skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox certainly didn't help by becoming a bloated mess. Firefox was bad when Chrome came out. All Chrome did was the same thing Firefox did to IE in the same situation: take advantage of complacency. Google's heavy and sometimes ethically questionable promotion of Chrome was an amplifying force, but not sufficient.
Sure, and law can be written in a manner that those with medical device reason can keep their phone with them.
I adore the work that you're doing. Keep going.
Yeah but then you’ve basically just remade REST, but the queries are stored in the frontend instead.
eDrawings for Mac is not Solidworks
Expected Anti-Pattern #1 - Engineers will trivialize other's contributions to the process and consider it "trivially something."
I mean, multiple things can be the cause of these issues - it's more difficult to legislate away parental fears.
Ironically I think a version of this had to happen in the one-room schoolhouses of yore. If you're the only teacher, you can't afford to split everyone by age. You kind of have to roll people into whatever lessons they can handle and do your best.

It was "innovative," in a way I think we're coming to regret, to suggest that all 8-year-olds (for example) must be at the same level across every subject, and none of them should ever be taught alongside a group of mostly 6- or 10-year-olds.
I've never seen a good clear explanation of "fractionalization" - the way that that systems can contain excitations that act like particles with charges that are a fraction of the electron charge. A typical non-explanation:

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-revolution-redefining-physi...
> residencies famously overwork newly minted doctors - they’re allowed to work up to 80 works

Wait til you learn about EMTs and paramedics. EMTs can be making as low as $11/hr. And at the last ambulance service I worked at there was no upper cap on hours. The only restriction was you had to be off-duty for 8 hours after every SIXTY on-duty.
> Jetpack Compose and its declarative UI is how modern Android apps are developed.

[citation needed]. I looked into Jetpack Compose a year or two ago and it was way too immature then to use in production. I guess maybe that's improved a bit but we're talking about existing apps here. They don't magically move to Jetpack Compose. Someone has to update them. How much would you bet that MotionCam Pro uses Jetpack Compose?
This makes me just want to go stare into the middle distance for awhile, if I'm honest. The steps back always seem faster and further than the steps forward to averting catastrophe.
Back in the day music wasn't an isolationist experience, nor socializing was shunned for fear of breaking off one's echo bubble and, oh the humanity!, having to listen outside one's playlist
Or maybe this is about school performance / group behavior and none of what you're bloviating about.

Smartphone use and plummeting grades has been a global phenomenon.
I understand that. Thanks.

I just don’t know how this relates to what I wrote.
- Import Photoshop PSD files

- Isometric shape tool

- Built-in pattern brushes (for things like brickwork, landscapes, fences, windows, doors, meshes etc., stuff thats painstaking to draw)

- Color ramp generator with configurable hue shifting

- Inline text tool
The lifetime borrow checker is a paradigm specific to Rust and is the only language to use it to my knowledge.

Just for the perspective, Rust is 9 years old, SBCL 25 years old and the first implementation of Lisp is 64 years old
A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile
I'm also a bit stunned that the EU is cool with microsofts level of intrusion.
I can imagine the US being whatever about it internally, but surely the EU would see that as encrochment
This is one of the problems with graphql, there are no docs because the schema is all you need. But that assumes the schema is logical and consistent, which it rarely is.

It also means you need to be an expert in the tooling to figure it out, so just dropping in to a graphql api is so frustrating compared to plain old rest
"Anytime you apply a rule too universally, it turns into an anti-pattern."

That's probably true in more than just engineering.
Wikipedia, Archive.org, etc.

Maybe "generating revenue" doesn't apply exactly, but...
Everything in the US, whether it should be or not, is divided at some level along ideological lines. It's awful. I hope we can find our way out of it while retaining a healthy, functioning democracy. And I don't think it's inaccurate to say that when the US suffers this way, it has an impact on the whole world. We can play a stabilizing role, but only when we are ourselves stable.

It may be rose colored glasses, but I don't remember it always being this way. Maybe it was right about the time Bork got nominated, but as I recall confirmation hearings used to be more of a rubber stamp. The president picked someone halfway decent, the Senate said sure that looks good, and there we go. But now it's completely ideological and the actual qualifications and judicial attitude of the nominee have practically no impact.

Doesn't help that some of the current justices believe strongly in originalism, which gives wide latitude towards interpreting what the founders must have been thinking.

And it really doesn't help that some of the justices are engaging in overtly partisan behavior in their off time. Used to be that the mere appearance of impropriety could sink your career, but that ship sailed a while ago.
Given that they seem to have only prioritised those features, I doubt anyone can since there's nothing material to compare to.
Yes, but the current design and direction are very clearly not working.

You can hardly blame them for trying to emulate what's currently working for everyone else when everything you've tried so far has led to your downfall.
I am still amazed that people use Windows for any serious workloads at this point. Especially, non-professional editions. The only reason I keep a Windows license at this point is just for the occasional gaming session that cannot be virtualized in a VM (ie, most multiplayer fps games)
What did you do when you moved and your new school was expecting you to do 5th grade work?
No, it's worse than that - they chose to target geeks, then decided to throw out the geeks in an attempt to target a more mainstream audience[0] and then failed to actually get the mainstream userbase, leaving them with neither the nerds nor the normies.

[0] Firefox has always been at its strongest as a power-user's browser, chock-full of extensions and tweaks. Mozilla met this advantage with... two extinction events for extensions, and removal of customization options.
> (there were more than one group with flags, and they were not immediately removed as you claim.)

Prove it. What groups? Where were they? How many people were in these groups?

> Just because they sucked at communication, their demands changed minute by minute, doesn't mean that wasn't their intent. They absolutely tried to do this.

It sounds like you suck at communication since you cannot substantiate your claims that they wanted to overthrow the government, nor substantiate your claims that they were white nationalists, nor substantiate your claims that they wanted the conservatives to take power.

And even if "they wanted the conservatives to take power", that's ambiguous at best, and does not at all amount to "overthrowing the government". A democratic no-confidence vote could qualify as the conservatives taking over, but that doesn't qualify as overthrowing the democratically elected government. Broad protests that lead to a no-confidence vote is the definition of democracy in action.

So yes, you fell for alarmist propaganda from the media that had clear incentives to sensationalize what was happening. Which isn't to say the protest was legal or without problems, but the things you're saying about it simply aren't true.
> but at least they refurbish them before turning them into AirBnBs--whereas the original owners (which, surprise surprise, were not actually living in them) wouldn't put forward a single penny to renovate

Have you looked deeper into this? In Greece (that is pretty much on the same boat) it is often the case that you can get a generous (typically EU-funded) subsidy to renovate the property and put it on AirBnB rent. But any renovations on your own home, you have to pay out of your own pocket, and even the banks are hard to loan you.

So governments may not exactly innocent for properties being handed off to foreigners and the AirBnB-fication of tourist destinations.
I could never figure out how it worked.
That's basically correct, but the percentage of unanimous decisions has been on a downward trend:

https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/freque...
I just imagine the mentality (and skills) of a cyber security expert who decides to work within the German bureaucracy, it explains a lot
What do you propose? No regulations?
Technophobia. Kids use phones to communicate with teachers and that includes during the school day.
>its days are numbered

I will bet you everything I own that Windows will still be the dominant OS in business environments for at least another decade. Until the Chromebook generation enters the workforce in large numbers and starts demanding the simple web interfaces they're used to, no IT admin is going to install Linux on his machines.
How to Keep an Old Computer Running
No, it just feels that way, because some things are actually up 40%, whilst other things are just less accessible in general or have been subjected to fees which can't be captured as a percentage rate.

The tradesman example I give is one of those. It's not x% more expensive to get something done, it's more like, the small jobs are now uneconomical to bother with at all, so you do it yourself to a lower standard which takes you time. Hence it feels as if the economy is doing worse, because you can't get as much done.
>it's that no one thinks they ARE applying DRY principles "too rigidly"

But they should think twice if they are building abstractions only for the sake of DRY.
Furthermore, if this and similar laws create a new set of requirements for school devices, companies (including Apple!) will create products to meet demand.

It seems like the tail wagging the dog to reason back from a dominant device now being excluded to regulation shouldn't happen.
That's a standard generic response, but in this case the specified software is Matlab, which runs perfectly on Linux - I use it several times a year on my Ubuntu machine.
"We should stop talking about it as transitional technology,"

Why? It’s inherently a transitional technology. It is a technology that will necessarily destroy itself. Especially in a market with a growing share of BEVs as well.

Once EVs + plug-in hybrids got to over 50% of market share in Norway, sale of gasoline started to drop by 30% every year.

Think about that for a bit.. this can’t be sustained for long without gas station shutting down or pivoting to EV chargers. I don’t think it’ll take much for people to notice and push people even more towards EVs. Once you have even a little bit of that effect going, it’ll be an accelerating positive feedback loop.

Sure, you’ll be able to find gasoline somewhere for decades to come. But will it be convenient? Will you need to make a big detour to fill up? What happens when people start to think about that?
I see there are many comments about Wikipedia. I can't find the link, but many years ago (like 7+), there was a concept Wikipedia redesign that proposed the same UX. This was a "marketing" project of a non-Wikipedia related designer. Does anybody remember?
Wow this article manages to quote a philosopher's book about AI from 2014. Way back before any hint that LLMs and scale would rush the stage. If someone finds some substantial information in the article, please tell me, I gave up.
I still can't believe the 2nd circuit looked at this case and decided it was acceptable behavior.
Valid, yes. But the law could still require that the medical monitoring device have other functions disabled or (depending on what the legislators consider easy enough) not in use while in class except for the t1d monitor + SMS + voice, right? And they could still apply discipline if the student's phone has other functions enabled or (depending on the legislative wording) in use while in class?

The law could also use indirect leverage to gradually separate students' medical monitoring from the smartphone over the medium to long term. For example, they could begin a multi-year transition period after which NY-regulated health insurance plans would have to cover a non-smartphone version of these monitoring devices with at least equivalent functionality to any smartphone version they cover, at no greater out-of-pocket cost to the patient, unless no comparable non-smartphone product is on the market from any manufacturer. Then they could eventually require the non-smartphone version in class once it exists, with a fully insurance-paid (no cost-sharing) transition available at that time to children who use the existing smartphone monitoring system.

To avoid a gap in insurance coverage, NY could continue to mandate that some version of these devices be covered, so nobody would go without affordable medical monitoring. But as soon as one company decides to make a non-smartphone version, their competitors would have to do the same or else lose market share in NY, so they all would. (Why would that first company take the leap? They'd get a lot of insurance-paid device purchases for the transition for children's existing devices.) And then teachers would have an ADA-compliant way to remove the distractions of smartphones in class even for kids with medical monitoring needs, without causing harm to anyone.
It also does not help that many of the big businesses break their website if you do not let them track you.

I use Safari + Wipr Content blocker with iCloud Private Relay, and it is just so inconvenient to do anything on many major websites. At the least I have to reload the website without a content blocker, and at worst, I have to use Chrome, giving up my privacy.

If a somewhat computer literate person like me who knows about content blockers/iCloud Private Relay/VPN/ublock Origin has to relent and use Chrome, then what chance does a layperson have? They will just use Chrome and go on about their business. They want to spend their life doing other things, not figuring out why Target is not letting them order this clothing item they spent 10 minutes looking for because they are getting flagged as a bot or fraudster or simply not letting themselves be tracked.

I especially love when you block location access to a retailer's website, and then the retailer breaks their functionality for choosing the actual store you want to shop at. They have your billing and shipping address from previous orders, they have your 2FA login, and yet, every single time, they ask for access to your location, and when you decline, they set your store to some random store within a few hundred miles of you because (I assume) they are trying to use your IP address to show you the store.
> servers

Some companies I have worked at still used Windows Server 2012. MS is probably making bank on those extended support licenses.
But that's absurd - are they proposing that we just keep burning fossil fuels forever? Obviously we cannot do that.
This actually is a very valid point at the most obvious level: Office 365.

Nowadays I work on a Mac (finally![0]) and, yes, Office 365 is available for macOS, but it’s not at parity with Office 365 on Windows. Mostly this doesn’t matter and it’s certainly a lot more capable than any of the web versions of the office apps. But, at least for me, it does sometimes matter with Excel.

So I decided to use Wine to install the Windows version of Office 365. The installer started but it crapped out after the intro page and I haven’t been able to get past the error.

I could install Parallels but I kind of hate it because it involves running Windows whose bag o’ shiteness is the whole reason I’m so ecstatic about having a job where I can work on a Mac in the first place.

Realistically, there isn’t anything that comes close to O365 either. Excel is the best spreadsheet app, still, by a country mile, and all the other apps are best in class too. So it’s the industry standard in just about every industry and if you’re in one of the few companies who’ve gone a different way then in some scenarios it can make you kind of a pain in the ass to deal with.

[0] I fully accept that this may just be a stepping stone toward working on Linux. Hopefully by the time I need to do it support for a Linux on laptops will be a bit better, and I’ll be able to avoid buying a Dell.
Ten days from now will mark the one year anniversary of my wife's death. We would have been together for 11 years last November. It's tough. I really understand this letter, I think. You can't stop loving them. Why would you want to? It hurts. I send her Facebook messages, although earlier today it said it couldn't send them. I could write a letter, but that is not how we communicated. I may have to think of some other form of "communication" soon. An email, perhaps.
> business software

Which will be running on Windows Enterprise deployments owned by the business, not personal machines owned by individuals. And as has already been commented, Windows Enterprise does let you control this. But that case doesn't seem to be what the discussion here is about.
If your argument if "that's how it was in my day" then it's not very convincing.
Oh come on, both pg and Jessica are way too intelligent to not know what the choice is going to be coming into that conversation.
I believe that 2 things can be true:

1. Toner says some specific things.

2. Toner presents them alongside insinuations and plenty of vague and nonspecific things.

Apparently (1) wasn’t sufficient to justify her actions, so she’s had to resort to (2).

As for four board members, that’s a description of what the board did, not what Sam did. The board’s actions do not justify the board’s actions, however much Toner might wish that were the case. Just another insinuation in place of a reason.
The ruling and comments make it seem like a pretty clear cut case.

How did the appeals court get it so wrong? Allegedly these are some of our best judicial minds that get elevated to the appeals courts, right?
Mac user here as well. Chrome kills my laptop (though I've uninstalled it about a year ago and never looked back). Firefox is pretty good. Safari is better, at least in terms of power management.

Firefox is my main browser, and it's a beast. Very low footprint, snappy and very decent in terms of power consumption.
I've tried linux several times. As a non-tech guy, I find it utterly frustrating. It's so intensely user-unfriendly, I am done with wasting my time on it.
They weren't saying they had other suggestions or options. They just pointed out the irony of this situation.

What do you propose?
Your unit is wrong. Giga means billion. The universe is ~14 Gyr old.
I'm not sure why the people saying "just switch OS!" can speak generally, but I have to speak specifically to Matlab.

Many companies run more than one program, even when one of those programs is Matlab.
This is the real answer

The actual problem OP has is that their simulation can't be restarted if something goes wrong
I can't prove it, but I suspect (strongly) that whichever method you believe to be the correct one, following distances must shorten dramatically, or speeds must drop so low as to threaten traffic jams (which, perversely, leave everyone bumper to bumper). It's all about how many cars are trying to use that stretch of road for a period of time, and if all are to fit through within that window, there is both a minimum speed and a maximum following distance. Wish I wasn't a math flunky.
Since when are anger and frustration not 'emotional'?
The implication of what you're saying is that it somehow isn't friendly and approachable to your average non-techie person, which doesn't make sense because the UI paradigm of browsers hasn't really changed for 20+ years and Firefox has been just fine for technies to switch their parents/grandparents over to for years now.

The problem with Firefox isn't the UI, the problem with Firefox is mismanagement by the board that has been captured by Google and the lack of proper antitrust action against Google by the US and EU.
Yeah, that was always funny to me too... Google built a browser that was actually faster and more secure, and then decided to be anti-competitive instead of just letting it win. Of course, they didn't actually get destroyed in court for it, so I suppose being evil works in this case.
Ah gotcha lol
The amount of regressions Mozilla has inflicted on Firefox in recent years blows my mind. One of their few big advantages over Chrome is better user control, but they have been working continuously to destroy that.

Getting rid of most extensions and removing about:config are two big wtf decisions. All that does is piss off power users, which are the main advocates for this browser. Plus so many other baffling changes to remove or worsen existing features, along with the pointless UI reshuffles.

Edit: I should clarify that about:config has only been removed from mobile Firefox, so far at least.
so we were accidentally seeding clouds to be brighter and reflect more light, which was reducing the global warming impact, which has how ceased so the climate is warming up faster now because we aren't accidentally slowing it down.

am i parsing this correctly?
Good points, thanks for bringing them up.

Yes, there was some ongoing maintenance of this code where both versions had to be updated. The original author was not a pilot and was unfamiliar with some of the nuances of FAA airspace. One of the reasons they brought me in was that I am a pilot and knew how the FAA's data should be interpreted.

In the end, not a huge deal, but it was annoying when I had to make the same changes in two places.
On Sept 11, 2001, I remember parents freaking out and pulling kids out of school. After that, parents were giving kids phones earlier for safety reasons.
You say this case was a no brainer and only conservative judges would bodge something so obvious, but the fact of the matter is the Second Circuit royally fucked up this case in the ideologically predictable manner, which is the whole reason it went to the SCOTUS in the first place.
Monoculture in software rarely goes well. Right now Safari and Firefox exist to push back on Google completely controlling the fate of the web. You do not want Google to have the same unquestioned power Microsoft did in the IE6 era.
I feel like the practical duopoly would be one thing if we were back around Vista/7 and Apple’s kittens, but the awful thing about both Microsoft and Apple these days is that they’re not happy with just selling software or hardware, they also really want to push their services, making it harder and harder to escape M365 or iCloud, with Microsoft going so far as to make it a convoluted process involving the command-line and a restart to even allow offline accounts on Home/Pro.
They ripped out home economics, Wood, metal and auto shop. They ripped out the computer labs (hey, many of you HAD vocational training and didn't know it). Gym, Art, Music... all persist.

Schools in the US have become some sort of retrograde distopian bubble of a time that never existed.

Now you're going to remove the one check that kids had vs this system? Cause we haven't seen videos of teachers being awful, stupid or misinformed, we dont want to give kids the option to fact check bull shit on the spot?

If you think that cell phones harm kids, or social media harms kids, this bill does fuck all to change that. IT does remove the one context where an internet connection and camera might be useful to how the kids deal with the world going forward.

Fund schools year round, with smaller classes, better teacher pay and 8 hour fucking days with meals provided to kids. These are the things that will change outcomes, not cell phones bans.