skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This page has images of both the inflated and normal size address bar: https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...
>The only thing I'll say is... Extensions have a scary level of access (they're basically almost as easy to use as a website, but with unlimited powers such as recording every site you visit and stealing passwords), and the average user will never understand that.

Probably not going to be all that popular on HN, but this is why I'm very hesitant about using extensions on Firefox (and I suppose Chrome too, but it's been a while since I've used that browser). I'm not going to audit the source code of these extensions, so why should I trust them with privileges to essentially record every website I visit?

I wish Chrome and Firefox would adopt a content blocking system similar to Safari, where the author of the ad blocker can essentially tell the browser what content to block, but the ad blocker itself doesn't get any information about user activity. This could exist alongside the existing extension system, in case additional capabilities are needed.

Yes this is less powerful than giving the ad blockers content to all the user's browsing history, but I'd happily exchange less effective ad blocking in exchange for enhanced privacy
It doesn't specify. But looking at vacant land in the area, it looks like 5-10% is land and the other 90-95% would be the house.
Sounds a lot like Microsoft's Scalar. [1]

The commits referenced in the blog post look to be from the Scalar team lead as well. Looks like some of their work is getting upstreamed which is exciting. [2]

Although, I wonder what this means for the Scalar project itself.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-scalar/

[2] e.g., https://github.com/git/git/compare/26bb5437f6defed72996b6a2b...
Ask HN: The Signal and the Noise in the Startup World
It is a common thing that good technical people get a large number of opportunities to join new startups, either as a co-founder or as a first employee, and the majority of these startups fail for various reasons. I'm curious how do people evaluate such an opportunity? Especially in startups, as there are no patterns for success. And it can easily ruin the work-life balance in its early days, so the cost of committing to one is very high.

TL;DR, what criteria(s) do you consider when joining a startup as a co-founder or as the first employee?
That was me years ago.

I feel like Git let its brand get used by others and now that's that. Kind of illustrates why companies defend their trademarks so vigorously.
> The thalidomide scandal may have led to 10,000 miscarriages

So, over an entire century, the worse drug approval mistake caused fewer birth defects than the number of Covid per day. Deaths that at this point could be easily prevented by faster vaccine approval.

What rational person could possibly look at that state of affairs and not conclude that our drug approval process is trading off far too many type II errors relative to type I errors.
Ask HN: I've offer but not sure if I should move?
I really like current company but pay is far less, 40k less and title is not senior either..

- I like lack of oversight and being treated like an adult

- not having standup

- no nosy manager

- non toxic colleagues

- tech that i like and know (makes the day easy)

- I might be able to negotiate upto 150-160k TC and maybe remote...

The new role is at blmbgerg

- better salary

- would make it easier to get manager role down the line due to brand

- better senior role

- benefits i dont know about yet? (what are they)

- definitely not remote (2.5 hours of commute daily)

- outdated af stack which i'd have to learn.

What else should i know? what would you do? is it worth negotiating with current company or ill be fired eventually as is the advice on the internet, i.e. you will be seen as someone who is eager to leave and managed out of all responsibilities after pay upgrade.
That is so overwhelming.

I’d prefer to learn say the top four knots to get me through 90% of my life. At least to get started.
As of a few years ago, without an active internet connection, any circuit machine is basically a brick.
A better microphone would fix that, and has the added advantage that when you Do P to T your audio quality isn't crap for the duration you're saying stuff. I use a Blue Snowball, it's great, there may be better alternatives.

PTT (in my experience) has some significant disadvantages in terms of interactivity. You can't have a real spontaneous conversation, and you can't hear people laugh.
Similar sites like http://ix.io/ have been up for many years with no issues. I assume spam can be a problem, but these sites must have figured something out.
And why are you against PRISM?
I see you've made many sweeping comments in this thread, some of which I can't confirm the veracity of.

> ... but having so much capacity invested in unreliable wind generation was a very significant contributor to the blackouts that should not be ignored.

Has that grid suffered lots of blackouts at times other than big freezes?

If it hasn't, then that would suggest that the designers / operators of the grid factored in the unreliability of wind, and have the baseload well covered by gas, nuclear, etc.

> ERCOT is a world leader in wind production, and that was pretty punishing when its 25GW of wind capacity was producing 0.

And yet:

"About half of the state’s wind capacity was offline Sunday because of turbines that had frozen in west Texas, according to the Austin American-Statesman, but high winds from the winter storm were spinning coastal turbines faster and generating more power to offset those losses." [1]

> Winterization would have helped somewhat with less turbines freezing, but it doesn't help at all when the wind stops blowing.

'fewer'

I'm not sure where you're getting information that the wind stopped blowing, or why that's a reason to not use wind turbines as part of an overall power generation strategy, or indeed why you seem to be surprised that if ECOT prepared wind turbines, as well as gas & nuclear (which both lost a fair chunk of capacity) then the outcome wouldn't have been so appalling.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/02/17/fac...
and those queries well be send through gRPC.
I use a Chrome extension[0] that filters articles and comments by keyword. It's a bit coarse and something something group think but my sanity is preserved.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-keyword-filter/...
CloudFlare will proxy whatever site you configure, even if it is static.

Static websites will get the best speed boost from locally served assets (much reduced latency from the local POP) because the page itself can be cached (presuming headers on origin site are correctly set). Especially for page requests from international users.
It's true that they're conservative, but there have been non-trivial forks in its history. If a fork proves itself by doing something significant that the original can't or won't, things can get interesting! I wouldn't write this one off so quickly.
Skipping the self-answering rhetorical question.

It's weird to claim that a studio which flagrantly plagiarizes "also has some redeeming original work." It's not like there's this clear line in the creative process that can partition theft, derivative-but-still-infringing, and "merely inspired" homages. Once you commit the original sin of failing to cite your sources, it's all suspect. I don't think HG should take them to court, but I _do_ wish Big West could.

Nobody's stopping Harebrained Schemes or Piranha Games from making that credit. Call me when they do. What's wild is that FASA _used to_ (Studio Nue _produced the Japanese BattleTech handbook_: http://www.gearsonline.net/series/battletech/), and then changed their tune when it became clear that it was a legal liability to, you know, admit to being plagiarists.

BTW Hasbro _did_ market the Macross Strike Valkyrie as a Transformer, "Jetfire."
They posted a blog about it. First sentence

"The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new"

With a link to the lore.kernel.org mailing list archive
Markets do fail in certain circumstances, but I outlined a specific mechanism. If you think there's a way for that mechanism to fail, i'd be interested to hear it, but just saying 'markets sometimes fail' in a generic sense, isn't really much of a counter argument.
And to complete the circle back to sexpr run cljs on the js engine.
"Mathematical induction" is a deductive proof technique with an unfortunately confusing name, but unrelated to the inductive reasoning of empirical science.
>For that detailed effort, analysis and with a fix, I'd say that is worth around $80k.

Do you think the fix is actually worth 80k in terms of additional revenue for Rockstar? I wouldn't be so sure. If not though then no it's not worth $80k.

"I'm a developer and I'm paid a lot to do my job, therefore everything I do must be very valuable" is not the right line of reasoning to use here.
Thank you, it turns out I just didn't even notice it.
You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.
Correlation does not imply causation.

But all bets are off with time traveling macintosh users.
Huh, why not? I just push the button whenever I do something that I want people to hear, including laughing.
Maybe “remember that they exist”? I can’t imagine remembering those.
Agreed. Users have it in their power not to use services that require a phone number for SMS verifcation.
The way I see it, while the distinction you describe is correct, there's a reasonable desire that this distinction should not exist and if some app on your phone collects private health data then that data should get the same protections as if your doctor collected it; and if the app developer wants to store and process that data then they'd better be able to comply with HIPAA-like requirements or stop handling sensitive data. It's not like it currently is, but we can try and get there.
Kazushige Goto, Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun (2005)
Are there any plans to add support for large files to Git? (Not as an extension)
I just transferred my phone number to google voice when I moved out of the country. When I moved it back I simply transfer it back to my carrier
The raw cake batter analogy felt unnecessarily snarky.
As noted in the documentation[1], doing this in the background on a repository that might be simultaneously in use is a bit non-trivial. You can do it using commands that already exist in Git, but doing so safely requires knowing a fair amount of details about Git's internals. By the same argument, you could say that it's overkill to have "git commit" when we could instead just construct commit objects using the lower-level plumbing commands.

This seems like a relatively small feature (about 2K lines of code by my count, a great deal of which is tests and docs) that results in a big quality-of-life improvement for anyone who works on large repositories.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance
I think this particular issue is specific to North America, due to peculiarities of the NANP phone number scheme (inter-provider texts are routed quite differently from voice calls, if I understand it correctly).

In other countries, the two channels are more closely coupled (but SIM swap and/or number porting attacks are still possible, depending on the provider‘s security protocols).
Meanwhile, if you want to play a game that supports the original creators, you can play Armored Core or the more recent Daemon X Machina, which "bought the band back together", including Shoji Kawamori doing lead mechanical design :)
You can check overall deaths for Europe on Euromomo.

It shows that despite everything we've done we've had significant more deaths in certain age groups.

You seem to be genuinely curious. For those who want to scoff it off: look at those numbers and consider the fact that these numbers are what we see after a war-sized effort to prevent more damage: in most populations only a few percent have been hit.

At the moment this epidemic runs unchecked a death rates also increase even more as it easily overwhelms even European health care if it isn't kept down.

And no, it is not just the elderly: my age group (40+) and above are all at risk.
The trend towards killing desktop individualism started with Steve Jobs and Mac OS X Aqua interface. Making computing “pretty” became the imperative design criteria. That meant heavily curtailing what things people could customize.
Seriously. It is completely unacceptable that the default level of access has become "everything."
Awesome site! I was trying to teach my son how to do various knots but he has no interest - even the more risqué knots like the hangman knot or the handcuff knot can't compete with Minecraft. I always thought it was an awesome life skill to have.
I love how they're clear about component cost increases. They're worried about a chnage from 200->220 because of the LCD panel. Given the good reviews, I think that's completely reasonable.
Use one for a while.

Desktop soldering irons have had sleep features for years -- the temperature relaxes when you put it in the holder (or after it's been in the holder for a while) to reduce tip oxidation, but keep it warm-ish so it'll be back to soldering temperature very quickly when you pick it back up. These are based on a processor, you just don't have access to it as a user, so the timeout and temperature are set by the factory and that's it.

There are plenty of soldering irons with a digital display, which allows you to calibrate the temperature response using a simple two-point process, rather than back-and-forth twiddling of the gains of a couple of opamps on the old analog stations. Those were such a pain to calibrate, few folks bothered, and the temperature setpoint on the dial grew increasingly fictional with age. The digital ones are based on a processor, but often the UI is so terrible (two buttons, three digits of 7-segment display) there could be more features back there but nobody would use them.

When OLED displays got cheap, that changed things. You can now have high-res text without a huge screen, and finally give someone all the knobs they'd want. Timeouts extend tip life. Calibration is really good and easy. Momentary boost mode for large joints without having to change the setpoint. It's the features you'd find in a thousand-dollar Pace station, in a sub-hundred-dollar portable iron, because all the complexity is in software.

And, bonus, since it runs off random DC, you can use any laptop brick you have sitting around, or batteries. They're extremely popular with RC hobbyists for field repairs as a result, and when running from battery you need another feature -- low-input shutdown, so you don't accidentally overdischarge the battery, which can damage it. Yet another feature that costs $0 once the hardware is there.
No one is saying they shouldn't make money. It is our right to gripe about it when they do so in an annoying or obnoxious manner. We might even abandon the platform if the advertising push becomes too obnoxious. If that happens and they fold, apparently they did not have a viable business model. There is no "should" about any of it.
My thoughts on this:

This will be excellent for a certain type of person who likes cheap meals that are of the type that are simple to be assembled with robotic systems.

The holy grail here though I think is a cheeseburger or a pizza or a pasta bowl, which are so ubiquitous due to their immense popularity.

The TAM for bowls with lots of vegetables is a tiny fraction of that for less healthy food (that isn't expected to come all piled together in a single bowl, Patton Oswalt-style). It's probably better in a place like California where healthy food is more popular, and you have to walk before you can run, so I'm glad you're doing this in any case, but I imagine much of the market you're trying to eventually address either a) wants less healthy, more complicated food much of the time, or if they aren't in that group, b) isn't so price sensitive they care much about a $4 bowl vs an $8 bowl.

I could also be totally wrong about all of this, this is just my guess. It seems to me that in the wider market you're in (across the US) almost all of the super cheap food is also high in fat/salt/msg/sugar.

Maybe that's cost constraints, but maybe that's because the real volume is in junk food. It seems to me that the real value of robots is scale/volume, due to their nonlinear relationship of costs to output, unlike human labor, which is linear, and to eventually tackle that scale you'll need to be able to effectively and reliably produce the kind of hugely popular food types that do the most volume: the classic beeschurger and suchlike.
The Covid-19 recovery effect. Nouveau monde
You’re framing it the right way, and this is what we should work towards. But man, I long for the day when what you’re describing here is realistic.

In Norway, country of «holy crap, I’m an employer lobbyist and our salaries are so high we can’t compete in the export markets», you’ll only be around this level if you’re a freelance contractor billing 100% and doing all the sales work yourself.

There are some CTO and probably a few lead roles paying this much, but for an IC you’ll top out around $120k. Prove me wrong if other Norwegians have a better view :)
I've been waiting to see a comment like this somewhere. Just a hugops from the internet and a reminder to all who see this to get your backups fire-proof and off-site.
there is no RANDOMIZED, controlled study that proves this kind of food is healthy. it isnt proven to be healthy. it likely isnt healthy. foods that are labeled "healthy" like orange juice and brown rice are likely very unhealthy and probably cause thousands of preventable deaths every year. if elon musk is not allowed to call his cars self driving, then people should not be allowed to peddle "healthy" food that isnt shown to be healthy.
The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fine.

I switch the URL to old.reddit and poof! Performance problems are magically gone.
Pennsylvania Woman Accused of Using Deepfake Technology to Harass Cheerleaders
The reason most services require a phone number is so you can't just create a new account if you get banned and ideally your account is somewhat tied to a real person. They ban VOIP numbers because it would defeat the whole point.
It didn't read that way to me, he has already tried to explain it without an analogy
Indian government is planning outright ban on cryptocurrency
So your entire point is that control characters are still good because they were a good solution to a problem that only existed 20-30 years ago? I'm not convinced.

My point here is that we are so steeped into tradition that usability suffers.
I suspect spam is on the nicer side of things people might upload... :/
Came to say the same, and guile emacs was attempted in the past.

It doesn't make sen to have multiple interpreters jury-rigged up (the horror!) And it also doesn't make sense to throw away all the lisp by having no interpreter for emacs lisp. Guile does support emacs lisp just for this purpose.
Yeah honestly if I saw something like that I would have saved an offline copy on a USB stick and handed it to police for investigation

Maybe not a great idea. In some places, that puts you in possession, and is enough for prison time, regardless of your motives.
> a large fleet of what are basically IoT devices

I got _super_ lucky at the startup where I was responsible for OS/updates/security for our IoT devices. Between the design stage and the production run, the price of 4GB SD cards dropped below the price of the 2GB cards on our BOM, so I had an entire spare partition to play with where I could keep a "spare" copy of the entire device image. And we had a "watchdog" microprocessor that could switch the main processor's boot config if it failed to boot. (We were basically running a RaspberryPi and an Arduino connected together. The prototype were exactly that, the final hardware was an iMX233 and an Atmel328 on our own custom board.)

We used Arch Linux with our own pacman repo, so the devices all pulled their own updates automatically. (Also it was super low risk, these were xmas tree lights, so our problem was "we don't want to ruin anyone's xmas!" instead of "If we fuck this up people might go broke and/or die...")
It's not just about staying alive, it's also a matter of being able to communicate and to participate in the informal but important network of people working on difficult problems.

I also feel that medical technology has advanced in staving off the secondary- and side-effects of ALS, including cognitive decline, even though it cannot prevent or cure it. And if, in the end, it actually made no difference, I don't feel that would be relevant to my attitude to how Hawking lived his life.
We'll see. I'll leave if that happens.

For now Durov has kept his word for 7 years which is a whole lot longer than most. He was also clear from the start that he would, if necessary, find a non intrusive way to fund it and I feel he might be onto it.
Sounds like the company that would always delay starting work on an order until a certain amount of time went by, like a day or two. (I was something like custom furniture).

turns out there was a HUGE amount of churn for a day after an order was created with changes, and this saved a huge amount of headaches.
You’re not wrong. The problem is the lack of an authoritative identity provider in the US.
> ...The core-to-core latency within a quadrant this generation has improved from a worst-case 112ns to 99ns, about a 10ns improvement. Access to remote quadrants has been reduced from up to 142ns to up to 114ns, which is actually a 24% improvement, which is considerable.

> What’s really interesting is that inter-socket latencies have also seen very notable reductions. Whereas the Rome part these went up to 272ns, the new Milan part reduces this down to 202ns, again a large 25% improvement between generations.

Good I/O is going to have a cost in terms of die area and power. Granted what Anandtech observed is interesting for 2P systems. Maybe there's a NPS4 vs NPS1 difference at work here, or AMD just isn't doing as much power gating on the IOD as it could in one or either case.
I would assume they're already in half the parking lots in the North - block heaters would require outlets, so anywhere that gets below -20C would likely be able to have electric vehicles today.