skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Firefox were a top tier browser it wouldn't have bugs that were old enough to legally purchase alcohol in the United States [1]. Or have bugs that are old enough to have a drivers' license [2]. It wouldn't have decade-old bugs that break AJAX forms [3]. It would correctly support prefetching links [4].

And those are just the outstanding bugs. In terms of performance, Firefox is still slower than Chrome. It still has more UI jank, even on Linux. The new plugin API still doesn't give extensions the same level of functionality that they had with the old API, despite years of promising otherwise. Its responses to interaction media queries are inconsistent, necessitating the creation of a test page [5] to determine what its actual responses are (W3C specifications? what are those?).

No, Firefox is not a top-tier browser. It's more privacy-preserving than Chrome, which is why I use it, but I will never claim that Firefox is a better browser.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10212

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317081

[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654072

[4]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527334

[5]: https://demos.obormot.net/interaction-media-query-test

EDIT:

better dump Android at this point anyway

Dump Android for what, exactly? An even more user-hostile platform, like iOS?
"The phenomenon illustrates the wealth and complexity of urban coastal ecosystems in India, say experts. Sometimes, “human impact results in conditions that seem terrible for nature at a glance, but are actually a gold mine for some species"

What a cool point. What are other well-documented examples of this?

One question--where's the line between "invasive species" and a new welcomed/prized species in a new ecosystem.
Fixed point. In this case, 32.32
I wouldn't bet on it. Never stand radially from a high performance engine.
After a long struggle with Martian dust, NASA’s InSight probe has gone quiet
To give a more solid example, they don't understand why

npm test

works and why they don't need

npm "test"
Yeah, but that didn't prevent you from posting on r/wallstreetsilver, nor was your account tied to r/wallstreetsilver in any way.
Appreciate the info on the forks. Wish I paid more attention to them (and had more access to various ones).

All your testing & experimenting & getting to sample the goods sounds absolutely fun though.
Nothing is worse than VHS.
A logging overlay that stores configs in a database and monitors each process. If you're testing at that scale, why would you limit yourself to what you can do with just top? To do it manually with flags and monitoring with top is very pets not cattle.
Yes. That's why a flywheel car will stay level when ascending a hill.
I guess I should have mentioned that Scala 3, with its new syntax, look almost like "Python with types". That's why I've mentioned it.
> In previous discussions, I said there was a 0% chance she got some sort of deal.

Well that prediction didn't age well. Looks like she got herself a deal.
>Consider this: Elon Musk at peak of his wealth had more money than all the residents of Massachusetts (itself quite a wealthy state) combined, by a significant margin.

There is no way this is anywhere near true. The list below alone is probably $100B, and there are 7M people in Massachusetts, including many with net worths in the millions.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/these-are-the-16-riches...
Yeah big data centers use these.
Elizabeth did use the money for personal gain, to sponsor an extremely lavish lifestyle and billing luxury home rental expenses,chartered flights, security details and private investigators to the Theranos account.

Sunny Balwani, otoh, didn't benefit, wasn't the CEO, didn't make most of the false statements and got a heavier sentence.
I've seen some seasoned looking folks on Saeco's blowing by me and my buddies on our more modern goods. If that kinda nostalgia coupled with the lore of steel I'd be all over it.
It means they won't do this.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-34deb7d885d...

> Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.

> Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.
Assuming the typical 4D metrics of career development won’t resonate with you - skill development, title advancement, monetary growth and “follow your passions - then consider either what excited you when you were 10-12 years old OR look for an altruistic mission helping others leveraging your current skills …
It's a common misconception that regenerative braking is the only way hybrid cars charge their batteries. The other common situation is when the driver requests less output from the engine than it can produce efficiently. The engine has a minimum operating speed (say 1000 RPM) and at that speed requires a certain amount of energy just to keep it turning (friction, pumping, etc), in turn making it inefficient at low loads (say 20HP). It turns out that round-tripping energy through the battery is efficient enough to make it worthwhile keep running the engine at close to peak efficiency (say 50HP), send the driver's requested power to the wheels, and store the rest in the battery. Later if the battery is getting full and the driver is requesting little power to the wheels the car can stop the engine and switch to electric until the battery is back to the ideal (around 50%). Knowing this is how the drivetrain behaves the engineers are free aggressively optimize the engine for efficiency only at the speed/torque sweet spot. It's not very intuitive but this chart and Quora article go into more detail:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ffde81e7feb628b80088a...

https://qr.ae/pGjufl

I think the Raytheon engineers did something similar. You can't turn off the engine during flight so during landing (when the pilot doesn't need so much thrust) they keep running the engine at the sweet spot and store the extra energy in the battery for later use (takeoff). Then optimize the engine design for that sweet spot. There's no braking/deceleration, it's just a way to keep the engine running at close to peak efficiency the whole flight.
Please just read the plea deal.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23495436-crypto-coop...
Curiously this was flagged @dang? I personally can't tell why.
Sometimes restarting the page isn't enough. I forget exactly what I did, whether I logged out or whatever, but I know the third conversation when I got the error, the first level of restarting didn't revive it.

I interrogated ChatGPT itself on the topic, and it claimed that such errors are probably a problem with the language model or the training data.

I also asked it how to tell the difference between canned answers generated by a specific filter and answers from the model. It gave me a decent, but generic and non-actionable answer.

[Edit: I realized there is a distinction between an error condition that was achieved through user prompts, and an error condition that can be exited through user prompts - but it appears to allow editing and resubmitting the last prompt, so why an error should be "sticky" isn't altogether clear. If it's in the front end (by some definition), why would it be so rare? Anyway, the dull explanation...is dull. I'd prefer to believe that at least I found a strange corner in its model - could it be that it underflows in some sense?]
That's great to hear. I kinda wanna get my hands on a LeMond Zurich (or better) in my size in that fabled 853 if it ever pops up. Got to test ride one super briefly and I immediately liked it.
Just because there are never problems that you are aware of, doesn't mean there aren't any problems all. You're just choosing to remain ignorant.

BTW, this is also the reason why history tends to repeat itself: subsequent generations disregarding the knowledge their ancestors came to know. You may end up re-inventing the wheel, and not even know that your ancestors made a better one.
Hardly ?

It's way more inconvenient to create a new account for each forum (including this one), which is hardly inconvenient.

And it's even easier on Mastodon because you don't enven need one account per server !
<fraud discovered>

"These people will never see a day in prison."

<surprisingly fast case made against the principals>

"Well, what about this other guy over there?"
Other than the refined carbs in the bun, a cheeseburger is actually a very healthy meal.
If you check for actual exceptional cases, you have next to no overhead. The overhead comes from creating the exception environment and going up the stack in unusual ways. For validation where most data is correct, this should have next to no impact.
Awesome-online-IDE – A list of online development environments
You missed the even dumber part

> National Merit hadn’t included enough stamps on the package, but nevertheless it got to Bonitatibus by mid-October

The parent is basically complaining that the school didn’t drop everything and make handing out certificates to 240 students their top priority.

They were handed out to student a few weeks later
This was posted a while ago but I just stumbled across it. I've never been in your position, but if I were, I would focus less on the "IT" things and more on the "management" things. If you have a group of people that report to you, understand that they are the ones getting the Actual Work done. Depending on the team dynamic and company culture, they may or may not need much actual leadership. But they for sure need you to remove roadblocks for them, provide the resources they need to get daily work done, and shield them from all the inessential bullshit coming from other parts of the company.

When you don't know how to make technical decisions, get the team involved! They have a big stake in this after all, and probably field experience as well. Just ask, "hey, we need printers and I know fuck-all about printers, what factors do we need to consider?" The final decision rests on you of course, but between them and the vendor, it should not be terribly hard (just time-consuming) to pick the least of the evils.

When making a big IT purchase, always call up vendors and get multiple quotes. (And _tell them_ you're getting multiple quotes.) Talking with salescritters for a whole afternoon leaves you feeling like you need a long shower but you get used to it with experience.

Understand that you will make mistakes and always apologize profusely for them while framing them as a learning experience.

Probably most importantly, let YOUR manager and team know that you have blind spots, and either ask for help, or let them know how you plan to address them. That way, you are all on the same page as far as expectations go. Who knows, someone might have a buddy at another similar company nearby that can do some light mentoring. Never try to cover up what you don't know, NOBODY will be on your side if they think you are trying to bullshit them.
I mean, you did pick a particularly low point on that series. It looks like the average pre-pandemic is closer to 63.0%.
>This is not a bug. It's a feature. [...] I'm one of those people that

...that didn't read the article fully, because it addresses this point exactly.

Small communities aren't a problem. Having your account linked with just one of them is.

Imagine what reddit was like if you had to pick a subreddit and stick with it for the entire history of the account. You'd only be allowed to post on other subreddits if you are following the rules of That One Subreddit.

This is what Mastodon federation is like.
It's true that that's not an exponent, though, and that was what they were replying to. Exponents make floating point. I think the poster before that meant to say "fractional part" instead.
She got one thing… they won’t pursue tax fraud charges. Wow. Everything else she gets is from the courts.
There are those that would argue that the reasons for Pascal being lesser known than it should, involve the machinations of AT&T, other corporate entities, and orchestrated negative media. Pascal was in the way of what they were trying to push.

And if people look deeper, there are some surprising elements of Pascal in newer languages, more than many realize. At some point, sanity and common sense will sneak through.
I'd caution you that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Which doesn't even mention the fact that many people can't afford to retire at 65 or had to come our of retirement to work
Release the tape.
> But if a hotel starts letting people stay weeks without checking their room, ...

Yet I think people regularly stay for weeks with Airbnb/Vrbo without any host inspection or cleaning. I agree with your conclusion (filthy guests who stay weeks invite pest problems) ... so if the big bad old hotel industry needs to market their advantages, maybe there's an Institutuionally Clean angle.
There was so much evidence that even if everyone stayed silent they weren't getting off.
(steven here) thanks, interesting comparison with stocks! breakoutlist actually helped me pick my last job. somewhat relatedly, I made a breakoutlist for climatetech companies recently: http://climatetechlist.com/ with some friends
Film grain looks good until you hit a resolution (and color detail) that consistently exceeds the perceived boost that grain provides... which barely exists in pixelated screens in the first place. It provides some anti-aliasing and moire-reduction (at the cost of fuzziness), but that's about it.

When those smooth-then-pixelated-then-smooth lines transition to even-smoother, like 4K / HDR consistently hits, grain looks like the muddying noise that it really is.
Adding GPT-3 to Google Sheets
This is an endlessly entertaining integration. And it requires fooling around with some very very confusing Google consoles. This walks you through the whole ordeal very gently.
Related:

https://www.saasworthy.com/list/ide-software

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programmer-browser-ides/

https://geekflare.com/online-code-editors/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_integrated_development_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_integrated_dev...
Holmes didn’t plead guilty and cooperate.
> This article concerns the metrics we use to decide how to advance kids into advanced educational opportunities.

Not to my reading.

I would summarise this as an article about the shortcomings of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation [1], their failure to put sufficient postage on notifications and their offloading of their notifications onto schools.

[1] https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&...
Except that the article says the school did notify the students. Overall I'm just confused by it.
I think he said a lot of things; and did the complete opposite. Why would any one statement carry any weight at all?
No such thing as a modern browser that supports Flash. But BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a great tool that lets you run old web games in Flash and other dead formats: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Yep. Web browsers are new Xorg(In more way then most people realize. I wonder at this point, we could make web browsers some X Wayland style daemon.
One of my favorite videos is when George RR Martin asks Stephen King on stage, "How the fuck do you write so many books so fast?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7XMkjDGw0

Stephen King answers basically with the same advice he's always given, as you said, he tries to write 6 pages a day.

In the video, he says he tries to get 3-4 hours of work a day, and get to that 6 pages. He breaks it down, "if the manuscript is x length, it will take y months to finish." George RR Martin goes on to ask essentially, "but what if writer's block? What if internet distraction? What if something comes up?"

He goes on to tell a story about Rowling that basically resolves with "nobody really understands what writers do," but based on King's own "On Writing," I think he does claim to understand, and his tips are not really any different from how you generate content in any other medium, methods that those of us terminally online HN types are at this point experts via headlines alone, we see so many posts on the subject.

The method is demonstrated in the "6 pages" quote that gets thrown around: define the objective (write a book), break the objective into estimable and achievable goals (write 6 pages a day: this allows for book length x to be finished in y months), and set dedicated, distraction-free time to achieve the day's goal (as I recall from "On Writing," King has a dedicated writing office and doesn't bring his phone into it, and doesn't have internet access in there. I may be remembering incorrectly or mixing up my absurd breadth of reading I've done on the general topic of staying focused).

Meanwhile GRRM, for all his undeniable success, talent, and skill, talks about the act of writing in kinda the same way an amateur might, or maybe just the way an artist might, a sort of mystical "waiting for the muse" type style. "What if I just don't wanna write?"

King's answer, and the answer of many prolific artists, programmers, etc, that I've read, would be "why are you whether you want to write or not? You have today's goal already, so, achieve it." The wanting is irrelevant, the muse is unneeded, you've broken down the task, go do today's TODO list. Are you going to re-justify for yourself every single day the overall objective? Well, tbh, I do like that as a mindfulness self-affirmation exercise sometimes, but the point is you can't just sit around waiting to want to do the small part of the larger objective, you gotta just put the hours in day after day.

I think a lot of us across all disciplines are missing that key skill in production: project management, I think I'd call it. The most prolific artists are the ones who grabbed that skill and added it to the toolset as a discipline-agnostic ability. Hence why when King talks about his method it sounds the same to me as what I've read here from programmers, what I've seen on youtube from animators, and what I've heard on podcasts from musicians.
That's a natural extension of prediction-based encodings, and I believe there are already some experimental ones for text. E.g.: predict the rest of the sentence using GPT-3 and then record the errors in its prediction.
Aha! Thanks. :)

So it sounds like it's a new capability-based syscall interface, but they've ported big chunks of libc (specifically musl) to that interface so that a lot of things work.
In the C# stdlib there is at least currently the Task and ValueTask pair, where the latter is a struct optimized for 'failure is rare and success is synchronous' that degrades smoothly to the former, which can represent asynchronous computation and lets you recover failure exceptions w/stack without having to ever actually throw. I do wish the async part was decoupled from it, but it's nice that all the error information is preserved if used correctly.
>1. They didn’t notify the parents via email.

"One former student said he learned he had won the award through a random email from the school to a school-district email account that students rarely check; the principal neither told his parents nor made a public announcement."
That's an easy one, less money to administration
>Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new account to talk to other people.

Broken analogy. You can get banned from any subreddit for any reason, but you won't need a new account, because you can still be on all the other subreddits and communicate with other users.

Also, with over 140K combined karma (90K comment, 45K post karma, roughly), I have never experienced that issue on that 6-year-old account.
Depending on the type of app, it could also refresh it’s flags or have values pushed to it.
Mostly observations, rambling thoughts about topics, and ideas. I originally started writing because I wanted to get into comedy/entertainment, so I have a lot of half baked jokes and humor in there. Since then, I have branched out to thoughts, career goals, notes, daily records and logs. I find it hugely beneficial to myself, so maybe that’s enough. But one day I would like to connect my writing to others. Maybe I am chasing fame, or searching for validation that my thoughts are accurate and I’m not deluding myself into some false reality.
I noticed that too, I imagine it was given to the press with an embargo until SBF was on the plane.
Returning an option sumtype is also typesafe.

Exceptions have to walk up the stack until a suitable handler is found, that handler can't know ahead of time where the value is coming from or if it will ever arrive - just what type it will be if it arrives. Code emitting exceptions also have no knowledge who (if anyone) is going to handle their output. It is a nonlocal goto in reverse.

Compared to regular functional returns there are so many unknowns. I'd prefer returning an option value any day of the week.
A free market can address shortages either way. If supply is so low that the prices are uncomfortably high, you expect to see a lot of people finding ways to make do without. If the price becomes so high that everyone finds ways to do without, then you expect the price to drop again until it finds another equilibrium.

I think your phrasing makes a valid point, but what we're seeing is absolutely expected in a free market, not some sort of aberration.
It's hard for me to fathom being so privileged and then essentially throwing away your life. I have no idea what they were thinking.
> The primary structural issue is that low-income wages have completely stagnated if not fallen with the inflation over the last several decades while wages for mid-upper to ultrawealthy have gone up, dramatically.

This is statistically untrue, though a very popular misconception. Median wages have increased slightly after adjusting for inflation over the past few decades [1]. Minimum wage has wavered a bit since then, but most people are not employed at the federal minimum wage [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0203127200A
There was no control over it since people tweeted about whatever was on their mind, which was sometimes interesting tech things, and the rest of the time was social issues.

You must have joined Twitter quite late then. In the early days people complained that Twitter was silly because people tweeted things like what they were having for breakfast. Those complaints were a form of social control - peer pressure really - that drove people to use Twitter for Serious Things instead.
Agreed - I run an AI-focused instance, but our FAQ explicitly states it's fine to post about non AI stuff. It's more about making a community that shares the interest rather than forcing all conversations to focus on that one interest.
Pintos is a simple operating system framework for the 80x86 architecture
And there are other languages that interop well with and have a FFI for C.
This is essentially the status quo, and it's not helpful. Better is possible.
The sequel Silicoin Wallet cannot be too bad.
I think the actual crypto story lines are too preposterous to be funny. :)
They could done what bwrap does where there is a special CMD flag that tell program to read the flags from FD. So in flatpak which generally has to give a few kbs of flag to bwrap just pass this via FD. Now whether this works on all supported platform is an another question in it self