skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theory is nice but does this actually happen?

My mental model is that money in the pocket of companies is "low entropy money" and money returned to shareholders is "high entropy money".

It's the same amount, but much less effective.
My point is not just about the difference between Windows and Mac.. but the software I need to use to get things done.

I use specific software to write programs.. to code in. Some are not available on Mac so I have to use whatever is "best" on that platform. I am sure to come across many issues.

Again, it's not that one software/tools is better than the other.. it is really because I am more familiar over one than the other.

That was kinda my point.

For someone that is good at graphic design - someone who has been a "photoshop guy" for many years and very good at what they do.. I can understand the frustration using something like Gimp.

Yes - despite not using Photoshop for many years, I am sure it is better than Gimp but I also think Gimp gets a lot of stick where it is not needed or deserved.
It's amusing to me how similar this comment is to the ones I heard in the mid to late 2000s from Internet Explorer users expressing surprise at just how easy to was to switch. :)

plus ça change!
The old Marunouchi and Mita trains used to be pretty dirty (by Tokyo standards!), but both have been upgraded in the last five years. The classic "oyaji smell" is gone from both trains now.
That would be useful, however expiration dates are often printed so badly and in all kinds of locations that it seems difficult to make that work reliably. Also people wouldn’t want photos of their fridge contents being uploaded to a cloud AI all the time.
His statistics are simple and make a lot of sense: when playing decisive games for money online some players have high performance increase, while others have high performance decrease. Anyone who attacks him chooses to ignore this statistics, including the author of this blogpost.
I’ve not seen a single application yet, which handles audio system failures properly when it happens during runtime, and most of them fails even when it happens before starting them. And it’s quite frequent unfortunately with my gazillion different Bluetooth and wired headsets across multiple laptops. It’s definitely not Firefox specific. It’s basically standard.
The nice thing about Brother is that their products have so far lasted forever, so even if they go bad I can enjoy my current printer for at least the next 10 years.
I moved to Chrome on first release not because of blind, trend-following foolishness, but because it performed significantly better than Firefox. It also didn't have the bug of occasionally losing things I told it to grab into the clipboard.

Poor performance is also what drove me back to Firefox. It still has the clipboard bug, however.
And in case of Mozilla it'll be the CEO's compensation, or engineering pay, or the fact that there was Pocket integration or something else will be made up to fuel angry refusal to support development of the browser.

There's always SOMETHING that's morally unacceptable to people who want it for free - I bet even full, total, complete submissions to whims of such community would not result in any significant revenue.
I'm using Safari for day-to-day browsing (because I like its UI and iPhone sync) and I use Chrome for development. Firefox developer tools are not as convenient to me and Firefox does not support WebUSB which I need for some tasks. Also I always found Firefox filled with little irritating bugs when I tried to switch to it.

That said, I'm not convinced by this flashmob against Chrome. I like Google direction and Google philosophy behind Chrome, including its position on adblockers. So I hardly have any reason to switch to Firefox. Chromium is open source, Firefox is financed by Google, so it's hard for me to be convinced that Chrome somehow is bad. Especially when Firefox makes one bad move after another bad move (integrating weird third-party services within Browser, like Pocket or VPN or whatever).

And, yeah, I don't care about my privacy that much, especially not on the level to actively fight for it. I care about security, and that's about it.
Speed!

fish does a lot out of the box that I needed plugins for in zsh. zsh's plugins are slow, so my shell startup was over three seconds. fish starts way faster, even with plugins.
How about Berlin's S-Bahn and U-Bahn? I was really impressed when I travelled there on holiday. Very clean, punctual, and frequent. The stations are pretty old, but well maintained, and the train cars were reasonably new and clean.
gentle reminder that chrome people are doing "web environment integrity" bullshit. use firefox or any non-chrome based browser if you like the open and free web.
I was hoping to discover tools, free or paid, that specifically help with editing copy aimed at a technical audience.

There's clearly a fact-based, no BS writing style that resonates well with HN for example.

Are there tools that help detect such BS in writing?

Hemingway Editor comes to mind, what else?
You probably won't become an expert, but I'm not clear why you'd want to!
Can you do it in an alternate version such as the developers edition?
From my experience, programming and technology communities are already really strong on Lemmy. I'm confident to say that if you care about these topics, moving from Reddit to Lemmy is a good option.

For another categories, they're still small and having struggles gaining traction to have enough users and posts to be lively. But I think it's just a matter of time if Lemmy continues polishing its features and community discoveries.
i religiously donate each month to mozilla but you wont catch me alive paying for spotify or youtube.
I really like roadmap diagram on that site. It gives a good overview of progress and where work is required, so an order of delivery can be inferred.
I'm pretty sure this is fixed with the new API for blocking network requests MV3 added. This list of rules is persisted between browser sessions.
So it is "extortion" if you are asked to pay for a service you use? A service that is available for free and is very hardware-intensive, mind you.
Auckland is expensive partially due to immigration. Auckland region[1]:

The proportion of people born overseas was 41.0%, compared with 27.1% nationally.

When over 1/3 of the population is immigrants that causes housing demand.

Fabulous "Upzoning New Zealand" article on NZ housing policy: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/upzoning-new-zealand/ which mentions Auckland increased housing supply by 4% from 2016 to 2021. It also mentions large house supply growth in Christchurch and how house prices have been going up in Christchurch despite that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Region
For a minor explanation, support is just prohibitively expensive no matter what you do, and quite frankly the only people actually capable of support is going to be the devs who made the product for various bugs/issues, and that is just a handful of people, some of whom have left the company even.

Finding good support is also hard. I worked in product areas with dedicated support for paying customers, and the number of support staff that I would consider actually helpful is precisely 3 people, out of a few hundred. Those 3 people are paid a ton to keep them around, and while I don't know exactly what they're paid they usually get moved up and into a role that at minimum exceeds typical senior eng pay, the rest just bounce tickets back and forth collecting traces with at best a poor understanding of the product. On average no understanding.

Another problem is that a good support staff would probably do better to be a dev anyway, the knowledge required is pretty much the same, just missing development experience.
Devternity used fake personas as speakers
Holy crap -- I have posted so many times today and I forget to mention Singapore (and Hongkong). Hat tip to you, sir/madam. Singapore's subway is very clean. In my experience, the total system load is way higher in Hongkong, but they do a tremendous job keeping it clean.
I don’t think 2 pages a day is going to be base for most rooms in the home with decent ventilation. Like if you live in a city I suspect you breathe in more particulates from tire wear in the air.

As for price, a hl-2140 is $50 and will last you for 10k pages if not more. I don’t think inkjet pricing economics ever win here even with the pay per use the latest “pricing innovation” the inkjet companies have invented. I love that my laser printer has 0 maintenance aside from filling the paper tray and I never have to think about it. It ran out toner after like 7 years of very occasional printing and there was lots of advance warning. The printer itself just works with no issues.
"I stuck with FF until around 2016 or so before being compelled to switch. The performance was just very clearly worse..."

This is a fair point. Personally, I don't recall seeing a big difference between the two. Maybe there was. Perhaps it was not that bad so it wasn't as issue for me.

As for dev tools, I have been happy with Firefox - but then when I am doing web development I am testing on various browsers, anyway. So I use dev tools for all of them.
...and interpret all the javascript. Web people love hiding their html behind javascript these days.
Another thing to consider might be that the simulation has not been running for “billions for years” but might have just started.
Yes.

Then there is the fact that PHP and JavaScript were basically domain specific languages at their inception.

PHP was a hypertext pre-processor. Pearl, but stripped down for templating.

JavaScript was an alternative to Java applets. When you don't need the full power of Java, you could throw in a few small scripts.

To make things a bit less intimidating, the weak typing seemed like a good idea, and for these use-cases it might very well have been. If you don't know how to program and only want to display some fancy styled text, why would you need to understand that a number isn't a string?

But there was the pattern, that "real" programming languages like Java and C/C++ were hard to learn for the average "creator", so they took JS and PHP as entry and built up their skills from there, building bigger and bigger solutions with those tools.
Git submodules work flawlessly for me because I use them correctly. So YMMV. There’s plenty of documentation out there on how to do a git clone —recursive or git submodule update —init —recursive

Never edit the code in the submodules, edit them in the parent repos where they properly live. Your repo is for your code only. Don’t go wandering:editing in those submodules.
But if vivaldi is based on chromium doesn't that mean that the same Chrome problems will apply?
No. Sorry. I have a list of complaints with Firefox but this is clearly user error. I do this literally every day for a decade or more. It works fine. It particularly helps to not unnecessarily use things that can affect the env like launching a browser with su. In fact I can I think it a list of things that could go wrong with that.
Can't speak for others but one issue is the "; do"

I can generally cobble together python, and it'll be syntactically correct. I just need to check libs.

With shell I need to stop and make sure my semicolons in a for loop are correct.

If you're a heavy user it probably isn't a problem but all the little warts just make it difficult for an occasional user to keep a good enough model in their head.
Those costs go to some rich locals, and the wealth divide grows.

I'm not against people moving around, I would love to go live in Portugal eventually, but the Portuguese at the moment are quite angry at the cost of their housing.
Won't container tabs fit your use case?
> The people who say things like "crude" or "stupid" mistakes are literally making the implication that the decision-makers were idiots.

No, it really is just stupid, and that's not a claim that any individual cog in the machine is stupid.

As the saying goes: "None of us are as dumb as all of us". You can have dumb outcomes even though every individual step of getting there wasn't that dumb.

I touched on this in an upthread comment, but if airplanes worked like cars then your driving license would only be valid for one model of car. Now, you're a Ford F-150 owner who got his license in the mid-80s, and you'd like to buy a new car today.

So of course you're going to be biased towards the 2024 F-150, because Ford's implemented a complex system to have the newer model pretend it's a 40-year old car. It'll handle like your 1986 F-150, even though the length, weight etc. of the car is drastically different.

This is going to work really well, right up until it doesn't, because something's going to have to give when you've got a driving simulator on wheels.

Type ratings should exist, because it makes sense to treat minor iterations in design as the same airplane, and e.g. only re-train pilots on the specific things that were changed.

But if you look at the evolution of the 737[1] there's just no way to claim with a straight face that a 2024 model of that airplane is in any meaningful way the same airplane as the original 737. It's got 109% more thrust, it's over 50% longer, almost 30% wider, and has >75% more takeoff weight.

Once you peel back the layers of obfuscation that claim is the reason for the 737 MAX disasters. The system that failed (MCAS) doesn't need to exist in the first place, it only existed to maintain this continuity of type rating.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Specifications
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles

https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/
Firefox blocks adsense by default (tracking protection enabled) even without any adblocker.
I don't think these are especially relevant to the threat models of average users. Security for most people means not getting malware from random sites and not having all their data given away, and noone is blowing an 0day sandbox escape on an average internet user.

Adblocking extensions go a very long way in terms of keeping average users safe. If you're a potential target of sophisticated actors (of any level of sophistication above script kiddie) then you're not really the target audience of generic browser advice.
Hahaha. I know. Things you do for seo. Secret prompt is just generate caption for this image
So why moves into the house you're selling? That sounds like a ponzi scheme.
honestly i had had fewer problems with the custom (meaning bad) ender 3 i have than HP, espon, whatever inkjet printers. Laser printers are only marginally better.

Friday i wasted 3 hours because windows decided it did not want to print anything.
Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software.

It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.
Two things stand out:
1. native vertical tabs
2. native tab groups

Yes, I know there are extensions for these things, but I, personally, find them horrible.
Devtools on FF are very good. Extremely rarely do I need Chrome, for tools like debugging svg animations. I suspect the overwhelming majority of devtool users don't have to debug svg.
I guess this message is delivered by an AI scientist, sure.

It's almost self-exploratory that when you hit a roadblock in practice you go back to foundations, and good people should aim to do both. In that case I don't see where ML engineer/scientist bifurcation comes from except for some to feel good about themselves
Previous poster asked if it was ok to exclude a certain population and you basically answered "yes because the privacy/convenience ratio is worth it for me". I think you missed his point.

I like apple pay (shops do not see my credit card nb anymore, less tracking on their side) but I think cash is a mandatory requirement to keep state's power in check. Cashless shops should be forbidden. And as previously mentioned, a vulnerable portion of the population relies on cash.
Quite a sad news.
Too small RAM should never be an issue (except in very extreme cases, like a given data cannot fit in RAM at all, or there is no swap), especially not when another app uses it. It should just slow things down, because data transfer between swap and memory.
At least on Windows, other processes launching web pages involves launching a browser process with the URL as a parameter.

I used to get the "firefox not responding" all the time on Windows as well, though it has gotten a lot better not long ago.
It's the same Chromium, it can't be more resource-efficient. It did have some tricks, but “energy saver” and “memory saver” modes have been added to Chromium.
Firefox is still slower than Chrome (and uses more memory). For me at least.
Yeah that printer model is my favorite for home printing needs. In the rare case I want to print photos, I’d rather pay a little markup and have them printed at a local pharmacy where I won’t have to deal with the BS that consumer inkjet printers do (+ maintenance is someone else’s problem).

It’s like $50 now and the toner lasts for soooo many pages it’s basically free. In other words, for the price of an inkjet cartridge that lasts maybe a year, this thing lasts forever.
> Don't let your initial aesthetic reaction dictate your browser choice.

Why? Also "initial reaction"? You mean, "fake it till you make it"?

For others this may be a nitpick, for me it's a barrier I'm not able to cross.
> although we were better off than my parents because my wife was working

I found that line interesting as he was making the point that they paid 3.5 times their salaries for their house in 1980 just like his parents in 1951 on one salary.

I wish he'd explained in what way he felt better off with needing two salaries to buy the same thing as his parents. I'd guess the house he bought was larger than his parents, but I didn't see those details.
I don't really understand this - would you not buy a car if it has too small a market share? Why not just use it? What reality is there to face?
People who don't see the problem with Edge must all be domain joined or on Pro for Workstations / Enterprise. Supposedly the browser doesn't annoy "confirmed" business customers as much.

I recently switched to the RC Insider ring just to get the EU digital markets update, which lets you uninstall Edge.

Because it started doing incredibly creepy stuff.

* Keeps asking me every day if I want to keep my new tab extension. No way to set a blank page either. If you don't use an extension, it's "Microsoft Home" (which doesn't even let you properly set your own background, and keeps showing me squids, no thanks). Despite me clicking no every time, it still occasionally disables it. I think there may be a timeout, and then the disabled plugin syncs everywhere.

* Asked me if it could shouldersurf my Kagi searches and scrape them to improve Bing. If I was Kagi, I'd think about blocking the Edge user agent.

* Upon clicking "no" on the point above, it changed my search engine to Bing.

* Edge also has a feature to regularly scrape other Browsers for their history to submit to Microsoft. Given every other Edge feature did not respect my consent in an honestly gaslighting fashion, I don't feel confident any browsing data on a Windows machine is private unless you install the above Release Candidate and set your Region to EU to uninstall Edge.

Here's the guide I followed. Just set your region to Ireland or something: https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/uninstall-microsoft-edg...
> native tab groups

that addon is semi official
There are a lot of data structures where doubling the size of the struct would be a big deal. I've worked on big graphs, where I used similar tricks, because most of the storage of a graph is pointers, and limits of what can be quickly computed are bound by how much of the graph you can get in memory.
A few of my favourites;

> An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

In a broader sense what it implies is that companies should not make a Programmer's job onerous (in any dimension) to the point that the "joy" is gone from the doing of the activity itself. Thus Reports/Meetings/Processes/Testing/etc. should all be modulated/balanced based on needs/project and not because it is the latest fad. Managers should really really heed this.

> Far too often, 'software engineering' is neither engineering nor about software

This is a follow-on from the above.

> Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.

I have also heard this attributed to Andy Koenig.

> My ideal of program design is to represent the concepts of the application domain directly in code. That way, if you understand the application domain, you understand the code and vice versa.

This is how i learnt the techniques of designing in C++ from the early days i.e. from "Barton and Nackman's Scientific and Engineering C++" and "James Coplien's Multi-paradigm design for C++". This is fundamental to problem-solving itself and hence in any job it is of utmost importance to understand the domain i.e. Why and What is being done rather than the How.

> Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Very very true. This is why i dismiss people who come in and start saying "everything must be rewritten" without spending time studying and learning about the existing system.
Replicate the industrial strategy, not the technology.

I still don't understand what this sentence means. Can you provide an example?
I don’t think those permission mean that they can collect the data and send it home. I think it means more something like „ accessing all code of website to block scripts“.

If the would send data home I would be a bit irritated. Could someone please clarify this ?

Because I know some extensions do exactly this . There was a talk from the ccc about this. But is this a Firefox specific problem ?

Thanks for responding anyway
this is a case for making-more-comfortable delusion.
My guess is that i wasn't marketing. It was because FF was dog-slow back then and Chrome was (still is) blazingly fast
It's incredibly hard to rebel against what you need. But there are people who constantly need to be involved with other people, and also those who can only tolerate being around people on an as needed basis. I'm not quite the latter, but am much closer to it than the former.

Being socially inclined or affiliative is not an antonym of introversion. And asocial or hyposocial extraverts exist as well as asocial and hyposocial introverts.

If you're a socially inclined person I greatly appreciate you having my back by poking at status norms to the extent feasible. :)
Short Ruby News – edition 69
Canon 5D markIII with MagicLantern could produce superb RAW footages. I never graded better source material.

Unfortunately, production is huge luck. You cannot preview recorded footages (only BW, low res, low framerate preview). Postproduction require extra step of converting fotages to something more common like ProRes 422. Which is another place for error.

TLDR it is not suitable for professional production because of lack of preview on set.
"I moved to Chrome on first release not because of blind, trend-following foolishness, but because it performed significantly better than Firefox..."

This is fine. My comment is not aimed at everyone who switched -- though I am likely still referring to the majority of people.

I do remember the ACID test being the main selling point of Chrome over the other browers. Yes, from memory, I do believe Chrome was faster. My attitude to this, however, was that it was new and eventually, would be adding new features, etc.

I understand that there are people out there who switched for other reasons.
Let's delve into why data privacy is the pivot around which your marketing strategy should revolve.