skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The past few years I've been saying "Safari is the new IE" in terms of web development. I can't tell you how many bugs I've had to fix because Safari was doing something weird with JS/CSS.

IE11 is going EOL "soon" and at that point Safari is really going to be the odd one out. Chromium and Firefox are at least _mostly_ consistent with each other, save for when Chromium adds some crazy new feature that's nonstandard (but at that point only niche websites are usually using the new feature).
Agreed. What I called a straw man in the OP could also be characterized as a simplification to get his point across to lay-audiences. (Personally I dont agree with the simplification, per my other post). It's meant for popular audiences (as someone else points out, this is from a sci-fi magazine)
They normally ship in heavy plastic bags. There is a little water vapor transmission, but not enough to seriously degrade the Ammonium Nitrate - except for tears/punctures etc.
One press release commented about damaged cargo. My guess is the local terrorists used it as an explosives bank. Being a customs port, it should all the watched/counted, but beirut is one of the most corrupt countries on earth = easy to steal/import anything. Now you know how Hezbollah gats their stuff, as I am sure Israel knows and monitors well.
I have seen Safari bugs that could not be reproduced in Epiphany
One of the remits of the FBI is to protect the US from terrorist attacks. And as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombings were fertilizer-based this likely would have fallen into their purview. The CIA is supposed to be concerned only with intelligence-gathering. The FBI has offices around the world. See:

https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/internati...
No, Theranos's entire purpose was to attract huge amounts of investment. Renewology is filing for $250,000 grants and has garbage piled up behind an empty warehouse. Renewology is one of many excuses propped up by the oil industry as a reason for us to continue to produce disposable plastic (or to produce even more disposable plastic.)
The CIA doesn’t really do these kinds of investigations. To be honest I would’ve expected ATF (they specialize in investigating explosions in the US) to have been the US agency lending technical assistance.
It's astonishing to me that any large scale population study can ever prove anything, given how incredibly complex and unique peoples' lives are, and how many confounding factors may play a part at some point in those lives over many years.
People need work to keep them occupied. It's built in to our psychology by evolution. We know that idle people cause most of the problems in society. So I do think there is a need for everyone to work to make the whole thing "go", if by "go" you mean have a peaceful, civilized way of living.
>It is.. it speaks to wages not raising enough to meet the demand.

That doesn't really cover the current situation. In the US 7 million or so fewer people are employed than pre-covid. Wages haven't gone down so they can't explain the change.

Something else has changed for these 7 million people.
Wouldn't such a model limit the user to just one device? Usually there's no sync of localStorage across devices.
> Cost savings are reflected once in my bottom line

Recurring costs and savings of the same are very real things, and there is a ton of money to be saved by streamlining this for many businesses that have grown without pruning and/or streamlining their internal systems.

For most software businesses, it is more lucrative to spend resources increasing revenue, but at some point decreasing costs becomes worth it. For non-software businesses, the “some point” is usually right now.
Does Apple still require using Safari as the engine for all browsers on iPhone or has that changed?
Another solution is for the healthy population to just get the illness, get better, and build herd immunity.
All those new and used cars are now PPE bubbles and added freedom for people that previously took the bus or carpooled. If they make work at the office mandatory now we're going to see even worse than pre-pandemic commutes.
If you're intrigued by the possibilities they're explored in Harvard professor George M Church's wonderful book Regenesis

https://www.harvard.com/book/regenesis_how_synthetic_biology...
I believe Chrome also has better support for new technologies/APIs thus the reason firefox doesn't work that well. But as others said that's not always the case.
My personal favorite, it complains when it can't update itself on my Debian workstation and tries to get me to re-install it from the web, on every launch. Yes, I know google, it is intentional. That is why I installed it from the repos.
Ask HN: What’s your side project? Revenue/month greater than $0
What they do is give middle management something to do.

Often questionably necessary, middle management has a hard time doing something when engineers understand the product and upper management has the right balance of setting direction and entrusting decisions to the makers. So they start asking the engineers to do things and get upper management on the train of wanting reporting. Doing that with pen-and-paper engineering and people with context is HARD... so all of these tools exist to make this middle layer of doing work better.

And arguably unnecessary people earn a lot of money by convincing themselves and others that they are necessary, so companies get to be organized to have these high overhead tools to support this high overhead style of organization.

Now to be honest some level of organization is necessary, and becomes necessary as the enterprise and product grows in complexity, but very very few people work long enough or with a diverse enough set of organizations to be able to see what is necessary and when and what is not.

If you hire people and put them in a position and tell them they have to work a certain number of hours they will find or create work to do. Oftentimes this work is not better than doing nothing but the WASP work-ethic and general cultural norms really can't handle the idea that smart, important, useful people can provide the most value sometimes by not doing anything until they are needed.
Yeah I agree with you not everyone can afford it, but lots of young people build $1800 gaming PCs. If you want a powerful Linux workstation desktop PC for fun projects like this you can get a Dell t5610 with two 8 core xeons and 128GB of ram on eBay for $650, then add your own $100 SSD.

I would not recommend running out and buying a new current gen Ryzen board+cpu or core i7-whatever and 128GB of new ram at ddr4-4200 prices.
We have no shortage of space for landfills. As the OP mentioned, we manage or garbage well in North America and most of it is disposed properly. I would argue the opposite of you, the energy consumption of production and shipping is more important than if it's biodegradable quickly or not.
Pilot reports 'possible jet pack man' near Los Angeles
If you suspect the issue is with Firefox, you can open an issue with the profiling data attached, Firefox devs know how to interpret the data.
> It’s really no different that buying stocks on an exchange.

I think it’s a little bit different depending on the style of investing. For Buffett-style value investing he’s making a bet on the profitability of the company itself and not the future price of the stock (obviously meme stocks work differently).

Bitcoins don’t generate profits (by themselves) so their utility depends more on the future market price (which of course isn’t driven by profits either).

The traditional investment it seems most similar to is gold, which has value because the supply is limited, it’s relatively easy to store/transport compared to bulkier materials, and there’s lots of liquidity due to others using it for the same purpose. Bitcoin seems to have the same sort of advantages (minus the industrial / jewelry applications, but it’s even easier to store and transact).
And Egypt was a "protectorate" and Sudan and Vanuatu were "condominia", let's get real here.
https://trimread.org/articles/44
> It’s really no different that buying stocks on an exchange.

Actually, the difference is quite substantial. Stocks are fractional ownership of businesses and businesses create value by transforming inputs into an output that is worth more than the inputs combined. In comparison, bitcoin is a virtual commodity, and commodities (virtual or otherwise) don't produce anything, this is why they're sometimes called non-productive assets. This means bitcoin cannot create wealth. If somebody get rich by investing in bitcoin it must be always at the expense of other bitcoin investors.
that consumers get things for slightly cheaper seems like a side-effect. The winners would be the owners of the vessel who have done the X vs Y math, and enjoy the extra money from having done so.
There is not much substance to this statement except a lost of affected branches. What’s the point?
How much woke virtue signaling can one take? Even Bill Maher agrees.
This is so painfully true. I've tried to submit two articles so far to AfC (articles for creation) and both were rejected. It's puzzling to me because I often see extremely low quality articles (with just one sentence, for example), published onto mainspace.
This NYT article [1] has some quotes from Sen. Duckworth that outlines the problem as she sees it.

One in particular: "People don’t even know that we are deporting veterans. I think most Americans assume that when somebody serves, they gain American citizenship. They don’t realize that we are actually deporting people who served honorably."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/veterans-depo...
> Honestly erlang isn't really preemptive either, it just has a lot of hidden yield points.

At some level this is true of all systems - you can't yield in the middle of a `mov`, for example. But as Erlang is interpreted it doesn't rely on yield points. The caveat is that it does if you use CFFI.

> You can use ets tables to coordinate processes (but don't).

Yeah I'm sure there are endless ways to bypass the intended use of Erlang, I don't think it's really important. This is way different from Go where data is trivially shared across a channel.

> The raison d'etre of erlang processes is not really message passing concurrency, it's failure domain definition and failure domain bundling

Yes, this is true. The foundation of Erlang is based on earlier research that Armstrong cites in his thesis paper, such as the persistent process and transaction as the basis of system resiliency. But it's not a coincidence he landed on actors to express those things.
Especially with the prevalence of sites that "work" in browser but really expect you to download yet-another-Electron-app (i.e. Slack)

Develop for Chrome first, all other browsers second. Why worry if other browsers don't work when the solution is "download our desktop Electron application :)"
Float the glass on molten metal?
I completely agree. The Olympic Games are a huge waste. The stadiums built in Rio for the 2016 games are standing there unused and unmanaged and slowly degrading. I think that it was a shame that Rio was chosen to host the Olympic games. Their country should have spent the money on the nearly 50 million people in poverty in Brazil. (source: https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/more-tha...)
Bad bosses, unstable schedules / hours, not a career. Probably doesn't have "benefits", which everyone should have for a level playing field (so medicare for all, get value for our taxes).

Also, have you seen inflation lately?
https://trimread.org/articles/45
A few days ago there was an article on HN tiled Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds. https://sciencex.com/news/2021-07-electromagnetism-property-.... The HN comments are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27942970#27944642

It'd be heresy to question Maxwell's equations without good reason and I'm not going to do that. (By that I mean classical EM—both Maxwell's own eqns and Heaviside's cleanup thereof as well as their SR extensions.) However, it's always worried me that these days we principally view them from the perspective of SR (Special Relativity). Perhaps if we want to push the physics further then eventually we should shift and only view them in the purest sense—i.e. from the perspective of GR/General Relativity. (No doubt, that would pose some significant problems, for starters more people would need to get their heads better attuned to GR.)

That then brings us back to this quote from Einstein "According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there would be no propagation of light".

This conflicts directly with his (the commonly understood) view of SR which is that the æther is unnecessary for EM (he says so in the opening statements of his 1905 paper)! I've not thought through what that means in any detailed way in the context of how Weber electrodynamics would fit with GR (or even a modified GR), as GR's field equations tend to fry my brain somewhat, but clearly (as the article says) we need to eventually resolve the matter. No doubt, this would also mean tidying up QED (by having a better underlying understanding of it in addition to its remarkable ability to solve problems).

I won't expand on this here just yet as I realize how 'untidy' my post was to that earlier story so I'll add some additional comments there which will expand upon why I'm uneasy with the dichotomy. Incidentally, I've thought for some while that that earlier story (and Einstein's GR comment) is on the right track but it's never had much mainstream traction as this Quora article suggests:

https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-According-to-the-general...

With this in mind I would be interested to hear what others think about whether Weber electrodynamics may provide a better (or additional) understanding than we have now if both it and GR were to be eventually mated in some way.
Yup that's the other approach;) Can achieve impact in another way too (e.g. Hugh Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZSJKbzyMc)

But then it gets harder/costlier to access opporunities, facilities (eg health care) and infrastructures, as well as social and monetray capitals and (economical and politcal) power.
I find a to-do is mostly useful for just tracking all the things that pop into my head
Care to share where you were when your mic was cut and what your questions were?
It's neat, but I don't believe it is a compliant implementation of HTTP/1.1 (or 1.0). For example, it does not handle percent-encoded characters in the request URI.[1][2]

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.1.1

[2]: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Request-URI
This is the same in case of an official build: if some attacker was able to modify what happens in a build that makes it to production, I need logs to build an understanding and explain to auditor/governments exactly what happened, what the effect was, and how I’ll mitigate it.

Since all logs should be immediately persisted off box, they are protected from tampering.

Of course there’s no reason the default view of logs in the CI/CD system needs to be so verbose.
Perhaps being so fixated on productivity is not healthy. The whole concept was really only introduced to society along with mass industrialization. It seems that for most of history in most of the world most humans have spent a lot of their timing just sitting around, hanging out. I'd guess we're designed to do a certain amount of that each day.
Photoshop isn't a great example, but my point was to reference large software packages that are naturally so complex as to require far more resources than a small company can muster. I can think of at least a dozen major packages that are made by a very large company or major open source project because that's how much labor it requires for the features people expect, and people by-and-large are not clamoring for feature or complexity reduction across the industry.

Sure, less comprehensive games than the most extensive MMOs exist. You could use a stripped down browser that doesn't implement every feature, too. <my question was, could a team of 10 people make games as extensive as the most extensive games like GTA5 or TESO from their own labor? That isn't possible nor would I expect it. I don't expect a small open source project to release something as polished as iOS next year, either. Given the potential security issues of any network software, I also don't want to use a browser made by a small team.
Poor video playback in one browser might mean that it's not configured to use the hardware decoder. I think performance there should be basically the same for video playback if they're configured the same way.
Password Strength Estimation Library
Unfortunately it’s pretty clear from the article that Cory does not have much familiarity with the research going on in the field of machine learning, and is creating a straw man. Quite a lot of work is being done on causal inference, out-of-distribution generalization, fairness, etc. Just because that is not the focus of the big sexy AI posts from Google et al does not mean that the work isn’t being done. I’d also point out that humans can infer causality for simple systems, but for any sufficiently complex system we also can’t reason causally. But that does not mean we can’t infer useful properties and make informed, reasonable decisions.

I’d also point out that not all models are “theory-free”, as he describes it. I specifically do work in areas where we combine “theory” and machine learning, and it works very well.

And finally, his point about comprehension does not really fly for me. There is no magical comprehension circuit in our brain. It’s all done via biological processes we can study and emulate. Will that end up being a scaled up version of current neural nets? Will it need to arise from embodied cognition in robots? Will it be something else? I don’t know, but it’s certainly not magic, and we’ll get there eventually. Whether that’s 10 years or 1000, who knows.

Are current paradigms going to lead to AGI? Frankly, I’d just be guessing if I even tried to answer that. My gut instinct is no, but again, that’s just a guess. Can current methods evolve into better constrained systems with more generalizable results and measurable fairness? Absolutely.
"By 2025, the ocean will contain around one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish. By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish"

It washes up on beaches. Uninhabited islands thousands of miles from the nearest settlement are covered in plastic:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/henderson...
In my LaTeX book, I have an appendix dedicated to offering up explanations of what’s really wrong for every error message. It’s kind of fun doing everything wrong n LaTeX to get at all these.
So like the CIA agent would be posing as an FBI agent though right?
"Essential workers" weren't treated well during the pandemic, even now with arguments about masks it's pretty much awful. Consider also how many were laid off initially (showing how their job sees them as disposable on top of that) and combine that with how they were barely scraping by before but now inflation of essentials like food have gone up to the point that it wouldn't scrape by as easily anymore and most aren't willing to put up with it for a pittance anymore.

I actually think the bigger picture is that with schools/daycare/camps closed there is no affordable way for kids to be watched while at work which has caused multi income families to go back to single income families and in many cases this causes them to have more money than they would have with daycare, especially if they are utilizing unemployment benefits in place of one of those multi incomes. I'm not sure how this is working with single parents but my guess would be that a lot of them moved back with parents when they got laid off at first, thus also causing an imbalance.

It's also worth mentioning that a lot of people died from covid and if you look at it outside of political leanings a lot of those who didn't get vaccinated are the less educated and less wealthy, so I'm sure that's at least a part of what's going on.
Fire the CEO, start paying open source developers for quality pull requests. Maybe in another dimension...
Olympics has huge sponsors too
I think the intent of that comment was to say that almost-full-featured browsers like safari are currently adequate to browse the vast majority of websites. Personally, the only time I run into sites where some feature is Chrome-only is tech demo type pages I find on HN.
Let Your Flowers Bloom
At least you do have a home with garage. I still rent, and being a dad, like you, I have literally no time at all. So you are in much better position than others, maybe that helps you a bit :)

I know you probably don't look for advice but the easiest thing you can do if you have a few weeks left is to browse on LinkedIn and connect with recruiters who hire for positions you are interested in. I love coding in python, two years ago I decided I need to connect with one recruiter a day who advertises interesting job offers. Now I have plenty job offers every week without posting my profile as actively searching for job.
Not a chance. It would be a significant effort just to collect the data. I’m not interested enough to do it.
FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction
Just recently, I was putting some SQL into a PR description and wanted to keep implementation-specific details out of it. Specifically, I wanted to show a CHECK constraint. I figured I'd go see if they were in the SQL standard... and that was my first introduction to this absurdity.

The SQL standard is split into mine separate parts, each of which is purchased separately. The part I would've been interested in is part 2, which runs ~$220: https://www.iso.org/standard/63556.html
Tried a few for attention deficit when my doctor thought it was anxiety related. They didn't seem to do anything.
This is also what I see as a possible explanation.

Also, why would you get downvoted?
FireCMS – Firestore CMS
Canadians are kind of a sheepish society. They obey the government to the last letter of every word. It's why every level of Government can get away with anything they want to. The Government could have a Jonestown event and Canadians would all participate without hesitation even knowing what the outcome. If the government says they must take the shot they will obey.

The country is not a bastion of independent thought or freedom.

Disclaimer: Vaccinated and Canadian.
I imagine it's a good training exercise for the FBI staff, given that there aren't too many giant explosions like this in the States.
That quote is actually from Machiavelli's "The Prince" and is often misattributed to Leonardo.

https://suebrewton.com/2016/07/31/no-leonardo-da-vinci-did-n...
The largest media companies are loss-leaders for telecom conglomerates. They don't actually need to be profitable.