skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve tested Safari many times before comparing it to other browsers (and correctly including child processes) and it has always beaten every other browser by using varying degrees of resources less than its competitors. Sometimes a surprisingly large number, sometimes not too much.

But there’s something people need to take into account as well: there’s only so much browser developers can do to optimize the browser. Website developers need to do their part as well. And Google is by far the worst offender in this regard. Facebook isn’t much better.

Most Google-owned webpages you visit are going to use at least 500MB on Safari or 800MB on Chrome. This is nonsense! If they were to develop a native app with exactly the same features it would take at most 250MB of RAM for the largest pages (such as large spreadsheets) and it would be a lot faster.

Compare Google and Facebook webpages to almost any other webpage and you will see they use too much RAM. People are unfortunately getting used to thinking “oh, I have 8 tabs open, that’s too many” when in fact it shouldn’t be.

I know I’m a tab hoarder, I don’t deny that. But using Safari currently have over 13 windows open, each with at least 25 tabs, not to mention plenty of native software running and still have a very fast and functional Mac. It’s not like I have 2TB of RAM either: 16GB of RAM is more than enough to do that. About a year ago (before I upgraded) I did pretty much the same thing with a 8GB RAM 2013 Mac and still didn’t have issues.

The only tabs Safari ever tells me it has reloaded because it’s using too many resources are Google-owned websites. This doesn’t happen with any other website at all from the hundreds of tabs I have open.
I think that is more a matter of being young (a kid or young adult) as opposed to related to any specific technology. Think of all the books that you could potentially read if you wandered into a library. Decades of knowledge waiting to be discovered.
The Facebook competitor is "not using Facebook".

I haven't used it for ten years, can't say I miss it.
yes, this is localized and the system is not corrupt as a whole.
I agree with the general point of your comment, but my personal experience with the usefulness of reviews is not so great.

Nearly all reviews were superficial, not a single review ever found any technical flaw, even when some were discovered later. The acceptance recommendations seem to be governed by the overall impression the reviewer had from the paper and not by any factual points they make in the review.
This manifested in getting 5 reviews at one conference, where all reviewers made nearly the same points in their review: all about the presentation of the paper. The paper received all of the five recommendations: Accept, weak accept, borderline, weak reject, reject. (The most critical and useful with a small correction of one formula was the "Accept" review.)

Many reviewers also leave the impression they didn't read the paper in full or at all, or ran out of time while for the review, so looked for a reason to reject the paper and didn't look any further.

Note: I am not saying my papers should have been accepted, 2 had serious issues I glad I discovered later! I also had a few very useful reviews to improve the presentation of my paper.
A bit of both.

I've read some articles about Apple's bounty program from people who were less than thrilled with it, and Apple went back and revised the bounty payouts when it ended up being bad PR/in the news. In the bug bounty programs I've done, I found nothing but P1 vulnerabilities (LPE, RCE, SQLi, LFI). The payouts have always been far below minimum wage, which gave me perspective on how much I could have made working in fast food instead.

I have no reason to believe Apple will be more fair to researchers based on their track record, and their unwillingness to talk about it doesn't inspire any confidence.
You can't just choose technologies, especially frameworks, the way you would choose tools. Tools simply shape the result of your work — it doesn't matter what you used to make something, as long as it turned out good. Frameworks and libraries stay inside your product, and directly affect how your users experience it.
this guy sounds like a child making shit up
For all the people oblivious to why Facebook did this:

Because Myanmar people lobbied for it, and because the Myanmar military is terrorizing its own people, then lying about it.

The military is shooting its own people, kidnapping them in the middle of the night, and torturing them.

Over 10 protestors dead and 50+ injured, as they are using live rounds on protestors. Over 500+ disappeared or kidnapped. Protestors killed include two teenagers shot in the head, one of them a medic. They also shot at ambulance. They’ve threatened to kill doctors, and kidnapped many of them. Stole the covid vaccination after beating doctors trying to stop them.

Last night they shot a neighborhood watchman in my neighborhood (we have neighborhood watch to try and prevent late night kidnapping/disappearing by military).

We lobbied hard to get Facebook to take down this page and others where the Tatmadaw are attempting to cover up the truth.
> Facebook's obligation is to the shareholders. Shareholders want bigger pie. Shareholders will get a bigger pie.

The lesson is then that it is in the best interest of users to steer clear of any shareholder-owned network in as wide arc as possible.
Yes, it is the one in my profile and we currently only offer an annual plan upon request. Definitely worth making it an explicit offer.

The terms from your commercial bank are great. I'm sure they wouldn't lend to a US company, but do you mind sharing the name of the bank?
US plane scatters engine debris over Denver homes
It might be that Denver has more frequent failure. Takeoff power is scaled by temp, altitude, and cargo weight.

Denver is high altitude. And a hub with lots of long range flights. The plane was going to Hawaii. I bet plane was heavy with engines near full power. Most likely time for engine explodey
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They're letting girls on the moon now, so you'll have to find another place for your clubhouse?
I suspect the parent is fully cognisant of this. They are illuminating one of the fallacies of the free market extremists.
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> We'll never be a spacefaring species, the universe is way too big (we can't even explore our solar system in any meaningful way) and energy requirements for faster travel are simply too high.

I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
— Lord Kelvin, 1895

https://www.xaprb.com/blog/flight-is-impossible/
yea I hope he reads this
In which case they can export electricity at a very low cost. Or are the interconnects full? And all the energy storage facilities full?
> I think the idea was that platypuses give the idea of being put together by disparate parts.

Once retired, the platypus was handed down to the Darwin people of course, to go with their Frankenstein NEXTSTEP/Mach/BSD kernel.

http://www.hexley.com/
Will your next question be like "how to prevent screen capture"?
Precisely. Instead of one sunk cost fallacy after another used to justify ITER and its enormous bureaucracy, there should be a billion each thrown at a couple dozen likely alternative ideas.

I read a paper recently that basically said that the best bang for buck is to just work on better superconducting magnetic tape. Stronger fields make everything better, and the scaling law is cubic!

Even if such a tape is developed but doesn't lead to fusion, we'd have better MRIs and DC power lines as a side effect, so it's not even wasted effort!
Exciting and boring are antonyms of one another, though.
What's special about CDs or books in this sense compared to any other product? When I buy most other products I am not purchasing just a unilaterally withdrawable lease to use them in a manner controllable by the manufacturer.

If I purchase a Gucci handbag, I can do whatever I want with it even though it contains Gucci's trademark IP. It would be surreal for Gucci to be allowed to control what I wear it with, for example, or later take it off me. Nonetheless, owning the handbag does not give me ownership of their IP and it wouldn't make it legal for me to sell counterfeit copies of it.
> A lot of users don't want updates. They just want their software to work and do whatever they're using it for.

True. But these updates often are what keeps the software working, as software doesn't usually live in complete isolation from the rest of the system. Not having to rely on the system dependecies helps in decoupling and being able to update in a more controlled fashion.

If you have to fear with every update that something is taken away from you, then maybe you are just getting your software from the wrong people?
“Clubhouse audio getting hacked all audio being sucked out”
Ask 2-3 women you consider very beautiful what they'd think of such a service, and then what that'd think of the people who created it. Ask them if they've ever had a stalker - many beautiful women have, and many attractive men have too. The issues around unwanted sexual advances is far more prevalent and dangerous than you imagine. If you honestly look into this issue, you may learn something.
Reading this sentence makes me uncomfortable
I haven't done it, but I generally trust Alec in those things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY
yes the sessions should be zoom links (not sure if there's a youtube stream ... if so I ask them to link on it on the main page, starts Tuesday)
What is this idea that “engineers need to be kept happy?”

Are programmers children that we need to entertain in order for them to do their job?
Sure, but is it cheaper in the long run when you account for attrition, hiring costs (recruiters, engineer hours spent interviewing), and ramp-up? Let's go ahead and assume that things like code quality and technical debt aren't factors here, and that the replacements for regrettable attrition would receive (and accept) offers with comparable TC.
I’m convinced that it’s because younger people are easier to control and less likely to speak up about messed up stuff. So while it would be in the company’s best interest to hire more experienced developers, it’s in the interest of individual managers to prefer younger folks.
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Then those businesses are going to have to adapt or risk losing an increasing number of clients.
How do you think the field of carpentry feels about this? Do you think they tell young carpenters in the field to convince homeowners to build their next closet in clay, because wood is old and boring?
It's interesting, Aung San Suu Kyi (with a freedom nobel-price) is/was responsible for the expulsion, killing and raping of rohingya's. But when the military takes over that's a big nono.

BTW: Hitler was also democratically elected, wouldn't have been the worst thing if the Wehrmacht made a coup then, like for example "operation valkyrie".
Yeah I can see why some people find it creepy. I find it fascinating. Once you have your first "out of normal" experience, then you start looking into more.
Just get yourself a case of Gellman Amnesia. Problem solved.

:P
Designing for Voice User Interfaces
Ah yes, the travesty of murderous thugs shooting their own citizens having their Facebook page taken down. What ever has the world come to.
What if I've got a prepper bent and am OK with losing power for a few days in a 1:100 year event? Can I still get cheap, slightly unreliable power?

Not to make light of the events in Texas - it sounds scary and they need to be prepared for next time. But the answer isn't automatically "they should have had a gold plated the grid!". The answer might be "they should be have been prepared for a few days without power in extreme conditions".

Every new 9 gets added to 99.9...% reliability figure costs a lot more than the 9 before. At some point, it is more effective for rare events to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Ya know what is super duper exciting? Finding a boring product/service area no one is exploiting and you can design the entire experience for customers, infrastructure, and partners and reap all the profits. That's exciting.
The difference is the Myanmar military was killing their own citizens.

A country's military firing live rounds on their own citizens with seemingly no remorse is different than a country's military committing violence in foreign countries.

I'm certainly not condoning either example of military force presented here, but the duty of the military should ultimately be to preserve their citizens. Killing its own citizens and then using social media to lie about it is something I don't think the US military has done.
I have worked for several startups as a Python engineer and the job always follows this pattern:

1) I am brought in to work on some interesting project that has a mix of exciting and boring technologies. I mostly work on exciting stuff. This honey moon phase lasts from several weeks to several months.

2) As the project starts to mature, management start to demand more and more unrelated maintenance work from the team members.

At this point my time is roughly spent 50/50 on developing new features, and things like fixing spaghetti that somebody wrote years ago. I call this type of work firefighting, since management talk about it like a codebase has caught fire.

3) Management find out that projects that were on fire are seriously damaged despite not being on fire anymore. As more and more defects are found, my job gets dangerously close to being 90% boring.

4) At this point the team members that once worked on an exciting project are considered experts in random legacy codebases, and their job is extremely boring since it mostly involves maintaining them.

Personally, I find myself reading code on Github, reading HN, etc. basically trying to keep up with what's happening out there. I'm ready to move on to a project where I can learn something.
It's a joint venture owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Buying United Launch Alliance, LLC wouldn't require buying the parent companies.
>I think a lot of people who want all drugs to be legalized haven’t spent time in a place where they functionally are. It’s not a pretty sight.

>Try parts of the Midwest and Appalachia. Industrial jobs went abroad and never came back, leaving large swaths of the population in poverty and without any real career outlook beyond low end retail. Enter fentanyl. It only made most of these problems worse.

That's why you let the government provide clean drugs at cost and let professionals administer the drugs. This saves on healthcare costs because cutting agents (such as brick dust in combination with a something stronger e.g. substitutes such as fentanyl) cause 99% of the health risks associated with drugs. The other 1% are caused by overdoses directly leading to death or mental decline. None of them will happen when you have professionals taking care of your dosage and tapering it off over time to reduce chemical dependence. Since people no longer have to engage in prostitution and theft to pay for drugs they are financially better off and you will see a reduction in crime at the same time.
I did indeed think so and did not consider that the AWS servers are controlled via hacks/malware themselves! It just sounded like the malware authors just rent AWS with their own credit cards...
Oh great, a way to web-scale my 50 open tabs!

(Joking aside, this looks useful, thanks!)
I know it's possible, but this puts communication with patients in a coma into the realm of possible, scientifically.
Agreed. I think of it as the linear equation y = m*x + b

As soon as you get to the point where m is positive (you have learned enough to be able to make things a little better on your own, even if using google for parts), you’re off to the races. m dominates b in that equation as x (time) increases.
RedLetterMedia on YouTube is still buying VHS tapes, for their 'Best of the Worst' series, where they watch old awful VHS tapes and point out what's hilarious about them (and pick the best ones).

Especially when they do stuff like 'Wheel of the Worst', you can see everything from 'How to Carve Pumpkins' to 'Let's Rap About Fire Safety' to 'American Flatulators'
They’re professionals whose decisions and input companies must afford the appropriate amount of consideration, and whose professional development companies must also respect to be competitive in the hiring market. These tech choices are usually contextual, and that context includes business factors such as continuity and retention, which present a trade off. That is a compressed version of the GP post.
For independent, random occurrences, the probability distribution for delta-T follows an exponential decay. I.e. the most likely time is "right after". Of course, that "most likely" can still be small.
Fun fact: This is true for any chosen point in time, i.e. the prob that this happens exactly one day after your birthday is higher than that it happens two days later.
You can get quite close to the colony at St Kilda Pier:

https://stkildapenguins.com.au/skp/?page_id=93

Also you can find them on the north coast of Tasmania, commonly sitting alongside boardwalks etc.
Point taken, but Nim is pretty stable in my (somewhat limited) experience with it. Though the original article does mention innovation tokens, which in this case would be exceeded.
Everybody involved in this (serious) game knows that people can have multiple passports and that the ones with disadvantageous information are usually not shown. There is indeed an ongoing risk that authorities get information some way or another (flight records, informants, data breaches, social networks) and start connecting dots. Intelligence services probably do that all the time to keep tabs on operatives of other countries.

In the Iran case, the safe way seems to disclose the double citizenship and accept the babysitters. As a Swiss, I would clarify with the Swiss embassy whether they can intervene in case the double citizenship causes further problems. It seems likely, as the person would still be a Swiss citizen. It all depends how much hassle it is to sour the diplomatic relationship with Switzerland.
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In my experience, people who try to intimidate others into unethical acts are pretty much rotten at the core. They either lack morals, or empathy, or both. Chances are your superior did some damage control when expressing gratitude towards you later on.
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Summarizing her like that only makes you disgusting.
Yes. It’s called job satisfaction. Also you don’t have to if you’re willing to pay more
It does limit your flight profiles significantly though, as you have to use the same Lunar injection orbit

What's the actual benefit?
What happens when she sticks peanut butter into the VCR?
Sanctioning political opponents kind of sounds like a dictatorship to me.
Uhhhh...

Disney owns some of the most successful producers of new content and franchises in recent years - Pixar and Marvel Studios.

And, say what you will about the terrible Star Wars sequels they just cranked out, I've heard rave reviews of The Mandalorian from everyone I know who's watched it. Also Rogue One, which actually did feel like a tragedy set in the classic Star Wars universe.

Suffice to say I think you're wrong here.
Would yoy be interested in doing an AMA? Seems like you have a lot to say and I'd be down to listen.
I think it was from "How To Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls" by John Shaw-Rimmington, but I pick up nearly every book I see on the topic so I can't be sure.
As I see it, choose boring tech where stability is paramount, i.e. at work. Opt for fancy new stuff when you want to learn, i.e. at home.

The first will let you honor your moral contract of service quality with your clients.

The latter will enable you to grow and experiment in a low-stakes environment. Also, when the new toys become boring, you'll be The Guru (tm) everyone goes to for advice.

You're happy, and everyone wins.

Edit: of course 'work' and 'home' are used loosely here, not taking into account real-world diversity.
I was curious as well. I knew that a telegram was normally hand delivered by a messenger but had to do a little searching to find more information.

“A. RECENT invention in telegraphic instruments has given rise to the Telepost Company, which sends messages at a uniform rate for all distances, and at a rate much lower than is charged by the telegraph companies. It has four kinds of service; viz., telegram, telecard, teletape, and telepost.

“A telegram is a message delivered by a special messenger, as is now done by the other companies.

“A telecard is a telegraphic message printed on a postcard at the delivering office and placed in the post office, and then delivered by the postman on his regular rounds.

A teletape is the perforated strip of paper upon which
the instrument records the message at the delivering office. This is mailed and delivered as in the case of a telecard.

A telepost is a telegraphic message printed similarly to a letter at the delivering office and mailed in a sealed envelope and delivered as in the case of the telecard.

“The rates for these services are: a 10-word telecard, 10 cents; a 25-word telegram or a 50- word telepost or a 100-word teletape, 25 cents.” - The Business Letter by Ion E. Dwyer (1914)
If you want to make sure there are no homeless people then you simply give everyone a home. Shelters don't count because they are designed for homeless people. If you are in a shelter you are homeless, if you are not homeless you aren't in a shelter.
His second anecdote; after drinking too much soda pop, being distracted by looking for a bathroom.
Yup found this remark super weird.

Mac users seem to live under a rock or something.

Got some weird idea that anything not a Mac must be windows like it's the 90s or something.

Both AMD and Intel hardware supports Linux and wouldn't ship without it. NVIDIA is really the only hold out I this space.
If I were an airline's insurer, I wouldn't want to gamble on the good luck lasting.
I despise Blu-ray for this. Why must I be forced to watch a stupid 5 minute ad, for the movie that I purchased, every time I insert the disc in?

I gave up on it, and went back to DVD.
Boeing sure is on a roll lately
She was not. AASK never had any authority over the military. At all. Military was legally above elected government before the coup, controls all the courts, legally guaranteed 25% of the legislature, wrote the constitution, and the comander-in-chief was never appointed by elected government. Military never answered to AASK or took orders from her or the president.

At best, you could call AASK an apologist for military. But that ignores that she was really their prisoner even while “free”, and the delicate negotiation she engaged in an attempt to build a civilian government, as flawed as it was.
Should Facebook then close Police departments pages? They're killing fellow citizens and they're doing that more than any other Police force in the west.
In many cases, in some industries: yes. When working in media production, it does not matter if the media being produced is feature films, feature animated films, a TV series, an animated TV series, or a AAA to C level video game production - the software developers, digital artists, and line producers are ready to quit or reduce productivity to a trickle at the drop of a hat if they sense the production will not be a commercial success and not grant them social bragging rights. Yes, this sounds completely absurd, until you are in the media production industries and see it happening. It's an entitled attitude, but getting the line workers to see it that way is not gonna happen.