skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right of course that all trucks are dangerous. But in https://topgear.nl/autonieuws/techneut-van-tesla-legt-uit-wa... (in Dutch), the Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla says that the Cybertruck won't come to Europe partly because:

> European regulations require a rounding of 3.2 millimeters on protruding parts. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make a rounding of 3.2 millimeters on a sheet of stainless steel of 1.4 millimeters

(and I assume most other trucks meet this requirement, at least the ones that are also sold in the EU). I don't know how much of a difference that makes if you're driving very fast, of course, but at lower speeds it might make a difference?
Which is exactly what docker desktop on macOS does as well. Unless you're doing iOS or macOS development, contrary to common belief WSL2 is actually integrated better than it's mac counterparts. You can even mount other linux partitions into WSL.
Ditto for Belkin docks. A Belkin Thunderbolt 3 dock can sometimes be had from $20 on eBay if you’re prepared to get one with no cables.
I use Firefox on macOS as my primary browser it’s great no complaints at all.
> 1. Singapore is a city state that has a GDP around twice of other developed economies. What works for it does not necessarily work for every other country.

China as a country with relatively low GDP per capita also manages to maintain high foreign exchange reserves.

>2. There's opportunity costs with keeping such high reserves around, rather than doing something productive like investing in infrastructure.

Infrastructure spending is only a small fraction of the US budget compared to warfare; if the US hadn't gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan it could have a few trillion dollars of reserves with no drop in productive spending.

> It's unclear how introducing massive amounts of gold (previously held in reserve) into the economy won't cause inflationary effects. Like I said earlier, you can't eat gold. Dumping a bunch of gold into the economy doesn't magically increase the amount of goods in existence, which would also lead to inflation that money printing would cause.

It would cause inflationary effects initially, but this would be a one-off thing, as the mining rate of gold is relatively steady.
Use Firefox if only to put up a decent fight against Chrome's massive play to control your data and the ad ecosystem.
The only real competitor is ComfyUI, because without the huge ecosystem around your other front end, you lose MASSIVE capabilities, for example, losing this is a big mistake: https://github.com/ljleb/prompt-fusion-extension
Most system can have a single server today and it will basically always be more simple than N smaller ones. Everything is just faster if you just skip the TCP layer. Less configuration, less attack surfaces, less possible problems and issues. The CI/CD and backup is a lot easier as well.

It is as another author wrote: It is a people problem. We programmers like the "do one thing" mantra so we tend to want to add it everywhere - even in places were the cost may outweigh the benefits.
Notable Classical Recordings of 2023
Are you on Ashley Madison?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolli...

Example: Chasing a cheese wheel down a hill
> we will degrow by force

Won't that create more wars first? I feel like most of those articles live in fairy tail land where war doesn't exist and we live in peace.
After reading your link I'm not sure I see the problem you're pointing to.
I bet it ends with a bang.
> Large-scale distribution is expensive and complicated.

Not anymore. Most CDN's will do that for free. Distribution is easy. Spotify makes money because open source pirating networks attract the attention of law enforcement.
You're correct. I'm actually not sure what installing a PWA does that visiting the website in your browser doesn't, but it's essentially opening the website in a headless browser. So very much like electron except instead of having to bundle the browser in the executable it uses your machine's browser.
pg_easy_replicate 2.0 zero downtime upgrades with support for recreating indices
thanks, I know erik uses kotlin often, does he think we just have to live in that middle area? is the paper just an observation ? how do you think rust solves the problem?
You should add that kserokopiya (xerocopy) has been in laws for ages. Like "to have the car insurance original or xerocopy".
Can Firefox allow me to kill individual tabs without closing them? It's my favourite feature on Chrome.
On Windows the Twitter, Instagram, TikTok apps are PWAs. I like to use them because I can pin them to the start menu, have them start on a separate window by default and remember the window position.
Is Fairphone 5 such an inconvenience you describe it? On paper, it seems pretty usable
> Hyper-V is started and the main Windows system runs in a privileged VM

Wait it's all VMs? Always has been?! That is actual one sentence horror.
No, it isn’t. The stereotypical “soy boy” is a white vegan polyamorous hipster from a West Coast city, and most of the backlash to soy is targeted at processed foods than Asian cuisine. It’s more adjacent to the sort of right-wing hippie natural food scene that likes to slonk raw eggs than to any sort of anti-Asian racism.
3% tax on every transaction in your entire life going to Visa by using a debit card instead of cash.

There are people (not huge corps in this case) selling CDRs of PDFs from archive.org on eBay. But more to the point, people buying them.

The completely intangible nothing that differentiates a Burberry bag from any other medium quality bag.

Now that last one almost sounds like the opposite point since the intangible nothing is exactly what the government is protecting there, but the government does not enforce that you need to pay Burberry to get a bag exactly like it in both quality and aesthetic, but people voluntarily do anyway.
Does anyone know of a way to replace the browser and search engine of the search bar at the bottom of an Android phone?
This is hugely dependent upon company size.

CTO skills needed for a 10-person company is radically different than a 10,000-person company.
> The federal reserve admitted that their policies prolonged the great depression.

their policies of what? Not engaging in stimulus?

>People will buy the things that they need

People buying the bare minimum also means there's little investment going on, which needless to say is bad for economic growth.

>When people save, interest rates go up

Why would that be the case? Interest rates are a reflection of the cost of money. When there's more money floating around, the cost of borrowing becomes cheaper, not more expensive. Or to put it another way: for every saver, there has to be a borrower. If there's more savers than borrowers, then the savers will have to compete with each other on price (ie. the interest rate they charge), driving them down.
Getting away from time wasting things like mindlessly scrolling Reddit. I realized about a month ago it has slowly grown into an addiction... nothing to do? Pull out the phone and scroll.

Now I'm limiting myself to consuming content differently. Checking HN once or twice a day. Using RSS to subscribe to blogs I find interesting instead of having my content fed to me. With the time I'm getting back, I'm putting a lot more energy back into personal learning and finishing my MSCS.

Also fell of the "staying fit" wagon near the end of the year so I plan on getting back to the gym and getting outside more.
The Gentoo to Arch pipeline is pretty real.

I did Stage 1's as well around the same time but eventually got tired of doing that every so often or fighting Portage and switched to Arch.

Then I got tired of dealing with Arch... and ended up on Fedora.

I always liked Gentoo and Arch, but I don't have the energy to put up maintaining them anymore.
Rare 'industrial snowfall' thought to be caused by pollution recorded in UK
Not getting responses from cold calls or applications isn't ghosting according to the author of the article (and I agree):

> In order for it to be ghosting, the ghosted party has to expect the conversation will continue. This means that if you apply and never hear back from a job, that’s not ghosting, a conversation never started. It only becomes ghosting when there is an expected next step that never happens.
I think the point is not whether certain tool does things in certain way. It's the lack of thought about how the user interacts with the tool and whether or not the particular way of doing it makes the interaction easier. Too often "technically correct" is considered the best kind of correct even though the resulting interface is infuriatingly unpleasant to use. It's hard to please everyone, but it is useful to remind people to at least try to be more thoughtful about this aspect.
Chemicals of "Concern" Found in Philips Breathing Machines
The immutable b+tree is a great idea, except it generates a tremendous amount of garbage pages. Every update of a record generates several new pages along the path of the tree.

There are two additional techniques to make immutable b+tree practical. One is to reclaim stale unreachable pages after the transactions using them have closed. Two is to use a pair of oscillating fixed location meta pages.

A page is active if it’s in the latest snapshot or it is in use by an open transition; otherwise, it’s unreadable and can be reclaimed. When a transaction closes, it hands its list of in-use pages to the reclaimer. The reclaimer tracks these pages. When no other open transactions hold on to a page, it can be reclaimed.

When the write transaction commits, it hands the list of old pages being overwritten to the reclaimer as candidates for freeing, pending no open transactions using them.

The reclaimer can batch a number of reclaimed pages together to update the free page list, by appending to the end of the file a page of the newly freed page pointers. Update the meta page to point to the new head page of the free page list at the end of the file. This can be done as a write transaction to keep things consistent.

At a crash all the pending reclaiming pages in memory are lost and the garbage pages in disk linger. This requires periodic garbage collection or compaction.

The most frequently updated page in the tree is the meta page. Every write transaction updates it. This creates a lot of garbage pages. The second technique addresses this problem.

One insight is that the meta page is only needed when a new transaction begins by finding the tree root of the latest committed snapshot. That means we only need two copies of the meta pages, one for the last committed snapshot and one for the new pending write transaction. When the write transaction commits, the pending meta page becomes the latest committed snapshot. The other page becomes available for the next pending transaction.

We can have two fixed location meta pages, oscillating between the latest committed snapshot and the pending new transaction. The fixed location removes the need to search for the meta page from the end of file.
Weird, I have very little problems with Firefox on macos. I had performance issues with Chrome for big tables. Firefox was sluggish, but Chrome took 30s to render it (about 3000 rows, 300 columns). I ended up writing something that displays a small view of the table using absolute positioned divs which depend on the scroll bar. Now it works smoothly on all browsers (including some older tablet). It was not a simple workaround, though.

Orion is also webkit, but buggy, isn't it? I don't care for it.
Lots of downvotes for this comment. Yet it represents the prevailing public opinion on privacy (even if the polarizing point about a particular US president is removed).* How will the privacy landscape change if the vast majority of people don't care?

*Apologies for the excessive alliteration. Didn't see until I submitted.
When I was a pilot just starting out, in 2007 I’d see a human response maybe 1/100 applications.

It’s pretty gross out there for people other than tech employees.

What’s pretty funny is now that I’m changing into this field it seems to be adjusting to treat people like crap. So, I guess you’re welcome guys and gals - it’s my fault.
That clarifies the disconnect. I never claimed that open-source development pays "all or most of their major contributors industry rates". I said "most of the really substantial open-source projects are able to get a good amount of donations and corporate sponsors."

You seem to have misunderstood "good" to mean "everyone involved in the project will make equivalent to what they could have made working the same number of hours in Silicon Valley". When really all I meant was that the founder, and maybe sometimes a small group adjacent, can afford to spend all or at least part of their time maintaining and steering the project. If that's your argument, then you and I are in agreement.

Another commenter in this thread said it best - Open Source is a community. People participate in it because they enjoy doing so, not to get rich. If I can do something I enjoy, on my own schedule, entirely freed from corporate interests, and get rent money for it, I would certainly call that "good".
A cynical take is not "disinformation". Let's not dilute that word.
> So why not use the abbreviation?

HooLoo? I think another company may object to that name.
The Mozilla CEO earned $6,903,089 in 2022 up from $5.6 million in 2021, while Firefox continues to lose market share. If you think Mozilla's priorities are tied to making Firefox the best browser on the Internet, at least in terms of privacy, freedom, and features, you're seriously blind.
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360
And then a year later most websites died, and then it was 10-15 years until most of the tech companies like Cisco reached their 2001 stock valuations?
How could they promise to fix something that didn't exist 10-16 years ago?

In my eyes, the incentives weren't there before. But, they sure are now!
That's about $0.16/KWh which is the average electricity rate across the whole US and significantly less than the price in the Northeast. I haven't dug into whether that's apples to apples - whether the country average is (generation + delivery) or just generation, while the rate bing paid to the plant is presumably just generation.
But either way just the cost of electricity generation ignoring delivery on my bill is quite a bit higher than that.
Definitely a lot of crossover. However, there are several things that make Arch unusable for me. The #1 thing is that Arch only officially supports AMD64. Additionally, while I find Arch’s documentation better than most, it’s hard to understate how amazing the Gentoo wiki is. Lastly, I prefer portage overlays (like Guru) over the AUR. Bigger !== better. Again, the beauty of Linux is choice. Nothing but love for my Arch neighbors!
I've been using Firefox on the PC and phone for years now. I had the temptation a couple of years ago to use Chrome due to some issues I had on Linux (I don't remember what exactly) but then I concluded the obvious: using a browser made by a company that profits mainly on abusing user's privacy? Nah, I think I'm gonna pass.
> The human central (not peripheral) vision’s ratio is very close to 3:2

That's irrelevant, though, when monitor size is much larger than our central vision.

What does matter is neck strain. The reality is that you want to keep your head level while moving it right/left. Right/left doesn't have to work against gravity, while up/down does.

This is why wider is better than taller for something monitor-sized.
I know ghosting is "normal," but what do you do when it means you are not getting reimbursed for travel?
I have this one and it works great. No subscription needed or any funny business.

https://www.brother-usa.com/products/mfcl2710dw
Hey, and if the immigrant has a mixed kid during that stay they could really use it.
Yeah right, I'm hallucinating and so is my wife. More likely, you consider this type of sales copy normal and didn't notice it.
The computerized flat knitting machines are even more genius.

I like to call them clothes printers.
Every modern password manager has this capability built in.
> Chrome ate their lunch and gained market share fast.

That isn't the main reason they gained market share fast. It's sabotage: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116871245021220875.html
Let’s be pedantic here and get all religious over the words “Science” and “hard”.

Computer “science” has a difficult conceptual problem with caching. The optimal cache, this science tells us, is indistinguishable from a fortune teller who is never wrong (oracle). Fortune telling is a “hard” problem for a science based on reasoning. The best we can do is hedge bets (which is what the science of caching focuses on).

This same science also has a difficulty with naming things. Now numbering things is easy and science loves maths and maths love sciences, but science and letters have a more difficult history. Science would approve of “factoryfactoryfactoryImpl” btw ... it’s “a rational scheme of naming”. .

Here we see a “science” that is facing actual difficulties.

The rest of your list are difficult but not “hard”. The science of these matters is clear and the rest is up to the “scientists” struggling with “scope creep” and “bounds checking” ..
It's not patronage if you don't pay. Google would rather not have you as a user if it costs them any amount of time to support you. The relationship here is adversarial on both sides and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.
We're talking about two different things: the cause of mental health issues and the treatment of mental health issues. The US is pretty modern at treating them and pretty outstanding at causing them.
The TechCrunch+ surveys you need to read ahead of 2024
In that case can this whole thread be deleted and replaced by a link to an almost completely unrelated issue that used some of the same English words in the description? Just trying to get the full effect here.
Rust specifically isn’t feature-rich. It’s mainly just different.
No doubt the phrase “bring home the bacon” will outlive our civilization and future historians will confidently assert to one another that we were all paid in rashers of bacon.
It's classic "tragedy of the commons" stuff. Having a "free" input sets up incentives for waste since that resource now exists outside the influence of market forces.

So it's either putting a price on these resources or careful regulation. The latter is not very popular in today's political climate.
Only charging for hosting costs is not a commercial enterprise, more like a non-profit.
Ivory Tower
Disney likely needs to consider "straight to Disney+ pay per view" like they did during the pandemic for Mulan, Jungle Cruise.

There may even be a pricing structure potential for new series or legacy rentals.
100% in the "nobody remembers what you did, everyone remembers how you made them feel" camp.

An automated no is such a no-brainer versus the reputational risk of being seen as a bad or callous employer.

And people have looooong memories / impressions created in this space. I honestly have no idea if General Electric is a good or bad employer, but the Jack Welch era still lingers in my mind.
I was involved in the US air traffic control system upgrade in the early 90s as a software subcontractor. They were using Sony 2k square CRT monitors. If I recall correctly, they cost about $20k each - in 1990 dollars - partially due to the hardware subsystem for antialiasing.

Googling, I see that this is the replacement monitor:

https://www.aydindisplays.com/2k-x-2k-air-traffic-control-di...
I want to pay for Firefox. I do not want to contribute to the Mozilla CEO's outrageous US$7M compensation package. How do I do that?
> the government limits new entrants

... based on lobbying from the AMA, which is only in the last couple of years reluctantly acknowledging that maybe, perhaps, possibly, it shot itself in the foot with the increasing amount of physician burnout.
Submissions about Firefox, Mozilla, or Rust that get a lot of comments often remind me how I wish this site had a setting like "showdead", except it disabled all moderation.

With that setting enabled, there would be no grayed-out comments, no dead comments, no reordering, and no whatever else might be done based on a comment's ratings.

It's annoying how what are often perfectly reasonable comments are obscured or hidden, and it's also annoying having to work around that obstruction just to read them.
This looks super-interesting! I haven’t seen the questions yet scrolling through a number of comments, so:

- how much disk storage does this use, say per hour of typical computer use

- how much CPU/battery life impact does it have
"...or that reliability may not even fully depend on code quality at all (“I’ve seen lots of reliable code that’s poor quality.”) They indicated that while these are related, they are not the same concept as “code quality.”"

Something being more reliable than something else is an absolute quality measure.
> Large-scale distribution is expensive and complicated.

It is in fact neither expensive, nor complicated, eg. napster.
I would happily switch, but Firefox’s tabs are not sufficient for 2023. Vertical tabs are essential for me, and none of the Firefox plugin-based workarounds come anywhere close to Edge (and Brave). I prefer Firefox as a browser, but as a tool it’s growing more and more outdated.
Yes, but it's still called that way
If you want an experience that includes privacy violations, knock yourself out. Personally, as an end user, that is exactly what I don’t want, which is why I use Firefox
Linode respond swiftly to abuse reports[0], block outgoing SMTP by default, and prevent so many people from even registering for services that it is the #1 question people ask on their IRC channel. What more should they do? What is “enough”?

90% of the spam that I receive from a DMARC-validated sender comes from Google; should every Gmail user be punished because Google aren’t “doing enough”?

[0] Linode twice threatened to shut off services within 24 hours due to some vigilante scanning the internet with a broken virus scanner and automatically sending reports: https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/04/23/dumbass-of-the-year-awar... (n.b. this is not my site)
It's probably third party cookies but not for long, Chrome will also remove them next year so they will have to do something about it.
> LibreWolf

Why are FOSS names always so bad...
The difference today is that AI companies aren't jumping at the chance to go public.
Apple's A/UX had Commando, a graphical assistant for assembling Unix command-line incantations. I'm baffled that this hasn't been redone.
YouTube Premium works fine on Firefox.
I'm unreasonably upset by the use of pie charts by these very cherished devs.
It is true in the sense that we only use about 10%, at any given time, for some definitions of percent. People just fail to understand that the other 90% is just not useful, rather than unused potential.
Firefox is not my primary browser on macOS for similar reasons. Given how similar iOS is to macOS I wouldn’t expect the situation to be much different with a hypothetical Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS — the performance and efficiency isn’t quite there compared to WebKit-based stuff.

There’s platform-agnostic issues too, however. Firefox is my primary browser on Windows and Linux, but it has a pile of UI papercuts which I’ve kinda-fixed with userchrome.css hacks, and the result is underwhelming (as is the possibility of these hacks periodically breaking with updates). It’s enough of a frustration that forking Firefox to properly fix them would be tempting if keeping up with the firehose of security patches from mainline weren’t so daunting.

My biggest wish is for Gecko to re-gain embedding support on desktop platforms so I can build my own browser around it, making keeping it secure as simple as updating dependencies.