skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the engine has to be there for all the apps that use a WebView and are expecting Chromium to embed that webview (in terms of utilizing any css/js quirks so that the experience is guaranteed consistent across vendors), so "deleting" chrome wouldn't do anything more than how deleting Safari on iOS just hides the app icon away [in App Library].
Is that saying thanks? I thought they were just fumbling with the blinker control.
It's worrying because they're a private company, and part of me thinks this isn't only to capture a new segment of the market, but also a hedge for if/when their IntelliJ users start migrating to these cloud IDEs
This is interesting, source?
Illinoisans still waiting on Facebook checks, but a billion users' faces deleted
CDMA is the superior protocol afaict, unfortunately they wanted more in licensing fees at the beginning which stunted it. In any case a phone can support both in software.
Keywords to track on Reddit for customer acquisition
> clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you

That might not be a point in their favor. Once VS Code came out, a lot of programmers that were simply following their earlier training and using an IDE, learned how much you can do in a text editor. I've seen lots of "Why would anyone write code with Notepad?" over the years. This was largely rooted in Java, where the only option was to use an IDE. VS Code dispelled the myth that real programming has to happen in an IDE.
They've historically done a lot of things on their own for JS. So perhaps VS Code + TS language server isn't quite on par with their JS tooling (which works a lot better with TypeScript type definitions, though, so perhaps it's just mostly the same as well).

However, what I personally hated was that there's so many squiggly underlined things ... in red, yellow, green and what other colors, each of which (regardless of color) could be either ignored or an actual error. Granted, that's how easy it is to properly check JS code for whether it does something sensible, but I didn't really find it helpful, especially because issue categorization and accuracy was so random.
We can't all be Rockefeller or Carnagies! I get your point - most NFT does not have great prestige and is probably more a question of speculation. My example was more to explain why formal ownership of a piece of art could be valuable even if it didn't mean ownership of any physical object or even ownership of the copyright. For people paying hundreds of millions for a van Gogh, the purpose is probably not the physical access to the thing (I assume it is just in some safe vault anyway, when not on loan to a museum) and it is not because they expect great returns on selling reproductions either. It is just the prestige of ownership and probably the hope that the piece sell for even more in the future.
> You blink once in each direction. So first left, then right. Or the other way around.

I've had this a few times from truckers driving through Germany, too, when I let them merge. Truckers in Germany are from all over Europe so it's hard to tell how European this gesture is
Doesn't the ESP32 have something like this: a second low-power cpu (Ultra Low Power coprocessor) that can wake up the main processor periodically, and then turn it off for simple operations, such as timed sleeps or waiting for input (aka interrupts). Not sure how (volatile) memory is managed though, or is maintaining it is power-intensive.
A search for "minimalist amateur library software" got me this:

https://www.goodfirms.co/blog/best-free-open-source-library-...

Good luck!
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373066
Recently reinstalled OS and tried Firefox for some time. Could only last a couple weeks before dumping firefox.

I guess Safari is still their own. KDE Konqueror still their own. Sad that opera became chrome. Guess I'll be staying Brave for awhile.

Firefox's huge decline also makes sense to me. Firefox stopped building their browser ~5 years ago? It's not that Chromium is inherently just better, it's that Mozilla moved off of firefox. When you lose focus on firefox, you lag behind.

https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/mozilla-diversity-inclusion...

They are far more concerned with hiring women. They hired themselves a 'Culture Manager' and 'people managers' and 'diversity managers'. Note how these are not Rust Software developer manager, protocol developer manager.

https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/mozilla-introduces-gender-t...

Imagine how good firefox could be if they weren't so concerned with their staffing diversity and instead worked on their browser.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

They are concerned about political activism, calling for people to be deplatformed, etc.

For that reason, firefox isn't even an alternative.
Interesting, I live in Glasgow and commonly see people do this (and do it myself)
I've been using Firefox for almost a year now (on Phone and Desktop) and the only reason I switch to Chrome is to translate websites. I live in Netherlands and don't speak Dutch so to browse any local website I have to rely on Chrome's auto-translate thingy.
The article says that if you care about the web, you should care about Firefox. I disagree, because my "web" is probably not Batsov's "web". What is "the web" for me? Well, I'd say it's IRC, torrents, mailing lists, git repositories, oh and mostly-textual websites. I use Firefox for the latter, but for most of them I wouldn't mind using emacs-w3m instead. Unfortunately GitHub turned into a shitty JavaScript Web App, and many people still use it so I need to interact with it at times. So yeah, I care about having a Firefox version that can work with it. It doesn't need to be updated every week with the latest user-hostile interface changes. It doesn't need endless security updates, because JavaScript is disabled by default. I don't care about Firefox qua product anymore, because it too turned into a piece of trash long ago. I definitely don't care about the Mozillas. The only reason I still use it is that some mostly-textual websites are too shitty to run in a basic browser like emacs-w3m.
I think a lot of the answer is just really good engineering. Precision manufacturing and computer simulation have come a long way in the past 50 years.
That WOULD be great, IF they open sourced the server side. Otherwise, it's just one bad day away from some manager pulling the old switcheroo, and making the server a paid "pro" thing.
We built RPort.io as we believe self hosted open source remote access is the safest solution against attacks. Agree/Disagree?
Sometimes, a business is profitable, but doing something else may be more profitable (and that does not necessarily mean monetarily). When you have that insight, it's time to sell.
> I am so tired of this bullshit, it's so damn tiring. Everything feels, just so very useless, its just sad to see how much this thing has effected everyone…

I agree. Regardless of your beliefs about the pandemic and how it’s been handled, everyone is sick of this shit.

> governments and organizations like the WHO are not telling us exactly what's going on, they change the narrative everyday, apparently its a lab leak

This is because they don’t know. Maybe the Chinese government knows the truth. And maybe they’re telling the truth. But no one else actually knows and so it’s all educated (at best) guesswork and the media prints anything sensational for clicks.

> Apparently the people concerned about governments using this opportunity to grab more power to keep us all in order are crazy antivaxers, the moment you step out of line you become a "non believer" in science

I remain unclear what exact power governments are getting from this. They’re spending hundreds of billions on vaccines and tests. What are they actually gaining?

My impression is that governments are for the most part doing the best they can against a disease we don’t have good tools to fight. The best bet was social distancing until everyone could get vaccinated. Then it turned out that 1) tons of people are refusing the vaccines, and 2) no one ever really addressed the fact that the entire world needs the vaccine, not just wealthy nations.

This is why we are stuck in this shitty state of bouncing between open and locked down to the constant drumbeat of “please get vaccinated”. No one knows what else to do because the alternative of “fuck it” is also not a solution, at least not if you care about minimizing the death toll from this thing.
Ah, yeah, good. Because I've taken quite a few snapshots when I've been out and about, always under the impression that what I was doing was perfectly legal. :-)
GPT-3 Best Practices
^Whatever this is... not that.
Or, more in vein of recent business trends, some company acquiring the technology, and THEN making it pay-to-play.
Just because the actual mass market embraces these things doesn't mean they're good for us all. The skepticism is about how needlessly dependent it makes our individual cars upon a broad shared resources like CDMA and coprorations' servers, in perpetuity.

Tesla drivers locked out of their cars en mass last week because Tesla servers were down? Okay, it's relatively benign, and maybe it has helped people not get locked out of their cars on the whole, versus how often it locked people out of their cars.

But year after year at DEFCON, it is demonstrated that malicious actors can take remote control of your "connected tech" car, while you're driving it. The terrorism potential alone is scary, aside from all of the mildly troublesome tracking and privacy implications.

I'll trade away precooling my car in the summer in favor of exclusively controlling my own vehicle, thanks.
Another "first step" place to practice social skills is in the Open Source Software community. It sounds like you (OP) are familiar with the technical part of coding broadly defined, so it's an opportunity to be 80% in your comfort zone while experimenting with a bunch of human interaction. I'm reminded of this because HN's front page currently has a nice guide to interacting in the OSS community: https://polite.technology/preview

You'll want to eventually graduate to things like body language, but if you get a little lucky you might be able to build some comfort with people through e.g. Github and then take another step into video chats and, if you're really lucky, in person someday. Even if the 'in person' people end up being different OSS people than you worked with digitally.
Ask HN: How to support Firefox / Mozilla as a small business?
So I run a small web design shop in Austria and am a long time Firefox and Thunderbird user.

I would love to spend some money to help make Firefox and Thunderbird stay open, trustworthy and most importantly relevant.

Since only some donations are deductable in Austria I'm looking for a service or product to buy to put company money to good use.

I am vaguely aware of some questionable decisions / events regarding mozilla and firefox. Ideally spending money would also help nudge things into a good direction and help firefox start becoming more independent of google.

I already looked into Mozilla vpn (I don't need it), Firefox Enterprise - which is not a thing on linux and the features don't help me either.

How do you guys support mozilla and firefox?
The interventions promoted by the ruling class to "curb the pandemic" have resulted in 20 million people going into starvation in the poorest countries, restrictions and hardships only being placed on the poor in the richer countries, and no resolution in sight.

Meanwhile, half the population has taken it upon themselves to start dehumanizing the rest because of politics, and all the money in society is funneling upwards to the ruling class while small businesses collapse.

What exactly do you not understand about this? There is no "us" in this situation, just division and demands.
Web3 will offer superior UX than web2
Yeah, user facing filesystems should be change-based, and require elevated permissions to permanently delete data.

The problem is that filesystems don't get enough love. There are plenty of more fundamental problems that aren't going anywhere, so do not expect this to change.
Times have changed, lab rats are now playing a VR video game.
Why would it be similar? It doesn’t need all the unnecessary abstraction of a browser/DOM. Also, initial memory usage doesn’t mean it scales the same way from then on.
> Omicron is indeed very infectious, as the data has certainly shown so far.

What data are you referring to? The WHO[1] and most experts I've seen say we don't have enough information to know that yet

> we don't know if it's a big deal so let's not treat it like one

not sure how that is your interpretation. Their thread is mostly addressing those (such as yourself) who are speaking as if they already know how transmissible/deadly/vaccine evasive it is.

1. https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron
My issue has never been the actual cost of JBs products, but rather I have to go and justify myself to a manager to get a license. That's something which of course is not a factor when you're using open source stuff, but maybe I'll still buy this for my personal use. Vs code was supposed to be a lighter weight visual studio, but at this point it's hell bent on becoming just as bloated.
Junior vs Senior Freelancers
hi, yeah straight syncing with real devices like Wahoo or Garmin is something we could consider in the future, it really depends how much the platform will be used and how many requests like this we'll have
Yes, it will take a while. I feel like the problem is that everything happened too quickly. The growth has been happening for a long time, but suddenly we got ten years worth of growth in one year. It will take a while to even out.
They must not have cyclists in Italy...

I drive on a twisty road like that often, and I'd collect a cyclist every month if I did that.
At what point does firefox silently upload history?
Phishing campaign targets YouTube creators
Sure, and if you get enough of a consensus for that definition change, that'll be meaningful.
Doesn't imply they don't already have the tech or couldn't implement the tech for cold distribution (which has been greatly improved from where it started even in the US)
> The HTML and JS specs are absurdly complex to the point where there's basically no hope of anyone implementing them from 0

That's actually being done in the Serenity OS project! HTML renderer, JS interpreter, and Web Browser, from scratch:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55beChggmvk-s...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55be0Nfytz9q2...
I _really_ enjoyed building and playing with LEGO as a kid but lost interest in it as I grew older. I remember having started but never finishing a kit from the technic series and whenever I see such a set I'm wondering what exactly is it (adult) LEGO enthusiasts are you getting out of building/owning such a set?
Below are some reasons I can think of, none of which I find personally convincing enough to start building such a kit, so I'm hoping someone can share their perspective on this matter

The challenge of completing a complex puzzle?
Building something that pleases you aesthetically?
The desire to find out how stuff works by rebuilding simplified mechanical toys?
Having a toy you can just play with?
Having a collectible item?
Tesla drivers have a keycard or fob they should have with them. Using the app for vehicle access is a convenience.
That can still be the case with self contained app bundles. But the issue is discoverability and trust.

Where do you get the app from? Is it safe?

App Stores solve all this issues while, unfortunately, making some really useful apps almost impossible to exist.
Tyler Hobbs usually keeps a large distance between the exposition of the algorithm and the actual artistic example for the sake of maintaining artistic technique secrecy.
I would think that some enterprising university could get the funds to set up an automated system with AI to recognize and shoot near the birds at a distance. Some decent learning in optics and AI to be had there. Sure that guy would lose his job, but it seems pointless to dedicate one man to do this all day.
Yes! As someone who uses IntelliJ for writing primarily Perl, I welcome this.
That is part of joke, monseigneur.
Thanks gxnxcxcx
Victory Mail
firefox is the new internet explorer, deal with it
You never started any Java-based IDE, did you? You can smack tons of plugins into VSCode, enable them all and it still loads faster.

Not using any of the above mentioned anymore, so I'm not teaming for one site.
> I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry.

> it seems that most of them have never worked on an user-facing product

If you have worked on user-facing products, then I think you do understand. I think you just don't like the answer.

Here it is in a nutshell: In the general case, how do you distinguish 'telemetry' from 'surveillance'?

And the answer is you can't, because the difference between 'telemetry' and 'surveillance' lies in the intent of the consumer of that data. Technically useful information collected in good faith today can become intrusive surveillance tomorrow with a court order, or business pivot, or just a bored insider & lack controls.

Now consider the fact that the author of every stupid new piece of code out there now seems to think it is so special it deserves to be allowed to send... who knows what back to some opaque collection endpoint as the cost of executing.

The only reactions in response to this mess that don't cost a huge amount of overhead are "block everything" and "have your way with me". Guess which a technically inclined user picks.
I guess in that sense Tiny is kind of like Pipe for founders
I worked in a US group that acquired competing SaaS products. The individual teams were small and had jack of all trades. The group prided themselves in attaching rocket engines to the bikes they bought. They could outsource specific work to India (yours truly) and other countries, hire top engineers, consultants and designers full time to improve multiple projects, monitor uptime and performance, build a big customer care team (India and other countries) and more.
Sometimes yes but not always. It depends on the book.
VR has become a pretty popular tool in neuroscience.

Rodents can be trained to follow cues shown in VR, or even navigate to specific virtual locations by running on the sphere, so they can certainly perceive something.

That said, vision is certainly not their primary sense and the organization of their visual system is...dissimilar from humans and other primates.
I am not sure I understand your question/ comment correctly, could you perhaps be more specific or provide a bit more context?

We at OrgPad.com build on a legacy of at least 40 years of research into the human mind. It is important to realize, humans are much better at recognizing shapes and colours than reading. It is because shapes and colours are much more tangible patterns rather than the abstract patterns written (or spoken) language builds in our heads. Therefore we have typography, paragraphs, lists etc. as a hint. Often though, this is insufficient, because it lacks semantics provided by colours. Perhaps you have seen people using a highlighter with textbooks, this is a partial step in the right direction. In the last about 10 years, the computers became powerful and the screens large enough that we can work without taking physical constraints into account much - we can have infinite canvases, we can use way more colours and change things easily. We can also zoom in and out or search for stuff.

This is where OrgPad.com and other tools come in. We think, that OrgPad.com is the only tool, that focuses on freedom of expression, natural visuals and animations and really being a tool for normal people instead of just "techies". There are other tools and methods like perhaps Obsidian, Dendron, Zettelkasten, Roam-research and even X-Mind and similar that focus more on programmability or systematic work with knowledge or just being e.g. MindMaps with some rules for graph creation. And then you have all the blackboards and OneNote like tools that diverge in even more directions.

We think, that currently you can convey information much better visually, which enables non-linear transfer of knowledge, because you don't have to serialize your thoughts into a stream of words with some formal structure. Of course, you can find a path through graphs and tell a story but you can also roam feely and find your own way. This will be essential for the transfer of thoughts in the always-on and always distracted society. Most people will search for simple tools that don't require having a strict system or learning some syntax to produce understandable documents.
Daniel Stillman: Designing Powerful Questions to Help You Coach, Create, Lead
Show HN: Two-way sync between SQL and Google Sheets
You need 8GB of memory to efficiently compile Firefox, but you can run it in a lot less than that. Fundamentally when compiling the application you aren't running the application, you're running the compiler. They are different pieces of software with independent resource requirements. Even if they happen to be similar, that's really just a coincidence.
No Covid 19 is not an old person problem
Wax (https://www.wax.run/) lets you create a true bidirectional link between Google Sheets and your database (Postgres, Snowflake, MySQL, Redshift, and SQL Server). You can also attach buttons in Sheets to Python and SQL scripts (e.g. hit an API using values from the current Sheet, process the results with Python, and return the results to Sheets). You can schedule any action to run hourly, daily or whatever cadence works for you.
I love the idea of using a paid service to help improve the standards of an open source initiative like IRC. Very cool!
FYI, we haven't removed local. I'm demoing it in our booth at re:Invent, for Python with Django, in Fleet.
Principal investor is a term of art in the industry. It has other financial meanings as well.

Principles are ideals you adhere to or uphold. They are also concepts used to implement a design. Principal and principle are homophones, and they are commonly mixed up.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?def_id=12...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/principal.asp#understan...
Cairo: A language for scaling dApps using STARKs
I would advise such a person works during their normal 8-5 and that "on call" is just a form of work intake for a normal job - not an exception that happens after hours or on weekends when most people refer to "on call".
It's more accurate to ascribe it to better manufacturing processes, really. They're the result of engineering, but orthogonal to what you'd think of as engineering practice.
Here is one application that this research could be applied to: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
If the tax is 10% of value, won’t it always be worth renewing as when it gets less valuable the tax goes down towards 0?
Hmmm, looks like a company owning and buying SaaS companies. Not selling them, right?
Settings → Tabs → Tab View := List
We have a fourth one - you're a woman or a non-white person and I'm going to lean out of the window and yell obscenities at you.
I'm unfamiliar with what you're speaking of. Can you elaborate?
They’re copying the old Microsoft playbook. Add so many APIs - the more complex the better - that nobody will be able to copy them all.
For anyone thinking "we can't possibly create a new production-ready browser engine", note that all major browsers except Firefox descended from one such project - KHTML.

"But you can't actually do it unless you're a $1T company" crowd forgets (or wasn't around to see) how dominant IE was, and how huge a project Mozilla was even back in the day.
Oh no not another varaint. Better give up my freedom.