skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The plane is probably limited by takeoff weight

It is.
1. Defining what "the metaverse" is even supposed to be.

2. See (1)
Brazil as less politicized around Covid? Really?! Bolsanaro hyper-politicized it even more than Trump, even accusing the governors of using it to try to make him look bad.
The protests days before this were against the police. This night it was all rioters who showed up just to cause trouble
If we go with that definition, and nothing else, then imagine "one of them threw an ice cube at someone, so he was armed". It's a thing used to inflict bodily harm in that context, but calling it "a weapon" seems crazy to me.
This is also why I really love working with software, because it's one of the greatest force multipliers on the potential impact of an average individual I can think of.

We don't have to be once-in-a-decade level genius visionaries or hire a gigantic team with millions in funding to build something that can make the lives of millions of people tangibly better, while capturing some/most of that value in return to improve our own lives. People from all over the world are doing this every day and telling their stories and sharing their learnings on places like https://www.indiehackers.com/ and https://bootstrappers.com/.

Maybe one day we'll reach a point of diminishing returns where all software that can possibly be built by an individual/small team that adds non-trivial value has already been built, but that's just more motivation for me to try harder today while it's still very much possible.
Correct! That and a few CSS rules to reduce the excessive amount of space even there.
>$0.01 in Mozilla credits have been added to your account.

There's no way you can justify a change like this.

Also, why change the UI? If people are using your product that's enough market proof that they are fine with it, why change it in such futile and silly ways? No one's going to start using Firefox because tabs have no borders, literally no one; yet I can see plenty of users looking at this as the drop that spilled the cup and leaving.

Every single Firefox new "feature" or UI change has made them lose users, I wonder if they're doing it on purpose.
> We are also talking about a military that does not only have a recent string of burrowing civilian casulties, like in Afghanistan or Syria, but has been doing so in plenty of other conflicts.

> So yes, it's a bit difficult to believe that in decades of war the US ever only shot down two wrong planes, most likely that wikipedia list simply ain't anywhere to complete, like most of them.

I think your starting with what you want to believe is true and then walking back from that to find evidence to fit a narrative. There’s no reason to think that because the U.S. has willingly or unwillingly killed people in, say, an Afghan village that they’d be likely to misidentify commercial aircraft which have technology that positively identifies the aircraft. And in one case I recall with Iran it was a tense situation and you can at least give some amount of plausible deniability to the US military. They did pay out to the victims too IIRC, certainly not something that Russia or others have done.

As you mentioned, the U.S. has a global military presence. That means that encountering commercial aircraft all over the world would be a common occurrence and positive identification of those aircraft comes from U.S. led or contributed technologies and processes for making sure that they aren’t misidentified. So I’m not really sure it’s difficult to believe that the U.S. just doesn’t make many mistakes here, whereas in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria the situation is not comparable, error-prone, and quite complicated.
In my previous company, we had 63 petabytes of data in Snowflake.
I don't need to prove a stronger claim. Equality requires showing that all cases are the same. He is the one who asked if they were always the same. In other words, if they were equal. Inequality doesn't require that all cases are shown to be the same. It only requires that there is a single difference. Consider that 110 is different to 111 despite the fact that they both share a common prefix. If you're correct and I must prove that 11 and 11 are not equal to each other in order for these numbers to be different then it must be the case that 1 != 1 for the very concept of differences to exist. If that is true then the entire of mathematics breaks down because the identity function no longer holds.
You can also explain the situation to the computer using the hot keywords. When a human gets to it, you will not have told a lie.
Tokei is my go to for counting lines of code in a project: https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei
Bolsanaro in Brazil definitely tried to do that with HCQ - but it didn’t actually work, so at some point he just stopped and pretended he never did it.
That's just insane. The US healthcare system is absolute shit. Yes, I'm an American.
Title should be “The perils of bad strategy”.
Common Copy Right
How does common copyright works ? What is best/cheapest way for startups to apply for copyright in USPTO ?
That didn't work, either :-(

The whole screen just scrolls.
Using the Mail app (macOS) with a Gmail Account and pressing the refresh button, makes the app hang in "Checking for Mail..." for 20-30+ seconds. It is faster quitting and opening the Mail app to check for new mails.

There is a memory leak down the network stack (probably within security library/ TLS layer) that has been reported over 6 months ago but has yet to be fixed. Depending on the app's network usage this is leading to several GBs of leaked memory per day.
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Subtract commuting time, pumping time, getting ready time, etc out of those 16 hours.

And no, there is not going to be a study that shows a discernible difference in childhood outcomes. That’s an immeasurable metric.

But it is known that babies extract milk and regulate milk production much preferably compared to pumps, from the woman and the baby’s perspective. And that benefit alone is worth the 0.1% a nation shaves off its GDP.

Sounds like you had some awesome babies. My kids took at least 1 hour to feed each time between latching, burping, puking, pooping, being fussy, and falling asleep while feeding. Seeing what my wife went through even with 6 months of leave, I would want my daughter to have better.

Obviously we can toss the kids in daycare and put the moms back to work and put the pumping burden on them. And then watch the data show the length of time kids drink breastmilk go down. Or we can step back and evaluate why the most “advanced” and “prosperous” society cannot give its women a year to raise their infant and protect their job.
The new tabs look less like tabs in Chrome or any other app.
Previously from danluu.com on the topics you mentioned

Company culture matters
https://danluu.com/culture/

Different organisations have radically different expectations about how fast and well you can work
https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/

Different organisations are capable of different things because of the (kinds of) people who work there
https://danluu.com/in-house/

Two different kinds of oransations work very differently
https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

Different organisations hire differently and this can be an enduring (dis)advantage
https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

Being better than most people isn't that hard because most people aren't trying
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
I used Snowflake in my previous company. When we loaded data into Snowflake, we loaded it FROM S3/Blob where we also kept it.
>From the posted image, is it really that hard to differentiate the not active tabs? There’s a clear pattern: icon, title, close “x”.

Yes, there is a pattern, but that's not good enough. If the site doesn't have a favicon, that part is omitted, breaking the pattern. If the title includes emojis, they look like favicons, making another (false) pattern breakage. And looking at the same image you reference, it isn't clear why the "x" icon would close the stuff far away to the left of fromit instead of the favicon/title it is very close to.

This is change for "clean design" sake, not usability. Sure, we can get used to it ok, and maybe even start talking about it being a more "beautiful" (a word thrown around waaaay too much in UI design, IMHO) design, but it is a very much less usable design and that's something some of us care about.
NB: not my specialty, so I've likely missed other effects. Searching scholarly literature for "SO2 impacts on marine life" and "NO2 impacts on marine life" could be illuminating.

Sulfur dioxide in particular produces sulfuric acid. Small changes to pH and specific acid/base concentrations of seawater, even if limited to a narrow vertical column, could have large impacts. Say, non floating plankton, especially primary producers.

There's also the potential for positive "seeding" effects by introducing limiting nutrients to water, though my understanding is that iron and carbon are more likely to play these roles.
Of course they’re known among their pre-existing customer base of people and entities who already solve problems using tools like this. But it’s a subset of the multi-trillion dollar cloud industry, which itself is not the entire software engineering industry.
Is this really true for small companies?

A senior at FAANG is worth sometimes well north of 500K/yr. There are plenty of folks strewn about small software companies that do similar work to a senior or even staff/principal at a faang at wildly huge discounts.

It's hard to find numbers for the value of small software businesses (OP's quote), but this article [1] puts the number at $667k. If that's true, the engineer is SUBSTANTIALLY more expensive than the business (you're not just renting the business for a year).

[1] In the period between 2013 and 2016, the average sale was $667,000. While some sales were obviously much higher, and some were actually a bit lower, this must be an encouraging figure for a business owner to see.
Java strikes a sweet spot here.
For platforms where you are running things via the command line rather than via the .desktop files, you could run this in a few different ways:

gtk-launch Zoom

gio launch ~/.local/share/applications/Zoom.desktop

systemd-run --user --slice=zoom.slice /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher

Perhaps alias `zoom` to one of these, or create a shell script that execs one of those and add it somewhere higher in your path than /usr/bin.
Seems surprisingly low, and I imagine definitely at least timezone dependent. Any indication of what the largest kinds of spike traffic looked like?
Can you buy a car without seatbelts? It doesn't really matter if you think a car with seatbelts is suboptimal for any reason. They don't sell cars without seatbelts.

Something similar is eventually going to happen with a bunch of this other stuff.
Thirded, I guess I just am unobservant, but I just keep using it and never notice that anything has changed until I see these threads.

I do use a lot of keyboard shortcuts and color-coded containers, so maybe that's part of it.
It's more about the misattribution for the causes of success.

For instance I'd like to claim that Apple is an industry leader that has been misattributed as a design leader; it isn't their slick aluminum rectangles in isolation, it is them cohabiting with a marketing message and brand position working together that gave it the entire perception that leads to their success.

If say, Dolly Parton came out with a restaurant themed after a country jamboree and it went gangbusters it'd likely be incorrect to conclude Starbucks should have bales of hay and employees in 10 gallon hats and spurs to increase sales. A country themed restaurant is the correct way for Dolly Parton to execute a restaurant because she's Dolly Parton. It's not a brilliant idea in isolation and it's certainly not one that should elbow its way into other established brands in the same product category.

Yet this is the exact kind of logic that is done in software. We ignore the context of why something was successful for a particular institution and pretend it is transferable to all similar institutions regardless of context.

It's just not smart.
I'm using an external Bluetooth keyboard.

I'd originally bought the device with a paired self-supporting case/keyboard combo. That ... was already failing from purchase.

The current keyboard doesn't mate with the device, but if used on a desk is acceptable.

(Logiteck K480, multi-device, PC/Mac, fairly decent reviews, chicklet keys though. I'm ... dealing with that.)
Don't know why it's posted here
if you need simple output you can just run clojure in orgmode and output svg

https://geokon-gh.github.io/literate-clojure.html
The point of dithering was simply that old graphics cards (e.g. VGA) only supported 16 or 256 colors.
there is a picture about halfway down this page that makes it look like he is really nailing kyle with the board. it looks brutal, right on his neck. -- but when I watch the video it goes so fast that it could also just be him basically running into him. So.. idk

https://heavy.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-shooting-video-photo...

I guess it just goes to show how hard it is to pull facts out of a couple seconds of grainy video
The right to self-defense and the right to operate any kind of vehicle you desire on a public right of way don't actually sound similar to me at all.
> cleaner design with more space

Why would I want the UI to take up more space? I am using it as a browser, most of the space should be available for the page I "browse" or serve as an efficient way to navigate pages.

> don't make it look more like modern UIs

If making something look more modern is the goal just take a dump in the middle of an art gallery, that is plenty of modern and about as functional.

> Be that Windows or Gnome

Edge still has proper tabs, so are you just making shit up now?
Oh. I noticed that none of the supermarkets around me have had any bags for weeks. I somehow didn't connect the dots that there was a bag shortage. Odd. Why would there be a bag shortage?
Tesla’s market value soars, but some see a bubble (2013)
Such as?

Also, how hard can it be to bribe a delivery in US guy working for minimum wage?
The article is way overbearing; but one part I do like is applying to myself with regards to my computing environment. I think I came at it at first with this idea of "I'm pretty smart, and if I add some of my smart to the computer I'll be even smarter..."

And along the way I've come to realize how important "habit" is. Now, I implement little bash scripts and prompts that speak to "me at my most tired/dumbest/laziest" etc, and it's been phenomenally helpful. Little things that people might be embarrassed about, etc al.
How to Make Recycled (Wood Replacement) Beams from Plastic Waste at Home
I'm not following your comment; can you expand?

To rephrase what I was saying, I think that when we read 10 comments, of which nine are negative, we think "90% of people must dislike this". I don't think most people would actually think 90%, but I do think we "get a feeling" it's a very high percentage. We get this impression that the 10 comments are by 10 random people, so it's close to a random sample. But it's not, it's a very biased selection. The very post itself acts as a selection filter, only selecting people with certain properties. In this case, people with strong opinions about Firefox's UI.

In short, the denominator isn't 10, but something much much greater. And this isn't a stastical analysis (not yet anyways!), just a statistics/psychology hunch :)
why would/should it succeed? You pick an unstructured reprerentation of the content (html) and say we put semantic markers in here, and hope that somehow intelligent systems will filter out all the other garbage and be able to parse it as structured data? Why don't you put the semantic marker at the source of the content where it's actually structured? Such as endpoints that return semantic content in json?
Pulsar is a much better fit when your architecture absolutely requires many queues ex: you need one queue per customer across 100's of thousands of customers.

This architecture certainly exists, but is a lot more burdensome and less frequent than partitioning by customer id across a Kafka topic.
well, if they cant win, they can make sure no one else does.

they just demoed they can make the kessler syndrome
UI people seem to start with the idea that they're right and the user should just suck it up, because they went to school and learned words like "skeumorphic." This is apparently sufficient for middle management, despite the fact that when this trend of constant annoying pointless changes started, so did the decline of Firefox's user base.

I don't even install it by rote on new computers anymore - it might as well be Edge. The rendering performance sucks, the need to constantly adapt to new ui changes is infuriating, so buh-bye Firefox. I prefer software that doesn't screw with my muscle memory for absolutely zero good reasons.

UI as a "discipline" is cargo cult corporate waste. I'd rather use a tool designed by an engineer that uses it than performance art disguised as ergonomics or accessibility.

If it looks good, fine, but the point of a browser isn't pretty tabs, it's navigating content in a way that doesn't interfere with navigating content.
Probably because all the (Sanders/AOC-supporting) Redditors have indeed migrated to HN.
Reminds me of my experience with Lenovo, They have this chatbot in some cases as their only of contacting their customer care. (Unless you wanna visit offline ig or email, which doesn't have the same urgency) Which makes it awfully annoying to escalate the issue. I had to go through the same prompt every time to get to customer care.
If you have copper pipes with lead solder, or fixtures with brass (which will have varying amounts of lead), or lead supply lines from your city, the longer that water sits in contact with those joints/fixtures, the more lead it gets a chance to absorb.

So flushing the line gets you 'fresher' water from the municipal line that hasn't dwelled against your smaller diameter dirtier pipe.

Can be a big issue in schools for the first kids that drink from the fountains for the day.

The water heaters, well, hotter water has higher solubility, so while it sits in pipes, could absorb more from the pipes.
But as a general rule, if we think about all this in aggregate, we should agree that the literal legal experts are way way more likely to get this stuff correct than you are.

If we were evaluating how valuable someone's opinion is on all this stuff, your opinion would be way down the list, compared to legal experts.

And if we compared a random ununiformed opinion, such as from you, and compared it to the opinions of the legal system, it is way more likely that you don't really know how any of this works, as opposed to the actual legal experts.
I think the point the parent is making is that this ECC is already fixing errors. There's no redundancy because the redundancy is already consumed by the defective cells in the chip. Any additional flips such as through rowhammer have no extra redundancy to fall back on in the general case with DDR5's built-in ECC.
Civilian deaths caused by Americans is often due to intentional acceptance of collateral fatalities, not due to incorrectly and negligently misidentifying aircraft.
The poor guy made an update to this blog post on 2021-11-11.
some call that a feature
I think Google should have some interest in it as it might be able to make search engine indexing more efficient? Didn't they promote it as SEO?
An experienced person will likely take half the time of an inexperienced person who gets help.

If the inexperienced person pesters the experienced one much that it doesnt take more time, that would imply that the experienced people aren't (on paper) getting much done, because they are too busy teaching to do much else.

The actual balance of course depends on the experience gap between the assignee and assigned work, but the notion that any two people on a team will always get the same work done in the same amount of time is silly.
Or something like the motorola atrix lapdock
> He's falling for his own simplification of individuals and lifetimes.

Totally.

> complains the Peace Corps "produce[s] little value"

This is what happens when quantitative minds encounter the real world. It's a consequence of putting engineering on a pedestal and ignoring any and all context.

However, the top comments on the thread give me hope that many more people see the thought errors in this piece than people who revere it.

EDIT: Quanti- not quali-
Many of the issues you believe are important are only important because the media told you they were and provided a neat story.

Great recent example: Afghanistan.. do you know what happened to those people who fled? What about the ones that never made it out on time. The media changed the topic and people stopped caring.

What do you think would happen if wealth gap stops being talked about? People stop caring because people only care about their pay and buying power. Global warming same. It takes planting 1,000 new trees to offset a flight from Austria to Scotland. If global warming was taken seriously these people would meet virtually and society would be changed to tax companies with offices. That's not what the media is talking about.
Trust me, I've realised this and it makes the gratuitous breakage all the more aggrevating.

I've been aggressive in removing Google from all aspects of my computing experience. When purchasing an e-ink reader/tablet earlier this year, avoiding Android was high on the list.

I ended up with the Onyx BOOX line, which is Android, though a somewhat de-googlified variant. Google Play ... won't actually work, which I'm fine with. I've installed Google Play Services, though I'm aware of a third-party alternative. App stores are F-Droid, APK-Mirror, and Aurora. I'm trying to minimise use of non-free software as well. Not entirely successfully but within reason.

The stock e-reader, Fennec Fox, EinkBro, Termux, and Pocket are my principle apps. Pocket is the only one of those that's not reasonably available from F-Droid (there's a very old version there, very badly broken --- the current version on Aurora is only badly broken.)
one cant cheat vim, it is all in the fingers. joking, cool cheat sheet
> Abstraction is necessary to deal with things at scale, on a programming focused site i think we all know that and know that often the trade off is inefficiency.

We also all know that abstractions leak, and sometimes... Not always! But sometimes, those leaks will kill you. CPU details are irrelevant, until per-opcode details give you a 10x speedup. Compilers are a magic black box, until a compiler bug breaks your code. Hardware is cheap, until someone notices a way to save millions by caring. And yes, sometimes developers are interchangeable, until they make or break the company.
I use my background as an anti-credential credential. When I was hired to teach software testing to engineers at JPL, I was asked by the administrator of the training department not to tell anyone I never graduated from 10th grade. I told him disclosing that was in fact an essential part of my teaching process.

I want people to know I don’t deal in bullshit, and that I always do what I think is right, and that my whole life history qualifies me to cut through the nonsense. Being a dropout gives me street cred.

BTW the guys on the Curiosity Rover test team were great. One of the most satisfying classes I have taught, and I treasure the JPL polo shirt I bought at the campus store.