skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of things that won't degrade in decades under normal natural conditions. Probably a lot of metal alloys, ceramics, glasses.

There are also a lot of polymers and plastics we wouldn't call "forever chemicals" but still last quite a while.

So is it really the "forever-ness" of these chemicals that's so bad? Maybe it's how they seem to spread everywhere and potentially mess with certain biological systems (e.g. endocrine disruption)?
Electrek, from my perspective, went downhill when Fred started to use his platform to complain about issues with a car he bought (presumably from the money he made by writing about Tesla). When he didn’t get special treatment, he tried himself as “investigative”, which is to say, the tone of his articles changed. Musk then stopped replying to Fred on Twitter. And so it went. Musk actually did compliment Fred one more time on something funny the had written. But he eventually blocked him on Twitter, and since then, Electrek is basically all sour grapes posing as investigative journalism.

Edit: My personal interpretation is this: It is very difficult for a man to sit on the sidelines and watch another man do things. And yet that is what every journalist has to go through. While others are doing things and changing things, he is merely sitting there and commenting. While the other is the artist, he is the mere critic. While the other seems to have power of a nature, all the critic seems to have is power over people’s opinions. Now, if such a person focused on the greater whole, he would still be able to find purpose in what he is doing. After all, we need good journalism. But if he is focused on his own ego, the act of comparing himself to the person he is writing about will make him bitter and resentful. He will feel as though he is standing in the shadows of this other person. As if, if he could only make this other person smaller, he himself would become bigger. That the very act of comparing himself to another person and trying to derive his sense of self-worth from such a comparison is itself what makes him feel small doesn’t even occur to him.
The problem is, the democrats have done a lot of these symbolic votes, on issues that majorities (55% or more) of the public support. They take down the vote, and the public doesn't notice.

Even with public support for their ideas, they are losing the messaging war against the other party. Most voters don't pay attention to candidates' voting records, and barring the unforseen the Republicans appear poised for a major victory in the House, with the senate in play as well. We are in for some bad times ahead.
Congratulations on the daily use. I think the point of this article is exactly the opposite of having to read new things every day. It is to read the old things once with the insinuation that the skill will translate to other things as well.
That is ridiculous. I think closing down someone's account especially if there is still money in it warrants registered mail (even email is not sufficient) and definitely not a note on the web page.
CreuSAT: A formally verified SAT solver written in Rust
Yeap. It's sends out bad karma.

If the estimated total net profit % per user is low single digits, keep them like "white elephants" or move them somewhere else where they can be serviced with continuity.

Pulling the rug out from under customers with little or no warning is a terrible practice.
I’m not very educated on this topic. Who is gaining out of the chaos?
Shotwell has also lied about suborbital transport and about colonizing Mars.
"faster" vs "reduced time". Many people confuse rate of work with reduction in time, and it's exceptionally annoying :(
But who wants dozens of instances of a C GUI?

I'd be the first to complain about latency where it maters, but launching a Python program is perceptually instant (and significantly lower-latency than many nominally "faster" languages, IME).
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> What stops fiction authors from picking a niche as well?

Trad publishing and a lack of any real discoverability.

I don't read much fiction in text format, anymore, so take Audible, for example. I have a backlog of maybe 50+ books in that format, and the store front is atrociously bad. There is a lot of what I call "pulp fiction" pushed at me - some of it is OK, most of it is garbage, good in the way that stale rice will feed you and not kill you, but only barely edible.

You are given a selection of maybe, 9-10 books, if you want to "discover" you have to do quite a bit of work, which the trad publishers don't make easy (remember, marketing budgets push particular books, not good books).

So even finding a niche is close-to-impossible for the average Joe - trad publishing pushes what sells, despite quality, and so niches simply don't form.

So you can imagine, those who are self-publishing, must do a great deal of effort to even establish that niche (website, marketing, distribution, technical knowledge for all the former), and, unlike tech authors, they aren't usually tech savy.

So I would say two things stop them in particular:

a) There is no access to manuscripts which is not filtered by nepotism, or a small crew of editors. You can't self publish and submit to github, and expect a niche following to occur.

b) Authors are human beings, who want to make a living. Understandably, they don't want to give away their hard work for free (their manuscripts), and we don't have a commonly agreed upon way to benefit them for their work, if the public decides they are good.

Tech has less of a problem here, we often work backwards. We work on something for free, give it away on github, find it gains a niche following, and experience some sort of reward down the line (hired by major tech company, doing consulting work, e.g.). We also don't have the same market forces - nearly everyone reads, almost everyone can write (well is another matter), we can solve esoteric problems, fiction writing is often formulaic and thereby constrained in topics.

We still experience the forces of trad publishers in the form of app-stores, OS or hardware vendors, but we aren't as limited as fiction writers are in the scope of our domain. Tech writing is also usually extremely ephemeral, often a just published tech book will be out of date as soon as it is available, or one or two years into its existence. Not to say that tech writing is not useful or work, just illustrating how different the problem spaces are.
Yeah, except bounds checking isn't something that C has, and one reason they happen all the time in C code, is that manually checking for them is a continuous proof of failure for the last 50 years.
In case you weren't aware, you can always(?) click on the relative timestamp associated with a comment to bring up a reply box, even if on a deeply nested comment the reply link isn't available.
Haymarket Station in Edinburgh has a platform 0 that was added to the side of platform 1 during an expansion. It's the only platform/track that terminates at the station, all the others go through the tunnel to Waverley Station.
I don’t understand why you’re still not laying out the new criteria for being a Brex customer? It’s a wasted opportunity.

Whoever approved this communication squandered a chance to reframe what Brex is now about. Had the announcement said something like, “what’s the new criteria? $1m deposits … blah blah blah … we actually lose money on smaller customers … yadda yadda … it’s not sustainable”, you could have established yourself as transparent with a tough choice that you had to make. People can understand that.

Instead you post platitudes like “We’ve made the difficult decision” with nothing substantive and are establishing Brex as cagey, opaque, and unnecessarily defensive. Not a good look for your banks existing customers.

Now you’ve got a PR mess on your hands to clean up. Please consider a transparent postmortem on this blunder instead of doubling down on more corp PR speak.
The only issue i found myself having using stuff like this is syncing to my mobile phone. Currently i am very satisfied with bitwarden due to their firefox extension and mobile ios app which integrates with the ios keychain. Pass sadly isnt usable for me.
> Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.

I'm fairly certain, it's in the menu bar too
Proof of concept clone of memcached, supporting only GET and SET commands
Did the Madoff conviction beget a better Madoff future?
If the musicians weren't unionized, wouldn't they all be better off right now since they'd still be employed?
That branch predictor is working really well!
The situation reads like a snob club rather than a business service. Since there's plenty of fish in the sea, I'd throw them back and find one that was more professional and less mercurial (pun intended).
While not perfect, the web platform is pretty damn backwards-compatible, which is why sites using frames and table layouts still render fine. There's also feature detection to engaging code only when a API is supported too. I'd argue it's better to assume this will be good enough instead of shipping another browser just to be 100% sure—space and bandwidth aren't free.
How does that work for the one playing ahead of everyone else? He just doesn’t hear anything? Or he hears his own music from 1 second ago? Or worse, other people’s music from 1 second ago.
You aren’t the target market. The casual/average Apple ecosystem user won’t care.
Just a personal anecdote, but I was waiting for a train in Osaka with a friend. It arrived 2 minutes before our departure time so we got on. Then it announced departure 1 minute before our departure time... we looked at each other and jumped at the door with it closing on us and our luggage. With a nasty look from the other people on the train we got off... and waited another minute until our train arrived.

The trains in Tokyo all seem to have nice new signs with upcoming train info next to each of the tracks. That makes it much harder to get on the wrong one. Also, google maps works disturbingly well for Tokyo subways.
SVB site UX has been "dated" since at least 2014. Good service tho.
The cited US HHS reference gives: "Walking briskly (2.5 miles per hour or faster)".

Poor copywriting / editing in the article, fairly typical of LiveScience, unfortunately.
Metals, ceramics and glasses also exist naturally and we have thousands of years of evidence that they are okay (heavy metals excluded of course). Polymers and plastics, well, evidence is mounting that microplastics are not particularly healthy and it would be better if we hadn't spent a century producing literal mountains of plastic.

It is my understanding that currently you're allowed to manufacture a completely new chemical and put it into your product with essentially no testing of the long term effect of that compound. That doesn't seem very wise to me, but maybe I'm misinformed about this topic.
as soon as I received the news, and these are definitely good news, I wanted to share it with the HN crowd

It's a natural impulse but somewhat counterintuitively

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

One way to think of it is as repetition-prevention since a big enough story is going to end up on the front page one way or the other.
Millions of multiplications in the time it takes me to open the ‘calc’ app.
And letting people starve or die would have been better than inflation?

I don't understand that point of view. It seems pretty cold to me.
I stopped using it when I needed to work in Windows. I use InkDrop these days which is cross-platform.
The silent majority is just using wayland without complaining because it just works.
We did this with Caddy a couple years ago. Best decision the project ever made.
Ahem... everything on your list is still very much around, maybe not that popular anymore (e.g. Asbestos) but still produced and used (even if in a niche)
you can use it to run a home server, though it would be a waste of it's computing power to use it just as a server
then you have a lot of other things to worry about,isn't it ?
The Gnome dev do not force anyone on anything, especially regarding parts of the linux desktop they don't develop themselves.

This is just conspiracy theory.
Only in a technical sense. Running experiments under unprecedented conditions that generate predictable results is trivial -- it happens literally every time you run any experiment, since conditions can never be perfectly replicated. The fact that nothing notable has popped up from recent LHC experiments is itself notable, but only just, and certainly not notable enough to justify the costs involved.
I had exactly the same thought when coming to the site!
Road networks just match the most efficient paths of the era they were built in. The economic map changed a lot in the feudal era and most Roman roads (some of which high maintenance) were simply abandoned.
Nope, NT is hybrid, because many drivers exist in userspace, and at kernel level RPC are used to call across kernel modules, instead of direct calls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Inter-Process_Communic...

Additionally, since Window 10, all critical modules are sandboxed, and running under hypervisor control when hardware support is present.

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/07/08/introduci...

This is something that Windows 11 requires, secure kernel hardware requirements aren't optional.

Calling it a marketing exercise only reveals a lack of understanding about the subject, and possibly some bias as well.
Question is whether temps are high enough to make the glass or the tellurium fragment or melt, exposing the cadmium.
Good systems engineering can tolerate massive levels of incompetent and scrupulous operators.
Exactly. Banks are ultimately supposed to be so reliable and consistent that they are boringly-predictable. Inconsistency and surprises imply risk, attributes antithetical to what it means to be a financial service provider (unless we're talking crypto or NFTs). People who behave as mercurial dilettantes aren't interested in professionalism or creating a sustainable business, only dabbling in areas wantrepreneurs mess around at before carpetbagging off to somewhere else "more interesting" tomorrow. Sorry to tell them, but that's not professional business activity.
Not an easy job, but fishing, especially crab fishing in Alaska pays well and you get more than the summer off if you want.

Here are the fishing seasons: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/pdfs/commercial/c...

I know crabbing seasons are different but I can’t find the docs.
Generally his skepticism was driven by 2 things around the time the microkernel debate happened:

- Microkernels need more development effort for equal functionality, something that was a constraint when he was doing Linux on his own.

- The context switching penalties on 386s were ginormous - it's much more reasonable now, I'd even say it's not much more penalizing than thread switching.

- We live in a multi-master world with IOMMU - tons of devices have virtual address spaces on their own, with most of them doing DMA transfers.
This is just a shitty conspiracy theory in your head.
This was about my experience switching from webpack to ESBuild for Javascript. Why do incremental builds if rebuilding the whole thing takes just 2s (as opposed to 90+ with webpack).
I often forget to quote * which results in multiplications not working when done using the function approach mentioned above. No such issues with the startup approach. Plus I can store the results in variables and play with them (anything more complicated is more suited for LibreOffice Calc).
Yes. They specifically added Meta Pixel or added something else that added Meta Pixel.
Playing music shouldn't be this complicated. This is bordering on absurdist comedy.
Not to make me attractive. To make rodent get eaten by a cat. Supposed attractiveness of humans with latent toxoplasmosis is an accidental side-effect, since it does not transmit between humans it is entirely pointless.
Isn't it crazy how the branch predictor is something like 99% percent correct. Which means a computer is almost deterministic, it almost knows the future. A tiny bit better and we wouldn't need to show up in office.

Of course multiply this by the sheer number of calculations and even that little misprediction results in huge differences. The reality is actually quite sobering: a computer mostly calculates the same thing over and over.
I could care less about UX. If it looked like Larry Wall's personal site, but functioned well and was reliable (tech and relationships), I'd pick them every time.

If it ain't broke, don't break it. ;)

PS: SVB's site has always looked a bit behind the times like that they never cared enough to make it look glitzy because functionality and communication were considered first. Slick websites also give a captological impression of overcompensating, so perhaps decompensating is an important contrary corollary for basic utility services.
Maybe we are slowly discvering what hypochondriacs are actually suffering from? Typical symptoms are vague symptoms, and symptoms that fit to almost any diagnosis. Whereas thus far doctors had no real way to accurately diagnose, let alone remedy them, they would, also motivate by the low severity, try to get patients to brush it off.

Wouldn't it be great if we can actually improve the diagnosis of those people by increasing our understanding and ability to discriminate those sublter symptoms?
Yup, Not usable on an iphone
I can’t really use VS code for work (PHP support is nonexistent compared to PHPStorm), but I needed to make some changes to a C++ codebase in WSL. VS couldn’t get anything to work, I couldn’t even get it to compile. VS code got compiling and step debugging via gdb working after just a few tweaks to the make file and tasks. Worked like a charm.
No, they'd be stuck working for not enough money instead of looking for actual livable jobs like they are now and likely have been doing for the duration of the strike.
Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry
It was their choice to kill their exploitative employer. :)
The title of this page says “why” but there is exactly zero on this page which explains why. There’s half of one sentence that introduces what (“we are less suited to meet the needs of smaller customers”) but even that is dressed up to the max. This is a poster child in what everyone hates about corporate communication: entirely opaque, misleading word salad. Do better.
No worries - don't take the feedback as a negative - I wish you all the best, this problem is a real issue (as is a lot around this point - see "your code as a crime scene" as a good book on this sort of automated analysis of likely areas code is falling down) and good luck for just being in the game - well done and wish you the best
So, not good enough engineering, either, then? Bad engineering is also, almost always, management failure.
Geoff Marshall and Matt Parker made a video where they visited every track 0 in the UK: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQRNmXVP8s
I like Bear.app (MacOS, iOS, iPadOS) even better. Specifically, I love that it's Markdown-based and has support for code blocks with syntax highlighting. Only problem is that it uses iCloud Drive for syncing and my employer has blocked that. :-/

I agree with you, though: Notes is really quite good. I'm not sure how Notes syncs, exactly, but for whatever reason it's not blocked by my employer.
I’m fairly certain this is because the average quality of the people building this stuff has gone down.
Revenue up, income down. That's usually trying to buy market share.
I get what you’re saying, I have similar experience, but they’ve pretty clearly chosen iteration/execution speed over a low attrition/burnout rate. And that’s fine, different strokes for different folks. It seems to be working out fine for them so far, 20 years in. If I didn’t have kids whose childhood I wanted to be a big part of, I’d certainly consider throwing myself at trying to help make Starship work.
They argue in the article that Google hires fairly from the pool of applicants, but that the pool of applicants often includes members of this religious sect because people employed at the company encourage their friends to apply, who are often also members of the sect.

If that is true, it isn't really Google's fault. If it's false, I doubt there will be any documentary evidence to say so - these people aren't stupid, they won't have said "make sure you only hire my religion" in an email.
I see a lot of people wanting to avoid cards that were used for mining, why is that?
What if you want to take notes that are not just text ?

Diagrams, photos, images, equations.

How do you vim your way out of that?

If they are going to use Lindy arguments on note taking, then it should be pen and paper.

If you still want to se technology, then use pen and paper to take notes then take a photo of the page afterwards.
I used KDE many years go and then went the Gnome way in search of "cleanliness". Unfortunately Gnome went a bit too far in the same pursuit and I'm now back at KDE. The bulky KDE of yore is gone and Plasma is great!
It's almost sort of endearing, but not actually. The fact that they use SMS-based 2FA (at least through 2021) is a travesty and a bit concerning, though.

Edit: since I can't reply to response below (I think due to thread depth topping out). To clarify: they ONLY support SMS-based 2FA. No TOTP. Sure, other services offer SMS as well, but you wouldn't want to use that for securing any serious amounts of money (millions of dollars).
So grateful for Caddy!
At Nijmegen central station in the Netherlands , track 1 is preceded by 35, even though the station only has a handful of tracks. I’m not making that up.

https://indebuurt.nl/nijmegen/genieten-van/mysteries/nijmeeg...
By the way, wouldn't QtWebEngine be a much nicer 'native' provider for webview? It's actually Chrome, not WebKit, is available on all platforms. Both on Windows and Linux you need to install a webview provider anyway, so why not this one?
Yeah, for sure. Would be useful to have an Earth-side demo that a settler could try out for a month.
Helping a kid through exams is not 'doing their domestic labour' for god sakes.
Every time someone starts talking in grand terms about how the entire status quo of some major facet of civilization "should be" a certain way with zero reflection on the systemic incentives that have led it to be the way it is I die a little inside.
I'm not the one who initially suggested decorative server equipment... the original poster is clearly working under duress.
Maybe so, but I’m not sure how that relates to the comment you’re responding to.

Or at least I must have missed the part of the article that lists examples of successful implementations of its proposed idea.
Thank you for your silly comment, which I remember again why I don't like this place. I hope you get out of puberty as soon as possible.
It's important to remember that this is a statement made by one party to a dispute, not a neutral statement of facts. It's unclear whether any of the claims made in the statement are true, or whether this is an intentionally destructive response to hard bargaining by the musicians.
It comes across as fairly pedantic. Whether it is one frame at 25hz, 30hz, 120hz or 240hz is pretty much irrelevant to the point.
Either way, they’re shutting down. That’s not really a bargaining tactic. It’s failure mode.
I’d love to understand the genesis of this. was it founded because it was particularly challenging to give feedback to designers on screenshots, and what was the issue with existing tools?
> In other words, A implies B does not mean B implies A as well.

I think you wanted to write A implies B does not mean "not A" implies "not B" as well. B implies A would be: the longer something will probably stay around, the longer it already has been around.