skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because they're not popular doesn't mean they're not on the whitelist. Care to move the goalposts further?
Shorter summary - historically, yield curve inversions have been pretty reliable predictors of recession.

There are no certainties, of course, but the probability is pretty high that in the next 6 to 24 months we'll see negative economic growth and increasing unemployment.
This is an excellent plan. Convince all the Arab countries around Israel not to try to exterminate it, and thereby Israel will become like Sweden and not need to fight.

That first step is a bit hard, but I assume you have some plan for that, considering it was your idea?
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No, my entire point has been that we need laws about where scooters are parked.

I think it is a bit unfair to say we have democratically decided to let scooters park everywhere simply by the fact that we haven't yet passed any laws about where they can park; the law is slow to move, and the scooter parking issue is pretty new. Before Bird and Lime, there were not enough scooters around to be a big enough problem where we needed a law. Now we do, but the law is slow to change.

In the mean time, it is pretty annoying.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18594564
Is IE dead?
Camino was fantastic, used it back in the day. :)

I'm not sure what Mozilla's deal is these days, to be honest, but Firefox really just doesn't feel like it fits in on Mac. It's frustrating, because I want to support it... but I just end up back in Safari because it feels far more smooth and integrated.
I think the West is finally waking up to the rampant IP theft that China perpetrates, and how their growth is fueled by this.

Regardless of what you say about Brexit or Trump, the part of the populism movement that resonates across the spectrum is that there have been a few state actors that have been taking advantage of the Washington-consensus world order.

Democrats and Republicans alike, and Labour and Tories alike, are more or less in their dismay toward China and Russia.

People across the west and the spectrum are waking up to the reality of how China grows.
On what planet does walking 2 miles not take very long?
I've been on multi year projects to modernize old IE applications, and one of the things that IE11 misses is "standard" xpath evaluation. A lot of old "dhtml" apps were all in on soap/xml. There's some wierd IE only hold over css in it like cursor hand vs pointer. On the whole it's not too bad really.

The reason why IE11 will live for a long, long time is it's compatability modes. You can run apps all the way back to IE7 on it. And yes these still exist.
When you stop listening to your users they stop using your product.

Remove pocket. Respect user privacy again. Maybe they’ll return.
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It's a good thing more talented people can focus on development of an open source browser. That means more people can share in a consistent and reliable way. It also means much like Mozilla has been innovating with Servo we're seeing amazing things from that and it doesn't have to be X vs Y. MS vs Google. It can be a collective working towards a better common platform for everyone.
I am from a part of the world - Kerala, India - where the matrilineal inheritance [1] was common up until about 50 years ago. This system worked as the GP described.

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here are some actual metrics from our ecommerce site (US, home remodeling / DIY):

if you look at desktop traffic only:

Nov 2015: 16.01%
Nov 2016: 13.27%
Nov 2017: 10.33%
Nov 2018: 8.14%

Desktop IE in Nov 2018 was 11.37%, Edge 15.65%, Chrome 52.74% and Safari 11.65%.

if you include mobile traffic (where Firefox is basically non-existent), then Nov 2018 is closer to 3.5%.

talk about bleak :(
Uber stores the route of your trip anyway.

So all info you withhold from them is the few meters walk from where you ordered to where you got picked up.
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For one it does not support css grid, which is really the best way to do layout atm.
Who cares what the W3C think is a draft or a recommendation?
The options are vast.

I use Digital Ocean because I like the simplicity (though that simplicity seems to be increasing buried on their front page), their tutorials really are very good (and pretty host-agnostic), and everything just works.

Long long ago I used Dreamhost, who always had a sense of humour.

Transitioning from Dreamhost, I moved to Rimuhosting. They had really excellent and very personal technical support, I've never experienced the type of personal technical support before and/or after. Their RAM is very cheap, their disk very expensive.
Patches is not the only mechanism to keep code in sync.

For two engines forked from the same source (same architecture and even same code tree structure) it is relatively easy to copy/paste feature implementation, no?
As a front-end developer this is amazing news. Less work and can deliver faster
The absolute number is not that important, the trend is. That's clear even in Mozilla's own data: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity shows they went from 303M monthly active users at the end of Nov. 2017 to 277M this year. This is a serious drop.
This quote from a different article contrasts the structure of borophene with graphene:

"Borophene is structurally similar to graphene, with a hexagonal network made of boron (instead of carbon) atoms on each of the six vertices defining the hexagon," said Bozovic. "However, borophene is different in that it periodically has an extra boron atom in the center of the hexagon. The crystal structure tends to be theoretically stable when about four out of every five center positions are occupied and one is vacant."

[There are some diagrams that might help here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borophene)]

Then later:

Because there are several possible distributions of vacancies on the surface, various crystal structures of borophene can emerge. This study also showed how the structure of borophene can be modified by changing the substrate and, in some cases, the temperature or deposition rate.

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-borophene-advances-d-materials...

Likely short-term studies include superconductivity:

Bozovic is particularly excited to test whether borophene can be made superconducting. Some theorists have speculated that its unusual electronic structure may even open a path to lossless transmission of electricity at room temperature, as opposed to the ultracold temperatures usually required for superconductivity.

Graphene has been a hot topic in superconductivity recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18335400
Nothing against lonely people, but personally I would prefer my city designed so I have as little interaction with strangers as possible.

I meet enough people when I'm doing my hobbies/sports, and they are people with whom I share a common interest.

There's not enough personal space in the City as it is. I don't want to have a thousand meaningless interactions with strangers forced upon me when I'm trying to just get from home to work or whatever.
The idea is fun, but in reality the contents is not that interesting.

What would make someone come back to the site, since you mentioned ads.
Safari's autosuggest of the numeric code from 2FA text messages is outstanding. I don't hear anyone talk about this feature, but I could never live without it. I use 2FA for every website possible and this makes it easy.
Also: Data collection by Microsoft instead of Google. Since Microsoft is already collecting data from the Windows OS, they are already part of your trust chain.
It doesn't have to be this way. The curve was unnaturally flat to start with due to Operation Twist. As the Fed unwinds its balance sheet, it seems only naturally to also unwind the effects of Operation Twist at the same time.
Yes, the companies have trucks which drive around the city picking up all the parked bikes each night and recharging them. So while they don’t “directly use fossil fuels”, a lot of fossil fuel is indirectly used.
Except that we will probably have to support Edge for another 5 years for the people who refuse to upgrade, so in reality, it will be one extra unsupported browser that we have to write hacky workarounds for.
I would love to see some stats on repeat usage.

Is this a fad where people just want to try something new? Or are people actually shifting regular transportation to these?
Safari is broken in ways that don't make sense if you don't live in apple land, so I can't bother with their mess for 5 or 6% of the total browser market

Moreover, it's irrelevant to non apple people
Previously, MS and Google have publically announced they will collaborate on bringing Chrome to Windows on ARM.

Abandoning EdgeHTML on the basis of that bug report would be drawing a long bow.
yeah, who knows. While I'm not an expert in 100% of domain registration policies, the ICANN abuse protocols doesn't have prohibitions on this sort of system. If anyone knows of a policy better and think I might be violating a policy, please send me an email at mikeortman@gmail.com and I can work with any organization to make sure I'm compliant.
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I find it interesting that if you look at the top articles on HN mentioning China in a negative light, more often than in other articles, you'll get comments talking about:

- How another country (the US usually) is even worse in many ways.

- A change of topic from the article being mentioned.

This is not an an ad-hom against the OP, for all I know he's a normal guy sitting right in my state. But just a pattern if you search other HN articles on China.

Also, I don't get your middle sentence

> Eventually China and Russia will hurt too.

If China steals UK IP, how will China "eventually hurt", other than using the most roundabout logic?
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> As he is still a child, 15% of Ryan's earnings are put into a bank account that he can only access when he becomes a legal adult.

Why 15%? Why not 100%? Why not even 50%?

Should this sit right with me? I want to believe this child isn't being exploited.

EDIT: Thanks for clearing that up for me. It seems I was misunderstanding.
The irony. They had HTA apps (running on IE engine which still work more or less, I replaced most default Win10 apps like the image viewer and the "groove" music player with a version of them built with HTA since they were slow as hell to start up) for 20 years already, they did barely anything with it, they didn't really invest seriously in a good browser engine (Edge isn't) and now all they can do is use Google's? typical Microsoft... reminds me the whole ES4/Jscript.net debacle only to then reinvent the wheel (ineffectively) with Typescript... those who don't know the story should read about it, how many years wasted? 10, 15 years?...

What MS is really doing is replacing HTA,WinStore apps, whatever with Chromium, because their own tech can't compete with Chromium as they didn't seriously invest in it. I'm actually starting to believe the people who are claiming that MS is rebuilding Office in JS from scratch...
Honestly having trouble making a coherent strategy out of those words, despite knowing what all of them mean. Seems like at the least it is written with way more confidence than could possibly be appropriate.
Thanks for sharing your data!

I just installed polar.

Immediately after install, it prompts you to install a chrome extension, it has a big google chrome icon that takes up 1/16th of my screen. It has no mention of how to do the same in firefox.

Naturally, I responded by searching both "polar firefox addon" and "Save to polar firefox addon" on both DuckDuckGo and Google. All return a long list of results that don't include a save to polar addon.

I go to addons.mozilla.org and search "Save to Polar", I don't find your extension.

At this point I would typically have given up and assumed you just don't have a firefox version of the extension... but since you've just told me that there exists a firefox extension and I'm curious I'll keep going.

Your website mentions it nowhere.

The chrome store doesn't let me install it in firefox.

The GitHub readme doesn't mention it.

No GitHub issues mention it.

The subreddit linked from the website has no sidebar. Searching on it finds no mention of firefox.

Checking the other github repos under the same account as the polar repo I see a "Polar Chrome Extension" and not a "Polar Firefox Extension", but maybe those are the same things these days since both support web extensions. Nope, that repo is a placeholder with nothing in it.

Going back to addons.mozilla.org and just searching "polar", filtering for extensions, and scrolling through the results (only 5 thankfully) reveals nothing.

I search "Save to Polar" github' on both duckduckgo and google, hoping to at least find the source of the addon. Neither return any relevant results.

At this point I'm astonished there are any firefox users of that addon... as far as I can tell it doesn't exist for firefox.

Edit:

It occurs to me that maybe you meant looking at other people's addons. So I looked at the most popular addon I know of, ublock origin. Chrome says "10,000,000+", Firefox says "4,794,583"... which is 40%!
If the pendulum is swinging back (cloud is mainframe), maybe we'll see something like multics for the datacenter age.

If the pendulum is already reaching its limit with serverless, perhaps, battery materials and 5G will make all the kids rediscover personal computing, and we'll see datacenterless computing with micro services hosted directly on smartphones.
I hope that while Microsoft does this, once they make the switch, they open source Edge.
>There's some wierd IE only hold over css in it like cursor hand vs pointer

Wow, that would really frustrate me. One of the first things I do (or check to make sure it's done by whatever css library I'm using) is add

a {
cursor:pointer;
}

to my css file. The first time I tested a website in IE11, I would be pulling my hair out!! Or more likely I would google it, but still, it would be frustrating.
But if that engine is open source, isn't that a good thing? There's a single standard but anyone can contribute patches for increased performance, new features, etc?
I just switched to FF and had a similar requirement. I found "Session Sync" to be a good replacement for what I used in chrome (FreshStart).
Even greater in the US, from 50M to 40M.
Parents own the child duh
I've never used any other password manager but just wanted to say I love Lastpass. It very rarely fails on autofill for me, it saves all my passowords nicely, has secure notes, organizational sharing for teams. I find it to be really great.
The irony of your "Um, lunatic, obviously," followed by loud complaints about things being "...glossed over as if 'obviously so', when it's so not" is hard to ignore.

Regardless, I don't recall him dismissing atheism in a single sentence, but it has been years and it's quite possible I've just forgotten.

What's the sentence?
Okay how do I get around the paywall?
$41B on the balance sheet. https://americanairlines.gcs-web.com/node/36886/html

Yes they do have debt. $44B of revenue. Still Lime and Bird valuations are insane.
Why would that bother you? It's not your skull going unprotected, right?

If you stretch an argument to worry about public funds lost to medical bills or lawsuits, someone might respond that the more people we encourage to leave their cars at home, the better we are off when it comes to safety, pollution, congestion, noise, etc.

I walk out of my place and there are huge lines of cars parked against the kerb, I can hear car traffic constantly even from inside the building, it can be dangerous to cross the road, and so on. I've been to Santa Monica a few times and know that the same applies there. What gives you such a strong reaction to this new option that you might not apply to an existing technology?

With anything new there is a settling period. It makes for an interesting discussion (where to park them, etc) but you sound pretty outraged: cannot stand. littered. annoying. constantly riding them without helmets! nuisance. ban.
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I can see how this is creating a monoculture on the web which could have some really negative implications going forward. However, chromium is open source; so I don't really think this is comparable to the IE days.

Also, as a web dev who is trying to push the limits of what is possible given current web APIs, being shackled by edge's lack of compatibility is really a hindrance and makes really cutting-edge stuff impossible. So, it will be nice to not have to worry about that as much.

It didn't seem like microsoft was ever serious about advancing the development of the web with edge; they were just always trying to catch up (and doing so poorly). Microsoft is probably gauging the state of their browser now and coming to the conclusion that they're too far behind to make a realistic comeback without totally revamping their approach; lots of firings/organizational reshuffling, etc.

At least google is serious about the web APIs, even if its' only because it aligns with their financial interests—at least it does end up being a good user experience; i think that's what matters.

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edit:
Also, not trying to belabor the point, but this subject on the whole is especially important to me. Chrome has allowed me to do crazy-amazing things with SVGs for my dev agency (1) since, well, they actually follow most of the SVG spec. I think most browser vendors see the SVG spec as superfluous and don't follow the spec verbatim, and that stops people like me from doing more awesome things with it; I'll literally have clients pitch me awesome ideas and my response is; sorry, we can do that but it just won't work in safari! So it becomes a no-go for all.

If other vendors really were able to dedicate serious resources towards their browser implementations then yeah, I would also be unhappy about microsoft's decision here. Optimally they would shell out more resources to their Edge division; but since they don't care about web experience the way google does—I agree that deferring to the experts is the best case scenario for everyone (i.e. developers like me and then users). At least, until microsoft redefines their priorities.

[1] www.beaver.digital
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Maybe the context is a bit different (that's always the way with the Bible, I guess, which is why getting a "clear message" is always hard) ... but Matthew 13:12-13 ...

>> (Jesus' words -->) (12) Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. (13) This is why I speak to them in parables: (Jesus quoting older scripture -->) “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand."

Many evangelicals would say the passage might represent the complexity of interpreting scripture in general, and the the divine purposeful obfuscation of truth. And here's a slew of commentaries about these two verses, giving various scholars' / theologians' perspectives on these two verses:

For commentaries on verse (12): https://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/13-12.htm

For commentaries on verse (13): https://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/13-13.htm

I haven't yet fully read the commentaries referenced above, but I think the verses and the commentaries will give much Christian perspective on why "the truth" is so obfuscated and hard to find.
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