skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I find interesting about that: I tend to run Linux on a bunch of older hardware for various purposes. One of those devices is a netbook with an Atom N450 CPU, in other words a single core dog of a processor that struggles with the lightest of loads. With it running Slackware (which actually makes the netbook usable as a mobile daily driver) Firefox runs circles around Chromium. Granted, neither browser is nowhere near as fast as it is on my daily workstation, but on such an underpowered machine Firefox surprisingly outperforms Chromium by a measurable margin.

Typically it takes about three seconds for Firefox to open on a fresh boot, whereas Chromium takes nearly 20 seconds. This is with the same extensions installed on both browsers, so that's not the issue. Having about five tabs open in either browser, with Firefox switching tabs is nearly instant, whereas in Chromium it takes several seconds to redraw the canvas for the newly selected tab.

Then there's multimedia performance. Firefox can play videos (both webm and Youtube HTML5) without stuttering at 480p and lower resolution, while Chromium chokes on even 360p content in either format.

For these reasons, even though Chrome/Chromium is my normal daily browser in Windows, I happily use Firefox on Linux and other OSes as it just performs better for me.
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> He flat out admits that his only sources of his "research" are 1) the DoT NHTSA's FARS [0] and 2) four crash tests that were run by an anonymous test center.

Nope. You didn't watch it to the end, did ya? From the transcript: "In my data, and in another data set I've looked at for New Jersey crashes, I find very small differences in injury. So in this data, it's statistically insignificant differences in injury between car seats and lap-and-shoulder belts. In the New Jersey data, which is different, because it's not just fatal crashes, but all crashes in New Jersey that are reported, it turns out that there is a 10 percent difference in injuries, but generally they're the minor injuries."

> The FARS data is heavily biased as well. First, it only reports _accidents with fatalities_.

The NJ data reports injuries, too.

> At the time of the video it spanned 30 years of data, 1975-2005. There's incredible amounts car safety improvements in that time frame.

That point was addressed, by analysing more recent subsets of the data. From the transcript: "And the other thing you might argue is, 'Well, car seats have got a lot better over time. And so if we look at recent crashes -- the whole data set is almost 30 years' worth of data -- you won't see it in the recent crashes. The new car seats are far, far better.' But indeed, in recent crashes the lap-and-shoulder seatbelts, actually, are doing even better than the car seats

> The only source that I found which I actually liked is called "What If These TED Talks Were Horribly Wrong?"

Skepticism sells. Hate to be the one who appeals to authority, but I have more faith in a data scientist (with a PhD and published articles and all that jazz) doing analysis, than a meta-analysis by a journalist whose main achievement is writing plays, and whose main aim is create controversy for clicks.
>>And the failure mode either sounds dramatic (like a jet engine coming apart in the spin cycle) and/or the machine starts putting brown grease onto the clothes, making people believe the problem is not a simple one.

Great insight. I wonder how far we (as in general society) have come from the science/technology aspects of our day to day life. Even repairing simple machines like a washing machine is almost beyond the ability of most people even with the availability of all tools needed.

I conjecture that despite the availability of information, the percentage of people with hacker-mindset is declining. Companies are to blame for this (obfuscation etc), no doubt, but societal culture also seems to play a very important role here.

The society doesn't seem to value such knowledge anymore much. Am I missing something?
In Japan right now and hardly anywhere seems to take card. It's a very cash focused society in my opinion, but really it's impossible to tell what would make sense to Japanese people, everything here can feel almost deliberately contrary at times; they eat KFC on Christmas day, all the locks turn anti-clockwise to open and people aren't fat despite massive amounts of refined carbs.
If you have users in various locations, all of whom would like local access to a copy of the database.
I did say that the net present value is impossible to calculate ;)

More seriously what would you pay to avoid the extinction of humanity? If the answer is everything then the price is infinite.
That's because the immigrants you're receiving are the wrong ones (the unskilled labor instead of high skilled labor).
It's too bad Firefox becomes more terrible each year. Just today I was struggling with the god awful history sidebar.
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Here we go again, I'm learning yet another "Japan is weird/oddly advanced" thing from a non-Japanese source...

I believe all Westerners want Japan to be weird and perverted. ALL of them.
For example, to disable compiler optimizations and inlining,
you can use the following the gcflags.

$ go build -gcflags="-N -I"

The flag to disable inlining appears to be incorrect.

It should be `-l` and not `-I`, such that it reads:

$ go build -gcflags="-N -l"
Thanks...I'll have to give another go.
You can't really do it as a noob.

I mean, you can get a hosted VM and install Exim and Dovecot and drop in your domain name in the right places, but there are a lot of little things you have to deal with in order to get your mail to other people and others' mail to you without getting drowned in spam. Then you're fundamentally responsible for it and it can break while you're on holiday.

I used to do this, and still hang on to my own mail domain that I've had for 16 years, but I pay for it to be hosted now on a small provider.
Related discussion in DLang forum: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ijmugudmsaewkaraymhl@forum.dl...
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>Businesses have two ways to compensate for the higher cost of labor that has been imposed on them: they can hire fewer people, and they can raise prices.

This is the "big lie" about the minimum wage.

Reality is that profits get hit first and profits get hit hardest.

Business lobbies and restaurant associations spend millions lobbying to prevent minimum wage increases. That would be completely irrational behavior if they could just pass on the costs to the consumer.
I like that feature, it's often more useful than not.
I faintly remember the Klammeraffe. Fun times.

In Poland it is still called Małpa, which means monkey.
Finally I can draw an owl following this guide http://imgur.com/gallery/RadSf
> What did cause you to switch?

I'm not GP, but I switched because Chrome had better dev tools. For a while, I was using Firefox for browsing and Chrome for dev, but I ended up using just Chrome. It also didn't help that Firefox dropped its 1st party browser sync (Weave) and Chrome had bookmark & history syncing natively
You may me right that there might have to be third parties for scalability. But depending on how this is done, you might not have to trust them in order to use them (in the worst case, they could refuse your transactions or delay them but not steal your money). So you might give up some privacy and rely a little on third parties for lower transaction fees or speed, but as long as everything is still using the blockchain you'd still have the choice to transact without a third party if you're willing to pay the premium for it (perhaps large or international remittances).
Ah yes I would agree. However, you're best off using a local dns server to route to a private subdomain. It is handy to use a public facing IP to also point towards your service though, if, and only if, you want it web accessible.
Wouldn't the answer then be to apply the Chemical tax, divided by the expected lifetime of the device?
Hundreds? No way. It runs like crap with a few dozen tabs and I always have to restart it so it doesn't start slowing down and behaving badly.
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The only problem with repairing devices is labour cost, nothing else.

I've had a broken subwoofer that I took to a small electronics shop(in UK), and was quoted 60 pounds to even have it looked at. Not repaired - looked at. The subwoofer cost me 80 pounds on ebay. So predictably, it went straight to the bin.

Same with washing machines, dryers, etc - I bought a Hotpoint washing machine for 220 pounds, but a standard call out charge for an engineer to come and have a look is at least 100 pounds. Plus any parts + cost of labour billed per hour = it's cheaper to just buy a new washing machine and at least have a warranty on it.

Now, I feel like this is exclusive to western countries, because people value their time a lot(as they should!) - but where I'm from(Poland) it would be stupidly cheap to get anything repaired. I had an old LCD TV repaired locally, the guy spent half a day fixing it, and only charged 100 zlotys(20 pounds/30 USD) - that included parts.

Not sure how we can change that, unless we get the labour cost down.
Even more complicated is the Fulfilled By Amazon stuff they do for 3rd parties, where they can often be relying on the 3rd party to provide an accurate assessment for an item that they don't sell themselves.
Bollocks. Read the whole article. They can't compete with GB or Germany in terms of salaries nothing to do with shortage of people.

They just want to be able to hire Indians,Pakistanis or whoever will be willing to work for the fraction of what even an unskilled person from a remote village in Romania would ask for.

This is not about SHORTAGE of people for the companies. Companies can hire entire teams overseas and especially developers do not need to be hired in local countries. The thing is people from even the poorest regions of EU do not want to relocate hence Finland is looking to repopulate itself with at least semi-skilled workforce outside of Europe.

This whole thing is disgusting. But Finland is free country and they are free to do whatever they think is the best for the country and its people.
I am just suggesting that this is an example of what the maths tells us, not that it is a useful model.

In practice humans accepts some chance of extinction in return for an economic benefit. The only problem is as a species we do tend to ignore the long rail risk even when that risk is rather more than zero.
Wouldn't that be 42.7% + (57.3% * .25) = 57%?
> thinking about how to make immigration even harder.

Well they just let in over 1 million new state aid dependants. Hardly a formula for growth.
Anyone knows of a library that somehow black-boxes / abstracts away the manual calculus involved in such visualizations? I imagine that’d greatly lower barrier to entry to creation of stunning graphics and animations, and with the help of G9.js even more so.
Reminds me of "Iron"

> a freeware web browser, and an implementation of Chromium by SRWare of Germany. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron)

First released 8 years ago: https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576124 (17 hours ago)
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Temporary emergency accommodation and mobile shower buses are helpful, but as often gets repeated, "homelessness is more than houselessness" - for the longer term homeless population, there's often deep drug, alcohol and mental health issues acting as barriers against re-integration into society.
I'm finding the auto responses suggested by Allo to be pretty creepy. They are just close enough to what I would type to tempt me to save time by clicking on them. But they aren't actually the words I would choose myself. Yet the recipient thinks these words are mine. So Google is subtly modifying the very language used by billions of people. Shades of Newspeak.
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And you can use it in your browser!
Writing to files in general is a fairly difficult thing if you care about not losing any data under any circumstances, because you have to use the right syscalls for the semantics of your filesystem, which may somtimes be why you're looking at corrupted files in the first place.
Correctly implemented transactions can prevent you from dealing with that. Maybe that's worth giving up easily readable, searchabe and processable textfiles, maybe not.
In Dutch we call it a "apenstaartje" ("monkey tail") although "at" is used and understood as well nowadays.
Someone needs to, still not found a great web based replacement
Really? I use my credit card for maybe 70% of my spendings. It's true you absolutely need to have cash on you for the occasions when you can't use it but I can buy a 30 yen chocolate bar in every convenience store here. Compare that to Germany where I think no supermarket takes credit cards and even to use electronic cash you have to spend a minimum amount.
The article is from 2014. Though I understand the sentiment, most of the facts are false now

IIRC, Chrome was using the FileSystem API which was supported only in Chrome - hence the partial support for offline functionality in Google docs..Only recently have the specs behind Persistent Storage API and Service workers have matured. I would love to see Google docs to make use of these APIs to make the functionality available across browsers.

Also, PNacl -> Web Assembly which Google has supported.

Of course Android OSes are going to ship with Chrome as a default browser - at least you have the choice of installing a different browser if you want to. Unlike Apple, where all browsers are forced to use the same JS engine provided by Apple.

Google has been pushing web standards for a long time now - instead of platform specific APIs and saying that the internet is going to be only accessible from Chrome is stretching it quite a bit..
The corollary to the backup solution is that if Postgresql ever ended up operating in a similar fashion to Oracle's rman, particularly on its encouraged ASM, Postgresql would very quickly start seeing "Postgresql requires a full time DBA, just use MariaDB" type blogs. I can see how the middle ground is a hard problem.
I know its for the money, but these people who work for facebook, microsoft, and google. All these are is CIA/NSA fronts for world control.

Sure they make $150K/year+, and so did Snowden. Sure they can live in Silicon Valley and take a google bus to their SF flat, sure so what? There will come a time, when all these over-paid fascist's who work for Google-etc, will be seen for what they are, traitors to their society. Enablers of Fascism in the USA.

Most people who work for the CIA/NSA, especially technical people are thrilled to work with the smartest and best and brightest, but so did Hitler put together the smartest and brightest, and by way of "operation paperclip" they were brought to USA to create NASA, and what is now NSA/CIA.

Eventually these elite overstep their bounds of humanity and decency. Then they slip into hell as they deserve.

The common response here on HN is well if your honest you have nothing to lose. What they really mean is that if you ride a google bus to work, and wear a badge you have nothing to fear. The truth is if your just a regular person going about his/her personal business you have a lot to fear. Most of the data sold by GOOGLE is used for criminal purposes. For instance police seizure of personal property in USA now exceeds that stole by 'criminals'. Who are the biggest criminals in the USA? Well they're are own government. Who enables these criminals? Who provides the data, names and addresses of people to rob, rape, and imprison? Google, Microsoft, Oracle, ... you know who.
The availability of tools is far from a given as well.

It appalls me how few people will tackle what seem to me to be utterly basic repair tasks. I may be on the extreme end, but I think some people would pay someone to change a lightbulb in their house (and I'm sure a great many DO pay someone to replace a headlamp or tail light bulbs).

I'm trying to do my part, ensuring that my kids are exposed to the DIY/maker/hacker ethic/experience, and even went into to teach my daughter's kindergarten class the (very) basics of electricity and we "built" flashlights together (mostly, the kids did a life-scale real "electricity" game with banana jack cables to make a complete circuit and a light to light from a 12V battery and then they put stickers with their name on it around the batteries of pre-built flashlights with a bare wire to the negative terminal as the "switch".) That was 2 years ago, and the kids still talk about it sometimes when I see them at pickup. My son (3 at the time, 5 now) can explain from that how a switch works and that electricity "has to make a whole circle" in order to work.

This was the prototype version we made at home. The production version was more robust and looked better, but worked the same basic way.

http://static-s3.sokoloff.com/random/kids/flashlights/flashl...
http://static-s3.sokoloff.com/random/kids/flashlights/flashl...
http://static-s3.sokoloff.com/random/kids/flashlights/flashl...
People are far removed from seeing the actual results of their decisions.

Humans are also very good at self deception. Even if you sort of know your beef is butchered, it carries little meaning since you never have to see it happen.

Same goes for Google stealing your data or Apple making pretty phones with slave labor.

Basically pretty much everybody needs to be smacked hard with a stick now and then and told what kind of picture they are really painting.
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Warning, the first time my browser hit this link, it redirected to a NSFW image rant about HN. The second time it worked though. I suggest one copies and pastes the link to avoid sending the referrer.
Don't count Japan out just yet they adopted NFC payment way before it even showed up on the radar of other countries.

NFC communication for exchanging emails or making small payments was a thing before smart phones were popular so there's that.

Japan is weird because in some situations their surprisingly stuck in their ways like with CD sale and in others their surprisingly advanced like the use of NFC.
Doesn't that also use a JIT?

YARV? No.

YARV is the current official Ruby interpreter - it replaced MRI in this role from Ruby 1.9 onwards.
The business of a bank is to understand and trade in risk. That's simple when the risks are simple, but complex as the risks get more complex; 40 years ago it would have seemed obviously ridiculous for programming to be the proportion of our economy that it is now, but programming has grown more complex in proportion to the businesses it's applied to. So it is with finance. (Water supply doesn't require understanding the business; supplying water to a simple business is the same as supplying water to a complex business, whereas making a loan to a simple business and making a loan to a complex business are very different).

What line would you even try to draw? It's very difficult to trade risk without a central clearinghouse. It's very difficult to run a central clearinghouse without being willing to guarantee at least some of the risk at least some of the time (you can limit how much, but we already regulate bank capital ratios etc.). Diversification is the banks' best defense against the risks they're taking, so if you require the separation of two more-or-less independent categories of risk (as Glass-Steagall does) that seems likely to make bank failures more likely, not less.
The at symbol looks like it has a long tail wrapping around over its head, like a spider monkey sometimes sits.
Yes.

The critiques of AI from Hubert Dreyfus have stood the test of time, those who want to understand or challenge them directly can read What Computers Can't Do (1972, 1979), or even better the updated reprint What Computers Still Can't Do (1992). He's a Heideggarian Philosopher but all you need to know is that modern AI is ignorant of vast swathes of 20th Century investigation into the human mind, and state of being.

Hence, I think the big idea you're talking about is in AI that takes Hubert Dreyfus's critiques seriously.

Luckily for anyone reading about this for the first time, that process has already started. Dreyfus wrote a 2007 paper on the successes and failures of the first few steps of what he called Heideggarian AI with the snappy name of "Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian".

The "fixing" refers to work of a Neuroanatomist, with a suitable philosophical background, called Walter Freeman III, and is broadly described in the paper, but properly investigated in Freeman's (also eminently readable) book How Brains Make Up Their Minds (2000).

A note of caution, you'll be introduced to concepts that blur the line between body and environment, subject and object, intention and influence, and eventually things like relinquising your belief in causality and an objective "out there" universe (or at least any value in such a belief), all whilst staying perfectly scientific and evidence based.

Finally, bear in mind that if we do create an intelligence worthy of the name, we have reason to believe it will take about 18 years of "raising" by two adult humans, after which it will want to do its own thing, and not your dumb image classification tasks.
There's also lots of things wrong in Scandinavia. There's segregation between the "native" population and the immigrants/their descendants. Suspects for crime, including children are put into isolation by default. Strict drug laws, strict alcohol laws that lead to binge drinking instead of a normal enjoyment of beer/wine. A strong sense that they're the best in the world which they often actively carry outwards.

Still I really love it.
I guess stored rows contain accents, not just query. So you run something along the lines of `unaccent(text) like unaccent(query)`; or, more realistically, you `create index on table(unaccent(text))`.
Almost every German supermarket takes credit cards usually without a minimum amount. I use mine to pay for almost everything.
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I figured the poster was just avoiding naming either text editor that gives around half of the HN population kneejerk responses.