skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a similar crafting an interpreter[1] and compiler[2] pair of books for Go. I've heard good things about it, didn't work through it myself though:

1. https://interpreterbook.com

2. https://compilerbook.com
Radiocarbon dating isn’t as simple as most people think because the ratios of the various carbon isotopes varies significantly by region and time period. A volcanic eruption somewhere else on the continent, for example, can dump ancient C14-poor carbon from underground which changes the ratio of C-14 to other isotopes, making samples appear much older than they really are.

They need to come up with a calibration standard for the locality by measuring a bunch of other samples that have been dated by other means to establish a control. Then they will be able to actually date the cave painting. Calibration standards are hard work and it might take a while.
Almost as bad IMO are companies that auto-respond with messages like "we'll contact you in the next few weeks to discuss next steps". Next few weeks? Are you under the impression that your competitors are all sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

Yes, it's a hirer's market today, but that doesn't mean you can take your sweet time eventually getting around to interested applicants.
Getting ghosted 95% of the time has been the default for decades.
Yes but swapping the angle is not an instant action. In fact it has a huge black screen flash and takes like 10 or so seconds.
No, on iOS the choice is between Safari + Plugins (official Safari) and Safari w/o Plugins (Chrome, Brave)
> Firefox and Safari do not support installing PWAs on any desktop operating systems... Chrome and Edge support installing PWAs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Chromebooks.

That's not actually true, MDN needs updating. PWAs are installable as standalone apps since macOS Sonoma and Safari 17 - https://webkit.org/blog/14445/webkit-features-in-safari-17-0....
I sort of agree with you on the surface (who cares if some rando knows I take thyroid meds?), but the ways medical data can be used against you are very insidious. Even now that preexisting conditions are history (AFAIK), if your data were public, people could target you (or the elderly) for snake oil cure scams, financial scams (especially if they knew you were dying of cancer), identity theft scams (send you fake bills and steal your money). Anything sexual or psychiatric could be used to blackmail you, all sorts of cruel things could be done, it just takes some imagination.
Or is that just what the content producers want you to believe in order to get you to sign up the the latest streaming service?
You need to read the actual article: construction times have not gotten longer.

No matter how much you cherry-pick examples.

As confirmed by the data from Statistia: plants completed in 2022 were completed in, drumroll, 7.5 years.
Who's the socialist? For all the talk about education here, there seems to be a lack of knowledge that there are other perspectives and ideals than the materialist industrialist faiths socialism and capitalism.

For example real estate and migration are things that have existed for millennia before capitalism or socialism, and have been dealt with in a lot of different ways.
My main gripe with Firefox on Windows:

You can’t drag a tab out of one window and hold it against the side of the screen to snap that tab there as a new window. Chrome lets you do that, and I use that feature all the time.

I’ve mostly gotten used to everything else at this point.
Imagine being a woman with a miscarriage or a trans kid in Texas.

Healthcare info being public invites all sorts of abuse by people going for political or "culture war" gains.
I also think a person who has had to strip out or replace dependencies is more likely to be careful when choosing them in the future. This is definitely the case for me, at least.
After 10+ years of working as a QA engineer I accepted that every project, every piece of software is a crap, is full of bugs, many of which are not going to be fixed.

The difference is only how shitty it is. Internal software of huge corporations are total crap. Software which is facing paying customers is better.
Re: France vs Uruguay. Yes subsidized electricity is cheaper than unsubsidized electricity.
So you’re telling me that two different search engines from two different companies using two different algorithms return two different sets of results.

Uh, what’s the problem with that?
Very cool -- shame I don't have a wall TV to just run it on. I was however, disappointed -- I saw it as a T-shirt brand "Particle Life" for physicists. The T-shirts would have slogans such as "After listening to you, I realize you're just an unfortunate jiggle in the quantum field, so I feel totally justified in ignoring everything you say"
Any Firefox user who is concerned about privacy should definitely read the Firefox Privacy Notice:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

The name "Google" appears multiple times, sometimes within the phrase "data to Google".

There are also currently references to "third-party ad platform" and "a third-party referral platform", along with other companies/organizations.

Some people will claim that it doesn't matter because some of this Firefox functionality that involves data collection and/or third-parties can be disabled, or that it's fine because it has been disclosed, or it's somehow acceptable because Firefox maybe doesn't send as much info as some of its competitors do, and so on.

I don't buy into those arguments. If Firefox was truly privacy-respecting, it would never collect nor send any data beyond that necessary to provide its core web browsing functionality.

Any functionality that might compromise a user's privacy should not be bundled by default, and would have to be explicitly opted into by manually installing an extension that provides such functionality. This would include Firefox's/Mozilla's own "telemetry".
I got some bizarre results. Entering “taco” returns nothing having to do with food.
What an intellectual response. If you disagree with me, please tell me why you think that people who support mandating an mRNA vaccine would not support mandating a nanobot vaccine? Especially if the latter was genuinely effective at preventing transmission. And if you don't disagree that they'd support that, then you're essentially acknowledging that we're being streamrolled into a cyberpunk future, because there's nothing more cyberpunk than people being forced to augment their body with nanotech or lose their job.
Right, and the only way laws change is by moneyed individuals testing them. We should be cheering this opportunity for an actually decent precedent to be set by Apple’s patent law army.

Though in all likelihood it will be settled out of court.
I'm pretty sure there are tons on unreleased and unpublished backdoor exploits for linux and windows likewise. The problem is you can't fix them yourself if the signature keeps unknown to anyone.
I'm not talking about cave paintings. When Livy wrote Ab Urbe Condita, when Chaucer wrote Centerbury Tales, who were they planning to sell the rights too?

Professional/career writing didn't become the default until the middle of the 19th century, when a rise in literacy made it financially viable.

Even as recently as the first half of the 19th century, most of the literary greats were not professional writers.

Leo Tolstoy was a nobleman born into wealth, financially set for life, and wrote purely for the intellectual stimulation. Chekov saw himself first and foremost as a physician, continued to practice with a full patient panel even after he encountered massive success as a writer, and famously said "Medicine is my wife and writing is my mistress." Nathaniel Hawthorne was a low level government bureaucrat throughout his life. Henry David Thoreau alternated between running a pencil factory and being an indigent. And yet no matter their financial situation, no matter their day job, no matter how much or how little income they derived from writing, they all wrote, and they wrote good stuff.

Professionalization of writing in the second half of the 19th century directly coincided with the rise of doggerel and dime novels. The volume of new works went up, but the average quality went down - not up as you suggest. When the financial incentive is central there is a push to optimize for quantity over quality.
Avoid These 6 Common React UseState Hook Mistakes (With Code Examples)
as a founder recruiting engineers of various skillsets/expertise i simply don't have the bandwidth to respond to every non-qualified candidate.
Container tabs really is the killer app for me. At work I might need to be signed in and accessing multiple Microsoft 365 admin portals across tenants. Or at home, being able to have containers for my homelab/dev Microsoft 365 account that can run entirely separately of my main browser profile.

Like you said, you can use multiple browser profiles in chromeium based browsers, but managing multiple whole windows when I just need 1 browser page seems like such a pain in comparison.
My SSH keys are protected with a password, on top of that I have a biometric lock (MacBook fingerprint reader) on my SSH keys. So they would only grant access to someone that 1. has access to my computer, 2. knows the password (which only I know) and 3. has my finger. Definitely more than just plain text!

I strongly suggest looking into multi-factor authentication, or other modern authorization/security mechanisms if you want to see examples of security systems that are not just plain text.

> Chromium does not display it.

Security by obscurity is not ideal, although I can understand that the lack of this feature in Firefox hinders your usecase.
> "being forced to support, but not allowed to fix"

IMO that's a super important point. Having accountability without control is probably the fastest way to burnout and dissatisfaction in my experience. It doesn't matter the amount of hours you put in, it doesn't matter how much vacation you have. It's the difference between a feeling of accomplishment vs the learned helplessness and Sisyphean feeling of endlessly pushing a stone uphill.

And productivity suffers the most. This situation negatively affects the whole system, naturally.
If you feed them a constant stream of new content, yeah, they'll probably be that way, but they're not born with an insatiable desire for novel consumption.
The bailouts of 2008 led to a k shaped recovery just like the bailouts and stimulus of covid.

People save money when times are hard, interest rates rise and unproductive ventures collapse, that is the homeostatic response of the economy and it is a healthy one; when productive ventures prove themselves, they are able to attract the investment of savers and use it to aquire capital goods etc.

When you print money in an attempt to stimulate the economy, you are sending mixed signals to investors who now have to worry about inflation eating their savings, ecouraging them to spend or invest in often unproductive ventures. This response drives up the cost of consumer goods and allows those unproductive ventures to suck up the capital goods that would be better used elsewhere.
Is it programming language agnostic?
Syndication of the same article with no paywall: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/ai-created-virtual-influe...
>What could go wrong?

I could say the same for basing your money supply on the production of a yellow metal. What happens when there's a massive discovery of gold? Or there's a (trade) war between the top producers (eg. china, australia, and russia)? Or when there's a worldwide pandemic and you need to provide stimulus so the economy doesn't collapse?
“But computing power is much higher now. The same compilation now would probably take 1-2 hours, max. Updates would be super fast.”

I’m not so sure. A lot of the power comes from multiple cores. Years ago I had one core, now I have eight. A lot of the compiles don’t use all the cores.

Software has also gotten bigger. rustc is huge, for example. It didn’t even exist when I used Gentoo years ago.

These days I’m on the Mac and I just switched to Homebrew after using Macports for years. It was for one of the same reasons I stopped using Gentoo: compiling takes too long. Whenever I upgraded Mac OS versions, Macports required me to recompile everything. This was no problem at all for, say, tree. But something was pulling in gcc (emacs needed it for some reason??) and this took ages to compile.

At least Macports worked though. When I used Gentoo, it took so long to compile things that I would leave it overnight, and of course often in the morning I would see that the compilation stopped halfway through because something was broken. Hopefully that’s improved. Or of course maybe the binary packages will help with this.

But if I wanted a build-your-own, rolling-release binary system, I don’t see why I wouldn’t just use Arch.
> mountains of school debt

Is this, plus the liability insurance aspect, the root of the problem? I wonder if prospective doctors could “enlist” where the government pays for all this training and shields them on the condition that they follow orders for some period of time like “be a primary care doctor in this underserved community and treat everyone.” You can’t go be a Malibu plastic surgeon until after your mandatory service period.
In Russian it did stick as a word for photocopiers (ксерокс), copies (ксерокопия) and the act of copying (ксерить, ксерокопировать) to this day.

At this point it's more of a legend, but it goes that the word we use for toilet, унитаз, is the brand name of the company that sold toilets in 19th century.

Scotch is one brand of adhesive tape but we call all such tape "скотч".
Perhaps we'll get single-payer... but the single payer will have a profit motive.
UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
This prompted me to check LinkedIn after months of having it parked in a tab and it worked with no problems.

When I have problems with a site it's usually because I'm blocking most JavaScript with uMatrix and I have to find the correct combination of scripts to make the site work for me without having to give away my soul to the gods of tracking.

As a software developer, it's been years since a customer told me that the sites I develop on Firefox don't work on Chrome or Safari. I don't even bother to check anymore. I couldn't check with Safari anyway and they are OK with that. The point is that if it works in Firefox it works everywhere. Of course we're not using any Chrome-only API but we never had to use one of them as far as I can remember.
It never recovered from the loss of gentoo-wiki
My pop was a sewing machine mechanic and my first gig was digitizing parts catalogs. Being a mechanic having serviced many machines, he knew which competing brands have the same internal parts for key functions. Sewing machines are magical things and Singer who had the novel idea of a better up and down and Wilson had the clever idea of the rotary bobbin. Before that a shuttle would be used, it flew laterally and could produce a consistent mechanical stitch. The mechanics on these early machines is insane... it was a great way for me to get into computing.

Also part reuse happens all over... Lamborghini’s have used Mazda headlamps.
Yeah but that's not on Mozilla in any way. That's just Google's anti-competitive practices. Firefox refuses to jump on Google's attempts to ban adblockers with Manifest V3 so Google wants to punish them
I used to use Gentoo 20+ years ago; installing it was eye-opening. It helped me enormously to understand how Linux works.

I then moved to debian/ubuntu and recently switched my main server to Arch. And you are right - I got back this feeling of having all my 10 fingers in the system and living on the bleeding edge.

Now: this was probably not the brightest choice, as this server rund my docker containers and basically nothing more so it should have been Debian(a fire-and-forget OS)
20+ years for me:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/May/20-years-of-gentoo/
Big question is how have your energy costs changed? I am considering this vs a hybrid heat-pump tank model.
> employ busloads of psychologists

Oh for the love of - no. They do not. As a PhD in psychology I am completely unhireable at these places except maybe as a data scientist because I can do basic statistics. This is completely baseless conspiracy thinking. The people doing the UI and UX work at these companies maybe took a couple courses in basic intro psych and marketing.
I spent yesterday recovering some files that had silently reverted to October 2023 versions on - no kidding - December 24th. I only noticed it yesterday morning when I opened a spreadsheet and was absolutely baffled.

This is the second time iCloud has fucked me. As much as I want to use it I no longer trust it.
I think 2024 is going to be ruled by the Arc Browser when it is fully released for Windows.

I use it on Mac and it's amazing, but as soon as it's available on Windows, I think people will start recommending it everywhere and everyone is going to start using it.
So when you want to enable JavaScript, you have to click around in both uMatrix and NoScript?
In 2024, please fix tab tearing. Thanks!
Having used Linux native tooling for AV installations for fifteen years, little features like this have been vital for everything from projection mapping to persistence of vision to custom geometry video walls.
Isn’t this just the military? Canadian military is perpetually short of medical staff even with this.
PowerBuilder is a word I haven’t heard in a long time. My first job out of college at a tech consultancy was developing a PowerBuilder/Oracle application for a client. Tooling was terrible compared to today, but it was a great LOB development tool.
Apple makes money from ads in their App Store. Do they make ad money from Safari? I couldn’t find that info.
They're in the death grip of consumerism, it seems. Consumerism is highly correlated with demographic decline. It shifts the perceived "center of gravity" of value toward the materialistic. Having children is sort of a net loss in the materialist calculus. Imagine a family with 5 children that owns a Honda Odyssey and lives in a modest house, and now imagine a family, with the same upper middle class net income, that voluntarily choose to have at most a single child, but lives in a sleeker house and owns a Maserati and a Porsche. Which looks more attractive to someone steeped in consumerism? Which generates more social approval today? Which is going to appeal more to the careerist? Which is going to look more like Success™?

It's obvious. Large families are no longer imagined as a joyful thing, life affirming, a source of meaning, an honor, and the true wealth of a family in the eyes most. No, large families are for poor people who are too stupid to use contraception, an impediment to consuming shit, because everyone knows that consumption is true happiness.

So it sounds like Korea may be trying to overcome occurring or forecasted economic decline resulting from the worst fertility rate in the world and without mass immigration and having their culture threatened as a result. But barring a miracle, they're just buying time before their inevitable collapse. I dare say it is virtually impossible for a society to turn away from the religion of consumption once it has captured and corrupted a society. The only way out seems to be through the inevitable collapse, as that is the only way the spell is broken. This is tragic.
It is the default browser on many phones though.
From a quick Google search, the average monthly remote salary in Europe is reportedly $5.3k - $6.9k[1]. That translates to $63.6k - $82.8k. I can't verify these numbers, of course.

[1] https://dynamitejobs.com/continent/remote-jobs-in-europe
GPT-4 driven robot takes selfies, 'eats' popcorn
> but if they can't get developer communities to build around their equivalent to CUDA and its ecosystem than it's not looking rosy for AMDs future.

Dec 6th was an announcement from Lisa Su about the MI300x. It also included a full on commitment to ROCm as well as other projects like pyTorch. They are clearly aware of what you're talking about, and working on it. It isn't something that can magically be fixed over night, but it is something that people can complain about on HN over and over and over again...
And yet she came in 3rd place, since the other contestants came up with hacks to "technically" propel the pea further.
Side note - the privacy consent is downright aggressive. If you want to remove your consent you have to unselect 100+ checkboxes for each of the partners, whereas accepting is a simple "accept all". I bypassed using reading mode, but darn...
The elephant in the sub-tweeting room: OpenAI getting caught red-handed memorising many many NYT articles.

Now, the root cause must be attacked: copyright itself, not the intransigence of OpenAI to license this content (as they have with, say, Axel Springer).

Can the rules of the game be changed before they come into effect for our heroes? Tune in to the next episode in 2024…
Bigquery studio is an absolute dog in Firefox even on S-tier desktop hardware. It works better in chrome. Go figure.
>\ Hot take:

I tried FF for a long time but finally switched to Brave. Yes, I'll be downvoted for saying this but it's objectively one of my top 3 favorite browsers rn.

1. Brave

2. Edge

3. Safari

I like each of them for different reasons. Brave (after disabling annoying features such as crypto and VPN) is awesome and its iOS app is the only one which can play videos in the background, has dark mode, and syncs really well with the desktop app.

Edge is so tempting esp. with recent Microsoft Copilot which makes it so useful (I can summarize pages right in the browser, organize my tabs by telling so to the Copilot, etc.)

Safari is not a good browser per se and lacks many features and plugins, but it's minimal and doesn't drain the battery like Brave and FF.

I really wanted to like FF but it's just not cutting it anymore.
`exit` is simply a function. The text it displays at the REPL now is simply the result of calling `repr()` on that function. Adding a special case would make the REPL more complicated, and would make it inconsistent. Technically it wouldn't even be an REPL anymore, since it wouldn't be doing the "P" part for certain objects. And the special case would break tools that rely on the REPL behaving consistently.
The Netflix Ui/UX sucks bad enough that I quit the service over it. I for one do not want them to gain a foothold in the market similar to YouTube, because their market dominance would just lead to the formation of yet another cesspool of shit content.
He’s so great. Secret Life of Machines is one of the greatest television programs to ever exist in terms of explaining household technology in simple terms. Highly recommend it to anyone with kids. I plan to check out his arcade the next time I’m in London.
yes that was it. It really is an example of fantastic documentation. I had tried to run a linux distro that I had bought when I was 16 or 17 (in a box from a store!) but failed to see the appeal. The throw you right in the deep end with plenty of support (good documentation in this case) is still how I learn best and I attribute my experience with Gentoo for helping me find the hacker mindset. Anything is possible if you're willing to dig deep enough.
> Harnessing knowledge of human nature does not require government support

Yeah but fencing it off from others does require government support. If it's human nature to create, it's also human nature to copy. If you create some new worthwhile invention, I'll just copy your invention without even asking you, and without the government there's nothing you can do to stop me.