skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly liked the new UI, except for the changes in the tab bar, the major one being reducing the tab width to mirror Chrome's. When you have more than a few dozen tabs open in Chrome or the new Firefox, it becomes near impossible to know which is which. Fortunately, I found an about:config property to change it:

Visit about:config and update browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 100 or 110, whichever looks better to you.
Maybe math is a tool/framework used by scientists? Physics is another example that is largely math.
I'm on Chrome 90.0.4430.212 on Catalina and I had multiple videos with narration all start on page-open. Had to mute the page because I couldn't figure out which one was talking.
What would be a better term for it? Maybe "the mathematics of computation"?
Your example is bad because clearly Google has no claims on a child. In this context, a Google employee is telling a Google customer that he is not allowed to use a competitor's product. After the customer has explicitly noted the problem.

Now a lot of people have said this poor drone could not possibly understand the situation well enough to not make statements that are flagrantly anti-competitive. Well, that is Google's problem. Both their automated system and their customer service are behaving in a way that hinders competitors. If they don't fix this, they are liable.

And by the looks of it, it has happened before, so there is a pattern.
> it seems to make little difference if this is an "error with their flagging system".

See also the case of Archibald Buttle vs. Archibald Tuttle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
Yes because discussions about safety protocols at laboratories like these aren't worth having or trying to improve.
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This article is toxic and divisive. People interested in delivering engineering outcomes are interested in the outcome not their role in it.

If you don't know enough about the toolchain to contribute meaningfully. Stop and learn about your toolchain. If you can contribute then contribute. If your contributions are rejected then try to understand why. There is probably a good reason.

If you think you can do it better then put your reputation on the line. Pick a fence, call your shot, and make a go of it. If you are delivering better outcomes I promise the vultures will come to you. If you come up short find something shiny and point your finger there.
Originally I used a macro:

// this increments the upper 32 bits (log10 T - 1) when >= T is added

#define K(T) (((sizeof(#T)-1)<<32) - T)

(T is 10,100, etc.)
Software ecosystems with more than 2 platforms that need to be supported by developers just never happen.

Look at the desktop - we have Windows and Mac (and for a while it looked like we'd lose the Mac), Linux is still a desktop also-ran.

Look at the web - it took Microsoft completely neglecting IE for 5 years before there was any momentum at all towards other browsers. And now we're back to web developers mostly neglecting Firefox and praying for the day they can drop Safari support so we're 100% Chrome.
One "killer feature" of blockchain is availability. For example, the bitcoin network has something like 99.99999% uptime since it was invented. I think is was down for something like half a day back in 2009 due to a bug, but since then it's had basically 100% uptime.

Blockchain can be used as a rather expensive and crude database, so one possible application is a key-value database which is guaranteed to always be up.

I suspect that as blockchain technologies improve and better techniques for sharding are developed, this could become quite a common real-world application.

From reading the comments most people here don't have any idea about the research that's currently happening in the blockchain space. They're just making ignorant comments about ponzi schemes and money laundering.

Very exciting research happening in blockchain.
I do not know enough about other countries voting systems to be able to know why they do or do not have more parties.

But I do know the situation in the US, and I have concluded it is not going to change unless we change from first past the post.

I also do not know why anyone unhappy with 2 party situation would be unwelcoming to ranked choice. It can only help.
> easy for the average user

Turns out you are not average user. I am quite sure that Amazon's profit from Sidewalk will shadow losses from you and other leavers by couple magnitudes.
Why we should end the data economy
For detractors...

Social Security in the US is one example. It literally depends on having a larger input base than the output.

The expectation of GDP growth is another, but without population growth, it's unlikely to be realized perpetually. I'm fine with that, but our over-leveraged financial system isn't.
Twitter makes very poor references for fact checks
How does what you describe not apply to non-college towns as well? There are slumlords in large cities too, that corrupt the local politicians too.
Ofcouras not, they will just add it next week and you will have 2 hours to opt out

We need laws against this shit
1) actually-necessary design work on a product is very boom-and-bust.

2) for years now, tech companies have hired enough designers for the boom periods, rather than contracting or just dealing with longer design cycles—I suspect this is Apple's influence leading to much larger design budgets and resultant empire-building.

3) bust-period design work doesn't get one promotions or look as impressive in a portfolio as boom-period design work, so design departments or individuals are heavily incentivized to create artificial "booms" both so they have enough work to do and so that the work is helping everyone advance their career. These align well with product manager career advancement incentives (everyone loves screen shots) so they get green-lit. These are the unnecessary and often ill-advised redesigns that we see so often.
In order to have an opinion, you have to have a value judgement. Value judgements take courage. Value judgements require saying this is more important, these types of users will not be included.
Investigating Node.js Performance: Event Loop and Network I/O
Is there a way to separate UI/UX from functionality/security?
dumb rappers in my home country love this book, and honestly treating this book as a Bible make them look even dumber. Read Kant instead.
They may be, but the WIV wasn't. In the words of Dr. Shi herself:

> We have done bat virus surveillance in Hubei Province for many years, but have not found that bats in Wuhan or even the wider Hubei Province carry any coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. I don't think the spillover from bats to humans occurred in Wuhan or in Hubei Province.

https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Shi%20Zhengli...

The closest animal virus to SARS-CoV-2 was found in nature about 900 miles from Wuhan (RaTG13, in Mojiang), closer to Chongqing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, or HK.
According to this [1] the unemployment rate in LA is 9.9% vs Chicago 7.5% Is that really the difference between a thriving city and an unlivable hellhole?

What I am getting at is trying to figure out which city minimizes the types of "idiots" you are referring to and i'm finding that no city is really like that. Every city has these kinds of problems to some extent as well as positive aspects.

Maybe you just like a smaller city? ~2-3 vs ~12 million is a big difference.

[1]:https://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm
Remote work isn't rising. Soon as COVID blows over everybody will be expected to go back to the office. The class with all the cards in employment -- the business class -- gets too warm and fuzzy from the bustle of a busy office for it to be otherwise.
I am not actually suggesting that one should compare recorded music to live performances for the purpose of comparing audio encoding technologies. Oddly, your reply to bayindirh is in complete agreement with what I wrote here.
If that system is online, then it can be hacked.

Even if the backup system isn't hacked, you can hack the original system in such a way that the pulled snapshots look like they work, but in fact did not work (ex: hack the rsync data requests to be encrypted with the ransomware key).

You gotta stop them from having root access to begin with. Hard in this day of zero-days, but a lot of these ransomware attacks don't seem very hard to pull off these days...
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one caveat is that you need to both enable remote debugging and enable browser chrome debugging toolboxes in the settings. fairly easy to do cmd-option-i then f1 or click the three dots and settings. then under advanced settings there are two checkboxes to check one for remote debugging and the other for browser chrome
I remember when he shut down travel from China... On January 31st. There were ~2k new cases every day, and internal travel was heavily restricted.

Meanwhile, it took until March 11th to ban travel from Europe, which at the time was seeing ~10k new cases a day, with full freedom of movement from affected areas to unaffected ones.

The problem wasn't that he banned travel from China. The problem is that he didn't ban travel from Europe, until it got way worse than China.
Microsoft Teams to Get End-to-End Encryption for Video Calls Soon
The address bar does change. The status of tool bar items can change.
Universal macOS binaries with Go 1.16
I'm not a fan of the new tab appearance, but I think the thought was perhaps that it looks more like a taskbar?
everything in life is temporary. just enjoy the people in the place at the time when they are there
Will robots enable an architectural Renaissance?
> What do Java or C# offer that Typescript cannot offer? Genuine curiosity as I’m not quite sure myself.

A vast ecosystem of battle-tested libraries for one.
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So when I looked at HarmonyOS when it was announced open source it had nothing to do with Android at all. It was much more Fuchsia like. A modern secure microkernel, message passing and it's own javascript engine, very few drivers. Not exciting, just solid. The total opposite to Android or Samsung.

https://gitee.com/openharmony

This could have been the one renamed to openharmony and LiteOS.
Just some keywords as they appear from the first few paragraphs:

“lab leak”

conspiracy theory

conspiracy theory

conspiracy theories

antivaxxer

crackpot

conspiracy theory

antivaxxer

“lab leak”

conspiracy theorists

and so on...

Sounds like conspiracy theory conspiracy theory article.

edit: not sure why downvotes? I don't think you can write a credible article using such language.
The solution at this point is Microsoft Edge. RIP Firefox, 2004-2021. The new UI on desktop AND Android is a total disaster. You won't be missed
Assuming that the backyard is for playing and the front is ornamental, you can keep the backyard as grass and transition the front to plants.
you can also base your solution on hamilton cycles. that also boils down to o(1).
Conor: ...it’s not C, it’s like a macro variant of C, where it’s a CDSL, where 80% of your “library” is macros. I did a search, there’s 10,000 macros in the source code, and those macros are used like functions ... some of the exact same macros that exist in the J code base are exactly what competitive programmers use.

He is, of course, talking about things like this (from the "J incunabulum"):

#define DO(n,x) {I i=0,_n=(n);for(;i<_n;++i){x;}}

Which is actually pretty concise and readable. Sometimes I think it would be nice if enough people could agree on a header library of "concise C" macros that they could become part of the idiom. Or at least a minority dialect instead of an idiolect.
> And the largest piece of hubris and madness in critical systems is allowing over-the-internet updates.

What would you suggest in its place?

You'd need to replace the internet with something - postal mail, Fedex, courier deliveries, etc, or just have things that never get upgraded. Every one of those options has significant limitations, and in many countries, I'd trust SSL over postal mail every single day.

I think if you alter the wording to be "more-secure internet deliveries" then you'll have me agreeing with you, but unless I've missed something, your comment seems poorly aimed (which is odd, as your previous example of the root password is spot-on).
> if you want to live in/near a smallish town/city that isn't on the outskirts of a large city, you may find ones with colleges often better than those without.

Right the tradeoff is how much value your adult personality derives out of the "collegiate" side of the town over the "students" side of the town.
I think it's a bit of a nice improvement, or just different in a way I don't mind. Which is a sentiment that doesn't provoke me to make forceful statements about the change being good or bad.
> What's sad is that the population would understand if you just told them the truth, namely that masks help, but our frontline works desperately need them so getting them masks and PPE is a priority.

Maybe elsewhere, but not in America. This is one of the most selfish/individualist countries on earth.
Not all u2f keys require being touched. That's an optional hardware implementation detail, rather than a mandatory trait across all u2f devices. Yubikey sells keys that are commonly used by plugging them in, leaving them, and never again touching them. This effectively turns the computer itself into the second factor.

Depending on the precise scenario, that may or may not represent an improvement. If the key is used as a second factor to authenticate to the network, then an infected Excel document will trivially ignore the involvement of a Yubikey as it uses the logged-in user's Kerberos ticket to spread.

You're completely right, though. Even this would definitely cut down on phishing attacks that send users to fake websites pretending to be internal systems.
". I usually feel queasy about ratting, for some reason I did not feel a slight bit of dissonance."

I feel it would have been ratting to the original creator to do nothing.
I can't stand this dooms day view. I bet there were children conceived during the siege of Stalingrad, or any other thoughout history.
It's important to know what the risks of gain-of-function research are, independent of whether China or US was ultimately responsible. Deciding what or if something should be studied is decided politically, not a scientifically.

Perhaps this can serve as a wake up call for the scientific community to develop its "metascience" practices.
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Show HN: Is PagerDuty useful with an uptime monitoring service?
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This is how I imagine it should look like: https://i.imgur.com/fXIWUDM.png

/\* Make the tabs not blend into the background \*/
.tabbrowser-tab:not([selected]) .tab-content {
background: #58506040;
border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px !important;
margin-bottom: 4px !important;
margin-top: 4px !important;
}

Setting transparency on the background element doesn't cover up the container color.
Because they retain oversized permanent UX teams with insufficient work to go around. The result is endless user punishment. Mozilla could improve their browser and save money in one simple step
>What dishonest types of businesses are you referring to?

Crazy markups at retail, over charging for services, exploitative labor practices against a labor pool that is mostly ill-informed of their rights. And it all rolls around in a giant cycle that nobody can break out of. This is basically a 1:1 copypasta from a seasonal tourism economy.

The guy who wants to run an honest bookstore on mains street can't afford the rent because the rent reflects the money you'd make importing overpriced clothes branded with the town name. The commercial landlord can't lower the rent because the plumber and electrician know there's big bucks to be made so they charge accordingly. The guy who wants to run a landscaping service has to charge the plumber big bucks to grade his yard and work his employees to the bone because the tire shop charged him $2k to put $500 tires on his skid steer because he's being screwed by his landlord who's being screwed by his plumber.

And this rat race where everything is inflated wears out and runs down the people who want to make an honest living (they tend to get out if they can). And eventually over time the only people left are the ones who drink the kool-aid and the ones who don't see anything wrong with this sort of "screw everyone as hard as you can every time, you win some you lose some but hopefully you win more in the end" behavior that becomes the default in the local economy.

I'm sure (just like tourist towns) some college towns are better and some are worse depending on how much of the local industry money gleaned from the transient population represents.
Does it matter? If remote working is completely viable, I don't see why remote part time formal education wouldn't be. I'm not sure why someone who preferred WFH full time would otherwise decide that in person classes were important.
I don't take issue with people making friends with people they work with. I do the same. I take issue when society or individuals make work their sole social outlet. On the contrary, I think people who make work their social outlet are more likely to be lonely. What happens when your coworkers leave? Or you get a new job? Or you are fired?

Having multiple outlets for socializing, and making work a smaller, secondary one, makes for a much more resilient social life in my opinion. Which is obviously a major part of why some have found the last year of remote work hellish, and others, just fine, or even quite freeing.
Only thing is inactive tabs are blending back into the background. Sometimes it’s hard when you are in dark system theme in Mac.

Also I would also like to know the reason behind on this new tab design. What was it trying to solve that was a problem before ? More of a curious question
Cancelling a workshop for a live site would be an act of aggression and violence. Let the customers wait.
I think 'lab leak' has been 'conspiricised' as 'developed in the lab, possibly as a secret bioweapon, and released accidentally (or not)'

To me, it simply means they had it in the lab (posssibly collected, as you say), and that's where the initial human infection occurred.
Scientists Publish Recipe for Making Bird Flu More Contagious (2014)
That has to do with licensing and copyright. Whether that is good or bad is not really for the university to decide. They have to adhere to the contract.
The IMDb website just changed to look a lot like the mobile app, and I've noticed it's worse in dozens of ways already. Everything takes more clicks than before, and is harder to read. More whitespace, more bloat.
I agree 100%. I'm amazed at the weird stereotypes I hear both here and on Reddit, and not a small amount of hate (or at least snobbish derision). I have a hard time relating what these people believe to the America that I live in.
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You are right that the Fortran community took a long time adopt standards later than F77. Gfortran handles Fortran 90 and 95 well now, and I think F2003 and F2008 (although I don't use too many features from those standards and cannot say for sure from personal experience). I don't remember how mature gfortran was in 2010. Maybe then g95 was more mature.
I wonder if remote works shares similar motivations.
And even on stuff like the 68000 on the Amiga/Atari ST we were using sin/cos tables for lookups were way faster than doing multiplication/divisions if I recall correctly. I have fond memories of tools allowing to create these tables for "sprites" movements (in either demos or games) but forgot how these little tools were called: maybe "table editor"?
> I hate to be "that person"

Please be that person. Stereotypes need to be challenged.
I am from South Africa and can say that 43% is conservative.
The official figure for youth unemployment is 75%
Situation is quite dire and caused by failed political ideology similar to the failed state of Zimbabwe.
The domain name looks legit /s
I lost faith in myself, not a problem
Mr. Life blew out that tiny glimmer of hope in your little heart (that’s his hobby), and now you have no idea what to do?
no. there is a big difference between having support and having someone that is passionate about something helping you out.
support should be there and should be available from
the simplest issues to the most complicated things about A PRODUCT.
you will not get much traction if you ask the same things to the people expert person on a mailing list.
> living in the dry western U.S., it's not that great

Over the last four or five years, my wife & I have killed 75% of our 1 acre Eastern US lawn and replaced it with native trees and plants. I have lovely grasses and flowers (asters, Susans, coneflowers and phlox) in the front, native trees and undergrowth towards the back, and a quarter acre or so of plain old lawn which we're planning to introduce clover into.

We've got trees coming in nicely and starting to give shade, butterflies fluttering around the flowers, a vegetable garden in the corner, and 75% less lawn to worry about mowing. I wouldn't give it up for anything.
Yes, I frequently don't use any operating system and write bare metal C code, usually for Zynq (normally RFSoC or MPSoC class) FPGAs, although I also frequently use a Microblaze soft processor with it's entire memory in BRAM when doing initial system bring up (say for a new board).

Lots of people in here don't know what "Bare metal" means. There's no operating system - at all. Anything else is not bare metal.

To go further: Sometimes (if you're bringing up a new processor design) you don't even get cstdlib - you have to write it (or the processor's architecture won't even support C!). "Bare metal" means exactly that - it isn't the same as "no virtualization"... at all.
I'm in the middle ground. When I first heard the complaints, I thought I was going to hate it.

After using it, I simply don't care. It's fine either way to me.
That's fine, except it goes back to the original point that you are essentially forcing a culture of in-person work unnecessarily on everyone, because a portion of people are either too lazy or otherwise incapable of socializing with anyone outside of work.
I like to bash Mozillas new direction, and I was fully prepared to jump on the UI refresh hate bandwagon.

But I don't know why I hardly noticed a difference. I mean sure it does look like a button, and I don't really get the point of it, but the thing I was worried about was the increased screen estate. Maybe it's because of my gtk theme, maybe it's related to fixes in hidpi UI scaling, but it actually seems to use less screen estate to me.

Am I crazy? Or are there other people that feel like its using less screen estate?
A friend is a faculty and says the institution online access to books and articles often does not work. Login issues, VPN issues, cookie issues if you started the VPN after trying to access the paywalled paper (might work in incognito mode but not in normal windows), and so on. Thankfully sci-hub and libgen are easier to get the information quickly.
The place for opinion in your product is in its configuration. Applications need to be flexible, otherwise they are useless to anyone who doesn't share your opinion.

Opinions are like estimates. The only things we can be sure of is that they are not exactly right and will likely drift over time.

Similar to a shortcut, opinions can be useful - but should not be a limiting factor.
Not necessarily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

Doesn't help that node really is a shitshow.
There is a black market for labor.
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At what point will he face legal issues with his pump and dumping of crypto via Twitter?

Isn't that one of the charges John McAfee is facing? Pumping crypto in Twitter.
for some folks systemd is also 5th wheel in the cart