skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, I believe (haven't actually looked closely at it, just based on other stuff I've done with redis module interface) that they occur in the single process, just via event driven architecture so the process doesn't block on them.
It's not spying, it's a mutual agreement, you deliberately accepted the terms and installed the app yourself.
The css sheet for HN looks like

body { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:10pt; color:#828282; }

it declares specific fonts the way most sites do.

Is there some way to "respect browser's font preferences?" and also choose a font?

Also when I pick out fonts I notice that the metrics of two font that claim to be the same size can be very different. That is, changing the font can really "blow the layout" and make text appear on top of other text, not fit in boxes. I guess the Linux desktop is that way but that's why next year is sometimes the year of Linux desktop and never this year.
Is it a strategy if it's inevitable?

I have almost no understanding of anything. Everyday I use technology that just works. What happens in the background, I'll never know. I interact with complex social systems without knowing what makes them work or how my interactions affect me and any of these systems.

All of this works, because I build simple heuristics on everything I interact with. Mostly, these heuristics are called expectations. I expect something to happen, because I don't know with certainty that it will.

"I know that I don't know".
That is definitely not the case. Compiling C with LLVM is very fast.

In Swift, type inference is one thing that can be extremely slow.
For native Android apps there is a framework to do GUI tests. The test code stayed in your release as a NOOP last time i looked at it, may be fixed now.
A great example of hearing Vaporwave "in action" is when it's played in Dan Bell's Dead Mall YouTube series.
Forgive me, because I’m not an expert in ML. If this is an easy problem to solve why is it still a problem years after it’s so widespread that msm both knows about it and have written continual investigative journalism about it? It’s clearly not cutting edge anymore once it gets to that point and yet it’s still a problem. Why?
Converting Word documents to HTML and fixing layout and formatting issues afterwards is a huge pain of mine. I usually end up pasting content from Word (or more recently, from LibreOffice Writer) to CKEditor, cleaning extra formatting, like fonts and only then moving content to CMS.
This is an unnecessarily antagonistic rant, which boils down to “I know git from scratch, I’m so smart, why isn’t everyone else doing this”.

Git is a very complicated, bloated command line. Frankly, most of the day-to-day can easily be done with a high level understanding and a GUI. There is no shame in not knowing the minutiae of git.

The goal of being a programmer is to produce cool things, not to duel with your tooling.
This "women are so angry" stuff is just a damaging, sexist stereotype. Men are far more aggressive than women, and nobody's calling them "angry" as a result. What an awful, clickbait article.
Classic MacOS had also ExperLisp, Procycon Common Lisp, MacScheme plus two embedded Lisp Machines as NuBUS boards: TI MicroExplorer and the Symbolics MacIvory.
I never disagreed with this. My point is, performing a return is a strong signal of dislike. Box stores hate returns as do online sellers. Failing anything else (because face it, ranting about it on the internet and pointing out the moral failures of a business model is not doing it) returning it is the best you can do.
I just totally disagree. Swift might look a bit more like C#, but in terms of features it's way more similar to Rust for all the ADT-related features mentioned in the grandparent comment.

Also, regarding memory safety, it's not as safe as Rust - it's basically only memory-safe in the single-threaded context, but it's still relatively safe compared to other languages.

I don't really find it easier to crash than Rust - thanks to optionals you get the same guarantees against NPE's. You can choose not to take advantage of it, but you can also force-unwrap in Rust if you want.
True in recent history, but not always. For 200k years, humans lived the same exact life as their parents.
They mention docx so I guess it takes the file as input (as opposed to clipboard contents for web JS editors).
Isn't the statement a bit obvious? Most of the tech companies out there were not born to make an impact on society, they were born to make money (which is totally fine). Only a handful of companies can be proud of making money while actually having an impact (good or bad) on society (e.g., Apple). Most of us (us != HN crowd) work for companies in the first group.

On the other hand, the vast majority of side projects have a very different: to have fun and/or being useful. Things that are useful usually make an impact on the society.
I would say Chillwave peaked around 2009. I was at uni when I was listening to it and I feel to old to "get into" it now.
He mentions he got girls to do his homework for him. When half the population wants to see you succeed you’re going to have an easy time.
For me I’ve used visual git tools in the past and it ends up doing something unintended/unexpected. So now I only use the terminal commands. Perhaps the old git tools I’ve used have improved significantly though.
I completely agree. It always baffles me how something so simple (yes, simple!) as version control can end up as the abomination that is git. After controlling for popularity, you don’t see nearly as much posts explaining subversion in detail, and subversion being centralized is neither the only nor the biggest reason for that.
It's memory-safe in a single-threaded context. The actor model would theoretically bring multi-threaded memory safety (with a different set of tradeoffs than Rust).
Postal was published after the Columbine shooting and did well enough to warrant a sequel. I can't imagine a less justifiable premise.

The United States has large numbers of contrarians and free speech supporters - they even enjoy constitutional protections. Neither the free market nor the state obstructed Postal's success.
Sultan Çayipp (google Erdogan Çay fires) has been investing all of the nation’s wealth into weapons research and construction.

Why? Kickbacks. Bro has his own Airbus A380, a 1,000 bedroom palace, and a suspicious amount of money for a third string middle class football player who has been a civil servant for 35 years.

I question that his son in law is the wünderkind people thinm he is. Çaydoğan’ own idiot son Bilal was supposedly a high performer at Berkeley but not a single person remembers him even attending the school.

Robert’s College, Bogacizi, itu, Galatasaray uni & lisesi.. pretty much every reputable turkish school, all 5 of them, can be bought.

There is a saying in Turkiye which translates roughly to, “explain it as if you are explaining it to Bulal”

With Jeffrey Epstein, MIT has shown to be corrupt and buyable.

Teadoğan’s son in law is the neo ottoman version of jared kushner and nothing more.
I prefer to rebase on the terminal also, but I reference Sourcetree when doing it.
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Due to Solar, some hours of the day have negative energy prices. Your profit potential is infinite if you can charge from 11am - 5pm and then release it all from 7pm-midnight.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341393321/figure/fi...

What we should be doing though is building this smart charging and dispatch functionality into cars, so that we don't make our existing electricity peaks even peakier when people get home from work and immediately plug in and charge their EVs.

Ideally people would charge their cars at work, during the day. I guess we need to lean on employers with huge parking lots to provide EV charging.
maybe they could bomb them
It is to track people printing fake currency.
Forgive me because I myself do not have a PhD in ML, but if this is hard (making a non-racist system) why are there not serious guardrails you prevent releasing racist systems to the public?
That's what did it for me. I was already a bit sour with the amount of ads in the NFL, but when it became political on the field, that was enough.

Agree or disagree with the position, but I watch sports to take a break from reality.
Probably you watched more political content to the left of your own views. You might like it more, or they may trigger you more, or cause more morbid curiosity.

It's the same for me just because content to the left of my views causes my curiosity while content to the right of my views repulses me quickly with its stupidity.
Absolutely sickening groveling. American companies need to uphold American values. Global capitalism lets them cater to the worst actors.
So how does this compare to Espruino exactly -- which uses between 100K to 200K depending on which features you compile it with, has an excellent ecosystem, drivers for most hardware and acts alot like Node.
Isn't IQ normal distributed? Average and median are the same in a normal distribution.
All visual git tools I've used suck and wound up eventually corrupting the repo. Also I've noticed that all of my colleagues who learned git using these visual tools didn't actually learn git, and have no idea how to anything other than add/commit/push.

I say "just rebase your branch" and I can see the panic grow in their eyes.
You make it sound like you don't think people (or corporations) should be able to own property.

I hate to burst your bubble, but someone is going to own the property. And if you insist on it being the government, you are going to severely disappointed by what happens next.
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Yes Australians in general are quite accepting of authority. America fought a war of independence to be free of the British Monarchy. We got offered a vote to leave the monarchy and be a republic and we voted no. There is no bill of rights or anything in Australia, most of our freedoms are largely implied and the government can pretty much prevent us from doing whatever it wants whenever it likes and does so frequently.

For example, the government has essentially banned us all from leaving the country for the past almost two years due to the pandemic and despite some grumbling we mostly just accept it and in fact many people are quite supportive of the lockdowns as although it keeps us in, more importantly it keeps everyone else 'out'. As long as we feel comfortable and safe in our homes we seem to have been fairly happy to accept whatever restrictions the government imposes on us.

Perhaps ironically one of the reason for this is that we largely haven't had much of a diverse media to push back on this, the Murdoch press has a very large influence on the governments that get in and what they do. Any government that doesn't align with the Murdoch press isn't going to get very much done at all and one that does will get most anything it want through with at the least minimal opposition if not wholesale support.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I've got about 10 years experience using git via CLI and whenever a noob does something weird and he's using an IDE I'm like... Sorry I have zero idea what this is trying to do and cannot help you
I'm fairly critical of the efficacy of boycotts but your anger at your friend seems motivated by a desire to rationalize your own complacency.

We live in a society that is built on a fundamentally unjust framework. It's practically impossible to avoid being tied to exploitative supply chains short of living off the grid and hand making all your own clothes and farming your own produce - and even then you will need to effectively pay tribute to your local municipality or risk falling victim to state violence.

However, incomplete abstinence is better than no abstinence. Every product you refuse to buy is another dollar that these greedy amoral profiteers are deprived from. I think that counts for something, even if it is not a complete solution.

As for media specifically, piracy is still a thing. Just saying ;)
Yeah, it's almost as old as computing - likely 60-70 years old. The thing about it is we had the blueprints for a lot of stuff like neural networks almost at the dawn of computing, but it took almost half a century for us to even begin to try out some of the ideas, because the computing hardware wasn't even close - it would have been like trying to build a CPU out of vacuum tubes.

Once we finally had the tools to even start trying, in the late 80s/early 90s, it took us a very long time to "calibrate" these general ideas and figure out the "devils in the details" that were necessary to make certain ideas viable (for example, neural networks were discarded as a dead end in the 80s, and only considerably later were we able to discover that multi-layer networks essentially "salvaged" the idea).

Machine learning without the era of "modern computers" was a bit like flight before we'd really mastered the internal combustion engine - we understood quite a bit about it, and had theories about a lot of stuff (like the basic shape of a wing), and could successfully build gliders and such. Contrary to a lot of propaganda, the Wright Brothers didn't just arrive in the world like "lightning from a clear sky", but ... it had to become practical to do for us to then move on to putting the ideas through the paces, and all of the established theory from beforehand ran into the usual treatment of "no plan of battle survives contact with the enemy".
There a funny short story I read in H.S. - The Verger by Somerset Maugham - about a guy who's in a position not unlike this. He's illiterate but competent. He doesn't bother to hide it though and is fired from is job as a verger because of that. It's a short read as I remember so I won't ruin the end but the punch line really stuck with me for some reason.
It’s a hard knock life, yo.
These new commands make a lot more sense, but the weird thing is they don’t bring anything else to the table.
They behave exactly like the existing ones, so much that anyone that really cared could have just aliased them.

So is there any incentive to switch for the people who went through the trauma of burning the old ones in their soul ? (I often heard that knowing how it works internally makes git commands feel natural. I was lied to)
This is hardly the fault of global capitalism, given that China is a communist country, that western culture is also quite clear that corporations may not fight back against abuses of government power. We expect companies to kneel before our own governments, we cannot therefore be upset when they kneel for all governments.
My general approach for learning human languages, and for programming, is to start practicing as soon and as often as possible. You can spend years reading about stuff, but it's actually putting what you know into practice where real learning happens. I like the phrase, "Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly."

It's not much of a "process" but it really works. In terms of more methodical things I do: checklists in markdown to keep track of practical steps I want to take, and spaced repitition flashcards with Anki for anything I need to memorize.

Beyond that, lots of coffee, physical activity and sleep to boost my performance and motivation.
Great reason? To steal wealth from California and give it to trailer trash in kentuckah?
But how do the first researcher choose the approach "with the highest probability of working"? Since the research hasn't been conducted yet they can only use their own previous experience, also known as bias. Judging by the results the approaches to cure cancer that were pursued first haven't been very effective.
If tiktok was about ease of use they would give you a way to go to next movie of the same author that you are currently watching on "for you page".
16 years ago, there were news stories about how Hurricane Katrina had erased New Orleans from the Earth and killed unknowable, but surely large, numbers of people while doing it.

They still had Mardi Gras next year, and the year after, and so on.

I suspect that you may have heard some exaggerations here, too.
Yes they fluctuate enough that you can make a profit even with a "20% loss". Here [1] you can see today's prices on the electricity spot market for Europe (Changing the date does not work in my browser though)

Another way to say this is that there is a real economical value for storage because of the increase in renewables

[1] https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-donnees-de-marche
No, it's heavier than air.
Because we’re too busy running the internet and carrying you looters. We should shrug and let the rest of the useless states of amurrikkka fall down.
Carbon dioxide is heavier than air and concentrates e.g. on floors of caves, where it is deadly for smaller animals.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cave-of-dogs
>Where is the code?

Look under the section Code availability.
Capitalists are so fragile and insecure.
Just filter out results using uBlock Origin like this:

google.*##.g:has(a[href*="example.com"])
Author makes some interesting parallels to infernal combustion engines not being possible without machine tools.

The Antikythera mechanism was built 1800 years before the first metal lathe. It is a fantastically sophisticated[1] clockwork with dozens of gears, concentric shafts, and brilliant, practiced fabrication. It is not a unique device. It was built by someone who knew what they were doing and had made this thing many times. It is obvious in the same way that you can tell when code was written from the start knowing how the finished product would look.

The device displays the relative positions of stars and planets from their underlying orbits, and was built with bronze hammers and some small fragments of steel. All that to say, you can do incredible things with practice, care, and tools that are thousands of years too primitive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AntikytheraMechanismSchem...
> Quite a bit. I’d suggest again to check it out.

What a useless response. Suggest instead how to check it out! What books should be looked up or terms googled?
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Please enlighten us, what parts of the drone are Turkish
https://tekdeeps.com/armenia-fixes-the-turkish-uavs-bayrakta...

"Thanks to the rise of anti-immigration sentiment and xenophobia in the west"

How about Turkish Xeonophobia?
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1623171/middle-east

"Because of the lira going down to the drain"

Poverty in Turkey
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/official-data-l....

Erdo had a run during his first two terms. Economic growth was tremendous. But he should have retired then. Trying to build a new ottoman empire, rejecting democracy and changing what made Turkey more successful than most Arabic countries - the strict separation of religion and state -, will end badly.
> there are no clear ways to avoid these threats other than by taking a few extra seconds to inspect the URL as it appears in the address bar

I can think of at least one mitigation: have the browser display some kind of prominent indicator or even a warning whenever the URL includes a punycode domain.
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> Sometimes I wonder whether it'd be possible to earn a living off mammoth. Although there's an option to donate - I currently get a grand total of £1.15 a week from regular donations - it's not something I push very hard.

There's no shame in making the source available but using a license that requires payment for commercial use, like the Prosperity [1] license.

[1]: https://prosperitylicense.com/
It’s crazy how much time little scripts can save.

10 years ago at my current job I created a script to automate the job of checking a certain website for new data each day. It used to be done by a person who would spend maybe 20-30 minutes checking the site and circulating the info each day. Others would also check the site on their own periodically for faster updates.

The script just checks the site multiple times a day and circulates the results.

Over the course of 10 years, I’d guess that my little script I wrote in maybe 5-10 hours (including some tweaks over time as the site format changed) probably saved in the ballpark of half a million dollars in time spent, based on billing rates.
I believe this is the major problem. During all times, humanity spends most of it resources to make more of the same. Does this world really need another social network? More movies? Games? Novels? Fashion? More e-commerce that is reselling existing products in new design?

All of this work doesn't change a single thing. It's more of the same. Tomorrow, it'll be replaced by more of the same. Maybe it'll not be replaced, just added to a growing pile of more of the same.

The space industry has a shot at changing humanities future. So does the aging industry, prosthetics, robotics, ai, fusion and others. It might not work out, but if it does, it'll change something.
It parses a Dockerfile (or queries dependencies in a tool like bazel) to get a list of file dependencies and then kicks off an optimized rebuild and redeploy. If you're using buildkit and caches this can be done really quickly (close to native compile without a Docker image)

You can tell it to just sync certain changes (e.g. syncing a javascript file to a container running webpack).
What is the "revolutionary battery checklist" meme comment?
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In Firefox, it used to show the punycode when clicked on the lock icon. Now I just checked one such domain(https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/) and it didn't show the punycode until I clicked the lock icon > Connection Secure > More Information > View certificate button. I didn't know that the behavior was changed... I would have clicked the lock icon, saw `www.аррӏе.com` and would have believed I was visiting apple.com. I think it should not take more than one click to see the punycode, let alone a couple of clicks and opening a new dialog box.
Because the lack of options was the problem /s
> now-days every dev wants to push for Lambda / Kinesis / SQS and other tech architectures that mainly look cool on their CVs and add nothing to the product

Is there a way we can push back against this? I feel like the battle has been lost and it's not just devs being guilty of this, it's entire companies.

For a lot of startups it seems that solving the business problem is now secondary to engineering itself, aka how many microservices and moving parts they can cram into their stack so they can then give talks about it and write on their tech blog.

I've lost business in the past because a client wanted to build a prototype with Lambda and similar. They were either severely misguided, or their main objective wasn't to build a successful product but merely present themselves as the next hyperscaler due to the complexity of their tech stack (all to serve a whopping 2 HTTP requests/second, if even).
> Sure you can, skills based immigration. Poach from other countries.

there's no guarantee people will come to your country.

for example: would you go to work on the Iranian nuclear project?

Could you even go?

Would your country let you do that?

You keep counting on the fact that people will come to you instead of everywhere else, like it's the 70s.

But more importantly, the conversation is specifically about the hard stop on immigration that Brexit created.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Market can't fix stupidity.

I think it's time some nations, like UK, begin thinking about restructuring their society to adjust to the fact that their relevance has plumbed and will keep going down for the next decade.
Dad and his 2 young sons try to become tech entrepreneurs
Arguably there is some semantic overlap between restore and reset.
This was always the fear when product activation was first introduced. And rightfully so, we are now living in that future.
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Surprised Kodak hasn’t gone out of business yet. Spineless.