skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Android Firefox is much faster than Chrome because of uBlock. I don't understand why it's not more popular there. On the other hand, Mozilla has always been reluctant to fully embrace ad blocking, there's no reason they couldn't have a built-in ad blocker and tout that loudly in their marketing. Which is probably part of the raison d'etre for Brave.
yeah that's exactly the kind of use case I was thinking of.
We Broke the Filter Bubble IRL: Public Discourse Through the Private Lens
name.com is hands down the BEST domain register I've ever used.

Customer support is top notch and their website usability is fantastic.

Once you start getting over a certain domain count (cannot remember limit) their pricing becomes second to none.

Something which they've just revised / I recently noticed is their search url was revised.

I can type / have bookmarked: https://www.name.com/domain/search/

I can put my search query straight at the end and it works.

eg: https://www.name.com/domain/search/mydomainsearch
I don't know about anyone else (a problematic side effect), but I went to a science-focused public magnet school instead of my neighborhood high school and it made a world of difference in my life, both in terms of instruction and social experience.

Maybe this deprives the kids in the neighborhood school of some diversity near the top end of achievement, but maybe they shouldn't have been dicks to us in middle school if they wanted us to stick around.
Agreed. I prefer Firefox, but I recognise there's really not that much difference between Firefox and Chrome in terms of usability and features, they both seem about on par to me (some areas Firefox is slightly ahead, some areas Chrome is slightly ahead). The suggestion that Firefox is something "time forgot" is basically just trolling, someone looking for a reaction rather than something substantial.
I am not a botanist and cannot say from the pictures but that might as well have been a european sweet chestnut, as its outside of the natural range either way and the european is probably more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_sativa
Peter Thiel is actually a citizen of New Zealand
Did you try to "refresh"? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658
Using Firefox since the beginning, with year long deviations to Chrome and Opera, I'm a hostage now. Firefox is slow, memory consuming to the point I hate to use it. But it has addons for good vertical tree tabs and the Chrome plugins are all way inferior. And I just can't go back to horizontal tabs.
It's ironic that the CIA rakes in on that, since they have the publishing right for several of Orson Welles books
You really should. Once I got use to the fish auto-complete history, the Bash reverse search felt terribly primitive. There is no Ctrl+R. Just type part of an old command and hit the up arrow to scroll.
No, it's just intuitive. But at the scale of my city I can at least make up plausible stories about things I do strengthening the social fabric.

I have yet to hear even a vaguely plausible story about how total societal meltdown in California would occur.
> No doubt it's simpler than QEMU but I wonder if adding tests to QEMU, even if they're only for the specific architectures they're running (most likely x86-64) would have been just as usable.

A little later in the post I believe this is somewhat addressed:
> QEMU code lacks unit tests and has many interdependencies that would make unit testing extremely difficult.

Personally based on my previous experience at VMware and passing familiarity with QEMU, I think they made the right call.

(I work at Google, but not on the hypervisor)
They're reasonable and functional? That's news to me -- at least for Appalachia, Texas, etc. (Have you read Hillbilly Elgy?)
There needs to be a sense of shared purpose.

I would think the easiest way would be to start a religious sect, as this would give you non-monetary legitimacy, akin to a modern day Mandate of Heaven or Divine Right of Kings.

Or if religion isn't your flavor, then some type of philosophical/political/national organization. However, I think it works better with religion because of the afterlife component.

It would also be best to get your followers when they're young. So perhaps start an educational fund that helps underprivileged families, with one of the requirements being to study your organization's ideology. Even better would be to fund multiple orphanages and have them run by members of your sect.
Still don't see why they can't just accept bitcoin. Buying BTC via credit card is trivial via Coinbase (and they won't ban customers), and while they won't get 100%, they're much more likely to get quite a bit more than 0.1% even if BTC is the only payment option.
I love this story. Thanks for sharing. I'm curious though, did you try this with your other kid? The one who's presumably not having any problems? I'm curious if your method would further strengthen their resolve.
I scored the highest in my county on a middle school math exam. I got a 4.0GPA in high school and perfect math SATs. 2 years of calculus and 1 of stats and a college level CS course before I graduated high school. Played sports, presidented clubs, eagle scouted. Was rejected from 5 universities so I ended up going to some loser school nobody had ever heard of called Carnegie Mellon University and after I graduated with a worthless degree in Computer Science they told me they didn't have any help for me and it should be easy for me to find a programming job. I asked for help until they banned me from campus and prohibited me from speaking to anyone in the "CMU community" or else they would arrest me and hold me in jail for a few weeks again. So, yes, it would've been nice if we couldn't gone to a separate school where they could've explained us our opportunities.
The entire natural range of the American chestnut was east of the Mississippi.
These are all legitimate concerns. In my experience, growing up in South Carolina (some of the worst public schools in the US) the opportunity to go to a "gifted" (I hate that word, takes all of the emphasis off of effort or any actionable quantity) school for high school probably saved my life [0].

What doesn't get brought up is how night and day being in an institution that challenges you surrounded by peers that interest you is (the classes we took were of greater depth than most of underclassman college course I later took). By high school I don't think worrying about late bloomers applies much and while I can certainly sympathize with wanting to do more to enable the lower performing schools and students, hamstringing the top performers can't leave you breaking even. And YMMV none of the people I've known have ever suffered from "looking down" on less intelligent people. Hell the opposite, being in a situation where you're challenged leaves you acutely aware of how little you actually know. We need more of these institutions moving forward, to make sure our young people don't fall into the cracks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Governor's_Scho...
A better and more meaningful question than whether the Dow is at an all-time high is whether the US economy is at its all-time largest.

And it is. It usually is, in fact, and when it's not it means things are going very badly.

But hey, nobody thinks Dow 20000 is anything but an arbitrary milestone. I don't know why people want to shit on it like people standing around at NYE parties loudly pointing out the arbitrariness of the celebration.
I'm pretty sure you cannot find that story about the lead poisoning because it predates the public internet. I recall reading it in the late 80's or early '90s in either a newspaper or a magazine.
Congrats Ryan! Site looks great.
> I never thought doctors would be hit so soon by the automation/AI crisis

I think most people in AI are more surprised that it took this long. The tech has been there for decades for a pretty large percentage of routine diagnostics, especially carefully defined clinical-sample type diagnostics. People were pretty sure in the '80s that it'd all be automated soon, but it never managed to make it into actual hospitals so funding dried up. Mixture of bureaucracy, legal issues, patients not liking the idea of computer diagnosis, doctors not liking the idea of computer diagnosis, incentives, etc.

I think changes in all those "environmental" factors are likely to be the biggest boost to something like this getting deployed in practice. Tech advances are good as well, and will expand the range of diagnostics that can be automated, but there is already enough low-hanging fruit in medicine that is easy enough for any of a half-dozen AI techniques to do it, that I don't think tech is actually the bottleneck.
Interesting.

I think the takeaway may be that both sides of the political spectrum are equally inclined to name calling.

(One tiny piece of evidence these results are not mere coincidence: there are 4x as many such results for Trump/Obama Hitler than for "Jesus Hitler" - 9.5 million)
Highly structured, highly exclusionary belief systems (which tends to be the common thing about "fundamentalism" when it's used as a generic term, rather than a reference to a particular Protestant Christian theology) reinforce a sense of community because they promote strong common identity markers and strong boundaries between in- and out-groups.

This is also, of course, what makes them particularly dangerous.
In the US, there's typically COBRA as well so you can continue your previous insurance for up to about 18 months--without your previous employer co-pays of course.
Same here. Firefox for the vertical tabs but slows to a crawl and hogs so much memory. Chrome for development.
My hypothesis is that the MBA degree is largely valued by other people with MBA degrees, so you have pockets of high MBA concentration that grow within specific businesses. MBA's hire other MBA's, but also encourage their most promising subordinates to get MBA's.
Metra also goes to ORD. You need to take a shuttle from the lot, but at least the train has racks for luggage.
> not available in your country.
>"Accordingly, if a Democrat is in power and the findings of a science-based agency contradict some policy desire, they would sigh and fret and perhaps try to initiate other studies to see if there's any other way to align their policy goals with reality. But you would not see scientists and entire agencies of thousands of workers gagged, studies removed, data destroyed, conclusions banned. You would not see them scrambling to align reality with their goals and literally banning facts. It's little exaggeration to say the Trump administration is now engaged in book-burning."

So if one political party is in power they will ensure BS results are generated to support whatever they wanted to do anyway, if the other is in power they get rid of any results they don't like?

Both strategies act to lower the signal/noise ratio, just by different means. One adds to the noise, the other removes the signal. Sounds like a great place to do research, the people funding it are actively creating obstacles for the scientist at every turn.
I wrote a bit about the systematic issues preventing promising AI research from moving to production in medicine, including a very brief history of MYCIN:
https://blog.cardiogr.am/three-challenges-for-artificial-int...

I think now really is different. Part of that is algorithmic advances like deep learning, as shown in this Nature paper.

An even larger part of it is that the financial incentives are flipping due to value-based care. In 1979, a hospital that implemented an expert system for accurate diagnosis may, paradoxically, see its revenue fall. Nowadays, with ACOs, risk-based contracting, and bundled payments, the financial incentives create tailwinds rather than headwinds for large-scale adoption of AI in medicine.

Contrary to popular belief, the medical system can absorb new techniques very quickly--when incentives are aligned. And they are now becoming aligned.
The “modern” product manager
I like Ionic, but not a fan of the name of "Ionic Native". I think that might confuse people with regard to parity with React Native, when it's really much different (it's a Cordova plugin wrapper)
Ask HN: Are there any simple and safe ad networks?
I'm looking to monetize one of my sites a little bit, but I hate ad networks. I don't feel right letting someone else inject JS that tracks users and slows down my site.

Are there any ad networks that are simple and easy to use? Or does it make more sense to just work with businesses directly for advertisements?
Trump Hotels, Amid Calls to Divest, Instead Plans U.S. Expansion
You could learn to fly the plane. You only need to use it once, out. No more maintenance needed after.

Now, I disagree with this whole "preppers" mindset, but I think some of the practical problems could be overcome.
Did they even pay lip service to a plan? Even one that they never had any intent to implement, or one so obviously impractical that any rigorous thought would poke holes in?
What is being done in Turkey is also what has been happening for years in some US states - where it has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. It is not Islam that defies logic: it is religious extremists.
Regarding the "community" claim, let me tell you a joke:

A guy talks: "Last night, as I was going home, I saw three guys beating a girl, I could not hold myself, I had to intervene" Another: "So what did you do?" The first: "I jumped between them, and you won't believe, how we beat the frick out of her."

I always believed it to be a joke. Then I've learned that it's what certain religious people actually do to the girls. In groups.

Religion because "Community." No, thanks.

For a video to make you sick, search:

nytimes killing farkhunda
> Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow".

In my experience: You should "refresh" your Firefox, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658 It help in my case.
Is it just me or the mint-ui homepage[0] doesn't display anything at all ?

[0]( http://mint-ui.github.io/ )
Ask HN: Learning Latin
I'm searching for a good way to learn Latin. I was hoping Duolingo had a course, but it seems they don't yet or don't plan to. I have no experience in the language. What's a good way for me to learn Latin?
>>- the solutions to a problem (I'm thinking GIL) come with a lot of consequences which are not readily acceptable

> I did not propose a solution because there are many, as you note; there are, however, implementations with decent solutions like AFAIK Jython.

>>- solving some of the issues would exacerbate backwards compatibility.

> Such as what?

Let's use the GIL for example. The reason that is still present is not that it is hard to remove it. It already was removed in the past. The problem is that when GIL is replaced with smaller locks, the python becomes much slower, because of some features and behavior that people got used to.

One could make python faster by changing behavior, but then it would break existing code and C extensions.

There's no easy way to do this without sacrificing something else. Larry Hastings work on removing GIL and has interesting talk about it[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWUwQVoLHo
I'm not a lawyer, so no idea.

If a person figured out a way to apply it usefully to some other area - which doesn't seem hard at all - (job skill ranking? :D), MS is the kind of company that would attempt to collect $$$ from it regardless. :(
I'm a loyal crossover user and can only confirm the very well done easy setup, handling and transparent support for all kinds of Windows apps, also bought a licence to support open wine development.
The Economist reported that ~15T of the 15.4T affected bills were redeemed. That would suggest that only ~$5-6 billion of black money was trapped. So as a way to kill black money, it seems woefully ineffective.

Source: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21713842...
Nexus 6p abruptly shutting down? battery issues? Call Google support
Are people allowed to practice medicine without a license, if they "explicitly clarify that it's not a diagnostic, it's simply a low barrier way to actually get that mole you've got looked at."

I think the same, whatever the law regarding that is, would apply to a person or company providing this service via deep learning.
Orson Welles and George Orwell are different people, despite the latter's last name also being a common subsequence of the two names.
> I really think multi-threading is an over-valued and wrong abstraction.

That's as wrong-headed as thinking it's the only good abstraction. Each style has its place—it really depends on what the code needs to do.
> You can, but it is an extreme pain to do it,

It is not extreme, and it isn't even necessary: just reuse one of the many arenas others have already written, e.g. https://crates.io/crates/typed-arena .

Copy-on-write is fairly ease to write in Rust, e.g. the even core Rc and Arc types have a get_mut function that does copy-on-write.

> You cannot implement many data structures in a decent performance way without unsafe, so Rust guarantee is weak.

You can't implement anything in C or C++ without unsafe: Rust's main strength is the ability to write high performance code with a safe interface, so that only one library has to muddle through the `unsafe` problems (if they have to touch `unsafe` at all). Most code one writes is not implementing data structures.

As a demonstration of this strength, even very low-level projects like operating systems can get away with not using `unsafe` everywhere by packaging it up into safe interfaces, e.g. http://os.phil-opp.com/modifying-page-tables.html
Both users and dev can edit their reviews/responses. Seems reasonable, as starting a multi-layer thread in reviews would ultimately defeat the purpose...
I think you read a bit too much into that title, it's just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it's nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that 'the pain is hidden for the most part' and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.
Alternative facts.
I work for an NYC-based company called 1010data which specializes in business analytics products. Most of our backend infrastructure is written in K3. And if anyone's curious, yes, we're hiring.
> We have built an extensive set of proprietary fuzzing tools for KVM. We also do a thorough code review looking specifically for security issues each time we adopt a new feature or version of KVM. As a result, we've found many vulnerabilities in KVM over the past three years. About half of our discoveries come from code review and about half come from our fuzzers.

Why aren't these tools being open sourced?
The next generation of package management tools will allow for multiple "universes" of libraries, using different development philosophies. Then we'll have a real hard fork and the ES6/hundreds-of-control-structures+complex-build-pipelines crowd will have to compete with the JavaScript/small-idiomatic-modules crowd.

Think subreddits for NPM.
Heh - fair enough. :)
There were days when Firefox was my go-to browser. It was years ago. Right now Chrome is my #1 choice for daily driver. Opera seems to be doing pretty interesting stuff with Neon, so I keep an eye out for it and actually use it from time to time. Heck, I even don't mind using the Edge browser at work just because I actually really like the Microsoft Windows 10.

Now, Mozilla/Firefox has faltered in too many product deliveries in the past 5 years (I am mostly disappointed in their Firefox OS effort) while neglecting the browser. So the brand name no longer inspires me, whether or not the browser itself is good.
This still isn't a great example. It would be perfectly simple for you to come to a voluntary arrangement with Bob in exchange for his protection, without suggesting that he's inherently entitled to anything.

The real counter-examples comes at larger scales. At a certain point it becomes impractical for a large number of people to individually make voluntary agreements about their responsibilities to each other, so generally people agree to some system of deciding rules, and agree to the outcome of those decisions in advance, without consenting to each one individually.
As noted in the reddit thread, call Google and be persistent; they should replace the device even if the warranty has expired. Make sure to reference the reddit thread as well as the post, by Orrin, on the official nexus forum.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/SeB67voFk...
There was an amusing tidbit in CNN's High Profits (I think it was) where the Colorado tax department was having to put on extra security because the pot shops were having to pay their taxes by physically handing over bags of cash.
Well, that's great!

So why does Musk want to build a car tunnel? He should want to build an additional subway tunnel. The city of LA should be encouraging more transport that lessens global warning, not encourage it. As stated previously, much of the electric power in California (and elsewhere) is generated by carbon-based fuels, so electric cars are really adding to global warming.
I worked for them when they first got funded. They were still working out of their VC's office in San Mateo. I had a feeling I would regret not moving back to the bay area when they asked me to.

Good on you Jyoti and Bhaskar.
Funny thing, this could be -exactly- posted as a comment in the Scala to Go thread, where Scala developers insists it got so much faster, but "Only that it isn't."

These two threads converging here feels like a collision of parallel universes :-)
It's not a judgment on what people deserve, but on what you are willing to give up to help them. School children in Africa don't deserve to go hungry, but tons of people on HN are still going to buy a shiny new MacBook Pro this year instead of using that money to feed dozens of kids in the developing world for a year.[1]

The fact that restricting immigration is a group choice while not donating money is an individual choice changes nothing about the morality. Either way, you're choosing to increase your own standard of living instead of helping someone who is already much worse off than yourself.

The cynic in me thinks the real difference is who pays. Educated people living on the coasts bear the same costs as less educated people in border areas when it comes to food donations, but bear a small fraction of the costs when it comes to increased immigration. That makes it easier for them to support the latter in comparison to committing to the former.

[1] http://www.uniteforsight.org/hunger/module3.
I just created a project using VueJS and Bulma and everything went really smooth.

*I switched from Bootstrap 4.
I guess one big one I did forget to mention here is Rwanda in 1994.

Anyway, if you focus mainly on the western world, I think my point stands. For the West, the 90s were a great time, better than now overall IMO.
Likely this has a lot to do with it...
So, 90% of colleges are providing 200k degrees in gender studies?

The fact that a few of these examples exist doesn't mean the right answer is to tear the whole thing down like this guy clearly wants to.

One of the issues I find when I try to obtain educational content online is that while there is a tonne of material on the basics of many subject, there is often very little advanced content. And it makes sense, since the advanced courses have fewer students too.

As much as I like online education, and would really appreciate a system where we could dramatically cut the costs of providing education to people, I'm not convinced that we've found a model that actually works for the large amount of people we expect colleges to educate.