skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I’m belligerent for disagreeing with you, then clearly you are also belligerent for disagreeing with me

Let's get this out of the way, I wasn't suggesting you're belligerent for disagreeing with me, there's plenty of belligerence from you in this thread long before I commented.

> English is not my first language and it sometimes my point does not shine through the way I would like.

As an immigrant who struggles with the local language where I am, I sympathise, I genuinely do. Still, I'd be amazed if I could reach the level you have. Shall we resume disagreeing now?

> I think people who saw a way to make money by catering to that demographic are not practicing the “free speech paradise” that they preach

I'm not sure who censored you now, I've heard talk of community moderators on Gab, was it them? It was not white supremacists that censored you but they're catering to white supremacists? Wouldn't that just cater to conservatives? It's strange because research (from Pew) shows that those on the American left, at least, are less likely to tolerate opposing viewpoints on social media[1].

You also seem to conflate banning with censoring, which it can, but to go straight to a ban seems strange to me - does Gab ban people straight away for left wing comments? I'm almost tempted to post one there and see what happens.

This Forbes article[2] mentions Parler (which is also being accused of catering to white supremacists elsewhere on this page):

> One reason that conservatives may feel at home is because the service has been quick to ban those who joined just to "troll" or otherwise harass those with right-leaning views.

At the moment, regardless of language skill, that would appear to explain your anecdote very well.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2014/10/21/political-...

[2] One reason that conservatives may feel at home is because the service has been quick to ban those who joined just to "troll" or otherwise harass those with right-leaning views.

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Didn't know it was invented by a Syrian pilot in a MiG-21 of all things!

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-unknown-story-of-the-syr...
What worries me more - now that I think about it - is the fact that millions of people don't know about millions of other people on the internet, but that a handful of big tech companies do 'know' about it. They might not care and not act upon it, but they have that data in their db.
Well, young early 20s people also express the same sentiment all the time, so I don't doubt him...
For many people it is not "the off chance". You may commute fixed < 40 miles during weekdays but then you are driving off to >100miles every other weekend or may be even weekends. People living in cities and may be one with families doesn't do this regularly but there is ~20% of population in my guestimate can't live with 40 miles EV range.
30-50ms is ISDN territory. You either have absolutely lousy Wi-Fi (like a soft AP running on ancient hardware) or you’re confusing latency with jitter driven by signal interference and retries (which is also lousy Wi-Fi).
That says (some) implementations had macros from the beginning, though those macros were much different than what was eventually standardized in (I think) r5rs. I guess I can believe that. I don't know when Guile got macros.

Philip Wadler's paper discussed and linked from here is also interesting: https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/1055/why-calculating-is...
It makes a difference if you make it available to the average joe with limited technical understanding or not.

You can't change the NSA, but you can resuce the amount of abuse.

It's the same with guns, USA vs Europe for example.
Gotcha, thanks. Do the linux instructions work on any WSL distro?
"As a CEO of Linux Foundation, I too deserve a competitive compensation package, like the CEO of Mozilla Foundation."
In a universe where you're taking something that Michael has written and correcting his English grammar and formatting without being asked to do so. Some people may find that offensive, so it makes perfect sense to me to issue a statement of intent and to pre-apologize, just in case their attempt to help may have offended Michael (which, thankfully, it didn't).

By the way, good on you Michael and best of luck in the future.
I'm using Firefox that blocks ads on Android (with uBO)
It's difficult not to get cynical about such articles when cancer breakthroughs seem to emerge every other week. Quick Google search reveals that age-corrected cancer death rates have reduced 15% from 1990s. (https://ourworldindata.org/cancer) Given the number of supposed breakthroughs between then & now, and the general advancements in medical technology (incl. imaging), that's not a lot.

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> If you're an artist or a musician or a developer or, well anything really, what does it mean to be able to go online and are hundreds, thousands, millions of people who are far better at a thing than you are?

No different than when a child enters high school and finds that the Varsity baseball team (or soccer team or whatever) is on a league above-and-beyond their abilities. You either get better to join the level of the competition, or you drop out.

It happens again in the highschool -> college transition.

Learning your place in the world is part of growing up. Any kid growing up thinking they're hot stuff because of their performance in grade school gets a rude wakeup call in high school and/or college.

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As a Kid, I thought I was pretty good at chess. Turns out my adult skill in chess is roughly class D and I peaked at 1500 Elo (and as an adult, I'm way better at chess than I used to be).

As a kid, I also thought I was good at Starcraft: Brood War. I even played the Blizzard ladder pretty decently. But when I sought the competitive community, I barely made rank D- on Teamliquid.

I always was reasonably humble about my abilities with regards to sports, but I have plenty of friends who got a rude awakening that their skills weren't varsity level. I fortunately was in less ego-driven sports, such as Track and Field, where the teams are always accepting of you regardless of your abilities. A runner who can do 5-minute miles would rather run with a teammate for good discussion / less boredom, even if those teammates are 1 to 2-minutes slower. And we all can have fun with discus or shot-put even if I'm much weaker than everyone else.

Meanwhile, a lot of grade-school baseball pitchers or point-guards couldn't make the high school team. Going from "best in grade school" to "not even on the team" in high school really was quite a shock for them...

Its better to learn your place in the world sooner, rather than later. Getting blasted with the right amount of humility is more important for proper psychological development than thinking you're the best at the world at (insert sport / activity / skill here) and just being completely delusional until adulthood.

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As we grow up and specialize into various subjects, the opposite happens. Lets say... GPU programming. I've probably spent more time searching for the community (be it online, or in person) to find people who can even discuss the subject with me because its so specialized.

Its because the number of GPU-programmers is much smaller than say, the number of people who try to get good at running a mile, play baseball, or play chess. (And most people who do get into the subject just use Python Tensorflow, rather than discussing the lower level programming details).

It is here where the internet shines. You really need a network that connects to the "entire world" just to find other people who can talk to you about this subject.
Ah, yes, I see. Well, it won't for the reasons I stated here. I'll modify my reply to clearly state that I'm talking about Manifest v3 becoming the norm, not any fork of Blink.
You don't need amazing internet. I played Stadia (and other game streaming services) in 8+ different places across Europe.

OTOH, what really kills the experience IME is the jitter. Even if you have decent latency with Wifi, a brief spike in latency can ruin the race that you've been competing in for the last 5 minutes, for example. Wired internet obviates this, and powerline adapters are cheap and fix this for good.
The answer is often the first because the latter don't have it out for you.
If you can't tell the difference between decisions made by a poor engineer or decisions made by a good engineer, then it's very possible you're a poor engineer.

I shit you not I once saw the following in an actual codebase.

var len = Int32.Parse(myString.Length.ToString());

I can maybe understand that code evolving to that over time, no way in hell is it a good engineer who put the final adjustment in and thought that was fine. Don't even get me started on systems that are overly stringly typed.

What the other poster said is absolutely true, a good design can turn bad if it doesn't adjust as the business changes. Too many developers think the point is that the initial design should survive first contact or it was bad code, but that thinking is too static. As Mike Tyson likes to say, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. There's nothing wrong with evolving a design over time, and doing so helps others to be able to recognize good code from bad code.
Nothing dystopian at all about unmarked vans picking protestors off the streets.
Use a D&D character name generator
> Then they wiped out an extension ecosystem that had been growing for more than a decade with the justification that they needed to get rid of technical debt.

Do you have any proof that wasn't the case? From what I saw, XUL was invented to define UIs in XML but over time HTML became better than it for defining UIs.

And the great freedom XUL allowed made some optimizations impossible.
There was a natural nuclear reactor in Gabon. But that was 2 billion years ago. It ran for long enough that a microbe evolved to harvest the radiation to use in place of regular chemical energy sources.

Which still exists.
> "Privacy is dead, get over it."

I am NOT getting over it.
You also have a whole lot more polyglot codebases now. So it's not just one language, it's all of them. As a web developer, you'll likely be working with PHP, Javascript, and Python, sometimes Ruby and Go for some things, along with a number of specialized config languages for things like docker, nginx, etc. And of course they each have their own package managers, dependencies, etc. If you thought _one_ language was getting complicated, just wait until you see a system that uses a half dozen of them.
Well if you dig deep into devtools, it's not less than a rocket ship
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, as neither the post nor my comment implied one way or the other?
Everything is changing a lot faster. You must put a lot of effort to catch up with trends in different domains or be lazy and specialize in only one without certainty that you (your knowledge) will not be useless in a few years.

Fast growing businesses that require more workforce than market can provide. This result in more inexperienced developers writing code and frustration of the experienced developers (if they have to work with the former ones).

Too much of dubious quality blog posts (we now have too much information we need to verify with opposite to having too little information that was hard to find years ago).
They mean that when they open a new tab it should immediately load a certain web page.
For an equally crazy fandom see Minecraft stans.
O’Keefe Lake Provincial Park: The Park That Never Was (2020)
Bundling libsodium in the standard library doesn't really seem to be a mark for or against PHP.
And it's a no brainer from that point onwards. No need of being stuck at CNG pumps, no clutch, fully smooth automatic. Adoption is gonna happen fast.
Nothing we've discovered in the last 50 years seemed impossible from the perspective of the past. They did seem much farther away, and some had just not been thought of, but no one in the 1970s would be completely incredulous at anything that exists today.

Instead, many things that seemed possible 50-150 years ago have turned out in the meantime to be impossible - speeds faster than c (before Maxwell's equations and SR), arbitrary precision measurements (before Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), uniquely determining the future state of a system based on a previous state (before wave functions), arbitrary amounts of matter and energy (before quantization of these and other properties) etc.

The history of physics is usually one of discovering new constraints, not one of discovering new possibilities. Before physics, we used to believe in unconstrained magic. Not only have we always believed we can reach the stars, we used to believe we could do it by finding the right magical formula or praying hard enough.

Of course there are some exceptions - electricity and quantum computing come to mind.
Thanks. English is not my native language so I am thankful for editing my post.
Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells
My job title is [software] engineer, but I will proudly refer to myself as a programmer. I program computers. It is my perspective that engineering is formal training and application thereof, while programming is a more fluid and artful craft, wherein engineering principles are discovered and applied naturally.
The key words in your comment are 3 cars (plural) and 15 years. 15 years is a typical lifespan for one car. And the thing most commonly limiting that lifetime is the engine breaking, totaling the car. My guess is that this will be happening later with a PHEV because you use the engine less. On the other hand the battery will break down faster than in an pure BEV because less battery capacity means also more cycles, which is the thing that will break them down.
Hi!

Is there a good training ground, like a simulation, for playing around with this stuff?
What Working at Stripe Has Been Like (2020)
How safe is it to use those stock photos? How sure can one be that stable diffusion does not create any copyrighted work? Is the training data all freely licenced or is there a mechanism that does not recreate the training data, otherwise I could see remaining risks.
There is a difference between public and publicized information.
> There was too much internet for any person to keep up in 1993 before most of the world was on the internet.

There were a couple of hundreds webpages in 1993.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_bef...

Guessing 90% were "Hello world personal pet fansites", you had to know about 60 pages to know them all.
Or maybe most Firefox users disable trackers and thus don't show up on Google Analytics
Leadership is something you are, you can learn tricks to improve it and train yourself to be better but at the end of the day not everybody is born a leader.

Being senior is also about breadth and not just depth, and this is something else that not everyone posses.
The chart (currently; it might have been updated) does show both reported GDP and light-at-night inferred GDP for "free" economies. The article doesn't say explicitly, but we must assume they're using a linear mapping between the two, since there are minor discrepancies in the "free" economies (as one expects with necessarily noisy data).
Or it's also possible some grad students with a null hypothesis result are hyping their own startup idea - they have a patent on making better steel for such high toughness applications. Surely that's a technology that would have wide impact on a large number of industries, they probably chose razors as a low mass, high value MVP and hope to scale up.
Charging infrastructure is the main blocker for adoption. Instead of giving tax credits for EV, government should fund the charging infrastructure. There are 168k gas stations in US. The number of EV charging outlets is 128k. Unfortunately most charging stations can take way too long and "effective density" is pretty bad. There is a huge business opportunity to provide EV charging for, say 50% of gas price. Once such business takes foot hold, others would follow.
It's really interesting how good some of the results are, but the styles seem to be completely mixed up.
Just looking up Claude Monet, and there isn't anything impressionist. Leonardo da Vinci, on the other hand, give results that rather look like British impressionist paintings.

I've seen paintings in the style of Donato Giancola that really looked like his style, but in the examples of this site none of the result do. Maybe there needs to be some adjustments to the prompts?
Lucky. All I am seeing in the market lately is offers 50% down from my previous ones because "the economy".
This seems to be the incident, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_...
Yes, Hans Blix, the UN inspector who visited the supposed labs well before the invasion, openly reported it was all bullshit. Even the New York Times, which was a huge invasion booster, ran that story. On page 18.

Never forget, Thomas Friedman was the most rabid invasion advocate at the NYT.

Never doubt that all of these people, and Colin Powell, knew all about Hans Blix's reports.
I never listen to lyrics. Even when I've heard a song hundreds of time I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is about.

For me, the vocals are just another instrument and it doesn't matter what the lyrics are or what language they are in.
This made my day. Thanks dude, you're amazing and very inspiring.
Sorry for the confusion, we actually interviewed the founder.
They are not that amazing. At least those that are being most commonly used now, Shahed-136 "rebranded" as Geran-2 in Russia. They are rather slow and very noisy . Ukraine claims that 29 of them were shot down while 12 hit their targets. They had a benefit of surprise when they started being used, but not any longer.

BTW, people in Ukraine call those Shaheds "mopeds" because of their engine sound.
Different thing.

They are asking to set [some URL] as the homepage, that is, the equivalent of this setting -available on desktop Fx- https://imgur.com/a/flHTSNe

This makes it so that when you open Firefox initially or when you open a new tab, it loads the chosen URL instead of loading the about:newtab (the page where the shortcuts you mention can be found).

This setting was available in some -old, Fennec- versions but not currently.
I second your recommendation, it is a great book for small business founders.
I don't think rushing to release Hurd out by an arbitrary deadline like 2072 will be in anyone's interest.
What if we don't want to travel faster than light, just warp space around us

(Sorry, I finished the third book of the Three Body Problem series literally an hour ago, and, well, curvature propulsion [1])

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/threebodyproblem/comments/6lj9df/ca...
I feel like you are putting words in their mouth. They didn't imply anything of this sort. It's a false dichotomy of racist vs ""anti-racist""
> With Manifest V2, it was possible to inject a "Referrer" HTTP header if necessary. With Manifest V3, it's no longer possible.

Not entirely sure of how this is true. A recent V3 extension I've built is able to inject both the "Referer" and "Origin" headers using a declarative net request ruleset:

1. manifest.json (referencing the rules.json file): https://github.com/dedoussis/icloud-hide-my-email-chrome-ext...

2. rules.json: https://github.com/dedoussis/icloud-hide-my-email-chrome-ext...

3. Relevant docs: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...
I don't think this is entirely new. One thing that confuses people is that social media (ie twitter) is all shared, so if a scandal happens anywhere you see it.

So 20+ years ago I wouldn't be getting bombarded by scandals surrounding "Lizzo and a flute" and "Liz and a mini-budget" at the same time. If I lived in the US I'd get one and in the UK another.

The Try Guys would have a TV show that was very niche or a morning breakfast show in Chicago. The scandal would be all over the local media and barely covered elsewhere.
>Nope. The lyrics are the song. Music with nothing but lyrics sung to a melody is still a song. Music without lyrics is not a song.

You're pedantically correct according to the original definition of the word "song".

But in modern usage, the word is used interchangeably with "instrumental" and "track".

It's used to refer to everything as a whole, whether or not there are lyrics.

Lyricless music is not as popular today as it was during the peak of EDM, but instrumental tracks were/are still referred to as "songs", even though they technically did not contain a song, since there were no lyrics.
>let an entrepreneurial company like Space X decide how best deploy the money at this time.

And if you bail them out, what motivation do they have to behave like an entrepreneurial company?
Congratulations Michael, your story is truly inspiring! What impact do you foresee the coming financial recession is going to have on your product, or indeed on any dependent functions (e.g., meetups, subscriptions, etc.)?
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/a-video-featuring-the-destruction-...
Sure, let's talk about FF Android removing extension support and only adding it back in a very limited way.
i concur. bring out your pitckforks, i am sharpening mine
There's robotics simulators like Gazebo you could try.
I didn't get stackblitz to work. Or is it perhaps my myriad of extensions preventing it to work?
Looking at the 2021 sales figures, this seems false. While one might argue that Uma Musume, Tensura and Love Live count, the other top-10 grossing franchises of last year are Haikyuu, My Hero Academia, Shingeki no Kyojin, One Piece, Tokyo Revengers, Jujutsu Kaisen and Kimetsu no Yaeba. From this, what anime mostly targets is pretty obvious: School aged boys who read Shounen Jump.
I'm not sure what you did, but now the name you select do not match with the style of the painting :)
Well they're right. Most code written in C is horribly unsafe. Most code written in Rust is very safe. No code is guaranteed to be 100% safe - not even formally verified code.

There's a clear safety spectrum, with C near the bottom and Rust near the top. It's tedious for people to keep saying "well it's not right at the top so we should just keep using C".

I'm sure pro-seatbelt people were called "zealots" back in the day too.
> But when using a JWT, my server actually does not need ANY db access.

You don't need any db access with signed cookies either. Just stash your data in a signed cookie and you're done. Should you need more than 4k for session data, maybe it's time to rethink about what should be stored in the session and what should be stored in the db.
I also dislike that style, I appreciate it looks nicer, but I definitely find it harder to process/read. That example isn't that bad, because all the variable names are pretty close to the same length.

But once you start mixing reallyLongVariableNamesLikeThisOne and shortOnes, the distance between the short variable name and the value is long enough that there's a chance I'll look at the wrong value or something.

I'm glad that automated formatters/linters pretty much all remove/complain about that stuff now days.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing your story.
Cloning Cobra, a Romanian Computer That Cloned the Spectrum 48K
You can actually conveniently count to 12 with one hand. Use the tip of the finger, the first and second finger joints * 4 fingers = 12. Then use the thumb as the pointer to keep track.

A base-12 number system would be advantageous because 12 is a "superior highly composite number". However, needless to say, despite the number theoretical advantages changing from our current base-10 system is essentially impossible.
Can't get natural gas from your distributor? Burn wood or put on a blanket.

Yes, economic substitutes exist for almost all human needs except perhaps air and water, not really pertinent to this debate.
Is this useful and relevant in the age of 5th generation airplanes and current weapon (e.g. missile) technology ? My intuition tells me not