skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tab hoarder here: mentally, they're somewhere between history and how you probably treat tabs. Probably 90% of my actual switches are within the last 10, another 9% in the last 100, etc.
All I really want is infinite storage of pages with exact state, including dynamic content. Since history can't do this I use tabs and wait for the inevitable browser crashes.
I think there's no particular moment/decision when a short-term memory becomes a long-term memory, tabs are the closest you can get to this. They're not at the front of my mind.
It's a tech related political matter. Extremely tech related, and misguided based on assumptions about tech. You may think it is irrelevant but the average tech professional I am very sure does think it is relevant.
My concern would be the lack of control. With a thin brush, you can usually tell where you have cleaned (if you pay attention), and not miss a spot.

Chewing this big sponge, I will not be confident that I have reached everywhere. There could be a systematic error (say a slight, unusual curve on one tooth) that leaves a spot chronically unclean without me realizing it.
FWIW: I spent ~10 years in the monitoring / performance space, and your approach in building and marketing a generalist tool is not unreasonable. In fact, more often than not when I saw technology-specific tools, they got pigeon-holed and could not move beyond their original market.
Firefox bookmarks open in the sidebar these days with Ctrl-B which is pretty similar? I guess the one disadvantage compared to the tree presentation of tree tabs is that everything starts collapsed.
This is pretty neat to watch, thanks for sharing it.

I thought it was interesting that he spoke about the solid iridium, touching it, and grounding himself.

As a handwriting enthusiast I couldn't help but notice that he also signs his name with what amounts to a grounding symbol.
Heh, I think you might be onto something here.

I'm a tab maximalist, with probably a few hundred open right now.

I also have a very messy desk. In fact, I bought a second desk just so that I could fit the detritus of more concurrent projects.

I would be curious to hear if anyone with a clean desk uses many tabs, or vice versa.
No, the crime was making claims, in commercial advertising, in a materially deceptive manner, which would probably harm someone, in a way that involves interstate commerce.

"Keeping sufficient evidence that they were true" implies that the claims were true, which they presumably were not if OpenDoor agreed to a settlement.
Say I give you a box with 1,000 puzzles written on sheets of paper, and I ask you to estimate how long it will take to solve all the puzzles. You take out a small random sample and time how long it takes you to solve each, and then you develop a cost distribution from that, scale it up to 1000, add a healthy 2-sigma buffer on top, and tell me you're 95% certain you can solve all the puzzles within that time. You've accomplished your step D. Oops, on one of the papers was the Collatz Conjecture, so you're fucked, I'm fucked, everyone's fucked, everyone's unhappy, and you get fired.

Your steps work great in an idealized perfect world where everything is simple, and they are absolutely awful, bloated, and ineffective in the real world. The perception that this is what engineers should be contributes to why a huge percentage of real-world projects go over-budget by triple-digit percentages, get cancelled entirely, or completely fail to live up to their expectations.

It's quite the other way around. If you're doing something new, you just don't know everything yet, so you simply cannot do this monotonous waterfall method. You can only do this with well-known problems that have well-established solutions. If you define an engineer as someone who is producing a practical solution to a problem that has never been solved before, at least in this exact way (on this site, in this heat, at that speed, at this scale, within that organization, etc.) then you have it exactly backwards -- anyone who follows this process is a technician, solving a problem by following an SOP or a textbook or a WikiHow article. Engineers realize this is all just dumb bullshit they have to do that takes their time away from actually exploring, understanding, and ultimately solving the (probably different, by this point) problem.
This seems to miss the point. Within this metaphor, the companies that make the cars are the construction and real estate developers - both of which are driven by the profit motive.
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Made this to stop computer addiction
For those skeptical how this can happen, it's the natural situation when two things are true:

(a) wanting to create a new browser window when a new "context" is necessary, rather than navigating away from one's current context, and

(b) being in an environment where "contexts" are added more rapidly than they can be fully triaged, delegated, or completed.

If you're (1) working on some deep frontend code and previewing it in the browser, then (2) you need to look up how to do a certain thing in React which might require reading multiple documentation and Stack Overflow posts, and in the midst of that (3) need to fix an urgent bug in something you've owned, and you do so but are waiting for CI to pass on the fix, and while waiting for that (4) you also need to unblock a colleague on a question about a specific piece of documentation and send them some Github links but not wanting to close them until they respond: you've just created 4 windows with many tabs open in each.

Now, if on top of this you are in a CTO or PM style role in which you need to do a few observability or analytics dives per day to try to understand specific customer situations... each of those may result in a context as well. On this crazy day, you have 10 context windows, each with 4 or more tabs, accumulate during a single day, and you may only be able to fully get through the backlog over the course of the following few days. Probabilistically, there will be a time during certain weeks where you have 160-200 tabs from this workload alone.

Tools like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toby-for-chrome/hd... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-manager-plus-f... are extremely useful, but do require that you're willing to suspend your page state, including any state in dev tools or scroll position - so they're simply a way to speed up getting through the backlog of contexts, not a silver bullet.

So if you're the one they go to when situations arise, and you can't grow your team as fast as you need... the TL;DR is: if any of this sounds familiar, you will want that 64GB of RAM for your laptop sooner rather than later.
I was literally working on a computer at work. Was taking too long to shutdown...

I wonder why. I could not resist taking a picture.

http://dimlight.org/number9/pics/tabs.jpg
This is a very western viewpoint! For most Asian societies, “freedom” is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Some level of counterculture is inevitable and must be tolerated. But folks in Tokyo, for example, wouldn’t be happier if their society were more like NYC!
laughs in multiple VMs solely devoted to Firefox tabs
This is one book on infinitesimal calculus: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Ma... .

However, and this is very amusing to me, it turns out that the process of automatic differentiation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation, the section on dual numbers) works in exactly the same way. Just replace all of the primed symbols (u', v', etc.) with du, dv, etc. and dual numbers are isomorphic to infinitesimals (if I'm using that term correctly.)
> It's original purpose wasn't to do elastic scaling or anything like that - it was to binpack workloads onto a set of nodes

This is arguably still its primary purpose, and all the rest of its features are ancillary and only exist for the sake of operational convenience.
Good question. This has just been my experience compared to the JVM or Go. That said, it's still an amazing VM. Just don't use it for 100gb heaps...

Probably something to do with being designed to run as part of a web browser. :)
Same for me. It's a useful warning to immediately drop whatever I'm doing, cancel all my plans for the day and find a dark room to hide in.

That said, now that I've found a drug that works extremely well for me, I can often recover in less than an hour and continue my day with only something like a mild hangover. If you haven't already, definitely talk to a doctor and look into migraine-specific medication. They work like magic and the new stuff actually seems pretty safe. I never leave home without an emergency pill in my wallet.
Ah yes, the usual passive aggressive approach of dismissing contrary ideas that have not been fully confirmed with 100% certainty. And yet you guys never apply this to nuclear.
The letter has now been updated today, please read:

STOP EMAILING ME AND CALLING THE LIBRARY ABOUT THIS

This was shared without my permission. This was not supposed to be public. It was meant to be shared internally to Google. It was not an open letter. It went directly to the security team and we had a conversation about it and it’s over. This is from well over a year ago and we no longer are having this issue as often as before due to various improvements.

Please delete this from HN. You are essentially DDOS’ing my work email and the library branch phone number making it very difficult for us to perform our duties as civil servants today.

I do not know how this made it onto HN. Someone must have leaked it. If they need to work that out internally then I’m leaving this here for their reference. But I do not want news reporters or random HN readers contacting me or the Free Library over this.

If you want to learn more about patron privacy and support librarians advocating for patron privacy and against big tech please check out https://libraryfreedom.org/ which is a wonderful organization I am a part of that does work like this. I still firmly believe in and stand by everything that I wrote. But this particular action was not meant to be a public letter and it’s interfering with my ability to do other work. You’re welcome to read this, now redacted, letter, just please stop emailing me and sharing it around.
I like the "Cancel in one click" message, and the drag-and-drop UI from tasks to calendar (plus Google Calendar sync), but I couldn't easily find (and still haven't found):

-What platforms are supported (it looks like MacOS from the demo video, but I couldn't find whether there is an iPad or iOS app, or whether it supports Windows and Android; access and syncing to a mobile device is very important from my perspective as a user)

-Whether it's possible to "Get started" without using the Google sign-on; I typically avoid using Google to sign in, and prefer traditional registration with an email and password

-A clear and straightforward Privacy Policy, which would be a plus. You have one linked at https://emery.to/privacy/ , where you did write that users have the right to: "Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it. [...] Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner." The "under certain circumstances" seems vague, and I'm unsure what that means in practice.

However, you have to scroll down quite a bit, and I'm not comfortable with the use of Google Analytics. I'm not necessarily against using the app just due to privacy reasons (though other users might be), but I wish I could find out in advance of signing up, how much data collection I could opt out of before signing up.
You know, if St Louis had similar penalties for stealing street signs, I'll bet there would be a lot less crime there overall.
>> I'm guessing OpenDoor has a certain standard for agreeing to buy a home, and some homes they ask to do repairs would otherwise have been turned away.

This seems fair to me, there is no guarantee that when selling a home on the market, buyers wont similarly ask for repairs or dollar concessions for repairs.
The right calendar, notes and task manager is worth way more than $7 per month to many people.
Do you mean Firefox on iOS? Do you know if they have auto-translate?

One of the hidden "pros" of using chrome is that as a non-dutch speaking guy in the Netherlands chrome actually can translate pages 80% of the time. I almost don't use my iPad for browsing as safari (on iOS 14) cannot and chrome is a little quicker than a dead horse.
They do that in government. You just get different cliques.

You hire executives for different reasons. Sometimes loyalty or incompetence to a degree is valuable as the person isn’t a threat. Other times people are hired to drive a particular agenda and can be relied upon to do that because they are too dumb to do otherwise. And sometimes they are sacrificial lambs.
It means (for those of us who can't let go easily) going through every tab, opening all the interesting pages it links to, bookmarking them, preferably with screenshots, downloading any videos, etc. I'd rather they weren't in RAM but there's no easy way to move them to disk (automatically would be ideal)
The laws exist to keep the minority of counter culture people from disrupting the orderly society enjoyed by the majority. Elevating the “rights” of the minority over the comfort of the majority is not a universal value.
I don't think this is a fair observation. I grew up in poverty in the U.S. and even in those days I found the stories of Singapore's authoritarian oppression disturbing. Would I have traded my chilly and mouldering aluminum sides trailer for a clean Singaporean public works apartment and a jackboot hovering around my ass? I'm not sure I would.

Now, I'm not sure it was as bad as the stories made it sound. Let's be real. Some amount of what we heard was sensationalized for storytelling effect but don't completely discount that people will forgo material comforts for dignity, honor and autonomy.
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32311487
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You insist the dams high in the Sierra Nevada range of California don't exist? You choose a strange hill to die on: anybody can see them in Google Maps satellite view.

They are not generally made of concrete, not being deep enough to need it. Their high pressure is confined in the penstock well downslope.
I just signed up for a trial. If it can replace my trusty notepad and paper, I can definitely justify $7 a month.
Re: wide-scale reports of cognitive decline since lockdowns:

> In lab animals, isolation has been shown to cause brain shrinkage and the kind of brain changes you'd see in Alzheimer's disease — reduced brain cell connections and reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which is important for the formation, connection, and repair of brain cells.

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Thank you very much! Really! Since some years I puzzle to find out why the most Java programmers write code that is as shitty as it is. With tons of methods that are just doing more ore less nothing and you need to jump through 42 classes to find out what the code is really doing. It's a mess of code overhead that leads to nothing than more code overhead.
Now I know, it's because the existance of this book and most Java programmers think thats the clean way to code. Unbelievebal.
$7/mo is extremely steep for something that provides a very tiny subset of features of a hundred other productivity apps out there. And there are no mobile apps?
>> A $300k house they might have picked up for $270k then flipped 2-3 months later for $340k.

Even this may or may not be fair. If the flipper did tens of thousands in repairs, perhaps the extra price is now justified? Any idea of the homes were flipped as-is or after value-add updates?
By session manager do you mean an extension?

I used an extension called OneTab that had a few thousand of my tabs on my old laptop... it took that extension crashing twice (probably burning 4~5k tabs) before I learnt my lesson and backed up all my tabs to a txt file.
It’s repressive if you’re an explicit LGBT person. But to be very honest, I’m okay with the strict (public) conformity. I like the idea of a common cohesive culture and don’t like the LGBT movement in America at all (though I’m totally for people to do whatever in private). As humans, it helps to have a “correct path” that everyone in society agrees upon as long as it’s not exclusive of people that cannot change their “condition”.
An overview of Scroll's architecture
Many Asian, North African, and Middle Eastern countries struggle with similar problems. And, this is not even developed/developing nations. I see it in economically poor or non-industrialized countries too.
It’s been 18 months on an entirely new platform and a small team of (BRILLIANT) people did such a good job discovering and porting to undocumented hardware that it worked on the M2 hardware essentially before it started shipping.

I don’t think Apple is trying to get in their way.

Also… developing for documented hardware is also an endless treadmill of work as it evolves/new products are released.

It just has much less uncertainty.

I 100% agree it would be awesome if Apple released full documentation. Broadcom too. Probably others.

(All IMHO)
IME, these folks are hard to filter out; takes a few weeks/months to figure it out. But, because they are already somehow a CxO and you hired for CxO, then they'll still get considered for their next CxO - cause the short stint where their incompetence was detected will be just a blip - their previous gig was the fail-up that fools you (me, and others I know) and will fool those after you as well.
They added large amounts of borate to the water before opening the top. There was no way it was going to go critical (and if it had, it would at best have been a steam explosion, not a nuclear bomb, as the chain reaction if it could have occurred at all would have been with slow thermal neutrons.)
I read that in some places there is an expectation that (wealthy compared to the locals) western expats employ lots of staff or pay for services they might carry out themselves in western countries (e.g. laundry, cleaning, but also things like grocery shopping). It’s seen as a necessary amount of ‘giving back to the community’.
It's amazing how humans keep finding new ways to hoard things...
Physicists: We're pushing the limits of physics in order to produce ever faster computers

Devs: I'm going to write this in javascript
Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles (2018)
>Seems the NBER was pretty wishy washy about it back then too.

It's not wishy washy. It's nuanced, and takes experts to carefully assess. There is no simple check one of many indicators to some fixed threshold over all of time definition.

I get you don't like the facts, so you use wishy-washy as your description.

>why isn't it mentioned in 1974? Maybe the NYT dropped the ball.

From the 1974 article: "Generally, the designation of recession periods and the beginning and ending dates established by the National Bureau of Economic. Research, a private research agency, are accepted, by both Government and private economists. For more than 50 years, the bureau has studied alternating periods of business expansion and contraction in order to chart their progress, identify cyclical peaks and troughs, and analyze causes of economic fluctuations."

"In the nineteen‐twenties, when the bureau work, was getting under way, periods of decline were usually called depressions. As time went on and declines in economic activity became less severe, the term recession became more common. A more neutral term, contraction, is also sometimes used."

So it's clearly mentioned. Are you even reading the articles?

>In terms of duration—declines in real G.N.P. for 2 consecutive quarters; a decline in industrial production over a six‐month period.

> There's your 2 quarters boundaries, back in 1974.

Yes, if you ignore every other sentence in the article and pull one out of context that suits you, then yes, I can see how you got your beliefs.

>to deny the 2 quarter rule of thumb never existed is pretty transparent to most people.

To deny that the rule of thumb is not sufficient, has never been sufficient, and has always relied on a more nuanced assessment is simply spreading more ignorance for political reasons. I get that such ignorance works for a populace desiring outrage. To double down on it when presented with the facts is simply willful ignorance, an entire bigger level.

There are many "rules of thumb," but pretty much zero of them capture the entire nuance needed for the item at hand, which is why they are rules of thumb. Rule of 72 for compound interest works, somewhat, as long as you stay near 7-10% interest. Chemical reaction speed doubling every 10 degrees Celsius works, as long as you stay near room temperature and pressure and don't hit certain odd cases. The ideal gas law works, but only again in special cases. 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' works, except when it doesn't.

This is the same thing. Every rule of thumb is a rough idea, but never the final answer.

2 quarters may be a rule of thumb, but it is not a the definition. It's too coarse.

Also, if you're going to post articles, please read them first.
You not knowing about a thing is not the same as it not existing.
Calling it 'myth' is definitely overselling the case. It was the scientific consensus in from 80's on. With the rapid advance of climate science, new data, etc, it might be possible to challenge that consensus. I don't think a couple of articles are sufficient, though - it's still essentially a minority opinion that nuclear war would not result in nuclear winter.
> prison conditions relative to other g-20 nations (solitary confinement for example), and people get long sentences for recidivism

If the US would properly apply the death penalty more, that would solve most of issues you list. Recidivism necessarily goes to zero, no need for solitary, etc.
I don't get it at all. I know how to get back to everything I use. I guess I don't do a lot of researching things, though, where you land on pages you've never seen before and might not remember how to get there since you've only done it once.
I can't comment on Canadian forces, but I can, with some reasonable level of confidence, say that some number of U.S. forces arrived with old forest green BDU pattern (despite the existence and previous use of the "chocolate chip" pattern) simply because that's what we had.
You might want to edit your comment to follow the correct format.
I know exactly what you mean. I'm so happy that he only wrote about Java. Hardly imaginable how many damage this book would cause if it's written about C++.
Wonder what Keith Rabois is gonna say in response to this.