skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's break it down.

The first poster says Facebook "[is] not [a] concern for democracy".

The responder says "What an uneducated answer from what I assume is a techy. Facebook is a treat to democracies. There are more articles on this than the other way around."

The first two sentences seems to imply that they disagree with what has just been said, that is except for the word "treat", which implies that they actually agree. If they are saying "treat" then they're saying not only is Facebook not a concern for democracy, but it is actively beneficial.

However this argument is then immediately negated by saying "There are more articles on this than the other way around." Ignoring the ridiculously false logic of the statement, there are objectively more articles about Facebook being a threat to democracy than there are about Facebook being a benefit to it.

Thus I concluded the person meant "threat", which I found to be a very obvious conclusion given the context of the statement.
That's because those two market situations are the most concerning. Prices haven't just been high, they've been extremely high.

You're not presenting all scenarios however, there's the vast in-between, aka healthy, that sits between bubble and falling.
My big question is whether people are really noticing such a dramatic speed difference? I've tried it several times, and it seems like there is a negligible difference, if any, between it and Chrome. And I'm a guy that uses Sublime even though I like the feature set on VSCode better because I can't live with the snappiness downgrade.
There's probably a pot of contributing factors, but I want to point out two, as an old-fashioned c/c++ turned Java developer who moved to node and typescript.

Typescript is fun. Java's type system is super unfun, with its interface-based approach to nominative typing. Of course, it has gotten better (I remember before generics, all the data structures had to have ridiculous cast statements to get stuff out). Type inference and structural are rad.

Also, the javascript runtime basically has cooperative parallelism, which makes concurrency way easier to reason about. I love this fact. I think golang is going to eventually beat out node (or node will make a seismic shift in a multithreaded direction) for just this reason. Goroutines are a really good parallelism story. I don't have as much fun in go (I admit, this is a personal and ineffable metric) but it does seem to perform really well in a web socket sort of situation.
I was shocked the video was 20 seconds in real time as well. I wonder if there is a "numbers every programmer should know"[0] analog for chemical biologists.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
Your use of the term "obsession" implies a degree of irrationality. Many people, myself included, would contend that the desire to own your own home is eminently sensible.
What a bullshit comment, Facebook needs to be more responsible with its massive power, it can ruin countries.

Europe needs to do something about the Silicon Valley companies, we can't build Chinese firewall but in order to have a chance for competition we need to come up with a plan. One possible way to fuck off FB is because it's spy machine that is very much illegal on some aspects.
It's a tarot deck.
> This is basically a mortgage and reverse mortgage

We don't have a specific term for "mortgages" as meaning home loans - we treat them as any bank loan. I hadn't heard the term "reverse mortgage" before, so had to look it up. It's not quite that (interests are always paid).
It plays tic-tac-toe. There are 304 matchboxes for each possible state in tic-tac-toe[1]. Each match box has three colored beads in it. Different colors indicate the next move to make.

You take the state of the board, find the corresponding matchbox, draw one bead at random out of the box, and make the move.

Depending on if the game is a win, loss, or draw, you add or remove beads in the matchboxes to increase or decrease the odds of making that move again.

After about 150 games or so, the matchboxes almost always draw against a competent opponent.

There is a 1/10 chance that the matchboxes get into a bad state where they can get an empty matchbox. This does not happen in the video.

[1] In this scenario, the matchboxes always go first. Letting it go second slightly more than doubles the number of matchboxes.
I would define Buddhism as: A form of introspective psychology.

Buddhism makes testable predictions about mental states and proposes systematic mental exercises to test those predictions.
Sounds scary, a device to device worldwide network controlled by one organization?
A lot of the linked stories 404 and many image assets are missing. It’s still cool to see the old web designs, though.
Turns out FB is no longer giving that newsstand either.
Lol. As a kid I was living near Kobar towers (Dhahran). It rattled my windows.
I'm asking this half for me, half for the thread - does this mean RHEL on Raspberry Pi?

thanks.
Why are you talking about spam, did you even read the article?
well for starters it was a joke not a serious argument.
You are right. Thats how i felt but that was unnecessary to say here. Deleted that from my comment.
I'm on 57 since some time now. It is certainly faster, but still not competitive on macOS compared to Chrome. Responsiveness and especially cpu load are quite high as soon as animations are happening. Is it just me?
Absolutely. Another great example - I used to think that Hollywood forgot how to make good movies, but now realize it's much more specific to the timing of my coming of age. There were certain movies from the mid 80s that were so powerful and memorable to me that, for me, they have never been surpassed in all the years since.
Do it after the fact, like Twitter’s “get verified.” Minimally, someone could score accounts like fakespot for Amazon reviews.
It's not very unlikely for me to have thousands of tabs open in Firefox. It makes the browsing, especially researching, worry free, and with good UI (scrolling tabs, searching in Awesomebar and possible extensions like Tab Center Redux or Tree Style Tabs) it's still easy enough (if not easier) to navigate. I can't stand using Chromium, since after a few hours of browsing you can't navigate the tabs at all, since they are all reduced almost to single pixels.
The fact that those things are hard is exactly why a guide on them would be valuable.
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As mentioned in the video I managed to get MENACE to resign on the first turn After just under 40 Games of beating it in a row.
No, it's really not.

Pages I have open:

In the jobs boxout on StackOverflow I'm pretty confident that McLaren Applied Technologies is looking a lead C#/.NET developer.

On another page, the UK Mobile network '3' is offering 12Gb for the price of 4Gb. I know that's true because I took them up on it (and even for 4Gb it's still cheaper than any other network).

I could provide many other counter-examples but I don't need to because you used 'always' in your absolutist statement. Yes, a lot of advertising twists the truth. No, not everything does. And for things that we hold to a higher standard (like a great open source project like Gitlab) we can point out places where they don't meet that standard in the (not unrealistic) hope that they'll improve.
I've been wondering this for years. I'm glad Firefox can handle it but I can't help but feel that whatever use case people have shouldn't be the concern of a browser and could be better solved by a tool designed specifically for whatever it is they need.
John Von Neunman was particularly a huge enthusiast of the Byzantine empire. A professor of Byzantine history at Princeton once said that von Neumann had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Early_career_...
That is because most pages worked exactly this way for years - every update was shared on facebook too. It was comfortable for sites for a while - people were likely to hit like on facebook and got you in the feed they visit daily for unrelated reasons. They are less likely to give you e-mail or start with rss feed they don't use.

The alternative is not rss. The alternative is news aggregator few months down the line when sites stop asking people to like them.
> what lead to the current political misery.

Oh no. Not this shit again!.

Not every story has to have some sort of philosophical link to trump winning the election.
Dell XPS 13 battery bloated, warped keyboard and track pad, and Dell refused to accept responsibility for the dangerous defective product.
Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash reporter, cryptohomed
Newsletters and RSS feeds don't let me share pictures of my kids with distant relatives. For a lot of us that's the primary Facebook use case.
As a possibly more surprising example, readittwice posted this above: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/...
Hands down best in sequential write performance.
Crud - was hoping for a new, re-vamped version of the video game Hexen :)
Compared to Chrome, Firefox has the huge advantage that it is Free Software, while Chrome (the whole package) isn't.

Compared to Chromium (the Free Software part of Chrome), Firefox has the advantage that it has no anti-features in the first place, rather than having the Chromium community trying to keep after Google removing each anti-feature as soon as they notice.
How the Pixel 2’s security module delivers enterprise-grade security
Yes, but landlords also pay taxes on profits. As a homeowner, you won't pay tax on the difference between rental cost and your mortgage interest payment.
Apple iPhone X's Face ID Hacked (Unlocked) Using 3D-Printed Mask
> It's deja vu all over again.

Except for the lack of readily available credit. For the most part, it seems the people paying the high prices are "able" to afford it. The problem is that home ownership (and the security that brings, particularly in Ireland) is not attainable for most young people and families anymore.
If Windows were free what are the odds the market would force OEMs to do that anyway to shave a percentage point off their prices/profit margins? I'm betting near 100% and only premium machines wouldn't have crapware.
The full original article, https://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/11/adding-refinement-types...
I had a 3-month job search over the last summer, encompassing about 150 contacts which I filtered into roughly 25 actual interviews. It takes an enormous amount of time to deal with all the various interview techniques out there. Such as:

* Four or five-hour interviews.
* Interview prep suggested by recruiters for tech interviews.
* All-day work sessions pairing with employees.
* "Homework" that can take anywhere from 5 hours to days.
* Multiple online sessions, each to solve a tech riddle.

I can't imagine how I could've done this when holding a job at the same time. I'd have to be incredibly picky about who I chose to interview with - which means, I wouldn't have interviewed with my current company because they didn't interest me during the screening, only until after the interview when I got to talk with actual developers.
Thank you! Checking it out now. Looks very promising!
As usual not on the German store.
The Arab Muslims also had an amazing science and tech culture which isn't well appreciated today. Many of the revolutions in Europe in the Middle Ages happened as direct outcomes of Arab Muslim tech. A few of my heros: Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Ismail al-Jazari.
I think a strong housing market may be the result of lack of productive capital, but I think it has more to do with supply and demand. Most average people pay for a house using a mortgage payment, so when buying a house, they'll be looking for a house that has an affordable mortgage payment.

Let's say Joe wants to spend / can afford a $1000/month mortgage payment. If interest rates are 5% and the maximum mortgage period is 30 years, Joe can afford to buy a house worth $190,000. However, if interest rates go down to 2% and Joe can now take a 40 year mortgage, Joe can now buy a house worth about $330,000. Great for Joe! The only problem is that housing supply is relatively inelastic, so the supply of housing didn't magically increase overnight. When Joe buys a house, he's essentially bidding against a bunch of other people for that house. If those other people's mortgage payments were affected the same way, then the actual effect is that what was once a house worth $190,000 is now worth $330,000.

This sounds like a problem out of an Econ 101 exercise. Either politicians are stupid, or more likely, they know that "homeowner policy" like this can make them and their other rich buddies even richer.
I do realize that some scenarios where bio fails exist. But I don't want simultaneous security all the time, I want an option to enable it and disable it when I want. E.g. I'm traveling through customs and I enable this mode - now the phone can't be opened by e.g. restraining me (or tricking me) and using only bio, they won't know the password to match. And if they will request to unlock my phone for inspection, well ok - but they can only look into it beside me, the minute it autolocks they won't be able to open it knowing only password that I provided because my bio is inseparable from me. Some other valid scenarios can also exist.

PS: I read that some community firmware images allow this mode, the only thing that stops me from using them is lack of camera drivers for unofficial firmware.
I don't think Quantum is a buzzword here. It's a code name that is more memorable than "57".

And yes, it was slow. Performance was not an issue for me either, I've been using it for a long time, but solely because of the features, not the speed, and the difference is noticeable.
I don't even have enough karma to downvote you, but I'll make sure to come back to this thread when I'm above 500 :)
That's an awesome fact! I'm reading Von Neumann & Morgenstern's Game Theory and Economic Behavior now and while I'm not surprised he's gifted in other disciplines, it's amazing that someone can be so deep in so many fields.
Can't see this happen until they fix their unintuitive UI and general slowlness of application.

Other then that GitLab is amazing.
We house owners pay a lot of taxes on houses in Italy so it's not exactly a paradise, the real problem is selling them.

Anyway I bought mine when I was 29 and rates were much higher

My friends at the time were richer than me, their families were richer than mine, they just loved spending money on cars and expensive goods in general instead of houses, that they possessed as a family

There's a difference, a big one, between an housing bubble and an honest investment

I knew the neighborhood in Rome where I bought the house would expand in the next 10 years, I wasn't trying to exploit newer generations (I'm 40 BTW) I was trying to secure my future
No. I try FF nightly very often because I really want to dump Chrome. But then it crashes (with devtools open, I should say; it's fine for regular browsing) or grinds to a crawl. Every tab. Total lockup, always within a few minutes of starting work.
I'm on a 7 year old macbook air and FF 57 is noticeably faster than 56.
100 year mortgages? Why is this? Because prices are too high for average folks to purchase otherwise, or because people prefer "owning" (renting from a bank) instead of renting from a landlord?
yea brushing it off as "aggressive" is ironic Considering how their CEO goes around touting honesty as one their main traits[1] as a company.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589654
It’s only compiled for server SOCs I don’t see any indication that raspberry pi is tested or even supported . Not sure if you would want it even if it worked since it’s probably too much for your board .
By that time your apartment at/in Södermalm will probably be worth half of what you bought for ;)
The UI is kinda sucky and for some reason every couple years they insist in switching the location of basic things like the refresh button, favorites, etc.

56 was already fast for me, didn't noticed much difference but it's a good thing they woke up and started doing the work instead of all talk and fuzzy feelings about other personal agendas.
I upvoted. I guess it's the first few words that suggest a racist / popularist post, but it's ontopic IMHO.

You point to an influx of people in the age range that usually rents an apartment. Such local equilibria are quite instable. It only takes a few hundred excess renters to destabilize a local (regulated) market for housing. That leads to crowding out where those that usually would rent, but can afford to buy will buy. A few more buyers will lead to the a dysequilibrium in the next market.

One thing - you expect upward pressure on prices, with more people competing for the same number of houses. The OP is about falling prices.
I'm noticing it, but it was abnormally slow for me before the update. My installation was quite old, which might have something to do with it. The number of addons was reasonable (like 10ish or so), and nothing crazy (most thing shouldn't have to touch webpages, and those that do are well established: uBlock Origin, LastPass, ...).
OS?

Old profile?
Interesting, that's the generalization of a use case we solved for a very specific case (nicely embedding V8 into a Python wheel):
https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2017/jean-baptiste-aviat-writin...
very stark difference for me on both my linux laptop and my work imac fwiw.
SpaceX will launch a secret government payload to orbit Thursday
They did make a Hexen 2 though. It's not bad. Uses a different engine so you can't throw the WAD into something like Doomsday or jDoom.
Linux. I will try deleting my profiles.
Prague has problem with supply, new flats are build slowly.
AFAIK Pi 3 supports aarch64, so ... maybe? But AFAIK RHEL is probably targeting commercial servers first. But maybe a CentOS/SL for Pi 3 wouldn't be out of the question. The tricky bit is that Redhat probably doesn't have a market for creating and supporting the Pi 3 boot image. But they've done all the legwork for getting aarch64 support in their distro, so that could be reaped in CentOS/SL once you combine it w/a bootloader.
Well, if you are increasing the population a lot, all of those people are going to need somewhere to live. It isn't really hard to figure that out but most people don't seem to make that connection.

Don't understand how it could even be remotely racist or popular. The statistics of housing prices correlates very well with increases in immigration. Of course, correlation does not imply causation but in this case I'm personally pretty convinced it is the main causation of the extreme increases.

Regarding the falling prices, yes, I believe they were about to fall even before the massive influx of new people (because of all the other things mentioned) but were artificially held up a couple of extra years due to new people.
The older generation could buy at a very low price and refinance during a very long almost nul interest rate era. Guess which generation owns the political and financial power... I am scared that in some high public debt countries they will confiscate value through (increased) inheritance tax... But I am even more scared by the ECB normalizing the interest rates...
Well news seems to have been a lot tamer in 1996. What a monstrosity it has has become.
If you're getting an interest only mortgage, at least you know what you're getting into. They're great for investment properties and other investments, not so much for your main residence.

Then again, there is the problem of refinancing when the end date comes due, which is probably why you have 100+ years mortgages in Sweden.
I've been using Firefox daily for 11 or 12 years. The speed up with 57 is dramatic versus past versions. I'm a very happy Firefox user again.

Is it faster than Chrome? I'm not seeing a meaningful difference between the two, both are very fast.

This jump for 57, keeps me from wanting to abandon Firefox for Chrome as my primary desktop browser however. I don't need Firefox to be faster than Chrome, I just need it to remain very competitive.
Dell charges you 100 euros more for Ubuntu than for Windows.

http://www.dell.com/de-de/shop/notebooks-und-ultrabooks/xps-...
Blockchain Software Development Outsourcing
> super secret

TIL super secret means "Lets let the whole world know"
Personally, I can't help but notice a significant improvement in the feel of speed. Not done any hard measurements, but we all know that average users will go by feel. However I would not say the improvement is dramatic, but that may be because my network link is still DSL and hence its latency hogs my perception far more than Firefox's speedups.

It certainly can't be called as "slow" or "bloated" anymore by any reasonable stretch, that's for sure. And that can only help it claw back some market share going forward, but speed alone won't work magic. Firefox needs to once again grab the attention of ordinary computer users the way it did when it first arose from the ashes of Netscape. Fortunately people at that time were fed up of IE and were desperate for an alternative. The big question is, are people desperate for a Chrome alternative now?
> It would enable social media functionality without privately-owned central servers.

Early Bitcoin-- download this app and click the "Generate Coins" button. Now you've got digital tokens in exchange for having verified the global state of the transaction database. A problem was addressed by some software. Woot! Somebody bought a pizza with these digital tokens, so mission accomplished.

Current IPFS-- lots of people add an important file/directory, and now other people can retrieve that data. Doesn't exactly have a robust system to discover things. But Catalonia used it to workaround some censorship, so it must be at least minimally usable. Hence a problem was addressed with software. Mission accomplished.

Freedombox-- please continue the pattern here. What technical problem does Freedombox solve with software, and what is a single example of how it has been leveraged to accomplish a mission by ordinary humans?
I have several atom-based 2-in-ones that are now unusable with edge and chrome, and installing FF57 (beta) brought them back to life. This is a great performance improvement.
Such comparisons are at best guesses. An existing code base has a history of feature and bug accretion that any new, replacement system benefits from with respect to design and implementation.
Firefox w/tree style tabs is a research tool for many of us.
What do you do with all of your time? :)
What existing wayland server? Gnome and KDE has it's own, there was not a generic server when Mir announced support for Wayland and from what I know some people are working on creating a library that can be used for creating compositors, Mir is a solution for DEs like Mate because it would be easy to work on using Mir as a server so gaining wayland support then doing a compositor from scratch or using a library.
Thing is that back then text did not really look that good on screens. The screen resolution was terrible, advanced hinting and anti aliasing techniques were cpu expensive and so on. Textures helped to hide that a bit.

Also, flat design works better when people already know that stuff can be clicked, or dragged and such. We can afford to lose some affordance now.
I mean, sure maybe.

But I think folks forget that back then perhaps not even a majority of your users had a browser with 256 color support.

Honestly I kind of miss it - I found webpages far easier to get information off of quickly than today's pretty designs. The fact pretty much all webpages followed the "look and feel" of your browser was a feature, not a bug. Far too much control is given to web developers vs. users these days, and I think the exceedingly low signal to noise ratio is at least a bit caused by that.
Wow, is all this news from this week coming out because of SC17?
Kinda, but I figured it would stand out so I went for it.
A successful real estate agent once told me: the market price is driven by the threee "D"s: Death, Divorce, Debt.
Same in Ukraine