skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about boot camps. I didn't say it would make them good coders, just able to code. I've worked with code monkeys who did nothing but C/P from SO, who had no idea how their code worked. I've worked with 'hardware repair specialists' who didn't know the how/why of hardware, they could only parrot what they saw on YouTube.

Some (read- rich) schools are teaching programming early, but I agree 100% if we had all public schools teach it early it would remove much of the mysticism.

Anyways sorry if I come across as heated on this issue, just some of the best people I've ever met made the least and had the most menial of jobs.

edit to add- my mother (a horrible, evil person), was head of Sandia Labs IT(weapons defense contractors for the govt), she had a masters in accounting and knew nothing about computers and servers. This woman- who was on call 24/7 and still had beepers in 2010 as they are more reliable than cellphones, couldn't use a desktop computer and had Win98 as her OS when the rest of the world was on Win 7. I don't understand this world.
Similar experience here, except I used brave cuz I don't really like the Google service stuff.
I am pretty okay with most of the existing browsers on the market (but not edge, again the force you to use ms service, and useless default news etc.)
And I don't care about the gui that much cuz I am not storing bookmarks in the browsers, it's quite hard to search through and sync
If you're happy with the current tree style tabs, I'll wager you never used the original. The current one is a bad rip off, with 90% of the actual features missing.
Well, clearing the trees is already a profitable opportunity, if that is what happened. But my guess is we are talking about the idiosyncratic decisions of one landowner. Who knows if they did any kind of serious cost-benefit analysis. Or were you assuming that a solar company bought the land specifically to install solar. Possibly, but that's hardly clear to me. Besides, in the mountains, wind is probably the better bet.

Now .. putting solar farms on top of already strip mined mountains makes sense to me. You've already flattened them, and farming is of the question. And it ... looks like that is happening. Tjough I don't know how the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act plays into that.
Should I say "mitigated"? But DMA itself is a core part to improve transfer performance, and itself is a security hole.

Anyway mitigation is considered to enough TB/USB4 to be adopted for new devices.
Or if you have half a clue, and can watch YouTube, you could probably build one pretty cheap.
Heart disease and cancer aren't contagious, so your actions on that front will only improve your own life, while being a bit more careful with covid will potentially prevent sickness in a lot of people.
the guardian is trash, it’s amazing anyone reads it. Stop sharing it
Not too rich, just have an extra bathroom you can convert or something.
Are you using Cloudflare DNS?

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
Saunas are very interesting, but I think it's important to keep it in perspective: Many of the sauna papers theorize that the sauna might mimic some, though not all, of the positive effects of exercise:

> Interestingly, many of the physiological responses to sauna use (described in detail below) are remarkably similar to those experienced during moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise, and sauna use has been proposed as an alternative to aerobic exercise for people who are unable to engage in physical activity due to chronic disease or physical limitations

If you don't have a sauna but you're looking for positive health benefits, some moderate intensity aerobic exercise could provide more health benefits anyway.

Even heat shock proteins, which many people have come to associate with sauna use, are expressed during exercise.

Of course, it's easier to sit in a sauna than to jog or run, but we should keep it in perspective: Saunas are currently at the peak of their hype cycle due to popularization on certain outlets like the Joe Rogan podcast. It's reminiscent of a few years ago when Reservatrol was all over podcasts and the news as a wonder supplement after popular media exaggerated the research. Exercise is still king.

EDIT: Of course, both can be better than either one alone, but if you're limited on time and/or resources then don't feel left out: Exercise is much, much cheaper than a sauna.
There are also 720 euro/month gym subscriptions in Europe, and probably everything in between.

Just a 30 euro/month subscription would quickly add up to amounts worth collecting, although I've even had a debt collector call me over a debt of 2 something euros.
Former US ambassador to Finland, Bruce Oreck had an unusual smoke sauna experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQW27oJ3YU

To be clear: The smoke comes inside only when you heat the sauna and goes out trough small opening in the wall. You bath after the fire is out, not when the sauna is full of smoke.

What is left is the smell of smoke in the walls.
Oh joy that’s terrible. Had no idea anyone did that.
How are you going to deal with the situation?
>I wonder if this coupled with steam deck will finally make supporting linux sustainable

I'd settle for devs trying to make games whose win32 api calls are within the bounds of that which Proton can handle. Why bother natively supporting Linux when you can architect something that'll run in Windows and Proton? Elsewhere in the thread I saw comments about how most indie stuff Just Works even now; I wonder if that's the subset of indie stuff that's, like, fairly paint-by-numbers projects in Unreal or Unity that aren't doing anything really unusual and thus are handily translated by Proton.
Key takeaway:

> The [linked CNN] article noted that the union has been wary about the shift to EVs and how the shift would affect jobs since EVs take 30% less labor to assemble than ICE vehicles (internal combustion engine vehicles).

Does this mean that EVs are assembled 30% more efficiently? If so, wow, what an enormous leap! And manufacturers have been looking to cut assembly costs for years, turns out they just needed to build a different type of car.
I take it you have’t met many Finnish people.
I’ve used Firefox since it replaced Netscape. I agree, I think “sorry state” is an exaggeration. They’ve made some choices I don’t love, but my browser isn’t part of me, I open a tab, I get some info, I get back to work. My job isn’t to play Firefox. I don’t get the “UI sucks, they made it like Chrome… so instead I use Chrome”.

However…

> That control was exercised over the years and now Mozilla is more a social justice advocacy organization than a foundation that develops a web browser.

I do think they’re happy to spend too much time/money on their pet projects. Given the layoffs and poor market performance, this has come at the cost of their product. I’m allowed to dislike that despite still using it.

Sorry state of Firefox, I disagree. Sorry state of Mozilla, yes. So I look at M and do expect FF to get worse.
When you're a platform trying to gain market share, and a big application doesn't work because of the developer's bug, you don't throw your hands up and say "well it's the developer's fault." You work around that bug in your platform. Reminds me of the stories[1] about early days Microsoft putting all sorts of hacks in their OS to work around 3rd party app bugs, just to keep backward compatibility going. When you're focused on growth, you can't adhere to some sense of purity and demand 3p apps fix themselves to work on your platform. You need to make the platform work with their app.

1: (original Raymond Chen link busted, but quoted here:) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
9/11 was an inside job. So is Covid.
Texas will continue to collect the worthless husks of silicon valley zombie companies like HPE while companies who value their employees, because those employees are educated, experienced, skilled, and profitable, will not be interested in that move. Putting your company in Texas narrows your labor market considerably.
No argument from me there! But when the forecast completely misses in SE Alaska, or one forecast model displayed in Windy is way different than others, I naturally get curious as to what happened, so have been more interested in the nuts
and bolts than is probably practical.

I'm more comfortable on the water knowing terms like ECMFW, myself!
I thought ghost ships were naval fleets/ships on covert missions/missions not known to public/missions govt actively denies.

Did the definition of that change?

But I am glad to see unmanned contracts werent completely shutdown.
All of the majors stripped down to the basics, IIRC. At least the ones I visited.

Fark and Metafilter held up, but they were text to begin with.

Internet video was interesting that day. Couldn't get any from the major sites because they were hammered. But I remember links would get passed along to some Quicktime clips on personal sites. No cell phone cameras, but small camcorders + Macs with firewire were popular enough that personal footage appeared quickly.
It's a city, not a mall. If you want to keep alcoholics away from your beverage, it would make sense to not have it out by the sidewalk when they stroll by. Otherwise, that's life in the (sorta) big city.
Reduce your contributions to government. This thread is about government.

Anyone can personally purchase whatever they desire.
> A typed, compiled language easy to program.

The thing about these early language designs is that it's really only their "toy" language subset that's truly easy to program. Once you try and extend a comparatively simple language like PASCAL to deal with all the complexities of truly large-scale software development you end up with something not unlike ADA, where the verbose syntax just gets in the way of surveying a complex program effectively.

I think Go and Rust both made very good syntactical choices in picking just a handful of very short mnemonic keywords (and symbols like {}) for things that simply have to be foundational language features, while making longer names fully idiomatic for identifiers that are defined in the code.

Of course the PASCAL language family makes very different choices here (as do other languages, such as COBOL and BASIC). I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool in some way to see a language design with e.g. a Rust-like featureset and PASCALish syntax; I just don't think it would ultimately be easy to learn and use practically.
I should I ever bother with a 2nd class experience.

https://www.howtogeek.com/688970/what-was-ibms-os2-and-why-d...
Government is not fucking entropy.

Government brought down the twin towers.

Government funded covid.
Google's old logo is in the same place, 24 years later
Public health and safety are greater needs than people whining about fake free-dumb concerns. You live in this free society because countless others have dealt with the minor inconveniences like sanitation and vaccination. Grow a pair, stop being a leech on society and get vaccinated.
Your office got off lucky.

We had a guy walk into our office behind employees. No one challenged the trespasser... he walked off with a stack of laptops.
>. Like, if I have to go to your app--or worse, your website--to cancel a subscription? I'm gonna just not use your stuff, because I'm going to forget about it until you whack me for another year or whatever.

Managing subscriptions is separate from payment processing. Apple could still have a central hub letting the user know what is going on. Apple grabbing 30% of sales for a digital only product is not something most people support.
Yes. But also, it was pretty obvious to me at the time what was going to happen, modulo some details.

What I did not predict was that I would end up living in many different cities in many different countries, including Los Angeles and New York City. And by far, Americans are the most kind-hearted, generous and polite people I've found anywhere. Even the beggars in Manhatten would be more interested in how I am going and cheering me up than in actually getting any money out of me.
No problem, let me clarify: You suggested that the answer to a constant stream of changes was to either "just modify the CSS" or (if it's too much work for too little gain) then you essentially just accept Mozilla's decision.

If those are indeed the only other options besides users finding another product, I'd say you answered exactly why Firefox is in decline.
Technically, Soylent Green was made of people (the plot of the movie). The premise of it though was Soylent (Blue, Yellow,...) foods were (supposed to have been) made from vegetable and seaweed protein -- which is not so much science fiction anymore w.r.t. Beyond Meat and other such products.
> I think the pandemic has far more historical significance but nothing for me will feel more visceral than 9/11

It’s an interesting comparison, and one I make a lot. 9/11 was in your face, and a bunch of pre planned events were canceled. But that lasted about a week or a month (depending on the kind of event), and people could still gather in public and support each other.

The pandemic was a much slower burn, but also denied us even the ability to gather and required much bigger changes to daily life.
What will a signed proton build do when a cheater can run as root or load a kernel module? I suspect they'll go much further and demand secure boot with vendor keys (no custom keys) and a locked down kernel.
IIRC you can permanently store information under iOS Safari if the site is installed as a PWA, which makes some amount of sense. By associating long term storage with the intentional action of adding to Home Screen, sites are prevented from storing things without user permission and the feature's capability as a method of fingerprinting is greatly reduced.
you can run a script that will remove the watermark for ~4 hours. you can run it as many times as you’d like, just requires a restart.

since i never play a game for that long, it works out great.
Ok but why? Does not having crew on board really make the ship better? On airplanes it Make a lot of sense cause weight for crew and high g maneuvers but on ships the crew weight is much less of a concern
Fewer young people would get the vaccine then
> There is little benefit to the environment to switch. Modern motorcycles have been sold with catalytic converters for decades, and they also get 40+ MPG.

Previous emissions standards for motorcycles were much lower than cars. To the point where a bike getting 50mpg and carrying one person output more pollution than a sedan getting 25mpg and carrying an entire family.

This has been fixed with Euro4's introduction for the 2017 model year (which is why so many bikes were redesigned that year with huge exhausts.)
There’s the joke that you can say the same thing about the French Revolution (“too early to tell”).
Damn someone's on the rag. Go smoke a joint bud, it's gonna be okay
>A modern company that contracts with another company to do something for them does not get to completely wash its hands of their practices

They do if they want to maintain their position that the employees of the contracting firm are not their own employees.

If an employee is not getting paid by an employer, that is between the employee, the employer, and the state department of labor.

Slave labor and clothing factories are not relevant in this case as those operate in other countries where the government's labor laws and enforcement are much less effective than the US.

Janitorial service companies is what I am referring to. If my company hires a janitorial service company for $x to perform janitorial tasks, then the janitors are clearly not my company's employees. But if my company now starts getting involved in compensation disputes between the janitorial service company and its janitor employees, now my company is risking wading into a dispute in which it has no need to and risks raising questions about whose employees the janitors really are.

Perhaps what you said really did happen, but I cannot find the motivation for people in Google's HR department to do so, especially if it was in a state like California with a pretty decent labor department that would undoubtedly support workers who did not get paid for time worked.
But why? after all these years why did they still have those?
Social contagion is real. The U.S. has much higher rates of illness and death due to complications from obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc, than other developed countries, because of our shared culture of poor diet and sedentary lifestyle.

You pass on your way of life to your children. Your friends and family reinforce each other's decisions every time you make a meal, make plans, etc.

This stuff is all vitally important. And in fact, we would have lower rates of covid fatality if a larger percentage of our population took this seriously.
Right. What you want is anarchy.
Masks help prevent the flu as well, for the record.

Given quarantine policies for exposures the easiest way to keep kids in schools is to make sure the adults around them are vaccinated and that they take precautions before then.

My state effectively hit zero Covid deaths too a few months ago and that was through vaccination.
I do wonder if this was intentional to stop the migration from CA iv been reading about.
If a friend were to invite me to an infrared sauna, I would not go.
People are probably going to say this is silly (and maybe the author would say the same), but I think it's an awesome demonstration of what Rust macros can do, and I think it could also become genuinely useful for non-English speakers who want to write code in an English-centric landscape. Most people in France and Quebec probably know enough English to work with English keywords in code, but I bet for people in lots of non-western countries it can be a real hurdle in terms of approachability and readability.
Sure, if you have both control of property adequate to be allowed to build one and surplus space to build one. The cost of actually constructing it isn’t the only thing wealth is relevant to.
I'm sorry, I still don't understand. This is exactly the way it is with any other browser. If you don't like changes in Chrome for example, you can either modify them, accept their decision, or find another product. And Chrome is not in decline.
primary source documents are one of the most powerful ways to understand an event and the impact it had.

I'm almost in my 30s and I barely remember 9/11. Most kids today, live in a world (for Americans at least) that was profoundly changed by 9/11. They deserve to be able to understand that moment.

The first time I went to an airport, there were (National Guard, I think) soldiers standing around with heavy duty guns. Later, it was removing shoes and all the rest of the nonsense security theater we still put up with. A few years later, the fabled pornoscan.

People deserve to be able to learn about the history of their world. It is deeply offensive to me that you would suggest people can't handle primary sources and need someone to make 'reasonable points' and do people's thinking for them.
That doesn't answer the question at all.

The old statistics said to use the index.

If it's still using old statistics, why does the behavior change?
Xayn Launches Web Version of Its Private Search and Discovery Engine
> Firefox on iOS shows how little Mozilla cares about the platform.

I agree, but also aren’t alternative browsers on IOS still just window dressing? Since the backend is always Safari?
And with the number of computers I've bought, I've purchased Windows hundreds of times.

I have no qualms about a pirated windows install. None. At. All.
In the automotive world this is called "presence"

To automotive marketers this type of customer falls under "status seekers"
The word vaccine isn't even in the article.
A lot harder meaning: knows hot to install a program on Linux if the distro of choice doesn't outright ask to install the correct driver.
I was in the Navy and had been at my first command at a nuke base in the PNW. I walked to the galley for breakfast and they had some TVs you could watch while eating. I watched the second plane hit.
I walked to work which was a telecommunications station. We processed messages for different regional commands and would call them directly whenever they had an emergency action message (EAM). I walked in to a completely chaotic watch floor. Every message was an EAM that day. Every phone was ringing or in use, every computer that could alarm was alarming, our dial up modems were constantly busy. All my coworkers were shouting and running here and there. I had never seen it like that and as a young Sailor it was very worrying. Everyone we called to inform them of their EAMs would ask if we knew what was going on or knew if someone was mobilizing but we were just as much in the dark as everyone else.

I remember at one point our Leading Chief Petty Officer (LPCO) yelled for everyone to stop what they were doing and told us to call our parents and loved ones to let them know we were safe. That was the longest day I’d ever worked at that command and no one left that day, even those from the previous night shift. The fact that no one, even our CO, had any idea what was going on…that the military was in the dark, was such an unnerving feeling.
Victory was never possible given the low industrial capacity and population of the south.

40% of the confederacy was enslaved, at some point they would have just run out of soldiers. Best they could have gotten was some kind of negotiated settlement, but union victory was inevitable the longer the war went on.
Anything that gets humans out of danger probably makes the navy happy. I bet you also don't need to go into port/resupply as often.

Also, I imagine you might be able to move a ship faster without a human crew. (Though that may require more of an engineering overhaul.)
Only if one only looks to the original Pascal language as means to sell their propaganda.

All Pascal dialects, and the Extended Pascal standard that improved the original one, had the array of <type> construct that allows you to query for the actual bounds.

Type conversations were also available, again in all dialects.

Naturally, those variants were ignored, as Kernighan had a message to sell.
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society
So did you name your computer Theseus?

:)
EAC is actually pretty terrible against commercial cheats, it's only use is against free cheats pretty much. If you're willing to pay, you'll find many for EAC games.
I can't reach it from Canada either right now.
While they are not solely focused on distributed systems, these five books -- https://rvprasad.medium.com/books-about-designing-systems-of... -- cover different aspects of designing systems of scale, which are most often distributed systems.
I lost the link, and couldn’t easily find it from Wayback, but radio talk show host Neal Boortz would post his program notes at like 7am eastern, and he had already posted by then that “the big news of the day is Michael Jordan’s announcement of returning to the NBA”.

Naturally, he made a ton of updates to the page after the attack, but left that bit and it was kind of funny to see that over the 9/11 news.
I remember native mobile apps disrupting the web, rather than the other way around.

The reason native apps disrupted web apps was because they were (all else equal) more performant, and had access to more of the device, and because companies drove users to using their apps because they could get more value out of them that way.

My take on it at the time was that native apps gave companies a way to reset their relationships with web users, and bring them into an environment where users had less control, and companies had more.
> and then Borland got greedy, decided that Fortune 500 were going to be their main customers in detriment of the small dev shops.

AIUI, that only happened very recently, well past the C# thing and perhaps only after the change from Borland to Embarcadero. For a long time, Delphi was actually a very reasonably accessible and effective competitor to Visual Basic.