skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Firefox every day, somewhat on principle. The experience is nowhere as good as Chrome.

It takes FOREVER after starting Firefox to load saved tabs -- like 30 seconds to 1 minute of delay before the first tab starts to load.

Recently, it also has been updating quietly in the background and FORCING me to restart Firefox to view any content. I'm sure there's a setting I can change somewhere that makes it require manual updates. That should be the default.
Cosmos, a Citroen, couple others. None that saw US release though, IIRC.
> Even the economics of dedicating a large, empty space for VR means it's mostly for "rich" people. You could be middle class in the 'burbs and pull the car out of the garage to do VR... But what if you live in a tiny SF or NYC apartment? What about even denser living conditions outside of the US?

I get the complaints, and VR isn't really something that suits me as I get nausea really quick with headsets messing up my hearing somehow. I had this same effect when I took the train and had to face backwards to the direction the train was heading. It's really unpleasant and losses all novelty in about 10 minutes.

But, I have to ask: with the advent (or promise really) of 5G why wouldn't you take to being outdoors for a session of alien blasters VR instead of being suck inside? One of the cool things I think AR has over VR is that we saw how the Pokemon game fad got people who spend way too much time on their phones to go back outside with the right incentive (and putting aside the massive privacy intrusion it turned out to be) and being able to interact with their environment as part of the game quest. I can't see why a designated area in the park couldn't be allotted for that, and it would be cool as you could share it with younger kids who may not be able to afford or have access to the unit to ever try it and ultimately build community with other enthusiasts.

I saw that happen with some of the local kids with drones at my community park this year after seeing little to no kids the year earlier ever playing there. By the end of summer it looked they were all making videos or something together.

This is one of the cooler unintentional things that happened I was learning to fish out at the pier; the looks on some kids faces when something 'feels like a bite' is hilarious, and its pretty much Christmas if they ever catch anything even if its just bait fish.

There are Bitcoin meetups in VR happening right now, but to be honest I'd rather just go to the conference calls one where you can see a stream along with the attendees faces. Anything else seems off putting, but then I don't really get the appeal of something like second-life interactions with avatars.

I was re-watching season 3 of the Expanse, and that ship building puzzle in the train station on Mars with all of those kids assembling it looked like a really cool thing to have if we could work out the tech. Hacking culture can't be introduced early enough in my opinion.
In your unedited comment, it just wasn't clear if you ended up thinking he was right or wrong. But I suppose you wouldn't have structured your comment like that if you eventually disagreed with him.
Why is the X capitalized?
Or if they inherit it. My grandfather left me his collection of over 7000 books. It was thrown up the attic because I was deemed to young to read some of them. By the time I got my hands on them, they were crumbling due to bad storage and some of them were so old that if you try to fold the edge, it broke..like a biscuit. And then we had a devastating flood and lost it..I tried to dry them and saved about half the collection. A second flood ten years later took away the remaining books.

Since then..I can’t bear to throw away even a magazine subscription. I guess that makes me a hoarder.

Anyone knows how to break the book hoarding habit? It’s about time I let go of the trauma of the flood damage and water logged books.
The paper is behind paywall but you can always email the authors for a copy, and their email addresses are available in their respective websites.

Fun fact, you can add the entire DMD compiler as your library and that's why the libDSL is a very interesting proposition [1].

[1] https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/01/a-dub-case-study-compiling...
> The alternative would be never refactoring anything and allowing technical debt and complexity to balloon out of control

It’s simply false that retaining API backwards compatibility prevents refactoring and necessarily causes technical debt to balloon.
Dutch is easy enough to read but listening in is a different story. Dutch people tend to have a strong accent in.. dutch ;-) I suspect I would get used to it if I ever moved to Holland but I have no intentions of doing that.
I recently developed an embedded application using a SAMD51 QFN chip onto a model rocket flight controller. In the last few months I learned a lot about circuit design, datasheets, PCB design and hot air soldering! I highly advise if you want to take it to the next level, try making your own board! It's super satisfying being able to hold a complicated interconnected circuit board you've put months of work into and say "I built that".
congratulations, you found one of the many troubles with this case.

they used things he wasn't on trial for, to sway the jury and influence his sentencing.

they also withheld that the murder-for-hire theatre was done by corrupt federal agents who were already captured and on trial for doing that amongst other things with silk road.

it also worked.
Yes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320536
Yeah, sorry about that. Thoughtless wording on my part.
Looks amazing! E-books and Videos at $5!
Looks like the new year is going to be awesome already!
This person is a hero. At least on the Macintosh, I find it simply too slow and unstable. Donated to the cause but left with regrets. Is it perhaps easier to work on long-term on other platforms?
Anyone know if it would work on lower end microcontrollers like the Z80? I managed to use the TI-84+'s I/O port connected to a speaker to play simple tunes[0] using a Forth program I wrote[1], but maybe I can exploit the hardware to modulate AM frequencies?

[0] https://photos.app.goo.gl/EumYVgyfMN1ncwkQ7

[1] https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth/blob/master/programs/m...
Umberto Eco has an interesting take on this, he call it Antilibrary.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilib...

TLDR (quoting from the article above)-

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
What do you mean by link?

What do you mean by transaction?

Edit because downvotes usually mean people didn't understand what I meant it in this case probably thought I was getting at something.

What link / transaction do you think happened between trump and Assange?
What vague, sweeping terminology did I use? I specifically talked about PRISM, described how Greenwald's description of PRISM was ludicrously wrong, and noted that Greenwald didn't mention PRISM at all in this article and has never issued a correction for his PRISM reporting. Those are highly descriptive, highly specific statements.
Oh god I forgot about this pardon.. fuck trump
Reminds me of the Timex Sinclair 1000 I picked up in the 80s. It has no audio functionality. But I found a program in a magazine which would mess with the video signal or something to generate very rough tones. I seem to recall the program was named "I love the sound of breaking glass."
You kids are funny - I remember sleeping in the back of our station wagon with my sister while we were flying down the autobahn. (Yes, it seems crazy today).

My main gripe about the car seat is all the damn waste. We have four of them and you can't sell them or even give them away. I'm not sure about the recycling situation yet, but even in the best case not much can be recycled.
Netflix is in there because they pay as much as or more than the others in that acronym.
> You know, people that actually did good for the world and are being punished for it.

While Assange did some good initially, his ties and conduct regarding Russia makes his case a more complicated one morally. See for example https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia... Of course, with Trump being the money launderer of Russians it wouldn't be a surprise at all if he pardoned Assange.
Starting over? He literally says "I think I have gained skills and experience that can be very valuable to the astronomical community".

And that is on top of the foundation that he has already built in his earlier years. Unless there is some glitch where you lose all previous experience in life if you decide to backtrack a bit.

I guess ultimately I don't really know what the author's goals would be in academia, and I am not from academia...and that makes it difficult to really explore the situation.
Yes, but Assange's persecution was so clearly politically motivated that the benefits of a pardon outweigh the cons.
Oh no, did someone post an unoriginal thought on the internet?
I think my AI ML sent a letter to his office

It chose to say that pardoning Ross would "own the libs" because "liberal judges from disaster run sanctuary cities" colluded with "corrupt deep state agents" to make a mockery of our justice system.

Have new messaging for the new administration, better remember to turn this particular bot off.
He was convicted of conspiracy to traffic narcotics, and evidence of a murder-for-hire plot was used to support the narcotics trafficking conspiracy.

You may think this indirection is a minor technical difference, but I see a totally different standard of evidence. This isn't "beyond a reasonable doubt". If the prosecutors thought they could sustain a murder-for-hire charge, I'm sure they would have prosecuted it. It's a more serious crime! So I'm skeptical.

Taking a different tack here - even if he was in fact guilty of attempted murder-for-hire, what's a reasonable punishment for that? Is 7 years in prison long enough?
> There aren’t that many cameras in Texas

Yeah no. I worked in a restaurant. There was one camera directly on both tills. One camera indirectly on each till. One camera directly in the main queue area and multiple indirectly on the main queue and otherwise covering the remainder of the lobby from multiple angles.

Edit: This is just the front of house stuff. The back of house had it's own complement which I won't detail here for obvious reasons.
The big tech companies' hiring needs are so massive they'd go out of business if they relied on hiring only "passionate" people who are up to their standard.
Not to mention that because Google is the de facto owner of Internet search, it essentially pits businesses against each other, forcing them to engage in a bidding war for limited space at the top of search results.

This, unsurprisingly, leads to higher and higher expenditures on ads, rather than on improving the product of a business. In the end, consumers end up with mediocre products with above average prices - advertising costs being passed on to end consumers.

These costs can be quite significant (I work in e-commerce space), ranging from 10% to 20% of the end price the consumer sees.
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Yeah, these seem like pretty normal responses.

The tone made it sound like Microsoft had traced their IP and then launched a cruise missile at their location.
I agree that Assange's behavior has been worse, but his treatment during his extradition also seems disproportionately punitive.
This is bound to be a sticky wicket with no easy answers, given the detail that this group is tasked with studying how to do "ethics" better and the charge is the company can't meet the stated standard of ethics for how it treats its own people internally and this is what led to the departure of the employee in question whose identity makes it hard to claim the charge is wrong.

I don't know if the charge is correct or not. I'm guessing it is, but I'm really just saying appearances look pretty damning here and there isn't likely to be a convenient means to successfully white-wash the story.
I never noticed the parallel B plot in a half hour sitcom until it was pointed out, now I can't unsee it. Every time!
JJ Abrams is a terrible storyteller who really only knows how to do nostalgia and mystery boxes.

Everything he does is basically "remember this? Remember this thing you liked? Here it is again but I made it bigger and faster!"
Drifting off onto topics when listening/reading is what I enjoy the most! When I'm reading fantasy, I'll have to pause after a cool fight scene while my imagination reverts to a 6 year old thinking of all the scenarios where the protagonist is winning or saying a line and being smooth. When I'm reading/listening to non-fiction and trying to understand the writers intent or what the words means to me.

Not saying that your way is wrong or any less of an experience since the way you enjoy it the most is what matters. For me, reading was painfully slow and I thought listening to audiobooks would be a more efficient way of going through books. I listened to audiobooks at higher than 1x speed, thinking I would get the same experience and remove the wasteful rabbit holes that I would go down when narrators spoke too slowly, but audiobooks
weren't doing it for me like reading was. When I went back to books, I realized the mental rabbit holes were what made books enjoyable.

I'm back at using audiobooks as my primary method, but now I'm aggressive with the pause button as soon as I feel myself drifting.

Again, not saying that my way is superior. I just think it's funny how people can see the same situation play out, and have very different takes on it.
It's buy, not build culture where I've been working for, we decomissioned a lot of self-host services for transitioning to managed services.
It’s ridiculous. It’s completely unnatural and can’t be worked into the language in a day to day way. They should have chosen another vowel like the short ‘e’, latiné.
Actually, the Wikipedia article led me to help answer my own question. The second point made in this amicus curiae brief in the request to the Supreme Court to overturn Ulbrecht's sentence makes the same point that you do: that it is not OK for judges to enhance sentences by determining their own facts for the purposes of sentencing that were not affirmed in charges for which the jury found the defendant guilty. FWIW SCOTUS didn't take the case, but as least some lawyers who presumably have some idea what they're talking about agree with you.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-950/34432/201802...
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I'm not in US and even though I read about a lot on police brutality though I don't think all even most are evil. But the problem seems to be almost all police (and govt.) are systematically protecting the bad cop as well as the good cop.
The more transactions are show the more links would appear. It also takes time for linked transactions to appear in real life.
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There's an attempt to refine the normal dog-human interpretative dance into a more formal setup.

Some people are using buttons to get the dog to reply in a context format rather than just gauging enthusiasm for a given task.

https://www.hungerforwords.com

I don't think higher order communication between adults is that simple either. There's a lot of inference and deriving from implication that is prone to error.
I found out about this from a hacker news comments not long ago. I have a hard time believing the causality of it, but if its true, it would be quite an incredible indictment against child-safety laws.
Check out vim's `:terminal` and `:vertical terminal` commands. It uses vim's window split management to place an ordinary no-kidding pty-based terminal into the vim UI. Ctrl-W N goes to Normal mode for copy (but not paste), Ctrl-W <motion> moves around like normal.
In India TATA tried that. Built $2000 car (tata nano). Target audience were the bike going families.

First , the motor bikes are cheap. So you need car matching that cost and you end up compromising a lot.

https://thewire.in/business/tata-nano-why-did-the-people-not...
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Are you not familiar with how things work in the US? The burden is to prove one overt act in a conspiracy charge, you can list all the bullshit you want and there is no need to prove it all beyond reasonable doubt.

https://reason.com/2018/07/25/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire...

Why were all the actual murder for hire charges dropped and instead included in a side notes of a conspiracy sentencing? Seems obvious to me that it was because there is no way they would get a conviction.
The situation might wear out, but if they do a good job, the writers and to some extent the actors will figure out the sweet spots in the characters. Also, a lot of useful context will get built up, which makes it easier to tell richer stories. I would say Seinfeld, NewsRadio, and Frasier are good examples of this.
MS was basically the CA. It was SolarWind's signing key that was compromised via an on-prem attack. This article is somewhat over the top, it looks like what Microsoft actually did was just revoke the cert.
Hooks are the place to segment out effectful code from otherwise pure code

useRef is a hook to serve just that purpose as is useState and useEffect.

Building new hooks off of these base hooks lets you write your own custom hooks to handle whatever side effects you need.

The existence of a hook is what should alert you to the fact that there may be some side effect thing happening here.

Not sure if this applies to you but I've found that most people who criticize hooks haven't made the leap to using custom hooks and have instead only used ones provided to them (useState, useEffect, etc).

Hooks are an incredible way of encapsulating behavior, separating out that behavior from a component, and exposing that behavior to any component that needs the same behavior. Check out this video for a practical example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzLlHFVXx0

I'm in the middle of a big refactor and writing reusable custom hooks are an absolute savior to share functionality across components that may have nothing to do with each other.

Hooks are functions, which is why we can compose them to build new behavior from smaller ones. That's the point. Just cause a thing is a function doesn't mean its pure. Like I said above, hooks are often meant to contain the impure parts of your otherwise declartive and pure UI expressing the UI as a function of state.
Bullocks. I read more books living in $300/mo apartment in college than I do now living in a far more expensive place as an adult. And I’m not THAT busy
However, there's plenty of evidence that various species have cracked human communication, at least partly so, while we haven't that much to show…
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You can trivially use recur for self-recursion: call (recur x) instead of (my-fn x) inside your function.

(There's also trampoline for mutual recursion cases)
If you have a Raspberry Pi, you can do something similar

https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/raspberry...
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I do a little C# here and there and setting up emacs for productivity in C# was easy: Install omnisharp, csharp-mode, and company. I also happen to like rainbow-delimiters.

But with just those first 3 packages I get "intellisense" in emacs via company-mode. It's awesome.
I remember seeing Dumb and Dumber in a theater when it came out, and laughing until my gut hurt. While doing this, part of my mind was saying the slapstick was so obvious, overdone and predictable, why am I laughing at it?

Perhaps it's like watching a Laurel and Hardy movie. Fans know that if there's a puddle in the street, Ollie will step into it and will sink in up to his neck. I know it's coming, everyone knows its coming, and it still makes me laugh. Maybe it's so funny because Hardy will look directly at the camera with a long-suffering "look what they made me do again" expression.
> I'm not going to argue about semantics but I want to be clear here: the basic definition of "backwards compatibility" is keeping the old thing working.

As i wrote a few messages above, that is the absolute minimum to call "backwards compatibility" so i'm not sure why you need to be clear since we agree on that part

> Adding new features is often at odds with this because it can break things in subtle ways.

You take that into consideration when you decide to add new features, it isn't like features come as demands from the gods in what and how to implement. And if you break things in subtle ways, you can fix them down the road if that is a problem - it isn't like broken code has to remain broken.

> You might be able to make some small backend changes, bringing back some of the major breaking changes to widgets or to the rendering model is out of the question.

The idea is to not make breaking changes to widgets in the first place. And changing the rendering model should also happen in a way that doesn't break the existing code (e.g. add a compatibility layer for custom widgets that use the previous rendering model and either make any customized widgets -e.g. buttons- to detect that they are customized and use the older rendering model in that case so they remain compatible but the new rendering model for newer code or create new widgets that use the new rendering model with an API that is as drop-in as possible so that 99% of the changes can be a search and replace in codebases).

Yes, that makes things harder than simply ignoring backwards compatibility and expecting every single application that uses your library to change their own code and break any applications that cannot update to the new APIs/ABIs, but that is the price for doing backwards compatibility properly.

Of course that is too late now for GTK and as i wrote previously (and later), the developers do not care about backwards compatibility anyway so i do not expect them to do anything about that when GTK5 comes around and instead they'd just expect everyone to waste time changing their working GTK4 code to use GTK5.

> If someone really wants to backport things like wayland support or emojis to GTK2, or [...] this is not the case.

You are missing the point, my message wasn't about what could or not be done by 3rd parties to improve GTK2 or whatever, but about what GTK developers themselves decided to do. What someone else would do is absolutely irrelevant to the topic.

> I just doubt any of the GTK4 developers are going to want to drop what they're working on now to do these things given the risk it carries combined with the fact that there are workarounds for these missing features.

I do not expect that to happen either, after all my first message in this submission even began with "Because the GTK developers do not care about backwards compatibility."