skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some cool things they are "trying" but I imagine that the number one goal is to arm everyone with this new information and keep it front and center. Many rely on in field devices (android phones etc.) with platforms like ATAK. The primary goal is as you said, getting that kind of information out front and without having to stop and interact with a device.

Another use case is in field combatant/user identification without having to have a hand held device.

https://www.civtak.org/atak-about/
No, it's not obvious to most people.
My favorite one being jsfuck since it works in-browser already.
I was recently able to get into microcontrollers for the first time on a work project (paid to learn something interesting!), and definitely agree. Getting to the pulsewidth-level of different protocols and learning whole new ways to debug has been really fun.
> It's also less jarring for the user,

Jarring for the user? Are your users cavemen with severe PTSD? Loading a web page is not a "jarring" experience for anyone. Was the first load of your page "jarring"? Was loading a new page "jarring"?

This idea that users are hyper delicate flowers is ludicrous. Having a page stuck with a bunch of gray gradient placeholder elements while JavaScript loads and does whatever is far more jarring than a page that just loads.

Edit: autocorrect can get bent
It is normal, at least in my world.

I don't find the term "performance" useful outside of a specific context. The main reason we don't use swap is predictability.

We know how much memory a particular VM should be using. If it exceeds that, failing quickly rather than changing behavior (slowing down) is far preferable, and then you correct whatever the problem is.

All the testing we've done with swap has shown it to have negative in server environments. I see it as useful for client machines, and maybe a bandaid to get by with underpowered systems if you have to for some reason. But that shouldn't happen in prod, especially if you're a public cloud user, as most folks here seem to be.
- show the location of friendly troops

- show the location of ROE protected sites (no shooting zones)

- show instructions from your remote operator, a helpful contractor in DC who tells the human components what to do
What exactly does Google still track from incognito tabs?

I searched around, but Google's explanation isn't transparent and the stackexchange post didn't reveal anything of consequence.
1) Cryptography done right - instead of blindly reading & using algorithms, figure out how people got there. Requires some math background, progress is very slow, but the reward is many "ahaaa!" moments.

2) Trying/inspecting all sorts of Lisps out there. There are so many crazy ideas tried and implemented over the last 40-50 years that IMHO, any new modern language feature probably already exists in some form in some Lisp compiler or interpreter.
They made the payment through a lobbyist if I read this right.

In any case, lobbyists are paid to talk at people, not bribe them.
People are trashing you but making pages load correctly and quickly is easily part of SEO and very important.
Sure self-interest trump's all.
That's goes with my point.
France will not die for Ukraine.
Yep, people would cry if they realized how much the helmets those pilots have cost. Plus those have to be specifically fitted, these are definitely aimed at being a grab from the shelf kind of kit.
I think it’s the latter. Like, people (perhaps justifiable for non-technical users) expect it to do the impossible, like hide your IP address from sites you visit, or DNS queries from your DNS provider. And not even just from them, but from everyone, so you’re (impossibly) using the web like a ghost and leaving no trace.
What's the difference between chrome's and Firefox's incognito?
These books are awesome - the perfect bait to get kids interested in math topics.

We have all three on the shelf; kids first are drawn to the cute stick-figure comics, and read around a bit while they're there - the result is learning interesting bits and pieces about math.

Highly recommended! In particular the third book about mathematical games is a delight.
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Ubuntu’s primary benefit over Other distributions is that the strict release cycle allows for efficient planning of upgrade cycles. Pretty much anything specific to the local workloads I wouldn’t use the distro packages for anyway, so the distro doesn’t matter so much.
Apple Nears M2 iPad Pro Launch and Plans Google Tablet-Like Home Hub
Writing rollback netcode for games. It's difficult, and often frustrating, when you're in the thick of it, but when you get things working it's incredibly satisfying.
Another Vice click-bait "America is bad for (x) reason" article.

FYI - Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity.
I expect he meant Fckgw-

But good showing nonetheless.
There may be nothing to stop him. But I don’t think that is a valid argument against attempting de-escalation for this conflict.
The vision but seems plainly wrong to me, many (and I’d posit most) musicians who have been playing their instruments for years can play with their eyes closed. Definitely would test proprioception though!
> the life of people making money from tourists is similar everywhere

I think, what I am getting at, is that this sentiment equally applies to every industry. You will find similarities if you compare any two tourist areas. You'll also find similarities between cities with healthy financial services sectors, or towns with small fishing industries, or towns where light (or heavy) industry is the main source of employment.

Tourism is just a way of making money, just like any other. It's normal and expected to get bored of tourist areas (because they are often the areas you go to most) - but the fact that you (or I) are bored of them does not make them worse than any other area.

If this article's pitch was "I got bored of tourist areas so here's how to travel in other places" I would be into it. Instead it is suggesting that tourist areas are somehow lesser than where people are living "real" lives, which is pretty off-putting and, as I said above, strongly clashes with my own travel experience.
Google does not collect any information through Chrome though in incognito mode. Google can see your activity if you visit Google in an incognito window, but any web site can.
AWS was a pain for me (just try to create a Kubernetes cluster and using it on AWS vs GCP), so GCP. GitLab as opposed to GitHub (cleaner, cohesive, integrated).
Since last year I've been using Pixi.js (https://pixijs.com/) to create an app that puts video meetings into a 2d virtual space (https://flat.social). While learning how to build it, I got really (possibly a bit more than necessary) into optimising graphics performance to make sure it runs smoothly even for users who access it on potato laptops.

This includes pretty much every aspect of the rendering process - how often are elements updated, textures, masking, interpolation, fonts and making sure that nothing renders more often than it should. It's a challenging but pleasant process as the result of experimentation is usually easy to measure (FPS + memory usage).

PS. If you're into it as well - try Safari's web inspector for measuring performance and investigating which frames were dropped. I found it much easier to use for debugging than Chrome.
Oh god, not another Bloomberg killer / competitor. Yawn.

Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You don't have to like the work other people post but you can't be a jerk about it.
Looks great.
What is the use case?
The thing is, FF/Moz have a lot of telemetry which is on by default, and most of the toggles are hidden away and can only be disabled by digging through about:config.

I encourage you to see for yourself how much there is, visit about:config and filter for "telemetry" and then "beacon".
It's a lot.

They track things like every time you close and open the browser, check for an update, and lots more. I took an hour to through and disable it all on each of my machines.
Patterns (YC S21) enables devs to build data apps quickly and is hiring in SF
The disorientation is crazy on those, I still remember my first time we had to use them driving. I'm pretty sure everyone puked within the hour.
I see a lot on this lately. Why is that? Just hobby or there is positive economical return?
Well, yeah?

It's obvious that "incognito" only disables cookies and other persistent storage content.

To think this anaoymizes your connection is laughable. But for normies I guess that's the problem
Yeah, software rendering engines were works of art.
The objections to JS on security grounds are not about tracking. Browsers doing JIT are not as isolated as you may wish them to be.
Trying to make a program that a 93 year old grandmother could extend herself.
> Isn't this basically asking every application to independently reimplement their own swap-style functionality?

No, it's asking for applications not to allocate a bunch of space they don't need in the first place.
For videogame development, firebase is godsend.
Just an absolute easy way to add features into mobile games.

Core competencies of most game devs aren't web stacks.
I can see how web devs might feel differently.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight.2
More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity.2
About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity.2

About 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (16.1%) are overweight.3
Almost 1 in 5 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (19.3%) have obesity.3
About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity.3
Yes the article quotes Musk’s claim that this has cost SpaceX $80 million. Many outsiders think that number is complete bullshit. Unless SpaceX plans on releasing its internal accounting, it might just come down to whether you consider Musk trustworthy.

I personally find it a bit odd that Musk would suddenly publicly make these demands instead of just having SpaceX call their contacts in the DOD. I presume it makes the DOD question future involvement with companies controlled by Musk.
The RTDB APIs have remained stable and available since ~2012. Storage has existed in the same way since ~2016. Do you have some specific examples of build APIs changing on you in ways that break your applications?
I've been playing with Pocketbase which uses SQLite:

https://pocketbase.io/
>> What happens when you donate your body to science

You get told "Sorry you're too fat", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33216253
Why attempt it again when it failed every other time and always led to new violence and suffering?
Do you expect your spare-time programming projects to fall in a specific salary range?
I wouldn't express it in such drastic words, but it should be obvious that there is a selection bias which leaves out people to even start a job at Google for pure ethical reasons, even though they would rock the interview. To make the statement true ("geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside.") the average Google geek would need to be significantly more critical (internally) than the average outsider among the population that does not rule out a Google job for ethical reasons. That's hard to believe.
> you outsmart it every time you use a condom

Not really. All you're doing is moving the needle a tiny bit so that in the next generation there will be fewer people inclined to use condoms.

> if Darwinism leads to such an apparently contradictory behavior

What contradictory behavior are you referring to? The ability to suspend disbelief is useful to survival in all kinds of situations, especially in our ancestral environment. Where is the contradiction?
what I find impressive is how the employees are critical and the company stays on course. the criticism from its employees somehow neutered/ignored.

I suppose a corporation is not a democracy but a private entity, so then, what are the employees? free citizens? who has more power the government -- which was supposed to guarantee that the citizen's voices would be heard, or the company?

how different is google from the usa government really?
The Playlist: Fictionalized Netflix series about the early days of Spotify
If it’s seemingly as easy as reading a wiki and configuring a few things I’m curious why it doesn’t just work by default. Does it just not get enough dev love?
this is actually XP sp2 so yeah
Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

P2P protocols, networking in general
The idea is that Windows 7 was the last release without network-sniffing, privacy-intruding malware (at least, as it came stock from Microsoft, which it did not when preinstalled on a typical PC).
First batch of brains in vats let's gooo
Swap is a performance optimization, so why would you remove it if you care about performance? Contrary to popular belief, swap isn't a way to get extra memory for free: it won't help you if your workload size is bigger than your physical memory capacity and that is not what it is meant to be used for.
heating uses the vast majority of domestic (and dare I say often industrial) energy consumption. so it matters, even if it's not for electric generation. A lot of rooftop solar systems go direct to water heating, being more efficient than rouoting that through electrics. (ideally, you want both)
>because there are huge gains to putting EVERYTHING electronic for a soldier in one headset.

I'm a little skeptical of these gains.

I was an infantry platoon leader in OEF, and I'm really not seeing the value of putting the entire operating picture into an AR headset for every joe on the line. Maybe certain guys in certain roles could use it, but overloading your field of vision will all that information sounds like a terrible idea because of the cognitive load. Maybe you're saying that this could replace a number of existing devices, which ... maybe! The Swiss army knife analogy is probably apt. I just don't think this is useful for everyone.
I guess I’ve forgotten how to argue online, because obviously I’m not making my meaning clear. Agree to disagree and/or just to drop it?

Sorry about what happened in your country. I think democracy is pretty great and regret that the threats to it are unceasing.
> Unmoderated (or minimally moderated) forums inevitably stabilize to the lowest common denominator participants.

Self-/unmoderated ideals always reminds me of this:

> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

* https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
Clearly the government doesn't have any -- it's just a matter of what's on a list.

Sure we can say that the more a substance is addictive, the more we want to put it into the category of "drug"; the more it impairs someone, the more it fits in our vague sense of what "drug" means. The author isn't saying "look, no necessary or sufficient condition exists, therefore checkmate".

Also, I hope you agree that the word "definition" means something akin to "a statement of the exact meaning of a word" - and the more vague a thing's category, the less we have a definition of it.
Also could see it for mobile devs trying to get an idea going.
Just get them to write down their results somewhere. Enough anecdotes might turn into anecdata.
That's fair enough. I struggle with what to call them. I have been broadly "on the left" my entire life and I don't want to cede the terms "on the left" or "progressive" to these folks.
I’m really glad to hear this. Building hardware for the real world amplified the power of software incredibly.

PS…we’re hiring firmware engineers to bring hardware to life.
Thank you, here's more information about Mexico's obesity problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico
Sure. This is mainly protection against being asked for my phone at airport security or immigration. If a state actor really wants to fuck with me there is probably very little I can do about it.
That's what parameterised queries are for. SQL injection isn't hard to avoid.
Yeah I can't honestly say that internal criticism altered much. Maybe just slowed it down at times. Or forced management into a deeper level of secrecy. Like, I'm sure some arm of Google is still doing all sorts of work in defense, just without most of its staff knowing. Despite the big uproar some years ago.
oh of course it's a "platform" and the headsets are but one part of it

One use case I can talk about that i've seen tested is nano drones and live data feeds from them. That would be valuable in varying types of combat situation. Additionally, i'm not sure what your relationship to "boots on the ground" is but many of infantry / frontlines are armed with electronic devices that fill all the same goals, this is just a means to put them in the field of vision and provide easier access.

It's going to take time and a "killer" no pun intended, app for them to be eat'n up by the average joe though.
> congressional inquiry

The only result of this would be millions more dollars "investigating" version 1, led by the bureaucrats who made the decision to build a v.2, including paying an army of consultants to find every possible flaw and non-compliant feature, in order to justify their decisions. The horns will really come out then... v.1 did not achieve 100% accessibility according to OSHA, cookies had the potential to leak data, the JS packages underneath were not vetted and compliant, no guard against denial-of-service, the list of possibilities is endless... point being, when you force gov't officials to find a flaw in something because their job is being questioned, they essentially have unlimited resources to find that flaw and justify their own existence.
It's obviously click-bait, yes. But they were pretty restrained, for Vice, on the "America is bad" angle, and they kept to the numbers. I'm tired of the tenor of "Look at the stupid Americans!" in the general run of click-bait articles too, but this was better than I expected.
You would be surprise to know the reality, and people are happily living in Qatar, gay or not gay. I wouldn't worry about it.
Oh, generally speaking, I think they're a better generation than mine (I mean, I'm black, they're WAY more tolerant. So called "wokeness" is mostly a good thing). Kinder, more compassionate, etc.

But they "party" less? And it could absolutely be the case that they're content at home with videogames over Discord. I suppose there's something special about my 20's that -- hey, maybe they don't feel like they're missing anything at all -- but e.g. "incel" and "incel-adjacent" feels like it could be something that could be improved.
Do you not have a limit?

Let's say a tyrannical dictator wants to brutally oppress millions of people and threatens that if you try to stop him, he'll shell Seoul and may throw a few nukes too. Not many nukes, just a few. Do you run in guns blazing to throw him out of power? For the past several decades, the US has seen fit to leave the Kim family in power because the alternatives have all been judged worse for a variety of reasons.

So of course there are limits, but where are the limits? That's the meat of the matter, and there is no one objectively correct answer. Where those limits are is a political matter, and can be debated endlessly.

(FWIW, I hope the US government continues to support Ukraine in their war against the invading russians. But I'm not going off on people who suggest there is a limit; obviously there is a limit. The Biden administration certainly perceives such limits, otherwise why isn't the full force of the US Military in Ukraine right now fighting alongside Ukrainians? Because there are limits and the Biden administration is realistic enough to recognize that.)
“act recklessly”? So what’s fraught about that?
Learning random tools in devops
Of course it will seem the same if you gloss over all the details that make life different! Those activities are shaped by the culture of those countries and are not the same.

“Going to a bar” in the US and Korea are completely different experiences because the culture is different. Same deal as “going to a cafe”.

And of course it’s a different experience doing those in a megalopolis versus a tiny village.
Hulu's Reboot Channels Our Nostalgia for Family Sitcoms
They are the same, there is also some functionality for managing firebase auth users in the gcp console.
Upon reading the first few pages and seeing the pictures I realized that all Tetris pieces are made of shapes with 4 adjacent cells. Additionally, all permutations of 4-cell shapes are represented in Tetris. It also clicked that the prefix is similar to tetra.

I suspect many other folks realized this already but it was a charming lightbulb moment for myself.
Decoding speech from non-invasive brain recordings
I was once added to a team to help improving their code base. At the end of the project they made an overview how many lines each of the team members added to the code base. Mine was negative. :)
If I can’t kill the cancer today without killing the entire patient, but can control the cancer’s harm to a degree, I would much rather the patient stay alive and sick until one day we can eradicate the cancer without killing the patient.
Yes to all. Only vaccine requirements were all stuff I’d had many years ago, and none of those were developed in the previous 18 months.

Though this is all somewhat irrelevant; the government didn’t mandate vaccines in most contexts. Coercion, yes, but not proper mandates. I’m thinking more of having my favorite businesses shut down, arbitrary restrictions that don’t make sense, government bodies ignoring clear law, etc. And I’m in a free state, compared to most others!
I've seen this at startups. Management starts off informal, and promotes people that have good visibility. In the early stage, these are people that quickly churn through feature lists and deliver solid code.

Later, drunk on its own success, management continues to promote based on visibility. In a mid sized company, the most visible engineers are the ones that manage to ship broken code, then respond to nail-biter business continuity ending pages at 2AM.

At this point, the engineers that built the product and keep the lights on vest out, are passed over for promotion, and then leave.

In the next phase, the company's product stops delivering on its core competency, but hopefully it has monopoly leverage, so whatever.

Finally, the big company has a come to Jesus moment, and tries to course correct. This step is fraught with peril. It rarely works, and instead usually leads to a revolving door of process-fiddling / agile-promoting execs. This happens because execs that could solve the problem necessarily realize the root issue is middle and upper management; organizational antibodies pick up on this and isolate such threats to the staus quo.

The only execs that succeed at this point are the ones that somehow delegate 100% to low level managers and ICs while giving their peers the impression they are micromanaging and making massive organizational realignments or something.
Experts discuss future surplus power storage technologies
Uh-oh, somebody read the article!

Thanks for the heads-up.
Which is exactly the situation you never, ever want a server in. So it’s actually worse than a “crash”

Me and my team removed swap on tens of thousands of machines cause we were sick of dealing with this. We wanted the machines to fail hard and fast and not go into a state where it’s doing only a minuscule amount of actual work while trying to recover.