skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a Starship launching three times per week could put as much mass into orbit as has been launched by the entire world to date (~15,500 tons).

Finding a free spot to place all those objects without too much risk of collisions might become quite a challenge. http://www.stuffin.space/
Let's design system that disincentivizes reliability and be surprised that reliable systems aren't probitable. Amazing.
forgot testing, I use jest and am looking into vitest
It's truly weird and I don't understand it. I mean not to defend Firefox but the HN reaction is almost comically extreme.

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Chrome: ...and so our company's puppy kicking campaign was a total success. In other news, we're updating our terms of service so that you agree to hand over your first born child.

HN: Meh, I'll still use Chrome though.

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Firefox: Today we fixed a bug that...

HN: OMG FIREFOX SUCKS. I'M USING CHROME NOW.
On each and every point your view is only true in very isolated and niche situations, while simultaneously begging the question that you’ve run out of memory in the first place.

Linux is not good for desktop environments for exactly the reasons you outline here (and many more). It’s not Electron’s fault you’ve used the wrong tool for your desktop OS.
Every post to HN has a 'delete' link for a certain amount of time after the post is made, as long as the post doesn't have replies. (We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread.) This doesn't depend on karma.

Flagging depends on karma but the threshold is low (only 30) so you can certainly do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag about how to flag comments.

I'm a bit confused here:

> I personally did not do this.

Are we talking about the same 'this"? The logs say that you edited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 to replace the text with "Flagged" a few minutes after you originally posted it.

I'm definitely not meaning to be critical and I don't want you to go away feeling unfairly treated, so I'd prefer to get this clear. Especially if I'm mistaken about something.
Why can’t they just discharge surplus electricity into the ground or something?
That is definitely something that started to annoy me too. I will look into fixing that soon.
While I agree about the specific ask for multiline support (and the decade plus hourly usage of 1p), it's abundantly clear that things are slipping with regards to the core product. For awhile there were no public links to any downloadable desktop apps for macOS while they pushed web + subs + and the MAS version.

These days I'm just delighted when 1password doesn't open a totally different browser when invoked from the active one.
Qualcomm is a customer for IFS: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16846/intels-first-highprofil...

Samsung has their own fabs, and I suspect Apple will manufacture with whoever has the most advanced process (so, TSMC for the next couple years at least).
Of course there's no proper EN press release on their site there which limits most here, so here's another news story on it where there was a little discussion last week and can continue there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284055
Wouldn't it have more to do with the company or national policy and less to do with wealth situation?
If you think efficacy was clearly demonstrated you should take a closer look at the actual data from the clinical studies.
It's not, the probability of a SpaceX rocket spectacularly exploding is somewhere around ~1%. They'd need 860 more problem-free launches to hit ~0.1%.

The probability of a truck spectacularly exploding on its way to the launch facility is way less than 0.1%. In fact, it's astronomically lower than 0.1%.
Commenting on the latter point:

The Battle of Okinawa seems like an example - Both willingly and by coercion, a large portion of the civilian population was sent into the battle to die with minimal training or equipment, including children.

Is there some reason to think the populations of those cities would have acted differently if the front lines came to them at that time?
>We will never know what would have happened if Hitler had adversaries on both fronts from the beginning.

This is just one point among hundreds in this thread that I find fascinating for the same reason.

So many people here know exactly what they would've and what we should've done back then. Because we have the benefit of nearly a hundred years of analysis and hindsight.

Most of the disagreements here aren't actually about what happened, and why, but what the people in this thread would've done and why.

I find that fascinating.
Social credit score by another name, no thanks
RIP Virtual Console: Nintendo will shut off Wii U, 3DS game downloads
Well to be fair I don't think anyone is even remotely close to a viable on grid Fusion Reactor. It's a meme at this point but we're still several decades away from that point. Does more budget help that? My understanding is that most of the problems are around building sufficiently small and powerful Magnets and "Fusion" budget doesn't help solve the problems in that space.
It is indeed, but it still doesn't use Encrypted Media Extensions.
> We're decommissioning nuclear at a point in time just before we need it, environmentalists were bought by gas extraction people and Wall St.

It’s insane that the environmentalist movement is inadvertently supporting the fossil fuel industry due to their traditional stance on nuclear. Modern civilisation requires reliable base load and nuclear seems like the only viable option which satisfies both the reliability and globally accepted environmentally sustainable goals.
Anecdata: everyone in my circle that had Pfizer or Moderna got Omnicron. Those of us who had J&J (and the two idiots who were never vaccinated and got Delta) did not, despite many hours indoors with the omnis. Some studies suggest that J&J triggers a similar immunity as an infection, and so was more effective against omnicron, but as J&J has become a disavowed vaccines there aren't many studies on it anymore.
This is begging for a hard mode option
Thank you for being proactive on this! It's one of my favorite feature on the Kobo and I'd be disappointed to see it break.
"The only one currently under construction – the Vogtle plant in Georgia – is years behind schedule and roughly $14 billion over the original budget."
How does this happen, it is incredible to me how government contracts are allowed to overrun like this, where is the punishment for the original bidder. Same question applies to things like the F-35, the whole contract bidding process to government entities appears to be a grift.
The US had already formed an agreement with Stalin that the USSR would invade Manchuria (despite it's non-aggressin pact with Japan). This plan involved the USSR gaining control of territory they formerly lost to Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. That was the original US plan to end the war, not a ground invasion. When Truman saw the trinity test he decided that he could win the war using nukes without letting the soviets gain anything. Hence the scramble to drop them.

Or they could have offered Japan a conditional surrender rather than insisting on an "unconditional" one and then letting them keep their emporer anyway. Japan was already looking desperately for ways to surrender.
2-3 cups of coffee, a cup of yogurt, and a banana.

I'm a creature of habit, but this has worked for me for almost 15 years now. It all started in college.
> It's not generally a good idea to take contemporaneous sources out of context and uncritically

Sure. But to be fair-- there were tons of civilian experts involved that had no great personal stake; It's not like it was written by arms manufacturer lobbyists or generals personally involved in past decision making.

And I'm mostly missing strong fact-based counterarguments, so my personal opinion is going to remain that the atomic bombings probably expedited Japans surrender, but were not necessary (nor would a ground invasion have been).
> it's infinitely less evil than Google

The thing is Mozilla get more than 80% of its revenue from Google.

It’s fine to question if they are not just an extension of Google at that point. They have done 0 actions towards blocking ads and trackers; while pushing things like https everywhere that makes ads and trackers life easier.
This the apology I usually hear, and it is no longer true!

Google has with every android release pushed this a bit further. In Android 12 it demands (1) background (2) precise positioning and (3) a GPS position lock.

Note also that "Bluetooth may leak your location" is actually due to this very type of data gathering.
I got my first one a few days ago, from someone who's interested in joining my company.

I'm going to be conducting an informal meet and greet phone call with them this week. I've never interviewed anyone so I'm considering this to be a good way to practice.

In a way, it's the best cold email I've received so far. The rest are mostly AWS recruiter emails, which I've been getting every week. ಠ_ಠ
Covid != SARS-CoV-2

Covid is the disease and this study does not address disease directly.
One more harsh truth: the easier it becomes to make games, the higher the standard of quality needed to be considered "good". Everybody else benefits from improved tools too, and they're your competition.
Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users
Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but check out Pixar's collection on Khan Academy. It helped me a lot even though it's not extremely deep https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar
Deconstructing the Epigenetic Clock Signals in Aging, Disease, and Reprogramming
> I don't see any downsides here.

I do. Next time I see a blog.mozilla.org post here I will ignore it and maybe miss a great technology blog post.
I've seen a trend in porno games development. Digging around their communities I found their main source of income is crowd funding during the development stage.
They drag this period out for years and some are currently making $100k a month going by patreon statistics.

Maybe the gaming industry needs to change the way funding is managed?
I feel like there should be a way to group a portion of the regex, by name, for extraction later. Otherwise I like it.

ie

group $first_name { some of <letter> }
1 of <space>
group $last_name { some of <letter> }
I'm not sure you quite said this but nullable isn't just another word for Optional with syntactic sugar. You can have Optional<Optional<Integer>>, but Integer?? is not a thing. This means you can't (or shouldn't?) use it for, say, return value of a generic "get a value from a map" because you might want to be able to store nullable values in the map and probably want to distinguish "it wasn't there" from "it was there but the value was null". IIRC, in some languages with generics and nullable you can't actually write a function that applies ? to a generic argument, because there's no way to say that the generic argument isn't itself nullable.
Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
Every part of what you said confuses me so much!

How does 5+5=9? (Wrong I know but what is right?)

Isn't the 9th harmonic a distinct frequency in a musical note? I thought it was side effect of how physical vibrations ripple out or something...

Where can I learn more about what you're talking about? It's very interesting. Thanks.
True, but most of the time you don't need a full Java SE stack. Android still has only a Java subset and that hasn't stopped people from writing apps for it.
I laughed. I can't wait for this to be used as a problem on some CS final.
I'm frustrated with Mozilla because they talk really big, but their actions time and time again fail to line up with what they are actually saying.

They can't open their mouths without talking about how much they care about privacy, but at the same time making it nearly impossible to opt out of their telemetry. For Mozilla, invasion of privacy only appears to be bad when other people are doing it.

This just comes off as sanctimonious and hypocritical.

What's really frustrating is that they absolutely could do good. If they actually managed to live up to even half their words, they'd be amazing. But for some reason, they just... don't.
For a copy trading app, what compliance problems do you envision using your service? Is the trader being copied liable if the people copying him lose money (generally speaking)?
We don't actually much care about when trash would hit the sun. But yes, it's a huge delta v compared to just getting to orbit.
Why Russians Don't Smile
Same here, first games in QBasic (no functions, all goto!) like Skifree. Used phaser.js for a bit. Last project implemented a sidescrolling beat em up in ASCII.

The most important thing i learned was that implementing your game as classes (with inheritance and all that) is futile. Use ECS (Entity-Component-System), its awesome.

Even a simple MVP takes like months or years to develop. During studying how Disney designed animations (the 12 principles, like anticipation, staging..) i realized just how deep you need to go into non-coding things like animations, music, graphics, UI, and more.

Shout out to the r/roguelikedev community though, they are awesome. People coding on their rougelikes for 12 years seems to be not extraordinary.
I'll concede that it's not nearly as crazy to share keys across devices for home use or low-risk things. I must admit I was speaking mostly from an enterprise perspective.
In 2011-2016 period, renewable energy received roughly 30 times the amount of government subsidy that nuclear energy had.

https://www.nei.org/CorporateSite/media/filefolder/resources...

The “massive taxpayer funded bailout” the nuclear industry wants is order of magnitude below what solar/wind/hydro get all the time. No wonder nuclear finds it hard to compete, when government subsidizes its competitors to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
> They have done 0 actions towards blocking ads and trackers

Really? Take a look at https://blog.mozilla.org/security/category/privacy/
I thought it was colours as in pride colours, as damage control after the Brandon Eich thing. Which also made me chuckle a bit when they said “be brave”.
Same here! I love the absurdity of this one given the nature of cryptographic hash functions.
How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship
The PHP interops group recently added a Clock interface for this purpose. There were many comments along the lines of “what’s the point?”
> I wish all forms of cross-app tracking identifiers were simply abolished, and any API that could be used to pass data between apps like this would require explicit user consent.

Real question: how would you try to abolish fingerprinting? Processing identifying info on your device can mostly be done server-side and requires no device permissions, accounts or APIs, just some basic identifiers like screen resolution, storage capacity, software/library versioning, battery health... anything is fair game.
Out of the blue, I got a contract to play minor league baseball somewhere in the Midwest.

Sadly, it was a typo in the email address :(
How ironic - two once innovative companies that have completely lost their imagination and become basically corporate shills.
That's not entirely true. In fact, the Sound-Harmony-Melody-Rhythm-Growth model for analysis explicitly calls it out as a critical building block of the music that we hear and experience. Like any subject, it takes some study to get to the interesting bits.

For example, the vast majority of people who have taken Music Theory 101 have completed coursework that is the equivalent of "Hello, World!". That is barely scratching the surface and certainly give the aspiring programmer the skills necessary to create something non-trivial. The same is true of music theory. You don't instill in someone the musical understanding of Brahms with one music theory class.

I think that there are rules, but they're less about a teacher being an asshole. Musical styles evolve over time. We wouldn't have classical without baroque, and we wouldn't have romantic without classical. The style itself imposes a "rule" that is really a best practice. How do we in technology treat best practices? Well, they're basically rules that we shouldn't violate without careful thought. The same is true of music. People who study basic music theory learn about the cadences used most commonly in church music ... V-I ... IV-I ... and the deceptive I-IV-V-vi cadence! You feel where music is going because you've learned the rules by listening to other music and embedding yourself within its best practices. V-vi is deceptive because it violates a best practice, but used effectively, it works.

As music evolved, and as the world became smaller in terms of ease of travel and exposure to other cultures' music, we started to see new influences. Debussy and others were influenced by indonesian gamelan music. Without that influence, we might not have the jazz that we have today. Why? The impressionist style that Debussy practiced created floating pillars of sound, chromaticism, etc. that became important elements of early Jazz.

It's all connected and has evolved over time, just like technology. Personally, I do think they are rules, but like most rules, they're meant to be broken.
> What evidence is there to prove the biological trumps psychological?

The psychological is biological.

> The point of life is not reproduce,

The point of life is the continuation of life - that means reproduction. It might not be your own reproduction, but the reproduction of your genes. That's what the last 3.5billion years of your own cellular existence has been about.

> In order for life to have a point you have to talk about intent behind life

Life has a point whether you talk about it or not. The point of life is life itself.
> They continue to shift features around, break existing workflows, and even the basic tasks I rely on dozens of times a day seems to change with any significant release.

That shouldn't be a matter of opinion, yet it doesn't match my experience at all. 1Password 7's UI and workflow did not undergo a dramatic change in the past 2-3 years. Not even once. The UI and controls looks and feels the same as ever as it did back in 2018. I'm sure the periodic updates brought new features here and there, but none of those are even remotely close to being a disruptive change.

> If the webpage attached to the original 'save login' prompt is not the one you are on - the auto popup underneath the login field has nothing to show

That's a legitimate security measure. It's making sure that it's autofilling for the right domain. If you want working autofill, you just need to make sure that your password is associated with the right domain.

> I have to go to the Desktop app, search, find, and copy. My team regularly wastes minutes on this each day.

You only need to make an edit once to associate your password with the right domain. But if you can't be bothered, searching and copying the password is a "Cmd + \" away. It takes less than a second.
Thanks for providing your insights. It is a pretty strong comment against your former employer and presumably former colleagues. Were you not a part of the same spiel, building these very systems for years including those tricking kids into spending hundreds of dollars with ads, presumably with the same passion as you have now?

Working at a corporation as big as Google and at a high position as you had must have left a mark. I am curious what changed for you and how do you look at your friends and colleagues that are still working in Google today?
I'm a masochist so the harsness is music to my ears.

sips coffee
Behaviours that break expectations they've built up themselves hurt more than people just expecting Google to do Google things. I would posit that people that feel that way generally do not use Google's products, so it's viewed as not their problem, and also not surprising, when Google does something they don't like, but for Mozilla, it's felt as a betrayal of trust.

Google went through this a decade ago, when people stopped believing don't be evil was something Google cared about.
Every Argument We're Having Is About Living
Happiness utilitarianism is so pervasive today that people forget alternatives even exist, but there are a wide array of value systems.

For at least some, the suffering was irrelevant. Many held that it would be better for every Japanese person to die than loose the war.
This study is also pretty old, despite being "published" now. It was originally submitted in June of 2021, and discusses the N501Y (presumably V1, given the timing) variant, which is no longer relevant.

Worse, the vaccinated samples were all gathered by mid-March 2021, and except for three people, all were gathered within 40 days of vaccination. But the median time from symptoms for those who were previously infected was over two hundred days.

This difference alone hopelessly confounds any stated conclusion, yet they've buried this essential information in the supplemental materials (ST1 & 2). This paper is bad.
That feels like a variation on "they want to more easily dump the other person."
> More “fake” notes exist than E♯, too; I hear rumor of such nonsense as G𝄪, “G double sharp”, which I would rather call “A”.

It starts making more sense when you're working with harmony and chords. The wikipedia example section on enharmonic equivalents has a nice example of a Shubert sonata that makes use of this [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enharmonic
If they have their own space craft, they can go to the ISS and claim salvage when it is abandoned by the international team.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_salvage
You can choose to see this as a curse or an opportunity, a la https://xkcd.com/1053/
Why isn't this being returned to India?
But isn’t this possible with any language that has a pre-compilation step? Perl is certainly conflating its passes (as explained by other comments above), but in rust you could add a check in build.rs or use macros in C to accomplish the same, right?
That reasoning applies to all employees, of all roles.

However, the behaviour of certain employees can undermine the profitability of others. Mozilla appears to be on the path of being a reseller of services and marketer of brands, at the expense of attracting FOSS developers.
This is true, there are even "comma pump" sequences that are literally impossible to play fully harmonically, being inherently based on conflating "close" ratios! (I think in theory, a very detailed Schenkerian-ish analysis of a piece would tell you quite a bit about where ratios should be made "nicer" and where they shouldn't - but that's a lot of work and involves a whole lot of personal judgment.)
> There are some subtle differences. For example, (very oversimplified), if you were made to listen to a waveform containing the frequencies of 60 Hz and 90 Hz, your auditory system would "hear" a pitch corresponding to a fundamental frequency of 30 Hz, since 60 Hz and 90 Hz are integer multiples of 30 Hz.

Eh, so if you add 60hz and 90hz you get a wave that repeats every 33ish milliseconds. You don't "hear a 30hz sine wave" that your brain is inventing, that's a very common misconception. You just hear a 30hz "thing" that is not a sine wave because there's a 30hz thing that is not a sine wave playing. Just try adding an actual 30hz sine wave to the 60+90 thing and you'll see it sounds very different to what you hear when you add those two sine waves. If you keep on adding waves spaced 30hz adding the 30hz or 15hz one wouldn't make much of a difference because what you are listening to is something very similar to a low pass filtered 30hz pulse wave.