skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all of my favourite browser extensions come to Chrome years later (or not at all), Firefox handles extremely high tab counts very well, it provides more access to "here be dragons" configuration options, session restoration is much more reliable.

Probably loads more reasons I can't think of off the top of my head. Firefox is just by far a better user experience for me.
We did the same transition, but from BunnyCDN (their push option) to S3, but didn't see the level of improvement we wanted. Then we tried Google Storage and hoooly crap it blows s3 out of the water. Cloudflare seems like it's the only remaining player who could compete with them on both quality/speed and price.
I hate high contrast light text on dark background. It remains printed in my eyes for some time even after reading just a couple of lines.

Now that I think about it I'm not sure if I've always been this way; for example I loved monokai theme since its release, for years I refused to color code with anything else. Nowadays my editor is dark gray on warm almost-white, no colors, only bold to highlight some keywords.

That said, I don't think websites should have different styles to please everyone. I respect the designer (is web design still a thing in the material world?) choices but the developer should code the page separating style and content. Let me turn off css or use reader mode without compromising content.

Quick solutions I've used when clicking the back button was not an option: some !important css on the browser console, print pdf, reader mode, outline, Vivaldi has a negative mode switch that's particularly useful on mobile, last resort copy the text and paste it somewhere else..
These repercussions were known before the vote so how’s it going can have a double take. I feel the Brexiters were duped into leaving the EU for no direct benefit to themselves, outside the ruling class of course. The pain will not be short lived and the transition will be a big headache for years to come. It’s extremely hard to predict ahead of time whether this move will eventually pay off down the road.
I think it's crazy and dogmatic when authorities know that natural immunity is as good as induced immunity[1] via vaccines but never the less remain steadfast in the face of evidence with their dogmatism that only vaccine immunity is acceptable. It's an argument we might expect from someone who is ignorant, for example, but not from people who should know better.

If they were to remain consistent then they would also invalidate J&J vaccines given those are viral vector vaccines.

Note: I am vaccinated and favor vaccination for those not exposed or unvaxxed, but I also believe that if you have had Covid19 you do not need MOAR immunity. You already have it.

[1]https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
My rule of thumb is one factor of three and then as many factors of two as you need. Adding five is not much different from two twos or a two and a three. Ditto for seven.

The only downside imo is not having ten(s) be a balanced deploy number.
Whoever leaked this is going to get buttbuttinated for sure.

I have a hard time believing this silly mess is an actual component of anything.
Could you rephrase the last sentence?
"Enabled for US users only" because they'd go bankrupt due to GDPR violations otherwise.

I had disabled search suggestions because I didn't want a key logger in my address bar and Mozilla most certainly did not get my consent or notify me of any changes to the privacy policy before they helpfully enabled this "feature" for me.
the AUKUS submarine deal is pretty recent

there is absolutely no way that undermining France would have been on the table when the UK was part of the EU common defence
Yes and…
Australia like Britain, did not use Oil royalties to establish abiding sovereign funds to persist after the oil ran out. Instead, the royalty stream has been used to draw down debt, and to replace taxation as an income stream in the present, but oftentimes has led to wasted spend on vanity projects, or on build out of infrastructure purely for extractive industry (mining, oil, gas) which in turn is hoped to generate revenue, but alas, not until a very long time in the future. Displaced costs in forward income estimates, much as in the movie industry, mean some mines and oilwells basically never pay tax, but generate collossal revenue which disappears into company consolidated debt. Its a huge rort of the model. There are royalties, but they are 'subverted' out of the picture.

"its scotland's oil" was about Maggie Thatcher, and how the revenue was spent. Now scotland has independent tax raising powers, the border with england for sea resources was carefully restruck to favour england (look on a map to the boundaries, they aren't what you might think)

Australia has soverign wealth funds. Just, not made with revenue from this kind of industry. This kind of industry dominates the political landscape and has impeded the uptake of solar and wind, and replacement of coal for power generation. I don't mean silently: this is a quite overt distortion, active, such that major corporates actually have withdrawn from the australian mining and minerals council because its like the NRA, single-issue distorting of the polity.

In the early 2000s an Australian labor government tried to raise a tax analogous to a petrol royalties and revenue tax, and was pretty much de-elected by sectional interests on the strength of industry opposition. (the PRRT exists. the MRRT was voted down)

Mining employs around 40,000 people in a nation of 25 million. Solar and Wind and Tourism would probably employ more people. But, the voting effects of mining establish a lock on our senate (and sometimes, lower house) which make it next to impossible to see change. The industry is running the government, at one remove.

I don't believe for a minute Norway is all peaches and cream, but it probably has a better sense of cohesion around its role in the world, and the benefits of the sovereign fund, and future money, and de-carbonising the economy. Norway was an extremely poor, -to the extent of massive nutritional death in winter-poor economy. It's moved the dial to a different place, and done it quite carefully, economically speaking. (Norwegian settlers in the USA and Canada came because of a potato famine)

We're envious. (well, the Australians who don't derive income directly from mining, oil or gas)
As free-to-play games have demonstrated, you don't need an overwhelming majority of people to pay. There are even ways to find out if it is going to work, such as say a crowd source campaign to pay for n years of browser maintenance and development with various levels of branded merchandise so people can signal their allegiance at conferences. So far I've just seen a donation link for the foundation, which gets a lot of hate because it funds all the stuff lots of potential donors want Mozilla to stop doing.
I think that there's absolutely a point there, though I don't have anything substatntive to add beyond that about the actual point.

I do however think that to have that discussion, it would've been much better form to start with the macro level point rather than mentioning his individual family first.

(I know you're not the person I initially replied to)
It basically does since it has likes/reactions for posts. Except it's worth because the only likes/reactions that matter are the ones people will see today which makes it seam like getting 500 or even 5000 likes per post is a totally normal 'goal'.

In comparison HN, the number of possible karma per post is pretty much an equal playing field (save for a few recognizable accounts).
When I Ran for President, It Messed with My Head. Andrew Yang
Facebook whistleblower to speak to January 6 select committee
If it's anything like Pocket ads, all of the processing is done on-device.
Calling this an ad is a bit of a stretch.
Oh classic Mike Hunt, poor guy.
RocksDB in Microsoft Bing
Compare and contrast US/Brit actions when:

a) Norway nationalizes their oil

b)Iran nationalizes their oil.
Pulumi is not "Terraform under the hood" in any sense than that some of the providers are forks of Terraform providers.

The engine is entirely separate and, now that they have a foothold with it, they are building out providers that are built around the Pulumi execution model first-class, rather than an adapter layer.

One notable core difference in the Pulumi model is that it doesn't have "plan" in the same sense that Terraform does, where the set of actions is fixed and just executed once you accept it, returning an error if that turns out not to be possible.

"pulumi preview" just runs the program in a dry-run mode, so there's no guarantee that the subsequent apply will match unless you've been careful to write a totally deterministic program that always behaves the same with placeholder values as it does for concrete values.

That's a typical tradeoff for using a DSL vs. a general-purpose language though, and one that seems to pay off for a lot of teams.
Any organization that wants to accomplish something must be ableist in some way. Universities are for people who are above average in intelligence, which immediately excludes more than half the population.
> diversifies your presence across multiple providers.

In this case, for most AWS/CF customers, that diversification is of the "downtime on either represents downtime for their customer" variety. (I'm still a fan of this offering and the pressure it put on the current high price of egress bandwidth, of course.)
So Russia is colonized? Canada? Brazil? Heck the US for that matter?

You act as if the middle east is the only collection of countries beholden to oil exports, and the only countries making what would otherwise be considered short-sighted moves based on those exports.
Whats this one about?

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION is_blasphemy (VARCHAR) RETURNS BOOLEAN STABLE AS $$
SELECT replace($1,'_','') SIMILAR TO '%p(o|0)rc(o|0)di(o|0)%'
OR replace($1,'_','') SIMILAR TO '%p(o|0)rc(o|0)mad(o|0)nna%'
$$ LANGUAGE SQL;
Under US tax law, they cannot legally spend tax-exempt donated funds on the development of a for-profit product.
Soon we'll go full circle back to the days of banner ads at the top like in Opera 8.
TI-83+ played a huge role in my formative years as a programmer/nerd. This was early 2000s.

If you like calculators, I also recommend checking out the visual history of vintage TI calculators at http://www.datamath.org/
This varies significantly from thread to thread. I remember the threads from the time of the George Floyd protests and they were pretty awful, but most are completely mundane e.g. I posted a thread about alleged abuse of refugees at some US detention center and it was received as you would expect anywhere else.

That being said I am white and male and probably not who you have in mind. HN being white and male is probably more of a thing about it being aimed at programmers than anything else, plus I have a pet theory that something about the male personality values talking nonsense all day about things we have no control over (i.e. Why is Reddit male dominated? The subs I go on are full of completely sexless nerdtalk about politics for example)
You're not wrong, but this is the part where capitalism is supposed to encourage people to use methods that cost less in externalities. Businesses should pay for their externalities or else they aren't competing with each other fairly.

The question of who it is a subsidy to is important, but it is better to directly give them a subsidy than to skew the upstream market towards vehicles that damage roads and cost a ton of money to repair.

I doubt we'll get there though, I admit that we can't get anything effective done. And we'd need to effectively keep prices from rising at the register to even the playing field for infrastructure expenses.
They're trying to drive up their volumes in the hope of obtaining more peering.

This is evidently the core of Cloudflare's business strategy, emerging in practically everything they do tactically; from Matthew Prince having an epic public sook earlier this year about AWS's network team telling him to jump in a lake, to this. Peering drives down the marginal cost of bandwidth, and this is super relevant since Cloudflare's main value-add product is DDoS mitigation. Unless you're an incumbent tier 1 carrier (which is the hereditary royalty of networking), the classic ways to obtain more/better peering are either have the most eyeballs, or the most content. A typical access ISP takes the former approach, a CDN like Cloudflare takes the latter.

As usual, free anything means you are the commodity being traded on.
Oh frak, not again.

Mozilla, please, allow us to donate money in a way that we can be sure it will be used for *developing Firefox* and not for some nonsensical Mozilla Foundation project.
Sorry, I may have been making unfair assumptions about your intent with your comment about the definition of "song." Let's assume that you are just eager to help me understand proper usage of the term. Thank you for pointing this out. I'm aware of the distinction, but was making a choice to ignore it, because I think most people ignore it. And when I was a kid playing around with Windows 3.1 I definitely would have called it a song.
Plenty! But not significant compared to page content in terms of storage or load. That unsharded data is stored in separate unsharded databases today, but each table could be sharded later using a different shard key (often user id).

Luckily we did not have many join queries prior to sharding. The few cross-database joins were trivial to implement as separate queries in application logic.

Our main concern here was referential consistency: if you need to write to multiple databases at once, what happens if one of your writes fails? This was not a problem in practice for us since (1) our unsharded data is relatively static and (2) there are very few bidirectional pointers between data across databases.

Long term there are more interesting problems to solve when distributing unsharded data globally. However, given that our unsharded data is less dynamic and consistency is less critical, we have many levers we can pull here.
> or know how to trick it into running on their non-Windows computer

Its a Steam game, so will work on Linux. What other OS is there that your group uses?
I don't think that kind of usage is a problem. If you are actually using it to share stuff occasionally then it's just a more accessible blog (well besides the privacy issues).

If you are spending hours a day trying to attract attention then that's an issue. If you spend hours a day posting every detail about your life then it might be an issue it might not - it's just a matter of deciding how you want to spend your time.
Now I know why I see the phrase “weird chemical odor” on reviews for things like facemasks masks a lot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28774980
This is a whole new type of gaslighting being employed by big corporations in the war against the right to repair.

The pervasive practice of designing hardware that is difficult to take apart or service needs to end, full stop.
> EDIT: Mea culpa. I have found additional documentation that conflicts and reveals that there is now an an additional copyright-assignment track. See my soon-to-appear reply.

On https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/submit I found the following:

> Assignment and Contribution Models. The .NET Foundation uses either an assignment model or a contribution model for on-boarding new projects. Under the assignment model, a project transfers ownership of the copyright to the .NET Foundation. Under the contribution model, a project retains ownership of the copyright, but grants the .NET Foundation a broad license to the project’s code and other intellectual property. The project also confirms that the project’s submissions to .NET Foundation are its own original work (there are also instructions for any third party materials that might be included).

I regret my error.
Hey, there's still plenty of time to try Pony.

We are a little volunteer driven project and will be here whenever you find the time. Stop by the Zulip sometime and chat!

https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/

-Sean-
It just didn't get more Windows than Canyon.mid. 90s corporate Memphis in musical form, the kind of thing you'd hear over a 3D computer animation -- or opening a corporate training video. Its full title was "A Trip Through the Grand Canyon" or similar; no surprise, that was also the subject of many a 3D computer animation back in the day.
>As free-to-play games have demonstrated, you don't need an overwhelming majority of people to pay.

Are free-to-play games really the best example here?

Also, a lot of those are funded by ads...
> still a backwards monarchy that installs a king as head of state

Our royal family is there mostly just for show. Lots of us walk past the castle on our constitution day and wave to the king and the rest of his family and they wave back. Over the remainder of the year they hold some speeches, attend some openings and other events.

We are a democracy, and the power that is given to our king in the Norwegian constitution of 1814, has actually been managed by the government instead for a long time since then.

The function of our monarchy is largely one of ceremonial nature these days.

There was a vote in stortinget a couple of years ago over whether to disband or retain the monarchy. 36 representatives vote for disbanding the monarchy, and 130 representatives voted for keeping it. I think this is reflective of the overall attitude that we have of our monarchy; some are against it but the majority wants to keep it.
I sold my first "app" in 1997 for $1.

It was a TI-85 program custom written for my chemistry class. It had a couple of minor useful things, but the biggest thing is it would stuff atomic weights into their canonical symbol names in memory, and clear them when you're done to save memory.

For example, 2O (two-oh, two Oxygen atoms) was a valid expression that yielded 32. And no, not all of them are available though it's been 24 years so I don't remember which weren't but it was surprisingly few.

I thought it would be a immoral to sell something for more than $1, that when I still had it after selling it. I probably could have charged $50.

I think I was 16 or 17. But I beat apple to the "$1 app" game by 11 years. And it's part of what made me go into computer science -> programming. I grew up poor, so we didn't have a computer in the house, and no internet either. So I carried around the calculator and it's manual for years in High School.
> R2 is currently under development... We’ll be announcing an open beta where any user will be able to sign up for the service soon.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/#:...

In my opinion, expect 3-6 months for the beta, then maybe 2 years for GA. Storage at scale isn't easy, especially if they want to be comparable to aws in speed, SLA, data protection (ie. duplicated to 3+ physical data silos), etc.
I lived in Singapore for 10 years in both HDB and condo. Close to the cbd and far.

HDB can be run down yes, but most are not. They simply do not have things like gym and pool.

Majority of the expats will get a condo first and then realise they don’t use any of this stuff and later change to HDB.

Condos are often poorly constructed. I lived in a condo that had just been finished about 6 months earlier. In Jurong east called j gateway. It’s one of the worst buildings I’ve ever been in. They put tiles on the floor that are meant for walls, and the floor to the shower is flat so the water pools and don’t run out causing water splotches.

Anyway my point is: Singapore is cheap to live in. If you want to live near the cbd (unsure why cos most expats prefer to socialise around Holland village) then you have to pay for it. If you don’t want to eat locally and instead order grab food or eat at restaurants then yeah it’s expensive. But that doesn’t make Singapore expensive to live in, your chosen life style is expensive.
Free as in beer. Thomas Gideon makes an open access beer recipe.
Echoing this. We've just made use of that very offer to shift >2billion objects (120TB) from S3 to B2. Migration took over a month but we weren't billed for any of it and are very happy so far.
You're on the wrong website if you're trying to avoid karma farming.
The forced PR was reverted shortly after by another maintainer.

And I agree, a “sorry my bad” type of comment would have looked nice in the PR, but the attitude and actions in it vs the official apology, sounds like completely different people.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porco%20dio
I'm not sure about the whole of Europe, but certainly the richer countries.

https://www.acea.auto/press-release/electric-cars-10-eu-coun...
Asperger's Syndrome and its affect on later life
Or Considering harm for fun and profit?
Falkon uses QtWebEngine which uses Chromium under the hood if I"m reading this right. I believe this disqualifies it from what the author's looking for or is there more to it than that?
I can't find the article now but the developer who wrote these scripts said they were a singular effort from years ago before security was taken over by a more formal development team.
If they can develop a decent VPN product or password manager, I would also pay for that.
Your opinion is trendy racist horseshit and you belong here.
Easy to repair, inexpensive, high quality

It’s choose two situation, no?
Yah ads aren't inherently bad, but the business models that developed around ads and tracking is what most oppose, and has turned ads into evil, unfortunately.
Some near the end looked like they might be in another language, but I won't be the one to find out.

It used to be "if I search for this term, am I accidentally going to wind up getting goatse or something?" The good old days.

Now it's "if I search for this term, is the FBI going to kick my door in?"
I'm not sure how many different interpretations there are of "cyan". What I think of first is RGB(0,255,255) because of mostly encountering the term in relation to computers since the 1980s. Or whatever the cyan in CMYK is, I assume it's similar.

But that's likely not the traditional meaning of it, in whatever language. So I don't assume that I know what cyaan is.
>Your whole program was limited to a few kilobytes. You only had 27 floating point variables, a few lists of floats with a maximum length of 999, no real functions or stack or anything, etc. You’d shave bytes by taking advantage of syntactical quirks that the interpreter happened to accept, like not closing parentheses at the end of a line.

I found that smaller programs just ran faster. So I took one I'd written to convert from ASCII strings to binary strings and back. Yes, there's a built in function to do this, but it's very limited. Mine used string representations and so the only limits were memory...Then I changed all the variables to single letters to save space...and rendering the code completely indecipherable in the process.

Learning the hard way that "human readable code" is very important at a very young age.
these are so meme-able
boring and fake
Giving you more sustainable choices with Google
I can’t visualize anything really. It’s like I just think about its shape in an abstract since but I don’t actually visualize anything it’s all words and thoughts in my head, no images.