skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox has always been my browser of choice, but I will concede that Safari is vastly superior when it comes to resource usage, especially when you take content blockers vs traditional JS-based ad-blocking into account.

Anyone know of plans for Firefox and/or Chrome to implement a similar 1st-party content-blocking solutions for their respective browsers?
Yes.

This breaks down the concentration of power while still enabling people to hand off this task to a trusted delegate. Anybody that is qualified to hold office. Or it could even be a representative from the other house.

And you could change who you delegate to any time. Instead of thinking they have a mandate for 4 years, the amount of power a representative actually has would go up and down over time. He or she could be out of power overnight if the voters lose faith.

Of course, the Senate would still work the old way.
Munich confirms switch to Windows 10
That's a measure of what people expect, which is a very different kind of "consensus" from what people want.
As a long time roff user, I really prefer groff. It's better.

It does colors, the pic implementation is programmable, it's just better.

So here is a vote against heirloom and for groff. And I get it, the BSD crowd hates GNU and I have my own issues with the GNU folks, but come on, use better when it is better.
Who said anything about custom behavior for custom sites? A simple “on battery? X264/265 only” is what’s being discussed here.
It's important to realize that even if they're not giving enough, they do give more in times of great inequality. Unfortunately, that's not, and will never, be able to do the job that politics and real redistribution is designed to do:

"In developing this position Walker sits squarely within the traditions of American liberalism, with its belief that promoting equality of opportunity within the current economic and political system is the best response to its failings. Everyone should have the same chance to be privileged, you might say, so that they can use their privilege to attack privilege more efficiently.

There’s some logic to this line of reasoning, but it rests on two questionable assumptions.

The first is that generating more philanthropy is effective as a route to reducing inequality. If it isn’t, then the intellectual scaffolding supporting Walker’s arguments collapses, because the problems of capitalism can never be addressed regardless of how many new philanthropists it creates. At the macro level however, societies that are most dependent on philanthropy like the USA are also the most unequal and vice versa—it’s the social democracies of Scandinavia that have the highest levels of equality and wellbeing, where the foundation sector is very small.

Tax-funded, redistributive government; people-funded, independent civil society action; and dynamic but well-regulated businesses are far more important. It was the same story in America under the New Deal and the Great Society, which kept economic inequality at much lower levels before the new gilded age began around the turn of the Millennium. In fact in the US, philanthropy has increased in line with inequality over the last 50 years, so the more you have of one, the more you have of the other. Statistically speaking, philanthropy is a symptom of inequality and not a cure."

The Privilege of being Privileged: https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michael-edwards...
You're conveniently ignoring the part where Gawker was doing illegal things and therefore lost the lawsuit (getting a verbal smackdown from a judge in the process). Your argument only works if the lawsuits were baseless and/or frivolous.

I'm not sure how you can throw shade on Thiel -- would it be any better if media companies could freely ignore the law as long as the affected individuals lack the funds to take them to court? It's a broken system but I feel no sympathy towards Gawker or animosity towards Thiel.
Using ads to train bots to generate race-based meta data
> I worry that with a young child, we'd still have childcare expenses - except that instead of paying with money, we'd be paying with our time.

You don't pay income tax on your time. That's the advantage of doing yourself what you would otherwise pay for with after-tax income.
I picked up tmux instead of screen years ago and wish I had stuck with screen. screen has more ubiquity. Even if tmux is installed, it might be too old and not contain the features I need. Hopefully, those problems solve themselves, but it might take a decade or two.
Australian Coalition could allow firms to buy access to facial recognition data
I'd say that if the solution to the problem, given unlimited solutions, made the problem worse, then it will also fail in smaller applications.

"The only reason I am in debt, is because i can't ask for a big enough loan"
The project graduated out of incubator status on the 15 Nov... I don't see a formal announcement about it anywhere, and that isn't really apparent from the page (other than the URL change). Not sure if that is why it was posted or not, but that seems to be what is different from the last time it was posted.
(And before you say: no, the codebase doesn't take a quality hit. Turns out that this ceremony around writing code is just unnecessary, contrary to population opinion.)

Which part of the codebase? Facebook's back-end systems do a very impressive job given the scale involved. On the other hand, its front-end systems appear to be mediocre in most important respects. A business without Facebook's advantages that wrote a UI as slow and buggy as Facebook's main or advertiser UIs often are could be in serious trouble.
I’m implying that the quality of their apps/services makes them worth visiting on the web.
No. Mosh handles automatic reconnection (and a bunch of other stuff, like predictive typing so you don't notice flickering or slow connections, and performance improvements); tmux runs a persistent process on the remote side that preserves the state of your sessions.

Using mosh + tmux allows you to have both a) state persisted on the remote side, and b) automatic reconnects if your internet drops, or if you change connections. It's a very good combination, if you can handle some of the drawbacks of mosh (no in-terminal scrolling, mostly, but you can outsource that to tmux as well at the cost of a little lag).

A good additional piece of the puzzle is tmux-resurrect [1], which saves and automatically restores a lot of your tmux state to the filesystem so it's proof against power loss and system restarts/relogins. It persists window arrangements and similar, though it obviously can't save everything--the state of programs that were open can't be programmatically preserved (though that's getting closer and closer to seamless with the advent of things like CRIU).

The combination of mosh + tmux + tmux-resurrect is a very popular one and creates a very resilient system for "don't make me think; just log me in to my usual environment"-type systems, or environments where internet connectivity is spotty or the tmux server environment is unreliable or prone to rebooting.

[1] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
Noticed that for sure. This is another reason why I think nothing has made people seriously consider leaving.

most people are content with the way things are, not really feeling the need to 'reinvent the wheel'.
Does it matter? Whatever I think as an individual can be set aside for the principles exposed.
Yeah. Any online sports betting site. Football for example, you can bet realtime on things like halftime score, final score, etc. as the game progresses. Even cooler is you can bet on the next play. Like "next play will result in a first down" or "next play they will run the ball".
Another point of view is that this makes sports a great example: we believe the 'hot-hand' phenomenon intuitively, but the statistics tell a complicated and seemingly contradictory story.
The fragmentation is overhyped.

I worry more about constant willfull breakage with legacy within said desktop, compared how MS still supports Win32 (not so dissimilar from Torvalds "do not break userspace" kernel policy).

That said, whenever Linux have appeared to gain a toehold (like with netbooks), MS have dropped lisencing prices and employed rebate programs to make Windows productes the "cheap" option.
That's fair. Less work for no more money on a per-ride basis. The driver network will certainly decrease. Not clear what the overall dynamics look like. I do think that prices need to get to breakeven in the fairly near future and self-driving isn't going to make a difference in an interesting time horizon.
Ah yes. The fight for smartphone OS dominance is unfortunately over, but I do hope a company like Mozilla could secure a leading spot in the next big consumer technology platform (my bet would be AR), so we can have the option to choose an open platform that respects user freedom, backed by a team that truly has the users' best interests in mind.
These dudes doin' mountains and oceans and music in 4K and yet it takes LinkedIn and the like like 9MB worth of assets to show me a bit of text.
Please reveal said company.
I imagine that the tricky part is getting it to plug in to all the relevant information for the calculation. Uber won't let anything actually pull data from the app, and the driver would have to make sure to mark their mileage at the beginning and end of a shift so they can plug in the "amount driven". (They can't just copy over Uber's figure, which would only tell them paid miles driven.)

You'd also want it to calculate the after-tax income, which would depend on their estimated income from other sources.

If you could get that to work, though, I imagine you'd see a quick exodus.
There's an open bug bounty[1] for that feature[2]. Just in case.

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward...

[2] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
An Ivy League Food Scientist Is Retracting yet Another Paper
Means nothing. Get a thousand people to toss a coin 20 times in a row. Repeat 82 times each. Someone probably throws 20 heads in a row. Monte Carlo sim it.

That model I've just described does not disprove the hot hand. It does show that an occasion of a good shooting run also is not evidence that it exists.
> unless you don’t understand how Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) works.

So basically it’s only misleading to 99.9999% of people?
Ask HN: What are yours thoughts about ScuttleButt as a Facebook alternative?
I posted a question yesterday about Amazon creating a Facebook competitor, which will most likely never happen.

However, what would something that already exists like https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ will eventually morph into that.

The founder seems to be heading in this direction based on his Twitter ( https://twitter.com/andrestaltz ). Maybe I'm wrong?

I'm still curious as to why it seems so many people complain about Facebook (data collection, Russian Propaganda, sketchy past) yet so few people would actually leave.

Is it a problem of a vocal minority? People are generally hypocrits? Both? Something else?
My mother discovered that the DirecTV collections department doesn't put you on hold and are happy to fix problems in exchange for you paying your bill. I wonder how many companies this applies to.
http://andrewgelman.com/2015/07/09/hey-guess-what-there-real...

It's a really interesting problem to analyse.
Can we just all be clear that these aren't "Washington types" we're talking about? These are random businesspeople in random Congressional districts scattered throughout the US.
So how did they arrive at 53.5 from 54 if it is one way or another for them?

You are talking about $/mile. Moving that figure up or down a penny quickly approaches a billion on the macro scale and their overarching incentive is keeping it down.

I mean, I will take this figure any day over someone higher up the thread essentially arguing it's much less because all Uber drivers have cars anyway that they finance through (?) so accounting it towards the Uber income doesn't make sense (??).
It should be noted that Sonoff devices are not UL Listed, unlike the device the article discusses. Given that and how Chinese product companies like to cut corners with these type of devices (see bigclivedotcom on YouTube), I’m not sure I’d trust connecting one of these to mains voltage.
I didn't have experience with either prior to this, so I just looked into them briefly and chose one.

What do you like in particular about the Quasar framework?
That would be really cool, I'm sure a lot of people (including myself) have never heard of an HN meetup or knew they existed. This thread is building community, and seems really cool. If there was one resource where all the meetups were consolidated, what better place to do that than HN itself. Something like the github list posted by anton_tarasenko[1] but in the menu bar would even suffice fairly well IMO.

[1] https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups
I also come from a similar background, and his points also seem poignant to me -- the first, in my reading, is about the lottery of birth; would he or I or you have been successful (with presumably our predisposition to succeed in academia) in China merely 70 years ago? Perhaps not. The second, related, is that we should be grateful for the achievements which might naturally appear as the product of our own labor, and (I think) also to forgive others for the achievements that appear to be the product of their labor.

Though implicit, I think this article actually makes an interesting implication about jealousy. What exactly is there to be jealous of in another person if luck, and randomness plays so much in our fortunes?

This article is also a warning against self-help. So much determines our fortunes besides the advice we can take or the effort we make. The best is what -- rolling with the punches --
I think it’s great that the author did this as a learning experience. It seems like soldering on a few wires could have saved you like 3 weeks.. but anyway, the ESP8266 is a great platform. Super cheap, minimal components, easy to program, you can write code natively using the SDK or various script based languages. And has good support from the manufacturer.
TCP has different goals than UDP gaming. You can (and 99% of games do) implement a real-time version of abstract TCP. But the similarities fall away when you stop looking at the "abstract" version of TCP.

This is an extremely optimized, important aspect of game programming. I would be very careful to suggest everyone is spending thousands of hours re-inventing the wheel for no reason--especially in the ultra-time-constrained game industry.

https://gafferongames.com/post/udp_vs_tcp/

>Unfortunately, [...] TCP still has serious problems for multiplayer games and it all stems from how TCP handles lost and out of order packets to present you with the “illusion” of a reliable, ordered stream of data. [goes on to explain issues]

When you implement your own error and ordering stack, you are in control of how and when to drop a packet or consider the packet too out-of-date. These "best settings" are very much related to the entire architecture of your physical simulation, game mechanics/rules, and distribution of players. Some games use TCP for control signals and UDP for faster, but less critically important data.

Lastly, as for re-inventing the wheel, there are actually plenty of vetted libraries that implement error checking, quality of service, etc for UDP while still retaining the configurability and real-time/games focus that TCP doesn't allow.

The majority of the industry runs on UDP. That's not an accident--especially when the majority of college students / outsiders don't know anything about UDP and focus on TCP in their studies. Different application, different tool for the job. When you're sending banking information you need to know it got there or didn't. When you're updating someone's head direction in a FPS game, you can tolerate huge amounts of inconsistency between players when the connection starts degrading.
With verification systems like Frama-C and SPARK, which have similar difficulties, I like to think of it as playing "what do I know at this point" until the proof goes through.
Well, I am unusually sensitive and intuitive, but I believe it’s entirely because I inherited certain physiological and psychological traits from my parents—I am honestly not much more than a combination of the two of them.
Not on HN, where I expect most readers to understand what is firmware and what happens when you have its binaries and/or source code.
I am a non-native english speaker too; I guess I bristle at the the reading that this man isn't in control of his english when he writes with obvious proficiency, a reading I suspect, would not at all be in question were his name John Foster Edwards, or Henry Wickham or whatever Anglo-Saxon name you wish to replace his name with.

I see your point though. I think he does use words in ways that native speakers do not use, but in his anecdotes -- I think he's actually playing up his Chineseness for the comic effect, and he's very much aware of what's happening.
You really have to love living in a rural area to be happy there.

I grew up in a mid-west city and move to LA when I was 14. I lived in Hollywood, West Hills, and Malibu. I decided to leave when I was 29. The people I knew in LA all thought I was crazy when I told them where I was moving.

I researched places to live for a few months before leaving and I've been where I considered the best place to be is since then, for about 25 years now.

I moved to a rural area for the same reason "clord" did, "Quality of life". Where one finds that is up to them but that should really be the focus, not a job title or pay.
The link makes it sound like SEP only handles TouchID - is this true, or does the SEP also deal with passcodes?
I would add be careful with cutting off cold turkey (it depends on how dependent you are physically). Also, while tapering down, develop good “healthy addictions” to replace it with. Many times exercise and CBT is enough. Try that first. Expect depression to kick in. If you feel the need to return to booze even with those changes, medication may Be needed as you may be self-medicating, although your description sounds fixable without it.
Yes! The Rails core is quite stable and the community continues to innovate. I've recently gotten very involved with Devise Token Auth, an open source project that helps you use Devise on apps that do auth on the client side, like those written in Vue and React. We're on the hunt for new contributors:
https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth
The SEP also deals with passcodes, yes. It is integral to preventing the passcode from being brute forced.
It’s hard to say what the exact threshold of complexity/data volume/network connectivity required is when it comes to making computational media easily archivable, but it is pretty clear that we are long past it.

But that’s okay, most things in life are non archivable anyway, ask any librarian or museum curator near you.

(archive.org is still doing an amazing and essential job and I recommend donating if you can)
although otoh in theory there are 65535 usable ports, but shitty shitty firewalls and shitty shitty "sysadmins" often mean you just get 2, and TCP only at that, but it seems that just that bare minimum "connectivity" works well enough that "regular users" don't notice.
Can you explain what people confuse about income taxes?
So all scaling progress is stopped because of a youtube video? Yikes.

There should be a law of bike shedding, where you don't realize you're bike shedding because omg it's the most important thing in the world.
Hacker News desperately needs a "Saved You a Click" feature.
I figured. But it's important to remember that the problems that come with sprawl (commute time, environmental issues, high prices when you run out of room to sprawl into) are problems we choose because we judge mid- and high-rise development to be even worse.

It's a good idea to be critical, and to encourage others to be critical, about whether that really makes sense.

This meme that you can't grow except through sprawl is pernicious. Most cities are choosing to leave options on the table.
And the cost of the vehicle too no?
>These numbers are very difficult to align with the prices advertised by the rental companies for Uber and Lyft drivers, which are usually claimed to be about $200 per week:

That $200/week turned out to be severely undercharging. According to this article [1], it allowed the driver to put a lot of miles on the car without paying its full depreciation:

>>"The Xchange Leasing division had been estimating modest losses of around $500 per auto on average, these people said. But managers recently informed Uber executives that the losses were actually about $9,000 per car — about half the sticker price of a typical leased vehicle."

>>The "unlimited miles" allowed drivers to work long days and return vehicles with way too many miles, which kills the resale value.

So, Uber is shutting it down.

Side note: a lot of people were getting this wrong and screaming bloody murder about how exploitative the leases were. The problem was, they were comparing it to the really-long-term lease you might get as a substitute for buying a car, in which you're still responsible for maintenance, not the kind of lease that covers high usage and major maintenance over unlimited miles.

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/09/uber-gets-run-over-by-its-...
Perhaps more like "Coke"?
It does more than that.

From the [ios security guide]:

> The Secure Enclave provides all cryptographic operations for Data Protection key management and maintains the integrity of Data Protection even if the kernel has been compromised.

e.g. you can encrypt and decrypt, referencing a key by id, but without having the private key ever leave the enclave, even if the app or iOS kernel gets compromised.

[ios security guide] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

The Secure Enclave section is pretty short and the entire document is very approachable.
I haven't had that problem. I start screen using the -T parameter with a value of xterm-256color. Do you get color output with ls or grep outside of screen, but not within a screen session? That may narrow down the problem to vim rather than screen.
If you're right, why didn't the government print currency for 120 years, and why did they set up a pseudo-private organization to do it?
I've used Uber and Lyft a lot in the last ~4 years, and I've realized that there are essentially two different types of drivers: professional, full-time drivers who hyperoptimize, and part-time/after-hours drivers that do it to pull in a little bit of extra cash. The hypothetical driver best represented by this article is of the second type, and no doubt that working this way doesn't really make you a good hourly wage, especially after the hidden costs mentioned.

I'd like to see an analysis of profitability for drivers in the first category. I have met drivers who specifically bought Priuses to drive for Uber/Lyft because of the 50+ mpg and low-ish maintenance costs - just look at the ride-sharing section of the SEA-TAC parking garage and you'll know what I mean. Speaking with this sort of driver, they seem to have done the math on maximizing return based on surge pricing (i.e. driving in the city Friday/Saturday 7pm-2am), practice driving that maintain vehicle quality and fuel efficiency, and are extremely time-efficient in parts of the ride that are within their control.

If even this sort of driver can't make a good wage, then the system is certainly unsustainable. But if it's possible to make a good wage in this fashion, I hesitate to pass judgment before seeing a breakdown of the distribution of hourly earnings across all drivers.
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