skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One benefits is that web browsers have to respect a standard set of APIs which abstract the hardware and makes them all inter-operable (except the usual incompatibilities obviously).

Now POSIX was arguably successful, but it was limited in scope (not including the UI aspect of things). Also: Windows...

Additionally, the absence of that big global state which is the filesystem makes the development of portable applications way more easier. There's always been limitations to what browsers can do, but personally I don't regret iTunes, Outlook or all those desktop app advantageously replaced by SPAs. I can log from any computer/smartphone and I get my apps. No installation process, configuration, the usual missing/corrutped library/dlls, etc.

And the problem of data ownership is not a technical problem. If we didn't have browsers, software companies would have moved those data away from you and have desktop app access them remotely anyway.

I get that abstraction levels suck. But only if the cost/benefits ratio is bad. Java applet had awful UX AND they were slow. Now SPAs can be quite responsive and some of them a pretty cool to use.
Free and open source OS is important mmmkay?
IE also had a custom image filtering scripting language embedded in CSS that was pretty dangerous, you could easily hang someone's whole computer if you weren't careful. A common hack to find was adding png transparency which IE infamously lacked, at great computational cost to the user (this was at a time where the lack of other CSS features made PNG transparency quite necessary for building fancy UIs).

It's worth pointing out that many of the old ugly things were IE specific including the feature referenced by the parent comment... it was a time when "standard" had little weight, although some of the good ideas like box-sizing were adopted by W3C.
One aspect of the Caribbean tech scene is Caribbean tax avoidance schemes:

Russian expatriate Katie Ananina has spent the last three years helping people dodge taxes on their bitcoin gains. It is all part of her mission to stick it to the man, one case of tax avoidance at a time. ... Every year, Plan B Passport helps hundreds of people from countries like the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Canada obtain a second passport in one of seven countries: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Vanuatu, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Portugal. The company works in tandem with each government’s residence- or citizenship-by-investment programs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/11/plan-b-passport-tax-break-bi...
Dhall: a non-Turing-complete typed declarative configuration language
(security) incident response. most companies have in-house security teams to do a portion or a lot of the IR process. If a serious breach occurs, a security team usually will call in a specialized team of consultants from an IR firm like Mandiant.
Wait until you hear about hash table capacities.
It seems that if this is really what Putin wanted--and maybe he does--he could have achieved it without war. He could have just done it. It still seems like the most likely reason he did the war is that he wanted to do the war. He really does want territorial expansion of the empire; that's why he expended his influence in trying to get the US out of NATO.

During the Soviet era, when there was no official exchange between the dollar and the ruble, there was a dollar-based black market. Possibly that would return (if it isn't already).
I absolutely agree with you—but I think the same about lens flares in cinema, and given how entrenched they are in that realm, I'd say the rest of the world disagrees.

Now, yes, unlike video games, movies are in fact (usually) filmed with cameras. However, lens flares are still an artifact—they don't exist in human vision, and we know how to get rid of them. We just choose not to.
You can certainly be a mid-level in skill but be a senior/staff/principal at the company, or a senior/staff/principal in technical skill but middle or junior in strategic or design skill.
I would have loved to have Steve's opinion on presenting things with a video or screenshots slideware.
He must have hated that. But this is what we, mere mortals, usually do to present things to other humans.
>You need around 1200kwh per month (annualized) heat a medium home.

I can't believe this is true outside e.g. Alaska, Norway, etc. I live in an area with a lot of cooling needs and very moderate need for heating, almost all of both are done with electric, and 1200 kWh per month is a good guess for total average home usage, heating/cooling, lighting, video games, cooking, all the rest.
I would probably advise against doing this. There have been rumors of Russian police looking through citizen's phones for indications that they are engaging with western viewpoints on the "special operation". And the penalty for such activities is quite high right now.

A random phone call from a U.S. citizen might look suspicious, and I don't imagine Russian police are giving much benefit of the doubt right now.
People didn't wear seatbelts in the 1950's. Infant mortality was 10% before the age of 1 in 1910. At the same time, homeless children would roam the streets of cities and orphanages were common. The #1 form of surgery back then was amputation.

To make such a statement implies how little perspective one might have for how hard life was, the risk and tradeoffs being made, especially when there were unknown - and especially for 'how good we have it now'.

I'm not even that old, but I have the lived experience from my grandparents who were born on farms without electricity and I believe without a doubt that we have crossed the line into 'civilizational wealth'. We are really rich for the first time in history. Unequal, yes, but even lower-middle class people have access to vast material bounty: actions, travel, decorative clothing, choices, opportunity, education, amazing produce throughout the year, entertainment, technology, delivery, amazing health care innovations. Heck .... people are even less afraid of getting shot these days because we know how to stabilise and save people. Getting 'shot' used to mean 'pretty much going go die'. Even 'heart surgery' is now done on an outpatient basis these days like getting an oil change.

'Millenials' have already let loose Facebook and other completely destructive technologies, and are taking absolutist views on necessarily complicated things like gender identity (and more) and I'm 100% certain that history will come back like a wrecking ball on at least those things, of course it's already happening with Social Media.

The issue with lead is hard to fathom, it's still a bit grey, I'm wondering what the effect of some other things are going to be i.e. micro plastics, and the steroids they use on livestock etc..

I'm not 'organic' by ideology but I'm wary that there's a lot of risk in those kinds of things.

And it goes further: lighting in the cities all night, and noise pollution in the city and with our gadgets. It should be mostly dark and quiet at night.
What is the notebook "library" used here? Looks very nice.
Couldn't quite spot it from the page source code.
Speaking as a millennial, don't praise us too soon. We haven't really gotten the reins of power yet, so it's easy to claim that we'd do it better. In reality I imagine we'll still succumb to various corrupting forces just like every other generation.

Granted I still think we have a more enlightened perspective on some issues as a generation just due to better education overall, but at best we might manage a marginal increase in overall quality of life for people.

Plus the basket of crises we've faced starting with the Great Financial Crisis has allowed many to blame external factors for their situation and not take personal responsibility, even when they clearly should. I've met plenty of unwise/stupid millennials who could do more to better their situation, but are happy to just sit still and bitch about everything but their self-destructive habits.

It's like how the Boomers got associated with Woodstock/the hippies/counter-culture, but in reality most Boomers didn't rebel all that much. Boomers elected Reagan, and he ran in part as an anti-counter-culture figure.
It also does not help that many scientific papers suffer from a reproducibility problem.

But I hate to sink into defeatism and assume that there is no such thing as objective fact unless I do the experiments myself (and get them right...).
as Morrissey said, paraphrasing Sinatra:

Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too many to mention…..

I think ones goal should be to live an optimal life, integrating good over time.

Reviewing the wisdom of those who have done more than us (lived long and are facing death) seems smart.

While I don't want to live my life in fear of regret, I often use a mental model for decisions - "if this is wrong how much would I regret it," to weigh the choices.

I personally don't want to be on my deathbed and say I wish after 35 I had spent more time with my loved ones - I want to be able to say that I spent a good amount of time with my loved ones and enjoyed it.
OK I've read it now.

It's crackers.

Wait: it's a Poe? All of cryptography is a Poe.
Subtitles are actually a legal requirement for TV: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/closed-captioning-telev... and I assume DVDs, etc descend from that.

Such a legal requirement has never been implemented for audio files, but it would be nice to see something, though I'm not sure how easy it would be to argue it as a accessibility issue - it's easy to see how someone who is deaf/hard of hearing can watch a show with subtitles, but do they "listen" to music? Isn't music without sound just poetry?
Lead still isn't banned in the US. You can go buy 100LL and burn it in your plane all day long showering it over the land below. Completely legal.
Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction
Mexico City, at least in the central parts, has an interesting layout. Busy avenues roughly 1km apart grid the neighborhoods. Inside those squares most of the streets are one-way and low speed. You can walk in almost any direction and find a bus or subway station in 8 minutes. And of course they mix residential commercial and light industrial freely. It’s not unusual to find a small furniture maker next to a restaurant below an apartment building. They don’t ban cars and the “blocks” are larger, but it seems to work.
I saw your comments above as well. I'm not 100% convinced that this is better; I actually like the three "edge cases" because I find that code/proof of correctness easier to understand. In your code, I have to break the analysis into two cases:

1. The entire range isn't red, so at some point [proof needed] we will move left to a green element. From that point on we can continue analysis like normal. (I can't think of an easy way to prove such a claim without messing with floor division and induction, etc... but it seems intuitively true.)

2. The entire range is red, so green will never be moved, so right will point to the first element and green will point to one before the first. This returns the correct value.

I'll have to come up with a way to easily prove statement 1 above to be convinced that it is better. But I can include this version in the follow up.
> I don't think that phrase is a thing in linear algebra.

You're right; sorry for the typo. I meant the span of the coefficients (which is a space).

I'm not saying the concept of “rank” is useless, or anything. I'm saying a lot of linear algebra is based on high-level techniques and algorithms, but I don't think they're not truly fundamental concepts that you need to learn to understand linear algebra, if you learn / intuit a different high-level formulation instead.

> And a student trying to learn where and why stats is useful

That's not what I mean by “fundamentals”: I mean what stats is and how it works. A solid grounding in applied statistics is just as much about human psychology as it is about mathematics, and you never need know where your distributions come from so long as you memorise the rules.

> Sure, you can provide only a Gaussian,

Is that what the book does? If so, then I completely agree. But I don't see why you can't teach statistics using a Gaussian, a Poisson, a beta (three arbitrary distributions) and a general “some distribution”. I'm more of a pure mathematician, though, so if the answer's just “that doesn't prepare statisticians well for the kind of distributions that come up in the real world” then I can well believe it.

> Find a textbook for beginning students that does not cover a multitude of distributions.

… Aren't we discussing one?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/amazon-rainforest-is...
It's difficult to replace all of Adobe's software. Your needs are varied enough to make it a bit more difficult. Mostly due to your need for animation software and Linux. I completely moved over to the combination of the following software and only rarely come across an edge case scenario where Adobe CC could do something that my configuration could not.

- Affinity Designer (one-time <$60usd) (replaced Illustrator)

- Affinity Photo (one-time <$60usd) (replaced Photoshop)

- Affinity Publisher (one-time <$60usd) (replaced InDesign)

- Photo Mechanic Plus (one0time >$100) (replaced Lightroom and Apple Photos)

- DaVinci Resolve (free and I love this software) (replaced Premiere)

There might be some smaller supplemental softwares I have accumulated over time to add more to my tools, but I don't think they're necessary.

It's so nice to not have CC, the subscription, the bloatware etc. Truly, I advocate against Adobe products to anyone I know who can actually perform professionally with the above substitutes. This is from someone who used to publish tutorials for Adobe's software in the many years past.
Yes the OPML import would import all podcasts in the OPML that is not currently in the database. I am going to add support for adding podcasts on the site but in the meanwhile you can add them by using http post to https://api.podd.app/podcasts with an x-www-form-urlencoded array called "urls".

You can have 1 or several urls, they will be added to the repository of podcasts if we don't already track it. :)
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154
> Europe didn't give a rats ass about the refugees at the actual shores before.

Europe took in millions of refugees from a different continent.

Syrian/Afghan refugees took a longer route to Europe instead of Saudi Arabia. That's what an economic migrant does.
Generations don't vote as blocks, but of the named generations the largest number of actual voters are Boomers, still.

2018 was the first election where Gen X and younger together outvoted Boomers and older.
https://archive.ph/2ICxC

From what I can gather it impacts specific online spending that has more fraud. They are lowering fees for smaller purchases and increasing them on larger purchasers.

Visa is changing their fees to lower them for any business bringing in less than $250,000 a year.
I've had no issues using either mplayer on *nix, or foobar2k on windows for audio-only MKV.
And what if items are processed at exactly the same rate they are added? Something is missing from this thesis. There must be an additional assumption at play beyond what is stated in the article.
The two numbers are off because you're full electric and parent comment is likely gas+electric.

And the gas part is what's likely more of a problem in Europe - since a lot of that is coming from Russia (it's also non-renewable).
According to archive.org, this page was written in 2016 or earlier (their earliest entry is for dec. 2016).
The mp3 patents expired in 2017, so at the time it was not patent-free.
It's referring to the ncurses library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses
In short, luck is necessary, but not sufficient.
Scans reveal how Covid may change the brain
Very early on, I had a pretty good idea of how it should look like. However, the initial design had a few major flaws, so I had to introduce an extra "configuration" walk before doing the actual planning walk. Additionally, I've also added a post processing step, just to remove too much complexity from the planning step itself. In the end, the result is pretty stable and very maintainable, but it's very hard to "onboard" new devs as it's quite a lot of concepts you have to understand before you can become productive...
Ah, yes, the ‘response’, the ‘sanctions’. I'm sure that Germany and Poland will also stop buying natural gas from Russia, to hit Putin and his buddies where they actually give non-zero shits. Any day now—after all, everyone is so enraged, the EU has to punish the people making the decisions!
Erlang designers certainly cared about latency, but a bounded message queue changes local messaging from reliable to unreliable and remote messaging mostly reliable (as long as the nodes don't disconnect) to unreliable. That's a big change and they were unwilling to do it for a long time, although I think there is an option to put bounds on the message queue now. It was possible to have bounds before --- either with brute force looking at the queue length for all processes and killing them, or looking at the queue length within the process and discarding requests if there are too many.

Also, for a long time, sending messages to a process with a long queue might be deprioritized (suspended), as a form of backpressure, although that got removed for local processes because it wasn't effective with SMP, if I'm remembering properly.
Optimizing for time and optimizing for memory are different things. Choosing one over the other doesn't guarantee the author "did not care about performance".
If Americans had faced consequences from having elected Bush once, and responded to that rationally instead of emotionally, they probably wouldn't have elected him again for a second term.
It would be helpful to know where the lowest rates are, even though reporting accuracy is probably also lower. The bottom third of the list would still be informative, but the Institute does not seem to have that.
I think you need this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generalize

But yeah I'm judging you, based on your responses, not based on theism. You haven't talked to the billions you are judging and grouping together (generalizing).
What it doesn't mean is a "collapse", which is how you are framing it. It won't be overnight. I assume you are a fellow geek so picture moving a huge infrastructure off of AWS and/or going "multi-cloud". It's not a switch that you flip and definitely not something upper management would want unless AWS keeps crashing and its fabled SLAs don't hold up. Assurances.

Entire supply chains (and everything that goes to make such things happen between nations and international corporations) have substantial inertia built in and will require adjustments. My prognosis is a terminal trajectory ("death blow") unless Russia collapses first, which would then force the hand of China, India, and the rest of fence sitters (which also include Mexico, Brazil, Israel, UAE, KSA, btw.)
It's my understanding that millenials and gen-z make up 31% [0], as of -2020-. Boomers and older still make up 44%. So sure, go ahead and blame millenials and gen-z for policies made in 2020 and onward.

0: https://catalist.us/wh-national/
How bizarre (1) that the author doesn't accept Pull Requests. I'd love to know more about why .patch files via mailing list are preferred.

1) adjective . strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement.
a 10m average could indeed cause a heart to flutter.
This article does a good job describing one failure mode that's not understood well, but the opposite failure mode is much more common in my experience- having lots of ways to do the same thing can be very inefficient and brittle, even at small companies. The right answer is not "never unify systems" or "always unify systems", but develop judgement about when things should be unified.
> I never understood the strong emotional reaction to gas flaring.

Ignorance.

> my understanding is that in most cases not-flaring would be more wasteful.

Case in point. Why would not releasing something that could be captured and sold be more wasteful?
Clash of cultures for sure. High turnover at GCP security (Or so I am told) and Google consultants? Wow. My experience has been they are very tech/innovation focused, holding a customer's hands and spoonfeeding them is not their style at all. Lots of medium/large businesses have Mandiant as a retainer so when They get pwned due to whatever mess, Mandiant comes in and cleans up.
Fall of the Soviet Union was mostly an internal coup supported by the street rather than a popular uprising.
Alot of what I've experienced is the importance of quality of hosting+networking in the region. Columbus networks and C&W are hugely integral to this as they run the submarine cables.

Greater connectivity in the region is a part of a lot of countries trying to import tech talent and money with digital nomad visas, which I think is going to impact the landscape of things in the region for sure as well as foreign investment, a lot of which currently comes from countries like Spain or Mexico rather than the USA. Telefonica and Claro again are huge. The geography of the region really makes telecommunications such a dominant force.

I really like that I can be up at a beach in many places and get some work done on a 3g connection if all I need is an SSH connection and web browsing. Something about the limited bandwidth and sound of waves crashing on the beach lends itself to focus.
It's actually not related to strict mode. HTML comments work fine in strict mode as well as sloppy mode in scripts. The difference here is that modules are a different file format / syntax and they fundamentally don't include parts of the syntax that was supported in the older script file format (and vice versa: they allow syntax like top-level await that wasn't/isn't valid in the script file format).
Maybe it was rather the removal of "lead victims" that led to the sudden reduction of crime.
As I replied in another comment, I didn't mean to come across as dismissive of Jobs — if anything I am trying to make the case that Jobs rose to the occasion when others in the same "lucky seats" did not.

But just to be pedantic with your list, NeXT's success is debatable and not likely to have happened at all if Apple had not happened first. And from what I've read, Pixar did its best when Jobs got out of the way and let them do what they wanted to do: make films, not hardware, not software as Jobs imagined.
just make sure to tell them to delete the call from their call history.
> my understanding is that in most cases not-flaring would be more wasteful

Can you explain this further?
Romanian-gas-giant-hacked-and-held-to-ransom
The US is allowing it? Did the deal involve protecting Ukraine from aggressors?
As a whole the strategy of "Let's see what's common in all these systems" is a good start to understanding the systems. There is a limit to the complexity any single person can understand. Unification is simplification. It helps understanding. But I agree it is no good trying to make the landscape fit a simple map when reality is much more complex. There's no Silver Bullet in trying to combat complexity.

But rather than trying to unify everything think about micro-services. Each service can be its own isolated solution. Of course it needs to be optimized in terms of how well it works when all the other services are running as well. But I think isolation is the key to independently optimizing everything.

I like this sentence from the article: "Lots of it doesn’t matter, but some of it matters a lot".
epam, akveo, luxoft... cheap workforce under authoritarian rule is too sweet to resist. Now kryndrylyl is trending, or whatever is its name.
Depends on which direction you connect them through?
This is an awfully dangerous game, but if Russians started getting phone calls from Americans en mass, could that actually provide cover for everyone?
>WebGPU, all the bare metal crashes/exploits

It's a goldmine. Think of all the future jailbreak entrypoints this will make possible.