jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anyone else who worries about Firefox's market share? At which point does it become too difficult for Mozilla to fund the research and development of Firefox?
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Twitch Plays Navigate This Website Via A Screen Reader?
Lol, strange how my mistake produced it's own subthread here.
And no, I'm german.
In hindsight, it felt quirky but I didn't recheck that sentence.
The Failbook page loves to collect examples of inappropriate automated ad placements: http://failblog.cheezburger.com/failbook/tag/juxtaposition
I think this is more for 8k displays that scale down to sub-8k resolutions. Basically supporting higher DPI devices.
I agree wholeheartedly with you. Not all manipulation is evil. In this case the argument is that this specific class of manipulation is not altruistic. Cui bono? It's not the consumer.

I don't think I would agree with the universal that all market transactions are manipulative. But even if we granted that, it would come to your distinction: what kind of manipulation is it? Who benefits from the manipulation, and is anyone taken advantage of? Beyond the singular instance, does the sum of individual actions taken together constitute something good?

There's theoretical instances where strong manipulation may benefit the manipulated (PT? Medicine?), but this too is a slippery slope towards a justification for paternalism. I'm sure that the business, in whatever form of cognitive dissonance it can muster, may think that the prospective consumer will benefit from its product. A great example of this are the people who sell healing water and crystals. What we want is for consumers to be informed and we want a healthy society (friends, family, neighbors, society) to encourage people to make choices that have clear indicators that they will benefit. We don't want the crystal seller to be the one educating the consumer on crystals - just as we would rather have a person choose for themselves to get physical therapy than be coerced into it. (The difference between societal encouragement and education versus marketing is overtness, necessary in hypothesis for us to call it manipulative).

There's also the other question you didn't touch on. In the aggregate do we want a market system that competes on being better salesmen or one that competes on making better products and manufacturing them more affordably? Recognizing here that these are not mutually exclusive which do we want to be emphasized?

I don't think that the above argument is grounded on the premise that all manipulation is evil. A more reasonable interpretation I think categorizes the type of manipulation being done in the instance, and the motivations for it, as being selfish and underhanded - the sort of thing we might think about condemning. Furthermore it suggests that the type of manipulation being done on a larger scale is not a healthy economy make.
This calls for a Clippy comeback. "I see you're trying to put your wedding photos into a document. Do you want me to show you how to use your e-mail client?".
The people believing in this „trackable chip“ in the vaccines will not trust a governmental website telling them they are not tracked.

Despite this bullshit, having so small internet connected chips would enable a lot new usages. Would be very interesting times.
Wow.....talk about a shot across the bow.

Let the games/war begin.

Is it just me or is Google going to war with too many people ?
Reddit is down, so I got more work done today.
Do you have any evidence for this interpretation over the technical explanation offered? Why believe this hypothesis over any others?
FYI, "sighted" -> "cited".

Indeed, this story is in Peopleware, and it surprises me that I can find no account of the Black Team which has any details other than those I can find in Peopleware. It makes me wonder whether the story is apocryphal.
It's a good analogy and I certainly accept your point. It could just be a marketing thing though:

Suppose it's the same hard disk with a black sticker instead of a blue sticker. Drive with 1 yr warranty @ $100, 5 yr warranty @ $150, 20% additional failure rate over the extra 4 years, 50% redemption rate on failed drives. Cost per replaced drives = 20% * 50% * ($100 + $30 processing costs) = $13 = $37 profit.

Totally fictitious numbers to try to prove my point, of course :-) But as the SLA becomes increasingly low in value, the signalling value decreases in my book.

(Edit - fixed my math!)
I think the bubble is already cracking and about to burst. If you take a look at all of the top for profit schools their enrollments have declined dramatically.

Some degrees are certainly worth the money. All it takes is simple 5th or 6th grade math, which is not done for any number of reasons.

I did the math, let me explain how it worked:

-My parents had $X saved up for me to go to college (in my name I might add, so it was legally mine)

-My dad was a faculty member at a local university which entitled me to free tuition

-I attended that school for over 2 years, for free

-I did the math that I could earn low to mid 5 figures with my degree, or make six to seven figures by dropping out and focusing on my current business I had been building

-I dropped out, and I made a ton

People are (or at least were) confused by what I was doing. I could have gone to a better school and not had a whole lot of debt. I could have stayed an extra year and a half and received my free college degree (minus the cost of books.) I did the math and it was damn simple math. Not a single other one of my friends did the math. Oddly enough, my brother did do the math and is attending an expensive engineering school for a degree in a special field.

Anyone who gets deep in to debt for a non-marketable degree is a sucker. Anyone who gets deep in to debt in order to teach that same degree to others as a university faculty member is a participant in an elaborate ponzi scheme.

There is nothing wrong with higher education. There is nothing wrong with devoting your entire life to something that will not earn you a penny. There is something wrong with elaborate and needless waste.

Technology can, and will, bring education prices back down to earth. Accreditation along with deep rooted special interests means this will take a lot longer than it should.
When a Senator sends such a letter, is Apple (or any company) obligated to respond? Can't they just read it, get a good chuckle and file it in the "circular file".

How does this Senator think he has any position to just whip off a letter. Are there not more important issues in Minnesota...
Love the idea and I myself have thought about similar concepts. Let me know if you want to chat.
Service charge included in the bill, often 10-15%, has been standard for decades, though some restaurants decline to add it, as it is optional. You can refuse to pay it when included in the bill.

Tipping in the UK is not expected, nor is it expected that visitors from Europe will tip, unless they're tricked into expecting tipping is expected. It is appreciated, but not expected.

This is London, other parts of the UK may vary.
Thanks.

Some of q & a here can be part of FAQ section in the site.
Yes that too :) I remember doing this more than a dozen years ago in university to a local research unix machine we could make accounts on in order to bypass the stupid firewall. In hindsight i think the network admins knew about our trick but put blind eye to it since it required people to muck around with command line and learn stuff :D
Thesis: "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Fethiye and a Proposal of Crime GIS Database"

I collected crime data from multiple resources and analyzed it in 3 dimensional space (lat, long, time) in order to understand which areas crime took place most and frequently. Then I proposed physical urban implementations to decrease the crime rates.

I was alone and It was a 12 credits project, completed in 2 semesters.
I'm going to suggest that the 'functional high ground' was relied on a unique combination of marketing, market penetration and era.

Of course, we know Apple always pushed the 'it just works' mantra, but this was when Apple was supporting a small number of devices, and when they had forced everybody to update to new hardware in order to run OSX anyway, so what you had was an OS that worked VERY well for a small number of people on a small number of devices.

Those few (like myself) who claimed that OSX was not any better than windows (my first experience with OSX had me in a reboot loop trying to get Pages or Keynote working), were a minority of the OS users and a tiny percentage of overall computer users.

As OSX has grown in popularity, the 10% who dislike the newest versions has gone from a few tens of thousands (may hundred thousand) to a few million. Some of them very vocal, like Marco.

Lastly, I mentioned the 'era'. When OSX was gaining in popularity, many people were moving from Windows '98 and XP. They had skipped Vista and didn't try Windows 7. Moving to OSX was a massive improvement, as it was a much more modern and cleaner OS. Those same people are now used to the bells and whistles of OSX, and each new upgrade shows minor improvements and a few odd little features that, from what people tell me, come with the recommendation of "turn off the new stuff".

Those who complain about Microsoft OS quality, didn't compare Apple OS quality of a similar era. If you compare OS9 to 98 or XP, I think you'd find that it's a much more even comparison, and Microsoft may even come out on top.
Japan is much more strict than Thailand on immigration laws, be careful about that. They also have no problem with throwing foreigners into jail, whereas Thailand will usually just deport you for visa violations.

Japanese companies also send young Japanese kids to work in Bangkok call centers, since they can pay them less there (the cost of living is lower? They would never dream of having non-Japanese staff the call center, BTW).
>Tell your friends never to use free proxies

Nah, just use Private/Incognito windows when using "free" proxies
If you're going to keep changing your comments, please mark them with "edit".

I don't have the numbers, but guess what, you don't either. I'm going on mostly anecdotal evidence: Bitpay's growth, Circle's growth, Coinbase's growth, etc. I may be wrong about "most", but in the face of hard numbers (which many companies like Coinbase don't provide), how could any observation of the community not lean towards a conclusion of increasing centralization?
The smart money always leaves before the price goes down.

The dumb money always leaves after the prices has gone down.

If you don't know who the dumb one is, it is you.
and opera and a few open source web browsers nobody uses.
Finally. As "opinionated software", the success of Rails depends on neatly slotting into the well-worn groove of best practices adopted by its user base. Like it or not, jQuery has filled that role nicely for client-side javascript for quite a while now.
So assuming I would be interested in gaining employment in Japan, which I actually am, working for a BFFM in Tokyo would be one of the better options to pursue? Any particular ones that you have heard to be nice places to work?
That was discussed here also, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372096
Let's just be clear that GPL software is commercial software. Even if it's provided for free, it's still "commercial" in a sense that the author expects something in exchange - fixes, improvements, bug reports, feature requests. In order to be commercial, it's not required to involve financial transactions, as barter is a form of commerce.

I also hate when people do the open-source/commercial dichotomy. Unlike Canonical, Red Hat, Oracle, and others your business model may not be compatible with charging for a product that's open-source, but that does not preclude other businesses from using it. Companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Rackspace use GPLv3 software routinely in their "commercial" settings.

I agree LGPL could be preferred for libraries, because it makes it easier to use the software someone generously gave you in a closed product you can profit without giving anything back to the generous souls that offered it to you in the first place.

> Less users, less contributions, less development, less popularity.

I see how the *BSD vs Linux thing is going.

And, BTW, all you can't do is link to the library directly from less-free-than-GPLv3 code. You would be perfectly fine writing a GPLv3 wrapper around the library and call it via RPC from inside your closed-source product. You then provide the source to your wrapper along with the product and you'll be perfectly compliant.
It's pretty bad taste to take the same name for such a similar product, IMO, even if the original is the inspiration.

Neat project though.
I don't think they've lied, I've always known about the fact that they manage the encryption keys, it was one of the first things I looked for when the service was launched.
I remember reading parts of that thread at the time, and being impressed at Linus standing up for end users. The background is important to understand his point of view: glibc was changed to in theory improve performance, but it broke flash audio and Linus couldn't see any performance improvement when he benchmarked it. So, his stance was to revert back to the working code. (Which come to think of it, is a very similar stance to this article.)
> Floating-point users today are accustomed (or resigned, sometimes) to compilers that make invalid optimizations by assuming all arithmetic is mathematically correct instead of rounding.

Huh? Modern compilers don't do that. They will only reorder or re-associate operations if they know that it will produce the exact same result. Anything else is considered a severe compiler bug. The exception is if you explicitly ask for such sketchy optimizations with the `-ffast-math` flag, of which the GCC man page says: "This option is not turned on by any -O option besides -Ofast since it can result in incorrect output for programs." This option is off by default. The rest of the article is interesting, if correct – unfortunately, it's a little hard not to be skeptical when the first sentence is so flagrantly wrong.
Once a technology has been invented, uninventing it because it might be used to harm people doesn't work. Especially if the people wanting to do the harm are in a position of power (like the nazis were).

Wondering about the countless wonderful or horrific uses new technologies might have is simply part of critical thinking.

I don't think anyone did that calculation but if we were to add up all the good technology brings us with all the bad it brings us, I'm not sure we'd end up in the positive.

So I think it's pretty natural when you hear about some new technology to ask yourself "great, how's that thing going to be used against us?"

Asking yourself what you could do to stop it is a completely different matter. And we all know here that security through obscurity is a pretty poor defense.
Yes, but it reads badly.
Plenty of reasons for merchants to accept BTC, still not a lot of reasons for consumers..
This might be covered by Putt's "Law of Failure": "Innovative organizations abhor little failures but reward big ones" and its corollary "Failure to fail fully is a fool's folly." His point was that innovative orgs will look at someone who "went big" and failed as someone who now knows a problem inside and out, and has walked through the fire so is now better equipped to deal with than anyone else (and so might succeed this time.)
There's more than one aspect to a vacation. Many people specifically take vacation so that they can travel. The end goal isn't necessarily time not working, it's experiencing new things in new places.
Having founded several open source companies (ninjablocks.com and geekammo.com), I can tell you it's not a result of some influence from (or competition with) the Chinese. It's just doing the right thing. If you're making hardware platforms that people are going to build upon, it's in everyone's interest to open them up.
It's something that has become more and more common on YouTube, and that I appreciate a lot. Makers tend to keep the parts where they encounter problems and work-around it to find a solution. I find these videos to be much more enjoyable and relatable. When I design something in Fusion360, about 50% of the time the resulting print is a bit too tight or a bit too loose. It's part of the process.
I had an idea for a 'space cleaner' and I have no clue if it is actually viable but I figured that I would share it anyway.

1) Create a suborbital and reusable rocket that launches and lands vertically.

2) Launch it upwards so that it approaches the target satellite near its apogee.

3) Around the apogee, it releases a stream of gas in the path of the debris

4) The gas will dissipate quickly, but the goal is for the cloud to buffer the satellite and take some speed away without directly colliding with it and making space junk. I figure suborbital gas molecules would impart a decent amount of slowing force on the object.

5) The sounding rocket then returns to earth and can be re-launched for multiple successive passes at the target satellite.

Would this work?
Neither policing nor legislation, if you don't like it, you can join one of several social media platforms that allows all this stuff.
This is most certainly a marketing effort by the anti-abortionist. That said, it is very effective. You can't help but read the post see the pet name "Wiggles" and not feel a connection. This is a serious topic and I commend them for developing a "simulation" that leaves the reader feeling a situation that they are not involved in. It makes it real that is for sure. I don't know where I stand on the legality of abortion, but I do know where I stand on the morality of it. This exercise helps those not personally involved in the question, visualize the choice in front of someone.
Social problems are linked to immigration no?
Article regarding inventors in the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/ventilators-coron...
No, here's a report of an indigenous case:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2003224819/

This is exactly what you expect to happen when efforts at containing the virus have been successful: the number of new cases gradually tapers off, until it reaches 0 or almost 0, and most new cases are due to people coming from areas of the world in which it's still raging.

The outbreak started earlier in China, and it's thus unsurprising to see that they reached this point earlier than in other countries.
Probably or it is just a little ratchet up in the back-and-forth. I would imagine it will come down to some agreement because the internal divisions of Samsung have some very different goals regarding Apple.
I think you're referring to the following paragraph:

One fundamental fact on modern hardware is that data cache locality is good, and not being in the cache sucks. This is not likely to change.

However, this did not happen to please the "two dominant C/C++ compilers". The reason is much more fundamental:

One of the most expensive parts of the hardware is memory, and fast memory is a lot more expensive to produce than slower memory. So we have the choice between using the same (and thus slow) memory throughout the system, or combining different kinds of memory so that at software has at least the _chance_ to run faster. This is a fundamental issue, and the only thing you can do is trying to find the optimal share for each kind of memory.

But no matter how well you choose: software will only be able to exploit this if it is designed for locality.

If you can fix that (i. e. if you can find a cheap way to produce gigabytes of fast memory that makes chaches obsolete) the current compilers won't stop you from exploiting it: The code that is optimized for locality will still run as fast, and the code that can't be optimized for locality will run orders of magnitudes faster.

So we aren't in a local optimum at all. You can still optimize further "just" by producing faster and cheaper hardware.
Spare a thought for us poor solo-founder schmucks slaving away in the basement on our own... <weary sigh> :)
I'm not actually a huge fan of the redesigned signs. It seems like it would be really hard to make work for even slightly complex cases -- alternate side on Mondays during the Fall for example, or 2-hour parking during the day except for residents.

Also, like most unsolicited unofficial redesigns, it ignores real-world constraints. How much does it cost to produce these very specific signs vs combining modular and reusable generic signs?
Agreed. I recently started using Windows 7 Enterprise for work, and I'm surprised at how often I need to reboot to make things work or to avoid slowdowns. Granted, that's usually due to Adobe and Java hanging, but even killing those processes in task manager won't fix it. Maybe there's a better solution, but I just reboot.

I don't think I've ever had to reboot OS X for similar reasons.
"During the terminal count engineers observed drift on one of the two thrust vector actuators on the second stage that would likely have caused an automatic abort. Engineers called a hold in order to take a closer look. SpaceX is scrubbed for today and we are now targeting launch on Jan. 9th at 5:09am ET."
As a side note, if you click that link and see Flickr's homepage, just close the tab and click it again. I think Flickr has launched a new feature...
I don't really understand the argument here. How is sunsetting Answers related to mismanagement?

Seems like Answers, as cool and interesting and funny as it was, was probably not a major revenue driver or even loss leader anymore for Yahoo. Seems like it'd be an obvious candidate for being cut, as a deadweight project that siphons engineering time from initiatives that actually make money.

Sure, it's sad that it's going away. But Yahoo isn't a charity, it's a corporation, and "jettison projects that cost money and focus instead on projects that make money" seems like one of the most basic tenets of managing a business.

Like, I totally get the argument that when Yahoo or Google or whoever shuts down one of their services it's an annoyance for users. No doubt. But I don't understand how it's a sign of "mismanagement".
I'm not contesting that there are documents and laws, including the constitution, that say the government has the power to tax me (and others). I'm pointing out that I wasn't a part of creating those laws and I never agreed to them. In other words, if paying taxes was optional - I wouldn't pay.

At least, I wouldn't pay the amount I currently do. I might pay 1%-2% of what I currently pay. I think some of what the government does is valuable but most of it isn't valuable and lots of it is immoral.