skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but blocking third-party cookies does break a whole lot of sites.

Apple can do this, because they have a limited yet consistent market share that mostly consists of their own customers.

But Firefox? If they block third-party cookies and Chrome does not, they might just end up losing even more users.
> noise cancelling headphones

They are very ineffective against voices! Passive insulating headphones are much better.
* this one result from one paper, which the university's media department plumbed for PR, says this one thing.

(The answer is "Mental Speed")
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> In Paxos a leader is elected, then the leader decides the order of events. But that's not a valid comparison, because in PoW the supposed "leader" does not get to decide anything at all - the block has to be put together prior to "winning the election" (because the block is the input to the SHA).

Who picks the transactions from the mempool that will be serialized into history?
To get whois info for .de you already have to solve a captcha and write a paragraph about who you are and why you need it.
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That's not really what you should take from that.

K&L Gates is in the same building as the company I work for, despite multiple mergers 2 decades past retirement the Gates name is still on the door and it's not because of Bill.

William Gates is a very accomplished individual and a true philanthropist not many people would be schlepping through Africa in their 80's and 90's, especially people of his stature.

1976 (when Bill was 20) would be about 10 years after W. Gates co-founded his law firm and while for sure that they were well off that time I don't exactly know if they would be classified as "wealthy" especially by SV standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Gates_Sr.

My take on this is that if anything this proof that good parenting is important, there are plenty of other wealthy lines where the children do not amount to anything but managing not squander their heritage and fortune.

Don't get me wrong growing up in an upper middle class family or higher does have a lot of benefits it allows you to have the potential benefit of better education and values and it allows you to take risks that less fortunate individuals may not be able.

However I don't see anything that would prove that someone's success will change their children's future other than to give them a bigger bank account (which cannot be dismissed on it's own ofc).
Are you kidding me?

A decentralized encrypted chat is completely resistant to such government censorship. Meanwhile, all Putin has to do is yank the plug on Telegram's servers. And of course, no amount of coercion could force anyone to give up the keys.

This is one of the killer apps for blockchain.
You look it up. Every article you'll find will point out that on a light vehicle like an bicycle you don't need to countersteer with the handlebars and can achieve the same effect by weight shifting. (Indeed the fact that it's possible to ride a bicycle without holding the handlebars at all should be all the proof that's necessary that one can navigate through weight shifting alone).
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When this eventually falls apart which superpower is going to own the country? USA, China or Russia?

Who has the most influence here?
Cars emit exhaust, that thrust however small could be used to move the car around. Granted not quickly.
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Both. I want to:

1. See what data they hold.

2. Have it deleted.

3. Formally withdraw consent to the collection of future data.

4. Follow it up in 6-12 months with a subject access request.
I can't even get recaptcha to work when I have the umatrix extension turned on, even when I turn off the functionality of umatrix by whitelisting everything. I need to go into my browser extensions and turn off the whole extension just to get past a recaptcha.
So, like this sort of thing:

int JsonValue::getAsInt(int defaultIfError);

Or, in Go:

func (JsonValue*) AsInt() (int64, error)

Or are you just talking about it returning the value as a Rust-style Result sum type?
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Maybe I am still young and stupid, but I cycle a lot and as often without hands on as the situation allows... It is just much more comfortable this way.
Bu yes, also more dangerous, so in difficult trafic I usually don't do it
No, that's a terrible analogy, because a picture of a diamond ring is worth much less than the ring. A copy of valuable information is generally worth just as much as the original. And while no-one would care if someone else had a picture of their diamond ring, they would care if someone else had a copy of their private information.
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical or not. But if you really are wondering, it's because if we click the link, chances are that we read that first paragraph of text paywalled articles usually show. That makes us interested/curious and we might pay to view it. We also feel more invested in the content after that first click.

If we only have the title in the HN feed chances are lower that we will buy the content instead of simply scrolling by. Since the latter that takes less effort.

We humans don't always make rational choices, so nudging us in the direction of paying for content – if we want to support payed content – will of course increase the amount we spend on content.
"You're not just sharing your data with Facebook. You're sharing your data with Facebook and anyone Facebook subsequently gives access to that data. That's companies, governments, and individuals. You may trust Facebook, but do you trust everyone?"
This. I've been a multitasker most of my life, but the moment you organise task one after the other, and keep your focus, you'll just get so much more done. Uni-tasking gets you more done than multi-tasking, no matter how counterintuitive that may sound.
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Abolish socialism?
> Although I think people can be pursuaded to care about such things. But the problem needs to be framed as a moral question rather than just an objective one. That we should adopt particular technology because it is the right thing to do.

Although it's somewhat distasteful to a lot of engineers, I completely agree with you here. It's difficult, but if we don't play politics, we will lose. Iterated prisoners dilemma, almost.

> The difficulty is that these issues will become politicised and emotional. You have people like Trump emerge who think that clean energy is an abomination. But perhaps that is a step we have to go through in order to win the argument.

In some ways, I think it is, yeah. A lot of the time, people (even technical ones!) don't see the future negative uses of things as particularly dire, up until it's about to come crashing down on their heads.
> With Venezuela, what can we actually do that's going to change anything?

Two simple things if you are citizen of a stable country: get elected as the head of your country. Annex Venezuela.

Not saying it will be easy.
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I run aihello.com that uses predictive analysis to predict which of your inventory is going to sell where and how much. We use this stock up appropriately in recommended geographic area. (for example 30% more organic products in the east coast vs west coast etc)

We use sklearn, facebook prophet and apache spark ML

Here is a screenshot of the dashboard of one of our customer : https://screenshots.firefox.com/hO1TIVsQWoNolqLj/www.aihello...

>3.How much data do you need to have until your predictive analytics gets smart enough to predict things accurately?

Depends. We have roughly 4.5 million data points for each month and the results are practically usable (Customer has no issues with the error margin in predictions)

>4. What are the typical "triggers?"

Don't understand this.

> Anyone think predictive analytics is BS? If so, why?

This is like asking if anyone thinks trigonometry is bullshit.
Anti-aging research is stronger than ever, with some very impressive results recently coming out of David Sinclair's lab at Harvard for example.
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IMHO, this is how containers should really work:

- Every website (domain) should get its own container by default. I don't want to configure stuff when visiting a new domain.

- If I want domains to share a container, then I don't mind having to configure that.

- When clicking a link inside a container that points to a different domain, then the link should open in the container for the domain pointed to.

- When clicking a link, I should have the opportunity to edit the link before opening it, to avoid information leakage from one container to another.

- Cookies may be saved per container (default). But I should be able to turn cookies off for a specific container.

- Containers should work against fingerprinting, i.e. by perturbing browser characteristics slightly. This should work by default per container and per session. It should be configurable.

- If some well-known websites only work with multiple domains, then that is ok. These domains can be grouped into one container. Firefox can distribute a "whitelist" for such configurations. Please don't bother me with the specifics, but enable me to figure out what the settings are for a container, and to change those settings.

- Container settings should be synced over my devices. Needless to say, containers should work on all platforms.
I have always wondered how significant was Paul Allen's contribution to Microsoft? He quit in 1982. I admit that was after the watershed deal with IBM, but Bill Gates lead the company to create Windows, Office, and Xbox; from 128 employees to 39,000+ [1]. Was he just lucky to be friend with a relentless business genius?

[1]: https://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company....
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When my thinkpad x201 broke down, I lived with an atom 1.6 Ghz eeePC (1000HE).

It was certainly doable and tweaking the laptop to run on limited resources was fun.

My only real issue was that I couldn't browse with javascript, because the cpu load was crushing the netbook.

Other than that a recent OpenBSD installation used only 128MiB of RAM, with ram usage occasionaly rising to around 280 MiB when I opened firefox.

I still use the netbook as my primary mobile machine. But I think getting a second hand thinkpad again would be a reasonable thing to do.
Although the netbook is perfectly usable, it is really heavy compared to today's standards. That is the only complaint I have for my machine.
The No.1 trait highly charismatic people all share, according to science
Sadly many universities in Europe are shockingly moving to open plan spaces.
Yes, and that makes things even worse.

A constant background noise is unpleasant but not so distracting - and it gets filtered out.

Sudden voices are way more distracting and they don't get filtered out. On the contrary, they stand out even more once machine noises are filtered out.
"Adaptability"

called "Behavioral flexibility" in the article
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That would be an incredible luxury to some people. I've worked from what most people would call a shelf before.
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I love that OP was at least willing to provide an example of a planar map that he believed could not be 4-colored. Credit for sticking his neck out.
How TypeScript is making programming better – TipsnTricks after migrating to TS
> ... the problem is that we have to kill cows for fashion

This is a false problem.

Clothes are more than fashion. Leather extracted from dead animals is a big ally against animal cruelty and I'm not trolling. Lets remember why we use it. It saves millions of worker humans from having horrible injuries, painful deep cuts and mutilations.

Could workers rely equally in mycelium for not losing a finger or a leg by a saw if they stumble?

Is mycelium flammable? When I'm using an arc welding torch I want to wear a solid >1mm leather apron. If something goes wrong, leather will save my arms and body from a severe burning. Can filosophy or whisful thinking do the same for me?.

I would not hire a vegan worker if they stubbornly refuse to wear protective clothes arguing that we have pleather that "looks the same" (and burns like gasoline). Would be really irresponsible on my part to hire them.

> on the plus side a leather jacket can last a lifetime, vs polyester throwaway...

100% agree with this
This does not answer your question, but I concur, I need my office to be private.
You know it's really motivating to read such comments after you've released years of work as open source...
Bill came from old money
If I worked remotely I would never work from home. I’d work remotely from a separate one-room office and hopefully have my employer pay for that office.
The silence from Jeremy Corbyn is deafening
I think I lost my x201 due to a Chinese battery.
After I used the replacement battery I think a Mosfet transistor burned out inside. The laptop wouldn't turn on, and if turned on it closed in matter of seconds.

Although the actual cause might be different (I'm no expert) I've become cautious of super cheap Chinese 9-cell batteries.
Carriers have enormous control over devices. While we now know it didn't happen, they likely could have easily shipped a manipulated standard phone app since when a carrier gives out a device it is often running customized firmware with the carrier's logo on boot and preinstalled bloat ware like Spotify, Facebook or WPS Office (by my experience with branded os images for Sony Xperias).
This is not what they mean by zero gravity in the video.
I've done a lot of riding without holding handlebars, so that's how I learned this.

Another limits is that you've got a delay to reach the brakes, which can make it dangerous for others in addition to yourself. And I agree that having your center of gravity moved up really mess up your stability.
And managed to do it for 1000 years until religious extremists destroyed Constantinople in a terrorist attack.
Discovery Channels Mythbusters tested if one could cycle underwater, which failed too.
I’d like to second the comment about url binding. Using a host like WPengine and similar allow for rapid creation of clone environments where one can test things out, code or content related. But if I have to go and register domains on another party site it takes what would be a cool feature and drags a lot of time in to something that should be otherwise solved. The workflow of the above also makes a lot of assumptions about who has access to the 3rd party plugin accounts. Testing some css with a contractor shouldn’t mean they need to login to all plugin accounts.

Also to add on the code quality. It would be nice to know if the plugin properly registers styles and js. A ton of plugins arbitrarily inject to header or footer or inline or all three. One of the first things I do when we test a plugin is to see if it functions as needed and then I go see what wreckage it has caused to the html/perf. I then decide if I can live with myself.

To all Wordpress plugin developers. I’d easily pay 2-10x for higher quality considerations. Most plugins I find so cheap $ they take away my ability to complain or have a high expectation.
Very Surprised that Pl/1 ranks above Haskel
Perhaps unintentionally dangerous. But also very needlessly.
Venezuela will surely fall apart any day now. American economists have said every day since 1999.
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> Why not

Maybe if it wasn't relevant to the story.

Pai being a former telco lobbyist, it seems pretty relevant.
"To be yourself is not what you should do."
You can use this line of comment to disparage any discussion about any problem lesser than the holocaust.
Thanks for the clip. Offering some new perspective into it.
> You look it up. Every article you'll find will point out that on a light vehicle like an bicycle you don't need to countersteer with the handlebars and can achieve the same effect by weight shifting. (Indeed the fact that it's possible to ride a bicycle without holding the handlebars at all should be all the proof that's necessary that one can navigate through weight shifting alone).

What exactly is your claim? That you can turn left without touching the handlbars, or that you can turn left without first having the bicycle steer right?
Docker Embraces Kubernetes with Enterprise Edition 2.0
afaik qc35 does both
The hustle was getting the meeting, by the time they actually sold the software, it existed and worked.

I really, really, struggle to see anything wrong with that.
Exactly; I’m not saying natural language is better, just that you can’t really do any better without running into the same issues around discourse/rhetoric.
Jeez, I read this morning that she didn't make it. Terrible tragedy. I knew this would be the least of her problems, but I was rooting for her survival considering previous incidents (several described here) where passengers and crew survived decompression events.

Thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.

CFM are going to have to move fast on this one. Catastrophic engine failure like this could seriously dent people's faith in air travel (also, the CFM-56 engine has quite a history of blade failure leading to extreme engine damage[0]).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFM_International_CFM56#Fan_bl...
The install procedure [1] looks like bad a joke.

> You’ll need an Ubuntu system that satisfies the installation requirements.

So if I'm using RHEL, Fedora, Arch or any other Linux distribution, tough luck. If they're supporting only Ubuntu, they could have at least created some deb packages.

There is an install script, but no details about what's going on under the hood or explanations of how to do it manually; what other software is required, e.g. for the database, how Zulip uses it, what libraries or other kind of dependencies it has, etc.

[1]: http://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/install.htm...
Facebook will still require users to accept targeted ads under new EU law
Venezuela has fallen apart, both economically and socially. This is what a country that has fallen apart looks like.
I've found that many confuse the question "is it a viable programming language?" with "does it stand a chance to be top-10 popular?". The second proposition is much harder than the first, and many language will need mass appeal to get to the top-10 ; which is not necessarily without consequence on the language itself.
That is debatable especially when you think old money e.g. Rockefeller etc.
His dad was hard working from the get go, didn't dodge the WW2 draft like plenty of "old money" people did and worked his arse off to achieve what he did.

As for Bill again I don't see anything where his "came from so called old money" badge would've contributed to his success considerably beyond what an upper middle class family could.

His actions outside of Microsoft also speak greatly to his character and go well beyond the typical SV billionaire or even the "typical" philanthropist.

I think the gates case is unique in terms where you have 2 very accomplished parents both Mary Maxwell Gates and William H. Gates Sr. which were accomplished on their own regardless if they were old money or not.
The new Skyscanner(my employer) London office also uses this setup and the times I've been in London and worked from that office I've really enjoyed it. I work in the main office in Edinburgh which is unfortunately an open floor plan, but hopefully we'll get the same layout as London. I feel it strikes a very good balance between the intentions of an open office plan and the need for a quite space to get work done.
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That's what I did the first time. It keeps asking me for an email address to sign up OR sign up with Google or GitHub.
>This article has an idea of what a "Better Developer" is, which is kind of like a True Scotsman that must eat Haggis (or not!).

Nope. It's not even about being a "better developer". It's about being (and becoming) a master developer.

>If you are hired as a developer you may be useful to have a "smorgasbord" of experiences, depending on the role.

Then that company doesn't need a master, but just a generalist that can wear many hats with some competence.

>Someone who has only used C++ but 'gone deep' might be less useful here.

Which is neither here, nor there. The advice is how to become a master programmer (e.g. in C++), not how to become useful in a company that needs devs to tackle many roles.
I think there's a quote from Paul Graham somewhere along the lines of 'T-Type learners':

> Like paint drops rolling down from a paint stroke, the breadth is there but at certain points the paint rolls down creating deep lines

So you can skim the surface but at some points you have have real focus. You need to choose these carefully and dive deep into them.
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The fewer users a language has the longer it'll take to hire someone, which means there'll potentially be a long wait for what your team can deliver. If you're a startup a long wait before delivering means you'll run out of money and shut down. If you have a choice, factor hiring team members very highly in your tech stack choices.
What happens to our muscles during spaceflight and when living on Mars?
This comment is a great illustration of why companies and investors prefer software as a service business models wherever possible.
Just say you're welcome.
> this middle strategy doesn't work well at all

I will translate your suggestion like this:

-Either be a full-on dictatorship OR

-Be a modern democratic state
The Cintiq 13" with Autodesk Sketchbook app on a good Mac or PC is by far the best experience for people who are skilled at drawing (like me)
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> Never understood the rationale behind open floor offices.

You can have an appealing environment to work in for 5-15 and within the same space scale that up all the way to an 80 person battery farm office without spending any more money.
> Haskell has better public relations than all these languages.

Haskell has had a rant about JavaScript on its official wiki for a few years(the wording changed to a less offensive one eventually), so the bar is pretty low here.
Another interesting project is this open hardware ARM-based laptop made in Bulgaria, shipped as a kit to assemble https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ It costs €240, though.
Someone who's bilingual can have meaningful conversations in both languages. Beyond that they can see the connections/differences between the two languages and gain a deeper understanding.

However someone who's learnt 15 can probably only order a coffee in each one.
I have been trying to ride the other way on my fixie[0] lately. I think this is kinda the same. I know what I have to do, but instinctively it all gets wrong. I can kinda override it, but then my reactions are way too delayed. So here's hoping for it will click some day..

[0]: A fixie is a bike with no freewheel. So the pedals follow the back wheel, and the other way. So if I pedal backwards, the bike goes the other way.