skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's saying that the majority of immigrants who are buy houses are Chinese

No, I'm not saying anything like that.
Just a datapoint: if you "discourage" my browser, I go away and don't come back. Same with EME - I will not need your efforts in my life.

I've yet to find a site so great that I'll disable security or switch browsers to use them. (Work is an exception; somehow there's always some crappy site with needy requirements. But that's my employer's browser/computer, and the sites aren't major publishers.)

So I hope your manager did their cost-benefit well. I don't know too many publishers in a position to be selective about their readers. But I suspect I know who you're talking about, and won't personally won't miss any of their properties.
Where I live playdates happen at homes and if you are taking the kids out somewhere generally the parent taking them out pays.
So, why would your manager want to optimize for the browser with the highest average revenue per user?

e.g. a browser with 1 user that generates $100 vs a browser with 1K users that generate $1 on average. Your manager would optimize for the former?
That's significantly different than paying someone in cash. (Also, I didn't say they rotate, they do, but it's not among everyone. Some people have larger houses and are happier to host so they do it more often.)
I think it is a reddit thing. I’m pretty sure I observed the same behavior when I used chrome (thought this was almost a year ago) and this still happens on my iPad using safari.
I know a couple of polygamous / polyamorous people on the internet, I don't know how they manage but apparently some people are wired like that where they can tolerate other people in intimate relationships.
Thanks for the tip. I briefly read through the docs and it's not clear what this offers above and beyond what tmux does?
Sorry, I wanted to say Absolutely :D Without the not :))

Sorry I'm on mobile and cannot edit the comment
I imagine that Elon Musk might have been in a similar position in the past, maybe more than once.
Amazing, not one of those words are correct. China is an ultracapitalist oligarchy, communist in nothing but name. The USA has been responsible for so many atrocities against self-determination of peoples, in the name of imperialism, that when someone paints them as "freedom bringers" I know not whether to laugh or cry.
The “expensive” part isn’t necessarily true. Some grid-tie inverters have limited backup capability for very little cost. IIRC the SMA Sunny Boy series can supply 15A 120V using a dedicated outlet. SolarEdge’s StorEdge is their standard DC-coupled storage inverter, and it can supply 5kW of backup power.
Show HN: bcal – storage expression calculator
TODOGroup's OpenCOC[1] would be the most prominent example:

> Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding: Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

> ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’"

So if someone white or asian, straight or "regular" gay, of regular sex, or whatever are explicitly excluded from a community initiative and someone finds that objectionable, their COC says that kind of racism and sexism is OK.

> Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts

If you have problem with such principles, that's also not acceptable to discuss. Hardly a healthy environment for open debate.

I think more people need to acknowledge that these COCs are

1. Controversial as opposed to universal. Trying to frame it as universal, and then excluding anyone who disagrees with that, just shows that it by definition is the opposite of inclusive.

2. The noise generated from the above controversy is detracting from other work on the project.

IMO such measures should be avoided at all cost, as far as possible, especially considering how most FOSS projects are healthy, an that in most cases controversy like this is not needed and will do more harm than good.

[1] http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/
Video demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUa3np4CKC4
I learned a lot about electronics like that, the only difference is that I ended up with lots of dead parts :P
Yeah, I just want that built into the LMS itself
Capitalism is unfolding exactly as Karl Marx predicted
I think the new economy, some CEOs and CFOs will make terrible decisions, and lose their market share to those who provide the right price for the value, or understand what the value even is.
My statement was about software, not about what can be learned from failed projects. Sure experimentation has value, even if it only leads to the insight that theory can rarely be applied to software in materialized form. And I think that's the gist of the post.

Take regular expressions, one of the theories that actually have been applied successfully to practice - because they are easy to understand and, as a corollary, describe practical concepts. Now, where are state machines implemented in their as a materialization of their abstract form? I don't know, maybe not even in a rather generalist tool like grep. They are at least not useful for lexers (one canonical use case for RE), because the formal overhead gets in the way of converting literals and looking up identifiers.

In Software you need to cut corners to be able to implement useful functionality and achieve good performance.
That's why I only go to restaurants whose website is a menu dropped in my letter box every couple of months.
I am sorry but it seems very pointless for me. Wouldn't you need an OS to use a browser that supported this? If so, couldnt you just use a terminal or hell, if your on windows, just notepad... I am really failing to see how this made it on yc.
Seblime Text 3.1 (BUILD 3170)
On Britain's Intellectual Decline
>While they have no problem having opinions about the effect of technology most treat it as an externality and not something central to their models.

This is not true at all.

I think you are confusing talking heads and pundits in TV with academic economics. Productivity, technology and economic growth

Technology and it's relation to economics is included in growth theories and it's important subject that it subject of active study. It's in the A in Solow–Swan model. The model predicts that in the absence of continuing improvements in technology, growth per worker must ultimately cease. More modern theories take the technology even more seriously.
> It doesn’t sound to me like this is a currency system. It’s simply assets that they use for trade.

The concepts fade into each other pretty easily. Stones => gems => gold => gold-backed paper => payer
Hell, in the short term, this could improve the internet for Firefox users.
Is there a program available somewhere to generate our own compressed image (.bin) files?
Superhero films such as Avengers: Infinity War aren’t ruining cinema or minds
Most b2bs take 7-10 years to see through, with derisking inflection points at say 100k, 1m-3m, and 10m arr. So much matters in terms of valuation, kiss of death, etc, around those that generic advice seems unlikely.

It does sound like your heart isn't in it either way + it's early, so I worry for your team both if you stay OR leave. They are your bigger responsibility, so a transition discussion w cofounders seems like the real thing. But again... Vague. Good luck!
So I guess you’ve never used one of those “open” “alternatives”? Often broken mess, lacking features, incoherent or antiquated UI, etc., ending up costing you more in time needed to ge things done than the paid alternative.
Could this finally be the end of every user-agent string starting with Mozilla/?
MMT's most controversial assertion is that a government that issues its own currency can't go bankrupt.

You called it extreme and then largely agreed with it....?
In which the author, a proponent of subscription schemes, concludes that they are doing it wrong, because he is spending a noticeable amount on subscriptions.
A few I don't see otherwise listed:

export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks
function jump {
cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2> /dev/null || (echo "No such mark: $1" && marks)
}
function mark {
mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1
}
function unmark {
rm -i $MARKPATH/$1
}
function marks {
ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- && echo
}
_jump()
{
local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$( ls $MARKPATH )" -- $cur) )
}
complete -F _jump jump

I used to use this one more; converted to vimwiki instead: http://todotxt.org/

Local documentation:

wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --wait=1 --random-wait --timestamping --no-parent $1

The only other ones which top the charts are jq, aws, curl, and docker.
Juries' decisions have to be respected regardless of their reasoning, which is how "jury nullification" arose. However, they are supposed to only determine matters of fact (ie whether the defendant did something, rather than whether the law is just) and judges can deselect people who they don't trust to give an honest verdict based on fact alone.

So, judges deselecting such people is actually preserving the jury system, not attacking it.
The Many Faces of Mark Zuckerberg: A Deep Learning Approach (PT2)
Clickbait title indeed, one organization doesn't mean all of them do this. That'd require an investigation (ie. real journalism) which this article so thoroughly lacks as the content can be summed up in two sentences. Sadly a sign of time.
Edison didn't even invent the lightbulb, which is what that quote is referencing.
I feel terrible for all those companies which don’t analyze their shopping funnels. The simplest checkout experience should require the minimum friction. What ends up happening is that they want to collect ridiculous amount of customer data in the hopes they’ll use it some other day.

Those companies deserve to die.
Mainstream macroeconomic theory -- both in its "freshwater" and "saltwater" traditions -- has become mainstream because of a variety of reasons. The OP quotes Keynes:

"That it reached conclusions quite different from what the ordinary uninstructed person would expect added, I suppose, to its intellectual prestige. That its teaching, translated into practice, was austere and often unpalatable, lent it virtue. That it was adapted to carry a vast and logical superstructure, gave it beauty. That it could explain much social injustice and apparent cruelty as an inevitable incident in the scheme of progress, and the attempt to change such things as likely on the whole to do more harm than good, commended it to authority. That it afforded a measure of justification to the free activities of the individual capitalist, attracted to it the support of the dominant social force behind authority."[a]

That rings true: New macroeconomic theories can become mainstream only if they earn the support (for example, by favoring the vested interests) of educational institutions, governmental institutions, and -- last but not least -- the business establishment.

[a] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/keynes/john_maynard/k44g/co...
The stats from Google are pretty sophisticated. But let's assume you're right. So what? Should only engineers be able to weigh in? Do I need to get a degree in chemistry before I can object to things getting dumped into drinking water?
> The rule of thumb for restaurants is the poorer the website, the better the food.

While I think this is a stupid rule, I can't deny that for my top 10 restaurants it's true.
If you're on Android, try a firewall-based system-wide adblocker like Blokada (https://blokada.org/index.html). It's very effective at blocking ads, including on mobile Chrome, and it's grandma-friendly (doesn't need root, nothing to maintain)
How to break bad work habits and build good ones at the same time
Yes, and the recommendations are semi meaningful, even. Google and Facebook have no incentive to actually show you ads for good products, just ads you are likely to click.
Are two spaces better than one? A response to new research
While I can see where this viewpoint works, I disagree with the ROI assessment.

Friends can and do provide very strong returns on investment. They can help with asset accumulation (networking for better jobs; in my case I helped a couple of friends with portfolio management of their retirement plans!).

Friends are part of a lifestyle. My lifestyle includes doing group activities with friends 2 nights a week. The social interaction that happens between rounds of trivia is more important to me than the trivia result themselves.

Friends are part of a family, too. Good friends accept and even enjoy it when your partner/kids come along. Eventually you can enter into babysitting swap systems where one family watches the kids while the other couple goes and does other stuff. Also it's important to model mature friendship patterns for your kids.

So overall, friendship isn't only super important in it's own right, it also overlaps with the three important categories you list in your post.
and then there are those sites that force redirect you to their app or load in some artificially disabled version of itself..
iOS Design Inconsistencies Across Apple's Apps
>This ensures that more time in adulthood is dedicated to what truly matters, which is....

...mindless consumption
No, in the new design, collapsing works by clicking the vertical line.
“The growing air travel sector drives increasing demand for aviation fuel, which means the total demand for oil continues to rise. The gasoline saved by electric cars will, thus, be used elsewhere and not be wasted”

I think what he means to say is that oil usage will still increase in spite of the fact that we’ll have more EV’s.

Of course, oil usage is reduced from what it would be without EV’s.

I don’t think the observation changes anything. World population is going to 9 billion. We still need EV’s to mature and become a large part of transportation.
L.A., are you sure you want Amazon's HQ2?
@nartz, thank you.

I wrote a similar comment below before seeing yours, and now I’m even more curious: How much opportunity did Ticki have for good collaboration, just on that one, huge unresolved bug? How much could it have short circuited that month long drought?

I’m not sure exactly how much our thoughts were overlapping, but in case you haven’t heard the name of one particular flavor, @serens response to my comment shows the wikipedia reference to the concept, apparently known to some as “rubber duck debugging”.

The WP article centers around debugging, however it seems commonplace in many subjects and problem solving variations. I suspect it’s just as effective at ideation or design stages, or even when purely theoretical creativity is desired, for example in proving a mathematical result.
I'm sure many workplaces were healthy before the success of feminism and the introduction of women to many traditionally male workplaces and jobs last century, too.
> Firefox is a standards-conforming web browser. If some nincompoop puts a web page out there and my browser can't render it, I'm not going back.

Well... yeah... that's the point of what they're doing.
How can you bypass the kernel?
I don't see why your investors wouldn't be interested in pivoting the current company to a bigger opportunity with less competition. What are the objections going to be? They are not going to get mad at you for finding a bigger opportunity when you were out talking to customers.
Even though this uses Hydrogen, which means small quantity of water, water still a finite resource, it becomes costly every year, specially the one that's drinkable.
This seems like a double sword, solving one side, while it makes other worse.
A couple of things that I find interesting to think about.

Firstly, are the people of the USA freer than the people of China? I find that quite an easy question to answer.

Secondly, a harder one. Are the people of Chile freer of less free than they would have counterfactually been if the USSR had come to dominate Latin America (and won the Cold War into the bargain)?
Just another woman focused on how she looks.
This is obviously pretty weird and stupid on many levels, but there is one interesting fact hidden in one of the authors responses. They ended up in this (really just incredibly stupid) situation because they use feature detection and non-standard features only available in Chrome (or WebKit maybe).
Agreed. Spend big cash on your UI if you want. I visit most sites in a "Reader Mode" or using the Brave Browser.

User Experience Tip: When I go to a site to read your article, I want to read your article. Not the pop up to subscribe to your newsletter. Not the side bar of related click bait articles. Not the ads you've sprinkled in every other paragraph. If you do this, your UI is already poor & not optimized. That's why people are using other tools to fix your UI.
That reference helps the original link make a lot more sense.

I've spent about 2.5 years of my career writing Erlang code. It's statements like "Core Erlang is less complicated than Erlang" that always trouble me about the Erlang community - Core Erlang is less complicated for compilers, not for humans. In this first in a series of blog posts about Core Erlang, there is no context given around what it is or why anyone should care.

Erlang is a great language and environment, but it really struggles with the marketing aspects of a platform, that is, how to make it accessible to humans.
Atlassian products such as Confluence and Jira are some of those tools where I need to disable uMatrix completely to not get a crazy redirect loop when I try to login. Luckily we're leaving Atlassian quite soon, their sites have been such a pain to use for many reasons.
The new design removed them. You click the line below the vote arrows to collapse. Not exactly the most intuitive, but it’s working as intended.
Wondershare Dr Fone Crack 2018 and Registration Code Download
Could someone ELI5 what I'm looking at?
Newcastle Disease in Poultry
> West coast has always been about experiment wheareas east coast is more conservative.

This is just flat out wrong and a bit egotistical. Now the west coast thinks it’s the “experimenters” rolls eyes
>if you "discourage" my browser, I go away and don't come back.

Yep, there are lots of major news websites I dont visit at all. I know they are going to have an annoying autoplay video.

I'll skip to the comment section.
The hypothesis holds in the population level as well: populations that evolved to disadvantage their older members might be more successful.

I dont care if you keep insulting me to make your point, but for the sake of conversation, dont assume your assumptions are correct
Yeah, in programming the only thing that dies is your belief that you can write bug-free code.
I know Dev shops don't like processes and forms, but that "checklist" is exactly that. It simply shows that processes and procedures are tools that are useful if that use can be limited.
Firefox isn't to blame. Users that are proactive about their web browsing (hopefully a rapidly growing number) often choose Firefox because it offers the most control. These aren't the types of users that are going to switch to a different browser to render a random site, they'll just ignore the site. If that's what the manager wants, I think they're on the right path. Seems shortsighted to me, but they're still in the online publishing business, playing the same old cat-and-mouse game, trying to live off antiquated ad-tech, so I'm guessing they're not very forward-thinking.
If eBPF manages to be an exception to that, it could be very interesting.

If i understand this correctly, eBPF is a fairly general-purpose bytecode format that can be executed inside the kernel. It's safe, and there's a JIT, so it's pretty fast (is there really a JIT compiler running in kernel space?). It was originally used for packet filtering, but it's now used at various decision points in networking, and is somehow involved with tracing as well.

But it could potentially go much further. Anywhere the kernel currently gets configured with data-like configuration could be replaced or augmented with an eBPF, right? For example, instead of setting an ACL on a directory, you could set an eBPF program which would run for each attempted access and decide whether to allow it, as well as logging or doing other stuff. eBPF programs could guard the interfaces between a container and its host, allowing more flexible isolation. An eBPF program could respond to every system call a process makes, allowing behaviour like OpenBSD's pledge, only much more sophisticated.

With the right access control model (implemented in eBPF!), normal userland programs could install eBPF programs for resources they control (sockets, files, etc), potentially shifting a significant fraction of their processing into kernel mode, improving performance, reducing system call overhead, and allowing safe access to kernel facilities that are currently inaccessible. Imagine implementing a garbage collector in userspace, but being able to configure your slice of the virtual memory system in the kernel using an eBPF program.

I don't know if this will happen. But a pervasively eBPF world would be very different, and very interesting. We'll have all sorts of fun. We'll get tools we never imagined. And we'll get pwned by black hats harder than ever before.
>> China is based on communism

China is no longer about communism any more than the U.S. is about the Enlightenment. China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it.

Every Chinese today is caught up in a mad scramble for personal enrichment, often at the expense of his fellow man. Most American Marxists would shrink back in horror at the capitalist fever that grips the average Chinese. Even most of those on America's political right do not have the stomach for the level of Gordon Gecko-ness that animates many Chinese. While many on the American right prefer to retreat to dens, family, and countryside, Chinese capitalists are busily trying to get rich any way they can (ethically or otherwise).

The Chinese Communist Party functions the same way Chinese government has functioned for thousands of years. Anyone can join, if he can pass the necessary tests. Passing tests to gain a coveted spot in the government has been a national priority since before Confucius's day, 2.5 millennia ago, and continues to be today.

China does not have legally enshrined freedom of speech. But at a societal level, the 'real' freedom of speech is greater than what I've experienced in America. In America, you must very carefully watch your words, lest you offend any of a number of easily offended groups. You won't go to jail for it (unlike certain parts of Western Europe - Germany and Britain, for instance), but you will lose friends and you may lose your job. The result is that while speech may be legal in America, it ends up stifled nevertheless. Large chunks of American society no longer value free speech, and there is actual debate in many corners of the country about whether certain speech ('hate speech') should be outlawed. In China, so long as you do not loudly criticize or subvert the Chinese government, you are free to speak your mind - and won't be harassed by the government OR be James Damore'd / Donglegate'd out of a job.

As for the "10s of millions dead", there's extremely good reason to be skeptical of these claims.[1] They become harder and harder to swallow the more older, Mao-era Chinese you talk with - most of whom, no matter where in the countryside they hail from, know of no one who died of starvation or malnutrition. The press is the propaganda arm of a nation's powerful - whether in China or America. Don't believe it just because they tell you to.

[1] http://www.unz.com/article/mao-reconsidered-part-two-whose-f...
No, but I'd expect you not to dump chemicals in drinking water yourself?

Personally, I feel it would be better to have people with more technical competence involved in the campaign, because it looks a bit sloppy aside from anything else.