skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a human problem with an incremental experiment-driven model, instead of a theoretical model.

It's easier to get money to build a new collider if there's something specific to look for. "We're expecting to find the Higgs, but we need a better tool to look for it."

Trying to do the same with a data-driven model is a hard sell. "We haven't found anything, please give us a better machine so we might find something, but we don't know what"
One like doesn't sound rogue. If the dude'd gone out of his way to like every claim of Tibet being its own country, sure.

In this case though I'd imagine he saw a "Thanks Marriott" and liked it because that's the thing companies do. I've had companies miss my oozing-in-sarcasm messages and like them in the past even.

The thing to think about is how much time does he really have per action? If it was you on personal twitter, minutes per action. As a customer support person answering hundreds of messages a day, probably closer to a second or two per action
Yeah I agree with your assessment ancedotally. Firefox a few months ago had horrible performance in google maps and strangely facebook. I checked again today, it's improved a lot, but it is still noticeably slower for those two cornerstone websites. It was enough to make me stop using firefox again

I'm glad that the perf issues have been improved. They just need to get a little bit better and most objections for firefox would go away. Maybe as a workaround someone could make an extension that opens specific urls in chrome/safari when you open them. Only use chrome for maps and facebook for example :p
I was pretty obsessed with video games when I was younger. I'd probably have to admit that to a degree I still am now as an adult.

For me I think its because I am a very competitive person. To the point where I am the annoying friend who takes things too far. Online gaming was a way where I could exercise that competitive nature. I was never the best at physical sports but found I was pretty good at online gaming.
Author is talking about 1980s games. He’s missing an important point: new games are specifically designed to be far more addictive and harder to put down, especially those mobile incrementals.

Sure the situation is still faceted as today as back then, but now gaming, gamification and connected gaming loops (when short and long loop overlaps so a game is never in a “completed” state, see game dev from kayrosoft) are far more pervasive.

I’m a gamer, I can play long hours and I’m not addicted. But. Those new breed of mobile games scares the hell out of me. I designed some game I played some of those. They are actively addictive not because they are interesting but because they tie into your psicology with boxes keys rewards daily bonuses etc.
Upvoted for the info, but I'll restate why I use both:

uBlock is my blacklist. uMatix is my whitelist. For various reasons, I occasionally need to skip the whitelist, but I never had a reason to turn off the blacklist in a few years of using uBlock.
I spent the last 6 months or so in Firefox after having been out of it for years. It generally has caught up, and was generally pleasurable to use. I’m in the Apple ecosystem, so I wish there was a way to better sync with it like using the system keychain and Safari bookmarks, but it was otherwise holding up nicely. I loved the new containers feature, feeling like I had a fundamentally new way to approach web security.

That was until last week. My Mac lost power due to some construction, and when I turned it back on Firefox had completely erased its previous profile. All my data, all my containers, all my cookies and bookmarks were gone. No evidence on disk for my old profile, despite a faq suggesting it’d be there. Firefox sync somehow was preserved in this blank profile, yet it synced barely anything (a few extensions).

Sorry Firefox, you lost my trust. I’m now back to Safari.
Blockchain Explorer on steroids
> One might also argue that fixing it is as easy as replacing load() with safe_load(), but many people are unaware of the problem, and even if you’re aware of it, it’s one of those things that can be easy to forget. It’s pretty bad API design.

It is. At API design time, it would have been trivial to replace them with `load()` (which does the same as `load_safe()` now) and `unsafe_load()` (which does the same as `load()` now) and probably avoid this pitfall altogether. Now? Much more difficult to solve.
Casio databank was the original smartwatch. Miss mine.
Forgot about the Dragonball times ... Thanks.
It goes away when you close the Private Browsing window. I cannot feasibly imagine a situation where you need your browsing history to be purged as you close individual tabs. Like, what are you gonna do? Close the tab to have its browsing history purged, when you take a pee break from searching wedding rings, but leave the Private Browsing window open? Just close the window entirely.

It's also very much expected behaviour for many users, to be able to reopen tabs and I'd consider it a bug, if I weren't able to.

What's more, Chrome has you covered for actual privacy concerns.

When you use Chrome Sync, Google gets your browsing history and bookmarks in readable form (and they declare that they use these in their privacy policy). Which means US intelligence agencies, as well as befriended intelligence agencies from other countries, also have access to your data.

When auto-filling data, Chrome will fill out all input fields on a page, even ones that you cannot see. So, dodgy webpages may very well have your address, phone number etc..

Chrome's extension store also has a massive malware problem. Mozilla has human reviewers to prevent this and also requires extension to get user consent for internet connections that are not necessary for the functioning of the extension (telemetry, ads).

To sort of mitigate this problem, Chrome doesn't allow extensions to run in Incognito Mode, which however also locks out privacy enhancing extension. Firefox also blocks tracking scripts and similar in Private Browsing mode by default.
VALIS is quite a ride. The really scary thing is that it is clearly heavily autobiographical.
There are some "are you sure you want to quit" Firefox extensions that meet your needs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ctrl-...

Command-delete works as expected for me (in this HN comment box), deleting only the text on the current line before the cursor.
Aki Shimazaki. A lot of short / easy to read novels that somehow relate to each others
To be honest, this person seems to have a persecution complex. Most people view too much gaming in a bad light, but no more so than they view too much anything in a bad light.
One of my friend created British Virgin Company (contracts from Canadian companies) and moved to Thailand.

But he pays no taxes.

Now he is on a student visa there.

And if you do not have a family it might work for you.
Yeah you're spot on about the new games. They are like poker machines.
From your article:

> My point here is not about using classes or not, but that Vue is using arbitrary object structures instead of language features.

Which language features do you think they should be used that they aren't being used now? Your class example doesn't express the same things that Vue's object structure can.

Object literals are an important, useful, and universal feature of JS. Class syntax doesn't really replace them.

I'd really like to know what your alternative is.
Video games are vice (like beer or cigarettes), not a hobby.
That's correct. And all private tabs and windows share the same private session, which is discarded when the last private tab is closed.
Then you have to wonder: why speak with non-strangers at all? Apart from a couple of friends and close family pretty much all human interactions are “shallow” by definition. You might see that as a “bug” that wastes us time but instead I see it as a feature that helps us remain in one congruent piece as a functioning society. Thanks for bringing Socrates into the discussion, but I think Asimov is more suited for it, I’m thinking of one of his stories where sometime in the future humans live isolated from each other on big farms, surrounded only by robots, with all communications happening through some sort of screens (if I remember correctly).
>>We take that entirely for granted now, like it can't come back and get us. It can.

There's no evidence at all that industrial revolution era working conditions can return.

The dominant force shaping working conditions was and is labour productivity.

Before industrialization, low labour productivity meant short brutish lives.

The 12 hour work days of the industrial revolution were a relative improvement, because they provided a more reliable source of sustenance than the substitence farming of previous eras.

As productivity increased, the number of hours of works, especially very dangerous and streneous work, declined, as the risks of such work started to outweigh the risks of foregoing the additional income of taking on that work.

This decline had next to nothing to do with any concerted social effort.
It seems this was just FMT1 that went dark
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MALARIA: A DEADLY DISEASE WHICH STILL THREATENS AFRICA
Convergence to Kubernetes – Standardization to Scale
I'm guessing you didn't signup for a Firefox account to save the sync the bookmarks?

Do you not have any backup services running?
i guess i just don't follow how you're connecting these notions.
I've said it elsewhere, but for me I played a lot of games when I was younger because I was bullied and didn't really have many friends.

That changed later in life, but by then gaming wasn't just an escape - it was part of me, and my lifestyle - I play less, but still enjoy the odd marathon.

That said, I think there is an element of truth to gaming obsession.

MMO's had a heavy social element, and your perceived 'status' sometimes was linked in people's minds as your rank or your gear. This gear or rank often required heavy grinding for that perceived social benefit which made it a race to the bottom in the sense that fun had nothing to do with it anymore, it was competitiveness and/or obsession as well as maintenance of your status.

Nowadays the discussion (rightfully) is more around loot boxes, but that's a separate condition in my mind to the reward mechanism you get from ranks or loot.

I do also think it is important to distinguish addictiveness that comes from grinding and competitive gaming, to the escapism that drives others to play games for hours at a time. You can get so focused on competitiveness that it can eat into your life, making it imbalanced. The reason for that is totally different to someone who is trying to escape a bad social life/family/whatever.

There are plenty of completely healthy kids/adults who play way too much games because of the addictive nature of the games and not for any underlying reason, and that can be an issue in its own way, but that needs to be limited by parenting, and/or being raised in a way that allows someone to make good decisions.
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I will reuse a comment from a couple of years ago.

The term junk was intended to convey something apparently worth keeping (perhaps in the attic), as opposed to garbage, which is thrown away.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1316152
Since these Macs come with type-C ports, which hub/adapter do you use to get your work done?
Hi -- yeah there is no support code for windows; I don't use a windows desktop so I never had a need for it -- however the 'skeleton' is in thre, perhaps you could do it by backporting a few bits and pieces of the old synergy..
Golden Handcuffs
I have seen this abused. A team member does whatever she thinks is best, and the rest now have to tag along because to communicate to all stakeholders that it was not a team decision and needs to be revisited is too costly.

That can be seen by some management as "getting things done". And quite often that person feels vindicated when her solution works.

But that person is not able to realize the cost of the mistrust of the team and detachment of the job nor to think about the possibility that the other solution not only have worked, but it will have been way better.

At my job, I have to arbitrate between team members and teams. I will flag anyone that decides to "ask for forgiveness instead of permission" and notify their manager. I don't like to work with people that think that they are so good that don't need to present their arguments like the rest.

So when going for forgiveness instead of permission, it is wise to think:

a) If your way is so good, you should be able to get what you want with arguments.

b) If you force everyone else to follow your way without their consent, you are not a leader you are just abusing the system.

c) That it works does not mean that was the best option.

d) That other people can also have done the same does not mean that they are worse than you, it may be that they see a bigger picture that you can't see.

It is still possible to go for it. But you need to be accountable for the consequences.
Reddit also had trouble about an hour ago, for about 15 minutes I think. Wonder if it's related.
I'm a biased observer, sure. But I feel very confident in saying that VR is never ever going away, let alone already dead like OP was saying, or even remotely comparable to 3D TV.

It's not (as it stands) going to be adopted as the media-platform of choice for consuming mass amounts of netflix and marvel movies, but there's way more niches to make it a viable go-to solution for many problems.
Virtual Private Server  Is Boosted by Unisecure Data Centers
NASA says Antarctica has been gaining ice:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...

Ice loss from antarctica not a large contributor to the small sea level rises around the world
As far as I know, Slack and Telegram are currently the two leaders in the “searchable” area of messaging apps.
People do not incorporate so others know you're "operating legitimately." Incorporation is required for legally formalizing ownership structures, separating your own assets from company assets, getting your employer identification number (which, in turn, is necessary to hire people), get a business banking account for the operation, clarifying tax/expensing factors, and numerous other business related reasons.

While I'm sure somebody somewhere has incorporated for trust, but that's a very obscure reason. It's certainly not "the specific reason for incorporation." It also doesn't even make any sense. One of the benefits of incorporation is to minimize the recourse available to customers - namely in that your personal assets cannot be touched. Somebody operating an unincorporated business is exposing themselves to unlimited liability if they run afoul of anything.
Show HN: BhagavadGita.io (Bhagavad Gita – Simplified)
Thailand carries out first execution since 2009
Interview with Marin Gerov from DULO
Is it a convenient excuse? Climate change would imply that it is not the salmon industry's fault that salmon populations are changing. The industry person suggested overfishing patterns are the cause. This puts the blame firmly on the fishing industry...
I went to a therapist site for a free trial. It was a chatbot pretending to be a person. I asked for a different therapist but got a different name with the same stock photo. It was not as good as a real therapist and I think they are trying to fool people. I forgot the site but they are popping up all over now.
Everyone here and TFA talk about 127.0.0.1 (a.k.a localhost), but the entire 127.0.0.0/8 subnet is routed to the local machine - does anyone here know how the browsers treat the other addresses?

Do they compare to 127.0.0.1? to 127.0.0.0/8? Do they consult the routing table?
Ok. Then why would you use a weakly typed language where the idea of types can be easily and completely subverted with monkey patching?
4 Virtual Reality applications in the automotive industry
synergy? i was using it years ago but i have found out that "Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders" was superior, but i'm using only windows PCs.
If you codify things that some vendors (notably Microsoft) are already doing with their calling conventions, that would give you alignment specifiers, and vector types passed in SIMD registers.

I personally think ownership is a biggie. If I pass in a pointer, is it expected to outlive the call?

And buffer sizes, of course.
How about a nice French press (thermos-style, stays hot for a bit), a grinder and some beans?

I make a batch at a time (roughly 1 litre), call it a couple full coffee cups, without having to wank about with a bunch of tiny per-cup efforts that add up to being a pain in the ass overall. Coffee grounds can go in my compost, or feed the next batch of oyster mushroom spawn. Mmmmm.
> Firefox sync somehow was preserved in this blank profile, yet it synced barely anything (a few extensions).
Hi there! Our upload infrastructure is designed to scale to anywhere in the world where we decide to put up relays. That makes the speed variable depending on where you are and where the relay is. We are still testing on our staging infrastructure and haven't deployed to our production networks yet, so it's hard to say right now what our speeds will be. But I'd love to know more about what your speeds are like now and what you expect with your backup service. Could you tweet at either me (@mholt6), @relicabackup, or email support-at-relicabackup.com and I'll get back to you on that?
most (normal?) datacenters have A/B/C power feeds. Also east/west network runs. even if you don't have multi-line PSU's you can at least stagger the racks. part of being cut-rate is that they don't have these things :(
Building a #malware distribution network is too easy with #Kardon #Loader
Skills have centralized too heavily around HTML/CSS/JS for GUI development, that to do otherwise locks out talent, and or oppurtunity, depending on your budget.

Electron enabled cross-platform localized applications where nothing else stayed within the budget, with developers you already had.

It isn't that no one cares about native GUI's, it is that it isn't commerical, except in rare circumstances (games, visualization software, giant applications built by 1000s of developers, probably).
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in case you want to read the full article
> does these posts

Why are you calling yourself "Tony Duncan"? Why not "Ford Prefect"?
I've known people who watch 6 hours of TV a day, except they're not actually watching it, they just want to have it on all the time while they do other things. Which is awful and incomprehensible to me personally--it's like having someone yelling in your ear all day "for background noise"--but I guess it's not necessarily mindless vegging out.
Rumors of more Star Trek series arise
This reminds me a blog by PG where he proposed that Google can be disrupted by building search engine for techies (for e.g.) At that time it sounded preposterous to me, as Google worked perfectly fine for me - but now I really see this as a possibility. I think DuckDuckGo is following this strategy.
Privacy invasion and feeling creepy at the airline level is alright. I registered for the flight and paid for it through my ticket checkout. In addition, I'm usually part of their loyalty program when I fly. What I don't appreciate is what happened to me at a high end mall while on vacation in Spain. Walked into the store, the sales person smiled and me and called me by my name. I never met her before and that type of interaction was quite jarring. I was left wondering where have I seen this person for a bit, striking up a friendly conversation to jog my memory. Then she explained that a camera had captured and recognized me through my face on her screen. Creepy.
Definitely unenforced and definitely illegal.

https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/faq/
Yes, mostly the second thing. It's the opposite of beneficial - because the guidelines say 'don't be a meanie/obvious blowhard' and most people who get called out for anything are called out for something along those lines, bigots who adapt to these can and sometimes do last on the site for years.

HN's mods put in a great deal of effort in and are surprisingly successful at containing the far more basic and common human impulse to be a jerk to strangers online. They have rules, they enforce them, they publicly shame rulebreakers, etc. You are explicitly not allowed to be an asshat on HN and everyone knows it. The place would be better if 'don't be a bigot' got the same treatment. All caps users and transgressors against HN's fundamentalist quotation marks cult† are exposed to more public opprobrium than your typical "human biodiversity" sea lion.

†This bit is a dumb[1] joke[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
HN Commenting Disorder. >.>
Nothing is perfect and critiques always welcome. Will add the article to Awesome YAML - a Collection of Awesome YAML (Ain't Markup Language) Goodies for Structured (Meta) Data in Text [https://github.com/datatxt/awseome-yaml]
Admittedly, my own experience was with older versions up to 57, but what it felt like e10s did not really help with responsiveness, especially after very long sessions (24 hours+). Restarting Firefox used to be a daily ritual (with all the lost website state that entailed) as JS pauses started becoming very noticeable. Fx would also keep the CPU in high power states with constant 10-20% CPU usage near the 24 hour mark.

I don't know if it's an architectural limitation of how e10s was implemented, but Firefox still feels like a single-process browser. On the other hand, Chrome remains responsive even after a week of being open.
I do think customer deposits is the most likely explanation, but it does not necessarily mean Tether is insolvent. My leading hypothesis is that all Bitfinex deposits are on Tether's accounts and Bitfinex holds Tethers for those deposits. If my hypothesis is true, Tether wouldn't be a fraud, although its legality is in question.
Firefox’s biggest problem is rapacious battery draining. Unplug your charger and Safari feels like a dainty butterfly in a soft summer breeze, while Firefox thrashes around like a drunken Godzilla in mid-90s Tokyo.

The energy usage tab on the activity monitor consistently shows Firefox at a ~40 “score” (whatever that unit is), and Safari more around 4. Anecdotally, the difference in battery time is real.

This is the biggest reason to keep using Safari on Mac in battery mode. (Or Always Be Charging :) )

I hope they can ever fix this :( sounds pretty fundamental, but I know little.
Ghostery like filtering is already implemented in firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection).
IMO, I think this is all baseless moral panic. I saw a video the other day in which a psychiatrist claimed that choosing to play video games over seeing other people/friends or family is a sign of obsession. People literally do that all the time with all sorts of other hobbies. It's only a problem if you would honestly rather do activity X but have a compulsion to play games instead.
Another feature of Keybase's exploding messages is that when they expire, the text is replaced by the md5sum of the message. So a faked screenshot can (potentially; I haven't verified this) be proven to be faked by appealing to the md5sum in its place, crucially, without needing to reveal the contents of the original message.
or to put it another way, 0.011% of the 26.5 million cubic kilometres of total Antarctic ice sheet.
PCI auditor asks for list of all usernames and plain text passwords
> But it became irrelevant after Google in 2008 released Chrome

No, it didn't.

> Chrome, a faster, more secure and versatile browser.

No, it wasn't.

Articles like this are perpetrating the myth about "better" Chrome, while it had always been slower and had less features than Firefox.
blocked in my org. Do you have any other link? :$
On Apple's Love Affair with Swift