skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have any of these tech "visionaries" (aka millionaires that we pretend have more insight than non-millionaires) considered that at the same time that we've increased our wealth we've also done more damage to our environment? If the cost of increased wealth is decreased habitat, will peak wealth result in the death of nature?

Aside: people are still comparing AI to a machine that feels, and this is so stupid it boggles the mind. The machine that creates paper clips will not kill off anyone who tries to turn it off because it does not have self-preservation, which is a system dependent on fear of death. Machines do not fear, and even if they did they would not fear death, because they have solid state. Bio systems are walking RAM disks.

Algorithms are basically math problems. The financial system and government do not work based on math problems, they work based on emotional instability. Seriously. Both these systems are driven almost entirely by the feelings of humans. They aren't algorithms, they are shitty biological systems that don't make mathematical sense at all.
Specific algorithms like RAFT or Paxos are more of an addendum than a core aspect of the topic, though.
I'll be doing the same, staying on 56 for quite awhile. This transition has been very poorly managed by Mozilla. I understand the advantages to Quantum but they have left a very large percentage of their extension developers hanging. Web Extensions is not mature enough for many of the large extensions to be ported but despite that they are proceeding with this transition anyhow.

If I was an affected extension developer I would be walking away now. My user base is about to crumble and the best I can do is maybe offer a pale version of my extension in the new system along with a bunch of excuses out of my control. If perhaps WE does get the features I need, why go to the work to re-write? My users will be long gone.

Quantum is great, don't get me wrong. But the new APIs are too immature to be shutting down a huge number of mature extensions and the users that rely on them. It really makes me question the leadership decisions happening at Mozilla in general.
They don't buy direct from manufacturers so it might be partly down to availability numbers from their local distributors.

Also you want to buy from a wide range - if most of the drives come from one place and they have a manufacturing disaster that causes everything made in one month to fail a few months into use then that might take you too close to redundancy requirements for comfort. I would expect the range picked will be based on individual design (platter design, platter layout, controller type, ...) rather than per manufacturer - maybe HGST has fewer designs available at any one time and that tips the balance a bit.
Or perhaps the American vernacular has been long shaped by the advertising and news trends that have lead us to the world of clickbait?

For a class project once I was encouraged to skim advertisings from the late part of the 19th Century through the early 20th Century and there certainly is a case to be made that American media have been drowning in hyperbole and fantastic claims for a long time now.
If you don't care about inter node transactions you can use citus for postgresql scaling.
I guess people are honest enough that they buy the newspapers.

Compare and contrast: in Italy, until recently, you could only buy newspapers from newsstands, who had some kind of monopoly on their sales. You couldn't get them from a grocery store, and certainly not from a vending machine.
I have developer edition. I don't see it. Is it just like Safari's where you can get extensions that provide content blocking lists?
The V-22 Osprey-Inspired Army Aircraft Is Ready for Takeoff
Sunday USPS is awesome for me as well (suburban Central New York). Had one issue early on with a driver who pulled over to ask me what street he was on... Other than than, deliveries have always been early in the day, and always in a convenient place.
There's no bonus karma for waiting until the release is announced.
some train stations have banana vending machines
I don't even know how to reply to this. MySQL isn't the only cloud workload.
Out of the western networks, Kik, Telegram, and Viber still do usernames.

Kik, notably, still has a fairly laissez-faire culture and a userbase that skews young, which makes it the most comparable modern network to the feel of something like AIM in its heyday; with the difference that so many people having overlapping identities, discourse is now fragmented between various platforms for reasons more than just network effects.
Meh, I've been "abandoned" for updates on my Moto Droid Turbo as well. I have to tolerate the horror that is Marshmallow, despite the fact that Oreo is now the king of the hill.

And you know what? I just don't care. The security updates have been pushed in a timely manner, even for Marshmallow if they were required at the system level. Application updates (including to System WebView and security critical services) continue to deliver new functionality.

But yeah, if you want a great camera and consistent full system updates, you should probably skip these.
I've used a script I wrote that does this basically to try and snag react conf tickets https://github.com/jnmandal/sitewatcher
> patients have a habit of trying to search for their doctors on Facebook and Instagram. Apparently this causes issues from time to time in the doctor/patient relationship, so it's common practice among many in the medical field.

Also very true for teachers, whose students will inevitably look them up. I have several teacher friends that either don't use social media at all, or have changed their names to make it harder for them to be found on there.

I keep in touch with them via a private group text, which I'm much more active on than social media.
i loved that feature. i remember sending a 3gb file over the network in just over a minute (early 2ks)
If you control your feelings, what's supposed to direct your control over your feelings?
Same where I am
It could be a good thing; it won't if we retain Western Capitalism as our social order.
I will take a look, thanks. I am using basic set of open, tabnew, follow, bmark. Proper follow hint is very important.

Also the ability to redefine keys since I use colemak.

I was briefly trying chrome and cVim did seem promising but I prefer firefox.

Edit: I had to try it immediately and it looks very promising, thanks. Covers all the basic stuff I need.
Managing Full-Time Employees at a Growing SaaS Company
Another issue is when your customer (or boss) ask you for this very simple feature that's found everywhere ( because it's a native sdk feature) and you suddenly realize you'll have the spend days if not weeks implementing it. I wouldn't be surprised if maps weren't as powerful in flutter as in native android or ios sdk for a long time.

Still, i think the "low level / pixel level" approach that flutter took is the only one that makes sense. You can't abstract away GUI layers like the android one or the iOS one. it's just way too big, and they are themselves trying to abstract away discrepancies between OS versions. I don't understand how could anyone expect to get something of professional quality with a layer on top, knowing how hard it is to get it right even with the default tools.

They are taking on a gargantuan task though..
What's your threat model?

You can't counter someone who wants to store the document -- just take a video of the device.

So what you can do is prevent accidental saving, and keep honest people honest. For this, an expiring link will suffice for text, and other formats can be supported using e.g. data URIs (content isn't cached on-disk AFAIK, unless paged out), serving PDFs as images, etc.
My friend teaches typography at an fine arts and design school and "Elements" is the textbook. When I went to art school in the 90s it was also one of my textbooks (though it was still a relatively new book at the time). It's one of the few books that's remained on my shelf for the 20ish years since I bought it. I still reference it regularly.
Oligopoly does not imply collusion. Cartel does.

If you're going to nitpick, get your terms right at least.
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All of those are available on linux distributions, enabled by default.

Not only that, they were developed on linux distributions and available on them way before obsd.
Agreed. I switched to Nightly and it's completely stable and completely noticeably faster.
Personally I’d prefer my language to let me fuck up.
I like bitwarden at a high level, but there are tons of things that feel extremely janky with it.

Also for some reason, Firefox keeps complaining that bitwarden is freezing its UI thread.
I think 99% is low balling it. Also, not all of the remainder could actually set one up either.
I'm not saying the finance system doesn't work, it obviously does, and amazingly well. I'm just pointing out the weaknesses of the system, and these weaknesses could easily cause humanity to walk off a cliff.

I also have a finance background. This idea that the system is a kind of message passing is not a "50,000 feet" idea, it actually came to me from writing algorithms to arbitrage markets. There you really are performing message passing (think of forex legs.) It's Dijkstra's algorithm. So this is the view from 50,000 nano-seconds. But I believe it holds for many other scales. Plenty of people walk into the supermarket and buy the product with minimum cost. Yes? How is this a view from "50,000 feet"? But obviously we are not just min-sum automata: we are all free agents, and so on.

> how humans in groups make decisions according to research

Well this is obviously a huge topic.

> message network loop issue isn't even an issue for message passing systems except in the most pathological cases

I totally disagree with this. Short loops completely screwup message passing.
I wish they would finally fix the annoying pinch-to-zoom which doesn't work properly like in Safari and Chrome...

(If you zoom on a site with text and images in Firefox the page layout gets messed up which makes it impossible to read...)
Sorry, I was being a bit playful with language. What I mean is that, if you roughly define small, medium, and large data in terms of the strategies required to process, then the absolute size of the data that can be processed using simpler methods grows.

And whether or not more data is needed or collectible varies by discipline. Astrophysics collects way more data than they used to because 1. they need it. 2. instrumentation allows it.

Some kinds of data collection hasn't scaled up however. Surveying humans is expensive and labor intensive. And for many things that you might want to study about humans, you can't simply afix a sensor to them. So, what might have been only accomplished through big data, or medium data methods a few years ago can now be loaded into memory (i.e. small data strategies).
Firefox will offer to import those (along with bookmarks) when you start it up, and it offers its own syncing service as well. I switched about a month ago and it's been pretty seamless.
only place i saw them in my entire trip to japan was in a hotel. And it was a little underwhelming because there was cheaper and a higher selection of alcohol at the Lawson 5 feet away from the hotel
I had planned to become a hermit when younger. I studied "hunter gatherer living skills" for many years, intending to do it all without any modern technology. (https://goo.gl/CACwPc) Life took me in unexpected directions, and I ended up writing computer programs and organizing online/offline communities instead.

This is a good quote from the article:

"It is better to live among the crowd and keep a solitary life in your spirit than to live alone with your heart in the crowd."
For people who are uber concerned about keeping v56 without losing your extensions as part of the 57 update, you can turn off auto update for Firefox:

Go to about:preferences
In Firefox Updates choose "Never Check for Updates"

Breathe easy!

I know this is not recommended, but I love my XUL based extensions a little too much (Tab Groups primary among those) to give them up so easily.
How's the redesign ugly?
They're not equivalent. B2 is singly homed.
Thanks for asking. Yes, it's much faster to build on Google Sheets so we're testing there first, but our market is primarily Excel users. We've been using spreadsheets forever ourselves in our prior jobs and want to fix all problems that come with Excel at scale.
This is the Hacker News' equivalent comment of "Let them eat cake". I hope things are going well in The Capitol.

Where do you suppose they would live? Under a bridge in San Francisco? Unless you are going to host them.
I totally agree. But in absence of that, I think tweaking headlines or adding parenthesized descriptions is good form, despite being against current HN policy.
Right. So that's 2Gb/s for every core so why top out at 16Gb/s? I get the per core limit not the instance limit.
Also seems equivalent to pg's "Do things that don't scale" maxim.
Hahaha I suppose that's an entirely legitimate question, isn't it? Just to reassure you, Lisa, yes, this is me, and I'm the only person who works at Jepsen. I'm still exploring voices for the Jepsen brand--since at some point I might hire more researchers, more recent stuff is written with an organizational "we". Suppose I should start adding bylines. :)
Lots of people like to repeat the "$200K" (It was actually $300K) paid to Gal Gadot. But fail to mention that she's also taking a percentage of the profits. That's what most actors are paid when starting a franchise, given that nobody knows if the project will be a success at the box office or not.
Xcode 9.1 Improves Display of Fatal Errors
Aureum CSS: Perfect formatting and readable text, responsively. Only 3kb
sellers who raise prices will need to compete with ones who don't.
When you immigrate to the US, there are vaccination requirements already.
Terminal buffers have a long history and certainly aren't what's wrong with atom/vscode. I concur that that problem is "using a web browser as a ascii rendering engine".

I think the one thing that keeps terminal buffers out of sublime text is probably it's crossplatfomness. Seems like it would be a bit of a hairball to get right on every platform.
This [1] seems to be the paper they are referring to on arxiv.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04215
It is hard to move the ball forward when you reorg every year and have minor layoffs almost every year to keep OIBDA moving in the right direction so the execs get larger bonuses. So many people were in self preservation mode with no interest in anything that was "risky" and might put their bonus at risk. Similar things happened with how they managed MapQuest.

Also, if you think they missed a chance on AIM, it is nothing compared to what they missed on email. They could easily have made aol mail free and still kept charging for the client. Ted Leonsis admitted at a meeting once that this was his largest regret.
I don't think you know where the vast majority(95%+ ) of browser vulnerabilities are...
That’s fascinating that you guys ended up choosing Slack.

I’m surprised because it seems like with the infrastructure already setup, AOL could’ve built an internal enterprise MVP and got a real leg-up on the rest of the competition. Missed opportunity for sure.
Spolsky's role is addressed in his blog post about The Time That Bill Gates Reviewed His Work. It's an interesting read itself, I recommend it.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

tl;dr He wrote the spec for VBA, aka Excel Macros. It's not being in charge of all of Excel, but I would call that a pretty substantial contribution.
The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
> Personally, I would love to see a strategy for generating a private from an analog picture.. But I don't see a good way to do it reliably.. Maybe one could generate it from error correction bits in a QR code

Not clear exactly what you meant, but but deriving a key from a photograph shouldn't be that difficult. A good perceptual hash should work, maybe some preprocessing is needed (straighten/crop/normalize/resize). It helps that the amount of data in an image is absolutely massive compared to typical key size.
Apache Ignite seems to be doing things right, they don't have jepsen results yet though...
Bad software has done worse things than release private info. Just a few worse things: failed space missions and cost NASA credibility, killed hospital patients, bankrupt Knight Capital, almost caused World War III due to a false-positive nuclear-launch warning, caused wide-spread blackouts, killed people (lookup Patriot Missile).

We as developers are just waiting for something so terrible to happen that someone is forced to take notice.
We are sadly still using Skype at work, and due to the lack of P2P file transfer I'm really sketched out sending database dumps, certificates, and other sensitive content with it to colleagues.
The Land of Lisp
The Verge: "Mozilla's Send is basically the Snapchat of file sharing" [1]

Engadget: "Mozilla file sharing test wipes files after one download" [2]

Firefox Send [3]; about page [4]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16086272/mozilla-send-file...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/02/mozilla-send-file-sharin...

[3] https://send.firefox.com/

[4] https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/send
Here in midtown Boston, my experience has been a stark contrast compared to yours.

It seemed much more reliable than USPS at all times.
I get the feeling they need to provide training to those who are delivering packages. Or at least hold them accountable to actually make the delivery
I can relate to this sentiment, but you've got take into account the whole story:

- Failing health, already has nearly died.
- No safety net.
- Risks life every time this voyage is made.
- Doesn't have access to many resources.

Here you have someone who doesn't have (what appears to be) working plumbing. Doesn't even have a _kitchen_ (just a hot pad). No assets or finances to speak of. Likely no support network. On top of all of that you want them to tackle a nearly impossible task of giving up addiction? I'll note that many many people with all the resources in the world cannot break addiction, let alone someone with nearly no resources.

Definitely not wise for her to continue with her habits as they are. But given the amount of stress and pressure, along with impending doom, some semblance of mercy should be exercised. It's not like she already doesn't have other major problems requiring her attention
Osvaldo Martin has ported (most of?) the book to PyMC3: https://github.com/aloctavodia/Statistical-Rethinking-with-P...
>Proper follow hint is very important.

Depending on what you mean by this, be sure to check the advanced settings for vimium-ff. It will let you choose which characters to use for the hints, or there's a buried option to use the link text instead.
Not quite. Inflation isn’t the outright awful thing people assume it is. Further, the concept is to give people just enough to survive. That creates demand for only the basics. The basics are largely standardized items. When was the last time there was a shortage in corn, cotton, flour? They’re all commodities. If anything modern prices for these goods and services are likely to be indifferent to the increase in demand from simple basic income.

Another example is the cost of additional real estate outside the city. Building costs in rural America are essentially linear with demand. There’s no shortage of land out there and basic income would allow people to live in such areas.
Frustrated by the new "screenshots" tool. The "save" button automatically uploads your screenshot up to mozilla servers. The "download" button saves it to your computer. It seems completely backwards. The "save" button should save it to my computer (there's no reason call something a "download" when it's already local). The "download" button should be replaced with an "upload & share" button that sends it to mozilla's servers. Also somewhere it claimed it could screenshot the entire page, but I can't figure out how to actually do that.

I'm also might not upgrade to quantum because I will lose my status bar (status 4 evar addon). I don't understand how people browse the web but can't see where links are taking them. Showing me where the link points when I hover the mouse over it is something so fundamental to browsing I just can't figure out why it was ever removed. I think by default it eventually shows up in a tiny popup but it doesn't show the full link and the delay is infuriating.
Why would Wired do that work when they can just recommend that you read the book? Why would you ask Wired to do that when you can just read the book? And why do you believe that you'd find that article any more satisfying than either this interview or the book?
HelloFresh Aims for IPO Start in Second Half of October
Tox, like qTox supports file transfers.

I can't say that I've used it, however.
Planable, the command center for social media
Sprint and T-Mobile Are Likely to Announce Merger Deal by End of the Month
Assume, as the story implies, that they haven't the money to move. Moving costs money.

Exactly what should they do?

Channeling Marie Antoinette is obviously not the right answer (e.g. moving to the jobs) as they are functionally immobile, and as the article notes, they are disabled.

Note: the above question is somewhat rhetorical. There is no real answer, or rather no easy answer. Basic income may help, or it may delay eventual help.
Hopefully someone from Mozilla reads this and takes notes. I completely agree with you on this one.
ICQ lives on as well, though not under the original management. The account I created in the 90s still works.
You gave the wrong URL. See https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41010+sessio...
"In addition, the names of Hazelcast’s datatypes, and the functions provided on those types, imply a certain fitness-for-purpose, e.g. that users can use these types and functions in a meaningful way. What is the point of an ID Generator which emits duplicate IDs? A lock that doesn’t lock? Who wants an AtomicReference which is not atomic? Of what possible use is a queue which doesn’t, well, queue?"

Wow. I wonder if the documentation and naming schemes are bad because they're aspirational, or because the developers don't know what they're doing?
The Fraternity Paradox: Lower GPA, Higher Incomes
Just so you know, this feature change also affects airplane mode; that is, when you turn on airplane mode, only the cellular modem turns off. The WiFi and Bluetooth radios remain on if they're currently connected to something, only turning off completely if not connected.
As other replies say, I too have read that the Lions' stuff is highly recommended; have not read it though. I have read good chunks of The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice Bach, some years ago, which included both concepts and either code or pseudocode for various kernel algorithms such as scheduling, etc, IIRC. Might not be up to date for today's Unixen, but should be good for learning a lot about the basics of Unix internals, I'd say. Disclaimer: I read it out of interest, not done kernel level work myself.

Edited for typo.
Then why not ask?
Theyve repeatedly said no -- it breaks their business model to allow Linux machines (often servers) to backup "unlimited" data for $5/month. People with multi-hundred TB NAS machines would end that business model, quickly (see Amazon Cloud Drive, Crashplan, and others).

But if youre using S3, just switch to B2, its per GB pricing, much cheaper than S3 and supports lots of Linux tools. I use rclone.
This article makes plain that she, and everyone she knows are, economically speaking, dead-men walking. And there is a certain dignity offering someone a smoke before they accept their doom.

The question that plagues me is: can I give her a job? What could this woman do, online or off, that would be valuable to society? Is Mechanical Turk, marketed to the rural poor, a solution?