skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have said this before, but I will repeat again:

The entire internet discourse is filled with "Chrome evil, use Firefox". Go to any browser discussion on the internet and 99% of the thread is "just use Firefox or Firefox is the best". You would think that everyone uses Firefox.
The internet is a bubble. Reality is Firefox usage is pathetic. 32 MILLION people have STOPPED using Firefox in the past 4 years. The browser only has a 3.16% market share.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Chrome is a good browser. Can be considered objectively better than Firefox given its superior performance, equivalent if not slightly better resource usage, web compatibility and integration with the Google ecosystem (which the vast majority of internet population use (excluding niche tech circles)).

I have no vendetta against Firefox. At the end of the day, it is just a browser and that is a personal preference. But people act like it is some sort of saviour that will bring them to the light. There is such an aggressive tribal mentality with browsers. It makes no sense as all browsers look the same, feel the same and have the same functionality. Just a matter of preference given your needs, and for 70% of the population, Chromium delivers.
The Gmail app ate multiple gigs of ram and repeatedly crashed on my prior two Android phones. Disabling it and using an alternate mail client works much better.
Not understanding is an act of willful ignorance.
Would this mean that fs event based antivirus scanners could be side-stepped by writing a payload to a file and then never closing the handler?
Japan's constitution prohibits a traditional military as a result of surrender in WW2. Not having the right to solve your own disputes sounds like vassalization to me. From a face saving perspective "powerful ally country" is probably the status of every vassal state. From a de facto perspective they are not allowed to solve their own disputes and house military bases of a country that solves disputes (with the threat of violence) on their behalf.

The difference between ally and vassal seems like one of alignment. Right now Japan and the US are quite aligned, but were alignment different, I think the status would be as well.
Those wired headphones used to be cheap enough to include in the box.

Now you're upsold $169 airpods from apple, or $79 power beats (also from apple). The experience is better, sure, but they also left nothing to chance here by closing the door on your existing cheap wired headphones.
Looks like someone is testing their HN upvote farm...
I myself use Aegis for almost everything, but have to use Authy for SendGrid and Twilio (those and Authy are from the same company). Then I also need Duo for my company's SSO.

I really wish I could use Aegis for all of it, but I wouldn't want to use Authy for all of it.
I can't adapt to the workflow on an iPad either, and I have tried. I have really tried. However, I have seen other that have. To them the iPad is easy and macOS is overly complicated.

I am not sure if general computing is changing or there are now two branches, but I have watched other people do things on iPads that I consider impossible. Even simple things, like working in Excel, I find challenging on an iPad. But when I watch someone else who sort of "grew up" on iOS work in Excel on an iPad they are like some kind of wizard. I have found myself more than once now asking someone, "How did you do that?" feelsbadman.jpg

I think a lot comes down to muscle memory and shortcuts. While I know many/most of the shortcuts on iPadOS they are not automatic for me the way they are on macOS. I often have to think, "Wait… how do I do this on the iPad again," for even simple things. I even find drawing applications unintuitive. In the Adobe suite everything is explicit. In Procreate everything is unlabeled. This is even true in consumer applications, like Facebook vs Snapchat. Pinch here, tap there. Swipe from one of the four sides to reveal some function that is completely hidden. But for some people this is intuitive. There is an additional layer (or two) of UI abstraction in iOS/iPadOS that I have not internalized.

There definitely ARE some things you can't do on an iPad, but that list is actually shorter than you might think. There are a lot of things that you can do, they are just done differently… and in a way that, at least for me, seems to take a lot more work. But for others they are like, "Eww, why do I have to look for an icon and move the cursor over to it when I can just…" and then they proceed to input what is essentially sign language into the screen while holding down a modifier key.
Let's not forget there is political interest to remove him because he was against some of the spying interests of the BSI.

This was a political move. A setup.
The US is really not _that_ interested in protecting democracy from authoritarian regimes. If we were, we’d have boots on the ground in many African states.

While upholding treaties is vitally important, I think you’re underestimating the importance of chips(a rare occurrence on HN!).

Wars are generally fought over resources rather than ideas, and pretending that US is defending Taiwan to defend democracy instead of defending its strategic interests (access to vital resources — chips) is misguided.
If you don’t want to think too hard, just funnel the tags information into a search engine like Elastic Search.

It already handles stemming, stop words, aliases, etc.
Instagram's tagging system was actually really effective at categorizing content and discovery because each hashtag was treated as a node in a (giant) graph, where each node has multiple properties, including post count (number of posts using a tag), 'velocity' (number of posts using a particular tag per unit time), etc. I could write up a big post about it as I made a study of it in when I created a web app for finding the most relevant tags a few years ago.

All that to say there was a lot to their system and it worked because users became aware that they were rewarded for using the most relevant tags. Using irrelevant tags was punished. This guided users towards using a mix of relevant popular and niche tags to maximize their reach, which, in turn, further improved the tagging system.

Instagram's tagging system isn't as important anymore as their algorithm has deemphasized it, in favor of other methods for classification and discovery, but there were a couple of golden years where it worked very well. Most users still look back on those years as the 'good times' even if they don't know exactly why. I'd go so far as to say they ruined the app after they deemphasized tags (and added way too many ads)
Why do you post paywalled articles?
funny this post is acting like I should know who Nikita Bier is and making accusations. Maybe his posts aren't popular and no one cares. This sounds more like trying to drum up publicity for people to look into whatever this app is
First round of beta wait-list user invites are going out today. A lot of good feedback on the alpha, look forward to hearing what people think of the polished beta.
Nope! Rust doesn’t have function overloading like C++. What would that code look like in C++?

(Rust has operator overloading - but that’s not the same thing).
For what it's worth, I always thought the timing was perfect. No other commitments, everyone has holidays, not a soul commuting so roads and trains are empty... the only annoying thing is that absolutely zero stores are open on the 26th so you need to think ahead to bring food for arrival day (welcome to germany, u/lucb1e on his first congress :p).

Of course, covid now changes things, but until christmas holidays are in summer (the southern hemisphere could finally have them during their winter season, perhaps we should swap it every other year?), it won't be the case that literally everyone has holidays and it works out so well again.
Somebody got hurt so the space race is unsafe…

We should probably halt agriculture and cancel automobiles also.

Also all injuries need a press release.
I don't see how this is related. The question wrt Copilot can be distilled down to "what constitutes a derived work", but there's no doubt that the original source code that Copilot was trained on is copyrightable. Conversely, with Java APIs, there was no doubt that Google's use of them produced a derived work - the question was whether the original is copyrightable and/or whether that is fair use.
Sorry, you may claim that the EU was indulging in wishful thinking, but you can't call it 'caught off-guard'.
This is surely right. You wouldn’t use “necessarily” here to mean, like, “justifiably”. It means that it is a direct consequence of “moving too fast and cutting too many corners”, as opposed to an orthogonal safety lapse that can be shored up without changing the underlying circumstances. Inexorably.

Not to say the article is correct about this, of course.
While we can likely all agree "Silicone" is not the issue, silicon chips is undoubtedly an important variable. The Taiwanese government agrees too, and does think chips will play a role:

"Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, told one group that she saw the island’s tech prowess as a means of shoring up support for its democracy. Calling economic security a “pillar” of national security, she said Taiwan was willing to work with partners to build sustainable supply chains for what she called “democracy chips.”

> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/technology/taiwan-chips.h...

This is hardly an "out-there" take, too.
Phenomenal post. Hard to find these type of posts unless I look at HN.
For shared building situations, like a condo in a downtown highrise, I think they're unavoidable: there's inherently shared resources that require maintenance and co-ordination, even if there's a mininum of services. Add in things like a pool, shared gym, doorman, or large recurring maintenance (roof), and you absolutely need a governing body to collect costs for that and handle the work, which is, in essence, an HOA.
“Taking” Taiwan with abrupt military force cannot be decoupled from a war with the entire west all at once. At least US, UK, SK, AUS, and others (unsure about EU involvement).
> The BANAL viruses are a couple of mutations away from a workable furin cleavage site,

That's true, but you can argue it in either direction. It proves the mutations to create that FCS are possible and indeed likely; but it also proves they're selected against in their usual hosts, or else we'd have observed the complete FCS. So you need the mutation to happen concurrently with the species jump (or in a yet-undiscovered intermediate host), which gets less likely.
I specifically said no one should be forced to come into the office, just not discount the desires of people who need office socialization.

Zoom absolutely does not count.
> his thought experiment leverages a view of mathematical truth that hues closer to this (platonist) camp

I think the word in that idiom is 'hews', which means to adhere strictly to a standard, probably from the sense of the word meaning to strike or cut or beat - often used to talk about cutting a tree into shape.
It’s a library of content for a feature that’s considered table stakes for modern chat clients. If it wasn’t worth anything why would Facebook have paid so much for it?
Yes, except the attacker gets it without visiting the attacker's web site.
>very likely your technical people are smarter than your product people

Intelligence is multifaceted. That business listens to product and not to engineers could be seen as a type of social intelligence of which engineers are notoriously unskilled.

Regardless, framing any portion of your organization as "smarter than" (implicitly "better than") isn't going to help in terms of fostering collaboration.
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I was thinking that they don't obey Newton's laws...
The issue is that system has nodes and edges, but no concept of distinct graphs. That leaves you trying to fit all notable human knowledge onto a single graph, which is non-optimal. Whether it’s also a DAG, tree, or something else doesn’t even matter.

Ontologies are like languages. There is no correct one. What matters is how good a fit it is for the problem at hand and that you’re all using the same one! If half the people are using Italian and half Spanish, it’s going to be a disaster. I wouldn’t use APL to write a UI and I wouldn’t architect a computer system in Shipibo.

Similarly, if I’m bird watching, “Birds of Northern California” is very useful. Organizing them by genus is less useful to me in that moment, but it’s not wrong.
I am willing to give people a chance. I don't think everyone at Microsoft is identical in their motivations/intentions.
Yeah, Xaw and I think SunView would run on a 1-bit-deep display (though my recent quest for 1-bit-deep OpenWindows/OpenLook/XView screenshots came up empty), but Motif is less accommodating in that sense. And, although it looks worse than SunView, it's not nearly as shitty as Xaw.

A big contributing factor to Motif's profligate palette consumption was the bevels to make it look "3-D". I think Motif was actually an inept attempt to ape the aesthetically uninspired Microsoft Windows, which was not very popular yet, but which (relevant here) ran fine on 4-bit displays. Because that's what the VGA gave you in 640×480, and a Windows that limited you to 320×200 or 640×200 on a VGA would have been a non-starter.

Open Look had a bit of a 3-D look to it, but for example (original) Macintosh and Genera were pretty flat-looking. GEOS was mostly pretty flat with the exception of the occasional drop shadow. The Newton GUI (postdating Motif) managed to get quite a bit of visual depth out of grayscale, but I don't think the Newton ever had a 1-bit display. The Palm Pilot (postdating Newton) looked like a less ugly GEOS.

In theory there are all kinds of depth cues you can use to get a comprehensively 3-D look on a 1-bit display, but I haven't found a GUI toolkit that managed it.
Have Unicode character properties ever not been frozen? If I remember correctly, there are some misnamed characters from 1.0 that still remain as such in perpetuity for the sake of compatibility.
I have reread your comment and I understand you're talking about a recession-type situation where people are being fired. In that context I agree that you need to make yourself competitive.

I still draw the line at spending personal time doing work related tasks (or excessive overtime in general) - I'm not interested in it - but if one feels they need that edge to get (or keep) a job then I understand the argument.

Another option is just accepting lower compensation. There are companies like Netflix and Tesla for very intelligent or hard working people, and other companies for less intelligent or less hard working people. Competition is the same at both levels because the former has fewer jobs and pays more.

Yet another option is developing niche talent that nobody else has. Then you're not competing on the same playing field as everyone else.
Whenever all the negative comments come up I mostly just assume there is a silent majority that continues to be happy with Firefox and doesn't say anything. I've been using it for years with basically 0 issues.

And I'm not using it to "stick it to Google" either. Containers and tree-style tabs are a huge productivity win.
This is very beautiful, nice work. I wonder if I should use it for something...
So this was not a gain-of-function experiment

So what's the definition of gain of function? Does it have to add a function that isn't found in the wild? I'm struggling to come up with a definition that excludes this experiment but includes everything that is considered gain of function.
Japan has inquired about participating in AUKUS, but doesn't currently.
I've heard it called "syntactic vinegar" instead.

I wonder if there's a term for syntactic useless stuff, like commas in Clojure quasiquoted lists.
> does not necessarily mean that they cut informal ties with the Pentagon

Just the opposite, it's those ties and connections that the Saudi's are buying.
Office 365 is hard for most organizations to switch from, since the overall package is a set of tools that are generally better than the Gsuite competition.

Some MSPs I work with make good money just converting businesses from Gsuite to Office 365. I don't use either platform personally or at my work, but I understand why Microsoft is eating the SaaS email & baseline office tools market.
NATO specifically doesn’t involve European partners in a war in the Pacific. Not to say some may or may not join the US in the fight.
Japan is by no means a Vassal states. It has the third largest GDP in the world, and is a major player in its own right, although you are correct in asserting that it is militarily comparable with far less wealthy nations.
I was surprised by how much I was surprised by the very first fact -- that air molecules move around at extremely high speed of 450m/s, but just bump into each other cancelling this speed out, and this speed is based on pressure & temperature.

And it's due to this speed, despite air's low density, the force air exerts is enormous -- equivalent to 10 tons per square meter. Somehow, the human sandwich does not explode nor implode due to equivalent pressure coming from the other side and inside.
Love your tool. Use it all the time. Thanks!!
Right, that's exactly it. You can create a great presentation... but you can't collaborate on it online integrated with your office's directory of contacts, create todo items from within it that show up on people's calendars, embed live figures from your colleague's modeling spreadsheet, get signoff on it from colleagues as part of a standardized process, and so on.

If you're using Keynote to make an awesome presentation as a solo project, it's fantastic. If you're using it for enterprise productivity, it's a non-starter.
How can one learn to create these visualizations?
Right, but ECC errors are rare. If your base rate is 20 per hour for 100,000 devices, and you see 1,000,000 there's likely something going on.

My example was just to show that even MUCH noisier dataset (like phone motion) have been useful for detecting earthquakes that ECC should be MUCH easier.
I have bad news for you about something I heard a recruiter say a couple weeks ago!
Sure, that is your view. But that isn't the only viewpoint. We don't seem to have any major issues with our systems, but I'm not an IT expert.
Not a competitor, that was also the case. They have become an enemy, a fact that most people here seem to want to ignore on purpose.

The Biden administration has simply acted on the reality that the PRC to all extent and purpose is an enemy of the USA as it strive to undermine our political system and influence around the world, and is preparing for more aggressive action to support that agenda.

Clear as day, expect more action on that front.
Openstreetmap is map data that is basically coordinates with tags on them and relations between those tags. I guess this is true for most GIS software but there is very little 2D map data that can not be described in the OSM tagging model.

You can never express everything with tags, you need stats and metadata on metadata, documentation and a strong heterogeneity which also need to be able to adapt to new ideas.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features
Different type of event, though. Tickets are much more available for that than for Congress; it seems more people don't prefer having to camp out somewhere.
> considered table stakes for modern chat clients

I'm not so sure about that. I rarely see anyone using them anymore and have read reports that usage is declining. Even if it is table stakes, nothing stops you from rendering gifs without gify integration.
Yes, but the point I think is that the rules of symbolic reasoning are not like the rules of physics; formal systems have an arbitrary shape, so exploring the universe from a different starting point could yield a completely different method of representing it and processing information about it. And such methods needs not be compatible with our understanding of math.
In this story, the electricity wasn’t free and he didn’t become rich.
May I suggest you create an #issues or #feedback in Linen to show off the capabilities as well as perhaps allowing the feedback to live on your platform rather than in HN comments?

The signin experience is wonky for me, and I think it may be part of my secondary complaint that there doesn't appear to be any way to manage my "identity" on the platform

I do see in the XHR that it has support for `displayName` and `profileImageUrl` but there's no obvious way for me to manage those things. And, because it seems to be in the channel JSON versus in the /session response, it makes me wonder if (like with Slack, barf!) I have to set them anew for every community I join?

When I say "signin is wonky," I mean that after authenticating, the "Join the conversation" button remains as a call to action no matter how many times I click on it. And then if I click on the Linen logo, it always says "Sign in" as if it has forgotten who I am, but it clearly knows who I am because going back into the https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/c/default carries a bunch of authentication cookies and I can see myself in the XHRs
The very first figure in this article illustrates one of my pet peeves: We see a classic S curve productivity chart and then we immediately attribute it to some sort of management failure instead of pure unadulterated reality.

As it turns out, the S curve is a plot of the area under a bell curve; at the beginning of the project it's hard to get traction. At the end it's hard to cross all the T's and dot the i's. Most of your velocity comes in the middle, which is why it's so hard to plot an intercept.

We usually make the fiction of the intercept into reality by accumulating tech debt more quickly. If you're very lucky with your engineering culture, you are maintaining the slope of the line at the end because you built a culture of competence along the way and you are now capable of completing more tasks per unit of time than you were at the midpoint, often by sacrificing throughput before the midpoint.
It is not just about semiconductors. It is about pride. Taiwan shows another way for China that is not the PRC just as Hong Kong did. Taiwan is not just a separatist state, it is a successful separatist state. The better Taiwan does the worse the PRC looks. Semiconductors are just another gut punch. Why can't mainland China do what tiny Taiwan has done?
Yes, that is the solution I recommended in the article, because a lot of people are worried that the 60 day grace period won't be enough if they are laid off from their current H-1B employer.