skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never left FireFox, because I think it's spooky to use a browser from Google that connects profiles with their identity management. But I have to say, FireFox is finally getting better again!
> China has no power to implement global laws

Apparently they have, because IP laws do, as you said, apply to the internet.

> The example makes no sense because it has nothing to do with IP. It is also dependent on jurisdiction.

The example was absurd by design. IP laws differ strongly per country. Which of those should the internet adhere to? All of them? This would not work, since some works which are protected by IP law in one country would not be by another country. Should it be decided by the country of the uploader? Or that of the downloader? Of maybe the country of the server where it's stored, or each countries' IP laws in which there are nodes it passes through as the data gets to its destination?

There is no sensible and doable way to apply IP laws, or any countries' laws in general, to the entire internet. The entire idea is, to me, a non-starter from the get-go.
Absolutely, there should be a different port for web pages than applications. Even if we started by disabling js on port 80
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Are they? Through which policy changes?

The "hostile environment" policy and promises that post-leaving, EU immigration will be controlled too.
Take some philosophy classes at the college or graduate level. You will learn to make arguments, and if you have good teachers/TA's, your writing will vastly improve, as they will provide incisive critiques of your writing from structure to word choice & punctuation
Yeah, wasn't criticizing you. I think one of the signs of experience is when people go from just laughing at that to laughing and thinking more deeply it.
That’s probably why - Guardian news journalism, while still biased is usually readable and contains concrete and relevant facts. This commentary is something else entirely.
Amazon DynamoDB Announces 99.999% Service Level Agreement for Global Tables
That's just false in most cases. A react native app even halfway well designed is indistinguishable from native.
The Quirks of Google UAC
This might be overkill for what you're trying to do, but...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/20/writing-advice/

contains some food for thought
Yes, this is exactly what artist do when practicing their craft
If I were to do a first-pass re-write your original question, it might go something like this:

Ask HN: How can I improve my written communication?

When I try to present or argue a point in writing, I find it hard to come up with a clear structure that conveys that point well. I have tried reading a lot. What else can I try?

Why did I make those changes?

- eloquent -> written communication: makes the title match the body, and is more specific

- 'I was taught four languages...' isn't relevant or useful. Everything you write either makes the point, or distracts from the point. Cut the latter.

- "can't seem to remember structures..." is kind of irrelevant, as you're asking for different solutions from the ones you've tried

- 'What else can I try?': End on a call to action.
Intel CEO resigns after probe into relationship with employee
Given that https://github.com/src-d/go-git exists, this seems like a purely interest-driven learning project, as it says.
A person with a healthy diet probably swallows much more toothpaste (accidentally remnants flushed down etc) than candy.
How Content marketing can up-heave your brand
Selling Dog-Themed Chocolate and Donating All Profits to Animal Rescue
That's been my experience/preference as well. In fact I have been very taken aback by all the "Firefox is back" and "time to try Firefox again" headlines. I guess I didn't realize what sort of exodus occurred when chrome came out. But honestly, I never ran into performance issues with Firefox over the years and various versions, including the overhaul with Firefox 3.

I typically have 2-8 tabs open (hasn't changed much over the years). Maybe other usage patterns used to cause problems... Also worth noting I was always on Linux; maybe Windows/Mac versions weren't as good?

When quantum came out, I didn't personally notice a big performance improvement in terms of user experience (though I don't doubt it's there, and I don't watch CPU/MEM constantly). I've seen these headlines and have just been thinking to myself "but it's always been good!"
I actually think it's because the most common phrasing is "reduce, reuse, recycle", the pronunciation of which comes out as "re-duce, re-use, re-cy-cle". The 2-2-3 cadence just sounds more natural than 2-3-2 or 3-2-2.
Yeah even on the days when serious applications on the 16 bit platforms were written in Assembly I hardly felt the need to disable bounds checking in Turbo Pascal, except in cases when the solution was to re-write the function in Assembly anyway.
yeah, every time I see "we proved this theory using a simulation..." I get a little voice in my head that says "then you didn't prove anything except your ability to create a simulation that agrees with your pet theory"

I understand that conducting experiments with ecosystems to prove why they behave in particular ways might be a tad tricky. But that just means that theories about ecosystems are hard to prove, not that they get a free ride to "proven".
Yesterday I was learning React, and I wondered whether there was a React abstraction for http requests. So I found a tutorial for making a request in React, and it was spread over 3 different articles.

The first article was about how to install React. The second article was about how to set up a basic click event in React. The third article showed you how to use a 3rd party JS library for making an http request.

...
On the other hand, it is also true that some people who reject this out of hand just have never been offered any substantial compensation to do anything.

In any case, OP wasn't claiming that "everyone has a price", he was asking for examples where someone did have a price, so your comment doesn't even apply.
Depending on what password manager you use, you can try getting the Firefox extension for it. I use Bitwarden, and their extension just works. Although I agree with you that they should have support for it through the accessibility/auto-completion services. The ability to have uBlock in a mobile browser is too convenient to give up.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a graphics card I ordered two and a half months ago.
Or better use one of these:
https://chromium.woolyss.com/
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
You're right that the root cause needs to be fixed. My points are within an assumed context of a dysfunctional environment where the status quo is either actively maintained or simply neglected, and the person bypassing formality is only doing so because there are no other options available.

As greedo mentions in another reply to my points, you really can't have "lone rangers" on a team who do this without a valid excuse.

The point about architects was somewhat joking; of course there are good ones (such as yourself judging from your comments), but in my experience most of them are at best a useless burden and at worst an utterly destructive influence on teams.
There is no need for MS to abandon Edge, especially when OS integration is going to be more important in the near future. Chrome and Firefox are also not as resource efficient on Windows, which his especially important on battery powered Windows devices. Same as on Mac OS, where you use Safari, if you value your battery life.

Also there will be new mobile Windows devices very soon. https://www.windowscentral.com/upcoming-microsoft-hardware-w...
Yeah, that's just showboating. But also maybe something to be expected when, for example, climate folks go around saying things like "We predict that most/all of the snow and ice will be gone by year 20xx", but then that doesn't happen, and in fact we have near-record winter weather instead.

BTW, one of the simpleton's catchphrases is "the new normal", something which I used to see all the time but not as much lately. My wife has family who live near a lake in Texas, and during the drought there a few years back this lake was drying up. Folks in the area were being told by so-called climate experts that this was "the new normal", and not to expect that lake to fill up again during their lifetimes! But then of course a year later that lake was full to overflowing, and you will note that drought hasn't really been the major concern in Texas lately.
Ex-ter-mi-nate!
I was thinking of reddit accounts specifically, accounts with age plus karma can be sold for a non insignificant amount.
+1 for GDPR!
Show HN: GO ES –  Golang event sourcing made easy
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1080 TI Asus still >900 EUR Amazon DE.
Translation App for macOS with deep system integration
Tearing Down Xero and QuickBooks Online's Pricing (Case Study – 16k Data Points)
>Years later Google had to create a series of tutorials with Udemy (as I recall) to actually tell people how to do things in a not stupid way.

Well, Google should have done that from the start and there wouldn't be a problem...
The Mission to Build the Ultimate Burger Bot
Was Koko able to talk to other gorillas or was it due to human captivity, she could only talk to humans?
But what about applications that link to web pages or web pages that link to applications?

What valid reason is there to have an "application" and any documentation or related HTML material from the same site on different ports? Or, as some have pointed out elsewhere when this has come up, to have "applications" and "documents" use completely different protocols, languages and native clients, when both are often used together?
Europe Already Has a Solution for Too-Quiet Electric Cars
> If it comes in a shiny plastic package, plastic bottle or tin can, you shouldn't be eating it anyway (in general)

This is a stupid assertion. Plenty of healthy food comes in shiny plastic packages, plastic bottles, or tin cans. You're essentially just shaming people for wanting more convenient food options.
I worked at Zynga. They bumped my salary almost quarterly and not small amounts. By the time I left, I was making 50% more than when I started and I'd been there less than three years. I burned out so badly I had to leave in the middle of the day once and not come back for about a week. The entire place felt sketchy. The CEO was a known bad person, it felt like we were selling drugs to children and old women and the spam...

I stayed for the money and my loyalty to my team but I hated that place.
Article 11 is about a new right for publishers. It could potentially make an infringement to post a link to a news article on Twitter, the paragraph you posted is a limitation to that right, because it says that authors can do that what everybody always could have done.

This new right was "tested" in Spain and Germany. In Spain news sites lost 15% of their traffic. Bigger site were hit less hard because people knew them and got to them directly. In Germany they gave Google essentially a license for free because Google didn't want to pay and because the publishers couldn't lose the traffic from Google. But smaller companies than Google and start-ups had to pay, putting them at clear disadvantage. Also the scheme costed around 10 million euros in legal fees had almost no income for the publishers. A Massive failure.

But they passed it anyway yesterday.
Java didn't go away when the JVM got invokedynamic. JS will be the default language of the web for some time - although it's great that other languages can now be citizens.
It is not correct, but most big orgs don't care about those details unless they are legally enforced by the government.

I am yet to have worked in any web project where stuff like ARIA was even on the requirements list.
Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
Please note that this was voted at the committee-stage, it will be voted upon in plenary (the full parliament) in july.

Not every country is represented in these committees and as such you might not have a representative and you'll have to look for the parties to find an equivalent from another country.

IMO, this is also glaring hole in the design of EU's democratic structures, because the chance of other-countries representatives answering to your questions is practically zero, while at the same time them being subject to corporate lobbying from whatever country.

the legal affairs committee :
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/home.html

the votes on "copyright in the digital single market" (pdf) :
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/149721/juri-committee-...
Practice more writing. The key is to do it in a way where embarrassment of both the style and substance is totally removed: anonymously!

Create a new account on any service where you feel you can have substantive conversations and write, write, write! You’ll quickly find your written voice.
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I can tell that you are an architect from they way that you like to use the terms "right" and "wrong".

There is no right and wrong. There are only opinions and stylistic preference. There are solutions that are better and there are ones that are worse. But when you black box it and look at it from the outside, it either works or it doesn't.
That's a bit of an optimistic take. For example, I'm familiar with a number of areas with the imaging community is getting much better at academic challenges, but the resulting models all generalize quite poorly. This has a lot to do with the lack of sufficient labeled data, but it doesn't help that the understanding of tumor morphology is changing pretty rapidly.

It's true that screening is a particularly interesting application because of the issues of fatigue and low true positive rates. On the other hand, decades ago (i.e. well before deep learning approaches) we had clinically approved classifiers that did better than average radiologists for some of these tasks and the uptake still hasn't been that impressive. Lot's of non-technical issues around making stuff like this standard of care.
I've thought about this too. Would be interesting to see how they could add Node-like support to Chakra (APIs) and see how it performs on Windows compared to Electron in regards to memory consumption and Battery usage. But when you talk about making even more web browser apps people don't get too excited.
>some point it has to sound less silly than some of the proposed ways of fitting more people into a metro with 3x-5x rent prices.

This ignores the reality that a lot of people want to live in urban areas
make everything 50% shorter.
I live near Cambridge, which was one of the most heavily pro-Remain areas of the country. However, it was my experience during honest private discussions before the referendum that the vast majority of participants thought the EU had both pros and cons, and often fell quite centrally on the in/out scale. Extreme views were rare, and usually based on a single overriding principle, such as supporting Remain because of a belief that Europe would inevitably go to war within our lifetimes without the EU to keep it together, or supporting Leave because of a belief that the EU is fundamentally flawed economically and so our trade policy should be more global in ways that aren't possible as a member.
>> The popular gorilla, known for her extraordinary mastery of sign language, has passed away at the age of 46.

About the "extraordinary mastery of sign language", wikipedia has this to say:

As with other great ape language experiments, the extent to which Koko mastered and demonstrated language through the use of these signs is disputed.[4][5] But it is generally accepted that she did not use syntax or grammar, and that her use of language did not exceed that of a young human child.

(...)

Following Patterson's initial publications in 1978, a series of critical evaluations of her reports of signing behavior in great apes argued that video evidence suggested that Koko was simply being prompted by their trainers' unconscious cues to display specific signs, in what is commonly called the Clever Hans effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)
Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
La Roca Village in Barcelona
What's wrong with safe zones? I honestly don't see anything wrong with participation medals either ...

Non-binary bathrooms? I don't see why anyone would legislate for bathrooms at all.

I'll draw the line at gender-neutral pronouns since "they/their" is perfectly adequate and means I don't have to change how I use language overnight to accommodate a fringe group.

Excess, sure. I'm happy to see some exuberance among communities once oppressed.

I don't share the fear of some that these communities are becoming the oppressors, although clearly (as with the whole C-16 thing) some are getting carried away.

If you take Peterson seriously, I kind of feel like he's just throwing away everything that's happened in the last few years and acting like it didn't happen. It's as though his whole didactic is tone-deaf.

An enlightened approach would be to integrate the new ideas with the old.
The same exact mechanism (and the parent already alluded to it in his comment: "Janette has the same problem while learning about X so she takes his code, makes a few changes and puts it on her blog").

Non experts look for tutorials,

They chance upon tutorials by non-experts

They don't know enough to tell they're junk

They use the code, link to, and suggest those tutorials to others

Those tutorials are getting higher ranks, attracting even more non-experts
Be brief?
> They just aren't good healthy places to eat in many developing countries.

This has been quite the opposite of my experience.
Well, this is the reason why everything round-trips to a cloud service now.
As an engine and heavy truck mechanic, ive only seen one that really stood out. I was assigned to work on a Kenworth T700 after a major accident. This is a large, commercial truck from around 2012 that has loads of bells and whistles to handle smog and emissions. The only problem was I couldnt get my laptop to read anything from the onboard computer that indicated any problems. Things like the radiator completely missing, or the crank case failure, were completely ignored. I could pull the air sensors and everything still reported A-OK, like the truck just rolled off the factory line. I bought a new cable, assuming it was a problem on my end, but no.

So trucks these days have whats called a urea tank. It gets injected into diesel streams to knock out harmful pollutants and its required by federal law. My truck had in its place an oily rag and a few twists of bailing wire. but...my computer tells me the urea tank is topped up and ready to go!

Turns out the last shop this truck had been to was investigated by the EPA, NHTSA, and FBI and convicted for hacking ECM's. They were even forging certifications and licenses. The driver of the T700 I was working on had a revoked class C license and had never received formal training. Long story short, the chop shop owner was cooling his heels on a 12 year federal sentence and my T700 driver was arrested when he showed up with the insurance adjuster.
I use Edge 95% of the time on two Windows machines. Its page rendering feels equivalent to Chrome and Firefox, but it's got better touch support, it launches faster, switching tabs feels more responsive, and it has a nice "set aside" view for tabs.

Even though I have the two other browsers installed, I see increasingly little reason to use them.

(The most annoying thing about using Edge is Google's search engine. It displays naggy pop-ups about Chrome, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn those off. It's not bad enough to make me use Bing, though.)

On Macs, I use Safari. On Linux, I use Firefox. Sticking to OS defaults makes life a bit easier for me, apparently.
How does the "beneficial owner" benefit from the ownership if he can't prove he's the owner? How do they get their money out? And can't we tax them at this point?
Yes I understand these are difficult schemes but can't you just freeze accounts you don't know who the owner is and see who comes out of the woodwork.
Just freeze all accounts until paperwork X is signed, problem solved?
I often find that if I'm having trouble conveying a point in writing, it's because I don't understand the needs of my audience and the story arc of the information I'm conveying in the context of that audience.

You want to create an urgent need in the reader for whatever it is you're trying to convey. What problem are they facing? How can you position them as the hero that will solve that problem, and how will they use your product, information, or point of view to become the hero of their own story.

It seems that you're feeling that your points are being understood or acknowledged, despite the fact that you know you have important information to convey.

We all want to be heard and to be valuable contributors, and I'll share that I've personally found the best way to be heard is to listen. By framing the presentation of your information in terms of your audience's problems and needs, you allow them relax. You haven't just heard their point, you're addressing it.

Now you can use the shared momentum of their attention and needs to guide them towards the solution you're proposing.

When done well, you'll make people feel profoundly heard and that you are empowering them solve their own problems, using ideas or suggestions they might have otherwise rejected if presented as simple fact or advice.

If you'd like to learn more, I'd recommend two fantastic books on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0...

https://www.amazon.com/Building-StoryBrand-Clarify-Message-C...

Despite their titles (and apparent focus on marketing), these books are both about empathy, listening, and finding ways to convey information that resonate deeply with your listeners.
For example, the request may have the following header:
Range: bytes=50-100
…which is requesting bytes 50-100 (inclusive) of the resource.

I haven't finished the article, but I've seen how this movie ends...
"Oligarchs": people who made their money by sweeping up ownership of the privatised companies after the USSR. Saudi crown princes. Politicians from the more corrupt states. Basically the opposite of celebrities.
In the last year, my experience is that Firefox has become far more sluggish. It often has quite perceptible delays in responding to input. Slow JavaScript in one tab often affects other tabs. It also acts weirdly when using it over rdp.

On paper, Quantum does lots of good things. In practice, my experience with it is not nearly so positive. And the plugin breakage of the last few years has been extremely irksome.
Parasites Can Mind-Control Animals Without Infecting Them
Benjamin Franklin, in his autobiography, writes about how he wanted to develop his ability to craft persuasive arguments. I've always admired his approach to solving that problem.

Here's a short article on that excerpt:
https://excellence-in-literature.com/copywork-how-benjamin-f...
As I've gotten older and more respected in my field, I've done the same. I've had C level staff demand I do things that I felt were unethical and I've outright refused. I had someone tell me the CEO supported an action and I told him he could get the CEO to do it but there was a 0% chance I'd have my name attached and he was welcome to let me go. There's a lot I'll do for money but I definitely ha e some things I won't do, like violate privacy.
We used YAML from the start in Wrench tool for writing reftests for WebRender[1]. Currently looking into a prospect of migrating all of them to RON[2] as a better alternative, which has proven itself useful in WebRender captures.

[1] https://github.com/servo/webrender/
[2] https://github.com/ron-rs/ron