skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For those who think web-based IDEs are inefficient, I recommend giving VS Code in the browser a try: nowadays it's just as performant as it is on the desktop.

This doesn't read to me as the acclaim that you think it is. What I'm hearing is that the desktop application is as slow as a web IDE.

No doubt the people at VSCode have put every effort into making the application run well on desktop, but that's not to say that it comes close to "native".

For another point of reference, I'd say that Discord is "as fast in the web browser as it is on desktop", but that's no compliment; the desktop client is extremely laggy, even on an up-to-date Windows PC. [That said, relatively speaking VSCode is leagues ahead of Discord on this front].
I don’t think anyone talks about Fitbit anymore ...
"I'm convinced that the only way to like that book is to..."

I must strongly disagree on your position that only people with specific histories may enjoy a specific book.

I think I recognize science (MSc in physics), my fiction (enjoy everything from Chekhov and Tolstoy to Banks, Clarke) and found the books as damn entertaining read.

It's fiction! If I want "real science" I will do a refresher on my quantum mechanics, CS algos or peruse the latest Economist.

Silly stories have their place, and some of us enjoy an entertaining yarn (if a yarn is 'entertaining' is then again a matter of taste).
> we "pahked it"

It took almost 30 years to finally get comfortable with the way native, mostly British, speakers pronounce R. It still doesn't feel right but I no longer fight.

I can still picture myself yelling my hard Rs at Google translate and it consistently failing to understand me.

Somewhat more on topic: I just realized I've been using nothing but Viscose for 2 years now. Still not as good as WebStorm but it's getting there. It wasn't nearly as good back in 2017.

Not sure I want it to be just a tab in my browser thought. Very cool nonetheless. We've come a long way
Huh, looks like they also have these for music: https://www.etymotic.com/product/music-pro/

Has anyone here tried them? I'm very curious how well they'd work to use at concerts.
I first thought of Comcast. People still call it "Comcast" instead of "Xfinity"
Hey everyone. I'm Bill, CEO of Readup and Jeff's co-founder.

FYI: We applied to YC and we're still waiting to hear back. They asked to provide a revenue update a few weeks ago. We grew a lot in September (50% increase in total # of subscriptions, MoM) so that was good. Fingers crossed!
You're right, I checked, there were pre-orders, which made zero sense given there was no promotional offer of any kind and very little demand then.

Anyway the Pixel 3 and 4 were pretty big flops. Pricey and uninteresting devices, with abysmal battery life for the non-XL variants. I remember third party sellers fire-selling their stock of Pixel 3s during summer 2019.

The 5 and the 6 are priced a lot more reasonably, Google probably doesn't need to do anything to sell their current stock, so if you believe you'll get better than $200 headphones, good luck with that.
What's missing from Perl 5, would you say, that's holding it back? Performance? Language features? The "line noise" stigma? (yet, Haskell is trendy and it's at least as "line noise" looking to me, in typical use, as typical Perl is...) Package management and other tools?
Authoritarianism as an Evolved ‘Social Good’
The old Pump and Dump?
So it's pretty easy to hate on criminals or jackasses, and they do get hated on already, even if they're rich. And we throw them in prison if at all possible under the current laws.

The premise of the article seems to be the disconnect between the feelings the public has for group vs its constituents, when the feeling is positive for each constituent but negative for the group.

Bad billionaires aren't in the group, and I'd argue that people do hate on groups even when they love each and every individual member.
Chromium based browser with attitude annoy me
Viking Artifacts Give Precise Date for Earliest Presence in North America
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Does he work on a VR adjacent team? I'd be surprised if everyone did this, but wouldn't be surprised if some teams are expected a certain amount 'dog-fooding'. I have a friend who works at M$ and always has some broken beta build of windows/IE running.
In the industry (at least in Canada) outside of the medical system customers are "clients" and not "patients".
Probably the best stewards for such a platform if we’re being honest.
without certainty, prior probabilities suggest a technically inclined research leader would be male.
You can have that with my idea. Just leave the Combobox empty.
What are you specifically referring to? .NET core has pretty much everything and more than .NET Framework did.

In my personal experience, and that of colleagues, it was a pretty smooth experience. We mostly had issues due to some API changes here and there, and of course ASP.NET
Most areas, especially in the contiguous United States, have already been explored to some extent. These ultra cheap leases reflect the fact that the likelihood of economically producing hydrocarbons in this area is extremely unlikely.
That reminds me of a library where I’ve seen it in use: wgpu. For example https://docs.rs/wgpu/0.11.0/wgpu/struct.TextureViewDescripto...
The term is entertainingly used here to contrast it with the positive traits listed immediately after it. The sentence loses most of its humor if you change "hater" to "skeptic."

Everybody understands what the author is saying and that it isn't an insult.
In a relevant sense, common occurrence of a pattern reveals a weakness in the language where it appears, because no one has succeeded in capturing it in a library so it doesn't need to be coded again.

Thus, C programs are shot through with hash table implementations, because a generally usable hash table library is not possible in C. Rust has a good one in the standard library, so Rust programs with a custom hash table are vanishingly rare.

Ideally, when a pattern is recognized, the language gets a new fundamental primitive that enables constructing the library. Sometimes that is too hard, and the pattern becomes itself a new core language feature. After that, sometimes an enabling fundamental feature is finally added later, and the frozen pattern becomes redundant.

Thus, each big built-in language feature identifies a failure (at some past time) to capture it in a library for lack of the building blocks that would have been needed. Those might have since appeared, but the built-in is still more idiomatic than using a library.

Each pattern represents an opportunity to strengthen the language with a new primitive that would enable eliminating need for any more instances of the pattern. But there are always new patterns, so always more such opportunities. And, that's how a language evolves.
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Release cadence. Trendy isn't a factor for a productive dev.
> Many ultra wealthy individuals did not come from a highly privileged background.

4 is by no means "many."

Look at the billionaires list and say that again with a straight face:

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

> The authors ignore this nuance altogether, assuming that any individual nuance is a fallacy

The authors are talking about the 2,500 billionaries in the world (there are 22,000,000 millionaires in the USA).

It's funny listening to you tolerate lavish wealth for individuals more than groups while criticizing an article that says people tolerate lavish wealth for individuals more than groups.
you're right, Mac OS X is a derivative of BSD but it also has significant Mach tech (like the linker).

I've used freebsd for years and I still find Mac OS to be the least useful UNIX.
> Second Life has existed for 20 years and it's a fun novelty.

Sorry this is tangential, but anyone remember Active Worlds from Circle of Fire circa 1995?
Eliza (Elizabot.js)
> Each lead-exposed child costs an estimated $5600 in medical and special educational services.7 Lead exposure-related cognitive impairments cost an estimated $50.9 billion annually in lost US economic productivity

It's quite disturbing to phrase things this way.
Feels a bit clickbait. The headline made it sound like it was rebranding the main app. Instead they're just pulling a google->alphabet, which is much less shocking.
I think "honest market" is libertarian-speak for "no government". He's being serious.
And honestly - nobody calls Google anything but Google. These sorts of renames requires that the main line of business actually shrink relative to the company which strikes me as highly unlikely for both Google and Facebook.
Are you sure the majority of H-1B holders aren't in that lengthy backlog? If this random page [1] is close to correct, people from India were granted half the H-1Bs, and China another nearly 10%, so it already started witrh a majority being backlogged from issuance, then as others clear the backlog in say 3 years and these take much longer, the holder demographic becomes even more of a majority of people waiting for the giant backlog.

I'm still not really sure why there's such a strict limit on green cards per country of origin, when countries have such a wide variety of population or even area. What if India decided they wanted to make things easier for expatriates as well as increase their influence wherever number of countries count and break into the 28 states and 8 union territories.

Suddenly, they could get a 35 more votes at the UN and a ton more green cards. They could all be individual countries, under the banner of the Indian Union which sets fiscal policy and manages the currency and provide for common defense. There's plenty of space in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 namespace for 36 new entities, and there's lots of good reasons to do it!

[1] https://www.h1b.io/blog/gets-visas-many-countries/
Reflections on Foundation Models
Id guess only a small percent have this realization. The rest enjoy the privileged life and find a way or another to justify themselves that they deserve it. If I were born into a privileged family I'd probably be the same..
It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible.

It is all of our duties to learn about, respect, and embrace cultures that are different from our own.

Just as I'm not going to take a job in France and tell the bakery how to make baguettes, I don't expect someone from France to come to the United States and be critical of the clock on the wall.

The technosphere is too often all about making the world standardized, bureaucratic, and homogenized. In other words: boring. I'd rather live in a world with many different cultures that I can learn about and explore. Who cares if it doesn't fit neatly into something that works for a computer? They're supposed to work for us, not the other way around.
"You could put money into BTC, but don't listen to me, wink wink" is a pretty good pump.
> The former project lead refused to surrender the domain names

We actually offered to purchase the domain names from him. We don't know how much he sold them for but we were not given the chance to bid against whoever eventually bought them.
In the elite milieu it is apparently hurtful to talk of a meritocracy.

To imagine this as a scarlet letter even a decade ago would have been laughable, but here we are.
I’m in Canada and have two points to say on this:

1) The conservatives (political right) have eroded public health care any chance they can, such as through cutting budgets to any health-related service over the course of at least the last 20 years. They do this so that they can stand up in front of people and argue that “Wait times are long! If you let us implement private health care you could simply pay for better service!”

2) Even with the reduced budgets and constant attacks by conservatives, if I limp in to emerg with severe pains I’m getting looked at immediately and might be successfully out of surgery by the end of the hour.
On a smaller note, I just had this convo this morning: “Can I book an appt to get my prescription refilled? I know the Dr has to talk to me before writing it” “For sure. I can get you in Nov 28th. Are you completely out?” “Yes I am, I miscalculated and I’m concerned.” “Ok, I’m putting you in for tomorrow afternoon. Does that work for you?”
Facebook to pay up to $14.25 mln to settle U.S. employment discrimination claims
> Under what metric and what government are you referring to.

In the metric that matters: who bought the US government. Current US government is bought by corporate interests and does absolutely nothing that goes against big corporate power. This indicates that government is subjugated to the capitalist oligarchy, and the crimes it commits are allowed or supported by the same capitalist oligarchy.
Vikings were in the Americas exactly a thousand years ago
analytically what you say makes sense, but in reality individual people have muscles, hair and mental focus -- more of less of those. Look at the outrageous flaunting that goes on in the ghettoes .. or the demure life of a modest family member in a high-scale estate. The exceptions have to define the rules, because, there is no "2.5 children" if you get my drift
Wrong airplane. Jets use JET-A (no lead) not AVGAS
TV Tropes has an article titled exactly "Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness" which is probably a good approximation of what you're thinking of.
Money transfers that can’t be stopped by international organizations.
It seems to be like Theia https://theia-ide.org/ which is based on vscode and runs in the browser. It's used by this project to give a full lab/workspace and ide in the cloud:https://www.eclipse.org/che/ (it's actually closer to vscode even though eclipse is in the name).
Bash has prohibitive license. What I've heard about zsh is that integrating it with FreeBSD build system would be non-trivial.
It is deceptive and misleading with an intent to promote specific goals and agenda.

The salient characteristic of propaganda is not that it is (entirely) false. It is that it serves a specific interest and agenda rather than being a good-faith, best-effort attempt to convey truth.

It's a fundamental conflict in communications dating at least to Plato and the philosophers vs. the sophists.

Propaganda is most effective when it wraps its intended payload in an attractive, largely truthful message, and acts to nudge its intended targets in a direction they're inclined to go already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist
The Violet Shift. Or That’s Why We Shouldn’t Go Back to the Offices
As a matter of history, I have some experience with Smalltalk.

The first Smalltalk implementation I used was bought because I had already implemented a proof-of-concept prototype on a spreadsheet (Lotus 123 iirc).

As-it-happens I have no experience with Smalltalk-as-a-hobby.
Why is this a problem? Why are we trying to manipulate Facebook's hiring practices? We may not like it, but they should be free to hire whomever they please.
I don't have the data, but because this idea I'm curious to know what the crime rates are per capita in countries that mandate military training for the entire population. I think Israeli people (both men and women) do mandatory military and combat training - does this translate to a decrease in domestic violence and shootings?
Date of Viking Visit to North America Pinpointed to 1021 Ad
FWIW I've used web-based IDEs for certain bespoke tasks and desktop VS Code is still magnitudes ahead of them in speed/performance.
Exactly, just useful for a screening, but not for determining actual settings.

And there is more that is taken in to account when setting the hearing aids, such as:
Age
Speech comprehension issues
Loudness thresholds
cognitive issues

As well there are a handfull of "red flags" that are looked for, some of which can only be done with a visual examination, and others by more involved audiometric testing.
The notch on the new MacBook Pros is internally named “Daisy”
Big Tech M&A from FTC report (Twitter thread)
Truth as Transcendental: Ontological Foundations
I would pay for a search engine that let me 1 click ban results from a given domain from showing up. I never want to see reddit, facebook, twitter or pinterest in my results.
Perl is simply a tool. I still use it all the time for small scripts and automation.

I know Python, Go, C#, and a bunch more....but I reach for Perl when the task calls for processing lots of text, or quick automation. Others might reach for Python or Ruby or Go.

For me it's a better bash script, a better grep, a better awk, a better sed. That's what Perl was designed to be, and I don't think any other scripting language matches it for that purpose.

It is not a tool to build desktop applications or the first choice for web applications in 2021.

But it is still extremely useful for its niche...processing data/logs/text, or system administration tasks. It really shines there and that's how I use it.

It's another tool in my toolbox, and learning Perl has made me more productive and I still reach for it today.
Twitter acquires group chat app Sphere
It's comments like this that make it worth wading through HN each morning.

Huzzah!
I was thinking the same thing. Plus they would have the backing of a state actor, so compliance, and ethics issues would be non-existent.
Yeah, and it's actually a pretty terrible attitude to have if you're into gaming because a large segment of the population thinks all video games are for 12 year olds.
Show HN: Minutes, a Go CLI tool for synchronizing worklogs
>However, I'm not sure who this is for. Downloading and installing an application is not a particularly big ask for the type of people who use VSCode

It's like how nerdy types could easily slap together their own Dropbox, with rsync and duct tape (as per the famous comment), but most didn't - plus the world is not just full of types who'd do it. And then MS can start adding all kinds of collaboration tools built in, from pair coding to bug tracking, time tracking and so on.

I can imagine an enterprise giving devs just this + something like local/Cloud VPS/CI/CD environment to work in. Immediately reproducible, no hassle, secure, and so on.

>The browser version will always be a compromised experience, given the inherent limitation

Well, offline VSCode is a glorified browser as well.
Using virtual reality to help counter domestic abuse
yeah. no.
Which, again, would be a fantastically amazing discovery, perhaps the greatest ever in the history of science. A physicist would be salivating at the possibilities.

But iirc it started off with a whole history of physics grad students offing themselves when their experiments didn’t work out or confirmed negative results, not just the one you are referring to.
> Intermediate results are largely not available because it is required to protect all commercial entities participating.

Ironically, "protecting commercial interests" is why the whole lead fuel catastrophe came to be.
>why "| less"? Not sure

Pretty sure it's autocompleting the last thing that you executed that started with "ls".
You implemented the wrong formula. You don’t want to explicitly calculate "node poly".

The formula you want is the “second barycentric formula”, (4.2) at the top of page 505 of https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/barycentric.pdf

Or formula (2.6) halfway down page 2 of https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/publication/PDF/2011...

Also cf. Higham (2004) “The numerical stability of barycentric Lagrange interpolation” https://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/narep/narep440.pd...

If you want to implement the “first barycentric formula” instead you need to take some additional care to avoid overflow/underflow.

As the papers above note, the choice of interpolation nodes makes a big difference. If you have an arbitrary function to approximate on an arbitrary complex domain, take a look at https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00337
> Trendy isn't a factor for a productive dev.

It can matter, since companies want to see experience with what they're using, when they hire, so developers don't want to get stuck in something that's declining. Hype and perceived popularity-trajectory definitely matter for keeping a language alive, and for hiring (devs will tend not to want to take your job if they'll be working with things they consider to be legacy and trending downward).
I’m curious what your thoughts are on democide:

“ After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimated that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century. According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the actions of people working for governments than have died in battle.”
If it hadn't been for leaded fuel, lead paint, football / TBI, my parents smoking, and getting rolled off a changing table as a baby, I could have been intelligent. sigh
What's the obsession with knowing which daylight hour offset it would be for someone else? Wouldn't you rather know a range of hours that works for them rather than a range of hours you assume they'll be awake (and hopefully not busy)?

If the position of the sun is truly important to your use case then knowing a location is "UTC+9" as far as sunshine hours go is still able to tell you that without requiring you encode that information into the time value itself.
I tried zsh and have not found anything that is truly superior to bash. After some investigation, it seems that this idea of moving from bash is based more on the fact that zsh is the default for Apple, due to their dispute with GNU licensing terms.
Generative Art Sketches
Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms
It might be illegal to be yourself one day.
I think that's taking things a little too far. How I see it, Darrell Huff was a writer, not an academic, and he wrote a number of books over the years about all sorts of stuff.

I presume he got a bee in his bonnet about statistics at some point, and wrote his 'How to lie with Statistics' and because this became such a hit, it was assumed he know what he was talking about, and hence the interest from the cigarette manufacturers, the senate etc. This in fact was a mistake, and his credentials for appearing for the senate should have been checked.

So, the key take away from the book for me is that Statistics is hard, it's easy to confuse yourself or produce dubious results, but i'd look elsewhere for information about how to avoid pitfalls, and how to spot dubious conclusions beyond the most simplistic manipulation he points out.
>..achieving this is not trivial...

Of course it's not. You need to have gone to the right school, made the right friends, be the right ethnicity/gender (white or asian male), and have access to the right VC. But given all that, it's a cakewalk.
In Safari:

> Your current browser doesn't support local file system access.

> You can either upload single files or open a remote repository.
are you still redirecting your users to referral links without their consent to make money in cryptocurrencies?
Pinterest sucks. Why not make something similar but miles better?