skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take some personal responsibility for the tools you use and how you use them. If a tool has some behaviour I don't like, but makes it easy to change it to something I do, there's no point in moaning that the option exists.
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The problem with FLIF here is that it's not remotely competitive when you're using a lossy format for both the low-quality and high-quality versions, which is the most common case for photos. UI elements tend to be small, so it doesn't matter.

In most cases if you get more bandwidth which you could spend on using a lossless FLIF, you would get better subjective quality by using a higher resolution JPEG at the same file size.
I am an Asgardian citizen and so far they have followed through with their goals and promises. I believe that Asgardia has a bright future ahead of it and that we can lead by example to the other nations of the fragile blue ball in the space called Earth!
FLIF makes re-encoding unnecessary. http://flif.info/responsive.html

> for every image, only one file is required, ever. The optimization can happen entirely on the client side.

> A FLIF image can be loaded in different ‘variations’ from the same source file, by loading the file only partially. This makes it a very appropriate file format for responsive web design. Since there is only one file, the browser can start downloading the beginning of that file immediately, even before it knows exactly how much detail will be needed. The download or file read operations can be stopped as soon as sufficient detail is available, and if needed, it can be resumed when for whatever reason more detail is needed — e.g. the user zooms in or decides to print the page.
Exactly. The thing that I've struggled to explain to others is just how exhausting those coping mechanisms can be. I've lost count of how many times I've had to explain "No, I'm not shy, I'm just completely exhausted from talking".
I meant specifically when building a CMS. Being able to build a CMS that is multilingual, that can adapt to any form of content and workflow + be easy to use for editors is much harder than implementing the underlying technology.
That is a really wonderful paper, indeed. It's very clearly written (as anything by Lamport), and provides a simple and elegant solution to a complicated problem.
Yes, the use-case of proxying images is a different mater. I was talking about client uploads since so many companies seem determined to waste my bandwidth and time uploading without resizing first.
Yep, the main use case I imagine for something like this would be to show a blurred/tastefully-rendered <10 KB SVG _instead_ of a multi-megabyte hero JPG that still ends up looking horrible on 4K screens.
WebExtensions were specifically announced alongside Electrolysis. This is not Mozilla's fault.
M.U.L.E. is a old-school classic in this regard.
I think you really need to think about who the you is that you're addressing here.

It's very easy to dismiss any information you disagree with if you over-generalize like that.

For example: "You told us the earth was headed for a new ice age. Why should we believe you now when you say it's getting too warm?"
It depends - maybe three quarters of the abstracts took about a minute, sometimes less, since many are unreliable reports of drug tests that are closer to ads than info; there's also citation mongering resulting in three articles from exactly the same study, by the same authors saying the same result differently; plus many studies are confirmations from one population to another or are unique to tiny genetic lineages without broad implications; also many are review articles just in a new language or me-too studies. Others concern such topics as patient education improvements as opposed to changes in base medical knowledge. As for preliminary studies, these were a good source of gems, but unless they said something truly interesting they were easier to click past since not all that reliable. Finally there were some "we didn't find anything new" studies published; but not nearly enough get published (which has helped to cause the replication crisis.) Still some do.

In other words, there's a LOT of dross, but there are real gems lying there unread and uncited, too.

So only one in ten or a hundred articles might take an hour or more.

Average for all but the vital or good articles (after accumulating a good background and vocabularly), when I timed it back then: 100 an hour without losing any significant information. The vital remainder of 100 abstracts viewed took me (more of a guess, now) on average not more than double that amount of time, again; perhaps less time. That varied a lot because I was looking most keenly for overlooked knowledge(studies) and pairs of studies that were significant only once linked. Therefore I sometimes was willing to follow tangents to tangents just in case and could speed up at that point because it was nearly all dross.

Back when I was in university supposedly studying the history and philosphy of science and language, I had to visit medical libraries and use the CD disks from the then-private company Pubmed, and walk back and forth to a large, printed medical encycopedia chained to a pedestal and the desk-sized CD reader Pubmed provided. I don't include that reading as I took no surviving notes and wasn't counting abstracts way back then. Being able to research online when I returned to medical reading a couple of decades later was an immense relief. Switching tabs to get to a medical dictionary isn't nearly as much exercise, but it is a lot faster. Printed medical dictionaries for professionals have a LOT of pages to turn, in addition to the walking.
I actually find wordless instructions much harder to follow; insofar as Ikea builds.are difficult (they rarely are particularly, mostly just time consuming drudgery which isn't the same thing), it's because of rather than in spite of wordless instructions.
ARM64 with x86 emulation Windows benchmarks (not representative of real world use)
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There is no OOB way to do it ATM, you need to modify the userChrome.css. see below for more details.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736cji/how_to_hide...
>As to why we require loans to be originated without regard to credit risk: if we took credit risk into account, disadvantaged groups would get student loans at drastically decreased rates.

Those are unlikely to be drastically decreased. What will drastically decrease is the amount of people, of any color, who can afford an art history degree. That is a good thing, especially for those who will be the first in their family who are going to college, and are therefore more likely to be swindled into one of those degrees in the first place.
Absolutely no difference from chrome w.r.t memory usage.
If anyone wants protection from a nanny, state or otherwise, they can pay for it. Offer all the certifications at the state level you want, just don't interfere with my ability to do business with anyone I please whether they're certified or not.

>society has an interest in providing minimum safeguards.

Requiring you to work at below market rates for YEARS is not in the best interest of society. Harming the poor or immigrant workers by not allowing them to earn a decent living is not in the interest of society. All of these things are in the best interest of the incumbent wealth, not "society."

If you want some protection, then you can easily pay for it. Hire a contractor through Home Depot, Sears, or some other trusted industry name where you'll get lots of contractual protections and the benefit that a multi-billion dollar corporation wants to keep a good reputation if it wants people to keep doing business with it. This works much BETTER than taxes because everybody DOES get to pick and choose where their money goes.

>These solutions are intended to solve collective action problems, which by definition cannot readily and consistently be solved by everybody acting independently.

These solutions are intended to maintain incumbent wealth which harms the poor. You keep trying to sell me on you protecting me, which you obviously know I don't value, without addressing the fact that your ideology keeps the poor in their place. There's two wealthy groups you're protecting here. First, as the property owner, I'm almost certainly more wealthy than the laborer. And secondly, you're protecting the wealthy incumbent workers who don't want lower skilled workers undercutting them.
Currently DOM interop is a distant wishlist, so I wouldn't hold my breath. JavaScript isn't a perfect language, but it does have native lexical scope, which makes it a good fit for the architecture of web technologies.

> Seriously JS should not be the lingua franca of the web

What would you recommend for a replacement? When I typically see this it is from people can't figure out JavaScript as opposed to any rational technological reasoning. I cringe at the idea that people would offer forth really bad things that don't fit well merely to satisfy their own insecurities.
If anybody wants the full sordid history from an investigative standpoint, check out Kim Nilsson's great writeups[1][2] and presentation[3].

[1] http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html

[2] http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/comments-on-mark-karpeles-tria...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l70iRcSxqzo
Still miss a proper / user-friendly profiles management interface :(
This is a very narrow view of success.
and js. eventually!
I strongly disagree, and FF 58 is even better.
You fail to recognize that most options / private company shares are not negotiable or redeemable, period. They cannot be converted to income or other benefit by any mechanism.
Maybe you are right. But, let’s not panic about this though. I believe this will be just a temporary hike and pushes Germany towards renewable energy sources even stronger.
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The argument can be further simplified: Nuclear power hasn't got a track record of being economical or safe. The costs of contaminating areas like Fukushima and Chernobyl are astronomical an uninsurable. Spent fuel is piling up. End of life costs are known to be very high, but are also unbounded and unfunded. Maybe alt-fuel reactors are the answer. Maybe the industry can be optimized based on current technology. But there is no demonstration that this is true.
They don't need tail calls, unless you're planning on doing idiomatic functional programming in an OO language, which, Why??
Total cardholders at the year end was 90.3MM, an increase of 4% or 3.6MM from 2016.
I played Counter-Strike competitively (and to the extent it was possible "professionally") about 10 years ago and made some money winning tournaments, but nothing compared to what people are making nowadays. We got our hotel paid for for a few tournaments and that was "making it" back then :) It's fantastic to see the sector grow and I'd love to return to esports/gaming sometime in the future.

Unfortunately, it's not all rainbows and roses, as I think there are some detrimental forces at play which are trying to rip out the grassroots origins of esports and commercialize it to the n-th degree (see Blizzard's Overwatch League). This was attempted before in '07 (see the Championship Gaming Series) and it failed miserably, so we'll see how it does this time around.
It's not theirs anymore either. It is now overseen by the bankruptcy court, and the bankruptcy court is deciding what to do with it according to Japanese bankruptcy law. Unfortunately the law is extremely slow, strict, and conservative. They may not reach a resolution for many years, during which time the value of Bitcoin could spike 10x or crash to zero. The resolution eventually reached may or may not make any rational sense. It's a fascinating situation from the outside, though surely maddening for anyone involved.
Yeah, I'd say that's pretty spot on! We want to allow people to build amazing video software without needing to cobble together their own solution (while learning the infinite intricacies of video in the process if they don't have a background in the industry).

The only minor quibble is that I don't think many people would say AWS is a great developer experience. The sum of all the parts there are, undeniably, incredibly powerful, but putting all the pieces together is still an exercise left to the reader. We think there's a lot of power and freedom to be had in just needing to think about video as a solved problem so you can build wonderful experiences around it.
While I've heard the married = happier + healthier arguments for some time, are we sure that the cause is marriage, or some other trait heavily correlated with marriage, or that we've not reversed cause and effect?
Why would you think the badges were fake?
Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is one of the most accessible and profound papers in the field: http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...
Discord makes most of their revenue from selling user data so they probably want to keep as much as possible.
Less interesting as an investment vehicle, maybe. If cross-cultural interest in the phenomenon hadn’t yet been proven out, it might still hit an adoption cap at the boundary of the originating culture, and so stop growing.

> I doubt chinese players watch american streamers en masse, or vice-versa.

I agree. But are there any streamers who make use of live closed-caption transcription + translation services, the way broadcast news does? It’d Be interesting to see if just removing the language barrier would remove the culture barrier, or if it’s more fundamental.
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Privacy is about the same, Mozilla Corporation (who distribute the browser) aren't non-profit, both are open source. Correct on community maybe.
Whether or not they profit him, obviously.
Article is very information light and could stand some editing. I got the feeling that the author was going for a non-technical, "Is-any-of-this-real-or-are-they-just-taking-our-money?" subtext, but didn't push it far enough, so she ended up with mush.
I recognize I'm misunderstanding you on purpose, but there are many crypto communities that contain virtually zero people looking to get rich quick.
FOUC with Firefox Quantum
After all the hype, I finally downloaded Firefox Quantum and the first thing i noticed, while opening GitHub, FOUC happened! I was like, OK, it might be an anomaly but happened again on multiple websites with loads of css & javascript.
Out of curiosity, what do you use the decompiled tokens/endpoints for?
> On the other hand when things blow up, it is really nice to have a stack backtrace to help debug why it blew up. But a stack backtrace can't include stack frames that were optimized away. Which makes it far harder to figure out why this call on this object turned into that call on that object.

Is that really a concern?

If you're writing a loop, do you expect your tools to show you a trace of every iteration in the loop? Of course not, because that would be silly. If you really want to trace each iteration, you can add your own tracing.

I think of tail-recursion as parameterized gotos that are wonderfully constrained and are useful for describing state transformations in a predictable way. It's not a regular function call, so the stack trace is probably a very bad idea.
> That particular streamer is changing the streaming game and is invested in some third party streamer support apps. He has broad appeal as little kids dressed up as this Twitch streamer for Halloween this year.

He's not really changing the streaming game. There's streamers out there much more successful than he is (Lirik, Shroud, IcePoseidon, etc, etc.) Don't get me wrong, he's fun to watch, but no mention of him isn't a big deal in the least.
If you need to use an image twice, once low-quality and once high-quality but not perfect, FLIF would let you load (say) 10% of the image in one place and 50% in another.

Are you saying that for the same bandwidth usage, you could load two separate lossy JPGs and they'd look better?

What if the fact that you've loaded the first 10% of the FLIF for the low-res version means you can resuse that data and start with the 11th percent when loading the high-res version?
I think this is an essential read: http://usingcsp.com/
Nice, but why? https://cloudinary.com, https://www.imgix.com, or https://www.filestack.com already exist and are well worth it for 99% of apps. Even at scale, it really doesn't cost that much to have someone else do it. You can use a thin proxy through your existing CDN if you want to save on their bandwidth fees.

Also http://thumbor.org and https://imageresizing.net if you want a library to host yourself which are already very fast and well tested. Put them in a docker container on a kubernetes cluster and it's all done in an hour.
> Several thousand Germans die each year due to pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Do you have a source for this?
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And, to be fair, most users probably want Google to be their default.

Considering how heavily Mozilla’s been recently touting Firefox as the privacy-oriented alternative to Chrome (in Facebook ads, and probably elsewhere), to me it makes Mozilla appear flippant.
If your business is so important, you would ignore those distractions anyway. This kind of success is not the only measure we have to evaluate the meaning and fulfillment of life.
Again, why would the security guards not trust the judgment of an employee of the company that hired them? In the absence of an immediate and obvious threat, how is that justified?
Anyone who suggests a tool that can't understand JavaScript doesn't know what they are talking about

You should be using Headless Chrome or Headless Firefox with a library that can control them in a user-friendly manner
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Where Are All the Nannies on Instagram?
Mr Burns is a very successful man!

GP Quote from: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Lisa/Quot...
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1683/
Indeed. TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error from Chrome.
> The nice thing about a lot of these SVG options (or even the smaller images as well), is that they can be embedded into pages

That's a good point. Though presumably you could embed FLIF data into HTML using a data URI - https://css-tricks.com/data-uris/
Agreed. Whats the chances that happy, healthy, stable single people are more likely to want to get married, and attract people that would want to marry them?
Maybe it’s because that they don’t want a dependency on a external service that could go down ?
Contrasts starkly with Ron Conway's advice at Startup School: https://youtu.be/qvHhhIfu7Lo?t=4m21s

"Paul Graham: So how can they tell? How can these people, you know it would save them a lot of trouble if you tell could tell them now whether they are going to succeed in starting a startup. How can they tell if they are driven enough?

Ron Conway: Well I mean are you willing to work 24/7. The really great entrepreneurs are 24/7. The word moonlighting is not even in their vocabulary. I mean if they are dating somebody or they are married, they warn their spouse that they are not first in line. That this company dream is first in line and that you have this vocation. It's like being a priest or a nun that your duty is to your company. No, it has to be that fanatical and if you look at all the successful entrepreneurs they are that committed about it. That is a hard commitment, but once you are willing to make that commitment then it solves the work ethic check off. If you have that commitment then your passion is probably infectious. It probably means you can in fact find other people and make them as excited about your idea as you are."
Aside from the privacy / philosophy / openness / counterweight-to-monopolization-of-the-Web angles which Yoric mentioned, you might find we're actually better than Chrome in some areas. Often small things, but I find I prefer the feel of Firefox to Chrome.

- If you do frontend work, our CSS grid inspector is unparalleled https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...

- Firefox has built-in tracking protection (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/12/firefox-to-offer...)

- Powerful add-ons like Tree Style Tab make managing large numbers of tabs much easier (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/)

- Our WebAssembly performance tends to be better

- We should have better resource utilization when you have many tabs open

- You can mute audio on a page clicking the little speaker icon in the tab

If you want to contribute to the DevTools themselves, they're built using standard web technologies: HTML/JS, React/Redux, etc. https://github.com/devtools-html/
Furthermore, it strikes me as very likely that Hanlon's Razor applies to these 'ignorant authoritarian extremists': they are actually ignorant.

Don't play chicken with idiots.
Why would "the US" hate this? American gas exporters and producers would be happy to have steady long-term buyers. Environmentalists dislike fracking, but I think they'd be neutral to mildly supportive for gas projects that are clearly aimed at reducing coal use. A lot of Americans would be happy about cutting the US trade deficit.

I'll admit that domestic gas consumers wouldn't like this plan any more than they like other plans to increase foreign gas demand, raising domestic prices, but it's not clear that the faction benefitting from low domestic gas prices is more influential than the collective of the groups mentioned above.
You're happy they had security theater in full effect even though it inconvenienced you and others?
Downvotes for this? WTF?