skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because they did it just fine before, doesn't mean that there isn't a better way that will provide massive competitive advantages to companies that adopt them.

Big companies ran payroll 100 years ago without IBM machines, but IBM made it easier for big companies to run payroll, so companies that bought IBM machines were able to scale.

Company budgets were done just fine on big sheets of paper 50 years ago before PCs loaded with VisiCalc or Excel deployed to every desktop. What company that still did it the old way survived the 1980s?

Credit card transactions even 30 years ago were still often done with a physical mechanical impression at the point-of-sale. That worked just fine, didn't it? Yeah, there was some fraud, but the people who were given credit cards were few enough that it wasn't unmanageable. But online POS systems now mean that almost everyone today makes payments with debit or credit cards most of the time.

Is "things are working just fine" a reason to not innovate?
Hi, rant author here.

> All for some ultra-fascist pathetic notion of security. I spit in your face you stupid corrupt useless fucks.

Unacceptable language. Sorry doesn't cut it but it's a start. Sorry. I do not spit in people's faces.

That said, wow, the things this planet does in the name of security are baffling & sad to me, again and again. Google claiming to be so so so afraid of extensions, insisting they maim them in order to protect the user...

I know you see a lot of bad stuff going on. I think there are some real desires to make things better. But this really does come off like a cruel authoritarianism. So many vast losses, all at once; it's completely unpalatable. I don't feel like I will be able to call chrome a user-agent, if you so harshly restrict what agency I am permitted to instill/install in my browser like this. That's one of the strongest, saddest, most bitter statements I could make about the situation: the web was a place of power for the user, in a good way, and there has been something holy & distinct that the web has afforded the users such positions of power. It's meant more than anything to me, this idea. These principles are all being shattered, torn asunder. This is one of the worst possible things you could do to the web. I was overcome with anger last night, but coming at this with a more sober light, I can not underscore enough what a deep betrayal of all the web it is to forbid dynamic code from extensions. Your fear is not an adequate reason to remove potential.
You can always go to a library or bookstore.
Wow, I did not know that. It's kind of similar to the buffalo on Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles (brought in for a movie shoot in the 1920's or thereabouts, I think), but as far as I know there is no export market for Catalina buffalo.
I work for Facebook and try to disclose it when it's relavant.

I see people do this, but I also found people that i know to be facebooker not disclose it probably due to unrelated comments made on fb more so than topic on hand.
Truly a missed opportunity to demo Ski Free running on the last orientation.
Surely there must be some way to have distributed search compute a la folding/seti@home or those mersenne prime guys.

I'd gladly pool in some of my CPU time if it helps build a better search.
How many alternative browsers can you name that are not mere forks of Blink or Webkit?
An Edge's worth of desktop browser usage share of users are searching for different browsers is why it wouldn't even be worth an hour of dev time to show the message?

The point GP made was Firefox was worth targeting not that Firefox is going to be more popular the Edge.
That's a great question. I did use the map built into the re:Invent app and it's really handy. That said, it helps enormously to have been there before. Even a single venue like the Venetian is enormous and requires some practice to get from A to B quickly within the building. The re:Invent team has guides standing around to give directions, which also really helps.
Saying X is a pox on Y means saying X is bad for Y.

It originates from the disease 'the pox'.
So my question is in general, animate infinite , is it a bad idea for a simple web page ? My experience was me having to put an emergency fix live because someone made such a css change that had for some reason very noticeable impact on OSX but not on Windows and Linux (though I could see the CPU usage in Linux there was no visible lag).

I also remember a big issue with a blinking cursor, so I am thinking why is such heavy animation APIs not coming with giant warnings.
Yeah i wouldnt want people to know what i had done, either. If i had murdered my children
I find it funny that Tiktok which is basically equally toxic, but universally praised on HN. Most people don't even know who the founder is for a social media company on-par with Facebook and working on massive scale.
> single issue crypto voters

Every voter is a single issue voter.

And the single issue is : "My net worth"
Oops, I notice hours too late to edit it, that this says memcmp() in one place where it mostly says memcpy(). In fact your C compiler likely has intrinsics for both, but I did mean memcpy() everywhere in the comment.
Obesity is one of several critical factors. The obesity rate in most African countries is relatively low.

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...
Codesandbox open sources their execution enviornment: Sandpack
Facebook and social media get a lot of shade here. It's not just HN though, the shame is fairly universal, even to prospective employees. I had a junior ask me if it was wise to go work there and I had to tell him this: "In this day and age there are no clean companies. All the places you think are heroes will become villains and the villains advertise themselves as heroes. The best you can do as a talented person is to earn your money and one day try to work on problems you're passionate about for companies that couldn't afford the price tag you deserve."

All in all, I don't like what most of these companies do, but I also don't like moralizing employees directly for it. Rarely if ever do they work on the things that make those companies a problem. That requires coordination that engineers are not typically involved in.
There are so many great resources on the Internet with McGill that is difficult to choose. But this video is a good introduction to his work [1]. It provides some background on his lab at University of Waterloo and what his learned from 33 years of research into the spine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGaKuSzD_M
This is a statement by a major regulator in favour of more regulation, it’s as simple as that
What does socialism mean to you, because it seems to me that you aren't talking about the same socialism I'm thinking of (social ownership of the means of production). It sounds like you are talking about the opposite of that (tyrannical control of the means of production).
Apple defeats antitrust class action challenging App Store control
"There's another word for "require everyone else to agree": Tyranny."

I think this is often thrown out there to push back on liberals and socialism but this is the wrong point. We as a global society _need_ to agree to be productive. We need to work together to find the best solutions for as many people as possible.

Everyone needs to agree that starting a nuclear war is bad. You would likely want to stop China from shooting nuclear missiles at San Francisco. Yet I doubt that when you insist on this narrative, you would think of yourself as being tyrannical.

One of the best observations about why people in urban areas are more liberal, and rural areas are more conservative, has to do with the idea that when you are around more people, you need more rules to guide how to interact with one another. When you live on your own 200 acre farm, you don't want someone to come in and tell you what to do with your tree. When you live in a 200 person apartment complex, you do care when your neighbors are being loud at 2am.

With technology, we are living closer and closer with each other. I don't know how you are going to be productive without consensus.
Also, vote bots
Let's imagine I want to talk to the author of the content. How can I do that if it's just a souped up markov chain?
If a financial system becomes widely-adopted, people will expect it to do things that benefit them. This is the question for most of the DeFi solutions I see these days.

Fiat currency has all kinds of risks and weaknesses, but there are some strengths that I don't see, say, a Bitcoin addressing. The most immediate one to my mind is that if money is stolen, there is a central authority to make the victim whole. Because the authority owns the money supply, they can even do it via a back-door tax on the value everyone holds if the stolen property is not yet recovered (i.e. they can just print more money). If someone steals my BTC, it's just gone. There's no higher authority to appeal to to correct the theft.
IMO Vista was better than people give it credit for. ME and 8 were the truly bad releases (I used both, ME is super unstable and 8’s UI is a total mess).
How does Business Central offer enhanced reporting and data access?
It’s a build tool, I’d be surprised if something like it worked well for non build related tasks. I suspect bazel would be equally verbose (if not even worse or impossible).

I think you’re better of using something like taskfile w/ earthly for a really good workflow, it gives you the best of both worlds.

(Actually I think I saw this on their slack)
Perfect Home for all my browsers (https://github.com/perfect-things/perfect-home). Just displays your browser bookmarks in a nice way.
In Rust, or any other systems programming language with unsafe code blocks, all the way back to JOVIAL and ESPOL, one can search for those code blocks.

At very least they provide an initial searching point.

On C, C++ and Objective-C, any line of code is a possible cause for memory corruption, integer overflow, or implicit conversions that lead to data loss.
Yeah, you're right, but that's what's difficult for me to accept. A traditional book is a piece of hardware. It's a bunch of paper pages tied together, with some content printed on the pages.

If you separate the content from the hardware, you hardly have a "book", e- or not. You have some content floating around, and big machines that are difficult to use and even more difficult to access (cost, scarcity, location) to read it.

That's probably the genius of inventors: they see things that aren't there.
You stated that "We've gone from 0% vaccinated, to 60-70% with no discernable dip in infection counts". This is called making misleading claims.

There's numerous confounding factors in these numbers that you conveniently ignore, and that you keep ignoring even when they're pointed out to you. This is called doubling-down on an indefensible position.

Then, instead of defending why your use of those numbers is scientifically sound, you accuse others of having "firmly held beliefs". This is called a personal attack.

And lastly, instead of doing the hard work to show why your conclusion is scientifically sound, you expect the other party to disprove your argument for you. This is called trolling.
this is already being abused

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1465831941157052416

https://twitter.com/NotToadMckinley/status/14660133488986931...

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1466155751328530437

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1466218599626854404

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1466232833815420930
What if you allowed trusted contributors to "donate" their browsing to your index?

AltaVista and Yahoo did that with browser plugins in the 90s.
Pretty sure the fact its literally a speed contest is telling people what to value in a programming language.
This is a nice idea. Theater mix is definitely different from what I want at home, and being able to switch between various mixes (e.g. headphone, binaural, small speaker, home theater, stereo image/surround, clarity, immersive music, immersive effects, personal preference, etc.) would be great.
I have heard mixed things about the historical event you're mentioning. I've heard it was a law that wasn't strongly enforced. Of course just having the law in the books probably served its purpose of reducing gold transactions. But that's different than the government actively fining people $10K. Which would be like $200K today by the way.

Also, I'm not sure if it is an apples-to-apples comparison. Back then the main money of the society was associated to gold. There is no such link today. I.e. the value of USD isn't associated to BTC. The government had a existential need to reduce gold transactions. You can argue the government is threatened by crypto etc. but like I said it's not apples-to-apples.
Which efforts would that be?

Pretty much every other browser is based on Chromium. Some very niche ones on webkit.
Looks very professional, and includes peripherals UARTs / SPI / I2C already.
With the only listed advantage being "longest line length" and disadvantage being "webcam starts sliding away", I'm shocked that you think a 22 degree rotation isn't practical.
Frankly I do miss the IE6 days, when everything just mostly worked. NetCaptor, an IE-based browser using Trident to render pages, had its own ad blocker, tabbed browsing, quicksearch, etc. -- most of the best features of Chrome -- without all the compatibility issues of the browser wars.

Disabling ActiveX and Java (not Javascript) and having Just One Browser made for a remarkably clean and simple experience, the likes of which we haven't seen since.

For all the modern innovations, I don't think the fundamental premise of the web has changed all that much -- hyperlinks, text, and media -- but the user and developer experience has gotten a lot, lot worse over time as more and more money competed for eyeballs.

Edit: As for "work as hard and dedicate as much budget"... I hope they don't! A circa-2000s feature freeze on web browsers would be wonderful. Stop "innovating", i.e., creating trash features that only help huge enterprises selling trash advertising. The web doesn't need to be this complex; we're feature-rich and content-poor as it is. What started as a network for academics and info sharing ended up being a marketer's wet dream and a nightmare for everyone else.
I think the videos exist because people think that's how they can get paid for their documentary work. If you add documentation to an open source project, they strip your name off and a bunch of randos edit your work to the point of unrecognizability. If you document something on your blog or website, you have to pay to host it. If you document something in the form of a YouTube video, the hosting is free, and you can click a button to have a penny deposited in your bank account every time someone clicks it. You can even do your own side deal and insert an ad wherever you want! That's why everything is a video these days, it's simple economics.

Certainly, there is still a lot of text in the world, but the reason things are moving towards videos is exactly because C-f doesn't work. You'll click a video hoping it will help, it won't, but the advertiser will still pay the content creator. If you visit a text-based website, search for what you're looking for, and don't find it, you'll be gone before the ads even load. And that was in a world where advertisers paid for text ads, which isn't the current world.
or pirates, of course... there are always pirates
I answered below, but my point is it's hard to conceptualize an "ebook" without an ebook reader. (Of course the technical format is irrelevant.)
It's odd that people don't conceive of the health of their neighbor's investments as a support for their own.

Lots of people losing lots of money in your neighborhood is bad.
A good number of people winning the lottery by defrauding others is bad, they make for shitty neighbors.
Exactly. If you remove the labels from the two lines and then ask which set of counties imposed mask mandates in July, there would be no way to tell. If anything, you might think it was the higher line; "see, their cases were spiraling out of control, then they required masks and their cases peaked and declined at the same time as the less hard hit counties".

Unless that chart is a horribly misleading presentation of the data (quite possible!), it's evidence against mask mandates having any discernible impact.
That’s the reason Java is used almost exclusively on servers. None of your pain points (well maybe except Oracle getting litigious) apply there.
Nice! For anybody who does not have access to the referenced IEEE paper (such as me), here it is on the website of its authors: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3522084/6724346112...
My experience is like yours -- DDG is legitimately better than Google. My hypothesis is that it's related to how you construct searches. I expect Google probably does better if you learn how to talk to it, since it seems to want to interpret your query rather than take it literally.

My searches tend to be keyword-oriented rather than natural language. I think DDG does better with those.
When delisting for DMCA requests they don't delist the whole site, only results pointing to specified infringing torrents.
FB is very anti-engineering. Just try to use their website to do almost anything...
The Shocking Revelation of House Movers in Calgary
Knockoff macOS theme? I'm in.
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Just yesterday, someone posted on Twitter:

"I'm never sure when is a good time to share that I made up a person on Wikipedia sixteen years ago and he is still there"

https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493

The biography still exists today (though probably not for much longer, so here is an archive link as well):

https://archive.md/BBRC4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Farrow

It reads:

---o0o---

Dr. William Henry Farrow (20 June 1805? – 17 November 1876) was a physician born and trained in England. Farrow practiced in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. He is most notable for providing one of the first detailed descriptions of synesthesia.[1] Farrow reported the details of the illness, (in this case temporary) in an article published in the Lower Canada Journal of Medicine.[2]

Footnotes

1. New, Chester (1929). Lord Durham. Oxford University Press. pp. 374–376.

2. "An Analysis of Confusion Occurring between the Senses". The Lower Canada Journal of Medicine. The Medical Society of Lower Canada. 12: 56–62. September 1838.

---o0o---

It's always worth remembering that Wikipedia has different sorts of quality problems from conventional encyclopedias.

Its quality control system, for example, is not systematic or methodical, but completely haphazard, because everything is done by volunteers. And volunteers volunteer for what they feel like doing.
Even with liberal use of the term, most of it isn't original content - or at least, it is about as original as content on facebook... but not quite. Folks are pretty free to post what they'd like on there, and often do not include sources for the things they find. Or folks will link to things that aren't really original, even if it is on their own blog.
> "To be honest, I don't get why some people go out of their way to cheerlead for their employers. It's quite sad to see such naïve fealty. I have a good life outside of work and prefer the mercenary state of mind when it comes to employment."

I've thought a lot about this, and I think it has to do with the innate human desire to belong to a tribe. I also think that's why army's will tend to recruit people on the younger side of adulthood, but also why companies that require a lot of hard work and long hours will do the same. Younger adults with less life experience (the under 25s), generally speaking (obviously there are always exceptions), will tend to be the target audience for companies and armies simply because they are much more likely to develop some form of loyalty/tribalism. I also think a part of it is due to the fact that most humans are still developing their worldview at that point, and so if you get them at this stage, you're much more likely to mold them to buy into your vision.
Docker's codebase is a mess, the implementation is a mess, the data formats are a mess, the performance is a mess, it deadlocks under pressure (at least it did several years ago when I worked at Vercel), and I don't like its recent power moves to monetize people already somewhat locked into Docker.

Just my opinions.
Tapping into the brain's motor cortex via zooming fMRI
There are a lot of places that offer an education budget of a few hundred dollars. This kind of thing would fit perfectly into that.
I’m confused. I thought vaccinated people can spread the virus. Why are they not locked down too?
Wow. I did not know this. They should absolutely do as you suggest. Duck is a far better name.
When I was in jail I had a cellie who imported drugs from China. They were always shipped inside defunct microwave ovens. I wondered if it was just because it looked like a harmless kitchen appliance or because the microwave provided shielding from an x-ray scan?
Extra points if your curved ultrawide is so wide that putting it in portrait has it curving above your head.
Honestly, what is there to support? Once you strip Chromium of all the code that uses any Google services, more than half the job is done.
Traffic enforcement is just a state/municipality funded jobs program. On the interstate they seem to solely target speeders, while ignoring the packs of cars following <1s behind each other-- which should be easy enough to spot while stationary in the median. They also seem to selectively enforce, when they should probably be taking into consideration that a 3.5 ton lifted pickup truck with mud terrain tires going 10 over and tailgating is much more dangerous than a Toyota Camry going 10 over by itself, but you never see the pickups pulled over. In most cases, they're not making the highway safer by giving someone a ticket for going 80 in a 70 when the roads are sparsely populated. If they were actually there to promote safety, limits would be set at the 85th percentile[1] and then enforcement would be on actually dangerous driving behaviors such as tailgating, aggressive lane changes and excessively different speed vs flow of traffic.

There are places in the US with "hidden" speed cameras on interstates-- I think Sioux City, IA has them. They're marked on Google Maps & locals know to slow down near the signs that hide them, then immediately speed back up. Strangely enough, traffic doesn't accordion as much such as when an unexpected braking event happens otherwise.

[1]https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/7/24/understanding-...
SEO often seems to be a compensation for the fact that a site doesn't have particularly worthwhile content. So punishing SEO surprisingly does promote higher quality of search results.
Literally all of India uses WhatsApp. Non-WhatsApp users (exclusively Signal/Telegram/Mitron or whatever homegrown flavour of the day) are a rounding error.
> They've been doing that to cathedrals for 𝚝̶𝚠̶𝚎̶𝚕̶𝚟̶𝚎̶ seventeen centuries, why would they stop doing it now?

Because not all "modern contexts" are equivalent. We're at a point now where the "modern context" is so cheap it's become boring and mundane.
Life today is so much better than at any other time in history, because washing machines! And because I'm middle upper class, almost forgot that.
I'm convinced there's an alternate universe where Windows 9 brought all the improvements of Windows 10 without treating the user like a contemptible moron.
Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation