately be worth it, but I certainly understand the predicament they are in. This is no easy work.
Quality of customer service and percent of market share are inversely correlated, but they're still separate variables, and one does not imply the other.

Amazon is an example of a company that, despite having an enormous market share of online shopping, has remained aggressively aligned with the customer. (They'll happily use their market dominance to wring every last penny out of their suppliers and their employees, though.)

Simplifying greatly, this is the main difference between antitrust laws in the EU and the US: the EU doesn't really have the concept of a benevolent monopoly. In the US, you have to make a strong case that the company is engaging in anticompetitive practices.

Notably, this has less to do with how the alleged monopoly treats its own customers than with how it treats other companies in the same space.
If those people end up being less like the average person on social media, that could be a good proposition

I don't use social media (facebook, twitter, linkeding) because of the kind of people on it - but I do follow a series of website of interesting people.

Hacker news is somewhere in between.
The content is half twitter / half interesting.
hahaha. I also don’t plan to upgrade past Mojave. To me Catalina was a trainwreck and at this point I think I’m loosing a lot of trust I used to put in Apple.

this is compounded by the fact that I love Little Snitch and it has basically exponentially improved my life when it comes not only to browsing the web but when using any app on mac.
You've got that right. We're quickly heading back to the days of "This website best experienced in IE6." (replace IE6 with Google Chrome). It's not a good thing.
I just read this whole thing to find out it didn't work... :(
'Beam raises €3 million in seed funding to build a novel way to navigate and experience the Web'

https://tech.eu/features/33768/beam-funding/

'As for what Beam is and will look like, I'm afraid you'll have to wait - probably until a few months into next year. For now, the founders are using rather vague terms to describe the venture'

Aha...
The VC business model seems to be mostly be "finding the greater fool during IPO", they probably know very well that most of those things are buzzwords.
But "consent" can be informed by threats of violence and by deception.

We "consent" to the police searching us at a traffic stop, not because we legitimately want them to, but because we wish to avoid a future penalty (a threat of violence). If we don't consent, we only do so knowing that we are secure in doing so because the law permits us to do so. We only do so because there is not a threat of violence against us if we do so.

Consent doesn't exist apart from threats of violence and deception. The latter two are all around us and constantly informing our decisions.
Interesting. I would have expected to hear something about this from Google first, considering they invested a significant amount in SpaceX in 2015. [1]

Also, here is a short interview about this with Gwynne Shotwell , President and COO of SpaceX (doesn't add much...). [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Ownership,_funding,_and...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1_UMQvTcw
For me, two things combine to make it feel super responsive: 1. The latency between you moving your finger(s) and seeing movement on the screen feels imperceptible. 2. There isn't any "lost" movement - if you scribble your finger around really quickly and come back to where you start, the cursor or window scroll position will be back to where it started too.
I've found the Auto Tab Discard extension to be really helpful. It generally lowers the impact of having lots of tabs open and on startup only the visible tabs load.
Corporations are accountable to their customers. If people stop paying for their products, they cease to exist.

Corporations are also accountable to governments, as this story illustrates. If US courts and/or legislators decide they want it, Google ceases to exist.

Economists think of this in terms of "Exit vs Voice".

With governments, you have a voice - one vote for deciding who's in charge - but no way to exit, even when your side loses.

With corporations you can exit - stop shopping at Target - but no voice in how Target is run.

Both models have pros and cons, and it's good to understand how they differ, and what situations they're suited for.
My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work