skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I guess we gotta use esp to figure out what these faded posts are all about. If you are going to reply to a post, maybe consider not downvoting it?
exactly. this is one of the primary reasons that I am as minimalist as i can manage
snip - self censorship
The quality can vary immensely. The Chromebook that I have cost me less than 200$, has 10hr battery life and a fairly good display given its price.

That being said you have to understand what chromeOS is and isn't.
Right. So that'll be the vast amounts of unpaid vacation that they were all enjoying.

And I'm sure they were enjoying the extended vacations because of the strong contractual obligations that the landowners had to their serfs.

The US do have an issue with the amount of vacation time that they have but it's close to infantile to compare it so naively to the Middle Ages.

If you're going to compare it to Europe (which this is doing), how about comparing it to Europe in, say, the 21C?
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I agree.

But a government has (self-imposed) financial constraints as well.

Besides, if you decide mostly or only based on financial constraints and not based on reason and good ideas then you should not be in the position to decide what to do.

Resources might be wasted on purpose to avoid tighter financial constraints in the next year that takes into account the spending of the current year.
I'm not really sure of that - authoritarian regimes/dictatorships can also feed on fear and uncertainty (in this context, "uncertainty" would also refer to economical/political troubles), and many actually do (random example: North Korea).
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Perhaps a “low memory mode” or something like that could fix this? If I had to guess, I would think a lot of nice UX features could be disabled and that might reduce memory usage dramatically. Only load recent messages in the currently selected channel, don’t display anything but text, etc. I doubt this would really reduce usage of features a lot overall, and few people would ever turn this on, but it might get the power users to stop complaining about performance.
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Typical China, nothing new here.
Thankfully, this is about face detection I think, not face recognition which indeed would be a privacy nightmare.

OTOH, face detection can be trivially done with OpenCV, and probably in WebAssembly, so there is no need to ship this in the browser core.
But if you don't fulfil the daily macro requirements then from what exactly does the muscle builds?
Would an open source peer-to-peer personals board qualify as a 'platform' under this bill ?
FWIW, Chromium is also also developed in such a way that at least commits, code reviews, and discussions on issues are visible on the bug tracker.
As long as the government keeps the army happy they can ban whatever they like.
> "while slightly missing the fact that society as a whole always has to be the enabler for what they do - even when it appears to be resisting them!"

Even when society was drowning and burning them to death for heresy? There are a multitude of examples of this, if you care to read histories of the Inquisition. I will give you a starting point—Google "Giordano Bruno"

> "They need to accept that maybe something in their (enlightenment) ideas and way of approaching things is part of the problem."

:/

> "but let's ask WHY intelligent people are doing that: because they believe that Pinker (et al) have a dangerous subtext, or that their ideas trend in a specific direction."

The reasonable answer is because they're highly ideologically motivated, not nearly as intelligent and certainly not as ethical as Pinker.
With any intelligence information 'what if' is most reasonable approach. It is absurd to trust anyone that has the objective to spread misinformation.

In comparison why would you trust anybody who is a professional liar on any information? Just because you have no other more reliable information does not turn the liars lie into a truth.
For the most part that's actually how it was thaught in my university.
Could it be people who searched for you before you made your account?
I've noticed something similar with a handful of people but always assumed they were people who searched for my name and couldn't find me at the time, so their search was put on hold until an account with the corresponding was created.
That's true, but I think of that as a different phenomenon.
Don't need to go that far, other countries already have local alternatives that are happy for a void to be created where they can grow.
Hunting parks as in designated/licensed areas where you can hunt with guns. Not Manhattan, for example.

Full auto etc, for what purpose?
Not surprising.
Compatibility between minor releases has been unceremoniously jettisoned.
I'd imagine they would use Monero or Zcash nowadays since those are proven fairly more anonymized. Bitcoin is wholly public so all it takes is one identifiable wallet to start profiling addresses they interact with.
Did anyone read the article to see what types of videos Google is taking action against?

> YouTube will ban videos that offer instructions on how to make firearms and accessories such as silencers and bump stocks. It will prohibit content in which firearms and accessories are sold, both directly and through other websites. Videos on how to install firearms modifications will also be barred.

> While we've long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories, specifically, items like ammunition, gatling triggers, and drop-in auto sears.
Yes, small talk is important in lots of subtle ways, took me a long time to get over adolescent 'doh small talk is stupid' and appreciate this. What to aim for is to know when and how to move beyond the small talk into more interesting territory
He meant that people are fine with their state even after everything collapsed. At least no major protests happened (really major).
Pinker has found a fun niche like many authors before him; write books that only the well off and mostly content folks will buy and read and tell them what they want to hear. (Gladwell and many other authors popular among upper middle class and wealthy people play the same game.)

And I'm not saying Pinker lies or anything, but he just gives a point of view that is comforting if you're wealthy. His spiel comes down to; "Everything's mostly great, it's not just you, don't worry so much about how great you have it vs the suffering of others. Everything is getting better just as it is."

I know that's very reductionist, but to me it's kinda what it boils down to.

Gladwell pulls the "The complex issues that people around you tell you are complex? Well they have easy secret answers!" game.

I find it all very anti-intellectual and it's disappointing to me that these authors are so popular and widely praised.
This is a technical solution to a human problem. Even with extremely advanced technology (by today's standards), the garbage of today will still be separated into valuable materials (just, more than today) and garbage... and the garbage will still be dumped in the ocean (or wherever).
I work in Boston and I see people working in the winter in buildings. What region is this?
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In my opinion the biggest issue in general is the distance between ”the educational world and the professional world”. There’s so much more to being a great engineer than knowing the ins and outs of x, y or z.
In reality you have to compromise, with everything, almost all the time. They don’t teach you that at school, you learn that while working. People who just graduated (atleast here in Sweden) think they are pro’s when graduating, only to realize they’re real green’ies when they start working. If they don’t realize it right away, they do realize it a couple of years in.

I’ve been working as an embedded software developer for 7+ years at different #1 in their field companies without a degree. I’ve worked with a lot of newly graduates and the above is my experience.

The best technical solution is not always the best solution.
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Some criteria:
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Microsoft technology focus,ease of use: Azure
Fast global networking, Kubernetes, Tensorflow: GCE
Cheap servers: challengers
Niche: ARM servers - Scaleway, ...
> Firefox for Android really is not doing well and Focus seems to be doing a lot better

From what public data can be pierced together, Firefox for Android still has more active daily users than Focus's lifetime install count on the Play Store, though.
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You could change that.

I loved using D3 directly and found it amazing.
How so? Net neutrality concerns ISPs not interfering with legal content. It has nothing whatsoever to say about or do with what content sites that host or provide content chose to host or provide.

Transportation provides a good analogy. Net neutrality is about the roads, not about what goods and services the places you drive to on those roads do and do not offer.
But we are the unadvanced on this matter, so it's magic.

Also 'appears to be' != 'indistinguishable', the latter is far closer to 'is' imo.
How long does it take to draw diagrams and modify and annotate them over time on note taking apps? You can do it in seconds by hand. The situation applies to drawing arrows between phrases and such too. For some things, the simple way is the best.

It's not one or the other, even in the classroom. Computers didn't kill handwriting or print, and latter don't hinder the use of computers. They all complement each other.

Useless tangent: In my experience (= K-12 + 10 years at universities) the best way to lock things in ones head is to take quick handwritten notes and then reread, correct, and enter them as notes on one's computer.
And I find this sort of posts bizarre. The argument that "we are better of today than we were in prehistory or the middle ages, so quit your complaining". Yes, things are better, but no, that doesn't mean we should stop wanting to improve. We have accomplished a lot, but we have not reached the end-all stage of human development. Societies are better than they were 500 years ago, but they're still pretty damn flawed. We can do much, much better.
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You are funding that organization with your taxes. Don't tell me you have no choice. You always have a choice.
>why do you do this ? Is it pleasurable ? Is it out of hope ?

How about they are people of the same dignity as anyone else?
National productivity numbers aren't using a mathematical gimmick though, they hold up if you look at yearly output/hours per year.

One of the reasons for Germany's high productivity is that manufacturing is a large sector there.
This reminds me of the CPU issues there were previously with Slack: https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memor...

Sounds like Slack doesn't have any type of performance testing as part of their release cycles.
What you're actually experiencing is the result of Algolia's typo-tolerance & prefix searching (both enabled on the HN Search). Indeed, both "chicago" and "chinese" are 1 letter away from "china". We've configured the search to disable the prefix search once you press "Enter" (maybe not easy while on mobile).
Probably depends on what stage the company is at. You could have tons of credits from being in an accelerator, or you could be so large you need to spread risk out over multiple clouds.
So this is basically a shower drain hairs clog, except made up of fishing nets & lines?

I can believe that's heavy and hard work, hair clogs are already surprisingly difficult to get out & untangle (aside from being disgusting).

The tangle looks surprisingly clean though, are they mostly recent disposals?
Could you elaborate on what you would recommend for what stage?
But that is a false dichotomy. Your working long hours in an office in no way helps or correlates with the ability of being able to travel, or to have headache medication.
Maybe some addon is using it?
I happen to agree with you broadly. However, two data points to bring to the discussion.

Germany's median net wealth per adult is below that of the US ($47,000 vs $56,000 for 2017). Given the US isn't renowned for how well its middle does these days, that implies something has gone wrong in Germany.

Per the OECD figures, the US is the third most productive in terms of GDP per hour worked, at around $73 for 2017.

Excluding Norway, the best off country in terms of a combination of GDP per hour worked, least hours worked per week, and highest median net wealth is... Belgium.

They have $161,000 median wealth per adult, about 30 hours worked per week and a GDP per hour worked just a notch below the US.

Here's how the OECD ranks hours worked per week:

Mexico 41.2, South Korea 40.7, Greece 39.1, Chile 38.2, Russia 38, Latvia 36.7, Israel 36.3, Iceland 36.1, Portugal 35.9, Lithuania 35.8, Estonia 35.6, New Zealand 33.8, Czech 33.8, Slovakia 33.7, US 33.6, Hungary 33.6, Ireland 33.5, Italy 33.1, Japan 33.1, Canada 32.8, Australia 32.7, Spain 32.5, Slovenia 32.5, UK 31.9, Finland 31.6, Sweden 31, Austria 30.9, Switzerland 30.6, Belgium 29.8, France 28.2, Netherlands 27.4, Norway 27.3, Denmark 27.2, Germany 26.3
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Yes, that's how I intend to pay for it. The company that I'll work for after graduating has education benefits.
It’s funny that you say that. 20 years ago nobody had a problem running their personal website or FTP server on an ISDN line into their garage.

Today I have 100Mb fiber to my house. I’m pretty sure that’s enough to handle a personal video website for somebody with a modest following. Yet we live on these massive centralized platforms.
Pictures I have seen before always made me think that skeleton was a hoax. At least the Alien lunacy has been put to rest.

Although, I bet there will be some people who would not believe the results.
This comment elegantly displays what's wrong with modern society.

Yes, kids require a lot of things that cost money and a lot of time from the parents. Yes, they make you significantly less productive at work when something is wrong. Yes, life is much easier without kids.

But having and raising children is literally one of the most natural things to want to do with your life. A culture that views children mostly as inconveniences is a sick culture.
My money is on GCE.
That is a uBlock Origin internal stub to prevent sites that rely on Analytics being there from throwing an error and stop working.

See here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/415820d7561a5cb...
Isn't the fear that if we don't have net neutrality, it will be harder for upstart sites (like videosofthingsthatgoboom.com) to compete with incumbents like YT? Net neutrality is largely about protecting the ability for small players to disrupt the big sites, who might be making bad decisions...
That's why free speech basically can't be selective. If it was Reddit banning /r/the_donald, all of you complaining now would cheer the development.
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Apparently this was on the BBC front page this morning, but somehow I blinked and missed it.

I don't have any trade union axe to grind, but I'm pretty shocked both by the security services behaviour, and by the lack of coverage this is getting.

Whatever your opinion on trade unions, it's a pretty fundamental threat to democracy when the security services monitor legal behaviour and can destroy someone's livelihood for behaviour they disapprove of.

And .. why isn't this on the BBC News front page all day? I get most of my news there, and now I worry how many other democracy-shaking stories I might have missed.
We definitely have not 'figured' out intelligence
Lesson there: don't outsource your sales.
> No one is forcing you to use Firefox stable release version if it is not consistent with your faith

Nope. Debian repos (and most package managers I'd guess) do not have Nightly or Developer Edition. There's no direct link on the download page [1] that takes you to where you can download the Nightly branch. And the page for downloading it [2], to which you reach if you search for it specifically, makes it as visible as it gets that it's beta and meant for testing. I guess all of this is just lightly forcing you to download latest release. (edit: I mean this as sth. positive BTW, they're making it quite obvious which is the wiser option for the end user)

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/, "Get a sneak peek at our next generation web browser, and help us make it the best browser it can be: try Firefox Nightly."
The nice thing about Chromebooks is that they don't really require any special software. Just web apps of the things you need. Though I guess you could say that about any OS at this point.

In my case I'm using it in the context of a master's degree, and it's more than enough. I use Google colab for assignments and sharelatex for any reports I have to write. It works quite well and the battery life is amazing. I also don't care if it gets stolen.
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Service worker?
Parent was calling for router-level VPN-ing, if the second device uses the same router it has the same VPN.
Most people working at Walmart would like to negotiate longer working hours.
The Rules for Rulers - CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I did read it. It fit the archetype.

A high agency individual looks for and finds solutions. Sidekiq is a great example. So is WordPress. Even Github was. Watch Tom Preston-Werner's Mixergy interview and you'll see that he specifically put thought into making sure it would generate revenue in a sustainable fashion if it were to become popular.
I'm looking forward to IPFS
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To paraphrase Gate, this is my new favorite review of this book :-). The other is http://quillette.com/2018/03/11/steven-pinkers-counter-count...

It's simple. Responses to Pinker's writings can be divided into two groups: The rational pessimists and the rational optimists.
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If you can buy a company with the sum of money you can raise by mortgaging the real estate it occupies, the implication is that the company is worth less than this real estate. Considering the kind of real estate Toys-R-Us shops occupied, this is not a good look for them, nor does it speak well for the employees' prospects had the LBO not happened.
Methinks medieval peasants would consider most modern work a vacation.
You manually opt in to 8.8.8.8. You may be using something with stronger legal protections than Cloudflare and will not be aware you need to opt out of this. The strength of encryption on the network is irrelevant if you don't trust the recipient.
I would, FWIW.
My previous job was in K-12 tech, and I still keep in contact with my old boss.

When I started at that position, the school district (~5k students) was nearly 100% Apple. Nearly every device was the low-cost polycarb Macbook. The district purchased them with a heavy investment from "Classrooms for the Future" program, which covered a large portion of the cost.

Since that time, Apple retired the less expensive model and (same as they still are) trying to position the iPad as a replacement.

Here's the problem though:
Students are never going to be effective at long-term use on a tablet. Can you imagine writing a grade 12 level book report on a touch screen? Budget-wise, the district would only be able to purchase the iPads, a case, and that's all. Bluetooth keyboards would not be able to fit in the budget.

Compared, feature for feature, and price- Chromebooks and other traditional low-cost laptops are much more effective to the success of getting technology into students' hands.

In fact, they currently run one of the largest 1-to-1 Linux laptop deployments in the eastern US: https://technology.pennmanor.net/11-laptop-program/
Will you get letters for torrenting legally, or only when you download copyrighted stuff?
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We use AWS and are pretty happy with them.

The other truth is that once you're on a platform, as long as you're pretty happy, you're not really going to switch. It's just not the most important thing for your business usually. GCE sure looks like it has some neat stuff, but I'd have to be crazy to derail the other important tech work we have for an infrastructure change like that.
A crucial aspect of this story is that government employees are a coveted job in Korea, with a good benefits and salary and a healthy pension.

There are separate tests that people have to take in order to apply for gov jobs, and the competition rate is usually very high for all of them, clerical, skill-based, or not - from 40:1 to more often 200:1 of an apply/acceptance ratio.

This generally means that the level of skill and aptitude you encounter is very high; the amount of social morale is high also, since a government job is a respected, very healthy middle-class job.
Well, maybe they mean when talking to children. That does not.
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I think you’re right; but it’s already having a chilling effect, with large platforms banning and removing content left right and centre to preempt this bill, regardless of whether it would actually fall afoul of it.

When you’ve got huge fines and jail time at stake, it’s better for the companies in question to err on the side of more censorship, not less, and it’s worse for everyone who uses the platform in question. So even though I agree with you, it’s already having the impact that a slippery slope argument would expect... that’s very worrying to me.
Which is a big problem IMO. Many employers are willing to lean on open source tech to reduce cost. Much, much fewer are willing to let employees spend time contributing to open source as a way of paying back the open source community. Thats incredibly short sighted, as it reduces the resources contributing to the technology the company now relies on.
They got up to 1/2 the year off, sure. But my guess is they had to work more than 2000 hours the other half. They just compressed the hours worked into the growing season. Modern farmers do the same thing (from a rural farming community).
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But a bank will just hand over money for an LBO without taking collateral?
One annoying (but perhaps understandable) thing of GCE is that in the EU you need to have a VAT number to use any of it, even if only for free tiers.
See Russia. If the country has "some" money to spend it can do whatever and just keep brainwashing its citizens for decades.
There was no concept of vacation. Notion of a vacation is very nascent in many cultures.
Oh, poor Mark! Such a patsy is the perfect scapegoat. /s

The company he founded reflects his work ethics.

Personally I don't care that much when the bully starts being bullied. You reap what you sow.