skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that "Linux on Apple silicon" is such a applauded thing right now, and so many people follow him, that he feels like he's actually doing important work. But in reality, the kernel maintainers are probably much more concerned with patches coming from mainframe and server vendors. That's just the reality of who pays the bills.
Should be titled "Why one web pioneer thinks it's time to bundle more apps with your browser and change the way it does tabs". I like Arc, but they aren't reinventing the browser.
Not necessarily possible, but I’m certainly open to ideas
What is supposed to be a good scheduler?

Genuine question as I (as a software dev) have no clue how modern DCs are build in detail.
> Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers.

Not as part of the “to tap” process.

> Also you’ll notice no water towers.

Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs.

> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.
‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth
How do I delete comments?
Written down on paper in a safe
Fair enough. Thanks for the thoughtful response.

My aversion to bureaucracy makes me hate the idea of the government adding more red tape, especially on something as trivial as poorly written job posts. I feel like we learned nothing from GDPR cookie banners.

But nonetheless, I don’t think your point is invalid.
New rendering engine? Or yet-another-Chrom(e/ium)-clone with a different UI? Honestly, even the latter might be better if it's closer to what older browsers had, with a lot of options to configure and not the dumbed-down useless-UI trend that seems to be gradually infecting everything. That's one of the reasons I use Firefox, although it seems to be slowly going down the same path too.
Two pages is overkill for symmetric encryption.
Can you please point out what that means in that sceenshot? Fonts generally got pretty good with fontconfig, but I suppose there are always some edge cases.
This call to action creates a dangerous power which will no doubt wielded by ham-fisted politicians and lead to very destructive consequences.

Those same politicians that paid lip service to ‘teaching critical thinking skills’ yet have clearly failed to do so.
Memories!… QBasic was white over blue, and Turbo Pascal yellow over blue.
No it wouldn’t. It would be bloated by the number of people with serious disabilities, health conditions and retirees. As your population ages you would get a bump in unemployment that tells you nothing about the demand for labour.

In my first Economics subject in high school they told us to never look at unemployment without looking at the participation rate with it.
Afterwards, I started to like Duff's description of his device as being a strong argument in the debate on switch's fallthrough behavior, but that he did not know if it was pro or con.
Not that I fully believe this, but the claims about Ghost Cities, for example. Infrastructure projects built to increase GDP and industrial activity without clear goals.
It works only because zip drops extra items. I explained how it works in the reply below.
Another good example of this flexibility in C is the inverse array notation (I think that’s what it’s called, turns out it’s impossible to search because all the results are about reversing arrays).

arr[index] is equivalent to index[arr]

This works because arr points to the memory location of the zeroth index of the array and index is the offset from that memory location. Since addition is commutative so too is the array notation.
I imagine the crash caused by not needing it anymore to run .NET applications.
Thanks for this tip, it worked on Windows 11. On Windows 10 where I had already enabled it it's a near invisible 1 pixel border.
Outlawing collective bargaining might make unions less effective, but it doesn’t make unions illegal.
...while all improvements are changes, so are all declines.

Trivially true, but this doesn't go deep enough. Changes that come about as a result of collective discussion and decision are of a different character than changes that are the predictable result of preexisting feedback loops. For example, once upon a time a single breadwinner on minimum wage could support a family. For some time after that was no longer true, two breadwinners on minimum wage could support a family. That's no longer the case now, but we never had big debate to decide that. It wasn't "disinformation" that caused our soaring inequality; indeed it could be argued that we would have noticed it happening had there been more information allowed to reach the public consciousness.
Well he did basically have to be forced to actually buy it.
Lucille Ball's best or second best decision in television history was to greenlight Star Trek. It was not a straightforward process, requiring an unusual 2nd pilot.
I can't speak to the kerning (it looks fine to me, I guess I'm not a font nerd) but in those screenshots, the user has selected monochrome subpixel rendering and either no or very light hinting. These together make the text a bit more blurry than it does on my own machine.

And of course, it's also possible that using a better font would improve things.
What didn't you like about Ansible? Here's an example of how I use an Ansible playbook to manage my own dotfiles:
https://github.com/leigh-johnson/dotfiles/blob/master/instal...
Ultimately, unless a platform is open source like Usenet, they have no reason to enable API access long-term. It can be a useful tool to get buy in from highly engaged users but ultimately is a liability because it limits your ability to serve ads (see Reddit). Even if that means you alienate your core users and send your platform into a death spiral, quarter driven middle managers don't care.

So don't get your hopes too high, or at least, have a backup social media site when this cycle starts back up in 5 years.
Just gonna end up censoring what he doesn't like
Bruteforce protection.
So this is essentially an enhancement of shadows?
Microsoft Windows is abysmal on this front - I have to use Microsoft Windows 10 periodically, while most of my life is spent in KDE, and the disjoint is jarring.

In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour.

In Microsoft Windows 10 (and I assume 11 has continued the trend at making this even worse) I can enable a very thin border, of a themed colour, and that border disappears when the window is no longer in focus. This means a couple of terminal windows (eg gitbash) have near impossible to discern edges when they're overlapping.

On top of this, some Microsoft applications seem to break their own styling rules (Office apps, say) which I suspect is the kind of issue that stalled your project.
Another cool thread here is the Linear Canonical Transform[1], a generalization of the Fourier and other transforms.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_canonical_transformatio...
This is fantastic. Congratulations to the authors!

I would pay for a more polished version of the service. This service is precious!
Capstone Completes Successful Maneuver, Teeing Up Moon Orbit
Basic logic fail. I didn’t say it was immoral to do it yourself. I said it was good to support the worker (from both the worker and the payers’ perspectives), not bad.

The view I replied to implied it would be gross to pay someone to make your meal because it’s cheap.
Raids are typically distressed companies that are squeezed for every asset and sold for parts. Not buying a thriving enterprise and driving into the ground. He paid a premium for Twitter and is probably $10B in the hole already. This has to be a sincere attempt to increase profitability. Just seems like a really bad one. Conspiracy theory is that owns a wad of that Truth Social SPAC and every dollar he drains from Twitter goes there.
Reminds me of that one special SCP entry, where:

1. The entry does not contain any words

2. The entry contains knowledge that can be easily understood

3. The knowledge inside the entry cannot be transliterated into words (even here)

The entry: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521
I would agree the problem is not software. The problem is people. Specifically people that spread and people that believe misinformation.
So traveling at 1% of the speed of light, you could go end to end in 10,000,000 years. That sounds like a long time, but it's really not.

Human have no way to survive that time period, no way to create a self contained environment that would survive that time period and no civilization that's lasted a fraction of that time. The increase of human technology hasn't correlated with stability so increases in our technology don't seem like arguments for our ability to act in a long and large scale, despite being implicitly taken as such by a lot of people.

Sure, in the geological time humans study ten million years isn't much but the claim that a living creature could act in the time period is purely speculative. Speculation is fine but the rhetoric of the "Fermi Paradox" is "why don't I see of things I have only wildly speculated about, there's something weird here", which is kind of problematic.
Maybe fewer jobs, but probably not lower salaries. Collusion would likely would cut into salaries a fair bit.
I don’t think people are smart enough generally. There’s a huge amount of money to be made spreading fake news. Just like you shouldn’t represent yourself in court, the professionals will always find ways to beat the hobbyists.
So what scales better? Off river PHES is cheaper, but limited in scope. Electrolysis works but only for long duration. PWRs have no fuel supply if expanded. They also cost more and the historic highest construction is not to the same scale as the current renewable + lithium battery supply chain.
How much camber is allowed on the right wheels though, can you go full hella-flush? Asking for a friend :)
"We just got back from Mexico. It was great!" Then "We just got back from Thailand. It was amazing!" It can either mean they assimilated into a new culture, or they went to the Marriott in whatever city.

When I travel, I desire to feel like I live there. An AirBnB with nice amenities, the occasional expensive cocktail(s), and some mainstream event, but the rest needs to be as authentic as possible. And that involves accepting some possible discomfort whether it be from language, cuisine, commute, etc. Where comfort isn't, experience is!
Not code or a codebase - but reading Eloquent Ruby every morning on the DC Metro made the commute to work fly by in an instant and kinda blew my mind. I will try to illustrate the stuff that blew my mind below:

Quick backstory: a feature of Ruby (that you tend to either love or hate) is that you do not need to use parentheses to call a function.

if you have a function like so

def prefix_hello(name)
"hello, #{name}!"
end

you can call it like this

prefix_hello "fred"
=> "hello, fred!"

After learning about some of the spiritual ancestors of Ruby (like Smalltalk), message passing, learning everything is just an object and function calls are just messages being sent to objects, a lot of things clicked immediately for me. It was kind of a mind blown moment.

Take the `+` (add) symbol in `5 + 3` - in essence, it's just a regular method that is literally caled `def +(number)`, which belongs to the int/number object.

In laymans terms this code is saying, hey object (number) '5', call your + method with '3' as the argument.

You can simulate this in an `irb` shell:

irb(main):001:0> x = 10
=> 10
irb(main):002:0> x.send(:+, 10)
=> 20

It's all right there! `objectA.send(methodName, arg, arg, arg)`

Then you realize that this is true of many languages, Python included (__add__)... but I do think Ruby does this in a particularly, ahem, eloquent way that really impressed me.

This moment in my career/learning was almost like a springboard/catalyst and unlocked a lot of additional learning down the road, like getting involved with Erlang and Lisp/Clojure.
I'm not sure how the numbers really compare. If they are showing development costs for a product before it entered the market then it should probably be $2B for Meta, since that's what they paid for Oculus.
Sounds like ownership via borrowing with extra steps.
COVID skepticism is… I mean COVID is real?

Hunter Biden’s laptop? The laptop that no one can produce, that there are no records existed, and supposedly copies of the data exist but aren’t being looked at for reasons?

Those aren’t the slam dunk arguments you seem to think they are.
> Markup language which completely falls over this is Markdown. There’s no way to express generic tree structure

Isn’t using a basic list structure for documents a feature, not a bug? For example, the article itself does not need or use any hierarchy. Surely keeping documents simple is part of the raison d'être for markdown?

Hierarchical structures for documents usually need more software support, which does provide some nice features such as nested formatting, table cells containing complex elements (including other tables), and auto-numbering of headings/outlines.

However a hierarchy is more fragile when text documents are edited as plain text or using text based tools. Surely a prime purpose of markdown and asciidoc is to be simple plain text.

A hierarchy also seems to lead to either (a) hard formatting requirements like strict XHTML, or (b) loose requirements that cause many corner case bugs between implementations (like HTML used to be when XHTML was created).
I'd be worried any secrets that had been printed would persisted on the internal printer storage, eg. https://www.bitraser.com/article/innocuous-printer-can-leak-...
I've been using "install this webpage as an app" in Edge for about a year now for the vast majority of sites I visit on a regular basis. The site doesn't need to have an app manifest or service worker to use the feature, you can just use it with any site. I also develop a Web-based VR app at work, have been doing WebXR and VR development for a while now.

The two experiences together have me about convinced that tabs in the browser were a mistake. The operating system already has a means of managing multiple documents/app views, and that is just windows.

It's disturbing that every browser has to implement most of their own media decoders, instead of relying on an OS level API and writing plugins for it. We have file systems for organizing our saved things. Bookmarks should just be links files on disk. You wouldn't need to have in-browser sync of your bookmarks, you'd just point it to your bookmarks directory and let Dropbox or OneDrive or whatever sync the files.

If what we think of as the "browser" used more of what is available in the operating system, and operating systems were more closely involved in web standardization (rather than treating it as a completely siloed project) I think we could have better standards for web apps that integrate seamlessly with the user's desktop.

We might be able to integrate different apps better, things like standardize an interface for image editors, let developers build to that interface, let users select their preferred editor, and have much more powerful image editing available in every app that wants to work with images. We might be able to have VR home environments where web apps represent objects within the user's environment, rather than exclusive mode, full "experiences".

And having this ecosystem on desktop would make users expect to have this functionality everywhere. Smartphone OS vendors might find it a hard time to try to make walled garden, only-place-you-can-do-any-business-so-we-get-our-vig stores.

But we don't. And now browsers are seen as "impossibly complex" (except the SerenityOS team seems to be killing it with Ladybird). All because browsers implemented their own multiple document interface and took over control from what should have been OS-level concerns.
You jest but in the U.S. during a critical race in a swing district, a few hundred votes could literally be worth more to one party than the median YC company.

And coal likely brings in a few tens of thousands in swing district votes.
The article's headline image explains almost the entire article in a wordless gif!
App Store Ads Gone Wild
Co-asian. A coalition of asian countries.
The exact same things happened with people on different sides of the Roman Empire.

Again, the reach is not new! Nor is the speed - it’s just before only the Right People could do it, excepting maybe AM radio.

Before that, the reach was still as far as people spoke your language - it just took longer and people relied more on hearing what you said from someone else, until the invention of the printing press. Information still spread rapidly and if anything, people were more likely to take action due to the greater level of social cohesion in most times.

People have always had a burning desire for “news”, and the primary source for millennia was rumor.
You’re right. Doom used fixed-point math; at the time, hardware floating-point units were far from ubiquitous on the computers people wanted to use to play it.
Well I think with live better he means, go to church on Sunday, say aweful things about homosexual and people of color afterwards. Then after a bit of gun polishing, they drink a beer with a friend and discuss how some politician is a Nazi because he/she wants to preserve nature for future generations. After that they write an email to the local school, to take the evil Harry Potter books out of the library once and for all. A perfect day.
While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll. Nowadays you can be a troll anywhere and anytime you want, specially online. I'm curious how this approach may benefit those who share their plain thoughts without the fear of being automatically targeted by trolls looking for triggered responses and tribal support.
Speaking of K, a way to generate the first N+1 Fibonacci numbers is what made me take notice of the language:

N(|+\)\1 1

I'm not sure where I first saw this snippet (maybe in the Kona documentation) but it stuck with me enough that I was able to recreate it from memory.
New car delivery times trending down, still over 150 days
My company used UX as a competitive differentiator for Enterprise Software in the healthcare sector. It's so neglected by most software development companies, we were able to get the doctors as our champions to convince the bean counters to consider our products.
VC cash and cheap debt, oodles of it. Workers are reaping the benefits of 'growth.'
The Economist recently reported on a study that used the brightness of countries' lights at night as proxy for GDP[1][2]. The study suggests China and other autocracies have significantly exaggerated their GDP growth over the last twenty years.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-...

[2]: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/how-much-should-we-tr...
I'd guess it'd be really great for seeing examples and learning.
Cyber officials from 37 countries, 13 companies to meet on ransomware in DC
FWIW last time I checked, central London did indeed have slow connectivity, but it didn't extrapolate to the rest of the UK.
No idea why the center of the capital was equivalent to a remote small town in this regard.
Yeah facebook stayed ahead by buying any social network that could become a competitor. Instagram and Whatsapp are the biggest examples without buying those facebook would have already lost huge number of users.
Oh sure the filter should be free for everyone, why not. It just makes the verified accounts even more valuable
We have that in C#, it's call LINQ. In the wrong hands it kills kittens.
That is not the case here because the Tides Foundation is a Donor Advised Fund, which is a dark money vehicle used to fund causes indirectly, hiding the source.

Let's say (hypothetically) that Wikimedia wanted to use our donations to fund the eradication of Palestinians from Israel. If they fund it directly, people would know and might stop giving money to Wikimedia. However, Wikimedia can give your money to the Tides Foundation with instructions on how to disburse it. Tides doesn't have to disclose who's money is used for what. Ta-da! Dark money charities.
If we have to rethink the browser is not because of the UI. We have to take the browser to the smartphones ecosystem and dethrone app platforms.

Maybe, an app-able solution that mimicks most or all of the stuff one can get from developing for app platforms — because it would provide crossplatform, it would create the necessary incentive to develop for it. Also, user privacy first and open source.
Tried Arc, not my thing. Personally I want browsers to be developer originated, support massive amounts of protocols and playback formats, span over multiple layers of networks, debug tech stack issues as it should be. I don't bother tabs or bookmarks as I always choose to remember URLs with my head.

I am not against content creativity, but I really hope someone can re-invent Shockwave Flash, a container for streamable vector animation format. SVG and DOM canvas stuff are traumatic to work with and they always seem to burn my cpu0. Rich media should be so much richer & quicker instead of 20MB main.min.js barely movable <div> renders like shit on a browser. We had better content experience with .swf players on a Pentium-III.

Players should entertain us, they should be designed as consumer-oriented software. But browsers are for productivity, they were supposed to browse a broad range of documents hosted on networks of variety, with absolute control and input.

Now the world is confusing these two, we are browsing a world of popups, paywalls and infinite scrolls. Arc might never be able to solve the problem here.
I'd argue that IE6 got worse and didn't keep up with developments while Firefox got consistently better. Firefox' problem as "only" that is was really slow and that's what Chrome solved.

Yet, I also think that a new UI doesn't really change the browser experience much. It must be a completely different UX.
Out of curiosity, do TryStartNoGCRegion and/or GCLatencyMode.SustainedLowLatency not meet your needs?
No. He responded to a reasonable opinion with an assertion of lies from a well known propagandist.
Heh, I'd never seen the full clip of that and the scooter driver's reaction just about had me spit on my keyboard over here.
I'm not entirely sure if it was a felony to threaten violence, but assault was a felony at the founding. The definition of felony was originally "crime that is punishable by death." You can commit assault without touching someone (but it has to be more than words).

I would assume that there were quite a few more consequences for threats than there are today. I would also assume that there was quite a bit of tarring and feathering of people who held deeply unpopular beliefs, because this did happen.
I've always had a soft spot for KDE but haven't actually used it much in the last decade because I kept running into show-stopping bugs.

But this week I decided to try out the latest KDE plasma release on Debian testing and it's all going quite well so far. I love having the ability to configure things how _I_ want them to be, while adhering to a more traditional desktop experience.

The easiest way to try out the latest KDE release is to download Neon (https://neon.kde.org), flash it to a thumb drive, and boot it up.
> For example, the article itself does not need or use any hierarchy.

This two-column layout makes use of hierarchical capabilities of asciidoctor:

https://matklad.github.io/2022/10/28/elements-of-a-great-mar...
there are lots of "experts" who will tell you that the branch for either outcome of an if can only be executed after the if condition is evaluated, and that therefore "ifs are slow; don't use if".

I had a colleague once that would turn all his "if" statements into "switch" clauses because "no branches means it is so much faster" and people listened to him closely.