skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> VSCode telemetry can be fully disabled.

Well, how do you know that? How do you verify, that all telemetry is really turned off, without being able to reproduce the build? How many people truly turn it off after install? How do you know whether there are any other unwanted parts in the software you just installed? What about the next update? Do you want to run a package sniffer after each update, over the course of a month or so, checking all traffic in detail, to be sure that it only ever communicates to the outside world, when there was a justified purpose?

You are giving away sovereignty of your own device/machine.

> Who cares? Most users don’t need a reproducible build of software they want to use, they need working software.

It it this kind of mentality that is the problem. Your "who cares" is not going to fly, because it leads right into the abyss of surveillance and spyware. "who cares" is the basis for not being informed about ones tech choices. The basis for not being aware of issues regarding privacy. At a properly managed software making company it would also result in you being told, that it is part of your job to care. To answer the question, if there was any question: I care. Informed people care. People with ideals care.

The issue with not caring is also, that organizations will draw the wrong conclusions. They might impose rules, which force me to use some tool I do not want to use, simply because "everyone is OK with it", while those people all don't even care. If they don't care, they should not get a say in the matter and should not be a decision basis or a point of reasoning for making a decision. This is how the collective uninformedness and carelessness results in bad decisions. Basically the majority drags down the minority, for the worse of all of us.

> Calling people “useds” isn’t going to help your case.

Well, that is what we are, when we allow ourselves to be spied on. They use us and our data to drive data mining, profiling and ultimately profits. Besides, I wouldn't throw it into faces in 1-on-1 conversations, for the sake of a constructive conversation, even if it is the truth, because it runs the risk of the other person (a) not even understanding what it means, (b) thinking they misheard and replace with "users", and (c) risking them to be offended and turning deaf.
Thanks. That was the issue in my case.

The default configuration is: * Mark as read after selection changes

Which in my opinion is really weird. I've been using email for 20 years and no other client I've used works this way. It's so inefficient since you need to click into a previously read email to mark a different email as read.

But, I did switch things to mark it as read when chosen which fixes it.
> GJ 486 b takes less than 1.5 Earth days to orbit its star and is probably tidally locked

Are there any discovered planets where a year is confirmed to be a day?
I know it's hard for people to take the time to read the article when they could just be typing inaccurate responses.. but from the article:

> While this won’t affect the default browser setting in Windows, it’s yet another part of Microsoft 365 and Windows that totally ignores your default browser choice for links. Microsoft already does this with the Widgets system in Windows 11 and even the search experience, where you’ll be forced into Edge if you click a link even if you have another browser set as default.

The issue is that O365 is going to launch the link within the app (say Outlook) which is going to be running it on Edge, which lets them completely ignore whatever browser you would rather be using.

It's like every app on iOS that is shipping with a safari wrapper so it doesn't have to actually launch safari and give up its snooping abilities.
I really like Brave, is there any reason to actively switch over to something like Arc?
If it's the second frame of the three-panel strip, then, as another commenter hints, the trick is not to double back. You must complete a circuit around the map. I got frustrated and quit long before trying this until reading that comment, but it (arguably) pays off.
5 invites here https://arc.net/gift/9534a0b0
Russia claims Ukraine attempted attack on the Kremlin with drones
You seem to be saying that because it misunderstands certain things, everything else that is evidence of correct understanding also doesn't count as real "understanding". I don't see how this is a coherent position to hold, as we can just as easily apply it to humans who have misunderstood something.

Edit: and I also don't see why it has to be so black-and-white. IMHO there is no problem with saying it understands certain things, and doesn't understand other things. We are talking about general intelligence, not god-like omniscience.
I'm excited about Windows 95, the world wide web, the potential of the world wide web for e-commerce, CD-ROM-based games like Myst, PDAs, digital cameras, 3D graphics and animation.

Sorry, I'm hallucinating.
RPG (1959) is almost as old as Fortran and is still in use!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG
For Fortran, it is really a niche. This is a part of what I am doing for a living. For the first time, I proposed my service on the traditional "who is hiring/looking for work/freelancer" to see if some people reacted to it because of a previous discussion about this report[0].

For the moment nothing, I am not really surprised. It is quite a lot of you know someone who... kind of niche. To port or upgrade some scientific code from Fortran to a new language, you need to have some minimal, some times extensive, domain knowledge, Fortran knowledge and target language knowledge.

It is hard to find the right persons, with not that many persons, you do not want to start a big migration and lose the head developer on the way, etc. This is why if you read in the report and the forums, what people want is to "reboot" the community/ecosystem and put new life in it. But this is also hard if the ecosystem starts to fossilize.

I love and really enjoy working in Fortran, but as a paradox, because of the mentioned situation, it is not that easy to find Fortran work.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738763
From the react docs: "it makes your website slow and isn’t suitable for production"

I don't really like blanket statements like this or think they are appropriate. It's so counter to the spirit of the web.

Like, what does 'slow' mean in an absolute statement like this? It depends entirely on the system and usecase. It's just code at the end of the day. If it works for you, go for it!
Create recipes using just ingredients in your kitchen
Agreed, I disable WebRTC, and run uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
Came to mention that!
There is always a Tom Scott video for any topic :D
Another 5 invites are here
https://arc.net/gift/b147d620
There is more text here: https://thebrowser.company
You seem to be implicitly assuming that "foreign investment" == good. This is sometimes (or even often true) but it's not like it's without tradeoffs
A fiery end? How the ISS will end its life in orbit
> Yet as a small company compared to MS or Google

It's not about the overall company its about browser team. I'd love to see a comparison of the actual sizes of the teams creating browsers, isn't Safari only a handful of (admittedly extremely talented) people?
From what I understand: GHC takes care of the parsing of the source file, error reporting, etc. Then the AST (or an intermediate representation) is passed to the of the Mu compiler, which performs whole-program optimisations.
> It should be easy to make ChatGPT also read news in other languages

This should indeed be easy, and given how good it is at translation, very interesting - taking too news sources and national broadcast services; rate as you do now - filter the top, summarize in English, store and dedup on similarity vector - it would be great. For example i don't read any Chinese or African news sources - but it would be great to have them in the mix.

Might even index on similarity first then ask for a summary on all different reports on the same story?
But they held "value" that was "gone" from one day to the other which triggered the financial crisis.

In reality they weren't worth anything but the realization that those values were worthless was the trigger. But those values were on the balance sheets and should therefore be visualized as well.
The author has an interesting game about "trust": https://ncase.me/trust/
You really picked poor thing to try to bash on since .NET ecosystem is one of the most sanest out of all ecosystems

Give me something as sane, coherent and friendly as .NET ecosystem for C and C++ and I would be willing to pay for that
Strange choice linking to the Mirror version of this story.
Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning
The perpetual hole in all these stories about the end of dollar hegemony in my mind comes down to alternatives - and there are no large scale alternatives (SGD.DKK.CHF etc are fine for me, but not global trade). People are going to feel safer in yuan, rupees, or real? Unlikely.

If southern Europe gets its act together, or china trades autocracy for democracy and rule of law, then maybe the dollar has something to worry about.
Arc is pretty unique in that is does away with bookmarks and instead sorts your tabs into three "tiers"

- Favorites, pretty much like pinned tabs in every other browser, but these feel more durable, accidentally navigating away is not a thing and Arc doesn't really open multiple windows.

- Pinned, which are bookmarks and tabs at the same time.

- Today, which are ephemeral tabs that are automatically purged after 12 hours, but easy to bring back.

It almost feels like they managed to make a hybrid of a browser and something like Rambox, and I do like it for that. It is great for muscle memory (favorite/pinned tabs always in the same place) and easy context switching. I wouldn't call it revolutionary, but it certainly is a lot more polished than other niche browsers. For now they also don't add too many "why is this here" features, which are hard to avoid in any browser these days.

It's great for a particular type of person: Someone who uses a lot of web apps but never cleans out any of their tabs, except all at once to start from scratch.
> logic underpins everything we think.

I hate to break it to you, but humans aren't thinking logically, or exclusively logically. In fact I would say that humans are not using logic most of the time, and we go by intuition most of our lives (intuition is shorthand for experience, pattern matching and extrapolation). There is a reason of why we teach formal logic in certain schools....
Is it really much of a shift? Last I checked, Minecraft servers had done pretty well with the generation prior.
Apple has an ads unit, there have been multiple other times when they have shown that user privacy is a thing that really only applies to other companies.
The Chinchilla scaling law describes, apart from the training data size, the optimal number of parameters for a given amount of computing power for training. See

https://dynomight.net/scaling/
> You can replace any of Math definition with code.

You often (but not always!) can replace a math definition with code—but either your code is sufficiently precise that it's just another way of phrasing the definition, or you're in the analogous situation to using a language defined by its implementation instead of a specification. And there's plenty of useful space for such languages—but they aren't formally specified languages. Math that isn't formally specified isn't math, in any sense that a mathematician would recognize—which is not to say that it can't be useful.
I’ve been using Arc for the past 4 months or so and it’s so good that when logging into my old comp and realizing I was going to use Safari or Chrome I immediately went and downloaded it.

The sidebar took me about a week to get used to. The tan manager and “launcher” cmd+t UX is a delight.

I actually look forward to Thursday’s new releases to see what features they’ve shipped. I can’t wait for a good version of their iOS browser (the current is just too bare feature-wise for me right now).

I think I would end up paying a modest monthly fee to use arc on all my machines. It’s such a refreshing take on using the web.

I think I have 3 invites left if anyone wants one. Just let me know
I don't see any reason why someone would rather use this proprietary python sibling instead of using Julia or Nim.
That is why its sadly, licensing.
Yeah, cross-domain public caching had mostly theoretical benefits and never really worked that well in praxis. Glad browser vendors moved away from it.
I assume because it's "next door" to the landfill, so a lot of the logistics is already nearby. It also doesnt interfere with a bunch of civilians showing up and getting in the way of large, commercial trucks and regular landfill traffic.
But there's no programming at the type level. The programming in the article is at the level of values (insofar as what is shown.).
I would think no. Even inside each single country, it is problematic to reach a generally accepted definition. Internationally it's basically impossible in my opinion.
I may be wrong, but if I remember correctly Standard Charter uses their own “dialect” called Mu[1].

1 - https://icfp21.sigplan.org/details/hiw-2021-papers/14/Haskel...
The mental state you describe is not at all unusual for someone working in tech. Try working in the public sector (gov't / academia / non-profit etc) . You won't get paid as much (although you might get a decent pension and other perks). There may be a certain amount of beaurocracy / other nonsense. However, chances are you get to work on interesting stuff with nice people, and since the profit motive is missing, the stress and crazy deadlines are less. You get to do things of long-term value, and deliver things for the sake of delivering them, rather than to get customers paying £/$ by time X. Flexible or even part-time working policies can be more common too. I've worked more in private sector than public, but now in public hopefully for long-term. Its certainly worth spending some time in private sector, but public sector has. a lot to offer too especially as you get older and/or have kids, etc. Good luck :)
You mean YOU don't consider SVG a graphics API.
But it's right there in the name, dude.

If the article is going to bring in Canvas, it should bring in SVG.
SVG shares more with opengl than Canvas does.
While Haskell jobs may appear scarce, Standard Chartered is often recruiting for Haskell devs:

https://discourse.haskell.org/search?expanded=true&q=Standar...
> I've not seen anything opening in Chrome for years, if ever.

Except for the things that you just said open in the chrome webview, right?
Apple's reasoning is that browser engines need JIT to run JS with acceptable performance, but if they were to give apps JIT capabilities, that would significantly open up the attack surface.
He probably means that GHC will parse and type check faster. Switching the front-end doesn't sound like it will circumvent the whole program nature of their compilation. But I'm just guessing.
That surely can't be correct? An orbit of literally 36 hours would mean it would be going much too fast
What doesn't make sense is that what keeps UK trained doctors working within the UK?

It's goodwill. They could improve their lives immensely with a move to Australia, and New Zealand. If they are willing to do another round of exams on par with their finals they can go to Canada and the US.

That's what it means when I say it's staffed by goodwill.
tagging myself in here as well
You seem to have a very dim view of cities as medieval hellholes where people are dying of plague in streets filled with sewage under skies choked with soot. Modern cities are not unhealthy places. Life expectancy in New York City[0] compares favorably to most states[1], and this is 2020 pandemic data, where you might expect cities to fare relatively badly.

[0]:https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2023/2020-vital-s...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_expectancy/li...
Encarta 96 was incredible.
Wow, that's fascinating! Thanks for your insight. I'd love to live in an area with słup, so many opportunities come to mind. In the US/UK the closest you get to that is Taskrabbit, but there's obviously strong limits on what you can do without getting into trouble.
It's not quite a proper port of the windows version?

I don't think it's supposed to be.

At a big tech conference about ten years ago, a Microsoft exec said that new Office features are tried out on Macs before getting ported to Windows.

I don't know if that's still the strategy today, but it was around 2011.
I've never managed to get sleep or hibernate to work correctly, so aside from the fact that I have to shut the thing all the way down if I want to leave it unplugged overnight, or just always leave it plugged in, it's fine.

I think it might have to do with my using full-disk encryption, but I've been unwilling to go all the way through attempting a fresh install to fix.
Thanks, I botched pasting it.
Sorry, just to add: Those new OSes and new languages and the entire growing ecosystem of computer engineering may be beautiful. And this statement can be viewed as throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

But it's important recognizing the mechanisms and patterns. And recognizing that managing it differently may lead to different outcomes afterwards.
It's a matter of effort. Counterfeit bluray are useless without the keys, counterfeit cheese is indistinguishable to the average consumer. You're not going to have the best and brightest biologists in the world competing for the glory of cracking Cheese DRM.
I would think that programming skill increases by programming. The design, implementation and debugging of increasingly complex applications and tools. If blogging improves organizing one’s thoughts and theoretical knowledge it should help. But doing is best.
> I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle.

It was a losing battle to make anything other than Internet Explorer a first-class citizen on the web—until the alternatives became so much better that users and developers switched because they wanted to, not because they should. (Which is to say, keep up the fight—today's it a Google monopoly, but people do look at their usage stats, and a minuscule percentage using a non-Chrome browser is still better than 0.)
> I like to joke there are platforms that were so ahead of their time they are still ahead of ours. The AS/400 is one such thing

In some ways really advanced, in many ways really backward.

An “object-oriented operating system” in which the OS vendor can define dozens of classes (object types), even for their most obscure add-on products-but third party vendors and end-customers can’t define any at all, they can only use the ones IBM defines (very rarely, third party vendors might have some kind of deal with IBM, where IBM engineering defines a class for them)

An “object-oriented operating system” with no concept of inheritance - except many of the classes have defined some kind of “subtype” field/attribute which amounts to the same thing, except in an adhoc rather than general way.

Has this great “technology independent machine interface” (TIMI) idea-programs are compiled to byte code, and the OS translates the bytecode to machine code before running it - so moving a binary to a new CPU architecture doesn’t require a recompile. Except turns out the latest version of that bytecode (the ILE version) is completely undocumented outside of IBM, and IBM won’t release that documentation (except possibly under NDA and with $$$$ license fee)-which means nobody but IBM can write a compiler for it. Documentation is available for the original late 70s/early 80s version of the bytecode (OPM), but it has problems supporting languages like C (it works much better for 1970s versions of COBOL or RPG). Nowadays IBM will say “use PASE instead”-which is an AIX emulation environment, meaning kissing the whole bytecode idea goodbye and compiling to POWER machine code

A system whose native filesystem doesn’t even support nested directories (which it calls “libraries”)-although it has since added a POSIX filesystem that does, but lots of core functionality uses its native filesystem instead

To say nothing of EBCDIC, 5250 green screens, or RPG

And the OS itself is written in a grab-bag of different languages, including Modula 2, and two different top secret IBM-only dialects of PL/I - although the newer parts are written in C++ instead

But yeah it has also got other cool stuff like capabilities, tagged memory and a single level store (although many apps now run in private address spaces instead)
Django also prepends the app name, giving you e.g. `auth_user` instead of `user`, side-stepping the likely collisions with reserved SQL keywords.
I'm not sure why you think that makes me feel any better? The problem still exists, you've just kicked the can down the road. I'm also not excited about ripping out walls in a fairly large house just to run 10/3 so i can get a 240v connection to an electric cooktop at some point in the future.
> SVG shares more with opengl than Canvas does.

SVG is declarative.

Canvas and OpenGL/Vulkan are imperative.
List of sunken nuclear submarines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...

Edit: none of these seem to be "missing". I think they meant that there are a number of unrecovered (in some cases even intentionally scuttled) nuclear submarine wrecks.
And it is still customizable
Log 10, and the scale doesn't start st zero as if to compensate.

What i find with graphs is that they scales and ranges are often chosen to look "alright" and always to communicate an intended message.

Aside those datasets anyway what's truely going now is most likely under the surface still. RemindMe! In a year.
Couldn’t find that. Then sounds like it’s an ion and explains the ambiguity.
I wonder why they would opt to use fake generated images while real suffering in the world on these issues is very documented in form of horrible images already. Isn't that already enough for them?
As US and western customers are getting poorer for the first time in decades they are just starting to notice the inflation. The inflation was there before and companies were milking it at least since 2000, but since customers still had money nobody was really thinking about it. Of course only recently inflation got as high as it is, because of all the money printing done in the pandemic and a bit before.
I learned Fortran back in 2016 for a HPC course. It was indeed quick to learn but the resources online at the time for understanding compiler and runtime errors were scant compared to more popular languages. I mostly referenced pdfs of old books, and course notes scattered across various academic pages of ~vintage for learning the language and had sparse SO answers for help with gfc errors.

This quote from the article rings true to me:

>First, the lack of a standard library, a common resource in modern programming languages, makes mundane general-purpose programming tasks difficult. Second, building and distributing Fortran software has been relatively difficult, especially for newcomers to the language. Third, Fortran does not have a community maintained compiler like Python, Rust or Julia has, that can be used for prototyping new features and is used by the community as a basis for writing tools related to the language. Finally, Fortran has not had a prominent dedicated website – an essential element for new users to discover Fortran, learn about it, and get help from other Fortran programmers.
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Fortran (1957) is older than RPG (1959)