skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Profit falls substantially after premature owner deaths.
I hope prices on high-performance ARM hardware can come down a bit. Currently there's nothing between Chromebooks and $3000+ servers. On the other hand, if I were in the market for a high-end server, it looks pretty competitive vs. Xeon or Epyc. Any good benchmarks out there?
Parent started blaming people. I certainly understand when authors don't have time or have lost interest.

Insofar I was wrong. It's not authors who are to blame, it's very vocal users. You can see a few of them right here.
c'mon. It's really hard to talk about anything if we can't use shorthand at all. We all know what he means.
Not all loans accumulate interest while attending school. Look at unsubsidized vs subsidized federal loans.
See https://sidekiq.org for instance.
This may very well be true, but I'd rather make an argument against this idea by pointing out that the relative worth of a field of study is not related to whether or not majoring in it will get Facebook to pay you $200k out of college to help them build out their marketing panopticon. It's disturbing how many people on HN don't seem to get that (not necessarily you, but other commenters in this thread are exemplifying this). It's good to have people who study art and music and philosophy and design because those fields enrich the human experience, and because the world would be a worse place without them.
How the Pixel 2's security module delivers enterprise-grade security
I’d be very worried about a security issue with the unsafe C++ code.

You really have to run this kind of complex parsing in a disposable containerized environment to do it safely. Or do everything carefully and in a memory safe language.
Anybody knows how well libvips https://github.com/DAddYE/vips compares to liliput performance wise?
I would have needed that 2 years ago. Oh well. Boost asio it is.
Nuclear could be so awesome but its its so hard to do because of regulation. We would already have energy cheaper then coal if you could more easily develop and deploy these.
The picture of an original burrito looks more like a quesadilla. Quesadillas in the U.S., even at Taco Bell, are still similar to the Mexican quesadilla. In California you can also get quesadillas stuffed with meats and vegetables, and they're definitely _not_ considered burritos even though you're most likely to find such an item at a burrito shop.

I think the burrito is a Mexican-American invention. A few restaurants in the San Francisco Mission District claim to be the inventor. There are obvious similarities to traditional Mexican food, but it's not derivative of anything in particular. When I stayed in Guadalajara I had something called a burrito at a festival, but like the "burrito" I had in Ecuador it seemed like a really bad imitation of the American food item. Indeed, I found no actual authentic Mexican food in Ecuador whatsoever, so it was telling to me that the burritos I had in both Mexico and Ecuador were nearly identical and also both horrible--basically knock-offs of American microwave burritos.
The idea of riot games posting an engineering article is funny to me. They're famous among their own players for having a very buggy platform, and handling time between framerates is one of the earlier things you learn in game development.

I find it believable but sad that there were apparently eight different implementations of this idea across the codebase. I am not surprised that the developer had to add an ascii skull and crossbones to his code to encourage others not to change it.
Proxycrawl seemed interesting, so I just tried it out. It appears to have problems with redirects, which is something I expect they would have figured out.
The real problem is CSS. Implementing a compliant render engine is nearly impossible, as the spec keeps ballooning and the combinations of inconsistencies and incompatibilities between properties explode.

Check out the size of the latest edition of the book "CSS: The Definitive Guide":

https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/929097712754098181

Until CSS is replaced by a sane layout system, there's not going to be another web browser engine created by an independent party.
Why don't more companies resize images client-side first using <canvas> and then save the server some work by only asking it to verify the result by

- resizing to the same size

- removing metadata

This results in much faster transfer (10x less bandwidth used often for mobile uploads) and reduces server load by "farming" out the work to the clients.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

# Edit: On Keeping Full Resolution Images

Some people mention having original highest-resolution images are important. I don't think that is true for most applications.

Most apps don't need hi-resolution history as much as current, live engagement so older photos being smaller isn't a big deal. As technology moves on you simply start allowing higher-res uploads. Youtube, facebook, and others have done this fine as the older stuff is replaced with the new/current/now() content.

In fact, even our highest resolution images are still low-quality for the future. Pick a good max size for your site (4k?) and resize everything down to that. In a year, bump it up to 6k, then 10k, etc...

Keeping costs low has it's benefits, especially for us startups. Now if you have massive collateral, then knock yourself out.
If you remove the government backing you'll see more of a divide on the socioeconomics of who gets to go to college and who is too risky to lend to.
> I'm not sure I agree that the DOM is that bad(more that people are using it improperly and for the wrong things)

If an API makes it easy to make mistakes it's a bad API. Blaming "people" is a cop-out.
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Could you elaborate on how the second source is about censoring/tracking users?
I didn't know that gas was more expensive than coal in Germany. It's cheaper in the USA; a lot cheaper. But then we have chosen to implement fracking and Europe does not.

I'm very supporting of Germany's carbon tax and renewable goals, but the fracking bans and the shutting down of nuclear plants seem to be doing themselves more harm than good in the medium term.
I think that would lead to "crypto-encryption", where the fact of encryption is hidden.

Encrypted data looks a lot like random noise, which might be a good basis for hiding it in regular traffic.
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Agree. That's why it's worth it
The fear of nuclear power in Germany comes from the Tschernobyl disaster 1986. A life changing event for many Germans. Not beeing able to leave the house. Cutting a lot of foods from your diet because they are contaminated for decades (mushrooms, game meat, berries etc.).

East block countries trying to sell their contaminated food for consumption and it ending up in GDR school kitchens.

Additionally having two superpowers stationing a huge arsenal of nuclear bombs in your country. While at the same time beeing sure that you'd die first in a new world war that would almost surely start in your country and would probably devastate your whole continent beyond beeing suited for human surival.

Then the whole argument that its cleaner and cheaper energy. While you pay for transport, storage and security with your tax money and the company keeps the profits. By storage i mean temporar storage, because no one worldwide has figured out how to safely store the waste for hundreds of thousands of years (Pyramids are 4500 years old and we don't even know how they are build). Thats why most of this waste from the 80s and 90s lies a few km off our coasts in the sea where the UK, Russia and Italian mafia dumped it.
From reading this, seems HTTP handling speed was important to them? which Go is probably better for. Also, interfacing Python to C/C++ is pretty unpleasant.
They should have subsidised the renewable engeries much longer.

Now we went from nuclear back to coal, which doesn't help anybody.

When they started to subsidise solar and wind, I hoped in the next decades we would have a clean country, but then they stopped it and now we are stuck with coal for much longer than needed :\
So your thesis is that experts are local, then the dish moves non-local, where there aren’t any experts, so they just pile on local ingredients to make up for it?

This comes across as kind of a silly view.
I don't think so. But there's this which allows you to "remote control" FF from Emacs: https://github.com/cute-jumper/emacs-firefox-controller
"As someone who's written Firefox extensions that are no longer available due to the switch, I'm disappointed that this had to happen. But as a Firefox user, I'm much happier having Quantum and Electrolysis (e10s), and if the tradeoff is between those two directly, I'd choose Quantum + Electrolysis over those extensions."

Well, I'm a Firefox user, not an extension developer, and Pentadactyl happened to be one of the extensions that made using Firefox bearable. Now that it's permanently broken, I'll be moving to another browser which can offer a similar experience: Qutebrowser.[1]

[1] - https://www.qutebrowser.org/
It's really pretty terrible, on Mac at least -- there's a bug about it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
which is being tracked for v58.
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This is exceptionally true. Half of cooking is understanding that (with the exception of baking), most of what you're doing doesn't have to be terribly exact, but the technique is really the key of what's happening. Like any other skill, it just takes a bit of practice to catch on to what's going down, and some people catch on more quickly than others.
I'd be interested to learn more if there are any statistically significant results showing clustering - proving that there is spatiotemporal clustering that is different enough from what might be expected at random is pretty hard. I know that Sellafield has been studied in detail many times, with no definitive evidence yet found.
Happy to see another Wildcat around here!
I bought a Consumer Reports highly rated dishwasher last year and it's turned out to be a complete nightmare. In fact the thing has destroyed my countertop and cabinet. In retrospect, googling the dishwasher brand/model and issues (steam / excessive moisture) basically would've saved me the pain since other people already had reported similar problems. I think my issue though is I didn't buy the cheapest one.. instead I got a whole kitchen package.
You have very valid points all around - but allow me to push on some of them a bit.

Even though Google's tech was built without VC, their consumer product and fundamental business were far from built and people had written off the entire web search space by that time anyway. It's kind of like if someone came to you today and pitched you something like food delivery with a better algorithm when nearly all major food delivery services today aren't doing so well and people have already developed strong biases against the space.

AirBnB isn't only a short-term home rental market though - it's a bit more cavalier of a product than that. Short term home rental does definitely exist on AirBnB and is huge but AirBnB also encompasses the spectrum between staying on someone's couch and straight up short-term home rental. The other difference is that it also covered massive areas that were traditionally ignored by hotels and other short-term home rental services. So in that sense, the VC money was needed to market the product appropriately, build trust with users through insurance guarantees, build liquidity in areas where it was a competitive advantage and do the legal/lobbying legwork. That's the real magic and that couldn't have been accomplished through a traditional finances first approach and certainly couldn't have grown so large so fast. Let me put it this way: whether AirBnB ended up as a cute hipster alternative to VRBO (which was playing in a tiny market) or whether AirBnB ended up as a straight-up hotel-alternative depended on VC money to believe.
We don't know the exact details of the contract. And even if it was written as such, both parties could agree to a change in the contract that could allow either side to get out on certain conditions.
I believe this little piece answers your question:

> We likely could have addressed this behavior in Image Proxy, but we had been experimenting with using more Go, and it seemed like a good place to try Go out.

At the heart of if, they were looking for opportunities to use more Go in their stack and they deemed this situation as a fit.
Any reason why Ghostery over PrivacyBadger and Adguard over Ublock? I switched from ghostery once they added user accounts and there was some suspicion about them logging user data.
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I was a software guy long before I was a web guy, so I completely understand the desire to clean up internals.

Unfortunately, as a user, the bottom line is still that if I update I will receive very little benefit and lose a lot of very useful functionality. It's not just the odd extension for me, it's things I use every day that are the most important reason I've stuck with Firefox.

I accept that I'm probably in a minority and that Firefox is going to go with what makes Mozilla money and pays the bills, which in turn probably means what attracts larger user demographics at the expense of the rest of us.

Mozilla in turn will have to accept, as I'm sure it does, that it's going to turn off power users and that it's going to prompt legitimate questions over why anyone would go with Firefox, even with these developments. The obvious alternative for most people, Chrome, already had the performance and architectural advantages, but previously lost out on flexibility and privacy concerns, and unfortunately Mozilla just surrendered a significant part of those advantages.
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>> When you visit a website, and you have given your browser permission to run JS

My browser never asked me about JS. Even if it did, browser developers would switch the preference rather than annoy the user with a prompt every time a site wanted to run some JS. The end result is that whatever is common practice, the users will end up accepting by default. In such cases it is the responsibility of the people setting standards to keep the users safety in mind. The responses in this thread really make my point. So many making excuses for running excess code and even advocating more APIs.
After reading the article I still don't see how this new generation of nation branders is any different, as the author claims, from any other marketing agency that does some research on a place and slaps a logo on it.
Presumably those fans are buying those things at least in part because they want to have the album, concert experience, or merch. With twitch donations/tips you get comparatively very little in return - your username might pop up in a video overlay for a few seconds, and the streamer might be like "hey thanks, [username]!". Those 3-4 seconds are typically the entirety of your several-hundered-dollar experience.
Can you explain a little more? How do you drive FF/Chrome without Selenium?
If the company can’t take them away from you but you’re contractually obligated not to sell for 18+ months, they aren’t really yours.
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> The second problem is people are paying way too much for a nearly useless degrees that some colleges offer

I agree with this but for many people I think they hit a wall whereby a degree is a minimum requirement for entry to a position even if everyone "knows" that it's not required.

In the UK this was made worse with a massive push for 50% of children to go to university [1] as a political target. Whilst that might've been a noble idea in principle, it further undermined apprenticeships and trade skills and led to the general public thinking if you don't go to university then there's something wrong with you. [2]

I did my first degree at Imperial "full time" and my second with the Open University 10 years later whilst earning - if I could do it all again I'd have gone straight into work and studied "part time" (I hate that phrase, it's really more like having 2 full time jobs IMO). The second time round I was also "paying as you go" for my courses which made me extremely mindful as to just what exactly it was costing me (FWIW it cost me about 20% of what my first one did and I was earning the entire time).

> Somewhere there should be a list of "Degrees you should not get if you're going to pay more than $x for" to help bright-eyed high school kids make good decisions.

Unfortunately I think even if such a list existed the people that need to actually read and think about it wouldn't be aware or interested in it. Of the 18 - 21 year olds I've talked to recently, aside from the aspiring medics and hopeful academics, a bunch of them view university as a time to work out what they want to do. That was ok 30 years ago but I think they're in for an extremely expensive lesson.

Then again hope for many millennials about the long term future is at an all time low so why even think about it. [3]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1789500.stm

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/nov/02/parents-app...

[3] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/wages-have-fallen-43-...
My kids have two choices, and they both start with a K; KU (me) & KSU (wife). It has also better be engineering, hard sciences, accounting/actuary, or medical.
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Well the difference is that most fans don’t mind paying the money to get those items, they don’t typically just hand him money for nothing just because they like him. Twitch subscription is like a concert: you get something in return, but donating large amounts for nothing to already successful streamers is a bit odd.

But not that odd: I’ve backed people on patreon because I liked what they do and wanted to reward them - even though they were already making good money on it - and then never actually accessed the rewards. So I do get it.
I understand this is a personal preference, but having spent a good amount time with both Python and Go, FWIW I would also choose Go if I were solving the same problem.
Nuclear waste is not actually a huge problem if you look at resources spent.

Its only a 'problem' because anti-nuclear people demand totally unreasonable requirements and managed to put them into law.

Plus the waste majority of the problem would go away, newer reactor types could consume lots of the old 'waste'. The US alone has enough 'waste' to power the whole US for years and years. It is of course not allowed to even research these reactors in many places.

While it might not be 'emission free' it is free of uncontrolled emission. You know exactly where and how much radiation is produced and you can easily set it up so that not a single human or animal is hurt by it.
What you think is better, this version or still google chrome?
I suspect it is partly a political move, partly economical.

For me, the biggest drawback for nuclear power is that it is expensive. Nuclear fuel is cheap but building, maintaining and decommissioning power plants is not.

It is especially apparent as power plants approach their end of life. The choice is to either decommission it, an expensive and unproductive process, or to extend its life. Unlike what many people think, there is nothing wrong with the second option, however, maintenance costs increase exponentially, so passed a certain point, it is no longer viable.

I suspect Germany moved away from nuclear because of a combination of several factors : public perception of nuclear power following Fukushima accidents, power plants approaching end of life and sufficient coal reserves. Their policy seem to be a mix of highly variable solar+wind backed up by on-demand coal plants, and nuclear, while ideal for baseline, doesn't seem to fit this policy.
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Because then you don't get to build out fun infrastructure like this and write it up in your company blog.
Could you please stop violating the guidelines and post civilly and substantively instead? We've asked you several times and we'll ban the account if you won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You might be right, I swap between the Firefox and Chrome for home and work stuff and maybe I'm getting things mixed up.
The barcode scanner is really impressive, it worked well on my G5 plus running FF.

I'm excited for WebAssembly.
> Alan Turning

> Turning Machine

His name's Turing
I would want the inverse of that, where the application logic is in some high-level language, and the rendering is done in WASM, i.e. react-dom and the diffing parts of react are in WASM.
How do you actually asses that the cause of death is coal vs cigarette smoke vs car exaust? Is only cancer of respiratory system taken into account? Is a percentage of stroke victims also? How is that percentage chosen?
FWIW Palemoon (https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml) is a fork of Firefox that attempts to maintain a power user environment and negate some of the ridiculous changes Mozilla rolls out. Updated pretty regularly and works more or less as well as vanilla Firefox. I've been using it on Linux Mint and Windows 7-10 for years now.
It doesn't? How so? I was under the performance savings calculations he used were at least plausible. (Though obviously just a back-of-the-napkin estimate.)
Universities should support research, they shouldn't only be capitalist machines.
But even while chasing profits they could at least sell the damn books online and give you a table of contents.
With the US Out, Canada Gets Copyright Out of TPP and Moves Closer to Agreement
> languages borrowing its name:type format

To be honest, this format was first introduced by ALGOL around 1960.

It does make more sense, though, compared to C's.
That's great to hear. For a lot of users, Chrome is not the competition, but rather Safari, because Safari is energy efficient and privacy conscious. If Firefox can get as energy efficient, or even just close enough to Safari then it becomes THE clear winner.
vips (Go binding) is included in the benchmarks mentioned in the post, but at the time of running them (~10 months ago) vips pulled 51482954 ns/op on a 1024x1024 test image, where as pillow-simd managed 3324135.3035 ns/op.
I guess that, if the member state really wanted to reverse the process, the latter case could be turned into a sort of "state of leaving the EU until re-accession". So it could be agreed that technically, the Treaties would cease to apply at some well-defined point in time, but at the same moment they would start applying again.

A fun question would be whether a re-acceding country would lose its current privileges and its opt-outs of the Euro and Schengen.
ALL certification requirements are intended to limit entrants into the market. Whether or not that's worthwhile is subjective.

If a client is uncertain of their ability to judge risk, then they can hire from a trusted industry provider/union and pay a premium. I'd still like the ability to legally hire a poor person who may not have received a good enough public education to fulfill all of the state requirements for certification if the job is low risk enough. And I suspect the poor person would generally like to feed themselves or their family, so it's a win-win except for the incumbent wealthy who don't want their prices under-cut.

I don't need the government to tell me the electronics I buy are safe to plug into an outlet, there's private UL certification for that. I generally don't need the government to tell me who I'm allowed to pay for anything, even medicine.
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Mute tabs by default:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by...