skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome doesn't have much UI to speak of, despite the irony in its name. Firefox has a much older lineage and a symbiotic relationship with add-ons. Before Quantum add-ons could radically rearrange its UI.

In my experience, Firefox UI changes since then have been largely cosmetic and rearranging of settings.
What was the most powerful or advanced computer in it's time?
For example:

Xerox alto 1973, preceded the Macintosh technologically by a decade in terms of the mouse and GUI

SGI Onyx systems, preceded mainstream desktop 3d graphics by a decade
Only the official USA Fact-Check Algorithm can ordain religious Science truths.
Yes but C being C, its hard to write it safely, and harder to ensure that it is safe beyond all doubt.
"Let's think about queries as a function."

How about we don't, and think about queries as the algebraic relations that they are?

I always found this explanation of SQL (and SQL-like) recursion much more reasonable than efforts to shoehorn SQL into an iterative, functional box: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11454271.pdf
Using FSR to Boost Any Game's Framerate on Linux
To start with nbc is a bunch of leftists. So, to start, it never shows any shooting sports on TV. NBC announced this anti-gun move years ago. So, when there was no streaming, there was no shooting to be found. Second, because they are leftists, they push coverage of more interesting sports to show endless women’s soccer. I know soccer gets more popular in the US each year. But, women’s soccer is not a sport the majority of people want to watch, especially since so many on the team hate the US.
Yeah I re-wear the same clothes a LOT and it still takes way more time.
I'm guessing the title is modeled after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
>Micro plastics are a significant concern but their extreme surface area to volume ratio is associated with a short individual lifespan

Isn't the whole issue that they DON'T break down? Yes they can wear into smaller pieces of plastic, but chemically they're still plastic. And when they get to a certain size, they become small enough to easily absorb into the body.
I wonder if this will result in more outrageous, more clickbait junk from media outlets, desperate for audience attention. Even more than it is now.

I am spending more time on YouTube too. I used to watch Netflix, but it has been downhill last 3 years or so.
If someone is found innocent at trial, it is therefore a coordinated political attack? That’s a stretch.
Listicles have gotten on my nerves, I googled 'how to remove listicles from search results' and got, yes, 2 listicles in the SERP. I tinkered with ddgr[1] and jq for removing listicles with some success, if someone wants to pick up where I left off:

`ddgr --expand --noprompt --json 'best bicycles under 500' | jq --raw-output '.[] | select(.title | test("^(?!\\d.$)."))' | jq --raw-output '. | [.title, .url]| @tsv'`

[1] https://github.com/jarun/ddgr
I thought about it a lot, because I used to be a complete recluse, avoidant, loner.. growing up half a nerd I spent a lot of time living online. When I tried to go back to a more normal social life, I realized a few differences:

- online is way less intense, people assume disconnected chats, and transient random strangers coming on and off. face to face less so, if you speak to someone you don't quit all of a sudden for instance, you have to communicate more.

- physical proximity matters a lot, you don't let people you don't like close, safety reflex ? some form of subconscious emotional match ? still, if you let someone close to you in the real world it's a lot more impacting (IMO) than even the closest people you get online.

- I also feel that in real life you're naturally more social, you don't approach strangers like on a comment thread, trying to debate intense polemics out of the blue. It can happen in the street or at a bar, but most of the time people try to find nice stuff to bond around. digital makes some slightly egotistic part of us shine stronger.
I work at a massive, well-known tech company, nearly 5 year tenure, and I apply to jobs on LinkedIn, directly through the company website, to government jobs (via USAJOBS), about 5 per week. I live in a major U.S. city. I'm willing to relocate anywhere, or work remote. Full-stack developer. I never get contacted back. Am I just not good enough?

I know the discourse is around London, but I think this is an issue happening in many places, and seeing the "where are the workers?" articles is really troubling for me.
Skip to the end of that thought, and just keep a list where all you do is write down stuff you've done. Soon you'll have trained your brain to look around for stuff to add to your "done list"

(I do this, check out https://donel.ist for a kill-your-todos-get-stuff-done app I built to help myself do it!)
Cities have fire safety regulations for parking lots and if the parking lot violates it then it can be sealed off until fixed. It doesn't matter what's inside the parking lot unless its legal and say not a nuclear reactor.

ICE vehicles too catch fire all the time, It just seems your firefighting agency is not doing its duty.
The Retrocomputing Archive
Whenever a treatment is given based on a strict income threshold you have a nice natural experiment. Those who have income <= T receive treatment. Those who are > T (even one dollar above) do not. Therefore, those who are "near" T are a great cohort to study effects of the treatment, since their socioeconomic factors are so close.

It sounds like the parent comment was saying exactly this occurred for children exposed to lead, and those in the treatment group went on to have better outcomes.

EDIT: Looking through the abstract, it appears the threshold was on blood / lead concentrations. This means those who differed only a tiny amount in lead concentrations received different treatments (some vs none), and had different outcomes despite being similar in all other metrics. Figure 4 was pretty interesting.
isn't it 'life form shit' mostly ? territorialism is survival trick #2
Building in such a powerful ad blocker could negatively impact how sites and services are funded.
on piano, I do the same but rather than working on components in chronological order, I order from most to least difficult. So the hardest parts get the most practice.

For singing, where my technique is a lot more advanced and it's more about memorization, I learn components in reverse chronological order, ie start with the last four bars, then the last 8 bars, then the last 12, etc. That way the piece is increasingly well memorized as I go along.
TL;DR seems just another random anti-cryptocurrency article. Long story short bitcoin has the same value people give to a nicely printed image of Benjamin Franklin on a piece of paper or a sparkling rock from Sierra Leone. Things have the value the trading partners agree upon.
It was already known to Dennis and Ritchie that C without appropriate tooling wasn't an ideal tool, hence why C's history of static analysis goes all the way back to 1979.

Unfortunately, the large majority to this day thinks they don't need such kind of tooling.

"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions. "

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
Glaring silence for the most part
Thanks! That’s largely what I was trying to write in opposition to. You find a lot of “here’s how I failed my way to success, and you can too” pieces. That’s not particularly helpful to someone who feels like their life is coming apart.
And some of us includes me.

But at the point where you're able to handle all memory allocation failures usefully, you're almost certainly doing something non-trivial to recover.

For example aborting some requested transaction, pruning items from your program's caches, delaying a subtask to release its temporary memory, or compressing some structures. At that point there's nothing "trivially" safe about a memory allocation.

Probably there are bugs in those recovery actions too. Even the obviously most simple recovery action of propagating an error return to abort a request: If that's a network request, just returning the error "sorry out of memory" is potentially going to fail. So you need recovery from the recovery path failing.
I don't know about your country, but every month from January to June (the latest data I found) a large majority of Germans polled believed the measures to fight COVID were appropriate or didn't go far enough. https://de.statista.com/infografik/23810/umfrage-zur-angemes...
Sceptic here...

VR goggles are too anti-social on the local scale. Have kids? Dog? Spouse? Hard to see they will accept that you shield yourself off completely for long periods of time. You won't even see them coming when they start to grow tired... This is a fundamental flaw.

Then the metaverse... What is the usecase? Why is it fun or why is it useful? It might be cool for a while, but so are lots of other MMOs out there...
Impoverished children and expecting mothers have access to medicine paid by the government/taxpayer in the US through Medicaid

I know it's fun to posture about how backwards the US healthcare system is but we actually do literally have the system in place that you're virtue signaling about us not having, as it applies to children

People act like the US has no welfare at all and it just isn't true. Children whose parents can't afford treatment can still get treatment, and have been able to for more than half a century.

My own niece was born in a hospital because of this. My adult sister received treatment for her collapsed lung at the same time, paid for by the taxpayer, because she couldn't afford it.

Medicare and Medicaid might not be perfect but acting like the US has no safety net is a lie
And control for literally everything else in the world. Unless you want to cherry pick for “effect”.

So instead of the impossible, let’s look at the only the USA’s historic gun violence in the 90s. We add more guns than there has ever been, 40% of all the guns in the world in the USA, crime goes down - we can’t say adding guns was the reason for a crime drop - but we can say it appears adding more guns did not cause more crime.

Unless you have reason to believe crime would have dropped even more in an alternate universe where a magic wand was waved to remove the hundreds of millions of guns in the USA. But, a statement like that should come with evidence.
You still continue to say that people having their rights violated means they don't exist. That's a demonstrably false and illogical statement.
It's because people inherently have rights that they fight for them, and others take their side. Hence events like the French Revolution, the Abolition of slavery, or the Civil Rights Movement.
I still believe our social evolution is possible. We have to talk about those things and take a break on economics.

We’ve seen the value of modern technology. There’s no need to continue to obsessively speculate about the advantages they provide to daily life.

Having beers with a grey haired VC yesterday, I couldn’t help but think this guy really just wants to feel relevant. These guys are the real energy vampire; IMO. Constant reverence is exhausting. It started to feel like he was one of those guys who peaked on the high school football team. “Yes, I’d like to hear about your car collection. Again.”
Even if just mobile I'm still not sure how they get away with it. They have 71% of the global mobile marketshare, my phone came preinstalled with chrome, I cannot remove it, only disable it.

How is that any different at all to what Microsoft was doing with IE in the 90's?
FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment
Effective science communication has many forms! :)
This is not casting doubt on what experts said. It's casting doubt on what others have said about what experts have said. It is media and politicians that say people should get the vaccine for others.

Of course, if experts said that too, well, they were wrong if the vaccinated can spread the virus about as much as the unvaccinated.
Of course these other journalists were named more often in surveys: they have a much broader reach. Name recognition is not the issue; ethical standards are.
>they did not claim a real life vaccine injury, they claimed "many people

Ok here you go..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxqC9SiRh8

The community of people injured by the vaccine, mentioned in the video.

https://www.c19vaxreactions.com/
> - Vaccination means a significant reduced risk of getting COVID.

Can you provide a source for this?

To be clear, I’m absolutely not arguing that you’re wrong. What I am saying is that I’ve not seen a source for this oft-repeated assertion, and that the data in the linked article contradicts it - a larger proportion of people in that cohort who were fully vaccinated got COVID than those those who were unvaccinated.

It seems like a glaring omission to me that they didn’t enumerate the number of unvaccinated people who had recovered from previous COVID infections. If that number is substantial it would explain why the proportions are so different from what you might expect.
I don’t know what the real world is, but my experience as a chronic procrastinator with ADD was the polar opposite of this. I did assignments on the bus, wrote speeches during the period before I’d have to give them, etc. I’m mildly messed up from these habits now, but I did (mostly, with some spectacular failures) get away with it at the time.

If something captured my imagination, like certain writing assignments or my programming classes, then I could hyperfocus.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934539
I don't understand this at all. Doesn't hand washing expose you to more chemicals?
Energy is only one issue. There is also that plastic is a petroleum product. Also even if "managed" well ultimately ends up in the landfills, and its resources don't get recycled by the environment for thousands of years. It also wreaks havoc on the environment if it ends up in the wrong place; paper largely doesn't.
Which is why stuff like Checked C, or something like SDS should really be made part of C, as UNIX clones are going to outlive us anyway.

However just like rotating blade covers, butcher metal gloves, seat belts, helmets,..., apparently external forces like government regulations are required to make WG14 act accordingly.
> This article is mostly a straw man, while still containing some valid ML criticism.

I don't think this is an example of a straw man, given that his audience is readers of Locus, a science fiction magazine. While researchers and practitioners in ML understandably hold a more nuanced, informed view, the position he's arguing against is pretty common among the general public, and certainly common in science fiction.
And Firefox gained me.

I was a Chrome user since I left Opera in 2017, until short ago, mainly for performance and ease of use.

I just love container tabs, and to be able to send URLs from one computer to the other.

And Pocket integration, great when you have a Kobo reader.
Another element is that the government now pays people to stay at home and not work. That is the number one factor. If people did not have money, they would work.
Brown is (165,42,42). You can argue about false precision, but the term “brown” has false precision as well. The likely variation in interpretations can be described by error bars. Your understanding of someone saying “brown” is informed entirely by statistical inference of your past experience with “brown”.

Changing the representation of the names doesn’t matter, but attempting to understand the meaning behind the names is ultimately quantitative. The numbers are run in the giant black box that is your brain and then your consciousness receives other qualitative answers.

Asking for an AI without statistical inference or quantitative data is asking for consciousness without a brain.
You can and should! Post it notes are good for stuff where you need to summarize symbol names that are sort of haphazardly distributed across a page. I'm a fan of a separate note section where I write plain English explanations of things, it's helpful in the moment for better appreciating and understanding something, and it's helpful six months in the future because it serves as bread crumbs on the path you first used to understand something, it feels very natural.
If you wanted a spreadsheet you could have columns as name, equation, definitions, note, page reference. You might have to invent a name for some things but that's fine.
I'll try to be as clear as I can.

There were several weaknesses with your argument that I was hoping you to strengthen;

- you were making yourself prone to availability bias; I've been to beaches recently and none of those have the problems you mention. That doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, it means we don't get to make sweeping generalization from the partial reality we contact. Your original rebuttal to the OP was "have you ever been to a beach lately"

- appeal to emotions; I'm personally sorry to hear your local beach is in heartbreaking condition, but that alone does not amplify the strength of your claim that "beaches are covered with litter". In fact it makes it more easy to refute for anyone who doesn't readily sympathize with your story, and that would harm what I assume to be your ultimate goal which is a reduced pollution.

- overgeneralization: you're perfectly entitled to talk about your personal experience, but when you assert that as a method of establishing the global truth, that is the motion that brings the burden of proof on you, not me pointing that out. Maybe keep the strength of your assertion in proportion to the data you personally have.

It might look like waters are muddied for you, but I think you might be the only one in confusion probably because you seem to be very emotional about this topic. Which is OK, like I said being passionate is OK, but the weaknesses in your argumentation will only hurt your cause.
> But the idea that if we just get better at statistical inference, consciousness will fall out of it is wishful thinking. It’s a premise for an SF novel, not a plan for the future.

My impression of Silicon Valley types like Ray Kurzweil in "The Age of Spiritual Machines" that if we wire up enough transistors somehow consciousness will somehow arise out of the material world. The somehow is not explained. Materialism is a dead end in my opinion. I am more interested in theories about consciousness as a field and our brains as receivers.
This seems like a risky response - this is exactly what a intelligence agent would ask (w a brand new account to boot).
Everyone complains about streams, yet since Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS they have served me well for the kinds of applications I delivered into production with C++.
Depends if months of bad press and accusations damaged his political standing.

I don't like Salmon, but a smear is a smear even if no one goes to prison...
Renewlogy sounds like the Theranos of recycling.
The two times I went on a trip and we ended up at Walmart I was not pleased.

Of course we ended up at Walmart because the people I was with are suckers. Lovable suckers, but all-day suckers nonetheless.
Yah. Their last sentence was trailing off a list of Arabic loan words.
> Isn't that the critical point? Of all our environmental problems, atmospheric CO2 is the biggest one, right?

Energy is important, but the energy consumption of a grocery bag is small compared to the energy consumption of most of the things in the grocery bag, and if you drive a car to the grocery store, the energy consumption of the car for the roundtrip (~0.3 kWh per mile).

I'd say for grocery packaging the ecological impact should be the bigger concern.

Honestly the solution is easy, change the $0.10 grocery bag surcharge to $1.00 and people will stop using single-use grocery bags tomorrow. $0.10 is not enough for people to care.
> redesign consumerism

Better: eliminate consumerism
I’m posting this from an east coast (U.S) beach. I’ve walked up and down multiple beaches in the last two days, and I haven’t seen any plastic trash at all, although I did see someone find an old rusty fish hook today.
For some people the skills they need to develop first are really basic, like showing up on time and sober, and following basic instructions. We're talking about the lowest tier of the workforce here where the concept of a "career" is kind of alien. Many of them have never been formally employed before and need an opportunity to learn really simple things that most of us take for granted. I think most HN users are disconnected from that reality.
There is a great book that goes over how to learn information, retain skills, and be able to share it. What Smart Students Know by Adam Robinson. I read it as an adult and it has been a tremendous force multiplier. Wish I actually had it when I was in school.

It’s was written a decade or two ago written by the guy who started Princeton Review. If you can overlook the bits about school, the methods are rock solid.
Thanks for making this personal.
I wouldn't have any issue with Safari at all if I was just a chrome developer would I?
Can anybody here give a quick overview of why there are such delays for the line opening?
If cocaine was free I think it'd have a tremendously positive impact.
> I think it's important to make this distinction and for some reason it's left implicit or it's purposefully omitted from the article

I beg to disagree. They clearly state your opinion at the end of the piece, using the metal-beat analogy. Great things were done by blacksmiths beating metal, but not an ICE
I’m a huge fan of learnxinyminutes! Even if I’m planning to go through the larger guide/docs, I find x-in-y is the best way to get a general feel for the breadth and style of the language.
If you are actually interested you can do worse than to look at crime rates vs gun ownership in the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Austria and the Czeck Republic.

Clearly something else than gun ownership / distribution has a massive influence.

I mention ownership / distribution separately above since several of these countries have had fully equipped actual assault rifles like G3 etc (not crippled AR-15s) and ammunition stored in private homes for decades kn addition to huge amounts of hunting rifles, pistols, shotguns and unlicensed guns.

A few suicides a year that's mostly it and removing the guns doesn't seem to work: I haven't heard about a massive drop on suicides since the Norwegians decided to store vital parts of the rifles in local depots.
Well, there's a lot - a few I happen to be familiar with:

Maxima: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/

Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/

OpenCascade: https://dev.opencascade.org/

BRL-CAD: https://brlcad.org/

GRASS: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/

illumos: https://illumos.org/

Docker: https://github.com/docker

Torque: https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D