skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA: “The argument that it was “too hard to maintain” a single setting enacted by 2 lines of code in a 4 Million line codebase is just insulting to the intelligence of users.”

I don’t grok that logic. Hard to maintain is about developers, not users.

“Code isn’t a lawn. It doesn’t change if you leave it alone for a few weeks.”

I disagree with that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot

As to the main reason Firefox is losing users, I would say a) increased competition from (mostly) Google and Microsoft and b) lack of (short-term) incentives for Mozilla to listen to its users.

As to b), take a look at https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201....

If I interpret that correctly, contributions and subscriptions bring in less than $20M a year (probably closer to $10M, as $14M of that is labeled “Subscription and advertising revenue”)

Royalties bring in $450M. That’s money they get from search engines. “Other revenue” is $338M (can’t find where that comes from)

=> To me, it appears they have more income from advertising than the $3M they get from user contributions. They certainly get way more memory from search engines.

If you were CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, wouldn’t keeping the royalties flowing in be more important than raising user contributions?
You can listen to real-time audio of FAA and NORAD track planes and scramble fighters [0]. This is not an easy task considering nobody knows what is happening and literally every plane in the country is being redirected and landed simultaneously.

[0] skip to about 20min https://youtu.be/DYBhgEm3j7A
So maybe this is something that ACLU should take on. Actual civil liberty issue with states not protecting freedoms of people.
There's a 'foreign policy grownup' archetype who gets credibility for free whether they're on MSNBC or Fox News. That grownup has a default stance of American global supremacy, and China has gotten too big/rich/powerful to be compatible with that worldview.
I agree with the point you've made. The OP I was responding to in my first comment seemed to be suggesting something more extreme than, "get vaccinated, and then go live your life".
My townhouse neighbor had one built on her back deck - it's small, looks like only a single person can use it at a time, but it fits nicely on her deck, and only needs a 120V outlet.

You can also find portable indoor saunas:

https://www.amazon.com/portable-saunas-home/s?k=portable+sau...
So Texas abortion laws refugees are becoming a real phenomenon.
No, it means 30% more tasks in creating an ICE are resistant to being automated, requiring a human or group of humans to do the job.
> This feels like some sort of opportunistic resume-building kind of project, made from the very real deaths of thousands of innocent people.

They dislike the current state of the tech industry and cannot stop thinking about it no matter what the topic.
Every school teacher can buy a baseball bat, but we don’t act like it’s a given that teachers will beat students with baseball bats.
Maybe the same health effects, but definitely not the same experience. A traditional Finnish sauna isn't just a hot room; löyly (the steam that is created by throwing water on the hot rocks of the stove) is a core part of taking a sauna, and that's missing in an infrared sauna.
Anecdotally I've heard that they are mostly used as a way to stop riced out Japanese cars.

Not ppl on motorcycles. As someone who has run straight pipes across two major cities never had an issue. A bunch of motorcyclists don't even have licenses lol.
K made a lot more sense to me after I realised it is three things: a library of functions, operators, and a set of types. The only way to access the function library is through the operators/type overloading. Different versions of K (or related languages) then choose different libraries of functions, or different operators. Code is essential a very dense encoding of function calls into a fixed library.
Wow, such a big event in US and world history. Zero top level comment reflects the historical missteps and lessons learned during these 20 years.

Guys, wake up. The world is changed and there is a reason. One who cannot understand the momentum behind history, is destined to repeat them.
Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable
The argument is that your entire program fits on one screen. It may be hard to read (without practice) but you can stare at the whole thing all at once. I don't know if I buy the argument but it's an interesting one.
Thanks, this was very helpful. My first move when I get a device like this is a firmware update, so I’ll do that and then check with the resource you linked.
Try looking at it from the other direction: If other products have the same playing field (modify, live with it, or change products), and Firefox is in decline while their primary competitor is not, doesn't it stand to reason that Firefox is making decisions that lose them users while their competitor is making decisions that gain them users?

(edit to fix typos on mobile)
I see your point, but I have a hard time imagining how, 20 years down the line, we could point to the SARS-COV2 pandemic as a principal cause of historic change the way the 9/11 attacks were. Contributing factor? Sure, I'm sure it'll have all kinds of downstream effects.
There's the never let your GPU get old too. But since this is about gaming, it isn't very relevant.
> Because every time this comes up everyone claims it's the easiest thing in the world, but if you try and drill into it what they end up actually wanting is generally "pay what you want" cloud services.

Why is it on any (usually a relatively new) user to define how an entire cloud should behave?

Users are asking for a feature that helps them stop accidentally spending more than they intended. This feature request is totally fair. Implementing such a feature would be an act of good faith towards new/onboarding users (also obviously just any user with a very specific budget use-case).

> The only people I see using a feature like this are some individuals doing some basic proof-of-concept work and...

Yes exactly. GCP offers sandboxed accounts for this exact purpose. Why is this such a far reach?

> setting up a response tailored to your workload--run a lambda in response to billing alerts that shuts down VMs, or stops your RDS instance but leaves the storage, etc.

If you're telling every individual user that falls into a specific category to build a specific set of infrastructure, why is it not acceptable to you to just ask AWS to build it?
You’re not wrong. While writing K you sit in the repl and work out each piece as you go and make sure it gives the result you expect and then build up.
Why does anyone have an IP address? To use them.
"a significant difference was not detected 20 days after randomization, most likely because most of the participants in the L-arginine arm had been already discharged from the hospital by this time"
> Or maybe IBM needs to make a cheaper desktop version first

I doubt that will happen. For that to happen, there would need to be a market for low-end POWER servers. Low-end means low-margin and competition from x86 boxes. There may be space for a low-spec IBM machine (a POWER-based descendant of the AS/400), and I imagine the IBM i subsidizes a lot of the development of the AIX-based POWER boxes (because they are the same hardware).

I really think IBM should spend some money on entry-level boxes for their exclusive platforms (P, I and Z). I don't see I or Z going anywhere - they are good enough and too expensive/risky to migrate away from, but P and AIX are too close to generic x86 hardware running Linux for them to feel too comfortable. Right now, it's hard to justify even suggesting a green field project using anything that's not a commodity platform. Being less expensive doesn't help when the minimum sticker price is more than 100K. Chances are development would start on generic boxes or cloud and stay there. IBM is the only company that can make POWER competitive with x86 at an entry-level and a single-core SMT8 part would probably be a justifiable expense for many R&D departments.

> with a more open DDR4/5 controller?

My impression is that the Power Axon interface would be able to control DDR4/5 memory.
K is cool but really, really expensive. Kevin Lawler's Kona seems nice. Shakti (next K version) could be good but I can't figure out a damn thing about it.

And then there's J, which, man. Hard to learn, but cool.
Google tells me 100F is just 37,8C. This is pretty damn cold for a tub, no? Just a bit warmer than body temperature.
Is it me or was this post artificially boosted to the top? According to Algolia it was submitted two days ago but the date was edited to say two hours https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I agree that a vaccine mandate is reasonable at some point. As is martial law. But the death rate of covid is around 1% (and substantially less for young, healthy people). Given that death rate, I don't think a mandate is reasonable. Given a substantially higher death rate, I doubt one would be necessary.

The comparison to WWII is a little silly. We consider dying of viral infection to be an act of god, i.e. we do not hold people responsible for exhaling virons into "public air". If you want to question the wisdom of that judgement, consider that you quite possibly have been a link in a chain of infections that killed people. Does that make you a fraction of a murderer?
I play No Mans Sky at 1440p on my 1050ti. Framerate hovers around the upper 90s, I frankly couldn't be happier. I also didn't need to tweak anything to get it running, which was not the case on Windows at all...
It’s just a first impression. This is a very effective tool. Ofc it requires some effort to use (as well as mathematical notation). Required reading https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...
Pressure Driven Meltdowns are surprisingly common in Elite Tennis
Not what I wrote at all.

But to respond to your point(?) covid patients that get sick enough to go to the ICU are there for a long time, while heart patients get better (or die) significantly faster, I recently heard an ICU doctor say on TV here (the Netherlands) that a covid ICU bed could help up to 8 heart patients, which makes it extra important to reduce the amount of covid cases.
It's CPU specific in the sense that the CPU needs IOMMU instructions (almost everything made in the past 10 years) and OS version specific in that Windows and Linux have both supported it for about 3 years.

The problematic part is that the UEFI needs to support it, it seems most systems with Thunderbolt have enabled it since 2018 and systems without Thunderbolt still don't bother.
Generally, well designed bikes assume a certain pressure in the exhaust pipe and use it as a way to compute the internal combustion cycle timings, since it affects the movement of air and how long it stays and how fast it is likely to move on. So changing the pipes without doing anything indeed affects performance. That’s why most pipe changes usually also come with a reflash of the bike’s ECU so that the onboard computer can know new pipe’s air resistance parameters.
Many states have two party consent laws that make it illegal to record private conversations without consent even in a public place. I fail to see how the same thing couldn't be done with video.

Of course finding the political will to restrict things like security cameras is a different matter, but I don't think it'd it'd case that we couldn't write effective laws to prevent this.
Does anyone have other good resources on what saunas do to the body? I just started using the one at my climbing gym and was pretty amazed at how I felt afterwards. It's really nice. I'm very curious what is happening physiologically.
Gutted that this isn't about applying cool cryptographic ideas to physical locks, akin to Matt Blaze's article about running cryptographic attacks on master keys.
This is something that drives me nuts about Amazon, who are a giant that has the resources to do it properly - but don't. Their filters are usually useless, filtering out matching production, and including products that don't even match from their title.
As much as I want the government to stay out of bathroom policies, there's no recognized right to use whatever bathroom you want. Nor is there any right to join the military.
It does if your team is world-wide.

Does Gecko really need more than 100 people?
Only work if your motherboard don't have other items (socket, capacitor... etc) in that area.
The odd thing about civil liberties is they also curtail other freedoms. The right to own property means the right to exclude others from your property. Trial by a jury of your peers means jury duty etc.

If you have fundamental disagreements around these issues you really can’t blame the organization for not doing enough. Them doing more or less isn’t the problem, them having other priorities is.
The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies
I was in 4th grade outside of Chicago and immediately when we got to school our teacher sat us down and told us that a plane had flown into a building in NYC. I didn't know what the world trade center was and they didn't send us home so i didn't think it was a big deal. I thought this just occurred every so often as i had not too long before seen a news story of a little biplane plane crashing into a hospital somewhere in Illinois. 9/11 is also my dad's birthday and my parents didn't talk about the events and instead wanted to talk about the birthday. I didn't realize how big it was until days later when every tv station was wall to wall coverage 24 hours and they held a vigil a block from my house.
Google handed user data to Hong Kong authorities despite pledge
> But rewatching? Too much.

I remember seeing the SRB trails of OV-099 in the sky. Twenty years later it was possible to rewatch that on Youtube, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

But by now, I've watch that video and a few documentaries. I had no personal loss on January 26 1986, but it still took some time for me to be able to digest it. And I'm glad that I did.
I'm confused. This article is about syntax highlighting, not semantic highlighting. Do you have semantic highlighting set up.or syntax highlighting? If the former, what are are you using?
- Because desktops wasn't limiting web capabilities. Apple does.

- Because PWAs started working on iOS in 2018.

- Because native solutions are faster than JavaScript and HTML.

- Headstart for development tools.
but isn't that exactly the process by which one obtains knowledge about a subject? i.e. i don't know much about X, i propose theory Y that may explain part of it, i test theory Y to see if it holds, if it does, i now know more about X, namely that Y explains it.
I wish ignorant commenters like yourself would do even 5 minutes research before commenting.

- Iraq made and used chemical weapons in both the Iraq-Iran war and against Kurds. ie. WMD. There's plenty of fotos online.

- the Iraqi army was #4 in the world before the first US-Iraq war, with SH's stated goal of taking over the entire Middle East ("becoming the next Suleiman.")

- KSA and Kuwait paid the US to defend them. KSA also contributed $2 billion to the Clinton Foundation, stopping only when Hillary "retired." That makes the Clintons some of the most corrupt politicians in world history, along with the Biden family.)
Douglas Crockford has made a similar argument. https://www.crockford.com/contextcoloring.html
I don't really have any comments on that, sorry. I was mentioning a fix for that specific issue, or other specific issues you might have with other browsers. Most complaints I see about Firefox tend to be about specific issues rather than about overall decisions made versus their competitors.
>Private companies can, to a large extent, target and accommodate only a subset of the market.

I absolutely agree. Except these private company were publicly advocating to abolish physical cash and top up card. Pushing their narrative towards a future which everything goes through Smartphone where the company have a strategic interest in doing so. While proclaiming themselves as the guardian of privacy and protector of their users.

This isn't the first time the subject of dropping Oyster card or any Top Up card payment in any part of the world has come up. Last time ( if I remember correctly it was 2016, roughly during the launch of Android Pay on Tfl or something like that, thinking about it now it might have been a PR piece ) there were people in the general public who really believe the future is cashless and all in Smartphone. And the general narrative at the time was dropping Oyster card some time in the future was inevitable because Tfl and other Transport companies around the world doesn't want the burden of running their own payment system in other to save cost. And if I remember correctly the answer Tfl gave at the time wasn't as clear cut as it is now.

So I am extremely happy to read a firm stand from Tfl on this issue.
You don't wonder at all why they needed a private company?
With some trickery you only need the MS account for setup. You can also transfer the key to a completely new system.

With a bit more time to prune services/apps and set up something like simplewall to block everything else, you have a pretty decent setup. Sure, it's not FOSS, but neither is Steam or any of those games.

Looking at my personal selection of long-tail games, about 1/3 work perfectly on Linux, another 1/3 don't work at all, and the last 1/3 have various levels of yak-shaving tweaking settings before they run well. That last 1/3 is why I went back to Windows years ago.
Dry saunas don’t work this way.

Your sweat in a dry sauna is a way for your body to cool itself, while you always “feel wet” you’re actually constantly evaporating sweat off you.

In fact, if you ever stop sweating in a dry sauna, leave. You are de-hydrated and it’s no longer safe for you in a sauna.
> You can't kill them

I welcome you to the real world: “trans panic defense”.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense
I couldn't give a fuck, tbh. I think you may need less coffee if it offended you.
What a privilege it is to contribute to P10. OMI is mind-bogglingly fast and will be an even greater advantage during the enterprise DDR5 era.
No, it wouldn't.

Health benefits from dry sauna start at a minimum of around 170ºF, but more typically at 180ºF, and often up to 195ºF. A "slightly too hot bath" would be around maybe 110ºF. Water at 170ºF would scald you within seconds.

Infrared sauna typically heats up to 150ºF, but this heats you from the inside, and so has a similar efficacy to 180ºF dry sauna.
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Here is Object Pascal for Mac OS,

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.02/02.12/Ob...
1 when was this? On Ubuntu lts or Debian stable?

2 if a vendor makes good hw, but poor drivers for your os - that really is on the vendor, not the os?

Still, I agree it's frustrating that nvidia is unwilling to commit to Foss/linux.
Watching the footage on this site reminds me of how I watched the events unfold on 9/11. I was at work at Apple in IL2 (Building 2 of the Infinite Loop campus.) People started getting calls on their desk phones and co-workers coming in started to share the news. An email came from Steve Jobs which I can't remember the exact contents of. One thing the email did have, was a link that was a live video news stream of the events unfolding.

The campus entered a type of lock-down. The gates to the parking garages were closed, the front-doors to the building were locked and security blocked the entrances to the campus with their vehicles. At the time, work was sort of my family so I didn't consider that some people probably wanted to leave right away to be with their loved ones. I assume they were able to do so with some effort.

Things obviously changed in the world that day. At Apple, the underground gates to the garages were always closed and you had to badge in. Security personnel were posted in the lobbies and badging in and "tailgating" were taken very seriously. The doors to the inner campus were now locked and you had to badge in and out. These were all really minor things, but it made you realize that things were no longer going to be the same as before.
> that's life in the (sorta) big city.

Not in any city where I have had a drink in a pavement café! Not even in the US.
Yea, there is that aspect of it. Ideally, I will go buy them a meal, so they can't use the money for other things. I personally don't indulge in "other things", but I don't know how concerned I am about them using the money for that either. I think it's very, very difficult for someone digging through trash to get their life together, so if they indulge, they indulge. Note that it's not a comment on their character or anything of the sort, just the sheer number of things needed to re-adjust in society from zero, with zero real help.

Another point is that in most countries outside of the US, panhandlers are either "working for themselves" and make decent money, perhaps better than at a low-end job while having proper living arrangements, etc (and thus "rob" the true poor from the donation). It can also be worse, with situations where panhandlers are actually curated by an organizer who pays them a salary and takes a profit. The latter schemes are also mixed up in exploitation.

Now that I type it all out, I am realizing that buying a meal also prevents the second scenario too. Good stuff.
Why is flutter better than electron?
Hmm, that shows a growth rate of 0.1% every 2.5 years, meaning the Year of our Lord 4479 A.D. might be the year of Linux on the desktop.
You missed a decade in between.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589416/inprise-to-cha...
Yeah, because eating meat leads to heart disease. Oh wait, I heard those people also drank water!
Fair point, but from a perspective of effort vs potential lives saved, self-quarantining when sick, avoiding large crowds & meeting in well ventilated spaces is probably easier than adopting a healthier lifestyle. But yeah, we should also live healthier!
Does anyone really care about the size of the program anyway?
Please dont do this
I'd have to add coloring strings and language keywords to the list of exceptions before trying this. Strings are (imo) an obvious necessity, but I can't tell you how many times I've stopped myself from naming a variable a reserved keyword because it showed up visibly differently when typing it out.
Yeah, yeah. Cool story, greenie.
> I don't see how you'd be owned if you're denying all outside traffic, but stranger things have happened.

My thought was the same but yup you never know. From the outside my attack surface is very low, just a couple port forwards to a VPN/SSH server. It’s the non-obvious exploits that worry me (overflow in packet header parsing or borderline magic like that), but perhaps I’ve been watching too many movies :)

I will make sure my config is as solid as I can reasonably make it before connecting it to the world, I guess outside of that there’s not a whole lot I can do anyway.
COVID is incredibly dangerous primarily because of how it is spread, not primarily because sick people are taking up hospital beds.

The pandemic is first and foremost a health issue, not a resource issue.
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this account has had multiple owners.. i’ve never done grunt work
Oh my god, I never connected the through-line from Columbo (which I often watched re-runs with my family as a kid) to Steve Jobs keynotes.