skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of talk about how AI will "steal jobs". But I think one aspect that doesn't get enough attention is how our physical bodies seem to have major problems adapting (fast enough) to where technology is taking us. Take for example how immobile jobs , combined with bad food (industrialized processed food) and driving has all sorts of negative physical impact. To add to this, self-driving cars will remove the need of a driving skill. Or how address books removed the need to remember phone numbers. I remember in the 90s (4th grade) when could recall the phone number of everyone in my class. Today I honestly don't know anyone's phone number but my own.

How do we account for the fact that the human body and mind seem to need a certain amount/kind of stimulation to not entirely fall apart?
Should we just settle with the new bodies technology gives us?
Should we settle with simple compensatory measures like going to the gym for lack of moving otherwise?
1. I really really like how they kept the easter egg in by figuring out how to permanently sweep it out of the way. I can imagine some environments that would stumble on something like this and tensely rm -rf the whole thing with forced smiles.

2. "print_where" is set by the option parsing code when it sees "-w". https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/tree/src/man.c?...
> For simple sites, probably faster to just implement it than find a library and read the docs.

Not really - the implementation flow for tools that do this sort of thing are typically:

1. Register account
2. Dump JS snippet into page
3. Start watching live user sessions
Liar. Your not an old fart our memories are garbage.
So, basically, nothing fancy or different from what everybody else is doing, maybe with the little exception of keeping things on premises instead of sending to the internets (a.k.a. "the cloud").
Waterfox[0] is another option. It's based on Firefox, integrates patches from upstream and will continue to support the old extension system.

[0]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Progress is defined by enabling people to do more. Do we really want to go back to making energy with coal? It creates lots of jobs. Jobs that can replace with new better ones. I truly believe we are in a crisis of vision. We have food and many material things met but we haven't moved on to pushing for more progress that creates the new jobs politically.
Easter eggs remind us we're human and bring us joy when we least suspect and might need it the most.

Obviously don't want easter eggs in things like security code.
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Perhaps it makes me a killjoy, but generally if I see things like this in our codebase I think "Great! I get to remove code today!"
> only available on the most modern hardware?

Obviously there's something slowing down your Firefox, but it's definitely not to do with how modern your hardware is because 57 is noticeably faster than the previous version on my 2011 MacBook.
That was a fast hard fork... oh wait
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Or NEXUS. Ding ding ding, you're a winner!
Guilty of making accessibility a lower priority
Because safety. Mozilla and others are just making the Web browsers safer.

It was necessary the Internet and explosion of security exploits to realize that although plugins in-process are easier to implement, the older out-of-process architecture was safer and harder to exploit.
They probably do. But Firefox addons is a long tail. There are many addons that would qualify as "popular" but Mozilla wouldn't be able to contact them all. So they have to measure not only popularity, but also if the community cares about that addon. I had many addons installed that I don't use, synchronized across devices: They may count as "popular" but it doesn't reflect the actual community and usage.
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Not going to try and convince you of Bitcoin or crypto as a whole but calling USDT an example of smart contracts is pretty absurd.
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Well, does that make lets encrypt's market share inflated because they give away certs?
I am surprised by the negative comments. I am not a copy writer, but I write technical books. I thought her views on the business of copy writing to be very interesting, even though that is not my business.
I lived in Gdansk at the time. My canary developed these red bumps on its chest and died a few days after.

I was 7 years old and still remember crying to this day.
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PA checking in. Comcast HQ is here. I suspect that vote outweighs mine by about 6 orders of magnitude.
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This is what Rickrolls looked like before Rick Ashley recorded his first big hit.
How do you propose we relocate any significant volume of water?
Even sticking to ABBA, "Waterloo!" is fewer bits and triggers an earworm just as well, but of course waterloo is not a man after midnight.
Self-promotion: I started a blog to talk about all the skills that aren't "how to code a thing in language X" or "how to use framework Y". Things like productivity skills, conceptual skills, career advice and the like, that experienced engineers often take for granted and are harder to explain.

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UBI is basically a direct cash transfer, which is a form of aid that's been studied in the developing world for many years. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39038402

It has many benefits, including its simplicity. Sure, you could create a framework of incentives and enforcement to make sure only certain people get cash for doing certain things, but those structures will absorb money that might have otherwise gone to the poor. The whole story of international aid, and of UBI if it's done wrong, is a story of propping up inefficient bureaucracies and giving money to aid workers instead of the people who were meant to benefit.
Do you reveal all of your Software code to contractors?
Hey SAAS founders and CTOs,

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on whether you trust the people you hire enough to share all of your codebase with them?

I believe for employees that is no problem so my question is more related to contractors. Contractors in the US vs. East Europe? Do you sign agreements with them? Have you had issues happen?

Interested in hearing your opinion and experiences.
To quench curiosity, I wonder if someone with more knowledge here could give the probability that this object is be spinning, stable, about its axis with smaller moment of inertia?
Maybe in an ideal world, Tumblr would be better. However Facebook has much higher penetration, so it's the defacto site of choice.
Ohh, so THAT's why I have to log out and back in to have my group changes take effect. That, along with having to start a new shell to pick up new env vars from ~/.profile, are my two biggest annoyances with the Linux process model. Reminds me a bit of the Windows 98 days when you had to restart to change your IP address. I really wish someone would sit down and figure out how to propagate group and environment changes to already running processes and implement them.
Just project out:

1. Amazon, Google, etc. control more and more transactions

2. If they determine at their discretion your out of the whole network.

3. Not sure I see them getting less powerful
Was this post supposed to contain a link?
I agree. Been using Firefox continuously since it first appeared. And I miss some of my extensions.

But they're clearly working on improving what you can do with extensions, only now they're doing it in a coherent manner rather than just letting people have access to the browser chrome to hack about whatever they fancied. And that feels much more stable and architecturally stable as something to build on for the future. I'm prepared to give them a few releases to build on that and make it both fast and extensible.
From a certain perspective the entire perspective is a very big sand crusher. The humans are picking up the surplus.
Most of the big hosts have exclusive agreements with certain CAs that prevent them from offering free SSLs through Letsencrypt. They will usually install a cert for you, sometimes for a fee, but never in an automated way, so even if you are using Letsencrypt, you'll need to open a ticket / pick up a phone every 90 days. You can't just write a cron and quit worrying about it, which is the central value proposition for LetsEncrypt/ACME as far as I'm concerned.
How much joy do you think the SO questioner had when their CI was breaking at (seemingly) random times of the day due to this idiotic flourish?
The term “air gap” does not directly imply anything to do with the Internet (doesn’t exclude it, but it applies more generally than specific networks). Yes, IC uses it to signify high/low networks, but the original usage of the term was to indicate a machine with no direct connection to the outside world. The theory being (since proven wrong), you can’t exfiltrate data remotely from a device not connected to a network.
Yes, but what brand of toilet paper does he use? (Great video, strange headline).
I liked the whole Rama series. When I heard of the suggested dimensions of this object, I immediately thought of Rama.
It was Newton that originally named ROYGBIV. Historically the word "blue" would have referred to a cyan colour, and "indigo" to a deep blue. So in fact you and Newton agree with each other, and the apparent difference is just due to semantic drift.
Got it, thanks for your summary.
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Wow, that Caddy thing is pretty scary, thanks for pointing it out. I wonder what other decisions like that lurk under the surface.
No worries. The reader has as much responsibility to question the material they're consuming :)
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Desktop compositing latency is real
Vimperator/Pentadactyl are mostly useful for plain HTML/CSS pages, not webapps :)

They're mostly a way to use the regular browser functions, only with the keyboard rather than the mouse. But this works best for regular sites, and poorly for webapps that use JS-activated links and such.
Yes, some of my favorite music will give me chills down my spine, make me smile (occasionally laugh), sing along and dance.

I also get a profound sense of relaxation after a hard hour of crossfit, an urge to just lean back, take a deep breath and not give a shit about anything. When I think back afterwards, during the exercise my mind is completely clear of all worries, only the movements matter.
My first browser was Mosaic, and I was on Firefox while it was called Phoenix. v57 brought me back to Firefox (from Safari), so I think it's great to see they're not just laser-focusing on what was a rapidly shrinking userbase.

It's not a zero-sum either: those of you who always used Firefox will surely benefit from it not dwindling into obscurity.
I work in a big city. It is polluted by cars, trucks, heating. That pollution kills 2 or 3 hundreds of people every year in that town. That scares me a lot more than the hypothetical explosion of the nuclear plant which I live 40km close...
"Isidore’s encyclopaedic work De natura rerum asserts that there are"

- but "De natura rerum" is Lucretius's poem

- Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia is "Etymologiae"

- "De rerum naturis" (De Universo) is Rabanus Maurus's encyclopedia

what is the correct one?
In several states, lobbyists from Comcast and Verizon are working to make it illegal for community owned ISPs. Their claim is that this is essentially the government participating in free trade and that it gives those communities an unfair advantage.
What about the previous governments? The current govt is in place only for 3 years, isn't it..
What is the scroll bug exactly, or are you referring to the perf problems?
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Get off namecheap. They got big by standing up to GoDaddy, but their prices are just as bad now. As you said, they make money through their SSLs.com so they will never support LE. They became the villain.
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Keep your code dumb
Yes, I know the inteligence community uses this definition of air gap to signify the barrier between high/low networks, but I kinda feel it misses the point of the term. If it is networked to the outside world, even securely, I feel it kinda misses the point of the “air gap” connotation (aka requiring a “sneaker net” to get data in / out). I’m likely being pedantic though, so I upvoted you as you at least gave a good response unlike others.
With copious amounts of thrust
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DownloadStar might cover your needs.
they're often heavily promoted/shared - social signals seem to weigh heavily these days for SEO.

I have a clean site in a related space (https://keto.fm) and multiple subscribers have commented along the lines of: "this looked like a spam site, but once we browsed through it, it had rrally good content!"
Contribute how? In the long run all jobs will disappear. The latest job to become obsolete will be scientific research.
An unexpected treat. Thanks for posting.
That would be an appropriate response if you're reviewing newly-checked in code from junior developers, but this has been there for years and if you remove it, you're probably going to break things downstream .. there'd literally be nobody there to hear your prayer.
(answering to myself) "De natura rerum" seems to be also the name of a part of Etymologiae (TBC)
The Gamecube is indigo.
Figured they would do this and then hide it in Android OS/System so users don't know it was Google's own services draining their battery life the whole time.

If only they'd use this data to at least do something useful, like create a machine learning-enabled firewall to block "rogue" cell towers like cell site simulators. But no, of course not, it has to be done only for ads...
Programmer humor is really cringey. I fully expect to be downvoted for this comment (outside of our cringey humor, we tend to be rather humorless and thin skinned), but so be it.
Take a look at the command “newgrp”
This. I've been using it for years and its one of the things that keeps me the most productive nowadays.
problem is people can’t delay gratification

If you accept that is the case then you shouldn't be surprised when people look for a working solution such as leaving their phone at home.

forcing yourself to work on a single task otherwise

Which clearly doesn't work for many or maybe even most people.
Also there was an interesting view on (against) nuclear by Naomi Klein :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLRikyCRu54

I like nuclear, but her view makes a lot of sense to me.
In the banking sector only a small fraction of employees are required to run the payments infrastructure (in one example, 2% of employees ran the business part of payments, and another 2% of employees could be the IT infrastructure part required for that); payments are highly automated and almost everyone is handling the other parts of the banking business e.g. lending and investments.

Visa and mastercard together employ ~20k people and handle much, much, much more transactions than all the cryptocurrencies combined.

The EU SEPA customer payments system handles ~1000 times more transactions than ethereum, and the infrastructure for running that (spread across all the involved banks) likely takes thousands of people, but not 200k, and certainly not the 200 million people that would be required to do so as horribly inefficiently as cryptocurrencies do.
At some point the price is high enough that we can no longer afford to just throw away the material. It becomes profitable to recycle. Copper is a good example.
Science fiction has proposed a number of possible-if-difficult ways.

Comets, to start, are mostly water. If you're patient, you can redirect some very sightly while they're in the far end of the system and have them impact Mars. Takes a while though. Also, big boom when they arrive.

Really though, there's plenty of carbon <edit>oxygen, in the form of carbon dioxide</edit> on Mars- you just need hydrogen. Jupiter is mostly that. With a very large fleet of ships, you might be able to bring some to Mars. Solar sails might help keep costs low, and ideally they're fully autonomous. Heck, if that works, you'd probably want to start doing the same trick and pouring hydrogen into Venus while taking away CO2.

I'm sure there's other ways too. Plus, we know there is some water on Mars already. If we can use it carefully, reuse exhaustively, it could sustain a large population.
Probably dumb question, but I always ask myself if it's changing size significantly to gzip (or brotli) a minified file instead of the original, as space and CR will be the most present character and so will be very well compressed.

On small files, the difference will be of course significant, but in big files ?
It would cease to exist in that case...
So, what's the best ARM based laptop that runs without binary blobs?
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Based on your link there is a strong possibility that he studied with the Greeks. (Two sources say he did) What is mentioned no where is that Aristotle was 'forgotten' by the Greeks. In fact everywhere in those manuscripts it is assumed that the Greeks are in possession of their full philosophic heritage.
It can be fixed without getting rid of the easter egg (which is exactly what was done: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd...).
I can see how voids in the water cause an increase in neutron flux, but I thought water was needed to slow the neutrons, and that fast neutrons result in reduced reaction.
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No need to speculate:

> @MarnanelThurman No problem, at least there was some fun ;-)

So I'd say the answer to your question is: "some". Some being more than none, I'm almost tempted to think they enjoyed this little episode.

You'd also have to add the joy of all the people encountering this. Since it's somewhat likely that someone typing "man" after midnight and forgetting the parameter is somewhat frustrated, I'd venture a guess and say this easter egg is a net positive for humanity. Since happy people working after midnight are better than unhappy people working after midnight, I'd even go so far as to say that it improves productivity. And productivity is my professionalism.
I run this on my home network. It is pretty difficult to set up as I was not able to dig up really satisfactory documentation. It must be said also that I am pretty inexperienced with AD at all so there is that.

I recently switched all clients to Linux and plan to abandon this approach as I was after proper user/authorization management between my Windows 7 clients and a Linux based NAS. With Linux the integration via ssh/sshfs is much easier and fits better to the Linux authorization model.

As a comparison: Setting up AD properly on all parts did cost me at least several weekends. Setting up sshfs only few hours. And the latter is much more responsive...
> That's not the probability of getting H' heads in a row. It's an estimate of the probability

Well, the true probability is unknown. You might assume a fair coin and do some Bayes rules, but how is that a guarantee of anything?
The german TV station Das Erste is quite good at being impartial and neutral.

Reports are factual, there is little to no opinion and government issues are frequently included. Atleast in my experience they have been very good at keeping neutral.
My downvote is not because of our collective sense of humor, but because I deny the notion of millions of people sharing a certain collective sense of humor.
It is an interesting article, but IMO the author is barking up a wrong tree. Compromising clarity to reduce by a few percent the number of bytes sent to the client is unlikely to work well beyond small examples.

For complex objects such local optimizations encourage moving closer to final image representation instead of leveraging higher level capabilities of SVG for vector graphics. If final file size is of utmost importance for a complex object taking a high level view and refactoring as needed will likely work much better than replacing rectangles with path, absolute motions with relative, etc. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".

Just my 2c, YMMV.
I wonder if one or both of us is missing the point here.

The concern is that ISPs will throttle all traffic which they don't recognise as being served from a big-name domain (Netflix, Amazon, Facebook...).

In such a situation, if I use an ordinary https connection to watch my favourite Netflix shows, then they won't throttle me. But if I do anything through Tor, then they will.
Can someone explain this, please?
Quite sad to see it go. I do hope there will be other, more successful attempts at making OSS sustainable.
Wow, I thought the controls are exposed in browser preferences. This makes even less sense, why would these be only controllable by extensions? (Though they are accessible in about:config at least)
In engineering you've got to do whatever it takes to solve the problem.

If you ever have a really tricky bug, try printing out the entire source repo on origami paper and laying out the sheets in a Hilbert curve pattern on the floor. Then throw out some silicium sticks -- one for each thread you were running -- and 63% of the time, one will land on the buggy line of code.
Two years before I was born there were 4000+ cases of children with polio in the area near where my parents lived. By the time I was born polio was basically gone due to the vaccine being introduced. People who don't vaccinate their children should visit one of these folks.
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Have you seen those Intel-ME vulnerabilities that were on the front page yesterday and people kept saying they were not as bad as they look, because an attack would need to come from your LAN?

Injecting some Javascript into your static, non-sensitive pages is a great way to start an attack from inside your LAN.
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Only if he didn’t get laid enough.
> It makes sense to reduce the overall amount worked, but to still encourage work, and to improve the skillset of workers.

You're right, just because robots can automatize production doesn't mean we're left with nothing to do. We still have a job - taking care of ourselves, our families and communities.

A jobless person might be a doctor, an engineer, a farmer or a teacher by training. They don't automatically become stupid by being jobless. They have many needs to fulfill and little money, but lots of time. So they will need to become more self reliant.

The life of a community can be self reliant in many ways - a community could cultivate its own food, build houses, primary medical care, kindergarten and primary school education, install solar panels, drill for water, repair and maintenance for various devices - all of these are needs of local people that can be solved by local work.

If, on top of self reliance, people receive an UBI, it will make it count for so much more, and they won't be just idling around all day long. There is a whole economy that can exist just by providing services to each other.
Maybe https://instapaper.com
when i can, won't likely be soon though :(
I remember how furious the slashdot community was over this!