skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trials burn a large chunk of the judge's time. The more cases settled out of court, the faster the judge can move through cases, and the less delay between bringing a case and the case being resolved.
What am I missing here? I'm running "Version 102.11.0, first offered to channel users on May 10, 2023", and this is 13 versions ahead?
> Edit; Okay i know i could buy a bigger data pen, but i also do weekly backups to the cloud and am limited to 7mbps upload, 2g takes 40 minutes, so every bit i can shave off helps. But i want to emphasize i realize it won't be important for the majority of users

Curious here: so you continuously upload your Thunderbird executable to the cloud? Why? Most upload+sync solutions worth their salt (FreeFileSync, Syncthing) have competent diffing algorithms that don't upload the same file twice.
Yeah I have here the book published by the folks who do did the Linn Rekursiv computer, which is sorta like the same philosophy as the Lisp Machine but for a highly object oriented system. Tagged memory, hardware supported garbage collection, object-structured memory, etc. I believe it was also positioned as a VMEbus card, etc.

My understanding is Moore's law just ended up making these attempts uneconomical. By the time HW eng and manufacturing is done on the custom components, "orthodox" general MPU capabilities end up leapfrogging it and a well engineered software VM can outperform.

Maybe we could start to see this change again, who knows.

Maybe unikernels running highly tuned VMs on the hypervisor could be this generation's equivalent. Full control over the MMU, tagged pointers all the way down... hmmmmm
> What if the entire training dataset was reworded by an LLM so no one can prove it contains any plagiarized material?

Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design but using LLM instead of humans?
This idea that because a human is sometimes wrong, it's okay for the chatbot to be wrong is one I find to be dangerous and unhelpful. The fact that people are fallible shouldn't encourage us to choose solutions with a high or unpredictable error rate. Some failures have a greater cost (i.e. launching a rocket) than others (delivering a package).

Does the chatbot misdiagnose less than a doctor? When the chatbot does misdiagnose, is it in manner similar to a doctor? In the same way that AI generated images always had weird and creepy fingers, does this chatbot consistently misdiagnose the common cold as brain cancer?

IMHO, without some real data, we're simply experimenting on people. That is wholly immoral.

After some contradictory information on error rates and failure modes, a Google employee is quoted in the article:

'Corrado said that while he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” he believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”'

Yikes! 10-fold expansion, excluding any interaction with people this person really cares about. Let us remember that this is a 10x times increase over the current "places where chatbot are beneficial in healthcare", that is to say zero.
I obviously don't begrudge the fact Thunderbird currently works for you. But there are a few issues with the current UI:

* Dark mode didn't exist for a long time, and I'm glad it does, but messages are still displayed brightly.

* The list of emails always has a columns and a header; there's no simplified vertical view.

* There's a threading view, but IIRC it doesn't combine sent and received messages into the same thread view.
Luckily git is actually distributed underneath. Unluckily the issues aren't in the git repo.
Off course they do. They make (some/many) users feel uneasy while using it. Humans love to use things that look pretty and feel "right".

A well designed UI also makes it easier to understand the UI, what belongs together, where one area ends and another area starts.
Wow. The first few paragraphs read like a story from The Onion.
> if you believe musk

Ah, well, that's the rub, isn't it?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658486
Thanks! I'll start using this for sure. Shame that it may not be integrated any time soon, but this separation looks basically good enough.
Infosec people post findings(malware/vuln), iocs, pocs,etc... as twitter threads. A lot of times that is the only public documentation there is.
Okay, that's an interesting data point that I genuinely didn't know about; thanks for posting.

But my original argument still debunks PBS's claim that sorting and free market economics is somehow the problem.

I still feel like I'm not personally at fault in my role as a consumer if I use plastic and take it to the recycling center assuming them to deal in good faith.
Hard to imagine that pure-HTML SVG is really slower than Canvas which relies on JS..
Arduino is a platform, not a microcontroller. ESP32 is technically a microcontroller, but it's an SOC... which is not the kind that generally gets used for industrial applications in the field I'm in.

You shouldn't assume I get to choose the platform I'm working on. That's not how it works where I'm at, and if (when) I do get to choose, programming language is unlikely to be near the top of the list of criteria.
HTTPS also prevents your ISP, your government, or other people on your network from viewing (or, in rare cases, modifying) the pages and content that you browse.

So no, a blog post talking about ray tracing doesn't inherently need to have HTTPS, but it's a good practice for any and all websites to implement it, to protect user privacy and prevent tampering. Nothing bad is likely to happen if you read that site, though, so don't worry about it if you're just a regular user.
Thing is, these people already have better options.

Enterprise "businessy" people already have fully managed enterprise Windows, large education fleets and low computing needs organizations can be served by Chromebooks or iPads.

We're the ones stuck in a state where linux is still too compromised, Windows lacks polish, and now macos has iOS-ified to the point it becomes an hinderance but without getting the real advantages (touch support etc.).

I'm patientely waiting for a shift to happen, in the meantime jumping to Windows looks like the more pragmatic solution, how crazy it may sound.
Since you have the foundations set, if you aim to land in a Software Engineering career path start reading source code of Open Source projects that you like and gradually contribute. By the time you graduate, you will develop a good referral network and engineering chops.
I always get worried thinking if I'm the asshole, I wouldn't want my kid to be one too.

If you were, you would.
I was so up for reading that but holy crap the interface on my phone browser.

Like I don't actually mind ads at all, if they're streamed in like the other content and offered as an option. I don't even mind flashy graphics that try to grab my attention. Fair play.

But this idea that because I clicked the bait that I'm gonna stick around to watch an ad or deal with a pop-up that I have to wait for it to load... We can't live like this.
I'm downvoting them as I see them. Donate or contribute or offer constructive feedback, don't just complain.
As I understand it, Thunderbird is essentially Firefox turned into a mail client. So whatever FF is using. There's probably still some XUL left here and there, but only because they haven't gotten around to replacing it yet.
+1, the whole point of a sparkline is to compactly show a trend. Packing a gazillion data points is not the right use
I have a lot of trouble taking Betterbird seriously... The whole thing feels like a revenge based project by a disgruntled former contributor.

https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/moz-governance.pdf
https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/permanent-ban.pdf
https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.governance/c/RQHR3eFAYZ8

YMMV
Sure. Do you mean we should stop caring?
Meanwhile, in busytown…millions of developers will wake up on Monday morning, sit down to their work and make something using the best tools they know.

If it works for you and your team, it works.
Assuming you're talking about gun silencers/suppressors, the US has a very confusing history with them in general.

The way in which they made it into Congress's list of heavily regulated weapons is an interesting story of inept politicians at work. I've also never understood why suppressors would be seen as anything other than a good thing, if we wanted to regulate them it'd make more sense to require them for carry guns rather than make them hard to get.

Shooting an unsuppressed handgun without hearing protection is really bad for your hearing, and carrying a surpressed pistols also much trickier if we're concerned with how many guns are legally carried in public.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
https://archive.is/3MbI7 (the site blocks ad-blockers, so ad-blocker users might find this URL helpful)
Of all the possible takes that is, charitably, the dumbest. Your basic assertion is that contrarians are always right which begs the question that all orthodoxy must be a conspiracy.

Sometimes contrarians are right about things. But when they are they bring receipts. They have evidence, repeatable experiments, falsifiable hypotheses, and general academic rigor.

Flat Earthers aren't intimidating to anyone. They're tiring. Like all good conspiracy theories Flat Earth conspiracy theories are unfalsifiable. The Flat Earthers' lack of evidence is defended by them as evidence of some sort of orthodox conspiracy. Evidence contrary to their stupid ideas, including empirical observations, are also just labeled as some orthodox conspiracy.

It's not edgy, funny, or even interesting. It's just fucking stupid. It's a handful of bad faith trolls and a lot of scientifically illiterate boobs that decided to wrap their identities around Internet memes.
People designing it but not using it is not a problem?
I would say right from the beginning, even before MS bought it, it was always at the very best second tier
It’s not. It’s also an extremely effective way to protest against things you don’t like. I don’t use a single FB product and haven’t over ten years. That includes React. And I am all the better for it. Never buying a Tesla will be quite easy. Not that I would’ve before because I think they’re overpriced for the quality.
It absolutely is only C on the microcontrollers I'm doing work on.

I don't understand why you're trying to cherry-pick like this.
Thanks for this. I used orgmode for many years, and love it. My main issue is that I travel and found that using the mobile versions unpleasant. Obsidian looks very slick.

If I ever went back to a desk job I’d switch back to orgmode instantly. For now it’s OneNote + whatever is nearby that I can write on (and maybe Obsidian!).
I saw this exact same pattern before. I think it's actually common, because I've also heard people in favor of micro services point to this design as a point in their favor.

One reason always given is the ability to replay chunks if the system goes down, at least for Kafka.
Previous USA president spent a lot of time lamenting immigrants at the southern border.
You're populating a tiny template with a tiny list of numbers to produce a tiny plaintext document that will cache like Scrooge McDuck.

Why do you think this is going to be a problem?
If the UI platform you're using supports themes, this can usually be fixed with that. Provide one default theme that looks perfectly polished, and another more compact one for power users.
Sorry, I don't remember the exact year but it feels 10years ago roughly but everyone that was on forums and irc started moving to discord and slack. Now I have 4-8gb ram between those two apps and they routinely hold chat logs and features hostage for money.
<Ahem> A list with a link to the most-commented post would be really cool for, uh..., other people who might not have seen them all.
I'm not clear from your comment whether you're proposing how things should be, or how things actually are in your experience?

(Your vision isn't the case in the [European] Apple stores I have experience of...)
I should not have to say this, but "best efforts" is not enough and is very offensive to every user still relying on your services. You had a duty of results, not merely "best efforts", to reach every-single-one of your active users before hitting shift-delete on their data.
More concretely: you can add an axiom to standard PA that says, "There exists a number that is the Godel number of a proof of G." The resulting system is consistent, and includes a new kind of number that is not a natural number (because you can prove that N is not a proof of G for any N that is a natural number). It's analogous to adding an axiom that says, "There exists a number whose successor is 0", which introduces a new kind of number that we call "negative numbers." Math is extended in familiar interesting directions like this all the time by adding axioms like "There exists a number whose square is 2" (which gives you irrational numbers) or "there exists a number such that the successor of its square is 0" (which gives you imaginary numbers).
thumbs up

Also it does not appear on the front page any longer (but that is where I saw it).
Hey, author here.

I get your point. The internet is filled with pseudo-gurus that try to sell you stuff by writing shit-posts.

I’ve been writing for over 10 years. Many posts were scrapped and thrown away. I’m an autodidact, so I learned from blogs like mine. I try to write quality content only, it’s not always possible, but I try.

The coaching session you mentioned, is indeed free. The newsletter, is free. And you are not obligated to sign to any of them, you can just enjoy the content if it helps you. I tried to design the blog to be as clean as possible, and that posts will be its center.

I also believe that people should be compensated for their efforts. It feels like software engineering is the only industry where people don’t want pay. If I write - I should do it for free, without cringy banners. If I make a software - I should give it away for free with source code attached. If I mentor - I should do it for free. But that’s not how the world works. It’s perfectly ok to give away content for free, which will help to promote other services. And if this makes you anxious, then you should avoid that type of content.
> And because entropy always increases

But a specific system can expend energy to locally reduce entropy (or at least to offset decay).
> I don't think this is impossible. It is hard to scale a community to billions of people, but large social media sites are an existence proof that it is possible.

Large social media sites are a pale shadow of an actual community. These sites love to throw that word around to get you to sign up, then act like properly moderating their sites to actually feel like a community is impossible.
Legal tech software founder shares lessons learned as Logikcull turns 19
> But that would probably damage the company forever, and that's bad.

If they don't wanna do it they could just spin off a 'water filter' division and then bankrupt it. Problem solved!
And, in subsequent paragraphs, also Dan Ariely (he).
I thought there was more to the calculation of N's complement. Something about adding one to the result. It doesn't seem like something you can easily perform using inspection.
If you did not enjoy the Apple Store experience you should absolutely not go there again. You are in charge of your time and attention. Only you get to decide how to spend it.

I don’t have the same negative experience as others in this thread with the Apple Store, but I understand it. I would liken it to a car dealership, which I refuse to do business with after it once took five hours to buy a car from one. Lots of people are totally fine with it, but it’s not for me.
JFC, the first image makes me turn mad. The UI was just fine, leave it alone.

Long term (25y) of Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird user here.
This should have been disclosed responsibly. This could put a lot of instances at risk, which is gold dust for competitors.
Education interventions are historically some of the least effective endeavors of any public works project.

Countless attempts to spend beacoup bucks to bridge racial gaps in educational attainment and IQ have been made and none have ever worked.

Given the bet available evidence, not much education is necessary to bring out the potential of a population in terms of attainment and IQ scoring.
(Sorry if this is too far off-topic or trite, but I had the fun idea that cloth going through a loom is also a type of sequential-access tape storage. If woven from conductive threads, a read-head is nothing more than testing "does this thread form a closed circuit?", and a write-head is the loom operation of "mechanically transpose these two threads". If you can scroll cloth non-destructively forwards and backwards, that's the core of an electromechanical Turing machine).

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I think that's missing a 0.
I don't have a problem with how its written now, their statements on privacy seem to conflict with other statements they make about the future of the product. They seem very ambitious in way that a simple note taking app will not satisfy.
You’re confusing engagement with action. Nothing you mentioned will be solved with tweets.
I have been getting this error from archive.is for two days now, I am unsure if this is on my end or what:

> An error occurred during a connection to archive.is. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
Another great read on the subject
"Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life - Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52737
I like how you conveniently left out that you're using a retina display until maybe your fifth post complaining about this. It's possible that none of the developers can afford to buy a $2000 laptop for testing. If the icons are obviously fuzzy on your machine, grab a screenshot, post a bug on the bug tracker, and let it be. I assume also that you are already a substantial monthly donor. If not, then I think all this complaining comes across as rather entitled.
That does sound like false advertising, yeah... I don't know how much of the opioid crisis is due to reduced access to opioids though. Once someone is forced to buy from the dark web once, they've now learned how to use the dark web.

I know people who only became curious about the dark web after I used it a couple times. It just spreads, I guess.

The reason they were curious is because after some really invasive dental surgery (with lasers!) they were given a laughably small number of pills, a supply that would only last about 3 days at the recommended schedule, for an operation that the doctors know and warned them would hurt for around a week after.

I still believe harm reduction is the answer, but we're still years (possibly decades) away from a legal implementation. And it's not a full solution because you'll still have junkies, but it might become easier to help them once they don't have to totally hide themselves.
> It was a weird experience. My colleagues just had no ability to reason about the "physics" of what computers did. I think they mostly had Rails backgrounds, and I wonder if you just don't exercise that muscle much doing Rails.

Same experience here. I feel like I'm always repeating myself when explaining to other developers why we should avoid moving data around unnecessary and prefer to operate directly in the database when necessary, specially when it comes to large data migrations. Also important is why it is bad to do a bunch of small operations instead of batching them in chunks closer to the page size (8 kB).
In my experience most communities like this are quite unreceptive to feedback – both in hoops you have to jump through to give it, and in terms of attitude from maintainers. I haven't engaged with the Thunderbird feedback process so this may be unfair to them, but it's a broad perception I have and so I think organisations that do want the feedback or do want first-time contributors need to push hard to make that happen.
I'm not sure, does Gnome have image preview in its file browser yet?
Stephane Graber Departs Canonical
Is there any empirical evidence for these claims?

It seems to me writing about learning a new programming language makes you better at writing, not necessarily better at learning the new programming language
Information density can be very overwhelming and a factor for stress. Often a lower density is totally enough and less stressful to use. Providing an optional "compact mode" for people with smaller screens or who prefer denser layouts would be my way to go.
Not everything that we learn has to be learned in college. Not sure if 100% accurate, but a quick google search shows WVU tuition is about $9k for in-state, $25k out of state... does it really make sense for someone to spend $100k (or $36k, for West Virginia residents) to learn puppetry? If that's your thing, great, why not go apprentice yourself somewhere to learn that skill instead?

Or offer a class or two in puppetry, that someone as a theater major can take. Not everything that isn't STEM is "liberal arts" - as this article says, puppetry by itself is pretty niche, and the point of liberal arts is to be more broad.
I also share this concern. I hope it at least beats out naive implementations of these algorithms, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was far from SOTA or standard tooling.
This is cool!

For those who don't know, there's a font called Sparks that uses glyphs to create sparklines: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks
> Musk's Twitter apparently hasn't paid many bills since then, as the company is facing more than 20 lawsuits over allegedly unpaid bills for rent and various services. Twitter is also facing lawsuits from ex-employees over unpaid severance and bonuses, and a lawsuit from former CEO Parag Agrawal and other ex-executives over unpaid reimbursements.

Sounds like this is a move of rage or desperation
Last time I tried to use Wayland was indeed quite some time ago. I should try again!
This can vary by industry. The US has very burdensome financial regulations but generally more lax privacy and speech regulations. So a fintech might be cheaper to operate with compliance in the EU but a social network might be cheaper to operate with compliance in the US.
I feel like half of this comment section are senior UX designers. If that is the case, why not pitch in and work on Thunderbird directly?