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I think the HN homepage shares this problem, have you tried the Mobile view?

It's accessible from the navbar. That should scale correctly for your device.
Yes, it is too much power for them. Power which they abuse by fingerprinting us. Browser vendors agree with me: they reduced the power of developers by lying to Javascript when they tried to check link styles.

Do you think otherwise?
maybe those employees shouldn't have screwed up the county then.
The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
That's a shame that it's still and increasingly a one-way, expensive, usually water-down, specialization guessing game without trials of what's on the other end.

Also, an increasing requirement in some fields of a Master's or PhD is doubling down on the filtering system. That started to be a thing in the 2000's.

The irreducible question is: What should be done to fix or replace it? Fixing it with a fundamentally better alternative seems superior than the continued gamification of USN&WR pole positions. Also, college tuition needs upper limits because too many universities are tantamount to international labor human traffickers.

I posit there ought to be cheaper undergrad colleges that are more rigorous, more practical, and more of a funnel filter. That is, the prestige isn't derived from acceptance but filtering for excellence like some professional postgraduate degrees. You can go through various paths and retry as many times as you'd like. The point would be specific, strategic preparation of students rather than grade inflation, honor code proctor-less examinations, partying, and endowment and CIP embiggening at the expense of student debt peonage.
I'm not really happy with the number of times I have recently had to resort to sending it SIGUSR2 to force it to stop whatever it's doing when I re-indent some code in a file of Typescript. It happens about once a day. When it does I quickly save all my work and restart. I haven't looked too closely at it yet but from what I've seen in backtraces I suspect there's a bad pattern match situation in there somewhere, like what you might get from the exponential behavior of a poorly written regex.

I'm also not happy about the fact that I can no longer open large C++ files like https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScriptCompiler/blob/ma... in C++ mode without scrolling becoming so sluggish as to be unusable. I either have to disable C++ mode or open them in an older version.

It's good that emacs is getting some long needed attention, but I'm sad the latest version isn't as usable for me.
I think you’re misunderstanding and confusing “old web” with “small web”.
Even so, many of the languages have it similarly short, it either has n or o, or at least would rhyme in some way with no.

Of course there are exceptions, but all the examples in this article are dumb because they're just mostly modern words where the english version of it just gets copied. I guess I'm just more interested in the old stuff.
It's not exactly the "fairest" policy but maybe there's something to the approach used to qualify investors? Allow drugs to be sold to 'qualified' users (aka persons with a demonstrable net worth). Ostensibly this would try and keep drugs out of the hands of people who abuse them to the degree of losing functionality in society while letting 'responsible' people enjoy them.

Linking money to rights so directly grates with my idealistic sensibilities, but my realist sensibilities are against policies that would exacerbate the homeless situation.
The government is using tax money to fund the creation of consumer products, while consumers vote with their wallets that they don't want those products. Doesn't sound very democratic to me.
Two main things:

1. It sits in the "money for AI" fund from me. Ie it competes with ChatGPT. While it uses OpenAI in the background, i have not found it to be as complete and useful as ChatGPT directly. I did cancel ChatGPT for a couple months to try out Phind instead because Phind can search, and i find that missing from ChatGPT of course (at least until they have the module back). I'm on the pro plan of Phind, fwiw.

Hypothetically it could (maybe, i'm assuming) be as valuable for my ChatGPT use cases, but i found that i couldn't just give it the same input i'd give ChatGPT, as Phind would then search for an answer and come back with.. well, things from the internet which wasn't what i was wanting from that ChatGPT interface. I struggle to think of an example, though.. so hopefully this vague description is still of use hah.

2. Where Phind excels of course is digging answers out of the web, finding API solutions, wiring those results up into code, etc. However unfortunately this still seems a complex task. I do not find Phind to be accurate enough. It usually does a decent job at inferring the solution from the results, but it struggles with knowing library versions, context of the search results, etc.

I find myself using Phind primarily as a quick jumping off point for search results.. but i still often need to still search myself to figure out the actual code. So when i feel like i still need to search anyway, and that i feel i gave up ChatGPT for Phind (due to item #1), then it's just a tough position to justify Phind over CGPT for me.

For context usually i'm using and searching about Rust.

Fwiw i've still not decided one way or another. Though i'm definitely on the fence. Hope this vague and off the top of my head post helps a bit.
Okay. If it is any good , we need to create an open source and free version for the community
Just for the record, there's a fundamentalist Muslim supporter of child marriage and Islamic Jihad (not US-backed-IS version) self-taught software developer who is interested in I2P network, Raku and Theseus OS right here on HN. He is me.

Society is indeed a lot more diverse than 'mainstream' or 'normal' people assume.
This is pretty much the same excuse used to prevent full democracy from happening

Hey, voting is great, helpful and powerful, but letting The Common Idiot vote is a slippery slope

For the record, yes ideally we should have better education, especially around drugs and how to use them

At the same time, anyone can buy a knife or scissors or plenty of toxic chemicals, and do a ton of harm (way more than with any psychedelics), how do you propose we regulate those?
What is N-gate? The site n-gate.com seems to be offline.
It's dead simple easy to make things go faster if you take away features like blocking and limit users to reading a few hundred posts a day.
Highly recommend going with trunk-based deployment these days. I think git flow just made sense to people from older VCS's and didn't know they could just not have a prod branch. With a medium or larger team that wants to release early and often, git flow will actually slow you all down, I don't recommend it.
I don't agree. Let's begin by making clear that art is subjective so what I'm stating depends on personal taste.

I believe IMBD can help you identify the "most popular" movie. But it's up to you to decide if that's a good indicator for quality.

To give you an example, look at the top 10 songs in Spotify worldwide and tell me if those songs are the "best" songs the art form can provide.

After going deep on an art form, being music, painting, sculpting or film making, you start to develop a taste and an appetite for more complex expressions.

What would you prefer, votes of 10 people that have watched over 1000 films or votes of 1000 people that have watched 10 films?
Wealthy/connected North Koreans are educated at many top Western and Chinese schools. Heck, the dictator at the top went to middle/high school in Switzerland.
:/ Not compatible with S23 Ultra... weird.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I do have a source that talks about how BTC mining in Texas helps normalize and "smooth" usage.

Electricity is complicated so this is a broad and major oversimplification, but:

1. It's bad™ for a grid to be producing more electricity than it's using, or vice versa

2. TX has a highly variable grid load, in part due to Very Hot Weather™ compared to much of the rest of the country

3. TX, perhaps unintuitively, is [one of the largest? maybe the largest?] (haven't checked in a while) producers of solar and wind energy, but these sources are highly variable compared to fossil fuels, hydro, nuclear, etc.

4. Importantly, peak production and peak demand in TX are VERY mismatched

5. It's hard™ to store excess energy from times of peak production to use in times of peak demand

6. BTC mining, in the right places at the right times, help smooth the imbalances resulting from point 4, which are bad™ as mentioned in point 1, avoiding the hard™ problem of storage from point 5

The net result of all of this is that the "smoothing" effect of BTC mining (in the right places, at the right times) makes it more economically viable to change the makeup of energy production to favor a larger share of renewables and a smaller share of fossil fuels.

This isn't exactly the same as what the original commenter you're replying to is saying, but it's progress towards decarbonization of the grid nevertheless.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/24/how-t...

For the people downvoting, could you please share why? If I'm doing a poor job of explaining/communicating anything, I'd appreciate being informed about what part in particular, so I can try to do better.
I guess my question is: how is Google getting that data now? Is FLoC or Topics beamed to Google ad preferences? Is it included in chrome sync?
Maybe… Just maybe…

It was people dying during the extreme heat and cold that overwhelmed the Texas energy grid that stimulated any power infrastructure development?

…nah
It's the housing prices. No one can be bummy and do experiments, you can't keep the lights on.
Computer in French is called "Ordinateur". I think robot might be a strong candidate for an universal term.
It looks handy to help you debug type inference problems by recursively displaying the type inference code until you find the exact location where the inference failed, went wrong, or had an accident. This feature is very useful for my current development, thanks to the author!
>I notice that the getsymbol tool on Github has 214 stars ...

Analysis of which accounts starred it prior to publicity is probably a worthwhile endeavor. If there's any commonality with other obscure projects, that may be an indicator those accounts could be puppets.
To be fair… semantic similarity isn’t the same as relevance either.

They are related, and we frequently assume they are close enough that it doesn’t matter, but they are different.
Shrooms aren’t usually part of this cycle. You’re thinking of meth & heroin/fentanyl
> Chez: mama, tatínek

I hate to be "that guy," but I think this is Czech, not "Chez" (which is a French word meaning "at the home of").

Also, if it is Czech, then the word for mother should be properly written máma (with the acute accent).
In Vietnamese, "sô cô la" is chocolate, and I think it's bit of a stretch to say those are the same. Coffee is cà phê, which is good. Tea is another that doesn't work in Vietnamese (trà), but taxi is great (xe tắc xi).
In my first comment, I wrote:

>> Like chai vs tea, the two words (that I know of) are aam and mango.

I was referring to either aam or mango being a word that's common in many languages throughout the world, like chai and tea. So, আম or Āma is similar enough to Aam (आम or آم).
Do you have any references or evidence to back up this statement?
> In fact, when you give an iOS app full access to your photo library, you're giving all of this information [including GPS data] away too.

Scary.
Just so everyone here is clear: 'New York and London bankers' is a dogwhistle for 'jews'
> typing is awful, unsound in a lot of cases

tl;dr:

1. This is my biggest issue with Python.

2. Are there any tolerable solutions you've found?

3. Are there any non-Python languages you'd recommend?

The root of Python's typing issues seems to be ad-hoc syntax recycling as a stand-in for a thoroughly planned type system. Understandably, Guido and others advise using Protocol types to make up for earlier design decisions. It sort of works, but:

1. It's effectively an unspoken deprecation for parts of the standard library

2. Current design choices create new problems

3. It still doesn't reliably prevent runtime errors

Things break down further as you move beyond the built-ins:

1. Pydantic and other tools come with their own problems

2. Ugly things happen at boundary lines in APIs (ctypes vs OOP)

3. All of these get even worse as Sphinx gets involved

The last two items came up in a recent PR discussion. The other commenter's point seemed correct: simple, specific, and rigid types prevent problems. But then why should we have Generic and Union at all?

I'm still going to use Python when necessary, but it makes the grass look very green near languages like OCaml and Elm. If Rider can make .NET's packaging tolerable, maybe F# would be good too. Are there any others you'd suggest?
Boy, I'm glad I've been on the road all day and not fielding phone calls.

I've got a customer who uses Square for their main online sales. Interestingly, a few dozen calls per hour are going through. The raw logs hundreds of lines of

`Square\Models\Error::__set_state(array(
'category' => 'API_ERROR',
'code' => 'INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR',
'detail' => 'An internal error has occurred, and the API was unable to service your request.',
'field' => NULL
))`

and alternatively,

`Square\Models\Error::__set_state(array(
'category' => 'V1_ERROR',
'code' => 'Unknown',
'detail' => NULL,
'field' => NULL,
))`

Rather confused about the V1_ERROR, since we're calling the v2 endpoint.
You can type in a contact with an email address by just their name and send an email from iMessage. I have done it to contacts accidentally many times.
Microsoft is also a web display ads company, what exactly do you think the business model for Bing is?

There’s zero point in switching from Chrome to Edge.

Firefox to my knowledge has no ads revenue, apples limited ads revenue doesn’t come from the web.

Brave I think is a low-key crypto grift run by a homophobe, but still better than Chrome.
This is a valid point. There are inherent biases to any language model.
The responses may also be colored by the prompt used to summarize the information.

To address the latter, I am considering adding control over the prompt in a testable way. The former is (still) a matter of intense debate, and unlikely to be resolved soon.

I hope you're able to spot-check a few of the summaries to see if they are sufficiently unbiased, though!
Sounds like it's not foolproof unless you enable lockdown mode on all devices.
Reproducible Builds is the search term/buzzword for this area. It is still in its infancy.
I’m still not sold on your take here. All of that stuff was from no later than mid-2021, back when Google was close to leading the way with this stuff, whereas now they’re just aligning with what everyone else is doing, and if Google isn’t using their privileged position with Chrome to give themselves (google.com or similar) more info than anyone else gets, there can be no credible antitrust argument any more (I say this with a straight face as a technologist). And the fact that other browsers refuse this Topics API would call it into question as a replacement for third-party tracker cookies anyway.

(Related, comments by both of us within https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36713737 two months ago.)
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Crypto based on proof of work is wasteful by design, but there are other approaches that might benefit humanity in the end.
Wow, saw this happen at the coffee shop round the corner.

They had no back up, so reverted to cash only.

We’d already ordered, so we’ll pay tomorrow.

But seriously wtf. If square intends to be the only for of payment for a business (an envious position) then they simply can’t go down. Their product should have enough redundancy, or some form of backup/offline pay, to ensure this never happens.
That's perfect. Tax anything over poverty level at 80 percent until we're balanced.
Like paying your neighbour to stop playing loud music. They will use the money to buy bigger speakers.

This is worse because they have made it more $ attractive for more miners to come by subsidising operations.

Instead they should pass emergency laws that let them cut power to non essential enterprises like this. Then the crypto community will blacklist Texas and leave it alone.

Give the money to Elon to trial some stabilization tech instead.

Or connect to other grids lol!
Data collection isn’t really central to Apple business model though. I’m not too worried about them.
Ok that does it. Going to finally cave in and recreate init from scratch this weekend. Thanks.
I'm split on this. Psychedelics can help reduce usage of hard drugs and help with treatment. They can also send folks over the edge and put even more pressure on the mental health system. I guess we'll get to find out...
In green energy or turbines to burn oil? Ironically this stimulus contributes to more heat waves.

It's a bandaid ultimately covering up the root of the problem: Energy generation for zero utility.
After multiple attempts to use Git Flow at multiple different companies, I'm certain that it is untenable. No matter how competent your team is, Git Flow demands a level of consistency with such a complex process that empirically, your team will always end up making mistakes, trashing the commit tree, and calling the team lead in to move the commits around to where they were supposed to go.

We've had much more luck with trunk-based development, as other commenters have mentioned.
My brain contains loads of copyrighted info. And if I exactly reproduce it from memory, it's copyright infringement. But if I come up with my own work, even if using that copyrighted info to learn from, it isn't infringement.
Solid financial success is largely the result of skills, hard work, and wisdom
The friction/acceleration awkwardness can be solved by using a physically based timestep-independent formulation, which I implemented in TPMouse[0] and explained its derivation in a previous comment reply[1].

The gist of it is that the solution to a linearly damped particle is a linear system, so the x and y components can be calculated completely independently and the analytic solution is just an exponential of time.

It is a special case of the timestep-independent damped harmonic oscillator, which I previously wrote a blogpost about [10].

Namely it is the "unsprung" special case under "Overdamped"

The very same formulation is also what I used to implement LibreScroll[11] to add inertial scrolling to any mouse.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_...

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35899215

[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36783942
The dehyped title doesn't mince words now!

> The Shared Words in Almost Every Language: Coffee and Chocolate

The summary is also more upfront with the findings:

> There are a few words that are shared across many languages, including words for tea, pineapple, and orange. However, the two words that are the same in almost every language are 'coffee' and 'chocolate'. These words have spread across the globe and have been adopted by different languages with slight variations in pronunciation and spelling. The word for coffee originated from the Arabic word 'qahwah' and has been borrowed into many languages, while the word for chocolate is based on a Nahuatl word that was adopted by Spanish-speaking communities and then spread worldwide. Knowing these two words can make you feel connected to speakers of almost every language.
#1 - Yes, much better!

For #4, I expected it work more like HN does, where it shows 30 articles but has a more button to get 31-60 and so on. At least 3 pages would be nice for those of us who keep reading past the first page.
That backport seems to use a nonpublished patched fork of a library that got replaced in between though, so no bueno there.
If this was true Apple would have never released the lockdown mode feature. A good conspiracy theorist will drop a theory when there's clear proof they're not up to anything.
Because I have lived 41 years on this planet and I have experienced how the world works. If we're talking about averages, your average male is waaaay more willing to ignore traits that he dislikes on a female in order to have a one night stand, than the opposite. It's basic evolutionary biology.
Thanks for this insight. This is useful advice for those who are re/discovering some of these practices for newer projects and would benefit from adopting a more saner approach.

I see a reference to GitHub Flow which seems to make sense: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/github-flo...
Does spaceX give out grants to programmers?
I don't understand why people keep comparing humans and computers. The law does not treat machinery equal to a human.
Summaries are now more concise, and the dehyped titles are more useful.
Are equations being renamed to 'numerical facts' now?
How is that even logical?
How to make a synthetic diamond (2009)
My experience was that older VCS's (SVN in my case) leaned in heavily to the trunk based paradigm. I don't know what you're talking about with prod branches. The default branch in SVN was called - trunk.
The people who use retool and never coded will not realize that it would have been much easier if they just learn to code . If they build anything slightly complex, they are essentially programming with the more difficult and slow UI
They’re planning on turning off one tracking system they use on us and turning on another, that’s not “tracking prevention”. Every other browser just turned off the old and didn’t replace it, and users are better off for it.
I've implemented some stylistic suggestions like spacing, sizing and emphasis. I generally prefer the Mobile view (accessible from the navbar); it works best on every device I've tried, and honors the OS dark mode setting to boot.
I think this qualifies for "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Also looking at the front page this site seems to have a major slant.

> The Nazis, not the Soviets, were responsible for Katyn Massacre,
Much like LTSC and the ability to disable JS still remains, it's merely a concession they don't actually want you to use, and in the case of lockdown mode, serves as a feature to tick off their privacy-oriented marketing.
There needs to be a more fine tuned lockdown mode, for example to disable automations and risks in imessage and safari but leave device accessories working. Losing bluetooth accessories to protect yourself from zero click imessage exploits is just bad.
imessage is the major wide open attack surface.
This is a good idea and something I’ve discussed at the company I work for. But you need a different name. Serious e-commerce companies aren’t buying anything from a .wtf domain.
Is this needed on top of lockdown mode?
I am bullying you ? Are you for real?