skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still can't help but always reach for Google Maps by default because it just seems most likely they'd have the most up to date traffic information from all the Android users they're constantly tracking. I don't think Apple really has access to that data?

I live in a smaller city in Canada so I just don't know how Apple would figure out when there's construction or roads blocked off to route me around those things. Google Maps seems to get it done cause of all the live user tracking they do.
At some point I just didn’t download Google Maps on a clean install and it was fine, never felt a reason to go back. Now when I look at it on other devices it seems over complicated to me.
I'm thinking about how to effectively onboard new people into an organization, any good text about that subject? Personally I haven't experienced it myself, since I'm working at the same place as before the pandemic.
This seems necessarily what is going on here. They still have all the human labor except for the last ~10 minutes of driving time.
I think your phrasing is much too strong. Research shows that about 8% of migraine sufferers self-report that they believe that aspartame triggers their migraines [1]. Placebo-controlled studies show mixed results, and only at high doses (Along the lines of what you'd get from drinking 10-14 cans of aspartame-sweetened soda per day), and only for a subset of the migraine-suffering population, and only for those who don't suffer from cyclical migraines or status migrainosus [2].

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2708042/
2: https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
> Chrome's snappiness is mostly UI smoke and mirrors

This can be very effective, which is why optimising complex pages for first contentful draw (perhaps at the expense of overall load speed) can make a huge difference to how your pages/app are perceived.

Back in the dial-up (and early ADSL) days many were convinced that IE was faster because of progress bar trickery: it would actively lie and could inch up to ~85% before the first byte of data had arrived from the server (I forget if it waited for the HTTP request to be sent or if it started edging up immediately upon TCP connection). It still did it right up to the end, though with local connectivity getting faster these days the amount you'll notice it is greatly reduced.
The article mentions Chrome OS Flex, which is a version that doesn't require the Google security chip so it runs on a regular Intel PC.
That is "de-Googled" I suppose, though I am not sure about the security implications that you mention.
As an aside, I am very much against this trend of accusing people of "internalizing" a bad thing such that they aren't aware of it. It's using therapy-speak as an ad hominem attack, and in my view reflects poorly on the speaker. Most of the people on HN are software developers and are conversant in a wide variety of tools on many platforms, and certainly I am (one can infer that from my post). So to assert that I simply don't know what scroll lag looks like is not only absurd, but also fundamentally disrespectful and ignorant. The simple fact is that you do not, cannot, know what other people experience on their machines. Each physical system is characterized by roughly 10e10 bits - the number of combinations is (10e10)!. In other words, wild and alien configurations exist that you've never seen, and cannot imagine. Compared to this, the chances that someone has software that behaves slightly differently on their system than on your system is approaching 1.

Have some humility.
I guess "reading the article" means skip the headline and rush to the comment section to have your own special unique hot take.
This seems to be part of the problem: people want to make choices for themselves, based on their own circumstances, and managers want more one-size-fits-all solutions. I've adopted a hybrid schedule at work, but my commute is easy and short, I like my coworkers, and I have the luxury of my own office. If it were an open-plan space, I'd feel a lot less inclined to be there.
The macrumors link is an article about an article which feels like a waste. Here's the WSJ article macrumors is "reporting" on...

People Have Begun to Love Apple’s Most Hated Product

https://archive.is/9FkNS
This is backwards. C was conceived as a way to do the things programmers were already doing in assembler, but with high(er) level language conveniences. In turn , the things they were doing in assembler were done to efficiently use the "VM" their code was executed on.
A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft
Other important additions would be user mail encryption with GPG and synchronisation of multiple servers to build a fault tolerant service.
Really glad to hear that. My recommendation is to put a lot of emphasis on the "environment" step toward the end of the article. Otherwise, you might find yourself gaining a merely temporary hold of self-control only to get distracted and fall back into a previous pattern of thinking/behavior.
This isn't without downsides, of course. The case of manufacturers adding allergens to food deliberately is alarming in its own way.
The whole point of the green cabs was that Yellow cabs mostly stayed in Manhattan.
I think they're quibbling with the term "desktop" in the article title.
As a rule of thumb, hacks are always worse than initially thought. See https://circles.page/5680a56b5c28af0998656e09/Hacks-worse-th...
Macs and PCs might have different lifecycles that might explain some of the difference; if Macs are used on average twice as long as PCs then 10% of shipments might turn into 20% of running computers. Furthermore I suspect far more PCs end up in places that never browse web and become counted by statcounter but are counted in shipments.
Custom Domains work fine, that’s my primary email. Doesn’t do much for privacy though.
Apple Maps is also the only app that shows the exact entrance and exit to take on public transport in the cities I’ve used it in (Vienna, London: esp. time-saving there with often exits numbered 1–5 without clear indication where they lead to), and the station layout with underground walkways overlayed on the map is also very accurate.

The only annoying UX gripe I have is that it doesn’t show the arrival time, you have to do your own mental math to add the route duration to the start time you’ve entered.
I saw the headline scroll by on my Ars Technica feed[1] but I admit I didn't bother to read it because there's like 10 major security breaches every single day. Just another one to add to the pile, there's more interesting things to read about.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/microsoft-takes-pai...
I've been driving manual for 20 years and never heard of hand brake method being considered a crutch. Although I use it only on the steepest hills, I can usually time the clutch/brake/gas pedal to not need it.

I also don't use heel-toe - don't know what I'd use that for. I only heard about it on the internet several years ago.
This %100. People don't seem to understand how pernicious and subversive the therapy profession is, and how self-replicating. The only point I would correct is the "60 odd years". Its roots go back to the early 1900s and there was an explicit anti-family program from the beginning. Destroy the family, destroy the culture. It's a cultural suicide pill.
It's been a long time since I've called anyone using a phone number. VoIP apps like Discord took over because they don't sound like crap
It seems like we need a better solution, between bookmarking and offline websites on disk, it feels like there is a better way.
That while including Linux in the list, which is not a Unix.
On each tab, towards the right, you'll seen an X. If you click that, you can close a tab.

Alternatively, you can use Ctrl-W keyboard shortcut.

(Sorry!)
I struggled to find a good therapist and had sort of given up for a while, but years later I was able to find a really good one (which happened to be a neuropsychologist) through a referral from my psychiatrist. You might have some luck attempting something similar if you can.
I had a 1973 2.0 for much of the 90s. It was definitely the most fun car I've owned. I foolishly let it go and "upgraded" to a Boxster, which may have been faster and more comfortable (stuff like A/C was a cool innovation for me then), but was a lot less fun.

The 914 cornered like it had talons with which to grip the road. You could be going up curvy roads like Las Flores Canyon in Malibu, cornering at a speed where any other car would let go, crank the wheel over, and the 914 would just happily go exactly where you pointed it.

It wasn't nearly as fast as the Boxster that replaced it, but it felt faster. That rattling acceleration off the line, especially being so low to the ground, that smell of hot oil, the sound of the engine right behind you ... I miss that car.

Yeah, it was in the shop a lot. So was the Boxster. The difference was, of course, that you'd buy your replacement parts from the VW parts catalog rather than the Porsche parts catalog and save yourself 600-800%. I still remember getting a replacement VW window crank for $2 when the Porsche dealer quoted me $75.

I got old and "responsible." I eventually ditched the Boxster for a reliable, truck-like Subaru. And I now live in a city where transit and bike infrastructure is great - I don't even own a car. I don't miss it much. But there's one day a year, when the weather reminds me of that first springtime ride up Angeles Crest Highway in the 914 with the top down, and then I'll admit to some small regret.
I'm empathetic to what you're suggesting — I've published on open science and meta-science specifically, and think open data should be the default norm. The problem with clinical research, though, is that it starts running into conflicting considerations about patient and participant privacy. Even when people aren't patients per se, the focus often involves sensitive information.

You can just say "anonymize it" but that turns out to be more difficult than it seems initially, especially with many questions of interest.

Also, there's often too many opportunities to do science that is of real public benefit that comes with privacy expectations attached for all kinds of reasons. Cases where there is legitimate consented access but an expectation of privacy without data sharing.

People have tried to solve this problem in different ways (for example, methods where someone can analyze data without having access to it directly) and maybe those solutions will lead to a good resolution. But they often have problems of their own (overhead costs associated with providing anonymized remote data analysis), and don't solve all problems (guarantees of absolutely restricted access to personal data).
I heard from a large AI founder recently on this topic. Data is an okay moat, but in this craze we'll see the power of data shrink. Companies are getting enough VC funding ($10m-$100m+) to buy any data they need. A better model could also make up for a lack of better data.

Instead, the best moat is to know that your product isn't a thin replicable wrapper for ChatGPT but instead has a large surface area, with lots of well-built features. Continue building those features at a fast pace, and you can win.
I knew a man who, when he sliced apple to eat it, he would carefully remove area near calyx (the black part at the bottom of the apple), not just calyx but way more than necessary, maybe 1cm around it. When I asked him why he cut off so much, he said:

"Calyx is the remnant of the flower and when apple is in bloom, it is the most susceptible to pests so that's when the farmers apply the most pesticides. The concentration of pesticides is largest near calyx and it partially diffuses into the body of the apple so that's why I remove so much."

Few years later he died of cancer.
I dislike plain aspartame, but most soft drinks here (Ireland, this stuff is weirdly regional) now seem to use it in combination with acesulfame K; this mixture is much less objectionable (apparently acesulfame K on its own is also fairly unpleasant; they mask each others' aftertaste).
Yes but the options are far more limited. Your midlife crisis can't be "I only do solitary mountain trekking now because that's what makes me happiest" when you have children who need you.
Yes, that's important. The funny part about it is that it's probably a lot cheaper than optimizing the engine.
>china isn't liberal, that's why it does so well

The point is, China's economic development massively accelerated once it massively moved toward the direction of market economies. They still have significant centralization, which is why they will likely reach a ceiling on their productivity, after which growth will be much more tepid, but the point stands.
archive.ph can fix that
FF is great, only two things left I go to Chrome for are DevTools and watching Youtube (lower cpu usage, lower battery drain).
sure, but i don't get how trust is actually deceit in those cases. people divorce for many reasons. deceit is not always the issue. and intuitively i'd think that deceit is more likely the richer you are.
>subsidizing the price of their products until users couldn't live without them

A good, more succinct way to describe the bait and switch scheme uber, airbnb etc have performed in their respective markets
Karpathy left Tesla because of the back-to-the-office policy. Now he is working for Microsoft.

Don't be Tesla.
If you read the post, it's clear that is not what happened here. OP set the budget. Wife did not follow it.
> When pressed (especially after a few drinks) almost every city dwelling Dutchie you meet will admit to having stolen a bike, or bought a "second hand" one that's obviously stolen.

Complete bullshit. There are people that steal bikes and there are people that buy bikes they can reasonably assume have been stolen and then there is everybody else, where everybody else is by far the larger fraction.

I've lived in Amsterdam for roughly half of my life and that statement really irks me, especially since you seem to use this as a fig-leaf for your own illegal behavior. The lack of enforcement against bike thieves is vexing, but not as vexing is people that move here and that then engage in criminal acts.
Just so you know, that plus-hack is by no means universal (in addition to the frustrating “you can’t use a plus sign” thing you’ll encounter at various email fields around the net).

Gmail supports it. Microsoft does not. Neither does Yahoo/AOL. It likely was not widely supported in the 90s either. It’s a nice hack but it doesn’t solve every problem.
And it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decwar (which was based on ... which was based on ...), which was played on a timesharing system. It was fairly well known back then, so I wouldn't be surprised if Alto Trek was inspired by it. I played DECwar once, at night, because only then all the terminals were free, and the operator could run this game.
Unmarked police cars are still otherwise pretty standard police cars, based on a handful of models. These are very clearly a full range of normal consumer cars. Undercover cars are a completely different thing and would be nowhere near a police station in the first place.
Someone should have told Zuck that he already owns a Twitter-like platform. It's called Facebook and has been neglected for years.
> * No dangerous shortcuts where I risk to damage my car

Can you elaborate on this? This seems like a personal anecdote and not a software feature. How does one even define that? You're saying that there are special roads that Apple knows not to travel bug Google does? That seems odd, since the real world doesn't really mark its roads like that.
They might be talking about "Smooth Scrolling." But personally I don't see any lag on Firefox.
I'm on the latest kernel (Arch btw) and I still have to manually "sleep" my Dell XPS 9500. To add insult to injury, it's not even "real" S3 sleep. It's Microsoft, "we want access to your machine 24/7" S1 sleep.

To be fair, I haven't spent much time in the last year messing with any of that. I do miss the days when I could shut the lid on my old Thinkpad, it'd sleep, and I'd open it a day later to an i3lock screen, and it would have only drained a percentage point.
But it should be noted that the question in the blog post—share a bit of programming jargon you’ve made up—is not a good question for a Q/A site. It is a “fun to play with” social media engagement question, more suited for Reddit.

The question on the original post seems more grey-area. It isn’t really a math question that can be answered in a math-y way, but it is the sort of thing that some folks might benefit from seeing anyway…
> the average US audience hates both sub and dub content.

The Anglosphere is larger than the US. Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia each have domestic production companies that pump out English-language content that would not require dubbing or subbing.
What Web Can Do Today?
> It seems totally reasonable and not violating the spirit of "open source" to say you can modify and self-host for any purpose, but you can't re-sell.

Personally I would heavily disagree with that, and that statement is something I see as against the spirit of open source. In my view, open source and free software mainly intend to use licensing to put the freedoms and rights of the code & it's users in front of those of it's authors. Being able to re-sell has always been a significant point, and part of the spirit, in free software and open source.
What is preventing someone from having 200 participants, but saying they only had 100 participants, and then only providing evidence for 100 participants?
Does this require some special test environment (special OS, special builds of firefox/chrome)?

Because for me chrome vs firefox (both 115)

- ubuntu desktop: 148(+-2.2) vs 126(+-6.5)
- android phone: 95.8(+-2.0) vs 78.5(+-4.3)

So it looks like chrome is faster and delivers a more stable performance while firefox is slower and more inconsistent on performance
For 2: No you don't? There is no reason to fault snprintf() if you didn't already know the length of the string.

And when you do know the lengths, no, there absolutely is a reason to use snprintf -- convenience. snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s/%s", dirpath, filename); is much easier to write than an equivalent sequence of manual copies with temporary index variables and pointer arithmetic.

Same for snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%.*s/%.*s", dirlen, dirpath, filelen, filename); if you really cared about squeezing the last drop from the API.

For 1: Then don't overflow. It's not practical to process strings that big to allow a 32-bit overflow (or 16-bit overflow, on a 16-bit system), so it's unlikely anybody here has ever been in that situation anyway.

Apart from that I'm not so sure that the API is specified to allow overflow to happen. It's probably an under-specified area of the contract, but I would first check that the result couldn't be -1 for example.

Apart from that, what would be the reasonable specification in case of size_t overflow that would result in a controllable situation?

Sometimes I think, C being probably better formalized than any other language is also a big reason for it being criticized so much. Language nerds just love to take the specs and try to shred it on theoretic grounds without any consideration of the practical.
StabilityAI founder says outsourced coders in India will be out of jobs in 2 y
Why, what's he saying?
Some actionable advice:

Write down what you are doing and put it somewhere within your field of view. I use notepad in the corner of my large monitor. When you forget what you are doing, look at this.

Set a timer for each task you do. Keep it short and make sure it has an audible alert when it's done. When you hear the alert, double check if you’ve gone off task. Look at your note to remind yourself of what you are doing and then get back on task.

If you know what the task is, hear the reminder to get back on task and still don't get back on task, you need emotional tools. This is beyond a single post, but look for a therapist who can help you with the emotional side of ADHD.
Yay!

I’m just about to set up a couple of new domains, and was procrastinating because email. This looks perfect, something new to play with and get email set-up done at the same time :)
Indeed, the impact of AI on businesses cannot be understated. It's streamlining operations, automating repetitive tasks, and providing unprecedented levels of customer service. While some worry about job displacement, I see it as an opportunity for upskilling and focusing on more strategic tasks. As a business owner, one area where AI has been a game-changer for me is communication. I've been using Mightycall, a VoIP system, which leverages AI to handle calls more efficiently, freeing me up to focus on more important tasks. It's affordable, scalable, and has simplified my operations immensely. Here's the link for those interested: https://www.mightycall.com/business-phone-number/. AI isn't about replacing humans; it's about enhancing our capabilities. Let's embrace it and leverage it to its full potential.
The acesulfame potassium does taste a lot better.
Ah, yes, just change human nature. That sounds much easier than speeding up a program.
Sidebery has this!
Some of best, most objective reporting comes from the BBC, PBS, and NPR. (Though the latter two get far less government funding than they used to.)

I still haven't found a better source of investigative journalism than "Frontline".

Not government-funded but government-mandated, C-SPAN also deserves an honorable mention.
I was a little hesitant to switch to Apple Maps but after I did, I cannot go back to using Google Maps.

Everything from the UX to the clarity indicating street names is far superior on Apple Maps.

One thing I always hater about Google Maps is that it doesn’t show you street names when you need them. I was in NYC a while back and I wanted to see the street name and I had to do lot of scrolling to find it.

I also wish Apple has better metadata about businesses, sometimes it shows a restaurant as closed when it’s actually open or vice versa.

Overall I am glad i switched to Apple Maps
I think it was my local isp doing something weird, a different link was also not working I dropped off wifi and everything worked.
Albeit illegal in most places I've lived, I have never heard of anyone getting in trouble for living with someone they aren't married to.
"The camera's AI tracking system"
Am I wrong or is that just an old school Haar cascade bounding box?
Apple Maps is fantastic in Canada, or at least the Toronto area. Even in cottage country hours from urbanity has excellent directions and 3d buildings and structures.
I like Apple Maps over Google Maps for many reasons, but the primary is potentially also the silliest: while driving, the "you" icon is smaller and its location timing is different than Google, making turn-by-turn directions far easier to understand in an area I've never seen before. When I'm trying to see if it's the next street or the street afterward that I'm going to have to reach, the little bit of timing difference that Apple Maps has is incredibly important. Apple Maps lets me look at the map and then at the road and get a good indication of where I'm to turn, whereas my experience with Google Maps has me looking at the map and then realizing that I've already passed the road.
I haven't used Google for much of anything in my personal life for years now. I have an email on gmail that I check sometimes but it's mostly just spam at this point. Beyond that Maps and DuckDuckGo are fine. Plus iCloud I guess. I don't really have a lot of need to share documents or spread sheets.

Maps has definitely gotten better over the years. Their bike instructions aren't great though.
Yeah, fatigue got the better of me there
A century of scholarship says markets are good. This isn't some ideological narrative. It's an evidenced based conclusion, and the consensus position of the social scientists who study this.