skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does make you wonder what is going to get missed though, doesn't it? Each generation gets to work on a level of abstraction higher than the one before it.

I think about that often when I think about all the things I don't understand about hardware and EE.
I've worked with people of varying skill-levels but personally gravitate towards those who can code idiomatically. For me it's important I write idiomatic code and follow the language/framework/api guidelines to the letter so I don't become a maintenance burden to my team.

In the fast-paced world of frontend dev, the last thing I want to do is revisit "complete" work, be it a lack of env parametrisation or something bigger. We make assumptions based on idiomatic implementation - failing to conform means work-items can slip ("This story will slip into the next sprint because the I had to convert the callback into an idiomatic action/reducer first").
How do you ensure the copy you buy isn't adulterated and modified? One benefit of copyright is that the author can ensure the "real" one is shared... which you may care about when viewing content.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-...
The "Freedom Phone" is one of the more high profile examples.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/technology/freedom-phone-...

As for Javascript, hopefully the difference between an abstract programming language he doesn't have total control over and a closed-sourced software project that handles your personal data on a daily basis is obvious.
Huh? That sounds very uninspiring.
Thanks! Unfortunately we've been affected by the AWS outage, so if anyone is met with a blank table we do apologise.
So on what basis is someone's performance reviewed, if such performance is omitted?
The line “coding is just if statements” really annoys me. I used to think this earlier in my career. It’s technically true but it means that you haven’t really grasped what makes programming hard.

The real challenge of programming is how you organize a million if statements in a way that the system can be understood and evolved predictably and cheaply over time.

And any tool that takes away the control of how you organize your code and allows for the creation of complexity without proper version control, debugging, testing and code review is doomed to failure.

No code is just code at a higher level of abstraction. No code works when you don’t need a lot of code to solve the problem to begin with. Which is kind of a mind bender.
But if the torpedo has pinged, the sub knows something's afoot, and it could quickly scan in that direction with its own active sonar (giving up your position be damned, we're under attack already) to guide its interceptors. Plus, the attack torpedo is now rushing ahead - and loud.

Sword and shield indeed; it seems the submarine tactics people must have a lot of fun playing with these scenarios.
In that case, what's unbelievable about a developer phoning feature detection in and just using the user-agent string? :P
Brave promotes a toxic business model centered in killing off internet's advertisement and providing their own in house solution. This is very bad for guaranteeing a healthy competition on the market, it creates an enormous walled garden.

Firefox is truly multiplatform, open source, committed to privacy, security and an open web and Mozilla is an authority on these topics. Sure, they're not perfect, but so far they proved to do a great job most of the time.
Firefox is updated, alive and vibrant, very performant, welcoming and produces the ONLY remaining alternative to Microsoft/Apple/Google's joint effort to own the web with Chrome.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705855
Exactly this. I see no reason to rename the file, it is effectively identical so the existing name is helpful and well known.
Sure, SpaceX doesn't have a Hubble Space Telescope in space and NASA doesn't have the capability to return it to Earth. I'm not sure where you're going with this.
Quirks Mode 2.0
See how precipitation has changed in your community
I feel like I would use Vivaldi before I did Brave.

At least Vivaldi has a different philosophy for what a browser should be which justifies using it.

I’m not sure what Brave adds to the mix other than schemes to make money for themselves.
Yes, there is progress. But it is very far from anything you might consider complete or arguably even usable--there's no implementation of malloc or basic stdio, for example.
Thats what registration is for. We know the "true" authors/owners of most patents, so why not copyrights.
I had no idea it was that expensive. I will never understand the way certain people spend money. I could buy a toolbox filled with Snap-on tools for one night of cringing.

There is a politician who's ruining the democratic party that was at that event.
There are six main narratives of globalisation, all flawed
Sure lots of organizations have unique capabilities, and SpaceX is one of those! Better to bring home Hubble than let it burn up once it's no longer operational. I definitely rate inspiration much higher than 'dubious' :)
Man TicTok must think I'm a pervert since I get 50% of women dancing in bikinis.
Good idea. I might have shaped it more like a pyramid with every measurement in compliance with sacred geometry and buried 60% of it the repeated the same method with the same contents in locations on every continent factoring in which earth plates are in subduction zones and which will raise. Align all of them along the cardinal points. Put a few of them on the moon and link them to the pyramids on earth for off-site backup. No words on them, just a giant imprint of Kilroy. [1] Encase the entire thing in Tungsten Carbide this time, not casing stones. Total weight of each minus contents should be about 5,750,000 tons. Anything smaller will tumble and turn to dust.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
If you have a business you can start by going through a program like SBIR (https://www.navysbir.com/) or STTR. The catch is that the Navy has to want to buy a replacement (i.e. I don't see VMS on the list of SBIR topics you could apply to solve).

So that means you'd basically have to do business development first with an organization like NUWC Newport or NUWC Keyport (the undersea warfare centers who do submarine R&D) to drum up interest so that the government can issue an actual RFP or similar, and then you could bid to work on it.

I'll be the first to admit it's super difficult but if you're interested you might also consider talking with a local NavalX Tech Bridge (see https://www.secnav.navy.mil/agility/Pages/tech_bridge.aspx)
All ERPs are fundamentally like that.

At the end of the day you are purchasing a COTS product specifically to gain efficiency of industry best practices already coded for you.

If you take a COTS product and then try to rewrite it to fit your "unique" business processes, we'll, that's why half of them fail.

Implementation of erp is incorrectly and disastrously viewed as an IT project. It is first and foremost a business transformation project. A company should be self-aware to say "HR|Accounting|whatever is NOT our core business or competitive advantage; it's not what we are great at. It's not a thing we should be unique in. It's a cost centre and we need to standardize and minimize that cost with help of people and software that were successful with many other companies".

(Source: I've been implementing Peoplesoft, a competing erp,for 20 years for dozens of companies, as a technical resource eventually wise enough to be aware it's fundamentally not a technical endeavour :-)
...they're also great?

The parent comment was just that it would be cool to bring Hubble back eventually, and that Starship seems promising towards that end. It's not a diminishment of all other space-focused organizations.
I was hoping, like others in this thread, to see something that takes HLL code and outputs a ASIC design. Of course it would have to be limited in the type of code it can take.

It is similar to programming FPGAs. Are there applications that use FPGAs running close to CPUs in the cloud? Or CPUs are fast enough and much cheaper than using FPGAs.
It’s Apache licensed with LLVM exceptions (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libc/LICENSE....)

LibC++ is licensed that way, too (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libcxx/LICENS...)
> That includes other creative occupations and most of the employees of e.g. movie studios. Are we fairly compensating _them_ for their work?

what i find really interesting is, why is it that a company owns what i make there automatically?

afaik i didn't sign any copyright assignment in my work contract...

i wonder what the legal basis is for that?
The only reason it "dies" is because people aren't using it. By using it, you help it to not "die."

By using Firefox you show web developers that they need to support you as a user, or risk losing your business. That in turn makes Mozilla influential.
> A check can take 7 years to bounce.

The longer I live the more insane the current system feels. I really don't understand why we put up with this stuff.
The best you can probably do on plain Win95 is K-Meleon 1.6 (2010) http://kmeleonbrowser.org/wiki/KMeleon16

With installation of KernelEx you can try K-Meleon 74 or Opera 12:

https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2018/05/k-meleon-74...

http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/Opera
I guess it's Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE

Alright, that's fine for now. The distance between this and modern pop music is actually razor thin. Update the instrumentation with synthesizers, give it percussions and you'd be done.

Interesting, the covers are further away from modern pop than this is
Greatest thing I have ever seen.
Just an FYI: this is about a NASA project called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. And not about the programming language of same name.
This outlook is actually endemic in the ERP implementation space.

The part you're not going to like hearing is that, due to laws/regulations, that "default world view" may be the best way to approach that problem for that given module/area (e.g. how to structure benefits or compensation). "Creativity" in the ERP space is costly.

Also reducing your variation to something that's configurable as opposed to custom codebase means you don't have to do extensive testing whenever a patch or upgrade to the ERP software comes out.
Not the OP but are you talking about Lockheed, Rockwell, etc.? I think they're criminal arms traffickers and war profiteers who did achieve some amazing things, but only as a means to extract vast amounts of the nation's wealth. In other words, they did as little constructive work as they could with each tax dollar given to them.

SpaceX at least doesn't appear to be building a business model based on being a barrel for pork with a board that functions as a pension fund for military generals.
I will be given the same task of get a USB-C portable monitor to work on a Huawei Mate D14 (1 USB-C) next week. Already preparing for that massive headache.
I can't figure out what your point is. I'm saying Hubble is such an incredible achievement and pillar of the spirit of space exploration it's worth spending the money to bring it home even if doing so doesn't generate any scientific data in and of itself.
Suggesting that when the status page sends a status request and hears no response—it defaults to green—hear no evil and see no evil —> report no evil

Either way—overt lies or engineering incompetence—it’s disappointing!
For my vote, I don't think it was rude, I think it was making a point.
great idea, however I think they would become more like a hosting company with more overheads - so probably better for them to stick to their higher margin service they offer now.
also, i bet they doo offer something like "(standard deal + optional financing support + broadcast platform) for mass-market film-making." just not to everyone
Wow, what a collection of hacks. It reminds me of the efforts Microsoft goes to so that old programs keep working on Windows.
I never used this feature personally. Do you think it’s better than a separate profile which you can launch with -p flag or a profile switcher extension?
Probably depends a lot on the language.
OK, I think we're done here. You've lost every point you brought up, and thus you have to keep changing the definition of what's being argued about. There's no point in continuing.
It feels like there’s a bunch of ML technology that exists that could plausibly be pieces of this solution: there are algorithms for computing embeddings, various audio processing models, recommender system networks, etc. I wonder what’s been tried in this space and how/why it’s been lacking…
Close...

but take advantage and use C++ language facilities for the core implementation.
Opera 12, with the Presto engine, had this same problem. It had a huge list of overrides (JavaScript and CSS) to fix problems with popular websites.

This is inevitable when a browser has limited market share.
JS catching strays smh
Just so you guys know, this website does not have HTTPS. Be aware.
They tried but Slack weren't interested. Update from 2 years ago

To summarize my current understanding: Slack's video conferencing service only support Chrome's non-standard Plan B format for WebRTC calls. And our attempts to talk to Slack about changing that were kindly rejected (we met with them shortly after they had launched the calling feature). And my repeated questions in public events about adding Firefox support were also turned down.

Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626121#c4

Further clarification from last year https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626121#c10

I have seen people mention that they have tried few more times to contact them, but Slack weren't interested.

My understanding as to why it works now, correct me if I am wrong, is because of Slack moving to using AWS Chime SDK for calls which has Firefox support and just faking the UA to Chrome tricks Slack into loads the necessary SDK/JS for calls and Chime SDK takes care of the rest.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commits/main/libc shows there were commits recently.
9am is the _worst_ time. If you get a night owl interviewer, you’re probably making them wake up early…
8-12% surveyed said that it was a dealbreaker not to be able to use slack/similar to drive automation and get event notifications?!?

We can have the same jobs and live in such different worlds.
> Meanwhile, none of them could tell me how React actually works, beyond throwing jargon vomit. They couldn't write a web application without React. The recruiter, which we had to go through, basically had no empathy and saw me as a failed resume. I felt pretty helpless, even though I've said many times to both parties that I wasn't a "React developer".

But they don't make money by knowing "how React works". They make money by "writing good-enough React code that pushes features to production". I think get you, and in some sense I feel identified with you, it's just that the industry has shifted from "let's care about our craft" to "let's write good-enough code to make more money"... makes me sad, but hey, it's business I suppose.

I couldn't care less that a candidate knows what "React hooks" are (that's probably gonna be outdated in 1 or 2 years). I care if they know how to write modular code. Management doesn't have the same opinion, though: employees usually work for 1 to 2 years at the same company... so knowing what "React hooks" are now, matters for them.
When I engaged on the substance of the argument you said "you're too focused on product here, which is not strategy", which isn't a statement that can be engaged with. It's an unusual claim that you didn't justify. I've repeatedly given examples of what I believe to be more coherent strategies, and you've functionally ignored them (and yes replying with "you're not thinking about this with the right mindset" is not engaging)

To be clear, even if we assume Youtube's rise was anticompetitive, your argument relies on that being the explicit strategy, which well, there's decent documentation to believe it wasn't. Assuming that because a bad thing happened, everyone involved is evil, is weird, and requires you to jump through weird hoops to justify.
> Can the NYTimes or WSJ even think about covering local issues?

Yes.

The NYTimes has a Canadian desk. Eventually they'll have a Vancouver desk. Eventually they'll have an East Van desk. Eventually they'll have a Main St desk.
Another reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to support proxy (VPN) users.

Google's gstatic.com service rejects requests from the proxy service I use. This causes websites that use Google-hosted fonts to load with invisible text then show the text after a few seconds. This makes browsing slow. It affects the Flutter & Dart docs.

When Google's gstatic.com blocks proxy users, they break sites and apps that use code hosted on it: Google account login, Google Cloud Console, Google Maps, Google Search, search in all Google apps, etc. I'm a paying customer of Google Apps for Business and was unable to use their support site to contact them. To contact Google Support, you must get a Support PIN code. The PIN only lasts an hour, so the one I wrote down last year doesn't work anymore. It seems that there is no way for a proxy user to contact Google Support to report problems logging in. I'm transitioning away from Google products.
Chinese Rover Spots Weird, Large ‘Cube’ on the Moon
Killing off the competition? Enormous walled garden? If that is Brave's business model, it's a delusional pipe dream. Brave trying to kill Google, or even merely match with the scale of Google's garden let alone surpass it, is like trying to cool down a volcano by pissing into it. The scale discrepancy between these two organizations is off the charts.
Such kind of attitude from Slack is disgusting.
C’mon, what about remote?
Got it, thanks very much for the summary! Agreed that the EdgeRouter is fine, but the one I have is a bit anemic (ER Lite), and I've been disappointed with Ubiquiti's push for increased telemetry/phoning home, so I didn't want to buy a more powerful ER to replace it.
It’s okay to say quadruped, rather than Boston-Dynamics-like, because there are significant differences and this is interesting in its own right.
you are right about this, i think HN posted an article on “junk” dna not being “junk” dna after all. this was about a month ago, it may have been on news.google.com if it was not on here, having read science breakthrough stuff throughout the years i was never convinced of that term and was more than cautious when tech subs started talking about how crispr alters “junk” dna, the general consensus before the pandemic was, “this is cool, but we must be careful, this technology may cause unexpected side effects” but during the pandemic or the peak of it, people were like “canon ball”, all caution to the wind. or seemed like caution was thrown to the wind. it’s surprising how fast we adopted this technology but we still gotta question if there is gonna be long term issues. there’s nothing wrong with questioning science, that’s actually what science is about.
I am fully aware that both you and I are in the minority on this website, but I agree. The promotion of SpaceX at the expense of other organizations that have been doing work besides LV development for decades is very disappointing, and it's moreso disappointing that SpaceX keeps getting injected into conversations about NASA's scientific work, something SpaceX is not interested in besides advancing rocketry.

I think it's warranted when we're, say, comparing the costs of SLS vis-a-vis something like Starship but it's really silly to constantly suggest SpaceX and other commercial space entities are some sort of savior figure for space exploration. I think it's actually a cautionary tale of again sacrificing a commons (space) for the sake of profit.
Grapefruit tastes like medicine.
I'm getting close to be a 10-year Vim user and I've spent the last year learning Colemak slowly and paciently.

I tried remapping for Colemak's sake, but I quickly decided against it.

Now I've settled on Colemak-DH with an Extended Layer implemented with Kmonad and I'm a lot happier.

For text navigation (besides the extended layer) I just use the EasyMotion plugin, so no need of remapping. I'm really digging it.
> I'm aware that there are other independent, open-source browser-engines available, I'm not aware of any others that are equally usable as an everyday browser for ordinary users though.

Safari is both usable for everyday users and is used every day by more than those that use Firefox, which means WebKit is a viable alternative to Blink.
Which version did they remove the cool screenshot feature? seems like they just added it.... (you could easily take a screenshot of the whole page)

Edit: Looks like Firefox 88 only moved the feature: https://techdows.com/2021/03/firefox-88-removes-screenshot-o...

I wonder what useless/detrimental move they made this time

I remember when they removed the right-click View Image not long ago... luckily there's an add-on that can bring back this basic feature.
You're explaining what youtube's edge is in the market, but not why nobody else has it; it's an important distinction.

Any company has an edge on any non existent company, because they exist - they have the tools, the infrastructure, the knowledge needed to run the business, all things that the non existent company first has to aquire. Doesn't explain why nobody else can do it! Because things, in general, can be aquired. But clarity did: Youtube has Google. Youtube was able to aquire things nobody else could.

Example: You said youtube needs near unlimited bandwidth. This argument doesn't show me why there can't be a competitor. Youtube's business model seems to pay off, so you should be able to convince an investor to pay you, too, unlimited bandwidth, right? Money is immaterial if you can show that you can make more of it at a later stage.
I'm curious: what was the previous workplace?
This is called a prototype
I feel like with the modern rate of browser development by the time you have identified and fixed the bug the fix may no longer be relevant
I doubt seriously that you've done any research on the cost of building housing in other countries: what the builder has to pay the municipality, what the homeowner has to pay in local taxes (over & above the income tax and VAT). Have you?
> "Integration software products ... are not products that directly solve a business problem. ... They are programming languages, bundled with a toolchain and a runtime to support the compilation process."

> By this definition, Excel is a form of integration tool. A spreadsheet doesn't "directly solve a business problem". It's basically just a piece of paper with lines on it, along with some "programming formulas". A hammer would be an integration tool if it were digital.

You're misreading that quote. The direction is actually important in conveying meaning, it's like trying to misread "Every ancient poet known as Homer was a man" as "all men are ancient poets known as Homer".
Raii is enough of a reason IMO, but templates, type safety, actual arrays, constexpr, and various modern changes to the language that allow for the compiler to optimise code (move semantics and RVO)
I still use notepad to try to avoid all the crap software tries to cram down my throat these days. Sad to see they've managed to mess with this too. I wonder how long it'll be before tracking and dark patterns are shoved into this notepad version (if it hasn't happened already).
"Brave promotes a toxic business model centered in killing off internet's advertisement and providing their own in house solution. This is very bad for guaranteeing a healthy competition on the market, it creates an enormous walled garden."

So has anyone using an Adblock in the past 20 years. Also what do Ads have to do with market competition? And what is "toxic" about having a browser that promotes alternative revenue models?