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Wouldn't be the first time.
"Eradicate pests and diseases and build happiness for ten thousand generations" –M. Zedong (1960)
Mozilla continues to let its users down on privacy by relying on Google's money (>80% of its entire revenue) after the CEO promised that they would move away from them 15 years ago. [0] That did not happen.

Nothing has changed other than declining usage and revenue. But give the CEO another bonus over poor user usage, shrinking market share and destroying the browser, all done by themselves and now are being kept on life support by Google.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
> Social media apps are how we connect with people we care about.. Especially when it comes to social apps, deleting them can seem like a radical move, but it really isn't. You can always download the app again if you change your mind — your account will still be there waiting.

Sad, but fortunately not true at all. Recall that people made friends for hundreds of thousands of years before social media apps.

"Ahh, but if all your friends are on social media apps, you can't hang out with them if you aren't on social media apps too!"

Not true either. I have been off Facebook and Twitter since 2008, and never got on anything newer than that. If you count HN, then that's your choice, but I don't have an app for it, and at any rate none of my friends are here. There are no barriers stopping you and your friends from hanging out in a world without social media apps, apart from inertia and some behavior patterns that look a lot like addiction from the outside. Also, there is no difficulty in communicating with people, or scheduling activities with them either. In fact if you find literally any other shared medium of communication, you will be more in touch with them than you are now.

So, don't hide your apps, delete them, pausing only to delete your accounts first, so you can never go back to them.
Hmm. That is interesting. It seemed like the hose was really heavy and he was all alone. I wonder why.
Ask HN: ANSI escape sequences reference docs?
Hi all

I'm in the process of building a new terminal emulator. Yes, I know they're already a dime a dozen but I have plans to take this into a different direction.

Anyhow, the big problem I have is that there are literally hundreds of escape codes that you need to support even just to reach parity with xterm. And while I've been trawling through xterm's docs (eg https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html ) they don't really go into much detail regarding how the actual implementation should look like.

for example: CSI n S (Scroll Up), should that insert empty lines at the bottom (ie scrolling the content up) or scroll back through the buffer?

Admittedly a lot of the codes are pretty self-explanatory and I can fill in a lot of missing gaps via testing those escape codes in other terminal emulators. But having a detailed reference doc would certainly save a lot of time (and reduce the risk of error too).

To be clear, what I'm looking for is a more exhaustive list of escape codes rather than the common ones everyone already knows like SGR.

Thanks in advance :)
Even Apple tried it and they failed and scrambled to launch their own app store after everyone started jailbreaking and using Cydia apps that were so much better than the web apps Apple wanted iPhone users to use :)

And in the end Cydia made Apple develop its biggest money maker ever!
If you're getting into the territory of Global Optimization algorithms like SA it can be helpful to implement your problem generically enough that it can be plugged into a general purpose optimization package like pagmo2, where you can experiment with a dozen or more similar algorithms.
> I was told in the military that snakes cant bite through a regular army boots.

Maybe... I definitely stepped on a honey locust thorn in boots tougher than standard army issue and had it pierce the bottom of the boot, my foot, and the top of the boot. Rattlensake teeth have different geometry and force profiles, so they might not penetrate, but I wouldn't want to prove that fact in person.
I find that I can run faster and have a better grip when I have shoes on. Also it protects me from stubbing my toes.
Confusing
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

1. Oracle.
2. Oracle MySql
3. Microsoft SQL Server
4. Postgres.

The ranking has been constant over Jan 2024, December 2023 and January 2023.
So no change.

Postgres did have the biggest increased score in Jan 2023, yet the change
did not change its position in the ranking.
if I had all the money I wasted on beer back, I could buy so much beer.
Classic the Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/97-year-old-dies-unaware-of-being-v...

> "ROCKFORD, IL—Retired post office branch manager Nancy Hollander, 97, died at her home of natural causes Tuesday, after spending her life completely unaware that she was one of the most talented musicians of the past century and possessed the untapped ability to become a world-class violin virtuoso."

> ""Nancy was the most gracious person I ever met," said retired coworker Geraldine Hunter, 82, echoing nearly verbatim what Pope John Paul II would have said after inviting Hollander to play at the Vatican in 1989. "She really lived every day to its fullest, and I don't think she could have been blessed with a better life.""

etc. etc.
Rails 7.1 Introduced Validate Option for Enums
Rails 7.1 Introduced Validate Option For Enums
Ignoring 20 years of sparc hardware produced after the last sunos release.
The US not nuking Iraq in a war of aggression is proof that "the US" places a high value on human life? It would have started WW3 and there would have been no more US. Even the worst sociopath in the world wouldn't have done it just for that reason. It's still a war of aggression, with hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered.

> If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We will not allow a situation where 2 million people live there. If there are 100-200 thousand Arabs in Gaza, all the talk about the day after will be different.

https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1741347524693127398

That is the intention of those I stand against.

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1742199071761142056

These are the values of those I criticize.

To say "we could have murdered more" and think one can be in any sort related or even adjacent to the tradition of enlightenment and human rights at the same time is preposterous.
I am spending time educating myself. That is super valuable for me and opens up new career opportunities.

And yes it might also happen to benefit the job I do currently. But that is not the #1 priority.
Haven't been laid off but plenty of friends have and that affects me for sure. Some are just tired of the environment of fear and quit to do non-tech. Which is quite sad as many of them are brilliant engineers.

Statistically, VC money is worst in late stage startups and actually higher in early stage ones. Since the big ones hire more, including contractors, more people are affected overall.

It is a great time to start a startup, though, if you're into that. Cheaper and higher quality talent on the market. I know some are cringing about the low startup rates, but some techies are selling insurance and essential oil.
An odd thing, for a native English speaker to be given advice on the language by someone who is learning it, no?

In English there is both essential plumbing and pointless ornament, and I wish for that distinction to be recognised because confusing the two is damaging.
This is the history of the browser. On the history of the httpd, or web crawler, look at Apache Foundation. The projects are mostly in Java.

https://archive.apache.org/dist/

While I have never been a Java fan, it is so ubiquitous that time spent learning it will never be wasted time.
It's not about the quality of construction techniques - plenty of European cities have similar housing crises.
> MS Teams

I really do empathize here, after having to use Teams for around 2 years. It's amazingly slow, confusing, buggy (it would crash the tab quite regularly), and just generally a perfect role model for what software shouldn't be[0].

I'm still quite amazed that Microsoft decided this was acceptable. I'm curious how Slack performs; perhaps they're not trying harder because there's no[t much] competition in this space ...?

[0]: (If I remember correctly, they were using AngularJS at the time, but I'm sure they're now using the regular React stack.)
Clearly I'm replying to someone who claims he didn't do lawyer things.
FYI your mailing list subscription requests get blocked by Firefox tracking protection.
Fair point. I could see how that might be confusing if the arrow keys aren't mapped to what you would expect.
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Do you know how to pronounce it? It is a little bit of tongue-twister for me.
I think there are subgroups of people that get caught up in certain routines they then have a hard time exiting. Drugs increase that risk but even here different people are vulnerable to different things. A good friend of mine told me with a straight face that his doctor explained to him that his BMI is in the "you are eating yourself to death" region. He told me this over refilling his glass of coca cola.

At the same time the bankster i know is still in the process of winning both capitalism and hedonism. I think it is likely more about how you manage your own weaknesses. One of them wont do this till he needs judicial/medical intervention.

edit: Never tried cocaine or heroin btw and had a rather easy time loosing weight. But i am very confident about the outcome of those two people. One has given up while the other knows he cant trust himself with this stuff, has planed and is acting accordingly and is able to grind through very unpleasant stuff.
it really is fascinating to find out that there's a bunch of people eager to make the internet worse but have been held back by being unwilling to write a bunch of text / draw a lot of pictures / etc, but now can be lazy and harmful using LLM/diffusion etc.
I think it's 0.1% of house holds, but it's not strictly the top 0.4% who are impacted. The more you make, the more likely it is that you are impacted, but your household income can be just a couple hundred thousand a year and you could be impacted.
Not trying to rub it in, sorry. I don't actually think you did anything wrong either. Companies are just being assholes right now.
In case you're interested, here is a photo I took in the Museo Marítimo Nacional, Valparaíso, Chile - a full-length stained glass portrait of him: https://i.imgur.com/XSr6wwG.jpg

There is also a monument to him in Valparaíso - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_Lord_Cochrane - he is pretty well known here.
You don't have to engage with people here, but if you do, you owe them (and everyone else here) more civility than this.
Bugs…

Ghost spawns to never be on a player. It’s not fair.

The big dots should give X seconds of ghost eating ability, not just make the existing ghosts edible. That way new ghosts that spawn instantly after you eat a big dot wouldn’t hurt you.
is this video from a plane spotter?
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Groceries in the US is one of the largest and most competitive markets in the world. Two companies are absolutely the exception to the norm.
Ask HN: Making Copyright for a Website
(United Kingdom) Hi, in order to have a copyright for my website, do I need to register my website for a copyright or anything? or is it automatically applied, I use the GPL 3 license so I don't know how that affects it. Also, can I use a pseudonym? as I do not want to show my real name.
> I was so mad that software stopped using Windows help files

Are you referring to HTML Help? I believe they rendered those with Internet Explorer; I'm willing to bet they still do for backwards compatibility.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volume-pvc-datas...
Your taxes are still paying for locking them up.
FTA, emphasis mine:

"Chief product officer Steve Teixeira notes in the report the rapid growth of AI and social networks, although warns that Mozilla.social is unlikely to move beyond the experimentation phase in 2024. He says that Mozilla would be "exploring ways to better integrate advertising while adhering to our focus on privacy and choice," including web browsing."
Wow ! I was basically mulling over it earlier today in the HN learn discord[1], for a practical project. If you want to tag along to do something useful, come say hi (the more the merrier ! ).

[1] https://discord.gg/SAAn3xXC
In fact, google does return facebook as the first result when you search for "facebook"[1], and as for the install prompt that's something that facebook itself can show.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook
so, why wouldn't you use btrfs or zfs?
Commercially-built, American tract homes are built for lowest labor and lowest material costs. They frequently skip every 2nd or even 3rd studs on non-loadbearing walls. The new house my mom bought had endless quality defects (holes) that had to be repaired including cabinets missing shelves, door jam gaps, missing weatherstripping, broken dishwasher, and problems with the garage door. Let me add that most non-custom, commercially-built homes in Texas completely lack any attention to architectural design aesthetics and are just plain ugly.

In America, it is rare for homes to be ever torn down unless they're extremely damaged by termites, very old and not up to modern codes and not considered a historical site, or a 1-wall demo "remodel" cannot be accomplished.
Sorry to be so off topic or dumb. I read a user comment about a Freudian observation. The phantom. So I log on and try to reply... Is hn the one who deletes bad hombres? Or is it bad hombres who deletes his posts?
Well, those haters are just stupid. That ecosystem is probably better to work in now than it ever has been and both of those languages are have a great developer experience.

LINQ is powerful technology. Don't let anyone snub their noses at you.

If the only options for professional engagement were the languages popular with the HN commentariat (Python, Golang, Rust), I'd probably slit my wrists.

I've worked with loads of languages -- even PHP and Perl -- and would do it again without a second thought for the right company/project.
Can you please stop posting like this? It is excessive:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Disabling the center channel of a surround sound system usually will kill the commentary during sporting events. Gets rid of it in a decent chunk of commercials too.
It'll be a long while before the Admiral does, she prefers to work on reports from the investigations.
The paper is total garbage but they do put gdp in the specification. No one should take this “result” remotely seriously though.
As a primary last resort there should be a printed paper backup of the database, but it's a snapshot of ticket sales that at this point would be an hour old, and there's always a rush of last minute writes to the database.

The better organised venues write those changes down with a pen, so it's at least up to date, but modern venues have several entrances to get people through the doors faster, so most people won't have the up to date paper backup.

Our system uses a cross platform app on ordinary smart phones to scan tickets. So if a device goes down, you just need to get your hands on another phone.

There's a limited feature set version of the QR code scanner (scan code, screen flashes red or green) that just runs in a web browser on any device with a half decent camera. All you need is the secret URL for the tonights event — which we also expose via a QR code.
Let's go over the numbers.

Snakes: 50,000.

Seems fair game to me. How would you feel if you had lost a loved one to a viper, even if they engaged in rock climbing or another dangerous activity? Convictions crumble before personal adversity.

https://digg.com/data-viz/link/deadly-animals-kill-most-huma...
At least the artist formerly known as Prince continued providing value until the day he died. With Twitter, that value is long gone.
Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
cocroachdb probably better example
No, not really. Following my values usually feels neutral. Sometimes it feels absolutely terrible.

What I'm trying to tell you is that this is an intrinsic goal, not an instrumental goal. If you were to ask me, "why do you have values?" or "why do you follow your values?" I wouldn't even know how to answer, it would be like asking a fish why it swims.
Is it pronounced “dil-ah” or “dil-oh”?

The former being the central Texas pronunciation and definitely without the “arma”!
^ This is key... I live in a "blue zones" area and it is apparent to me that you can't cargo cult this stuff, IE: it isn't a matter of just copying one part of it, but all the pieces that work together. And, even if you account for all the lifestyle stuff, genetics can still get you. So much emphasis is put on the food part of longevity, but I'm convinced that stress and lack of community (IE: loneliness) are just as much of a problem in overall health.
The (perhaps naive) approach I've taken in the past is to search the space of ODE systems using genetic programming with a loss function obtained by integrating my candidate ODE system and measuring how closely the output matches the data I want to perform regression on.

What they're doing here is not that. I think if I understand it correctly they're using the neural network to generate data which when symbolically regressed with PySR yield the RHS of each ODE in the system.

What's not immediately obvious is what the benefit of introducing the neural network is--does it make it faster than the "direct" naive approach?
Claudine Gay faced backlash over the university’s response to antisemitism on campus, which led to increased scrutiny of her academic record.
If my (somewhat distant) understanding is correct, Dillo doesn't employ sandboxing like the other browsers. If this is the case, then adding support for JavaScript would be disastrous -- there are reasons why modern browsers use things like setuid, seccomp bpf, etc. etc.
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Frank Ryan, NFL Champion QB, Math Prof, Pioneer of Electronic Voting, Has Died
He’s blocking and banning people left and right. I don’t think the “free speech” claim was serious.
That confused be a bit at first too, but that ranking seems to be for how widely they are used (not sure the exact metric), not the ranking of how good they are (which is the dbms of the year page)
>We have been lucky on desktop/laptop that we have added 5 zeros to the available compute, memory, network and GPU capacity. This allows a browser to run slack at the same speed as MIRC, from 2002.

I war running mIRC in 2002. Slack is worse.
It is not unethical to kill an invasive species. The invasive snakes in Florida would better serve their local biosphere if they ceased to exist, no question.

For the 50k annual human fatalities from snakes, that is a matter of personal opinion.

https://digg.com/data-viz/link/deadly-animals-kill-most-huma...
They have tried to move away from Google. The problem is none of their other ideas have worked out.
BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Information Retrieval
> Now as the world expects fluent animation and eye candy

How so? A lot of websites rely upon animations (I'm guessing you're referring to more advanced CSS support here), yet people still use browsers like w3m, elinks, lynx, etc.

If anything, I'd imagine the information density would be much greater with something like Dillo: you'd have much less distracting (as you put it, "eye candy") to draw attention away from the text on the page, which is most certainly welcome IMO.
Really? I was only today reading a Reddit comment from last week of who I assumed was his dad? https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/s/hDAjX39SGt
Probably not common at all considering those are a more recent trend that is still a small minority of new companies.
To insert a sentence that has nothing to do with the topic, I am in China. My daughter is in the second grade of elementary school. Her schoolbag must weigh 6 kilograms and contains various books, exercise books, and test papers. This was not the case when I was in elementary school. My little schoolbag was empty, with only 2 books and 2 thin notebooks. Nowadays, children have too much homework and they have to write until 10pm every day.
I've also gotten a few clients from the freelancer thread. I got nothing at all from the "Who wants to be hired?" thread.