skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many possible factors, and they might interact. Social interaction might be a factor to some degree for some people. The stresses of a global pandemic that are not about social interaction might also contribute to some degree for some people. The fear of infection, the social conflicts and challenging of pre-pandemic social trust networks too, the uncertainty about the future of the world, the feeling of being trapped, the dissonance of sudden social reorganisation... all might be factors.

I say this partly because, yes, your experience might be consistent with this article and I am sorry that you had to go trough that. And secondly to recognise that you went through so many different, unusual, traumatic experiences - and so did everyone else - that it is impossible to tell whether any specific one was the singular cause.

Life was hard in so many new ways during the pandemic. for me the main lessons are that we all deserve to focus on self care a bit more, and that we should really try much much harder to avoid future predictable catastrophes.
You're already divided - the team that hired you told you so to your face.
So...there are profiles (about:profiles) and you can run them in parallel. But it's not really feature meant for consumers as it is in Chrome.
What I'm most excited about is the potential for WebAssembly (along with WebGPU) to pave the way for a whole new era of browser games and provide an alternative to developers who don't want to fork over 30% to walled gardens.

My team has built out WASM/WebGPU support for Unreal Engine 4 and is in progress for Unreal Engine 5 (and other engines) with a suite of optimization tools like asset streaming (so you don't have to download a whole game at once) and advanced texture compression (necessary for low powered devices like mobile/Chromebooks).

More info on us in this Venturebeat article we were featured in:

https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/12/wonder-interactives-the-i...
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220717011807/https://www.nytim...
No it was early this year so my guess was it was this one (happened at a user): https://support.mozilla.org/hsb/questions/1361315
All they really mean to say is "two-way marketplace". Aka "we're a platform used by both buyers and sellers of a service. We arrange the exchange of labor for a fee then the two of you work it out."
> Good times create weak men

They give you strong science, economy and as a byproduct strong military.

> You often see a growing discontent among wealthy societies where everything is taken care of.

Like in Sri-Lanka, what a decadent society.
Yes. But launching them isn't as easy as in chrome. Depending on what you are using them for, firefox containers might be sufficient.
Obviously the parallels to what we're living through with our last president are plain and should be alarming. The ridiculous idea that the secret service sms messages aren't available somewhere from the NSA or some other agency is a joke. We are in the midst of a slow moving coup and as long as 45 remains free, spewing his vitriol and handing out cash to his devotees unimpeded we should be very concerned.
> first true Cyberpunk movie

Tron, Brazil, Videodrome, Metropolis, Terminus, Escape From New York, Blade Runner, etc etc etc
people dont consider instamines any less unfair than premines

there is zero consensus on fair and therefore it is impossible to have a fair launch

all outcomes result in consolidation unless inflation/dilution is extremely high and uninteresting
What are you talking about?

The new Hawaii law doesn't grant practitioners of Native Hawaiian cultural traditions the exclusive right to visit or use Maunakea. They now have a seat at the table, rather than having decisions be the exclusive right of the University of Hawaii.

Anyone used to be able to whale. Now it's illegal in the US except for Alaska Natives and the Makah of Washington State.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/966498544/a-scary-survey-find...

"39% of Republicans, agreed that "if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions.""

"two out of three Republicans saying President Biden was not legitimately elected"

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support...

"70% of Republicans believe in the great replacement theory"

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-24/a-q...

"A Quarter of Republicans Believe Central Views of QAnon Conspiracy Movement"

Both sides have a substantial portion that believes that there could be a need for violence. Unfortunately the Republican side believes this because they think liberals are replacing them with brown people, qanon, and election lies.

Meanwhile liberals like myself believe it because we have relatives who are talking about cleaning their guns to make ready to kill Democrats. Personally I have directly followed alt-right communication on publicly available social media platforms including gab and parler and the videos they share. It's not really a secret that the crazies want to whack us.
2. Long. Years. Later...
I've actually never seen OSB for a mobile home sub floor. A couple times it's been plywood but other than that it's always been press board.
Anyone who wants to can join nato? What is the long term cost of Russia owning Ukraine? Is there any? Russia interferes with our politics but whether they invade other countries most Americans couldn't place on a map doesn't have much to do with that.
It may have been smarter to do this.

In general letting any earlier equity holders into a round effectively reduces the amount of cash you end up with, so there is no reason to do it except keeping those equity holders happy. It’s also a bit harder to manage with a bunch of smaller blocks, but you can pool this easily enough.

It’s always going to be a balance, but it might have been better to allow anyone to include a small percent of vested stock in the round (to the same total amount ) rather than just let execs cash out.
“Generation told that the only way they’ll be able to get ahead is networking is nervous working-from-home will reduce networking opportunities, after receiving said advice from older workers who want to work from home and not talk to them.”
What is going on with the "st" ligature on this site?
If you think about it from an evolutionary historical sense, some of the most congnitively intense tasks for early humans were and I'd argue still are, to interact with other humans.
I suspect that the future will look more like Mega-City One.

It's just a question of whether it's a rebuilding attempt after WW3, or an attempted solution for climate change (you don't need a car here! tiny apartments are so much more efficient! job opportunities!)

Although I guess there's room for a Robocop flavor of dystopia to exist in the dying 'old cities', too...
Depression is one of the symptoms of Long Covid and some people are unlucky and get the entire range of them while others just end up with one or two. Covid seems to manipulate the blood brain barrier and gets into the brain and does some amount of damage while activating the brains immune system such as the Glial cells. The impact seems to be a range of neurological conditions. If its Long Covid then you most likely will recover, it could take a year or more. Alas many aren't yet recovering 2+ years later so probably wont.

Its possible it was caused by Covid, there are a quite a lot of Long Covid sufferers with just neurological problems.
> attack surface of Apple’s products

Cryptocurrency airdrops [1]. Not Apple’s AirDrop feature.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/airdrop-cryptocurrency....
Not lately. The quality of content has gone so far down that I would need such a tool for Disney or even Prime.

We have entered the period of series-hell, where content has been algorithmically reduced to the minimum which will make someone come back.

Even re-watching old series is dull. Granted, I still get a chuckle or two from My Name Is Earl (Hulu, and highly recommended if you're American and especially from the south). I'm also trained to lose focus easily, so making me wait a week for an update (or in the case of the latest Star Trek... waiting 1+ years!???) will basically make me forget it even existed.

It feels a bit like a natural finality of television. Anything that could be done has been done. Any story that could be told has been told. They've upped the volume on any aspect - sex, violence, fear, whatever. I am no longer entertained. I've seen reasonable people mutilate people ("Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" I hate you) for no good reason. We might as well be watching people shove grenades up their bums (give porn sites 1-2 years, it will happen).

It all reminds me of a Blackadder scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk4PfuiPVY

This is when we realize that our reality is a farce, perhaps self-created.

You are welcome for this tour to the end times!
When? In 1918 when the KPD split from the SPD? Or in 1920 when the SPD and the Freikorps shot all of their leaders dead? Perhaps when the death of those leaders and the ensuing infighting allowed the Comintern to take influence? No, because Stalin wasn't in power when the SPD and KPD became literally mortal enemies. You don't join forces with people that gave the order to kill your friends. Pretending Stalin was the reason they were alienated is ridiculous - the alienation predated him taking power.
> the model is misspecified... it does not represent how you as a human being with cultural knowledge think about the problem

Yes, that is exactly my point. The way "you as a human with cultural knowledge think about the problem" is a major component of Bayesian analysis. The math is almost incidental. By the time you have chosen what features to do the math on, most of the heavy lifting has already been done.

This matters because if you just crunch the Bayesian numbers on an arbitrary data set you will almost certainly find features that appear predictive but are not. The more numbers you crunch, the more likely this is to happen. A lot of people lose money in the stock market this way.
On the other side, not being able to run on iOS didn't kill any server side language (think Java.) And Java client side (Android) is very different from Java server side, down to the sets of developers.

Currently WASM is both a client side and server side runtime. It's not clear where it will be in 5 or 10 years. I don't see a compelling server side story. Why WASM and not C#, Java, Node, Python, Rails (I intentionally don't write Ruby) or whatever any of us is using now with its standard runtime?
I added the |0 optimization to JSC’s optimizer before asm.js was a thing. It worked for any use of a number in bit math, so like ~~x also had the same effect as x|0.

Hilariously, I didn’t actually do the folding of x|0 to x because I didn’t know folks would do that. I just wanted to eliminate int overflow checks if the use didn’t care about the high bits. We only implemented the folding once asm.js became a thing.
I use all of them. Edge for work pages/corporate intranet, Chrome for spe ific testing and customer remote, and Firefox with Ublock for web surfing. Duckduck for most and google search if I do not get what I am looking for.
It's starting to look like pseudoscience, just like cold fusion, quantum computing, and machine learning.
how will you keep that thing afloat?

do you plan making money?
No there definitely was Asm.js optimisation code, at least in Firefox. That was the entire point.
Some have no secondary sale clauses too. Depending where you are they may not be enforceable. Or you any have got RSU’s that aren’t saleable the way anyhow.

For very small/early startups, there may not be an effective secondary market at all, let alone permission to participate in a raise.
Can you define what you mean by absorb? My wife loves the TV on in the background while doing other things. Are you after the same goal?

I'm worried about everything being reduced to "content" like it is all interchangeable.
Protecting same-sex couples is a noble cause, but it's a concern for a tiny minority. Abortion is in the same boat. In return Dems want gun control and speech control - both issues concern the majority. And that's why the Dems are losing.
Climate models don't predict individual heat waves, and as we are told every time there's a cold snap, climate isn't weather so cold periods aren't evidence that the globe isn't warming. That cuts in both directions, doesn't it.
I have a list of movies/TV shows in a txt file. New entries go at the end. I watch them in the order I added them. Zero decision fatigue!
Yes, you're right, but I'd push back again by noting that those people will either find work and regain insurance or they'll ultimately be approved for Medicaid, if it comes to that. I was one such person. I was uninsured in 2003 when I was in a serious car accident and hospitalized for 18 days. What happened is that I was immediately approved for Medicaid and most of my bills -- totaling in the hundreds of thousands -- were covered.
It's a concise notation for a type of editing drawn from an old Unix program called `sed`, which is still around in Unix's descendants (i.e., Linux).

In this case, GP suggests that GGP replace "effect" with "association".
> Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF?

I log into Chrome with my Gmail account and my browsing history+passwords are carried across all the devices I use in a typical week, Windows, Mac, iPhone. This is huge, as I rely on history a lot.

My last 3 jobs also had Google-based accounts, which means I'm able to maintain two browser contexts where I don't dirty up my personal history with boring work stuff.

I assume Firefox probably offers account syncing, but there's no reason to switch at this point. They lost me more than a decade ago, I loved Chrome's out-of-the-box interface. It made Firefox seem ancient and cluttered with all the unnecessary buttons, and massive borders and tabs consuming precious screen space.

edit: And I'm now reading that Firefox supports multiple browser contexts but requires some effort. No thanks.
Apple's products? This is not about them
ITT: maladjusted individuals coping
Two things this doesn't mention about Rust that I think we can expect to see in new languages:

1. Version control. If you ask Cargo to make you a new Rust project, and you have git (which, if you're a software developer you almost certainly do) it makes you a Git repository for the new project, with its target directory ignored.

As with formatting you might have very strong opinions about revision control, or you might be subject to a company policy, maybe you must use Bob's Special Version Control Program for all Company Projects. Cargo won't stop you doing that, but if you don't have an opinion you get git which is definitely better than nothing. And if you want to, somebody can teach Cargo about Bob's SVCP and make 'svcp' one of the possible choices in the config for the few people who do care.

2. Hello World. If you ask Cargo for a new Application, the project it gives you prints "Hello, World!" because why not. Rust's boilerplate for such an application isn't very heavy, but like a blank piece of paper is intimidating when writing an essay or novel, it's nice to have something to start from. Step #1 remove the part where it prints "Hello, World!". Step #2 write my actual program. Hey, we're off to a great start already.

This also means you have a correct, valid program to check your tooling. A new Cargo Application is a Hello, World program that will compile, and run, showing that your tools work as intended before you write a single line of Rust. It doesn't have any tests, nor any documentation, but since it's a working program the test infrastructure and doc builder work, the results will just be not very exciting.
> It's an impossibly imposed elitist standard on someone who is unknown to get to the point where word of mouth sustains them. It's a very Marie Antoinette attitude. No one reaches that level without self promoting as well, they just secretly use veiled methods like botting, the buddy system, and paid advertising to get there.

Perhaps for many, or even most. All I can say is I've never resorted (secretly or otherwise) to the veiled methods suggested. Equally, none of my books have appeared on the NYT bestsellers list, or earned me a Pulitzer, so my word-of-mouth anecdote has clearly failed if the aim of the endeavour is fame&fortune/etc. Which, for me, it isn't.
Absence seizures can be extremely brief - "Most absence seizures are less than 15 seconds long. It’s rare for an absence seizure to last longer than 15 seconds. They can happen suddenly without any warning signs." [0]. So it is difficult to ascertain whether I got "nothing done".

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
GC implementations over Wasm definitely have perf issues. eg. Go compiled to Wasm has these with its GC. The main way when compiling to Wasm now is to not use a GC, which is reasonable depending on the application in question. It's quite reasonable for games or graphics applications.

But yeah Wasm has definitely been used successfully with performance results in production, eg. in Figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
Edge does have grouping (might be behind edge://flags)
These things are now everywhere , not just litter but an environmental horror story and a fire risk as well. Previously I had seen them & wondered what they were then this Big Clive video explained all ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65DpT2nqEI&ab_channel=bigcl...

I must admit the ones with 1500 mah batteries are very useful.
Well.. can i self host it?
I don’t come to hn to read articles.
I'm fairly certain you haven't been involved in a war if you make a statement like "it's fun"!! Or at least you've never had to kill someone !!
Well exactly. That's why it's so weird.
The problem is that the expected value of the equity itself is negative in the current environment.

If the tradeoff were to give up some guaranteed money for a low shot at a big payoff, then that would be a reasonable tradeoff! But right now it's prohibitively expensive to exercise.

I'm surprised that YC doesn't lobby to fix the tax code so startup's can attract experienced people, but maybe YC is just about supporting founders, and there still enough employees willing to take a bad deal and work at an early stage startup.
I much prefer the way Cinny copied Discord over they way this project did it, but oh well.

I think the thread communication model is interesting. Google Chat, both loved and hated by many, uses the same concept, but their interface is buggy, laggy, and terrible to use.

It looks like development has ended as quick as it started, with the last commit on main dating back three months. An interesting concept, but probably not the future of chat.
Critique of the Power Broker (1974)
Wow, that is...weird. I can't imagine why anyone felt there was a need to make that change.
I use FF, but I have at times had to switch to Chrome for extended periods of time when performance of FF was bad after a particular release - maybe about 9-10 years ago? I think a lot of people experienced the same thing at the time, moved off and never moved back.
This has nothing to do with apple and is about a crypto thing.
Psychedelics can be therapeutic, but can also waken up latent mental illness you never thought you even had. They’re a double edged sword and also not some panacea cure-it-all. I’ve looked into microdosing psilocybin as a nootropic and to cure mild bouts of depression. Not sure if it’s placebo or if it’s the truffles though. I’m scared to try higher doses since I suffer with anxiety and truffles could exacerbate that.
This is great, thanks so much for sharing! The creator does an amazing job conveying a story with little to no effects, which so many other YT creators rely much on.
Agreed on this, I assumed you'd be able to write for WASM with go, Java etc but no GC based languages are allowed.
Niall Ferguson: Nobody Knows How Long Inflation Will Last. That’s Life
Binary transparency :). 1992 Cirrus Logic GD5402 aka AVGA2 supported Masking.

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/130-cirrus-logi... "D3 Selects the memory read data latches to be eight bytes wide, instead of the normal four bytes.
This bit can be used in Write Mode 1, in order to rewrite 8 latched pixels (64 bits) back into display
memory. This bit should be used in X8 addressing mode only."

= Set/Reset and Compare registers extended to full 8 bits and read/write mode 1 extended to 8 bytes at a time with extra foreground/background masks. If Im calculating correctly this means you can perform internal copies at 12-20MB/s and lines/pattern fills at 24-40MB/s
alt+tab is a very different operation.

ctrl+tab cycling to the next tab is essential for many ways of surfing the web.

For instance, research a topic and tap up many tabs. Now go through them one by one. And in the process of doing so you might want to tab up even more.

At this point cycling to the next tab becomes a way to navigate the history, but where you have the context of each step preserved. MRU in this context is a nightmare.

MRU for tabs doesn't make any sense to me, that purpose is served by switching to another window instead (which is, and should be, MRU).
I just updated the Windows installer to fix long startup time and high drive load. Sorry for the inconvenience.
America is the worlds richest third world country
This might seem weird but here's how I leverage this:

- 99% of the time it confirms tiredness. However it's also an intriguing moment of interest, built into this time of waning energy. And interests are important to seize on, and work with, as they develop.

- I want to get the most entertaining result, for the time being. The symbol processing part of the mind is back-and-forthing with the physical circumstances of exhaustion, so I have an opportunity to get the needed result via symbolic means.

- I focus only on cover imagery and sort by favorite cover images. I let myself decide not to focus on selecting a movie to watch for the time being. I'm just browsing covers. This is not a time to test the focusing attributes of your mind. Instead, the mind is ready to take you for a ride.

- The images start to bring out imaginings or scenarios in the mind's eye, which build on and depart from what's strictly in the cover image. This is good. You can consider it a lucid, pre-dreaming state as well.

- I frontdoor those moments and inner images [1] for rest, interest-pursuit, and analysis purposes if desired.

Since I started doing that and got good results, I wrote a cron script to randomly select sets of book covers from my Google Play Books and Kindle libraries, and I use those the same way.

Another result is that this connection "browse thumbnails" -> "watch or read that thing" is less strict or even necessary. The covers often don't match the contents anyway, and were not typically created by the director or author. So the reading/viewing often hits like a disappointment. This isn't to say that reading is bad though, and you can do the cover-sorting activity above with textual passages from books, or clips from movies.

1. https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/frontdooring-a-new-form-...
TV stations only showing new material? I think you'd need to go back a long time before movie rentals for that to be true?

We recorded movies from TV onto VHS, it wasn't unusual for them to air again before we watched the taped copy.
Was watching your update in the Khronos Group meetup a few days ago, very impressive work. I'm excited for what this will mean for the web overall, it might finally reach that tipping point where more than .io games become standard to play in the web. That's huge, and will drive demand for more powerful web APIs too.

WebGPU in general is very nice. We're building a game engine[0] that uses Zig to build Dawn (Google Chrome WebGPU implementation) from source for running on desktop / Steamdeck, and working on browser support via WASM now.

The future is bright here.

[0] https://machengine.org