skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having tried to think about how to map Graphviz (language parsing, styles, and layout) onto our graph drawing offering, I'm not sure I can agree here. The dot graph description language itself is fairly simple (-ish). There are a few nasties like the HTML record support, which can be annoying to support, but overall that part isn't so bad. When it comes to laying out the graphs and rendering anything Graphviz has so many unique features that it can be a lot more work.
I wonder how many users they would actually gain from this. People that both care about browser engine diversity on iOS but don't already use the webview version of Firefox.
Having done over 25 yrs , the creativity of it, finding elegant solutions to problems, satisfaction of taming a spaghetti code mess and cleaning it up , learning arcane uber-geeky ways of doing things and amusing others with these tricks, intellectual satisfaction / keeping the brain in shape, having colleagues with good senses of humour and lively minds, (particularly the delightfully twisted silly jokes/banter people come up with after spending hours on weird abstract problems that are incomprehensible to most people) overall relatively low stress (compared to other jobs that pay the same) way to keep a family fed :).
> If this new syntax fixes that, I see the value.

It does. The old syntax creates and assigns the variable at compile-time. => does it at execution time.

So this code:

def foo(bar, baz=[]):
baz.append(bar)
return baz
foo(1)
foo(2)
print(foo(3))

would print '[1, 2, 3]'

But this code:

def foo(bar, baz=>[]):
baz.append(bar)
return baz
foo(1)
foo(2)
print(foo(3))

would print '[3]'
Doesn't surprise me. We had a few Dell AIO's in our office and whenever the CPU was under high usage for more than 15 minutes the motherboard would start malfunctioning. USB ports would stop working, built-in screen would flicker or short out entirely, etc. As soon as the CPU usage let up, all the issues went away and it would work normally again even without a reboot. Same behavior, multiple identical models in our office doing the same thing. Clearly a design defect/flaw.

Dell's solution? Replace almost every part under warranty under numerous repairs. As expected, issue still persisted and support had no explanation. We had no luck trying to escalate the issue as a design flaw. We decided to cut our losses and just order new PCs that weren't AIO's since they wouldn't be thermally pushing the limits.
No, they could not been said like this. No matter what opinion one has about USA, it is certainly not economically weak or dysfunctional.
I was astonished when I encountered suicidal ideation as a coping strategy: "It's not so bad, I could always kill myself." Humans never fail to violate preconceptions.
> The danger is that this doesn't happen before Putin runs out of non-military options.

Putin has the non-military option of being the one to back down.

> Either Zelenskyy or Biden needs to find his inner adult, and announce that Ukraine won't be joining NATO any time that's on his own watch.

NATO hasn't even approved admitting Ukraine to the Membership Action Plan; it's pretty clear that they have no near term prospects for membership. What Russia wants is more NATO abandonment of existing members.
Things I’ve seen this year.

People who Molotov cocktailed a police van with people inside.
Let off with probation.

Police beat an unconscious person until they died. Internal investigation cleared them of wrongdoing.

It definitely matters what the protest is supporting/fighting.
I like this approach of using the tag associated with a code block to determine how to render the output. It's the same approach I take in my markdown-derived markup language: https://github.com/smasher164/mexdown.

The top example there takes a GraphViz description and passes it into the dot command, placing the resultant SVG into the HTML output.
A major difference is that the police would issue dispersal orders, then attack the BLM protesters indiscriminately, or call curfews which basically declared open season on any kind of protester, journalist, civilian, doing anything outdoors after X o'clock. The police were shooting rubber bullets at people sitting on their own porches.

This is not how Ottawa is being handled, this is not how January 6th was handled, and if BLM protesters decided they were going to shut down an international bridge that provided 1/3 of trade with the US, that wouldn't have made it a hour before an extreme response was taken.

If the trucker protest were treated like the BLM protests, you'd see people blinded and dead, and it would be completely torn apart every night to have to be reassembled the next day. At least compare it to Occupy, although they were in a park instead of blocking roads.
I just tried to install it and yes, it looks like mmdc still requires puppeteer and chromium. Which seems a bit ridiculous for a CLI tool.
That article’s old app link doesn’t work so fyi: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/garden-stay-in-touch/id1230466...
Ask HN: Turning Reactive into Proactive Tasks?
I think about my life in two buckets: proactive and reactive.

In terms of things to do each day, proactive tasks should be known well ahead of time, but almost always creep up without warning: birthdays, passports expiring, anniversaries, car registrations, pool maintenance etc.

These are all proactive tasks that somehow become reactive, taking up far more time and energy than needed.

Has anyone nailed this dilemma?
>"notwithstanding clause"

This thing makes a mockery of Canadian Bill of Rights
These days Apple is not really a "growth" prospect developing something speculative, it's more of a "cash cow" collecting rents.

The former would be the kind of "tech stock" he would avoid; the Apple of today (the latter) is the kind of predictable business Buffett does invest in.
I am super familiar with the generative modeling space, have designed them and deployed to real prod, and I will say you’re right that generative modeling results can be hit or miss. But, I was more referring to the page layout, its unreliability (seemed like the author was live debugging in this thread?), poor UX (seems like people can’t easily figure out the page), etc. rather than anything about the model itself (though tbh I also don’t find Pokémon GAN Number 10,000 compelling as a topic). Fundamentally though you do have to always consider results from the latest papers with some baseline skepticism.
A better CEO would not be cheaper, particularly considering that whoever takes the job would be tasked with saving a dying product.

High salary and a golden parachute would be required to attract anyone good enough to succeed.
No. It should be possible to get gfxstream or virgl working with Linux guests, but I'm not aware of any way to provide acceleration for Windows guests.
Eliminating Dangling Elastic IP Takeovers with Ghostbuster
It’s definitely something some people care about, although I am certainly in the camp of not caring at all. I have no idea what font my IDE uses, and I have never thought about changing it.
> If content creation devices aren't the devices that create content, then what are they?

I think that's a very good question. It's clear that devices like that are useful for some form of content creation, but I'm don't know if the term to refer to them has been coined or not.

Intuitively, they don't seem to fit in the category we used to call "content creation", since that nearly always was synonymous with creation+precision, rather than "any kind of creation".
I had hoped I could easily recreate the healthy routines I had when working in office, but it hasn’t panned out. Discipline and routine have been really hard to figure out without the forcing function of a commute. For example:

1. An early commute to avoid traffic forced me to go to bed earlier, get ready for the next day the night before, and wake up on a set schedule

2. Housework seems to expand infinitely when working remote. When I was in office, this didn’t take up much of my mental energy. Now it seems like I always have laundry to do, dishes to clean, etc

I’m going to try and stick remote, but I really need to figure these things out. The forced schedule really seems to help. FWIW I am single. I don’t think it’s the same if you have kids from what I’ve seen.
Yes, just like Madison Square Gardens which is a round/oval shape building. People don't realize how silly words can be when one's inner child takes hold.
looks very bad on non-retina windows display
jetbrains mono is still the best
Yes, several times:

http://viz-js.com/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hpcc-js/wasm

I even did it myself a few months ago :)
> The only person who has been bringing up racism is you.

The article directly addresses her being called racist for considering opening the schools. There are multiple paragraphs addressing this in the article.

> If you want to participate...

> If you want to discuss pandemic response

> Better yet, join the campaign to get people vaccinated

Thanks for telling me what I should do, without knowing what I've been doing.
For terminal/console use wide fonts hurt IMHO. I really like Iosevka, it even has a terminal optimized version that's explicitly less wide: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
I am the only one who finds fonts a bit expensive for personal use? It is not a rant, I am not saying it isn't worth it, that font designers can't make money, etc... But that puts it on the same level as tools like Sublime Text or Beyond Compare. For me, it is enough of a turn off not to use a commercial font, especially considering that the free offering is quite good.

I totally understand the higher price for commercial use, here, it is cheap compared to the costs of hiring a designer, and it may have a real impact on your sales and ultimately earn you money.

But why is the price for personal use around $60? Is it some kind of a sweet spot because most people won't buy fonts anyways, even for $1, but those who do expect to pay that kind of money. Does it account for piracy, which I guess is easy and goes unnoticed if you only use it personally?
Get a new CEO my friend!
Ford Sending Bronco to Dealers Who Mark Up Prices, Reserve Holders Told to Wait
Hyperbolica – Release Date Trailer
The problem with building a web browser is that if you introduce too many new features then you are breaking with web standards. The most you can do is add some user conveniences like sync, themes and extensions, but those don't go far enough to make enough users consider switching. A browser can, by definition, never have a "killer app".
Idk, putting the $199 towards buying a nicer monitor seems like the pro gamer move. There are billions of free fonts out there.
If you start getting into this kind of thing, you'll want to take a look at https://kroki.io which supports Mermaid along with lots of other diagramming formats.
For me, I notice that I get most engrossed in the code when there's a problem and I need to figure out how to solve it.
You're correct. Hand lettered too, because I am apparently obsessive.

I talk about it more here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
If you're a doomer (i.e., not for everybody): an interesting perspective on radical disengagement: [0]

Ran Prieur - discussed in another thread on HN, or [1]

**

[0] https://youtu.be/dsNWH8ESCAM

[1] http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html
What? I've been using firefox for years and I never see any of this, you may want to run some virus scans.
I find reading code with word wrapping nearly impossible.
We're already there. 4% Firefox market share may as well be zero. What is the current recourse for Chrome pushing a monoculture? I don't think it matters today what Firefox does or objects to.
Does he address his own efforts to suppress wages for those employees?

https://www.courthousenews.com/disney-to-settle-animators-wa...
I think this is a false equivalence. The content of SVGs is non-semantic; to get from SVG code to Meaning one needs to do some sort of rendering and re-interpreting of the resulting image. Even if for some simple images that could be done in-brain, that is not usually the case. Whereas something like Mermaid is intended to be meaningful both as code and as rendered output, just like Markdown itself. Having that additional meaning inline can be very helpful to faster understanding of the content, which is not usually going to be the case for inline'd SVG.
> and I guess maternal leave wasn't a thing at Pixar back then.

The opposite. After she finished mat leave she was allowed the special exemption to work from home so she could still spend time with her baby.
If I need something to look good as text without any rendering I write text (a .txt file). Even the most basic features of markdown (inline code, italics, etc) look pretty nasty without post rendering.
I'd try to find ways to make Mozilla a better browser, instead of trying to convince people with ideological arguments, which is obviously not sufficient for a mainstream browser.

Things that could convince me:

- automated clicking for cookie banners

- built-in password manager with network storage

- better bookmark management, with bookmarks as icons on the start page, similar to mobile phone home screens

- built-in video calls with browser sharing (many years ago I saw a tech demo from Mozilla that looked a bit like around.co)

- cloud-storage for tabs and cookies/storage, maybe even JS state, so I can switch machines and get an identical browser window.
My oldest kid been going to in-class school since September 2020 [1]. Maskless since October 2021. She missed, in a year and a half, a total of two or three weeks of school. This is a blessing that my kid has received.

I cant speak of your nieces.

EDIT:

[1] The year is correct, 2020.
Absolutely love this! Added three products that broke on me recently (two of which I was able to fix).

Feature request; flag bad/nonsense posts. e.g. https://www.failscout.co/details/620aad6e8833e70009e1524f
I would stop chasing the browser as an OS and try to break the many uses of a browser into multiple sub apps, with specifications to match.

This is the reason why Gemini are gaining popularity: the scope is limited and focused on doing one thing well.
Comparing racial exclusion and barring felons to how unvaccinated people are being treated is some seriously disingenous nonsense.

> Look, I get it

No, you don't.
>It's not like buildings are burnt down in Ottawa every day.

No building was burnt down.
That is pretty complicated
Just use

1. Visual code draw.io extenstion
2. Save diagram as FILENAME.drawio.svg
3. Link file in markdown
because normal people don’t care
Give the innovations a rest for a couple of years, and redevote the funds to security development. Hell, do that for four years! Many of us long-term users are held hostage by the fact that security updates (which we need) come bundled with this tosh.
How would that differ from the last two years?
The nice thing about Wikipedia is that claims are sourced. I had no idea who this guy was, but I looked over the statements critical of his credibility and at first glance many of them are sourced at heavily biased media outlets which isn't encouraging. I'm not digging into it enough to say those articles are wrong, but I'd say the clams that he isn't credibile on his wikipedia page aren't looking very convincing so far, or at the very least that view on the guy doesn't seem widely accepted by mainstream sources.
“government because they don't like the lawful, legal, constitutional decisions.”
This is a massive mischaracterization of your political opposition.
Weeks after announcing it, Nvidia has gone silent on its flagship RTX 3090 Ti
What could go wrong? And I don't mean with the raids that might (should0 happen. What happens when some felon who straw purchased via his ex, finds out she turned him in? It could be ugly.
I don't want to get political here, that's not my intention but this even was 100% peaceful protestors who just happened to be somewhere the President wanted to go were gassed for no reason.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...
Been using in this way with Gitlab along with PlantUML for years. Slightly prefer PlantUML, feel like its a little bit more similar to native markdown due to the way it employs natural language. Would be nice if Github looked at that option too.
The article does not explain enough the implications for us mere mortals without high math/security knowledge. I think many people owning a Mikrotik device would want to know if:

1 - To what extent this makes Mikrotik hardware less secure? -> solutions?

2 - Does this make easier to flash open 3rd party Linux/BSD/whatever based firmware on said devices? -> suggestions?
If it's unlawful, illegal or unconstitutional then avenues exist within the courts to resolve their grievances do they not? I'm led to believe that rule of law continues to prevail within Canada.

[edit] Not just that, Trudeau operates a minority government, meaning two other parties could gang up and oust them at basically any time. And yet, he remains in office. I think this really speaks to how small the vocal minority is.

They've brought guns, ammo, knives [1], built encampments, stashed them full of diesel and propane [2], disrupted trade, jobs, lives, supply chains, threatened violence. Harassed and intimidated healthcare workers. And for what? This is not your average picket, and it's gone on more than long enough.

We're all frustrated, we're all tired of this. I'm open to revisiting the health measures, but not like this.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/freedom-convoy-guns-seized-in-rai...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/ottawa-police-seize-fuel-truckers-a...
I don't think this has anything to do with arrogance, this is simply the market value speaking. Ginni Rometty did something similar with IBM; while being a terrible CEO ("IBM was the worst-performing large-cap tech stock during Rometty's tenure, dropping 24%" [1]), she got a whopping $20M per year [2] during her first 7 years of being a CEO, and she got $20M golden parachute [3] upon leaving the shell of an IBM.

This is not arrogance. This is simply the pay of a CEO, regardless of their performance.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/ibm-was-worst-performing-lar...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-31/ginni-rome...

[3] https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/ibm-ginni-rometty-20m-33...
Majority of the BLM weren’t killed by a cop standing on their necks. Your point was understood and invalidated
I'm not sure what you're referring to. The font is a one time purchase and significantly cheaper than a new monitor. Both things (a better monitor and a better font) can make you enjoy the things you're doing more.

Yes, there might be billions of free fonts out there, but the cost of that font is also not exactly making a huge impact for me that I have to save money there. Why would I start saving with the font all the sudden when I spend more money on literally everything else? Does not really compute to me.
yes, some people care, also SF Mono is a really great font too! Its ok for people to like stuff that doesn't make sense to you
Do nonprofits really care about the market? Not sure how that works, what would it take to replace her if she doesn't want to be replaced?
May I suggest that our best effort in saving Firefox is to enforce existing pro-consumer laws which breaks up large companies like Google while promoting laws that protects our privacy.

Firefox’s biggest threat is a company with a really broad range of products that all coalesce into selling scary profitable ads.
It's not a pain. Regulations are there to be followed and I don't think GDPR is wrong. I honestly would rather set up these systems so that it can be done easily and being compliant with the law and user expectations.
According to them they lend the money out to institutions and traders. Margin rates can be pretty high.
That sounds like single dispatch to me. Maybe I'm missing something.
> They're honking for 16-18 hours per day. For people that live near the convoy, they've been able to sleep for over two weeks due to this. I have friends and family affected by this. I'm fairly sure this constitutes torture if you don't have the resources to up and leave your residence for days at a time in order to sleep.

Are earplugs not a thing in Canada?

Calling honking torture is ridiculous hyperbole. That word should be reserved for the extremely serious kinds of acts it's normally used to describe, lest it become effectively meaningless.

Words themselves don't have any power, and if you try to harness the power of a concept by misusing a word that refers to it, you just cause the word's definition to shift and to weaken its association to the concept (potentially making that concept much harder to access and refer to).
> In what way is it a hit piece?

These are the people of the truck convoy who protest:
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/149273926633759539...

Do you think they are racists, fascists and nazis?

These are the counter protestors:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1492825892921479168

What would you call them?

> Would you consider one of the main organizers themselves to be a credible source?

Yes, thank you. Doesn't mean everything he does is racist and what not.
Different strokes, I suppose. (Pun intended.)

I like the narrower font so I can fit two side-by-side files with full 120 character width each on a regular 16:9 display. Iosevka is likely my forever font. I find it both beautiful and fit for purpose; I couldn't ask for more.

Re: "lines should be short." I prefer my code font to work even for bad code. It's not always my code that I'm looking at!
does anyone know how can wr get RSS feed?
Less than hour before the equivalent of Marshall Law is declared here in Canada and my civil rights are taken away. What should I do in my last hour of freedom?
My washing machine or Minecraft redstone blocks may be Turing complete, but realistically they are the best interface to express what the mind intends to express.
They're having to deal with that this time. Some people can't be told, it seems to have little to do with any earned mistrust.
Yeah. Been a roller coaster in the fake Internet points like no other post I've ever made.

I dunno, one day (years ago, now?) I was yet again reading a post like "well it's a shame these workers suffer horribly and maybe we can do some stuff to help, but the work has to be done" and it occurred to me that I was reading someone defending billions-of-dollars corporations with exactly the same reasoning that a kid uses when they say another kid "made them" punch them, and then we were all hand-wringing over which color of medical tape to put on the victim's nose (I mean, clearly the kid had to get punched, everyone agrees on that and you must be crazy if you don't, but we should try to help!) instead of stepping back and going "what if the problem is that there's punching happening in the first place?"

The whole framing of the problem, as it's most commonly expressed, is myopic and deflects from whole categories of solutions (that are very inconvenient to a few Internet giants that dominate the attention economy).
Tried it just now. From pressing the url bar to the keyboard showing up is a 2 second delay. Overall pages seem really unresponsive.
It was 1998, and it wasn't that common, but in tech it wasn't impossible. For Pixar it was hard because of the size of the files, but otherwise wasn't all that hard.

I occasionally worked from home in 1998. The biggest impediment was network speed -- at work we had 10mbps and sometimes even 100mpbs. But at home all we had was dail up or if you were really lucky, DSL, which was 0.384mbps, so 30 times slower, and also latency was a lot higher.

So you were very limited in what you could do. Mostly it was just email and remote access ssh with tmux, where you sometimes had to deal with really high latency.
Really? This isn't GM -- it's a web browser. An important one, but even a paltry $1M should be enough to draw in the right talent.