skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the south bay too and I haven't seen as much as a dropoff as SF. I'm definitely anchored here with schools etc for a few more years and most of my neighbors are too. The folks I know who have been out of the area are mostly going to second houses in the Tahoe area, not moving permanently.
Prospects for life on Venus fade – but aren't dead yet
Afaik it's a memory hog but it doesn't really use more or less battery then other browsers.
Google is the default search engine of a "privacy aware" browser. It uses Google Safe browsing which, from what I understand, is practically an embedded call home to Google for each new domain you visit. For quite a while they were using Google as the default location provider.

Pocket was an unnecessary acquisition that wasted money for an opt-out solution to... I don't even know what problem. The money spent on acquiring it could've gone into more developers, technical writers, testers, etc. Clickz (or however it's written) was also an unnecessary fail investment.
> The point being made is that the processors that they will package with more memory are going to exist on larger dies.

Are they? I don't think this is how AMD does things—all their desktop and Threadripper processors are constructed out of 8-core chiplets. The higher-core count processors just use more chiplets per package, not necessarily larger dies. If Apple's already putting multiple chiplets on one package (core + RAM), I wonder if they'll use the same approach to scaling.
> only 20% live with both parents

That's not the correct conclusion, the percentages add up to 100% for both the single mother and single father parent cohort, but it doesn't say anything about kids who are living with both parents.
Sure, you can donate money to develop Firefox, but it's not a core part of Mozilla's business model to support that. Instead you would need to track down an OSS developer that is either an active contributor, or who is willing to work on Firefox, and then sponsor their work through a number of different contributor pathways. There are Github sponsorships, direct funding, or any of the options here - https://itsfoss.com/open-source-funding-platforms/

It's not easy because supporting open source contributors is hard, and Mozilla is trying to keep their staff focused on corporate and foundation priorities.

Even if users could directly donate money to develop Firefox, the implication is that any such donations should only be used for Firefox development, when in practice, shipping a modern browser in a way that is competitive requires an enormous amount of non-"Firefox" related work (safe browsing, sync, telemetry, marketing ,release engineering work, advocacy, documentation, etc, etc, etc). Earmarking donations for engineering work is kind of silly in the context of an OSS project designed to compete with some of the largest juggernauts in the industry.
In JavaScript projects we're using Husky [1]. I'm sure other environments have their own equivalents of it.

[1] https://github.com/typicode/husky
I'd take it a step further after having read the article associated with that horrifying picture. Two of the officers were found not guilty. The third had charges dropped. This isn't just "bad actors", this is bad actors with the backing of the court system.
The trees are brutal here. Someone pushed the code a minute ago, but I've fetched it already and now I'm editing the same source file.

If you take it away from me, or make me later inadvertently push their code, you are inconveniencing an innocent person.
Of course direct feedback is good. But it's not scalable and you risk of running a very real case of bias towards whoever you're asking. Running telemetry on your software is not "evil" or "stampedes over civil liberties". You can most certainly run telemetry in a way that protects people's privacy and gives you insightful data on how your users operate and interact with your software. I know this, I've worked on an analytics service serving hundreds of millions of users. I'm building right now a feature-flagging/configuration/core metrics service that does exactly that: preserve user privacy and allow developers to learn about their users (not easy and there are some trade offs, like accuracy).
Yes, I had to do something similar using the contenteditable, a giant issue is that the browsers differ a lot(I had a lot of issue with the selections/ranges differing a lot)
And Eclipse was hands down the best tool for Java development... Until it was left to rot, and JetBrains came along.
Our Experience with Hypothesis Testing
Once they did anything beyond the bare legal requirements they opened their own Pandora's box. Had they done nothing there would be no reason to question them. Once they did something they just anger both sides as too much or too little.
It's seems wasteful, but RAM is so cheap, who cares?

You can get 16GB for $52 on Amazon. That 700MB is equivalent to $4.64 one-time payment.

There are more important things to worry about, seems to me.
I believe between

- this

- https://docs.rs/gimli/0.23.0/gimli/

- https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-builtins

- https://github.com/redox-os/relibc

- https://lld.llvm.org/

It finally possible to make Linux binaries in a high level language not involving anything written in C at build-time or run-time!!!

(And I think with CraneLift + -Z build-std, but without any libc, one should be able to skip linking separately-compiled object files too, and thus skip LLD and C++.)
Sigh, yes. Oddly they are armored against I guess small arms from directly in front only? From what we've just seen from Nagorno-Karabakh I can easily imagine someone dropping an explosive from a drone in the back (or the drone itself).
> This is what we need more than anything. More independent blogs. The ability to search events now, or 10 years ago, mass indexing of RSS feeds, etc.

Thought experiment: what would a search engine look like if it only indexed RSS and Atom feeds?
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. They know the battery range they need and keep it there, to make room for other features.
Spinnaker for continuous delivery and canary deployments on top of Kubernetes
A major challenge with search in 2020 is that it's adversarial. Any open source search engine that gets popular is going to be analyzed by black hat SEO people and explicitly targeted by spam networks. Competently indexing and searching content is really only a small part of the problem now, with the adversarial "red queen's race" against black hat SEO and spam being the more significant issue.
Arguably this list can apply to any "level" of engineer and not just 1x. It really consists of - in general - good qualities for an engineer (and some unrelated ones like how you spend time outside of work, work to live/live to work, workspace decoration, etc.)

I feel like the article is trying to imply that other "levels" of engineers might lack these qualities.
Fake news is probably harsh, but it did seem exaggerated. So I'm curious were the patches mostly precautionary or did people actually take said systems and run them on different clocks to see what actually happens to them when the time rolls over. I was much younger back then so my take on it all was pretty simplistic, but did people demonstrate actual program crashes and what not in some reproducible manner?
Thank you very much for advice. Any specific VNC server working with Mac you have in mind ?
good review! yes it would be tempting to go for the larger models for the external monitor feature, but i will be using it for for basic ebook reading most of the time so ill probably settle on the 10 inch since it will be more comfortable to hold.

the cut and paste stuff would definitely be messy but autoinput works without needing root so the only thing i need to figure out is how to transfer the text to tasker. probably something like 'join' would do the job
Isn't it more like a TTY mode of VNC more apt? E.g., rendering the X commands as ASCII?
Happy to hear that Servo lives on! Anyone knows if Firefox Lite will be rescued too, now that the FF Lite team has been laid off as well?
Their earlier efforts was to let voices be heard which is to be lauded. Their current efforts against western democracies is to silence or stifle voices. Big difference.
Vrbo.com has existed forever and works well for this I think.
If people are looking for an actual modern take on text based browsing, I would refer them to the work of Igor Chubin.

curl https://v2.wttr.in/London

curl https://cheat.sh/rsync

With a supported terminal:

curl https://v3.wttr.in

And also:

https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
Do you have any links? Other than virtualization, I hadn't heard about any limitations.

Edit: Looks like kernel extensions aren't supported either.
There are many discussions whether covid deaths are correctly identified, or if basically any respiratory related death get counted as "dead by covid19", in 2020.
We prefer to automate everything that's automatable, and then a bit more, because reviewing is hard work.
Further to this, a catch-all domain for signing up to sites is so handy. I use sitename@domain.com. I've only had one or two spam emails since, but all I do is change it on that site (sitename1@domain.com) and blacklist the burned one.

There's no reason not to own a domain for your email these days.
Laval.app was too expensive I'm guessing
Knowing a bit of his personal history I can kind of understand why he acts the way he does, and has the opinions he does. Doesn't excuse some of it, but at least I kinda get why.

I just wish his name would stop coming up for me tied to opinion pieces like this. I'd rather just see things about how some project he's working on is doing great and being widely adopted.
Yeah, while I'm not a fan of involuntary data collection it completely makes sense why firms do it. Unskewing data collected in voluntary and self reported scenarios is a treacherous and sometimes impossible undertaking.

Edit: Often times we're not talking about the difference between good data and really good data. We're talking about the difference between useful and useless data.
IT Snafus Create Confusion For Migrant Family Reunifications
The right question is: How to do search using open source tools?

If your goal is "to make something better than the Duck" and you succeed, the Duck dies... what is your goal now?
On the new machines yes, but none if the people you read about before today had AS machines, they were all comparing Chrome and Safari on Intel, so it’s unlikely that stays quiet will change once Chrone is native on AS.
iOS XNU is compiled with different features than macOS XNU.
Thanks, I put a link to the original article by a16z, please check it out https://a16z.com/2020/10/15/the-emerging-architectures-for-m.... They have different diagrams for different maturity stages and company types.
No Intel is back to 2002 with it p4. Give them a year or 2 and they are back with a new cpu.
Don't forget that they have enough in their r&d pockets.
If a designer gives you 2 images to use for a radio button can you do a correct radio button in 1 minute (no third party libs?)

By extending a RadioButton and overriding the paint method I can do it in 1 minute. The component would still be a radiobutton, same interface, same events,same keyboard shortcuts, same accessibility, focus/tab-order behaviour.

In React you would start with a div, put 2 img inside it and implement the toggle logic, After that you need to add the events, the keyboard shortcuts, the tab ordering, focusing, accessibility.
You will get old
Yes let's support them having only invisible political machinations so we can all get even further away from any truth that may exist.
It's a startling example of how fast the web would be if it didn't have so much bloat.
If you’re looking for a 13” I’d hold out for the Thinkpad X1 Nano, which is going to have a nice 16:10 anti-glare IPS screen as an option.
Mask usage is generally targeted at indoor spaces. There has been a great deal of research on outdoor spread, and it is nearly non-existent. Mask use outside is like wearing a condom after a vasectomy. Yeah, it might give you a bit more peace of mind, but it really isn't the main thing that is keeping you safe.

That is to say, I believe the survey is targeted for indoor mask usage, as this is also the mandate in most states that mandate mask wearing (while indoors, or outdoors when 6 feet is not possible)
Aren't the secrets of the algorithm what prevent people from gaming the results? While I love the idea of search becoming fully open source I'm skeptical it could be done. I hope I'm wrong and I'd love to dedicate time to an open source project with this goal if anyone presents a convincing plan.
Beautiful and wonderful and sad and beautiful again. Highly recommended read.

> “The fallacy of dividing people into sane and insane lies in the assumption that we really do touch other lives... Hence I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes calmly”

Tragic isolation indeed. The story of Savage, the African American sculptor, rings with as much tragic isolation as Joe’s. The author and the reader share the emotion, which is probably the measure of success in any writing.

It’s somewhere around this age of mine when one realizes one will be forgotten - and quickly. A few database columns here or there and then what? Subsumed by billions of the equally forgotten. So, I pursue my essential purpose; is there anything else?
You can, if you want, git fetch without committing or stashing, and then checkout just the files you want to update in your work tree, as long as they’re not the files you’re working on.

Aside from that, I hear you, git’s model is fundamentally different from Perforce. There’s no choice about whether you need a clean work tree before pulling, that’s simply a git requirement. So the main thing to ask now is what workflow you want and what safety net you want underneath it. On one side, the best way to focus is to not pull anything while you’re working and have a dirty work tree. But things come up at work, that’s not always realistic, so the next question is how to make the workflow both safe and also instinctual so that it doesn’t have friction.

I do think there’s something to your notion that commit feels more serious and heavy than stash, and that is something I personally have tried to break down. In git, commits and branches can be so much more lightweight, fluid and flexible, but it takes practice and fluency in git to be able to actually feel that.

It might be worth considering some shell or git aliases to do common things. You could easily alias a command that commits your work in progress with a comment “WIP”, and never have to type it. You can do the same with a branch and even keep around a branch for work in progress that is always temporary and gets force reset to whatever you’re working on. (Remember a branch is just a pointer and nothing more, you can completely change what it points to without hurting anything, and the change is stored in the reflog, so there’s a undo button.) I think it is possible to make a branch & commit workflow that is both easier and safer than stash.
Our building just handed out rent decreases, unsolicited. I've heard similar from others. Ours was a 10% discount, ive heard of up to 30%.
So you want to build a team and organize finances first? That doesn't seem like a bad idea... wait...
This should work fine. If you have any issues, please report as a bug.
Speed mostly, though the last time I tried out Firefox seriously was over a year ago, it was noticeably much slower on pages (ab)using lots of javascript.
Just using a web browser these days requires many threads and processes to run at once.
The whole point of analyzing Sweden is that they first enforced no drastic measure for covid19
Considering most pixels in the reference frames will be read, on average, less than once per generated frame, it makes no sense to have dedicated RAM.
In an important sense, a screenshot is not deniable either. Nor a digital camera photo, or a Polaroid, or a photocopy...

You could just make a phone call...
Show HN: WebFiori Framework v2.0.0 Beta 1 is Out
Couch surfing.com is basically dead these days because they've had to collect money to stay afloat. But tbh, I felt like there were a lot of pervy guys on there based on how every girl I met had some story of a guy thinking a free couch meant that she should fuck him in exchange. And couch surfing.com basically had no way to filter that.
As a Canadian I find this article pretty funny since there’s no news in it whatsoever. It’s not a particularly reputable news source up here.

“There’s little privacy anymore” is a reality not a joke. Citizens chose to engage in social media and to buy technologies which expose their private lives.

The RCMP bought some script kiddie toys to explore Facebook and the dark web... because they have things like child exploitation units meant to look in places like that. Not news.

If anything it’s funny that the RCMP is so much worse at hiding this stuff from the public than the FBI.

I feel no threat to my privacy based on what’s written here... at all.
The market would do that if you removed the regulatory monopoly guarantees.
Thanks for the link! Didn't know steam made that kind of analysis public.

But I'd take a closer look at those numbers: in 5 months intel has lost 2.5 points that AMD has gained. Doing some stupid, atrocious math of just taking the average point gain over those 5 months (and not accounting for the fact that my pc enthusiast friends are stating that their next machine will be AMD), that puts November of 2023 that they are 50% market share. That gives Intel very little time to pivot.
What possible use would a company have for knowing when you pick up your toothbrush? What valuable data can they extract from that?
The PHSA is over 6 decades old, so you need to prove that is unconstitutional.
HIPAA makes this a crime. The employee and Amazon would be subject to fines and perhaps prosecution.
> It's a forcing function that deters lazy writing.

I'm not a proselytizer for it, but this is one reason I appreciate codebases that enforce arbitrary per-line character limits. It pressures me to game the utility:noise ratio.

Left to our own devices, we occasionally bang out 40-char variable names, of which 20 chars add no value to the reader. The color column on the screen is a nice coach, saying "c'mon, you can do better".
> [status quo pays]

That's completely sufficient. If the tax is high enough then the "status quo" will change in months, because it'll be trivial for new or existing market participants to offer cheaper alternatives.

And this gives the equation for calculating the minimum carbon tax rate. It has to be high enough that it covers the in/efficiency premium and the overhead costs (R&D, marketing, approval, implementation/construction, distribution, upkeep).

We already see this in case of coal plants. Coal was cheaper, but as the natural gas infrastructure expanded, gas turbines became more efficient, oil/gas price have fallen a lot and emission standards became stricter, and now it just doesn't make sense to even keep existing coal plants online. Because upkeep is high and they are so dirty.

Now the next step is to push out oil/gas plants, but first put carbon capture on the smokestacks.

Since carbon capture basically "doubles" the cost of electricity it makes sense to have a tax that is higher than that so power plants will opt to install carbon capture.

And so similarly we can calculate for transportation, space heating.
sure, but that 30s timer is an incredibly useful feature, when you misclick, when your cat walks on your keyboard, when you remember that you forgot $RANDOM_THING, etc etc
> Good software is not like that

You can't just say this without providing an example of what you think is good software, as, after all, good and bad are subjective and not agreed upon by all people for all things, as evidenced in this thread.
That sucks. If I know my ISP is doing that I would definetively change it.
Of course. That makes perfect sense.
Recounts change results when mass fraud is found in the middle of them.
Ah makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain
I know. I wasn’t complaining about it being a tax. I wish it was implemented properly by dumping everyone on healthcare.gov and removing employers from the equation. And reinstating penalty for not buying health insurance.

Or implementing taxpayer funded healthcare.
"It would be wildly unethical to give the virus to folks just to see how much virus it takes to get sick."

Depends. If there are volunteers for it, (which I can imagine to be the case) - and the volunteers are fully aware of the risk - then it might be ethical to let them proceed and save millions of other people.
That's a dubious statement considering that human beings engage in long term planning all the time. Indeed, it is doubtful civilization would exist if we couldn't.
All day battery and very light laptop will change people’s behavior. Previously they might not bring the laptop out as much because of power constraint.
Ask HN: Help me find blog post that talks about project difficulty levels
I've found this article about half a year ago on hacker news, and cannot find it now.

The article talked about how building a product is the hardest thing you can do and that it means skipping levels if you jump right to it. He further explains how he made that mistakes and started smaller later on.

Does anyone remembers this?
I think he's overstating how much effect T has on this.

I'm on HRT due to past medical issues that drastically reduced my T levels. I remember what it was like to have my T really low, Now that I'm on T, and probably about normal or higher than average for my age, I can't say its changed drastically my attitude towards my children, how gentle I am towards them and much less increased my willingness or proclivity to leave my family or my wife and seek another partner. If anything its made me more protective and I've had more a sense of duty towards my family, to protect them and be the first line of defense against whatever threats minor and major exist. The worst of it has been a shortness of temper but I keep it in check, its basically like being 20 again and being older and wiser, I can channel it into positive action.

I wonder if he studied fathers who are physically active and do things like weight lifting or MMA, that naturally elevate T levels would agree that the line drawn between animals with higher T and humans are being overly correlated.
And .amp doesn't allow public registration.
Plenty of pre-production software is built with pre-production dependencies.

Does it not work for a useful subset of HTML/CSS?
> I want my OS to do DNS - including DOH, not my browser. I want a single source for my DNS

I'll go further and say I want my router to handle this. It is unrealistic to expect every device on my network to natively support the standard, but it's pretty easy to have your local DNS endpoint reroute the traffic through DoH on it's way out of your network. Right now I accomplish this by running cloudflared upstream of my Pihole.
Boy, if you can't handle got, I've got some bad news for you...