skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd love to see LadyBird become a real contender in the browser market

At this pace it would likely take decades just for them to be complete enough to show up on MDN or wpt.fyi

But I agree. With Microsoft ditching their independent Edge and becoming Chromium-based and Opera doing the same we're really down to 3 real engines. The best fourth option we can get are Goanna-based browsers like Pale Moon which are themselves just an early fork of firefox

A completely new and fresh often can go a long way in safeguarding the openness of the web. Even if there's not a powerful company behind it
Introducing a new technology - a new language, or new database (like MongoDB), or a new framework is a VERY expensive proposition.

You need to solve all of the following:

- Deployment. How will you run the new thing in production (and QA and staging)

- Upgrades. How will you upgrade to new versions in the future? Who will be responsible for that?

- For databases, backups. How will you backup data? How will you make those backups available for things like data warehouse reporting or replication to teat environments?

- Monitoring. How will you monitor systems built with the new technology, handle alerts etc? How will logging work?

- Profiling and debugging: what tools will you use for this, particularly in production?

- Testing: how will you run the new tech in your CI environments, and your local development environments?

- Development environments: how will you ensure all of your engineers can productively develop with the new platform?

- Expertise and education: who on your team will be the experts to help support the new tech and onboard your other engineers?

- Standards: what common patterns, idioms, styleguides etc will you adopt? Who will make decisions about these, and how will they be enforced?

A productive engineering environment should have widespread, well understood answers to each of these questions for every technology in their stack. The smaller the "approved stack" the easier it is to do that.

As a result of all of this, I think the criteria for introducing something new is to ask if the cost of all of this is justified by the expected improvement provided by the new tool.

That usually means it needs to either make some feature posible that was impossible without it, or it needs to provide a multiple productivity improvement - not just a 1.5x, probably a 3x or higher.
Some of the oddities of the nix language are pretty useful for its domain. Recursive attribute sets, for instance, save a lot of headaches if you're trying to have only a single source of truth. Do you feel like these translate to typescript nicely?

As somebody who knows nix but doesn't know typescript, I found myself looking for a rosetta stone page where I could look at two chunks of code that do the same thing, but in separate languages. This would let me use the familiar language to scrutinize the other.

I wouldn't normally ask for such a thing, but if you're putting "Nix-like" in the title then maybe it might be worth adding a comparison page to the docs.
Can make the board personally liable.
> use of biodegradable plastics

Depending on the type of biodegradable plastic, part of it's degradation process would be to break down into small pieces of microplastics.
I knew what this was gonna be and enjoyed the puzzle within those constraints. My first thought was Australia but then I decided on "somewhere in Africa, probably South Africa" which it looks like was a close guess.
It's wild to me that all of a sudden producing in excess of domestic demand is being painted as overproducing and should be met with tariffs. Such blatant hypocrisy.
As an American, I had to read LOTR about 5 times before I started to perceive the class-based nature of the world of Middle Earth. Class here is not as in-your-face as it is in Great Briton.

What's fascinating to me is that this sort of world/economy/way-of-life is the backdrop of virtually every fairy tail, fantasy novel, or even video game (e.g. World of Warcraft). For some reason, this kind of world--which in actuality is on of the most rigid and with the least opportunities--is nevertheless the world which, in our imaginations, is the one most brimming with possibilities and the most potential for adventure.

Why this kind of world? When I asked my father that question, he pointed out that fairy tails often start with brothers "setting out to seek their fortune" and invariably have the youngest brother coming out on top. The reason was the laws of primogeniture--the oldest son inherits everything, so in every generation, all of the younger sons had to do just that--go out and see if they could make something happen, because despite their privileged upbringing, they were going to get dumped out into the wide world to fend for themselves.
We're focused on hiring in SF / Bay Area at this time.

We're in the office (SF) about half the time.
Are you telling me China built the largest navy in the World (per number of ships) and now....will NOT use it?
'Crippling loss'? Haha. Look at the equifax debacle. They set aside some paltry amount of money for the class action, almost instantly ran out and then everyone collectively shrugged.

Regs are rarely ever meant to actually favor the average citizen over the corporation. Just look how quickly the consumer protection agency was killed.
> Finally, it’s possible that allowing the larger incumbent to hire all of a competitor’s employees is actually not in their best interest. After strangling/eliminating the competition, an incumbent has no further need for those employees it poached.

And even if the do, it isnt at the inflated pay rate.

The big incumbent crushed the little guy.
People say they can't get their money out of Yotta Savings (YCombinator 2020)
I wouldn't call it ironic though, when you know how the sausage is made and how toxic it is, it is a logical outcome.

In my child's elementary school (in Silicon Valley) there were no kids with cellphones at any grade level. The school didn't outright prohibit them (although they were discouraged), but all parents had agreement that it was an evil best postponed and cellphones have no place in elementary school. (Not coincidentally, every family had at least one, if not two, parents in tech.)
I was wondering about the weight which I couldn't find specified (although at that size it can't be much) and about ways that you could attach a strap to it.
>"Quit fucking around" and institute a national, single-payer plan that covers everyone, like every other modern industrialized country.

Except we're not starting from a blank slate. So short of heavy-handed, dictatorial decisions how would you propose to get to a single-payer plan that covers everyone? You'll have to work with the existing hospital infrastructure, insurance companies, and citizens who don't want a single-payer system. They all get a say, too. People who act like its a straightforward solution don't really understand the problem. But to avoid sounding overly cynical, I'll throw out a couple of recommendations.

1) Expand the VA system to cover all vets, regardless of whether it's a service-connected health issue or not, without insurance. This is politically possibly the easiest step because its hard for a politician to stand up and say they aren't an advocate for better care for the troops. However, the VA is entwined with medical schools and you'd have ensure you expand the funding proportionately to avoid pissing off that constituency.

2) Gradually ratchet down the age for medicare, over decades.

(I'd also argue you'd have to get money out of politics first for any really change to have a chance)
Can I ask why you went with a MSP430?

I'm not judging, they were all the rage in low-power embedded applications 10-15 years ago, just feels weird to see it in a modern design today, when the market now is flooded with low-power ARM chips that are way more capable than that, and probably easier to program.
I agree with your sentiment but I feel like that's an impossible expectation/standard to set for certain companies that don't have the luxury of dropping data whenever they see fit. For example consumer banks abide by the Bank Secrecy Act which mandates the banks to keep wire records that exceed $100 for at least 5 years.
Huh? The last 25 years completely turned the conduct of war on its head. The arrival of the drone and ubiquitous communications made everything obsolete.

As witnessed in Ukraine, tanks are toast, fighter planes are of relatively limited utility in contested airspace, and surface navy is a dinosaur.

As witnessed in a variety of places, communications rules. If your leadership is hamfisted in how it acts and communicates, public opinion will flip on you, and then you’re done. History should educate us eventually about how influence operations affected western democratic processes.

Warfare is back to insurgency and infantry/artillery shootouts. Except now chaos and effective surveillance and improving drone technology limit power projection. How many C-17s need to be blown up on the ground by little drones before landing a rapid reaction force isn’t feasible? How many major warships sunk by semi-submersible drones will be acceptable to operate in an area of the sea?
Can't you do this via class action seeking to demonstrate negligence?
They take some aesthetic inspiration from Gnome, but Cosmic inherits none of its code since it's being written in Rust.
Make a patch for FreeBSD if you care about it. Pick up maintainership to ensure it keeps working. That's how this works. Andreas is not your bitch.
The video is also a great example of Steve Jobs opinion on traditional UNIX systems, and why although the compatibility was relevant for NeXTSTEP and OS X, that was never the main development story.
"Fear is not a good advisor, nor a good passenger. But if you are in
a mini-car with 60 km/h on the odometer between trucks, buses
and SUVs (and shaking back and forth like an ice cube in a plastic
cup), fear sits next to you on that uncomfortable bench, and then there is
nothing on board to reassure you. No airbags, no
crumple zones, no good brakes. Then two young women in
a Golf or Fiesta next to you at the stoplight and look at you. But it
is not the look you were hoping for. It's more of a look of pity.

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The actual paper is about improving a simulation applied to super capacitors, and is clearer IMO [0].

[0]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401656121
Austin has area for expansion, and SF not much..
Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688

and look at all the recent Reddit threads on Yotta: https://old.reddit.com/r/yotta/

Here's the YCombinator page for them: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yotta
Don't leave us hanging, how well does wasm z3 and minizinc work? How many times slower are they?
Not sure about god inventing USB-C but satan definitely invented usb 3.0 micro b
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I also discovered that it's possible use the love2D library with this to make games in typescript!

https://github.com/hazzard993/love-typescript-definitions
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> More energy being used heats up the as atmosphere

We’re nowhere close to this being a problem. (Our total energy production is dwarfed by the natural flux.)
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This is exactly where my mind went. The version string.
IMO, a lot of DEI policies smell like win-loose power games, or simply dirty politics. They backfire in that a group made up of mostly left-leaning, similarly-thinking people is not diverse.

The problem is that diversity isn't just based on metrics like racial, sexual orientation, gender, ect. It also comes from including people who have different biases, backgrounds, political leanings, economic status, ect.

What makes this complicated is that organizations are powerful because of who they include and who they exclude. It's a good thing to say "we're not going to exclude people based on race / gender / sexual orientation;" but then to say "we're going to favor people who have left-leaning politics" basically unravels the advantages of a diverse organization.
Well they called it "Go east" so maybe it feels like a trick that they didn't go east? Instead they worded their actual question in a subtly different way and then said "gotcha". It's a cool observation and would have been cool without the pedantry, too.
Emulation won’t tell me there’s a performance issue on a 3060, or let me modify lighting in realtime in unreal editor. You wanna build seriously for pc, you need a PC.
Looks like yet another uncanny clone of MacOS UI
In the article they state the idea is the beam source would stay on the surface.
Annoying counterpoint, of course, I've seen senior developers also stall out on avoiding quadratic code to the point that they didn't get the code delivered and then the project got scrapped.

The most widespread failure I have seen, by far, is to write code that is so abstracted out that it isn't really clear on how to get the necessary parts inline to get at efficient code. You'll have an obvious path on how to load all data for something, but no obvious path on how to get just the relevant points for the algorithm in. This is super hilarious for code paths that try and hide network hits, such that you don't see that that loop is doing a network call per iteration.
I'm not worried if they're built to similar quality as other Chinese products.
This seems like a good model for sustaining open source, but raises some questions.

Does anybody know how the DuckDB foundation works? The sponsors are MotherDuck, Voltron, and Posit, which are heavily venture-funded. Do DuckDB Lab employees work on sponsored projects for the foundation?

I am also curious if anyone can shed light on what kind of contract work DuckDB does to align its work with the open source project. This has always seemed like the holy grail, but it is difficult to do in practice.
Sure, if you knew you were getting a $100M exit in 5 years a rational agent would even agree to a $0 salary. A bank would gladly give them a $1 million loan for all of their life expenses until then, given the certainty of being repaid.

Unfortunately, these things aren’t certain and are contingent on many things including those that have nothing to do with technology.

It’s unfortunate because people have a bias towards guaranteed present value (cash) over expected future value (equity) which gives incumbents a natural advantage.
Well, just from the Merriam-Webster entry linked above, plus Wikipedia: It's been spelled out as "Habsburg" since late 13th century. Just because around 1861 someone misspelled it as "Hapsburg" does not mean we should perpetually repeat this error.

You know how this works: human life is short, and our memory is even shorter, so it takes just one uneducated idiot to make a spelling mistake, then dozen of other idiots to repeat it, and after hundred years the mistake becomes a time-honored tradition.
In our case it was display postscript.

We wrote a WYSIWYG editor for Yellow Pages (Gouden Gids in NL). It was also used for the Golden Pages in Ireland, the Puerto Rico YP, the YP for Norway, the YP in SA and the NTT one in Japan.

Understandably for the time, people were blown away by it.
Thanks for this detailed reply, TIL!

I've been wearing the 3M 8210 N95 masks when indoors with other people and I have avoided getting sick at all for 4.5 years. Before covid lockdowns, I would get sick at least 5 times a year and the only thing that changed was wearing the mask when in higher risk situations.
Good luck convincing employers of that.
Agree, will pass this on to the team. Thanks for the feedback
Sounds like a winning plan, except what are the extra women for?
Redesigning the entire Spotify UI from scratch
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Ho, isn’t that the icing on the cake.
This is why I don't use those privacy services. An awful lot of companies use background checks as a decider on if they are going to offer you service, or to give discounts to low-risk customers.

I might end up paying extra because my insurance company decided I didn't fall into their 'lowest risk' bucket because my background check came back as "we have never heard of this gal" because I once used a data privacy protecting service or they can't find my facebook/linkedin/twitter.
If they're non-tech-understanding enough, it might not matter at all. Someone who's oblivious enough may use the computer as more of an appliance (plus web).

I had my ageing parents set up with a Linux desktop for some years in the past. I just -pre-configured everything they'd likely have needed. Browser, email, instant messaging (as it was at the time), a photos app, possibly something else I'm forgetting.

It's the somewhat tech-savvy (or at least somewhat tech-independent) for whom such a transition might be the most trouble.

(And, of course, those people who use specialized applications or hardware for which support may not be available, or who use workflows that require going somewhat below the "appliance" level and which could require significant relearning.)
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Putin is a war criminal, and let's hope Ukraine inflicts on Russia, a generational defeat. However, you are dealing with a country, that can put 2 millions workers in full war industrial footing.

And whose electronic countermeasures, by the Pentagon own admission, have been recently defeating some extremely sophisticated US weapons.

Don't underestimate an enemy, who can suffer losses unthinkable for Western Armies, with minimal danger of societal collapse....

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I usually use my Linux workstation headlessly at work, but maybe once a year I turn on the screen. It's an entirely different GUI each time. Last time this somehow had to do with the Xorg vs Wayland thing, which also partially broke Chrome Remote Desktop. It's hilarious.
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>Better to simply create a system by which they're weeded out.

I agree with this. It's really just another way to say there should be mechanisms to hold people accountable.

>Which I guess dovetails with the military "up or out" process.

I don't think the military does a great job of this. From what I could see, it only forces out the absolute absymal performers (e.g., those who can't pass a PFT or have multiple DUIs etc.) I would argue it takes far too long (often only implemented once they've been in a decade or more and haven't made SNCO). This does a disservice to both the organization (the person is still around for a decade) and also the service member (they have now dedicated over a decade to a career that is a dead end, and usually over halfway to retirement).