skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but don't you think it's skookum (BC) and aboot time for Newfie-speak to be recognized, eh? But after awhile multiple locale files do appear more like vanity metrics in apps like LibreOffice, with 18 possible English locale settings. Even the OED simply incorporates regional variations in its inventory so the need for redundancy does seem questionable. And in spell checking or grammar, illustration of possible regional variations may be useful to authors. EG, a Brit writes to a Yank 'I am going to shop', with 'shop' treated as a noun. But to the Yank 'to shop' would be an infinitive so a grammar check could point out that ambiguity.
Composition is orthogonal to generics.
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some video taken at Wadi Rum (Jordan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fo6C2Xw-o
This is sad on multiple levels.

$10,000 would have helped him immensely. Could have put him up in an apartment for a while, gotten some new, fresh clothes, etc, and he probably could have started turning his life around.

$400,000 is life changing to most people. You can set yourself up in a reasonable situation with that kind of cash. Basic shelter and transportation at the very least. And that's a huge load off for most people.

So yeah, I can see the temptation when the nice thing you wanted to do explodes into basically winning the lottery.

So you start thinking about it. He's just a homeless guy with an opioid addiction. So you put up the barriers. He needs to get a job, he needs to be clean for X days/weeks/months.

And really, what's the legal obligation? I mean, you bought him a camper, a TV, a phone, a vehicle. You've done far in excess of $10,000. Why don't you deserve something as well. Dude was just lucky the internet took to the story. Could have been anyone. I've paid him back. He wouldn't even have a whiff of this money if not for my compassion. Where's mine?

And then we're here. Fighting a homeless guy for a couple hundred thousand.
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Hey.
First I would like to thank you for the awesome work. I really enjoy using your plugin. Being a avid vim user it just makes it more easier right now. I do like to point out few issues that I have noticed so far.

1. key n used to traverse through all the found elements doesn't work properly.

2. The add on doesn't work when I am using pdf preview.

I believe I am using the most updated version of the plugin (last checked yesterday as of this comment).

I hope you look into this. If I am missing something please let me know.

Again thank you for the awesome work. If you have some time I would love to pick your brain about a few things.
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While I freely admit that I use a lot of Google services, have an Android phone, and so on... I can't fathom why anyone would think it's a good idea to buy security hardware from an advertising company.
How much does it improve your work experience? I have the same view, but we have all the window blinds closed because it's too much light, causes glare on people's monitors, etc.

Personally I'd much rather have free lunches or unlimited PTO.
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A difference in degree, not in kind.
Thanks for the clarification. I get what you're trying saying. The point of confusion for me was how literally you used "20 years of experience" in your career. As you said, it's hard to pass that off literally, but I totally understand having compressed learning. I, myself, have been in the industry for 12 years now and I feel that number is fair, but I feel like almost all of my usable experience came in the last 6 years. So in a way I feel like I got 12 years of experience in 6 years.
One nit to pick, a beginning rider should NOT get a 1000cc superbike and then use it for an adrenaline rush. That's a ticket to the ER/morgue.
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First, they could be sticking to neutral news. Those exist.

Second, I don't believe the source code of the algorithm that picks which news to show you is available... If there's an algorithm at all, because chances are it's curated by humans.
That's an extremely popular belief, bordering on universal.

(It's also extremely popular for people who believe, or at least wish others to believe, that that is a sufficient explanation for all difference in observed results—or at least those favoring men in positions of economic or social power and privilege—to misattribute all disagreement on the source of those particular differences to disagreement with the uncontroversial generality.)
> Over the years, Professor Nutt and other researchers have demonstrated a strong correlation between the number of alternatives deliberated and the ultimate success of the decision itself. In one of his studies, Professor Nutt found that participants who considered only one alternative ultimately judged their decision a failure more than 50 percent of the time, while decisions that involved contemplating at least two alternatives were felt to be successes two-thirds of the time.

I'm sure something gets lost in journalistic summary, but isn't there an alternative explanation for this? If you're contemplating a choice, and there are many things that seem plausible, it's because there are many acceptable outcomes. So it's not because you've thought about a lot of choices that you make a good choice, but that if something is going to go well, chances are there's many ways for it to go well?
Ask HN: How do you keep track of all of your productivity tools?
From slack to evernote to wunderlist to github/jira issues - how do you keep track of everything. Have you ever automated any of this? I am struggling with this from a personal and professional level - the more I lean on these tools, the more disorganized and chaotic my workload feels.
This is an unpopular opinion. You can train yourself to work in relatively noisy environments. The mind is plastic and adaptable. It is not going to happen right away. The first step is to not plug in your headphones when you go to a coffee shop. Enjoy the ambient chatter. Don't try to do any work. After a while, you may try reading a book or a newspaper. It is my belief that headphones can breed dependency on them to focus. Kind of like you may be anchoring your flow state to the simple act of donning your headphones. It might not work for you. Especially if you pre-decide it won't work. Remember the mind is a powerful tool. It may work for you if you start trying out life without headphones.
This is the ultimate site for learning colloquial, idiomatic Chinese IMO (it has other languages too):

https://www.viki.com/explore?country=china

It has a huge database of modern Chinese TV shows (ranging from ancient dramas to modern CSI-esque crime).

But the greatest part about it is that it has a "learn mode" that provides instant translations when you hover over characters you don't know, and pauses the show automatically [1].

[1]https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/231829048

Highly recommended.
It's hard to find investors who will invest in just "the tech". Even in cases where it's clear to basically everyone that the structure of the market, the profile of the customer, and the size or depth of the problem necessitate pursuing a technology strategy and not a product strategy out of the gate (and possibly for a long, long time).

Even at early-stage investment, if you don't have a really specific product narrative doing a sound-bite sized thing, you'll get a lot of feedback about how it all needs to be very simple and you need to have a specific product definition.

This is not a defense if Theranos, but rather just some insight into the ways that VC preferences, pattern-matching, and fairly simplistic capacity to vet anything through a "pitch" tend to distort how one goes about raising money and what one can reasonably raise money for. There probably needs to be some increased diversity in funding sources for "hard tech" problems.

The issue I've always had with the concept of "MVP" is that it trivializes the problem space you can reasonably pursue, and collapses all the solutions into something you can throw together quickly, which also seriously distorts the incentives for rigor around making anything.

It probably works fine for another Daily-Lifestyle-Thing-as-a-Service/App, but it seems less likely to work for something like creating a new sensor for an avionics system.
> Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless

I hope that your manager doesn't think that way. :)
> Disruption doesn't come from direct competition. Writing another web browser isn't going to disrupt the market for web browsers. You need a new concept in how we access web-type material. That would disrupt, and wouldn't need much code. Look at Napster et al. They weren't massive but still disrupted the music industry.

Sure but my point is more general: if I create a new lean web-like protocol and client and it can't display videos, feature interactive content, arbitrary styles etc... How do I drive adoption?

I can convince the suckless folks that "less is more" and that it's "the unix way" but outside of that circle I'm not sure who's going to use my software.

All software seems to be going in the opposite direction. For instance I'm a heavy user of IRC, these days the type of communities you could find on QuakeNet 15 years ago are on Discord, a super heavy webchat client that manages to slow down my beefy desktop computer when run on pre-quantom Firefox. The Discord client is probably several times heavier on resource usage than the Quake game itself!
Some buggy graphics drivers make accelerated rendering a bad idea (mostly older cards, but also often the first few revisions of the driver for a new Intel gpu). I don't know if FF does, but chrome used to maintain a blacklist of GPUs to disable hardware rendering
Sounds like our offices! No natural light, but open seating, but it is only 'open' in the sense that the workspace is in an open area, so we have assigned seats. My assigned seat happens to be about 6 feet from the men's bathroom... Also, the managers and high ups do have private offices, private office with glass walls that face into the open work area so they can watch everyone work all day. It is pretty sketchy!
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I think there's some basis to brand tribalism. If the purchase involves a substantial time or money commitment, you want affirmation that your investment is justified. As well as the usual social signalling that comes with having a product that's supposedly superior to the ones that others use.

Not sure why people would go to bat for amorphous trillion-dollar corporations that readily offer their services for "free", though.
They've been actively hostile to friendly user settings for years. They constantly reduce what's exposed through the settings page, forcing users into about:config.
I like how the Google products I use work together and worry that a broken up Google would worsen my user experience.
Quite a large area of France is still so heavily contaminated from WW1 that there is still an exclusion zone in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
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GoFundMe is not about giving money to some dude, it's about looking like a good person. Indulgences were popular and successful because of this basic human need to posture as a good person. Charities often get away with double dealing behavior because absent strict controls, the tendency will be to structure the organization such that it's highly efficient at generating the appearance of goodness while the principals of the organization embezzle everything.

I remember this specific instance because it was being portrayed favorably on local TV news when I was visiting my inlaws, and I was characteristically a skeptical grinch. This confirmation that I wuz right about this has made my shrunken heart grow three sizes this day.
> It would be great if Mozilla would include some wording that instills alarm in site owners about how the site’s information, not just the user’s, is at risk.

I'd expect the reseller to inform the buyer about the distrust of these certificates. The SSL reseller we use informed us before April this year.
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> complimenting is nice, but useless

Some people will base their decisions on which software to try/use, based on the general sentiment of discussions on Hacker News. For example, suppose you suddenly had the need for Email As A Service. Which of the plethora of services will you choose to use? I believe a lot of Hacker News users will weight their decisions at least in part on HN comments discussing those services.

The same goes for Firefox. If all people ever see is criticism, that is likely to drive people away from Firefox. That means less revenue for Mozilla, which means a worse browser for us.

Basically I'm saying that compliments, positive comments, are not useless. Quite the opposite.

(Don't get me wrong. I completely agree with you that criticism is necessary. I'm not saying those comments are bad. I'm saying positive comments serve an important function too.)

And besides, suppose you were a Firefox developer reading these comment threads. Don't you think the positive comments can provide a bit of encouragement?

Mozilla should know not only what it is doing wrong, but also what it is doing right. And that goes for any software and any company.
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Why the is this on HN and why is everyone here screaming "Guilty!"?
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It was discussed some time ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606027

TLDR: YouTube uses some obsolete technologies that aren't supported in non webkit browsers.
I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, I’m recalling this from Preet Bharara’s podcast.

You’d have to inflation adjust those numbers to be fair, but I suspect that you’re right in calling this one of the biggest under deliveries in a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919093

So yeah, there’s that.
Wow, I didn't realise how many non-conformances there were with Symantec. It certainly looks like they had enough chances to get their houses in order and didn't!

I wonder what the root problem was? They didn't care, they didn't think anyone would do anything or they are just a large sloppy corporate who can't run a group properly?
There was an article on HN about this recently. I'm on phone so can't search easily, but something about it using a polyfill for a chrome specific feature. There was a way to get the old behavior in the article I think.
He's not assuming that. He's assuming a large fraction of the HN community agrees with Graham's definition. This certainly used to be the case a few years ago, hence his point.
Lol, I did screw that one up didn’t I?
This has been in testing for a while, so I'm guessing they already know how to prevent businesses from having automated replies to each customer message to avoid paying the charge. Anyone have an idea how they do it?
Tangentially related, but the real gold is well hidden and secretly traded. The schlock is through the roof everywhere and in large excess.

A piece of an adequate analysis: https://hackernoon.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-yplan-is-the-mos...
I think most of us are aware that this solution exists. This just shouldn't even be a problem that requires solving.

It also doesn't solve having an actual conversation with someone else, which can be hard when you're competing with Sales-bro Bryan.
Straight out of Cookie Clicker: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
You can put custom html into about:blank? How do I do that please?
The US is incredibly culturally diverse, it's a nation of immigrants from all over the world. It's just not delineated by state. There are geographic pockets of one culture or another, but frequently a single geographical area has many different cultures in it, so it isn't as easy to draw a line around your culture and make laws to protect it. A culture lives and dies on its own efforts and merits.
female numbers sore for comp sci courses, 5 years later we have an over supply of media marketing specialist lmao with no programming or technical skills and a few great female programmers who naturally probably already thought like a programmer bc they were taught to question why rather to accept facts as is.
Tor has less than 7k relays[1]. Last time I checked[2], I2P had over 20k.

I2P has far fewer users, but every user is a router by default. Tor users have to opt-in to be a relay.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html

[2] http://stats.i2p
It's worth noting that the ESP32 itself doesn't seem to be changed. This is a new module with 2x the external PSRAM than the previous version. It seems it is still limited to being able to map 4 MB at a time as well.
Meanwhile I have an HN tab and a Slack tab and I am sitting at 45% CPU and 1GB RAM...
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As shoddy as many of their products are, the corporation that is the state provides far more goods, services, and dividends than any one other company does.
I'm not so sure the first Mars colonists will wait that long. If humanity's Terran history is any indicator, they'll ferment every last drop of it into space hooch.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a market for that...
Google Calendar crushes FF for me. I can't leave it open very long or it slows down FF, eats CPU cycles, and drains my battery.
I'm the same way, I currently sit near a huge window and I find that it is way too bright. I've had to put up shades to block the sun. My last job I sat in a dim room with only a small amount of ambient light and I loved it.
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Who is the target audience for this? Seems like you should solicit research proposals and provide grant funding to academic or industrial research groups to actually do the work. They can't just work for free in hopes they get 250k or 1M...
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This is a very popular belief and it's how we run the entire criminal justice system.
> This is why state welfare is so much better than random charity

What is the "this" here. Is it the fact that so little of the actual donated money reached the recipient? I'm not even certain that the ratio here is worse than US welfare. Some sources seem to say that only 25-40% of welfare reaches the recipients, with the remainder spent on various administrative programs and continuing education (which is hard to quantify in actual benefit). The source here is a digestion of [1], which is admittedly a bit dubious, but I haven't hunted down a better one yet.

Or is "this" the unaccountability of the corruption? I think the jury is still out on that one (or rather, a jury has yet to be convened and an indictment has yet to be issued, though it seems like the civil judgment is at least making its way through the system). If the perpetrators get off without penalty, then I acknowledge your point. And I concede there is a larger point here in that an unknown amount of fraud for similar cases is never really accounted for; these people happened to get caught, but if money is being raised for a cancer patient without a family, and the patient never gets the money and passes away, then we'd probably never even hear about it.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-welfare-dollars-do...
Hi. Could you please add more on how the memory leak might happen in Firefox ? It appears really interesting to me.
This is an argument against US operators. Higher density means higher utilization and therefore ROI for each cell tower. European cities with higher density than Manhattan have far better mobile and wired internet.
> It (Lean) is a response to scarce capital, and when that constraint is loosened, it’s worth considering whether other approaches are superior

Definitely worth looking at both approaches objectively.

1. Lean Approach: Stay lean, build MVPs, find PMF, then go big.

2. Big bang approach: Have conviction in your idea, use capital to launch big from get go.

Given capital is not a constraint, the next most important thing is time i.e. which approach would help us build a thriving business fastest.

Big bangs take up extra time/energy in ancillary tasks like hiring, PR and so on. Pivots take time, even to communicate internally. Lean let's you operate the whole thing as a series of cheap experiments to validate your assumptions. Pivots are natural and cheap.

Big bang would be beneficial over lean only when your first set of assumptions were on the mark and the company required almost no major pivots. That's rare, maybe Katzenberg can pull it off.
Lol! Well, if you have, I envy you. But I doubt it.

I think there's legends of a test for master zen monks to see whether they've cultivated enough control over themselves to not react when they have a finger or hand cut off.

But, if it's even possible to shed your displeasure of pain, death, and all other things and go through your daily life like that until it's over, I think it's inaccessible to most people. (With normal lives, at any rate; if you said you have to do master-level zen meditation or be under heavy sedation for most of the day, I would say that doesn't count. : p)
Would love to see this added to Youtube's autogenerated subtitles! It would be a significant improvement.
Great visualization! Is it based on https://distill.pub? See, e.g., https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/
Thanks, I appreciate the explanation and links, and I can definitely appreciate the fact that it's a maintenance burden that's taking away from other important work.

But it's still hard to swallow -- given the really, truly amazing engineering work that's been coming out of Mozilla (Rust and Servo are what I'm thinking of), and the gargantuan effort going into those -- that the APIs involved in the bookmarking system couldn't be improved. Looked at from another angle, if Mozilla can afford to put some resources into keeping Thunderbird alive, surely it can afford some resources to improve bookmarking code to avoid axing some fairly basic features.
I'm reading Think Java: http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-java/

so far so good, I like it for it's size. I wanted an introductory text that wasn't 1000 pages.
I mean, it's about $43 a month extra for private use as opposed to $15 for the standard edition, it's not nothing but for someone who can afford a >$100k car it's not a 'huge extra cost' imo.

In any case I'd view it as separate from business leasing because you pay nothing if you use it exclusively for business. If anything you get an extremely cheap business-subsidized car for which you pay the equivalent of a netflix+spotify account extra next year to use privately.