skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rather i guess the site is blocking access from europe because of the GDPR
They use go for their database and didn't want to use cgo due to performance and debugging concerns, so they wrote their own storage engine in go. There is some experimental work going on at PingCAP (makers of TiDB) to bring this concept to RocksDB.
> and those people aren't going to stop making babies any time soon

Actually, in Asia they are mostly stopping https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate India is 2.5ish already, China is below 2

Yes, there is reason to worry about decline and population replacement, at the same time, numbers are not all there is (especially when people are unhappy).
Fuck Amazon
Lessons from 5 Different Failed Startups. 6th Succeeded
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These types of designs work when the problem is well defined. For something like this, where the easy part is stating how it should behave, and you're 100% sure what perfect behaviour looks like, then by all means diagram and math it out until the system is complete or at least as complete as it can be for you to start performance testing some of the subsegments that can't be determined from first principles.

But most people are not programming up things like this. Most of the time, either the data or customer usage informs next design decisions.

Even so, I spend about 40% of my time these days in "plan mode" because nailing a plan always halves the time it takes to implement some feature and can even tenth it.
I don't think lack of other JVM knowledge will be a big impediment, but it might be a small annoyance bootstrapping a project (e.g. how to do dep mgmt) and debugging (how to read a stack trace).
You're assuming all products are apps or websites or something with a GUI. A product could be a library, or an OS kernel, or a web API, or any number of things, where knowledge of how to make a GUI with a good UX is completely irrelevant; or the programmer could be working on a very technical part; the engineers working on, say, Safari to optimize the javascript engine's performance similarly don't need any knowledge of what good UX means for a graphical interface.

Apple and Google shouldn't fire their best compiler/JIT writers just because they write lousy GUIs.
It's not you.
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What about just stop buying those things?

Seriously if I'm buying a laptop one day and I'm finding out that there's no power cable in the box, I just bring it back and said that they made a mistake and forgot something.

They are just trying to press any last dollar from their customers, that's it.

When you were buying an iPod a couple of years ago you had the AC adapter, USB/FireWire cable (and long ones!), sometime some extra accessories (pocket holder for the iPod Mini). All those small extras were really adding a little plus to the experience.

Today you are just buying an expensive laptop, that you have to bring back to the Apple Store yourself (if you have one close by) if you have any issue. They doesn't cover some reparation costs that any other company would do. They are killing the 3rd party-reparation market. Also knowing that those devices are more and more fragile (seriously that keyboard on the latest MacBook).

Just stop buying those devices.
What's ridiculous is that the design paradigm of "removing the unnecessary" shows up everywhere today with hardware (goodbye headphone jack) even as the exact opposite has happened with the majority of software.

And by ridiculous I mean "worthy of ridicule" because as developers, we're largely the people responsible for cramming in more tracking, frameworks, features, and styling into the work we create.
This intergenerational memetic strategy only works if your offspring adopt your values.
They also authored "The Unix Programming Environment".
Or just do what I did: say "screw it" to the whole idea, get a dog and go fishing on the weekends.
There is the open-source ActivityWatch[1] which is not perfectly feature complete but it’s a decent alternative.

[1]: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch
It's more like: "our primary business model is collecting information about you so we can show you targeted ads".
I agree that Microsoft is doing some interesting work (including in open source) that may cause more buzz if Microsoft wasn’t saddled with the legacy of Windows and cubicle computing. I wonder how exciting/sexy Xerox’s corporate image was back in the heyday of Xerox PARC?
Very true. This is one reason I’ve stopped paying for it and I know a lot of people who have walked away from their products in the last few years. They’re too expensive and we have higher priority things we need to spend money on.

Also we’ve reached a plateau of innovation. Things were just about right circa 2011/2012. Everything else since has been quality, privacy or usability regressions disguised as innovation.

I buy stuff now because it needs replacing due to being worn out not because it gives me an advantage.
The 'nickel and diming' is definitely there, but also straight up price increase. Twelve years ago, when I was a student, I was able to buy an iBook G4 at what seemed like a very reasonable price for what you got. Now it feels like you can't get into a decent Mac for less than $1200.

I guess Apple's solution is to sell old models forever, rather than design new, low to mid-range products.
While I don't know IntelliJ's emulation, I have to say that I find Evil-Mode for Emacs to be nothing short of amazing.
That's what kids do though. They break rules, test boundaries. You give them enough of slap on the wrist to teach them to never do that again. Not expel them and ruin their future. Especially if it's true what the article says that one of the kids had a behavioral disorder!
The taste is the value. Mechanically it makes cigarettes easier to inhale.

Obviously sugar provides some calories, but no one is getting fat from the sugar in cigarettes. The caloric value is negligible.
"To answer the article's question, they should partner with other school districts to offer advanced cybersecurity programs to gifted students"

Funding laws could disallow this. For example, in Indiana, two schools cannot jointly hire a teacher. They can both hire the teacher part-time if they'd like, but the teacher wouldn't get full-time benefits. (My father worked as a business manager in different school systems in Indiana).

The entire reason for this is funding laws. I think this is a consequence of funding schools through property taxes, but I'm not sure. I'd really like some of this to be changed so there is more flexibility and less difference between area schools, but that isn't how these are designed.
There are two types of forecasting.

1) Trying to estimate the effect of policy and risks.

2) Trying to forecast what actually happens in the future for real.

Most of macroeconomic forecasting is forecasting of the first kind. Central banks forecasters use modeling to help decide the policy that nudges the economy right direction. They want to forecast what is the effect of their actions in the near future, not the actual future influenced by events that are outside their control.

Financial forecasting is similar. Predicting how the future unfolds would be nice, but predicting the expected value is more realistic. Just like poker players can't see what happens next but they can still get it right, risk analysis based on modeling future scenarios looks like forecasting but it's not exactly forecasting in the sense of predicting what actually happens.
Hi from Argentina!

We had the saying "Un peso, un dolar" (ARG$1=US$1), but it didn't last forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility_plan
Take a look at AWS SES (https://aws.amazon.com/pt/ses/) you can send 100.000/month for only $3.8/month. And you can just configure it as relay-service for your smtp servers.
You can see some common features + description related to enterprise saas here https://www.enterpriseready.io/

Hope it helps
Unfortunately so but I’m happy with it here.
When my father quit for periods of time, he would always start up again on menthols because the volume he smoked hurt too much with his Marlboro reds, and he said the menthols made it easier.

Yes, it is that addictive that he would knowingly switch to menthols to help him ramp back up again.
You're right.

But in natural language, statements about causation don't have to be 100 percent guaranteed to be valid.

Otherwise there's very little you could really say about the world.

Consider: "smoking causes cancer." According to you, this would be false.
Aw man I love the Fuji and never tried a honeycrisp. Are they really similar?
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I feel like it's scary what we've reached. Giving all our browsing history and activity to a surveillance company.
A lot of people want to have lots of sex at times in their lives when they don’t want to have kids.

I don’t think the desire for companionship and parenthood goes away if you replace one form of sex-with-yourself with some other form of sex-with-yourself.

I will admit that later in life childbearing has an effect on total fertility, but I think that ship sailed with effective birth control.
the only option I've found is to force desktop mode, otherwise virtually all engagement with the mobile site will redirect to the app
How is their Android app? Been debating trying them out again.
Java-httpbin: an httpbin.org reimplementation suitable for offline testing
Baqend - CEO Felix Gessert:

“Our take is that, eventually, all native apps will disappear and be replaced by web-based tools. This trend is just getting started and it might well be that, in a few years, there won’t be any app stores and we’ll be back to how it’s supposed to be in the first place: open web applications.

Now there are these gatekeepers, such as Apple, who have a hold over how the technology works and how the marketing channels work, but once we are back to some sort of open Web, other players such as startups will get fair chances and space to grow.”

https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2018/11/06/8-tech-predic...
Is is that hard to believe that two different trekkies (my friend, and possibly the author of the software) might have picked the same "random" constant that just happened to be the title of a TNG episode? It was very surprising at the time, but plausible given that people give VERY non-uniform-random values when asked to pick a random number.

Meh, believe it or not, it's what happened. The real lessons are that XOR isn't a very secure hash function, and a lot of high school level "security" has often been little more than a cheap facade.
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I’m really glad to see your comment. You control your phone, it doesn’t control you.
Firefox FTW, since it's completely open source.
Because your school ran its own IT. In today's north america schools this is contracted out, or at least covered by a multi-school or district team who never talk to actual children. Any kid finding a flaw is a threat to that contract or system. Administrators dont want to look foolish, or admit liability for a flawed system, so they go after the kid (Modern privacy laws make them fearful of admitting anything.) Remember too that there is a culture in NA of adults seeing teenagers as a threat. They are suspect the moment they get to school. Any deviation from a norm only confirms that perception.
We can manufacture DNA from 'scratch'. That means as long as we have the sequence we can largely use those same processes. Sure, we don't necessarily understand what's going on, but neither did our ancestors you first manufactured steel etc etc.

Protean folding is very complex to simulate. But, so is even a hydrogen atom starting from quantum mechanic equations. Saying we can abstract away that hydrogen atom does not mean the complexity disappears. Further from a QM standpoint protean folding is really slow, it's a complex dance like plate tectonics even if it's blindingly fast from our viewpoint.
I'd be very surprised if you managed to crash a GCP/AWS/Azure hypervisor (or the equivalent in their PaaS offerings) and they went "well, can't look at what's going on, too bad", and their terms of service almost certainly have the leeway to do that as part of a necessary and structured process.
I love that you keep calling people out on hyperbolic language yet insist on calling this woman, who initiated the physical contact and got her arm bumped, a "victim".
> There is a SINGLE driver of price for a is product: how much people will pay for it.

Yeah no. Actually there are two main drivers, the one you mention (called “demand”) and the one you’re leaving out (called “supply”).

The concepts of supply and demand aren’t even a little novel or unheard of.

So it’s the interaction of people’s willingness to pay with the availability of other options or close substitutes, and the desire of firms to supply those items at a given price level.
So do manned military aircraft. The military does a crazy amount of flying so you need relative rates for similarly refined systems* to really compare them.

* AKA older designs have better understood failure modes.
I hope not, vive la Firefox!

I am disheartened though that I feel compelled to use Chrome now in some cases because Google's UI's are poorly optimized outside Chrome (looking at your GCloud UI and YouTube) and some companies have made a decision to only support Chrome (looking at you Slack voice chat).
Checkout sc-im(https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im) if you are heavy vim user, you would definitely love it
As a 20 year smoker who's only been free for about 5 years, ban all of forms of nicotine for sale. For about a week or 2 people will freak out and try to find ways around it and then everyone will realize that it's not that hard. The reason smokers perpetually have problems quitting is other smokers are constantly around and it's ultra available. Sure, there's a few out there who will protest and scream about their right to kill themselves, but we don't need to allow companies to profit from selling addictive poison that has ZERO up side. At least alcohol is fun (for most people) to use. Cigarettes taste like trash, you have to force yourself to get addicted to them, they smell, and they kill. The only reason we won't outright ban them has nothing to do with liberty or freedoms, it's purely because the industry is incredibly profitable, and that's how our laws actually get made.
Has Chrome fully taken over yet?

No

These 3 brave countries still have managed to resist Google's charm

Cuba
Liberia
Eritrea

So, essentially yes.

These countries combined have less than 4 million people with Internet access. Most of them are in Cuba. Eritrea is the country with the lowest number of people with Internet access per resident and a rate of increase that is as low as that of industrial nations with saturated Internet penetration[1].

Digging into this a bit deeper on statcounter[2] there are a few other surprises:

- Firefox is only number four after Chrome, Safari and UC Browser.

- Still Chrome is the market leader in China - by far.

- Germany has been a Chrome holdout for a long time, but not any more, apparently.

[1] http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/browhttp://gs.statcounter.com/brow...
That's a great point. I went into the Android settings, pressed the toggle to disable all notifications, then went through and re-enabled the few necessary apps (text messenger, Spotify, etc).

It helped immensely.
"The present troubles have their roots in 2005-12, when state banks went on a lending bender, extending credit to dubious tycoons and to infrastructure projects. Net bad debts are 9% of state banks’ loan books. The government has not properly recapitalised these zombies and the flow of credit from them has slowed. Accidents keep happening. In February pnb, the second-biggest state lender, disclosed a $2bn fraud involving diamond merchants."

Quote from the article
>some companies have made a decision to only support Chrome (looking at you Slack voice chat)

Well, there you have it. The beginning of the process that will remind everybody why browser monocultures are horrible things.
analytics.usa.gov provides Google Analytics-collected stats of all the users who visit U.S. federal websites, including browser and OS info. As of right now, Chrome is at 46.4%.

I couldn't find at the moment a historical dataset > 90 days. The Internet Archive snapshot of the JSON from April 2015 [0] shows Chrome's share at 35.3%.

edit: the 2018 vs 2015 numbers for the other browsers:

- Safari (iOS and macOS): 28.6% / 19.9%

- IE (all versions, but not Edge): 10.9% / 28.2%

- Firefox: 4.7% / 11%

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150412223314/https://analytics...
data on share
https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...
This comment confuses me. Are you saying that Europe... destroyed all their mountains? Or what?

There are a lot of people that live in Europe, it's not that there was so much wilderness and now it's all paved over. Australia and Canada have huge areas of wilderness because it's partially uninhabitable. Not many places have that.
I love their Android app, actually found it better than chrome on Android. Plus they have the same sync features across browsers on different devices. That is honestly the Reason I switched to Firefox about 18 months ago. Chrome at the time (still might), was slower and worked less well on Android.
True, once more we have reached and voluntarily embraced browser monoculture.
Hesitant to reply because your comment seems borderline trolling to me. But as someone who quit smoking after a many years habbit Ive personally never done anything harder.
Similar story here, but very different outcome.
Messed around a bit in junior high, but in senior high our school had their home-built web-based intranet. Several security issues (at least half of OWASP 10 basically), so escalated that to full access of db with cracked account passwords. Windows AD network and I don't remember the details but it involved a service account with a weak password, Remote Desktoping into some admin server and getting a local copy of a database with NTLM hashed passwords, cracking those for all users. I didn't actually do anything much apart from just exploring the security aspects. Didn't probe in private messages between teachers (definitely in their internal message boards though!), try to look at the grading database, etc. Eventually got caught because one of my two friends who were in on this had got caught having the wrong window open at school and they got on to us.

That was nerve-wrecking.

There was a whole internal crisis around it - it was not a huge school, private IT and media school with less than 1000 students at the time. They had logs that made me have to admit and I effectively got cut off the AD. Game over.

However, I still had a private 0day for the intranet so I could see what they were writing about what to do with the situation. It seems like the consensus was to turn us in to the police - just like with the boys in the article. But then our head of school posted an MP3 file on an internal closed message-board arguing for how this was not a way to to this and instead we got "detention"; I had to build a web app and database for connecting students to companies for internships. Which was pretty fun.

Some time after graduation and military service, the head of school calls me out of the blue and wonders what I am up to now. Apparently he had moved on from the school and was now working with one of the most famous web entrepreneurs in our country with a small startup in the town where I went to high school.

So that's how I got my first full-time job, where I learned a lot.

Morality aside, which approach was more constructive here?
Unfortunately not. It was a while ago, so I might have been unlucky with the version I tried. I believe after half a day of struggling to get it working, I got to the point where I was required to setup an organization or something like that and quit at that point and spent some time trying to remove everything.
Having switched back to Firefox and Duckduckgo very recently, I'm feeling much more optimistic about the future of a free web. Both have been on par with Chrome/Google in terms of speed and performance.

Now just need to break away from gmail and calendar.
Why is tab separated value format superior to CSV? I understand why CSV is a poor choice and commas are more likely to be needed in cell contents than tabs, but there's not a standard format for TSV anymore than there is for CSV.
I use Firefox Focus/Klar for everyday Web surfing, and Firefox beta for websites where I need to be logged in (quite rare actually).

It's great to know that every site I visit now can't track me (easily). It's like a have a fresh new browser every time. I recommend them both.

On Firefox beta, I also have installed uBlock Origin, Cookie Auto-delete, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes. Quite happy with my setup.
Are those countries fighting back in any real sense, or it's a consequence of limited internet access? In Liberia, you can only get very limited and slow internet costing as much as $6 / hour [1]. And for Cubans, the problem was severe enough to make an offline version of the internet (a periodically updated hard-disk) be of any practical value [2]. The stats are meaningless without total traffic share of these countries.

[1]: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/liberia/internet-access

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-i...
The iCloud pricing tiers are $0.99, $2.99, and $9.99 for 50 GB, 200 GB, and 2 TB. The latter tiers can be shared across multiple accounts. Google only recently matched this pricing. iCloud is by far the best and simplest backup system and it just works.
My understanding is that Jesuit schools were indeed noteworthy/novel in their time/place
Am I missing something or is Brave not on this list whatsoever?
Would rather not create yet another crimewave linked to an illegal drug, so no thanks.
So they mined crypto, installed backdoors, accessed camera footage... and the story is generally positive and defensive of them[0]. This clearly goes beyond "just a prank" and depending on the severity ranges from very irresponsible to anti-social and malicious.

[0] for the record I don't mean it shouldn't be, it just sounds bad enough, so imagine how bad a non-charitable take would be
I use it and like it, and they'll be rolling out an update somewhat soon with a complete makeover of the rendering engine (switching to GeckoView from whatever they have now), so I'm hopeful that rendering will get faster.

I like it because:

- syncs with desktop Firefox
- has extensions (I mostly use Bitwarden and an ad blocker)
- interface is nice to use
- available in F-Droid

It's fast enough for me, though I haven't used mobile Chrome for years, so I guess I don't know what I'm missing.
I use an Android without Google Play Services. Firefox (Fennec on F-Droid) probably isn't as fast as Chrome, but it's very usable. Being able to use desktop addons like uBlock is great. I haven't found any compatibility issues with the websites I use.

In the settings there's an option to add a 'Quit' button to the menu, which will clear all cookies / history / etc. when you quit FF using menu->quit (so your session is still saved if you just go to the home screen and come back later). IMO that's better than Firefox Focus, which has adblocking and ephemeral sessions built in but doesn't let you have tabs.