skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2021 is a rich era of multiple standards-compliant browsers, including Firefox.

But if there's a bug where either a browser deviates from the standard or different browsers implement an ambiguity in the standard differently? Web developers will fix that bug in Chrome, Safari, and Edge before fixing it in Firefox. For almost every site, that's what the cost benefit analysis looks like.

If my site doesn't work right on Chrome or Safari, that's my problem. If it doesn't work right on Firefox, that's Mozilla's problem.
Surely that's fraud.
> It does seem like the GOOGL shareholder expectation of compounded perpetual YoY revenue gains of > 25% leads to bad places

Yeah it seems bizarre that they would try to hold on to that big of growth and not moderate it if this is the method to get it because there's no way it can be sustainably grown for long, but I guess if you're a VP only focused on this quarter's goals and the bonus you'll get out of it, it doesn't really much matter if growth craters a year or two out. You can cash out long before then.
Thanks for the feedback! I got permission to host the project on my company’s website after the hackathon, so it will be up indefinitely ;)

There’s also the option to just clone the repo, run, and host the server on your own as well, up to you.
Because the digits are of varying widths in the standard Apple system font, the ticking seconds cause the date strings to jiggle back and forth and the table column widths to jiggle as well!

However, you can use CSS to select the fixed-width variant for digits. This is a perfect example of a use case for:

* {
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
>This is not an editorial document, it’s a legal complaint by the Attorneys General of 17 U.S. states and commonwealths demanding a jury trial (among other things).

While I agree that Google is anticompetitive, I don't think that specific detail gives as much weight as you think it does (or indeed should). The courts have had a notoriously bad history with understanding tech, and being part of a formal legal process is only weak evidence that a complaint has merit.
Honestly, for such a thing, yes. But I should probably consider that, under certain circumnstances, people might not be aware of certain things.

Never mind, sorry for the bad comment.
I absolutely agree. To me, these are two sides of the same coin; candidates are recruited from the pool of voters and since the voters are not interested anymore, there are fewer and fewer candidates.

I struggle to understand why.

I have some idea that this because things nowadays happen so far away - as in; I hear news and happenings from the capital - but people usually don't have the means to influence these happenings, they learn to just not participate. Maybe?
I’m partial to phoenix as well :) it seems so thought out out. Things work exactly as I would expect them o work. A real pleasure. Thanks for the phoenix channels suggestion looks very cool. I wonder if liveview piggybacks off of it.
Collecting data to "improve" programs and then not doing any improvement really look like spyware.
Those warnings sure worked considering childhood obesity of mexico
Trie in JavaScript: Data Structure Behind Autocomplete
I imagine there's a reason it's necessary, but it's weird that "sealed" is basically "final" with the ability to do "permits" instead of just adding "permits" as a keyword that can be put on "final" classes
The problem is that "worthy mission" is incompatible with being a public company for the most part. Once your mandate is not profitability but growth, some cohort of people at the company will push for that growth in ways that others think is unacceptable, and they will hide these programs because they know some will objects and those that would object are incentivized from all sides and from themselves to not want to see them.

Private companies have a much better chance of actually following those missions(at least if not struggling). At a minimum, not as many incentives are aligned against you.
Yes, you're totally right and I probably stated my astonishment in the wrong way.
Can't find the original story but having read it in my formative years, it just echoed "so true":

https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/
Few years ago I say a mini-documentary on a guy in London whose business was "shopping for the rich"! Seriously, that is what he use to do the whole day. His client and he discussed the client's requirements and budget and then he use to go shopping for them :) He made a lot of money.
That's not how rich people think. Very high levels of wealth and influence literally rewires the brain. They are simply bad people and always will be.
Apparently you are not aware of the wide range of allergic effects.

For myself, I get tiny blisters on the backs of my hands and neck from cranberries. And, onions make my sinuses bleed. Indigestion is more common.
How did you meet? On the street? At a shelter? Most homeless people are homeless under a year in the US. Many have jobs. Many sleep on couches not streets. Or in cars not shelters. And they try to avoid the stigma of homelessness.
I’m doing something similar, except for Stats. I’ve cobbled together a plan based on degree programs from Stanford, CMU, and Berkeley. It would seem easier to stay on track with directed course learning, but how do you stay on track with the self-directed learning?
The cost of running government on COBOL (h/t Cowen)
The emojis in the "Hey, I'm Jellybear!" marquee line look more like "octopus-bear" (or "octobear", to compliment GitHub's "octocat"?). Not sure if there's a jellyfish emoji though...
Could you share your plan, I'd be interested!
> the IDF's Unit 8200

Motto: "At least we're less evil than Unit 731, right?"
Google pay the most, but the are alternatives if that falls through, nothing being left on the table.
The article notes that at least one possible culprit just can't be tested for at private labs:

(also, knowing what to test for is going to be tricky and probably require expert help, especially with a brand new disease. It's not like lead poisoning)

"BMAA can also accumulate in seafood and develops in the kind of blue-green algae blooms that are increasingly common in New Brunswick’s lakes and rivers. (It’s been tentatively linked to elevated levels of ALS in the United States.) Murch’s lab at UBC’s Okanagan campus is the only one in the country capable of testing for BMAA in human tissues. Initial discussion with the PHAC fell silent, however, after New Brunswick asked its federal counterparts to stand aside."
The most common problem I run into is power management. About 50% of the laptops I've installed Ubuntu on that were originally configured for Windows will correctly sleep or suspend when the lid is closed.

Of the distros I've used, Ubuntu is the one that works most reliably if I throw it on random PCs.
There was a listing for a 3BR place for sale in the first village for ~$300k on their website a few weeks ago, unsure if it’s still there. I thought that was pretty reasonable.

Also, the majority of people in the US live in homes that their family owns.
Former gun owner myself as well back when I lived in the sticks. Would carry on walks in my "yard" because of injured, hungry, or otherwise dangerous wildlife.

> Movie frames featuring sainted action heroes, gun out-thrust.

This is the sort of thing that gives firearm owners a bad rap. Especially those who advocate for self-defense rights. Everyone already thinks firearm owners are gung-ho cowboys with itchy trigger fingers. The majority are not.
The subhead "Why in hell would you do this?" certainly applies to the choice of colors and fonts. Holy cow, talk about reader-hostile.
I've always considered "don't be evil" to be a huge difference from "be good."
We aren’t on the same page. CISSP is not a goal. For security jobs, there’s 3 possible states with regards to certifications (CISSP, SEC+, etc):

1. Your employer doesn’t care about certs, and their customers don’t care about certs, and so you don’t need to worry about certs.

2. Your employer doesn’t care about certs, but they have customers (like the government) who believe erroneously that certs are desirable. So your employer pays for you to go get the fancy piece of paper so their customers will pay them. This is no different than any other checkbox requirement from the customer.

3. Your employer cares about security certs. This is a sign that you don’t want to work there.
Does anyone here only have a single browser installed on their computer? I always install Chrome, but do less than 0.1% of my browsing in it. What's the reason you couldn't have both? Storage?

What you gain from using something other than Chrome is privacy, and using something other than Chromium makes it harder for Google to gain more control of the internet.

That being said, I find both Firefox and Safari to be better experiences than Chrome.
and on a larger scale, a different social model with less consumerism, thus less ads and less big corps trying to ensure more profits by any means. The more we delegate the less we see. I don't like to transfer web to real world but a more peer to peer life could help. Sorry for the fuzzy comment but with the advent of advanced robotics and ubiquitous computing, we'll probably have no choice but to rethink daily lives.
>Or more accurately, the analogy would be if [redacted] were a monopoly financial broker and owned the [redacted] which was a monopoly stock exchange.

Can someone who has a better understand of legal proceedings explain what purpose these redactions serve?
Be good is better than don’t be evil. When was it again that google dropped the tagline “don’t be evil”?
They're also probably more used to the development process. With proprietary software, if you don't pay for a support contract, you basically can't submit a bug report - not really. You just ignore the bug and hope it's fixed in later versions.

This applies to big AAA games too, so games aren't necessarily special.

But indie games are in a weird spot where:

1. They're clearly artists. Nobody who want to make tons of cash becomes an indie game developer. If you have the aptitude to grind through the docs and make a game, you have the aptitude to grind leetcode and get a comfortable job somewhere that pays benefits and cash. And since they're artists, and they're making games, people empathize deeply with them.

2. They get a bit of a pass on the whole free software zealotry thing. I'm sure some people are still hard-line about it, but like, if I had to rank software in terms of freedom-threat-if-proprietary, something like Office or a compiler and towards the top, and Valheim is rather closer to the bottom.

3. They really have to listen to their players to survive, so they end up operating a lot more in the open.

So they end up looking a lot more like an Open/Free project than you would expect.
Most of what Facebook and Google have developed could be used to do these things. In fact it has been used to do those things, perhaps with the exception of the physical threat. But monitor and suppress? Yes.

Is everyone who worked on this stuff also an enemy of mankind?
I’ve been using the Arch Linux Archive as a way to stick with a known stable system for a few weeks until I have time to dedicate to a system upgrade and correcting any issues that arise.
Steam Cloud files location is also specified by game developer: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloud
Show HN: Open-source eMarket Online Store v1.0 beta 3
> In the end, why do we even allow markets?

Because it's the best we got, historically. Decentralized price mechanism outperforms wetware planning at allocating resources efficiently. Now software has changed that and central planning is much more capable.

Truly pure free market economies are virtually impossible, because as soon as the first firm is formed, it becomes a mixed economy. That is, economic transactions done within the firm are not done according to the global price mechanism, but to other rules and conventions. And the only way to prevent firms from being formed would be some extreme regulation i.e. central planning...
If you keep watching, they answer the question about who runs the agriculture (it’s a family that moved in that took over from the original runners of the farm).
Port Congestion: Supply Chains, Stakeholders, etc.[2014] [video]
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree node is counter intuitive, I’m curious why you think it was a mistake?

Elixir is quite new but Erlang, which it compiles to, is quite seasoned at least in programming years. That gives me confidence in terms of stability. I was able to spin up a basic real-time app in elixir in about an hour. Something that would’ve taken much longer in Django or rails. Never wanted to join an open source team before but I’m strongly considering making myself available to the phoenix team :)
Yes, but you are still adding a significant amount of acid to the stomach, way more than is supposed to be there. If your body can't neutralize the extra acid fast enough (to pass to the S. Intestine for adsorption) then you are either going to have a stomach ache, acid reflux or you may vomit. That's why people take chalky antacids to deal with an overly acidic stomach - your body naturally produces bicarbonate to do that, Tums provides a larger dose.
Karma
How does one earn “karma”? I’m trying to learn…
It's extremely widespread in other ways. We have policies enforcing institutional racism and even refer to it with euphemisms like "affirmative action"
COVID is not, unlike fructose, a known contributor to both cancer and circulatory disease[1]. To compare fructose to heart disease would be to compare fructose to one of the ways it kills.

Car accidents are not seen as a current public health emergency meriting massive interventions; and anyway cause way too few deaths to make a meaningful comparison.

[1] Temporary myocardial inflammation notwithstanding
Global Food Prices and a Data Puzzle
> At some point, you need people to check your work, though,

Agree with that, 100%. Most of my students will, at some point in a course, respond to questions with things that are completely wrong. It's just how people learn. If there was not someone to correct their mistake then they would struggle a lot to find the error and fix it.

One of the most rewarding things about working with students is helping them through tough spots. But it is real work, and takes the time and attention of someone who has training.

> but you can search for online communities to do that. E.g. a post to mathoverflow asking about whether the following proof is correct, for example.

I'll just observe that MO, while a great community, can not scale to helping lots of people check their homework. For instance, in a Linear class session I might have 20 people, each with 12 homework questions. MO is just not set up for that.

Now, sometimes students are sure they got questions right, and usually their certainty is right, so there is no need to ask that one online. And sometimes people can find a relevant previous answer (although learners often struggle to find those, in my experience). Nonetheless, even after taking those out, there are still a lot of people with a lot of questions.

> Try to find a community of others online and work with them.

Yes, very good advice. I just wanted to observe that while it might work for OP (and I hope it does), it cannot work for lots of people. I don't know what the answer is, and maybe MO could help a lot, but it can't be the answer alone.
do people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?
> It's common to see groins[0] installed on many UK beaches

In the UK, we prefer to call them groynes. A groin is something quite different...
Perturbator is especially good at bridging synthwave with [0] industrial. I used to listen to a lot of Antigen Shift, Muted Logic, Cenotype, Formalkaline and Scrap.edx prior discovering this subgenre. I suppose being influenced by the frequent DNA Lounge attendance mostly contributed to this lean.

Dance with the Dead [1] also does this particular well along with Turbo Knight [2][3].

[0] https://soundcloud.com/perturbator/perturbator-tactical-prec...

[1] https://soundcloud.com/dancewiththedead

[2] https://soundcloud.com/turboknight/mirrorverse

[3] https://soundcloud.com/turboknight/vosto-turbo-knight-haruki...
If you watch the video, they mention that they left ~90% of it to nature, iirc, though I’m not sure if they include the farms in that. Does that clear it up?
I would leave that on the table as one possible option when all other options are completely exhausted. That would not stop me from sending off samples to labs for extensive testing however, especially if a family member or friend was affected by this.

That algae can also leave traces in the liver. [1]

[1] - https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/ecotoxicology/document/....
Ceramic knives seem quite fragile in the kitchen, I am skeptical they have a lot of potential as weapons, as even small amounts of twisting/shearing force will crack or snap them.
on the next episode of TNG: the sterilized organic particulate suspension tank leaks, forcing the crew to decide whether to teleport the captain back to the ship or eat steak for one more meal
Honest question: what is the difference? Why would you want a custom home page but not a new tab page?
I also don’t want to take my expensive and distracting iPhone to the gym. To this day I use an iPod Shuffle. I have one playlist that I change over time in iTunes, sync up, and play on shuffle. And a new-in-box Shuffle pod in a drawer for when this one dies.
Rep. Jim Banks Suspended from Twitter
The polyA tail is in the 3′ UTR (after the stop codon) and is not translated. It doesn’t appear in the final protein sequence. It’s also a fairly standard feature.
It's a good page, but also gets posted quite often here

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The few experiences I had with whistleblowers is that it's way too sensitive and may never be handled officially by any system/government. They would have done it already :).
Senate directs NASA to choose another company to build a lunar lander
The thought of an as-yet-unknown CJD-like prion disease that's slowly developing somewhere is absolutely terrifying. This made me wonder about how tests are run for prion diseases, though. Is it just a matter of placing the spinal fluid sample under a microscope or is it more complicated than that?
That sounds super interesting! I’m still on a contract for at least 4 months. Is there a way to reach you? Mail?
This is definitely part of the problem. But the fundamental flaw is the departure from simplicity.

The solution is to have a processor that is so simple that it cant do more then what you expect, and building the tools to make the unexpected stand out.

However, there is a bigger market for a processor with 3 extra layers of root access to ensure your boss can spy on you and Disney&Co really want this to be the norm.
Ah, fair enough! Yeah, it might not be perfect, but I don't think it's bad enough to make a mono/duopoly the better option.
First evidence of micro clots in blood of individuals suffering from Long Covid
Hate the rich? It's the rich liberals behind a lot of these policies, and you can bet they care a lot about their own interests. The problem is that they are horrible racists and classists who don't like the competition coming from poor asian minorities.
I wouldnt call them ubiquitous in north America by any stretch of the imagination. Popular in very specific fields and I agree. Their market share in the USA is 16 percent. That's getting clobbered by windows primarily
Fails to assess the cost of COBOL vs alternatives. Junk research.
If the system itself is the unit of survival, then individual members' rights aren't so important. That's the communism way. They certainly need to be selective in allowing membership or it'll degrade into a bunch of freeloaders.
Maybe it's because I'm not American but the idea of a village which is remote but still has access to a town or city via bus or bike is very much a possibility and normal in lots of parts of the world.

Cars are nowhere near as essential as American city and suburb planning unfortunately makes it seem like.
From the FAQ [0]:

"How is a user's karma calculated?

Roughly, the number of upvotes on their posts minus the number of downvotes. These don't match up exactly. Some votes are dropped by anti-abuse software."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> Like it is illegal for the US gov't to spy on their citizens. It is illegal for the UK to spy on their citizens. So the NSA made a deal with the UK. They spy on us, we spy on them, and exchange the info. There, the US didn't break the law and neither did the UK.

Let’s not mince words, this is officials of the United States of America conspiring with foreign hostile [0] powers to undermine the rights and security of the American public. It’s treason, and an incoming president with the stones required could arrest much of the former administration’s “intelligence community” leadership in midnight raids via the insurrection act.

[0] Foreign intelligence services are, by design, hostile powers even if they belong to an ally. The UK is an ally, but GCHQ is a hostile agency from the perspective of the United States public which these agencies supposedly serve.
Say it with me folks: horse dewormer.
It's the only way I order take out. Faster and easier than using an app.
Would it be OK if the NSA required it? No? Well, it's not OK for your OS vendor to require it, either.

And the illusion that it will always be possible to disable telemetry is just that, an illusion.
No it isn't. Twin studies have shown that family environment doesn't have much effect on IQ. The problem is the scientific reality of race differences in cognitive functioning, largely due to natural selection, founder effects etc. Somehow this is a problem but race differences in athletic ability are considered perfectly fine, and nobody protests against too many black people in basketball.
I think that would be more likely to be covered in a pure math program than applied math.
Using the Facebook social icon given current events is just a smidge tone deaf.
This is the kind of page tha the early internet thrived on. So quaint. Quirky.

(Now it is all just becoming a big, walled, advertising network ... sigh.)
I don't think it's useless if everybody recognises it, there are many cases where you can show the sign to someone without it being visible by your abuser (i.e. hidden by your body).
Looks like that's exactly what it does

"The delays caused a 4.4 percentage point relative decline in
total card consumption in COBOL states relative to non-COBOL states."
Haha this is extremely relevant, I love it.
Extraditions are a thing. (in general)
I use the new language features all of the time. Variable type conferencing with the var keyword is incredible. The new Java 11 module system allows me to write code more safely without accidentally crossing levels of abstraction. Java 17's text blocks are a really nice enhancement. Pattern matching with switch statements makes code a little more concise, and reduces the chance of forgetting to update switch statements when a new value to an enum is added. Record classes add immutable-by-default data structures which make packages like Lombok less necessary. Pattern matching with instanceof reduces verbosity and makes code feel a little more modern -- it feels more similar to writing Swift or Rust.

I've used all of these features. They're all great.
I mean if you really want to defend steel, celebrate it, be my guest. But materials research and design for product development is a really cool area of focus and quite a different direction from what you are talking about. Especially in that we just don't know--it's not about the past, it's about the future. I hope to see it more with things like knives and tools.