skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With Edge being a Chrome clone

yes

> and Safari being also

yes

> performant browser,

no

Browser UI is so slow when compared to non-browser UI, it's infuriating.
> It's in the same ballpark as tea, peppermint, etc.

I don't understand - are you saying you also get a euphoric glow from tea and peppermint leaves?
Check out my Nix configuration repo; I manage a desktop, two laptops and a home server with it. The pkgs directory contains all my customized packages.

https://github.com/tadfisher/flake
So Dark Reader won't work anymore. Great.
Smart Constructors
The point about Credibility is interesting. There's something about someone who's written a technical book that automatically seems impressive just because writing a book is hard, and it's easy to assume that the person knows a lot. A long time ago I used to do technical review for a publisher on books about code. It was pretty obvious that some authors didn't really know what they were talking about. They knew enough to write something, but there were always a lot of mistakes.

I think many technical books are written to act as a 'proof' that the author is credible and knows their topic well rather than as an exercise in serving the reader or an attempt to make money. Tech authors know that they've not going to make much. It's more an exercise in vanity and improving job prospects. The author doesn't really need to be right. Especially "Beginner's guide to X" or "Learn X in 24 hours" books, experienced and knowledgable developers won't be reading the book to criticise it, and new developers who buy it won't know it's poorly written, so an author can write any old junk and still claim to be an expert. Consequently I've stopped being particularly impressed by people who have authored books on their resume.
The only concept that is well and truly proven is that of an expensive and barely usable payment system with a colossal environmental cost. Everything else is vaporware, as of today.
Congrats on the launch! How do you differentiate yourself from hosted competitors like https://flatfile.io/?
> what doesn't get reported is what the lion share of the money actually went to, buying up financial assets from banks

Fiscal stimulus is more powerful than the monetary kind. When the Fed buys a bond, at the end of the day, it’s buying up bonds. Someone must give up 80 to 99.99999¢ of wealth for $1 of liquidity. When Congress spends $1, it’s creating money. It may have to tax or borrow down the road, but that’s then, not now.

Also, not sure how one can say monetary policy isn’t reported. It receives nearly weekly attention on even non-financial forums like Hacker News, and features far more prominently in financial, economic and crackpot rags.
A monetary expansion of similar magnitude happened after the GFC, and inflation didn't rise above this level for a decade... There just isn't that much of a relationship between base money and CPI as Friedman imagined 50 years ago.

(Because banks also control credit supply and only give it to creditworthy borrowers... The Fed can drop rates to zero and give banks limitless money and they still won't lend it out to deadbeats.)
I question if you even had such an experience or this is just a fud post because it is dead simple as was pointed out by a pervious posted...Too simple to have been missed
This made me lol. If it makes music it is a force for good
Also, RISC-V's "Choose the features you want to implement" system is a big advantage rather than a disadvantage in the embedded world.
Yep like I said, but perhaps did not emphasize enough, your shares alone won't move the needle much, but the collective entirety of retail investors lending out their shares (whether they are paid for it or not) definitely does move the needle. And on top of that, the shorters have more supply to draw on and there is less price pressure on the shorting premium as a result.
You and me both brotha.
Except with NixOS the whole point is system configuration in one file. Assuming you're comfortable getting on a network and partitioning a disk, there's not much need for a GUI.

At work, with multiple machines with little difference, an experienced admin will just clone or fork a Git repository, format a full disk, and run the installation command.
> The dom is really, really fast,

no, it is barely tolerable. Web apps in 2021 have trouble reaching the UI performance (latency) of early 2000 desktop software.
I left the Arduino IDE behind to use VSCode with PlatformIO and it's so much better I can't understand why people would want to use the IDE. It's fundamentally broken in so many ways.
As someone who just moved to a small town, I appreciate this insight. You've motivated me to take action. Thank you for sharing.
Except you are stuck with charter. There is no world in which charter is the best possible outcome. With a bit of luck, though, it is better than a 4g lte mvno
It's still an index though right? Just an index of chapters and not key words right?
LLVM Superoptimizer
It's an implementation detail of the blockchain

Any currency seeing moderate amounts of use and speculation is going to rapidly start sucking up power.
Washington DC Police Allegedly Offered $100k to Hackers to Stop Leak
This is the "http-based remote procedure calls" usage of the term API, and not the "function call definitions for a programming language" usage of the term API.

(Yes, at some level they are conceptually the same thing. But it's worth pointing out due to the already-mentioned confusion with OpenCV, and for those of us that got confused in the early 2000s when a common terminology for C/C++/Java libraries suddenly started to mean "web-hosted software as a service", and still haven't fully recovered.)
The way I think of it is:

If you had to terraform a planet, which one would you choose?

Option 1: a bombed-out Earth with runaway global warming, acidic oceans, the end result of mass extinctions where there's dramatically less species diversity and some planet-wide ecologies have utterly collapsed.

Option 2: Mars.

I would at least hope the answer is obvious. No matter how much we trash Earth, it's still vastly more habitable than Mars or any other planet or moon in this solar system. The human species might not survive what we do to it, but parking a small repository of humans in orbit or on the Moon that would be capable of repopulation is still easily the winning species-survival strategy over terraforming Mars. (Though I suspect it's probably even better to keep that repository someplace on Earth.)
Thanks. In common usage of the term, duels don't have to be to the death, but they have to be with deadly weapons. Otherwise every disagreement settled by a boxing match or fencing match is duel. It's of course true that there is a continuum on how deadly a weapon can be, which depends on usage and has no sharp cutoff, but if the chance of death has been carefully eliminated, then the reader should be alerted to the fact that this does not really live up to the traditional understanding of a duel.
You're not going to convince me about macroscale inflation by linking to price increases by individual firms.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE
Fantastic toy! No hitches at all on FF on OSX
Thx, it’s my baby, I want it to work ::sweating:: (I think that bug is fixed)
If they don't use Flutter, then myself and Flutter community and Flutter Googlers will all be very disappointed.
Meanwhile ten-year US bonds are 1.6%:

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/usa-government-bonds

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10
What does this step really mean? Is HaikuOS usable as a daily desktop environment? Can you use all/some/? Linux applications on it?

I'm really excited about using an ARM based laptop at some point but not sure if the Linux stack will work on it. Is this the same problem lots of Mac software wouldn't run on the M1 at first?
> can imagine tumblers paying "innocent" people (out-of-band) to tumble their coins, while charging money launderers to do the same

Perhaps. But the legal precedent is for laundered money to be tainted per se. The laundering itself taints the cash independent of any preceding criminality.
"14,000 estimated to have died from humidifier sanitizer scandal: study"

https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/07/251_293448.html

The manufacturer was Reckitt Benckiser, who is also the manufacturer of Airwick.

https://www.reckitt.com/brands/air-wick/
Found the person who likes writing an in-house ETS wrapper on every new job!
React (not just React, but they "meme"'d it) sold everyone on the DOM being slow. What they actually meant was that if you add & remove 5,000 elements one at a time in a loop, it's slow. If you don't do that it's plenty fast and all of React's tricks to "make it fast" are just overhead that are bloating and slowing down your "app". (FWIW, I actually kind of like writing React, if I must do front-end JS, so I'm not hating on it just for hating's sake)
This stuff varies quite a bit by denomination and just tradition honestly.

I mean you also have mainstream preachers telling you that if your faith is strong enough god will reward you with riches, which has been considered a heresy for at least a thousand years.

So I don't know they should be but preachers may not universally be the experts on this unfortunately.
I haven't used Flakes yet. Any customization is done by giving the packages import an overlay. What am I missing?
Building an SSI Ecosystem: Digital Staff Passports at the NHS
I would not consider myself super deep in web technology, but rendering to canvas allows programmers to have pixel perfect control over the look of their applications across all devices. Currently, web developers need to "reset" lots of default rendering behaviors in every major browser to ensure that their applications look the same.

After building lots of specialized UI components within the HTML standard, a programmer may ask themself if they might as well write their own UI library. Specifically, lots of specialized applications have UI components which do not have a corresponding HTML standard. For example, in a spreadsheet, a cell may have a clickable triangle in its upper right corner that should display a comment bubble. Should a programmer create that in css or write a specialized library?
> It's the ecosystem that every contender would love to be.

Trying to clarify - do you mean other JS ecosystems? Outside of JS, NPM is usually used as what not to do, not as an aspiration.
I had not looked into it till now but checking it out now.

Do you have any recommendations to where I should learn more about using it? (I am checking the docs to get a basic understanding rn)
> "crushes things"

LOL, a 50 or even 100 BP rate hike (neither of which is in the current realm of possibility) would be a minor speed bump, it certainly wouldn't "crush" anything. Most long treasury yields could double and they would still be well below historical averages.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2521/30-year-treasury-bond-rate-...
Certainly agree, you forget all that you have learned and even harder to recall are those epiphany moments that altered your point of view entirely. If you can recreate those moments for others, you add an edge to your teaching.
The word "drug" has no successful definition. If you say "a substance that alters how your brain works", then even water is a drug. Sugar and coffee are almost surely drugs under any non-laundry-list definition you can come up with. Cacao is most certainly a drug ;)
problem are law can not stop egrigous bad actor, so necesary for to proof against such persons with better wall. we "should" not having to do this but we are having to if we are caring for privacy.
Reminds me a little bit of the answer to the Stack Overflow question about parsing HTML with Regular Expressions... https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 [Edit: Fixed Link]
I must be missing something, its a "bunch of nonsense" whenever someone claims they're better off rendering to canvas for performance?
Airflow is painful if you want to use it for anything other than time-bounded batch jobs. See https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa4232...

I have no financial interest in Prefect, but I have used Airflow and their criticisms ring true.
How would they implement things like copy-to-clipboard then?
this makes stocks and real estate more attractive. you are not going to get 3-4% with cash or treasury bonds
I run my own XMPP server, have done for years (now just out of the fact it'll take more work to turn it off than to keep it going.)

I almost never use it to talk to people these days, and typically see one, maybe two other people logged in at any given time, when it used to be a lot more. And I think one of those is someone like me who just has a client always connected. I like what XMPP stands for, but it really does feel like it's faded in at least the "general instant messenger" sense.
They unfortunately already do. The state of contentEditable on the web is such that you need to if you want to have a non standard experience like google docs.
Web Development in Lisp (2013)
Files are OPEN.

You can do whatever you want with a bunch of bits and a spec that tells you what they mean. Even utilize different software/hardware to consume and manipulate them, which is the last thing your software/hardware vendor wants you to do.

Did anyone really think doing away with files ever had anything to do with simplicity? Another magical thing you can do with a bunch of bits is build abstractions over them to simplify their manipulations as much as you want. It's vendor lock-in and it's not only awful but evil too.
Most people assume that economics is like a washing machine where you have a few dials and knobs. Sometimes you need to tighten a screw here, apply some grease there, etc.

But in reality, economics is more akin a complex biological system. We have a very rudimentary understanding of how it actually works. Sure, we can create drugs that calm us down or excite us, but we have very limited understanding of the underlying biological system. For instance, we still can't agree what the optimal diet for humans is with wildly contradictory regiments.
You aren't the only one. There's something subtly "wrong" about the typefaces. Likely because it's "scientifically designed" rather than simply designed. IMO typeface design is an art, not a science. And it requires talent, aesthetic awareness, and design sensibility to get them to look right.
America's Newest Chess Master, 10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi
So cool! The UX is amazing, will definitely recommend to my little cousins.
"Slapping some rectangles on a raster surface" can also be done in HTML/CSS, with the right options (set 'overflow' content to be clipped with no reflow).
I'm sure this is awesome so a a bit sad I'm blocked because it's not https. It's usuall trivial to set up https these days so that's my one and only feature request :)
Letsencrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021)
I have a running theory - Google doesn't create a product unless it captures data in a unique manner compared to their other products. Maybe they have moved past this phase. Maybe I just don't see the collection happening here.
China's Census Shows Population Barely Grew in 10 Years as Births Plummet
Still not tempted by NodeJS or Deno
When the truth is explained, sometimes it can flow in such a fluid way that it is beautiful.
Seems far-fetched that normal webpages would use canvas as the primary method to render text something like Google docs makes sense because it's a complex application and consistency is important. For these type of sites if they choose to put ads on I would not try to block them because clearly the effort the developers put to build them justifies displaying ads.

Additionally, I can see future ad blockers also getting more sophisticated by finding a way to block already rendered elements on a canvas without having access to the representational elements (reverse engineering).
So some form of meritocracy.

Are there any instances in the history of the human race where that idea has worked? My impression is that it always fails due to corruption or incorrect evaluation metrics or some other fundamental flaw in the starry-eyed idea of separating "good" from "bad".

In theory, it's perfectly straightforward to write a flawless, unexploitable large program in C. In practice, we get hacked by plugging something into a Lightning port.
There is an alternative to what3fucks https://www.fourkingmaps.co.uk/ idk how long it'll be up for though
Happen to know a good "getting started" site or book for MVS? I rescued a small S/390 from a metal scrap dealer and, if the Gods of lost software smile on me, would like one day to have it up and running again.
Future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
drag and drop tends to create major code bloat. i dunno if this is different.
Microsoft Word and Pages both also have web apps, for years, that are 'bottlenecked by rendering performance' (would put it as 'clearly would be improved by better rendering performance', as you're noting)
.NET Interactive Notebooks with C#/F# in VS Code
The biggest challenge here I think is that we don't have an objective definition of clever code, and if you ask, most people will just try to retroactively justify why the current mainstream way of writing things is good and not at all clever. If you do something unusual, people think you're trying to be clever.

I think that a lot of the stuff people take for granted in modern programming languages would've been considered clever tricks or just complex and alien mechanisms by the average programmer around when I started 25 years ago (remember serious business that ran on basic?).

The way mainstream code looks today has changed a lot compared to then, and I predict it will still change a lot.
How’s the lack of static types treating you? Honest question as someone looking at Gleam.
this isn't really much ad to the ongoing story is it? Other than 'talks breaking down'
WRT NixOS:

1. There might be slightly more convenience for the desktop user because installing applications in their user environment doesn't require root permission. You can set the system to a full Gnome with it's networking/wifi configuration if you like that sort of thing, but understandably it's less popular and minimalism is en vogue.

2. There is no global equivalent to Gentoo's USE flags, however most derivations follow conventions and expose comparable options with sensible defaults. These are largely easy to override. You usually lose the benefit of the large cache of binary builds so the culture of micromanaging all the options is not as prominent as in Gentoo. E.g. removing X11 support because you're not using it on a server might result in the need to locally build a lot of packages, some of them slow, and hence most don't bother with this level of "optimization."

The single configuration file and rebuilding the whole system with one command (that actually runs quickly and is easily rolled back) is what caused me to finally leave Gentoo behind. I had way too much manual intervention with an almost vanilla Gentoo configuration when performing upgrades (e.g. newer profiles, but sometimes just a package update). I'm not sure if NixOS is resilient enough to allow such things as system-wide ABI changes (such as the last Gentoo profile bump) but I suspect it is, and it's mission is to provide a seamless user experience when rebuilding. Should a rebuild fail, it's not activated so you're not stuck with a partially working environment.
Totally correct, by 2024 a 20k wpm N5 fab will not be able to break even unless wafers would cost $50k+.

Who will be billed for this negative equity?

TSMC's economists certainly know what they do when they put a $12B investment: this can only happen with US government guarantee, thus taxpayers paying.
C#, F#, and PowerShell in Interactive Jupyter Notebooks
As an old webdev who was full-stack before Node even came out, and avoided it completely, all I can say is; Have fun, kids! jingle jingle
I know you're being sarcastic but I will definitely not miss those when working with Elixir......
I don't know but Figma do it without issues, maybe there are some hidden inputs behind the canvas that are selected
Self-publishing has always been an option for authors. Some publishing houses offer you resources to publish your work. You simply pay them and they review and print your book. It seems to be a fair arrangement. However, after five minutes in Google, you will find out that many self-published authors had terrible experiences or were scammed. Finding a decent and professional publishing house requires time. You cannot trust the first one you find in Google.

Those "self-publishing companies" are often next-generation vanity press. Then again, bottom tier traditional publishing— and the dangerous part is, this includes bottom-tier deals from "Big 5" imprints— are basically vanity press as well.

The number of first-time authors who get traditional deals actually worth taking (the kind that come with 6-figure marketing budgets and TV spots delivered in-hand) is probably in the double digits per year— it's not that hard to "get an agent" if you're willing to take abuse, but 98% of literary agents have no real connections but serve as an HR wall, existing solely to filter out the deserving perma-slush, that will probably be replaced with machine learning algorithms soon.

Publishing gives writers a possibly necessary but very unpleasant introduction to the reality of commerce— there are so, so many people out there looking to get as much as they can (money) and give as little as possible. This applies when you pay thousands of dollars to a "self-publishing company" and get work (cover design, editing, et al) that a high schooler could have done... but it also applies when you sign away your rights to a "Big 5" for a piddly advance and no marketing.

I think the game's very different for programming books than it is for, say, fiction. Generally, people don't write books about Python because they think they're going to quit their day jobs. At the same time, people who can write even passable programming books are fairly few in number... whereas people who can write passable novels that could in theory become the next 50 Shades are commonplace (although people who can write good novels are very rare).

It's impossible to say what it requires not to get scammed in publishing— you have to take some risks, and who can say what risks are right to take?— but a good first step is to accept the very real possibility that you do everything right and still don't sell more than a few dozen copies. Sometimes terrible books sell (50 Shades) and sometimes great books go ignored for thirty years.
Or just intercept the API calls by looking at the network activity tab.
In Java, Joda-Time was a third party library for ages. It was the dominant date-time lib for enterprise development. Then, it was standardised and added to the stdlib: java.time (JSR-310). The Joda-Time project lead, Stephen Colebourne, ran the standardisation process. It was well received by most, even the breaking API changes that SC was adamant were flaws in the original Joda-Time API. I can vouch for it: Both Joda-Time and the java.time libs are excellent. (In my job, I regularly need to perform complex date-time transformations, including time zones.)

I have also used Howard Hinnant's C++ date-time lib: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date It is also very good. (He was the guy behind move semantics in C++ 11.)

In Python, the stdlib has a function to get UTC now, that does not include UTC timezone... so it weirdly and surprisingly acts like local time zone! There is endless shit-posting about it. I feel bad for Guido van Rossum et al. To be fair, the original Java date-time lib was horrible, so Joda-Time was created. And JDBC (Java database) dates are still horrible.
I love Dramatiq but I don’t get your point about task completion. You have to choose between at most and at least once.
Is that the fault of the web apps programmers (or their library/design choices!) or the engine?