skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have approached the problem from another angle. My hypothesis is that social groups only form through continued joint experiences. The easiest way is to achieve this is go to regularly go to free events. I have build drop!in [1] for the event discovery and message your friends informally that you will be going.

Interestingly just a couple of day I wrote about the topic of loneliness in the modern age at my medium [2]

[1] http://www.idrop.in

[2] https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/life-after-facebook-is-re...
Have you been reading the Mozilla Glassdoor reviews? https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mozilla-Reviews-E19129.htm

I'm subscribed to the RSS feed and I think there are clues in the posts over the last couple of years to explain why Mozilla feels so fake nowadays. Here are some choice quotes (FWIW I use Firefox on Desktop and Android pretty much exclusively, I think the product is great but the marketing is terrible):

"I have never worked for a company with so many middle managers."

"Full of corporate middle managers with not much to do. Expect many meetings with product managers, engineering managers, project managers, strategy managers, with one developer to solve simple problems."

"Management is rotten to the core. The company is very top heavy with some 30 executives that travel the world first class to have meetings in lavish places but in the end nothing comes from it."

"Cut the corporate bs at the top and empower the people doing actual work to drive where the company goes."

"Company vision and mission is feel-good therapy for the upper inner-circle. The company is bleeding talent and the core business is imploding."
As far as I know, history isn't included in the web & app activity by default, at least on the desktop.
This feels similar in nature to the reason that lifts (elevators) have mirrors in them, whilst waiting for them, or both: http://platformliftco.co.uk/news-pr/why-do-lifts-have-mirror...
Those of us EEs will know it's j.
> Wait, did someone assume that Mozilla didn't have this ability? How did people think that they got security updates?

The difference is that in one case the updates are released following a public process, with bugzilla entries, proper review and engineering practices, while in the other case it's pushed with no oversight, secretly, by some guy in marketing. It's like Google Tab Manager in your browser. Browsers are too sensitive, too central in people's lives nowadays to allow such things.
This has been proven false back in like 2008. Even if electric cars were to run off coal plants, they would still be more efficient because the plants can capture and reuse heat with boilers.

That being said, coal has to go anyway.
I run my electric car from 98% hydro power and 2% wind power and I pay 6,9 cents per kWh, and that's Canadian money, pretty cheap.
One of the best things about LTSB is cumulative updates. I get 1.5Gb of security and bug fixes every month or so that quietly installs in the background. Like it was in Win7. And when its done it just sits there waiting for me to MANUALLY push the restart system button. Without ever nagging about it.

Honestly regular Windows is a fucking joke.
I've used W10 since it's release (August 2015) on many devices, and it only keeps getting worse. There's no way they do this unintentionally. At work I primarily use Linux, but also have a W10 laptop for testing. I'm used to the fact that the OS can eat all of your CPU and SSD (50-100% SSD usage for 30min? WTF is it doing?), you have no idea when it stops and you have no control over it. Last time I was unable to use the laptop for a good hour. Sometimes longer.
> Sometimes, updates will annoy you

Unfortunately, that is an understatement. If you are using a Windows computer at home, it's one thing. If you are responsible for a company network of 80+ clients, Windows updates (pre Windows-10, at least, I have no experience with Windows 10, yet) are a little bit like Russian roulette.

It's one thing if an update breaks third-party software; I suspect this usually means the third-party software did some questionable things begin with or is just crawling with bugs (I am looking at you, Siemens!).

But if Windows updates break functionality like, say, communication with a WSUS, or booting properly (I could go on and on and on...), it is my responsibility to at least do some research how this month's update may affect my users, instead of blindly installing anything Microsoft throws my way.

I wholeheartedly agree that keeping systems up to date is very important. But unless Microsoft gets its act together and makes updating as painless as on, say, Debian or CentOS, I am going to have mixed feelings on the subject.
For those as impatient as I am (how ironic):

> Progress bars with animated ribbing that move backwards in a decelerating manner proved to have the strongest effect.

So I guess that'd be the second, third and fourth from the bottom at the start of the video, but I'm listening without sound so perhaps someone can confirm.
Well, corporations go to Ireland because they have low taxes and they are in the common market. I doubt one of those alone would work.
Yup - it was sent in Norwegian from the US.

However, it was sent as late as 1993, so I would assume (without having any expertise on that kind of thing!) that 'sending a telegram' simply meant that upon you filling in the required forms, someone typed the text on a terminal or even in an application on a general-purpose computer before the text magically appeared in Norway, to be printed and hand-carried to your home, a very cumbersome solution to the last mile problem. :)

(Now I am curious; I'll be off to Google later tonight - just when did the telegram service stop relying on actual telegraphy?)
Is there something to read me a wikipedia article?
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The amount of energy it takes to refine one gal of gas my EV drives about 27 miles. ICE cars double dip:

https://greentransportation.info/energy-transportation/gasol...
What does that have to do with every function being analytic?
Anyway, you can solve every cubic polynomial in the algebraic closure of Q, which is far less than C, so you don't need to construct the complex numbers for that.
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I like how Estonia is embracing technology. However while doing my research on how crypto friendly they are, I came across this surprising ruling by the Supreme Court in 2016 against a Bitcoin exchange that was forced to move out:

- https://cointelegraph.com/news/owner-moves-bitcoin-exchange-...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4efdam/estonia_now...

Anyone more familiar with the situation have any thoughts on this? This seems contradictory to what they are trying to do.
You are right only for the average website. If you are building applications delivered through the web, like games and advanced webmail, it can take a few seconds right now. With WebAssembly you could basically create all desktop applications on the web and it would be perfectly reasonable to take a few seconds to load one of them.
Only for hardcore hipsters.
The unix security model of "you have to know how it works to make it secure" is starting to show it's issues...

Clearly, the author of this code thought of environment variables as any other kind of variable - a simple key-value map, which can have any keys and any values.

The fact that there are special keys and special values is just insane. Either environment variables should be a general purpose key value map, with no special values, or it should have all special values, pre-allocated keys which don't allow collisions, or not allow custom definitions at all.

There are lots of cases of this across unix-like OS's. For example "directories contain a special entry called '..' which goes up a level" or "TCP ports under 1024 are 'special'.

This is, in my opinion, poor API design, and we're paying for it now in the form of bugs and security issues.
JS on the web wasn't open to begin with. Just because it was sometimes human-readable doesn't make it free, to put it how Stallman would.
> having a single method of paying is more convenient than having two methods

Are you a GNOME UI designer?
They certainly do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Financial
If it becomes the norm Google crawler will start running the pages and looking at the content.
unless you can get all car manufacturers to agree
to a universal standard for batteries

And unless batteries get so good that the battery in that £19,000 Renault Zoe has identical performance to the battery in that £90,000 Tesla Model X, they never will :)
What do you mean "even Fedora"? Linux had updates figured out decades ago. They are applied in the background (so you can keep working), usually don't need restart, and if reboot is needed, it's just that - a fast reboot without applying any updates and similar. Because they were already applied, you just boot to a new copy of kernel + modules.

Windows always sucked at this, it just took a turn for worse in Windows 7 and 10. If I tried to come up with a more annoying updates system I really couldn't. It's incredible how difficult it is for them to pull their act together on this one.
> Wouldn't the most likely outcome of that be that they stop selling their drugs in poor countries?

And the poor countries would just make knock-offs, and sell them to other poor countries. The US as a whole would lose out because much of the US economy is based on the dubious concept of 'intellectual property'
I'm surprised at all the absolutes here. I agree with people on blogs and news sites and things like that. Notifications are an awful thing. I immediately think less of ablog if it tries to get me to enable them.

However, for web apps like calendars and project management and chat they are indispensable. I'm not going to go and check (polling style) my project management software 80 times a day. Which means that if one of my team needs my eye on something the notification makes sue it gets looked at much sooner.

My notification popup from Google Calendar has saved my ass many times because it alerted me to an appointment I forgot I had.

My personal UI pattern that I like is to put a notification option in the settings area and only turn it on (show the prompt to turn it on) when they specifically ask.
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We are currently using technology to tear people apart with the illusion of social contacts. Instead of building communities we are supporting the development of hikikomoris. Already now, you don't need to leave your apartment for work, food, non-food supermarket items, payments, etc.
This is also a question I have. I'll often find comments everywhere that when applying for tech jobs, having a relevant blog is of little value, hardly looked at.

If the goal of your blog is purely to establish yourself as some authority on topic(s), do you then have to build audience numbers like he has? Is it common for a lot of people doing this to also do talks at conferences, etc?

If your goal is to monetize the blog, then I think his points matter. Titles matter, attracting readers matter, establishing an email list matters. However if you just want to share opinions and ideas or work you did I don't think a lot of his points matter.
> I can easily imagine that Adobe R&D already has a working WebAssembly prototype for Flash.

Actually Haxe and Openfl will probably beat them to the punch since Adobe has pretty much killed flash by 2020.
They follow their traditional policy. A huge part of Apple's income comes from hardware. They will use every method to convince you to continue the vicious upgrade circle, whether you care about new features or not.

A customer that is satisfied with their current setup is a lost customer. So Apple's only hope is to make sure the battery is as difficult to replace as possible - because this component is sure to fail sooner or later.
The Great Leap Forward
>So except the fee for the card and processing company application there are no big money to be made here.

Well, even that is not trifling, when you make due proportions.

The population is 1,350,000 roughly, the 30,000 (till now) e-residencies at - say - 100 Euro each (state fee only) are 3,000,000, if everyone will register a company that will be another 230 Euro, i.e. 6 or 7 millions, then you will have some yearly fees (for keeping the books, etc., etc.) and possibly some other service fees like (example):

https://www.leapin.eu/faq/cost-and-fees

Let's say 1,500 - 2,000 Euro/year as "basic" costs that will go to either the Estonian government or to Estonian firms/individuals.

If the whole thing will generate a direct and indirect income of 30,000x2,000=60,000,000 that will be 50 €/citizen, not that bad in a country where the average salary is around 13,000 Euro/year.

And this is in the hypothesis that no actual transaction is done by any of the 30,000 firms, surely something will be generated (and some part of it remain in Estonia) by them.

Of course these are only guesses, but - unless there are some favourable tax "workarounds" or however lower taxes - there are very few reason that I can see why one would want to establish a "virtual" company in Estonia.

Most probably the people that will be interested in it are non-EU and coming from countries that somehow have no tax treaties (or whatever) and that (still somehow) will have some advantage.

It is the "somehow" and the actual "advantages" that are not clear to me.
Thankfully the puritans are loosing foothold day by day. In 30 years their influence will be seriously reduced. Most kids born today won't even have grandparents that are personally religious and practicing.
Mixing this with http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d...

Would be pretty awesome. Your todo list could have graphs in them or dependancies.
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Yeah, no.

Google is an ad company. They will simply open an API for content providers to push content into their search engine. They don't have to maintain their crawlers, users can't block their ads, and both Google and the content providers get more revenue. It's a win-win situation.

Oh, I forgot the users: they obviously lose! But hey, at least you can write rich applications :^)
Honestly, manufacturer supply is the limitation at this point. At least around here I can't think of a single EV that sits on lots and accumulates inventory. The manufacturers are making 30,000 or so vehicles a year of their product and consumers are buying all of them.

And this is almost certainly related to battery supply constraints.
Websites will be obfuscated blobs downloaded from a single server.
> Continous Variable Transmission

If it's anything like the ones installed in most scooters I'd say it's pretty bad.
Estonian e-residency lets you create an Estonian company.

It’s useful to some people to be able to create a company not tied to a particular location. For example, UK citizens generally can’t operate a UK company if they are not resident in the UK.

So, if you’re a digital nomad type, you’re scratching around to find a jurisdiction where you can run your company and moving around.

There are a few options. But Estonia is in the EU, the tax situation seems reasonable and they are positively welcoming. So, this is one problem that was solved.

I guess they could have just made it easier to start companies, without the e-residency. But being tied into the same ID system seems to make managing the company easier.
because catastrophic bank failures effect every one
Same here, and I put my very much non technical girlfriend on it, too. We keep the database on dropbox and it allows us to access our passwords on any device (Windows, Linux, Android, Web app).
It continues to amaze me that Windows is so terrible at system updates when pretty much every Linux distro out there has done it in a more-or-less sane way since day 1. openSUSE doesn't require sitting at the shutdown and startup screens for hours when I install a single update. Ubuntu doesn't forcibly reboot itself if I leave it unattended. CentOS doesn't disguise new "features" and nagware as critical security updates. Slackware doesn't burn through my mobile data constantly downloading updates. Even Android seems to do a better job than Windows, and Windows Update alone has existed for longer than Android has at all.

If Microsoft knew how to do system updates in a way that wasn't an absolute fucking pain, then I'd be a lot less tempted to just turn off automatic updates on Windows.
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Hmm... How exactly do you know that? I can only think of a handful of full Flash sites I ever used, and of those, I learned of them from word-of-mouth advertising, not through a search engine. (e.g. Homestar Runner). There could have been tons of relevant sites locked up in Flash navigation (back when that was fad) that I never found out about because of their poor SEO -- the world would look the same to me whether they existed or not...
WebAudio-based client-side speech synthesizers are the solution! Finally the blind can pay their fair share too by listening to advertisements :^)
You're baffled because the author has no idea what they're talking about. TypeScript is a superset of JS, it makes no sense to compile it to a platform designed for AoT-compiled systems programming languages.
This blog is awesome. Some of the entries are eye opening and scary - like this one https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-...

Is there anything like this for the U.S?

It is crazy to see such huge amounts of land owned by a few individuals/companies.
This is very interesting, but it lacks (IMO) more references.

As it is written, it asks us for trusting the narration (which I am tempted to do) but it does not give much in support to this narration. For example can we have some artifact in support to the claim that the Israeli Intelligence has informed the Spanish Intelligence Agency and the Spanish Homeland Department?
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Admittedly, I'm looking at this situation from within my comfortable bubble of a GNU system in which I only use software for which I have a source-to-binary mapping through GNU Guix.

JavaScript applications are the exception in my environment and they threaten to burst that shiny bubble.

Aside: I really think that the terms "open" and "closed" are imprecise and confusing, which is why I avoid them. With deterministic builds and free software I have a mapping from source to corresponding binary; so while the binary may not be directly editable (or "closed") it still is free software and I could edit the corresponding source to obtain a new binary. In my opinion the problem really is one of practical software freedom, which has never been achieved in a satisfying way for web applications.
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For primitive men, life was probably terrifying and a constant struggle

Yes, but the Stoics weren't "primitive" really. I may be getting the timeline mixed up slightly but they were part of a civilisation that invented steam engines but never bothered to develop them because they had slavery to provide manual labour! They are far closer to us than they were to cavemen in every meaningful way.

Update: Epictetus died in 135 AD. Vitruvius died in 15 AD and was writing about steam engines... So the Stoics were a century into what could have been the Age of Steam, which would be 1870 in our timeline!
From the article:

>>>> The researchers’ biggest worry is that the trees are depleting subterranean aquifers so that eventually nothing will flourish.

I know nothing about this subject so the above may be an issue, or it may not. What can you take away from the article? I'm sure there have been a great many displaced along the way by the project, is it going to be worth it in the end?

It seems like it should be a great project to analyse. There's a large amount of money being injected into it and it's at a large enough scale that you could try a lot of different approaches to see what worked. But, as ever, it sounds like incentives are misaligned so we may never get true information about what is actually working and what isn't.

Reading through the article it sounded spookily like China's Great Leap Forward at the end of the 50s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
>How would you describe Mandelbrot sets without pictures?

It's literally easier to describe Mandelbrot set without the picture than with it. The set of complex numbers c where recursive equation "z_n = z_(n-1)^2 + c, z_0 = 0" does not diverge.

In fact, the picture of a Mandelbrot set is actively misleading! You think you can see the set, but it's a fractal! It's infinitely complex in a way that cannot be shown in a picture.

>Eversion of a sphere?

Pretty sure that one was figured out way before anyone was able to visualize it. Same with Banach-Tarski paradox. These things resist visual intuition in the first place, so it's much safer to rely on equations when dealing with problems like these.
Collect a variety of information about the hardware configuration of the devices
These are misconceptions, that stems from applying your expectations
from how ICE is used, to BEV.

You don't need to get the time down to the same as it would take to refuel a conventional car, because unlike filling an ICE with gasoline, you can walk away from a charging BEV.

As BEV become popular, you won't see gas stations that offer fast charging. You'll see supermarkets, shopping malls, stores etc. Places that want to attract customers that have 10-30 minutes to kill. You already see this at places where the infrastructure is ahead, like here in Norway.

For most drivers, this is a win. Although charging takes longer, you're usually wasting less time.

Street parking is not much more of a challenge than any other infrastructure improvement. Does your street have light poles? Adding a charging pole isn't that much more difficult. The two can even be combined. Again, you can look to Oslo, Norway. There are street-side charging poles all over the place.

I get that the US is a bit more challenged when it comes to infrastructure. The governments isn't very effective these days it seems. But it's not impossible.

With all that said. The first people who adopt BEVs, will be people with a garage. Of course the people who have the easiest time adopting a new tech, will be the first to adopt it. But once the BEV+PHEV market hits a critical threshold, you'll see the infrastructure bloom.

It's a pretty simple business model: there will be companies that offer to install chargers for free, on the street side, in shared garages, at shopping locations, etc. In return they'll charge a small fee on top of the electricity. Who wouldn't want a free improvements for their citizens, shoppers, apartment tenants, etc?

Once investors realize that these companies will essentially grab most of the revenue of gas stations in a relatively short span of time, getting investments for this business model will not be an issue.