skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's hardly anything worth "flexing", but I have hundreds of tabs on every browser on all my devices, easily (and regrettably) totalling a few thousand overall. I have had to install new browsers because reopening a crashed browser would freeze my computer.

The reason I'm posting this here? Because I want people to know how terrible of an experience it is. No, not having the tabs open themselves. But the frequent app crashes and hangs. The time chrome crashed and lost all tabs (iPadOS so no ctr shift t. And it was triggered by opening a link so the "restore" button disapeared immediately.)

I do not know if anyone on Google's Chrome, or Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox teams are reading this - but if you are, you should know that tab management on all types of devices - be it android or a windows laptop - sucks to say the least, and is buggy/broken to be more accurate. Chrome throws a smiley face which isn't cute when you want to actually see a number. (Fortunately kiwi browser - my designated music browser - tells me I have 700-something tabs despite being chromium based.) I cannot open the tab switcher in chrome (android) for a solid few minutes unless I want the app to freeze, or more realistically, to delete/misplace some tabs. (I.e Tabs get randomly rearranged, and the tab grouping feature doesn't help.)

You end up learning "tricks" to avoid upsetting your browser. "Don't newtab for the first x seconds, instead open a link from Google search and it'll be faster" "Don't bother typing anything at all in the search field, auto complete doesn't work until the tab-smiley comes on which takes 20 seconds in chrome canary and 2 minutes on regular chrome"

On windows browsers hog memory until the system slows to a crawl. Safari is the least terrible, despite the questionable 500 tab limit navigation is still fluid.

As to why I don't close tabs - because when you think 20 different things you want to search (thanks ADHD) and haven't read any of them, you'll want to go back later when you have time.

(Btw if anyone from any of the browser's teams is interested in seeing a live demo of this in a "real life" use-case I'll be more than happy to demonstrate what "ultra-high" organic page use looks like.)
Yeah, I do. Glad he's no longer part of the labor party. It was no loss to see him go. My stance is generally that Labor is the better of the two evils when there is no other choice. But, in general, the authoritarian stances of the Liberal party are unequaled. Showing a small counterpoint to that doesn't change the statements above.
Your iphone 6s is probably faster than the average android phone sold today.
The US isn't as oil rich as Saudia Arabia and has more than 10x the population, and far more diversity. So while I'm sure there are some good things the USA could learn from KSA I don't think money and monarchies would be as effective. (Though I'd like to see less spent on defense boondoggles and more on social safety nets.) Now certainly the KSA has much to learn about tolerating dissent, nepotism in government, and freedom of the press.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/kuznets...
We don't have a desktop app at the moment, just a web app for desktop browsers. Planning to introduce an electron-based app later on.

Technical stack for mobile apps is still an open question. Want to get the desktop app right first as most people we talked to prefer to use computers to organise their days.

Despite using web stack, speed of the ui is one of the things we're proud of.
Over 1000 (+The great Suspender) https://i.imgur.com/ESBKggu.png (Session Buddy)
1827 tabs here - I have a problem. Firefox devs, if you're listening, an "automatically clear tabs older than 30 days on close/open" option would be highly desirable for me (and maybe those like me).
I didn’t say it wasn’t arbitrary—culture often is. My point is that as someone steeped in the asian way of thinking about it, the cultural conflict with the American mode of thinking is really significant.
https://archive.ph/135wc
I think there’s all kinds of problems that intersect to create the problems we see with these hires:

- founders, especially first time founders, often have middling experience hiring for any role, and zero experience hiring execs.

- the absolute best execs often have no shortage of offers, and hence it can be quite hard to identify and attract these people

- founders often don’t want to pay what the really good execs are worth. Not that I’m even “really good”, but there’s a number of startups where I’ve been recruited because things are a disaster, can’t figure out how to scale the business, etc etc, and then after speaking with everyone they turn around and offer half a percent of the company, and act like they’re being generous.

- founders want to hire someone who’s the right person for the long haul, because of all of the above pains - except that those people often are accustomed to two stages ahead of where the company is now and may not be prepared for what’s required right now

And then, sure, there are the people who have failed up enough, or gotten lucky enough to win the startup lottery, and then coasted from there.

But look at it this other way - 50% of engineers are in the bottom half in skill and talent. It’s just that you do your best to optimize for the upper half, and since you’re hiring lots of them, you trust in the numbers to pay off for you. When you are hiring one, and just one, head of sales - the margin of error is really thin.
Intel ME is not connected to the network. Intel AMT (vPro) is. You have to pay extra to get it, and there are extra conditions to be fulfilled (LAN or Wifi must be Intel).

The difference wrt. Apple Silicon is, that AS firmware blobs run on separate chips and 1) cannot access the main memory freely; they are gated behind IOMMU and 2) there's no SMM equivalent for any of them, so the main CPU time cannot be stolen by firmware.
Day in the Life working in a Startup in London (5 min video)
You never need to recalibrate your rear mech. Ever. This to me is the best part of di2. You also never need to replace dirty/old cables.

Di2 is amazing. If you do > 500km riding a year it's a worthwhile upgrade IMO.
There's a lot of wiggle room between sane consumption and addiction. And addiction is becoming the norm. I'd add that even if you were to consume no news at all, you'd still get the summary of it one way or another.

I'll now continue with my hot take: being informed, even being an expert, on anything outside your field of work is overrated, if not useless.

Say you've been following the recent war in great depth. Or the pandemic. Or US politics. You've invested hundreds of hours reading about it and have developed an understanding far above average.

Now what? What are you going to do with it? Debate online, a lost cause? What is the tangible benefit of understanding without purpose?
Can you elaborate on the feature you're referencing? I'm currently looking at getting a new e-reader and am specifically debating between the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kobo Libra 2.
They would be harmed by banning gas connections, because it's a lot less pipe fitting they could do.
As a customer of both, it really didn't.
Safari has a very low limit of tabs open. I don't manage the tabs of my phone at all, I just let them pile up, and eventually I always hit the limit. Thankfully there's an option that automatically deletes all tabs that you haven't opened in a month.
a small overall percentage? More than one third of Vancouver Canada's real-estate is foreign owned.
Even if the landing was a little bouncy, it's a landmark achievement for model rocketry. Tickled to see the top Youtube comment is from Scott Manley.

The mechanism to throttle the solid rocket motor is simple and ingenious - ceramic "jaws" underneath constrict to block a portion of the exhaust plume (an idea borrowed from Josh at Simple Robotics). Here's a link to the juicy bit in an earlier video on it, although the whole thing is worth watching: https://youtu.be/8sksiYfkses?t=658
This will not be a problem at all, there will not be a lot of edible freshwater molluscs around. They are going extinct really fast.
It's a relatively new feature for Chrome, but I agree I think FF should copy it
"Political campaign" here is not "anyone who says they are political" - it's the official campaign organizations for candidates who are registered in an election. They're legitimate actors within the electoral system.

Officially registered candidates already get a lot of info about voters by law - including telephone numbers and addresses. This seems well in line with that.

Edit: I was wrong - this does have a disgustingly wide definition of "political campaign". I do think it would be good to ban spam filters catching official campaign literature, but that's not what is being proposed.
What a freshly practical take on the problem!

I might have missed this on your job listing, but... From my experience in hiring, I would strongly suggest that all tech job listings, especially startups, describe the application process and estimated time budget needed, as well as be upfront about take-homes.

Saw significant improvement to candidate quality as well as recruitment.
I know its not main point of the article, but the "Bigger Holding Space" results are surprising to me. The idle time barely changes at all, and even the response time change is very moderate (<10% increase), while rejection rate drops three orders of magnitude(!). I suppose this is somehow an artifact on the particular distributions chosen in the example? Also intuitively tail-end latency (like p99) would suffer more when you add queues, I guess figuring that out analytically is more difficult..
Yes.

> which is expected to be used for consumer redress
> The time chrome crashed and lost all tabs (iPadOS so no ctr shift t. And it was triggered by opening link so the "restore" button disapeared immediately.)

That's actually what pushed me to Firefox. After loosing ~50 tabs (yet again) I simply said f that, now I have a clean state and installed Firefox. I've never lost any tabs since.
A handheld, esp32-based implementation of the pico-8[0] console. Basics work already, sidetracked into writing a terrible Lua to C++ compiler to squeeze some extra performance out of some pathological-case games.

Lives at https://github.com/davidventura/picopico

[0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
I'm not seeing anything about a built in sound suppressor just a flash suppressor which is a fairly common feature on modern assault rifles and their civilian variants. You don't generally build in a suppressor because they're technically wear items as the hot gases will slowly erode the baffles over time. That plus their extra weight and cost meant most militaries only issued them to units that were built for stealth missions in the past.
Ask the people who build them.

Hydro power systems need to store a year or more. Utilities will need at most a few weeks. You don't need or want a river. Dams are f'ing expensive because they need geological support for extreme pressure. An earthen dike suffices if you don't already have a depression.

Only the penstock needs to hold back high pressure.
>> So you're saying the FTC wasn't understanding the basics of home buying

I'm saying the FTC letter, which i quoted, is very vague and offers no clear argument nor addresses the tradeoffs.

Its like complaining about stock brokerage MARKET orders that hit the ASK PRICE and then saying you could have gotten a better price with a LIMIT order (though then you may not get an executed order at all...)
Space Force does have its own dress uniforms.
Idempotent, Normalized, Graph, One-line, Readable, Portable, Simple, Flexible. OData and GraphQL killer.

English: https://dev.to/ninjin/humane-api-rest-protocol-n85
This is uh... very beginner level, and doesn't feel super organized. https://www.circonus.com/resources/statistics-for-engineers/ seems like a better intro?

For more advanced conversations, here's a few more topics of interest:

- binomial distributions, and confidence intervals (application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4nCsgt1qEU)

- forecasting timeseries data with triple exponential smoothing to highlight anomalies (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...)

- methods of counting distinct values at scale. Hyperloglog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog) is used by systems like statd to estimate various statistics.
Both terms are fine, long used and well-established. Free Software and Open Source software have complicated enough meanings that they need a sentence, not a phrase to explain; the phrase is just a label. And any software practitioner who doesn't know what people mean by Free or Open Source software isn't very good.

If I start calling my OS "Windows" people might get upset even though windows predate MS by millennia.
I have those too. They’re called Bookmarks. Some of them are decades old. I don’t leave them in RAM.
PG tweeted about this story. He said that successful startup investing relies on big outliers. Since China 'trims' the big outliers it appears as if there won't be any good investing possibilities in startups there.
Fun fact: the USSR asked to join NATO.
Singapore isn't noticeably more repressive than other countries in South East Asia. All things considered, I'd say it probably leans on the more open side, but these things are hard to judge. If people want to avoid South East Asia altogether because it's systems are too different, they're welcome to. But I don't think it makes sense to expect everyone to write off the entire region.

As for culture, Gibson is dismissive of their music and gets bothered that people in music stores don't recognize the Japanese punk band he likes. Rather than being open to the local music (which I personally have enjoyed), he's bothered that the people he meets aren't following along with the same global cosmopolitan trends he's accustomed to.
Pretty sure you got that backwards. Water is a polar molecule.
A few other suggestions too:

- if you need an app, turn off notifications at least (and move it occasionally to another folder)

- turn on iOS Screen Time so you have that second to re-think if you want to use the app in the first place (pattern interruption)

- turn your phone colors to greyscale - I know it sounds odd but I had it like that for a couple of years or so and it made me reduce phone time, more productive and less stimulated by the phone (even for a good long while after turning it off)
/me glances at my (cluttered) desk

There are apparently 2 kinds of people...
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There are a few stated benefits of Opendoor in their ads that would probably be completely fine if sold to customers in that manner.

1. They claim that their ability to make an all-cash offer on your current house allows you to turn around quicker to make an offer on another home without struggling through a ton of financing issues.

2. They claim that once they've purchased the home, they will assume all responsibility for repairs and cleaning.

3. They claim that in the event that the company sells the home for greater than the estimated value, they will give you the difference.

None of these are bad. But if someone came to you and told you that they'd sell you the home for cash and take a little bit more off the top for inspection / repairs, I think that mortgages are so long that some people would rather do that than deal with all the headaches otherwise.
Another aspect of this that I observed more than once is the fawning reverence that the managerial class and other middlemen seemed to have towards the c-suite.

I remember the excitement surrounding the arrival of new execs, including details about their house and fancy cars.

There seems to be a belief that if you've made it to SVP or better, your talent and intelligence goes without saying.

My interactions with these folks were limited, but without exception, I was far from impressed with any of them.
There are more than enough positions in the military for officers to fail up for decades. They don't usually end up at the highest ranks, but it happens. Often the path upwards is to be hired by a defense contractor, oil company, financial company. Usually it's a reward for getting a specific company a nice contract and the promise of good connections/lobbying.
It's not that they used crypto per se. They also could have used bitcoin, eth, or usdt.
The downsides of a SPA is that using React client-side is more heavy than plan static html files with vanilla JS. It has a cost on the amount of JS to initially download, and executing that JS.

We believe React enables a better UX, and this weight is worth it for multiple reasons (SPA navigation, prefetching, and upcoming things).

You can compare for yourself and see what's best: docusaurus.io (SPA/React) vs v1.docusaurus.io (MPA/vanillaJS)

Note we didn't upgrade to React 18 yet, which will reduce the cost of using React client side, and provide new interesting concurrent features like progressive hydratation. We also want to leverage React Server Components later. We could also explore using Preact.

The web APIs are also constantly evolving, with new page transition APIs and things like that. It's not impossible we move back to a MPA in the (long term) future if it makes sense.
Rust, Swift, Scala – commonly used features in a side-by-side format
I think a large reason for people longing for all those things again, was because many people who were locked down, were locked down in suburbia, which has almost none of those things within walking or even driving distance (under an hour, obviously you can drive further).

But regardless, I think the solution to many issues being talked about here is bette decentralised planning. We need to do away with monolithic cities surrounded by an endlessly increasing suburban sprawl. It requires every household to have at least 1 car, and it means if peool do need to spend time close to home, they suddenly miss out on many things they love or even need.

Many small towns is better than a few huge cities.
Am I able to link to my own markdown docs, or do I only make notes in your closed app?
Visa knew about Pornhub’s child porn, judge says, and now must face trial
Is there some kind of tree view for bookmarks as well? I have hundreds. I put them into relevant folder, and put those folders into more folders. Still, it does feel a little clunky and I'm running out of space at the top of my bookmarks bar.
I like how far the metaphor is taken, and I think these ideas are applicable to those of us who are not in academia but nevertheless have long term projects and research to attend to.
For bonus points, I'm pretty sure that option exists on Firefox for Android
Nice looking app and landing page. Well done on the launch.

I am probably not a buyer of this product, because I don't find switching apps enough of a pain point. Happy to use Gmail and notion ... for now.
I'm proud of myself for reading the article to the end without distraction. I have been news free since the 2020 US election results were broadcast so I agree that a news diet is an immense boost for productivity. Why worry about things you can't really change. If it's important enough, trust me, you'll find out about it. I also use screen time to limit social media apps, but they are truly the crack cocaine of the the 21st century.
The Reformers were/are a group arguing for a particular class of weapons and vehicles in procurement, mostly focusing on relatively low-tech solutions. They’re most famous for their influence in the Fighter Mafia and in the Bradley (see: Pentagon Wars). They’re… controversial.

That one gets capitalized because it’s a proper noun (is that a confusion name? sure).

Luddite strictly should be capitalized as well, but there isn’t any confusion around that one and it isn’t the focus, so I can understand why it wasn’t capitalized. I wouldn’t’ve.
>Similarly, why aren't houses just a thing that costs a bit more than the bricks and labor required to make them?

Because words like "housing" and "houses" in conversational speech hides the fact that it has 2 major components: (1) land and (2) the building structure

The big part of rising housing prices or "scarce housing" or "demand exceeding supply" is really about desirable geographic locations.

Sure, raw materials prices like lumber and copper pipes go up in price too but it's also the rising land value that's contributing to the "return on investment". That's the component price that doesn't work like food commodities. My home is decades old and has outdated technology that today's brand new homes have upgraded but nevertheless, my so-called "house" has tripled in value because a new hospital down the street was built 10 years ago and all the doctors want to live in my neighborhood to have a short 10-minute commute. If someone actually bought my so-called "house", they may bulldoze it and rebuild a new more modern home on it.
Thanks!

It's a bit hacky and will likely change in the future, but you can do so this way: https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/react#importing...
He didn't say who. He said for they/them, the company.
Your statement isn't wrong but can be misconstrued to imply that government housing led to bad outcomes.

I very strongly suggest reading through citations of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit....

tl;dr: "The Projects" were primarily concentrated outside of major economic centers, were left out of public transportation (and other) infrastructure projects. Mix in the government sanctioned racism and segregation of economic groups, "The Projects" in the US were doomed before they even started.
We had to start somewhere, so just picked a number we're comfortable with. Getting pricing right will take some time.
It blows my mind the degree to which

1. C-level execs are given massive compensation, with the justification that a good one is well worth the price.

AND

2. There's no good objective way to measure C-level performance.

That alone should make people deeply suspicious about these compensation packages. On top of that, the best person for a given CXO job often just so happens to be a golfing buddy and/or have outside business dealings with half the board.

I'm not surprised by ambitous execs grabbing what they can, it's what they do after all, but I am pretty disturbed by how many people outside of those elite cliques will carry water for them and pretend like the C-level hiring market is some sort of efficient meritocracy.
Multiplayer Parkour in the Browser
Built in Voxelize: https://github.com/voxelize/voxelize
Serverless seems to work well for basic web apps, anything more than that and things get complicated
It’s always weird to hear someone describe migraines! I’ve had the exact same experience. At first it’s a weird feeling that I “missed” something, then I have trouble reading, then that sort of bad -ML-object-removal spot shows up with sparkly prism patterns around it. It grows until it’s half of my vision, and by the point I’m normally keeled over in pain if I didn’t take any triptans through that process.

When I was younger and had no idea what triggered them, I’d also get pretty bad aphasia and be almost unable to form sentences. It’s really a full-brain experience.

I can totally suggest going to a neurologist. Triptans (either as an autoinjector, or a tablet that dissolves under your tongue) have made a massive impact on my life. They’ve never stopped pain 100%, but I’ve come out of that aura long enough to get home.