skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people in America vastly over generalize when speaking of the nordic social democracies. They have a very outdated notion of how socialistic they are and the direction they are headed. All the exemplar social democracies have been making large market strides in the last 20+ years. This is just as true of China too. These economies are going well now because they are becoming more market based (and American). China would still be struggling without market reforms.

Planned economies can be excellent at going in a straight line or when everybody is the same. That is why they look good on paper and seduce technocrats and academics who think they can plan something as big and complex as the economy. However they are horrible at adapting to new situations because of everything from bureaucracy to new technology to balancing competing goals. So planned economies tend to do well now but fail as the world they were built for changes. Capitalism requires some amount of faith in that we believe solutions will come but don't know what they are yet. Capitalism is said to harness the power of necessity and imagination, and those are impossible to predict.

The nordic countries had to change or fail and they have adopted market based changes. The jury is still out on China and what will happen when the world changes underneath it - become more market oriented or wither.

There has been pushback from the nordic leaders for calling them socialism: https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-...
> There is a goal, but no way; but what we call a way is hesitation.

-- Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way"

When it comes to oppression by the insane -- and that's what it is, the desire for power cannot come without insanity -- there is only cowardice.

I once saw a animal documentary, one scene was zebras that had to cross a river because there was no food left on the side of it they were on. The crocodiles were already waiting for their annual feast. The zebras pushed up to the river edge, aware of the crocodiles, hesitated a bit, but once the first few started to go into the river, the rest instantly followed. A few crocodiles would catch a zebra each, but most zebras came to the other side unscathed, the herd lived another year. I still remember how that one zebra that got surrounded and bitten, got itself out of the water again (on the side the zebras came from) while its guts were falling out, collapsed just out of frame, and got dragged back by a crocodile to get eaten. It was probably the lack of video resolution and sound that gave me the impression of that zebra being very stoic, but at any rate it seemed to calmly do what it needed to do. It fought back as much as it could, but it didn't, say, roll its eyes back like a (domesticated) horse might -- none of what I would have expected. It reminded and reminds me of this:

> I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

-- D. H. Lawrence

What are we doing? We hang around, and when someone makes a run for it, and looks for us to follow, we watch them get eaten and call them dumb or idealistic. We're ungrateful towards those we don't even deserve. We're cowards. And we're not even dealing with crocodiles. One on one, we are dealing with dwarves. Consider a man like Hitler. As a person, he was incredibly weak. Other than children, there is nobody he himself could have harmed. Left to his own devices, he would have just rotted and then imploded. That goes for most powerful people who abuse their power, individually they are a joke. Yet here we are, on mass graves, and already training ourselves to accept worse.

Forget power and war: Each year, how many elderly people freeze to death in the UK? How many children starve each minute in the world? There is just cowardice, obedience to those who deserve no authority, and self-pity of those who deserve no pity.
But, with WebExtensions, authors can just say, “It is impossible due to the API limitations.” I think this is a very helpful and important change in WebExtensions.

That was a punch in the gut. Now the intentional gimped-ness of the new API is being held up as a positive?

I want off this world.
Prohibition, for example, gave rise to the mafia. Marijuana prohibition is another example of over-regulation, imo.
Ah. Thanks. I was looking at the template files but I guess that is not used or used for something else.
Funny fact, Tesla wanted to use a grain trailer at the presentation but couldn't find a pristine looking one.
I recommend 1000 IU drops. They contain 1000 IU in a single drop, literally. You can get them off the shelf at my local health foods co-op. I've taken 40,000 IU before in a single day (I read that was a safe upper limit for most people). It felt amazing. It also helped me process built up emotions from winter darkness and depression. That day I took 40000IU I literally wept, then felt relief like none other, and a lightness of being.

Also, by the way, people under stress might appreciate some vitamin B complex. There's a reason why they put vitamin B in those 5 hour energy drinks: it helps our bodies cope with the stress of that much caffeine.
Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
What is the best investment you have done or are planning to do under $1000?
My native Mac app, sold outside the App Store: https://radiosilenceapp.com

I was really afraid that Apple’s new policy on making kernel extensions harder to install would cut into the profits, but sales have actually gone up since. Perhaps other firewalls are even harder to get up and running.
You're quite misinformed on the value of such a vuln on the black market. Access to companies is indeed something that blackhats monetize. It's different from selling 0day in some software, but there is a market for it.
The reasoning is terrible.

The obvious solution to life being terrible is to take your own life. The reason given for not doing so is that death is somehow worse than remaining alive. How is death worse? The pain that usually accompanies death can be eliminated, so that’s not it. There only reason remaining for how death could be worse than remaining alive is that death keeps you from being alive.

This fact directly speaks to the worth of being alive. So you can’t draw the conclusion that being alive is bad, since the vast majority of us choose to remain alive. The real question is: how great is it to be alive? Here I think the philosopher engages in vast underestimation. To him, life is all misery and therefore not very worthwhile. But this is a ridiculous conclusion.

On average, human misery and suffering is at its lowest point now than at any point in our history. Our history is filled with war, disease, starvation, slavery, etc. The fact that we are here, that our ancestors did not choose to give up in the face of all this suffering, is not evidence that life is terrible. No, it is the opposite: it is evidence that being alive is such an amazing gift that they were willing to endure anything to remain so.

If you consider American slaves and Jewish holocaust victims, who suffered some of the worst atrocities in human history, as examples of people for whom the trade off between staying alive and ending their suffering with death may have been a fairly close call, then that means that, for anybody not facing those circumstances, the scales are tipped pretty heavily toward being alive being way better than not being alive.
What kind of software/tools are you using? I'm curious to get into this as well.
I fail to see how higher NOx "endangers the whole planet" when under that mode of operation they were better on fuel economy (i.e. lower CO2 emissions, etc)
My cryptocurrency information website is finally taking off the ground, after months of netting $30-40/month, it's going to reach 500$ this month. Weirdly enough,I'm not even adding content right now, as I am working on a freelance project
The total long-term value of bitcoin ecosystem is the value of bitcoin as a transactional instrument.

There's a plausible justification to invest in bitcoin now if you believe that in future it'll have a large total capitalization because be used as valuable information of e.g. uncensorable pseudonymous transactions, and you'll be able to sell your bitcoins with profit to those people who'll want to use them for transacting.

However, it's not reasonable to state that the valuation is justified by it being used solely as a savings/investment vehicle; because what is the future exit for that investment? When a number savers in aggregate decide to withdraw their savings from the ecosystem at some point (which is inevitable, the global economy has cycles and at some point people will want that), to whom do they sell bitcoin? If there's a different use (as the one described above), then that's an exit that will set the total value of bitcoin at such an event; but if the only use case is "decentralized savings" then it's comparable to the "greater fool" motivation, you can sell/withdraw while there's someone else who wants to enter the product, but when the aggregate motion switches from saving to withdrawing, the value suddenly drops to zero - exactly the behavior that should be impossible in a good savings (as opposed to speculation) vehicle.
Setting up a traffic-ration system fairly is probably a lot simpler than giving poor people money.
Astronauts Get Writer’s Block, Too: An Interview with Scott Kelly
The worst of capitalism is sort of like death by a thousand cuts. It occurs in pockets and has a much more diverse set of bad actors. But a few slaves here and a few deformed babies there and pretty soon we are talking about misery On a grand scale. It’s just spread out over the planet in pockets and doesn’t have a single person to blame. The worst of Mao and Stalin was more concentrated and was more efficient. But let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that the worst of capitalism is anything less than evil and abhorrent.
This is really great advice. Balance is something I think many of us forget. Without it I think it's hard to appreciate the good things. It reminds me of a Bible quote I seen in a book the other week that reads like a nice poem. I think it's relevant to anyone.

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

Interpret it however you want, I don't personally feel it promotes violence but I do think it shows how one might not appreciate the good without the bad. It personally reminds me that life needs balance & importantly, life needs much of the above not just being productive & wealthy which many of us focus on to much.
The problem with PWAs is they do not provide the same access as a Chrome App (file system, sockets...) so it is not a replacement for those Apps using that functionality.

Just another case of Chrome running in like a bull and doing one thing then breaking it later. :(

Anyone who needs the low level functionality will end up with a native app that use native messaging to talk to Chrome. Or just stands alone.
Well said. For closure, could you please tell which book and verse this is from the bible.
"It is moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it."
Thank you for the informative blog post, this is the type of well-written detailed technical post with solid use case (rather than vague sales-ey ones) that pushes me to give a chance to new software.

I had never heard of Wallaroo before your post, but quite impressed. If this works, this can solve a lot of problems. I like the price tiering and great to see a NYC company amidst a sea of Valley ones.
My Ryzen 1700 matches an E5 2630v4 that has a price differential of ~2.
The Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro
The government has paid TV networks to promote a specific "viewpoint" in non-news TV shows:

https://www.salon.com/2001/06/30/ondcp_4/
exactly, mutually exclusive concepts

many things about American society changed in the 50s to support this false dichotomy, primarily to draw a clearer distinction between communism, but most of them have nothing to do with anything related to the frameworks of nations, or any of the philosophical writings that underpinned these societal experiments.
We call that an ex post facto law.
Wouldn't it be easier to eliminate yourself from the spectacle of watching the less fortunate. Because this type of thought process only comes from the "club seats" of world society. If you read actual studies on happiness, what the first world world categorize as fairly destitute aren't as miserable as we imagine. While we, with our fat bank accounts and our ever quest of acquisition, just aren't as happy as we seem to think we deserve. To quote The Big Lebowsky, "Fucking Nihilists".
I would love to buy at a 90% discount. I have some cash on the sidelines for that reason
"What are your dollars but numbers being added and subtracted in a database? "

You can use Dollars to do buy zillions of things large and small.

You can use BTC for nothing.

Dollars are backed by assets, not that it matters that much.
Its all tragedy, agreed, every life is important. But nothing is more tragic than well-meaning people trying to run everything themselves, because they know better than the rest of us. E.g. Communism etc.
I have a ton of respect for Coinbase. It seems like their implied priorities are:

1) Security
1a) Compliance
...
57) Customer Service

While annoying, this was both sufficient and necessary for the business to date. Security is necessary for obvious reasons. Compliance is necessary because to be able to do business with US banks (card processing, ACH, wires...) they had to be aggressive about complying with US regulation. Which ultimately gives them an advantage on the customer service front relative to their competition for retail investors. And frankly, they aren't much worse than most online brokers.

These priorities were also sufficient. Amazon was competing against major incumbents and had to win on cost and service. By outcompeting an empty field on compliance, Coinbase has built a significant moat around US retail. They have relationships with Fidelity and USAA that signal legitimacy. They had cold storage while incumbents were/are still saying 'blockchain not Bitcoin'.

The critical question is how they manage customer service and communications going forward. Amazon, Facebook, and Google created monopolies based on a great user experience. Uber destroyed a thousand monopolies for the same reason. Coinbase is riding the coattails of Bitcoin's awesome UX, the warm fuzzies people get from making 10x on an investment. If and when there is a correction, their core business will hinge on how well they handle a large sell-off.
How Antiquities Have Been Weaponized in the Struggle to Preserve Culture
Thank you for letting me know how I appear to you. I don't agree that my point of view is obsolete or that I am not entitled to an opinion about design. Judging what I write based on my age led to you, as other commenters have pointed out, missing the point of my post.

Your point about up-to-date examples is well taken. Finding good examples is the hardest part of technical writing for me. As I work on Facebook and Instagram I will keep my eyes open for clear examples of the same principles, because the principles really are the same regardless of shifts in technical fashion. You'll have the opportunity to learn that in the years to come.
I still don't see how UBI doesn't cause inflation enough to offset any benefit(in the near term ie before robot job apocalypses).
How Does Designation Labs Teach UX and UI?
I guess Starcraft and other video games, especially procedurally generated games where the ruleset may bi fixed, but the playing field is not.
> Those who you convince on the grounds of compassion to cease reproduction...

Compassion is an emotion, not rational "grounds" for a decision.

> ...the best suited to be parents...

Or they just live in a particularly unsuitable environment.

Which brings up a good point. The case for "nobody should have children" is a particularly hard one to make because it presumes that there is no good life for any human ever. A more middle ground would be "there is no good life for some, but there is at least arguably good life for others".

So what does "no good life" look like? Who has it "worst"? Should we say sub-Saharan Africans should stop having kids? Lower caste Indians? Palestinians? Jews in early 20th century Germany?

Isn't much of the middle ground between the status quo and "supervillain territory" fairly close to outright racism and genocidal propaganda?
With benevolent and competent leadership, it's the most efficient approach. Unfortunately, benevolent and competent leadership has never lasted in the history of human civilization. Sooner or later, usually sooner, someone really nasty or incompetent takes over.
I'm not sure dollars are backed by anything, but the faith in the government? I suppose that's more than BTC has. Hm.
Non existence comes after death. Death can be painless. How, then, is death worse than non-existence?
I have heard so many bad things about coinbase...as the mtgox scandal shows, sometimes the most popular exchange is not the best I would rather spread my $ in several smaller ones
SLAP Your Functions
This seems the best refutation I've read here so far - to strive for a Culture-esque utopia. And yet as a personal decision, in the world we live in right now, how do we justify creating another life to ourselves?
Not blaming you at all, Radim - it's not easy to stay on top of the latest developments in this fast-moving space. This was great work and I hope you will continue running these benchmark test.
Also, feel free to ping me via sameting@amazon.com if you need any help with anything AWS.
Seeing young americans accept communism is terrifying to me. They are showing the same level of historical ignorance that Bernie Sanders showed when he claimed the american dream was more alive in plces like Venezuela.
It really sounds like young Americans haven’t seen enough of history not to take the fruits of capitalism for granted. It’s like they have forgotten how bad things can get if you let political ideologies like communism run amok. It’s even alive here on HN with a commenter claiming the life of a Japanese Salaryman is somehow equivalent to a communist distopia.
You really need to be judicious when deciding to change a system that works as well as the US does for its people. There are plenty of injustices and grievances that we must address but It’s truly hartbreaking seeing young amricans turning on the ideals that made America into the great country it is today.
DNA origami hits the big time – Chemical and Engineering News
$1k/y. Mostly from a direct ad on my niche blogs (invisible to adblocks) and the rest from Amazon affiliates. Adsense is almost dead, I'm just waiting to reach the money threshold to close my account.

Blogs are not exactly passive but I would do this research anyway.
Mostly white male tech sector needs government help on diversity
As surprising and extreme as this argument appears when applied to humans, it's pretty much the default when people feel bad about about our meat animals.
> The jury is still out on China and what will happen when the world changes underneath it - become more market oriented or wither.

My gut tells me that the sheer size and competency of China plus their authoritarian political system will be such a juggernaut that it won't matter what anyone else does, they are near unbeatable. They can still fail on their own though.
Before the WX version, we were able to use a GUI to choose the style for the fonts in the tabs (or maybe that was in Tab Mix Plus, which hasn't been ported?). We no longer have that feature.

I was finding that it was hard for me to pick out which tab was active, but found that the extensions options provides a mini-editor for giving CSS to customize its rendering. OK, it wasn't hard to find that - it's just at the bottom of the Options window. But I thought I'd offer my settings, where I render the active tab larger and in a bigger font, and some other changes make it more usable for me. Maybe that will save somebody a few minutes in figuring it out themselves.

.tab.active .label {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14px;
}
.tab.active {
height: 26px !important;
}

.tab.unread .label {
font-style: italic;
}
.tab.discarded {
opacity: 0.75;
}

:root {
--tab-height: 20px !important;
}
.tab {
height: var(--tab-height) !important;
}

.tab:not(:hover) .closebox {
display: none;
}
Are electron binaries somehow pre-signed?
Keep pulling at the thread. Why is it not so in practice?
What am I supposed to do, not click on this? I'll be back...

Edit: could have been worse, but still very gross. Not Trypophobia triggering
tldr: They made a caching algorithm.

Article was touched by pr dept, but still has actually information.

longer tldr:

They did the same thing that has been done for thousands of years. Back then the hot area of research was how to stage advance food and resource caches along a route for long journeys. They came up with algorithms to optimize cache hits.

In this case, the problem is GPUs can be fast for ML, but usually only have 16GB ram when dataset can be terabytes.

Simple chunk processing would seem to solve the problem, but it’s turns out overhead of cpu/gpu transfers badly degraded performance.

Their claim here is they can on the fly determine how important different samples are, and make sure samples that yield better results are in the chance more often than those with less importance.
Because it doesn't make sense.

This is about the car-maker, the company, saving money.

Why would we have an idea about that without being either told and/or compensated for it?

He was worried that VW pays too much for proper emissions tech, even though it didn't concern him personally in any financial stake?
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked" - Warren Buffett

Also don't forget our IRS friends, every time you sell a crypto coin to cash out or buy another, you owe Uncle Sam a big junk of your profits - for a holdings less than a year, more likely equal to your income tax bracket and if you think you are anonymous, think again and consider how likely your exchange is to turn all their records to the US government...
I will say what I've always said about crypto...

Keep telling me it's a bubble. Keep writing long educated articles about it. All while I consistently get rich. All while it's getting late for you to get rich too.
It was the first extension I installed when I switched from Chrome to Firefox 57 (Nightly, at the time). Then I used the userstyle css document to remove the tab bar at the top. As a non-web developer I've been extremely pleased and haven't had any desire to switch back. I also prefer Vimium over cVim, the Chrome extension I was using for vim keybindings.

The developers of Tree Style Tab have really done a great job.
There are companies who charge 50 to 100K for vulnerabilities test and you will get a 20 to 100 page report with one guy onsite for 5 to 8 days, so no 1 month work is definitively more than 100K worth, even Infosec analyst will get it as one month pay
Maybe you need a job doing something different that lets you learn new skills more than you need a better paying job. Money is valuable, but so is doing work one enjoys.

Learning new skills while looking for a different job is an option. Most of what makes a person productive is not narrow skills like "iOS". What makes people productive is their experience applying technology to solve technical problems.