skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting .

It’s coherent with their recent investments in Electron.

Hence the need for MS to support PWA with excellent feature parity with chrome.
One day, the computers will fit on a desk. (1974)
Personal reasons why I'm using Chrome right now instead of Firefox: Chrome is faster, or feel faster, why I don't know, but it seems to perform better on low end gear. It starts fast and most pages don't seem to "block" while loading. Second, I despise Firefox dev tools, period. I hate the console input being stuck in on a single line, this isn't how most CLI UI work, so why does it make sense for Firefox to do that? it doesn't.

Obviously since Google started pulling that "logged in Gmail == logged in Chrome" stupid stunt, I want to move away from Chrome, but Firefox will seldom be my first choice as an alternative.
I've been gently reminding my son that Dude Perfect is pure entertainment and he is barely learning anything with it. He's slowly been drifting away from it.

Thankfully, he watches kurzgesagt, BackYard Scientist, VSauce, TED and mostly scientific or programming videos so its mostly 5 to 1 , educational to entertainment videos with the limited screen time he has.

The Khan Academy courses are really good as well as the ProdigyGame (for math) for keeping him engaged and multiple grades ahead of his current grade.

https://www.prodigygame.com/
I hope not... Instagram has terrible usability if you don't have a Facebook account and/or don't want to install the app on mobile. Tumblr was at least tolerable in that scenario.
Sure. But at least at my startup 3 of 5 founders are able programmers, two of five are able mathematicians (important to our R&D process), two of five have extensive strategy and financial consulting experience and one was a manager for a long time.

So... we switch hats a lot. In the last six months I've been (a) deep into research, producing basically Beamer slidesets; (b) implementing that research in Python; (c) spearheaded the basic product design process, albeit based on the whole team's insight (my lemma was "I'm basically an anthropologist trying to make sense of what everyone's been saying", although I made significant calls (d) pitching in with front-end programming in Angular when our third party provider pooped out and it got to crunch time and (e) spent deep time writing finance spreadsheets and valuation models.

It's a tight ship and I'm not even the most multi-talented person in the crew.
Yes, having ad blocking on mobile makes a huge difference in usability as well.
The same way you test Safari on Linux and Android.
"Interesting to see the genesis of the myth of the 10x programmer."

How could it be a myth? Ever see a professional sports player compete against a non professional player? Why wouldnt this dynamic exist in programming?
Research at Nvidia: The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World
Have you made any attempts to try out the new Firefox Developer Edition? They've done some revamping recently of the Dev tools (to the point that, yes, multi line is supported in the console)
I find FF much faster in web apps (ie.Zeplin) or large websites than Chrome. I switched to FF also on Android, no regrets.
I've completed 10 online learning courses and probably spend 20 hrs/week learning online.

Udacity Likes:
I loved Udacity's production quality & instructors. I think they are generally awesome in the balance of teaching concept and practical knowledge. They also don't shy away from more complicated topics like autonomous vehicles, InfoSec, AI / ML, etc., which is a unique asset.

Udacity Dislikes:
They are placing too large of a bet on the nanodegree concept. There isn't a clear ROI for students - and it's fairly clear that most companies don't really give a hoot about online certifications.

Their classes are too expensive. Both Udacity and Udemy have great Web Dev classes. Udemy's was $10 for 19 hours of content + responses to any questions I had within hours, and gave me everything I wanted + more. Unfortunately, I had to sift through the Bootcamp and Nanodegree madness on Udacity.

They are unaccredited. My company (maybe most companies?) only subsidizes classes that are accredited. I have a $10,000 annual credit and I use it all on university classes. I would definitely consider Udacity nanowhatevers if I could use my credit on them.
I propose the alternative view: we did no such thing.

We didn't demand shit. We only chose from what was available. People trying to make money on-line have, over time, perfected both the design and the business models. At every step of the way, we had a choice between status quo and this new service that's prettier and offers more, for free, with user-hostile monetization scheme that wasn't immediately apparent. Step by step, we've been had, like the frog in the boiling frog fable.
> QT has the effect of suppressing the yield curve inversion signal (by artificially increasing long-term rates)

i.e they could, but the long end yields will drop below where they are now, on top of signaling to the market that things are worse than what is admitted if they have to stop.
Some of the credentials used by SciHub may have been donated. So at least some academic researchers are supporting open access.
Modern World: one day, the computers will be secure.
Kids will always mindlessly watch stuff but it's about what they're watching. I am on the fence about ad heavy shows, but that's not what I am talking about when I say that a lot of these shows are disturbing.

I am assuming you've never watched an elsagate video because it's like a fever dream. I know old cartoons like ren and stimpy were strange, but these videos are just... creepy. They'll show things like drinking, taking drugs through needles, all kinds of weird sexual stuff in a way that's really disturbing. You just have to watch it see what I mean.

And there's a lot of this disturbing content that seems to mainly target kids on youtube.
“They don’t pay them to say nice things, they pay them to not say bad things.”
Ask HN: Hackers- How Would You Make America Great Again?
Not a political thread exactly, I am just curious about how the Hacker News community thinks American life can be improved upon. I have no horse in this race other than my own life and that of my family's.
To give you an estimate: an AES encryption operation takes about 2 seconds to compute in homomorphic encrypted domain on a generic machine.

Non-encrypted AES operation is approximately 10.000.000 times faster.
I use keepassx, a local password manager. I don't trust centralized online password managers with browser extensions. Huge attack surface. I copy and paste usernames and passwords.
>Apple pulled the app after they had found child pornography on the platform, not because it has porn.

They wouldn't let the app back into the app store unless they get rid of all porn. There's no reason why they would piss of most of their userbase otherwise. "Child pornography" is the classic "think of the children" misdirection, it has always been against the site rules, and the law.

>How would the suite of reddit apps (another social site with plenty of porn) exist within the Apple ecosystem?

They wouldn't for much longer. This is just the beginning.
Not saying I agree with them (honestly Quora should die and burn in hell), but if you really need the service can't you just give them a middle finger in the form of a fake ID? Best case scenario it works, worst case scenario they still don't reopen your account. Either way you don't lose anything.
I was originally using chrome for pretty much everything, but I started getting annoyed with the performance hiccups and I wasn't switching over to Safari because of the failure of the extension ecosystem ($99 to publish an extension?). Firefox being the best choice out there has been positive to the point where I don't have Chrome installed on anything other than my phone.
> From the perspective of NSO developers, they are helping prevent the next attack against civilians somewhere. I can’t fault them for that.

They are selling spy software to regimes that are known to kill civilians. Ergo they are not preventing attacks against civilians; they are enabling attacks against civilians. No moral relativism necessary.

Even with respect to Israel’s “counter” terrorism efforts, if the NSO development team’s motivation is to prevent attacks on civilians, then enabling Israel to attack and kill civilians is something for which they are morally culpable.
Wish they had gone with Mozilla tech instead. Would have created a nice balanced ecosystem.
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Chinese commodity markets have been known to be hugely volatile with huge volumes. The actual producers react by pulling out of the futures market. Which I guess might qualify as a trading strategy.
It's good that a Windows-only rendering engine where people working on other operating systems can't test their work is gone but this is problematic for tech diversity on the web
That may be the way that some countries view the world.

The purpose of trade is to serve people, not the other way around. Whoops, I meant make a lot of money for corporations.

Also, even if you approach this from a pure self-interest angle, at some point, the US might start to lose influence if they keep undermining their own stated values, not to mention allowing other powers to murder their residents with impunity.

Also, if the Americans are looking for a reason to get involved, his son is American.
> every time a new version is released.

Exactly, which was 2 updates in 2017 and 2 updates in 2018; Microsoft isn't even attempting to play in the same ballpark as their competitors.. which is doubly frustrating every time Windows 10 tries to convince me that edge is better and that I should give it a try.
I saw a guy riding two simultaneously, one foot on each. Didn't look very controllable to me but he seemed practiced.
Microsoft only releases it on one OS. so if you happen to use a Mac or Linux you need another browser. Chrome and Firefox are the only viable options.

Also Microsoft are victims of their own legacy, namely what they did with Internet Explorer. Changing the box model, not adopting standards, not fixing bugs, causing no end of headaches for people having to support IE and so on. Trust needs to be earned.

Apple had the same problem and briefly tried to have Safari on Windows but that didn't work out well and honestly I don't think they were ever that committed.

Firefox is a viable alternative bit they still do stupid shit. My favorite is prompting me to restart to install an update when I open it. Well I just opened the app to do something but sure I'll interior what I'm doing so you can install an update that you could've done when I wasn't using it (ie like chrome).

It's 2018. The era is office like updates is over.
Yep that is for a mid-level engineer. Seniors can get up to around 800/day.
>>Yields at 0% means that the US will not be paying interest on its [new] debt. Yields at negative means that investors will be paying the US.

How does this work?

Why should/will anybody give money to anybody for free?
Only a person standing on the far right spectrum would see everything left of them as "left of Lenin".
Not so close that they don't often display things differently.
One of the most beautiful "old" books to read (especially if English is your native tongue) is John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding. It's a beautiful piece of text, more so if you can get an old Oxford Claredon Press edition edited by Peter Nidditch.

I've read that Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are also delightful to read in the original. Schopenhauer's writing style is so good, even when translated to English by Saunders.
I only started using FF after some bigger release this year, it was too slow for me before.

And good point about Tree Tabs. I've been wanting to try it for a while, might as well do it now :)
I never knew Firefox faxed ;)
Right: unemployment is so low, some people have two or three jobs! Wages tell the real story.
This thread is full of oddities. Some people here think it's OK for you leave your scooter/bike on a private business's property without consent, because the "businesses should like having a signal attracting people to their property". Like, when did consent stop being a thing, and who is anyone to tell me what I want or don't want for my own business?
What bank/card allows you to create unique credit cards with separate limits? The one I was using (Swedbank/visa/mastercard) stopped providing this service last year.
Indeed but this was responding to a request for a list of subsidies for internal combustion.
> I'm not shocked they are making $20M or so.

I'm slightly shocked that the money comes from advertisers interested in influencing 6-7 year old kids.
They should just ship Firefox instead. They would get most of the benefits, wouldn't have to depend on Google tech, and could probably garner a lot of good will from the FOSS community. At least for me, it would mean much more than things like open-sourcing VS Code and other such moves do.
Australia: Police, spies gain powers to access encrypted messages
I find it liberating. When things are too convenient you tend to do a lot of worthless stuff. When there is a little bit of planning and difficulty involved, it helps prioritize. I don't have data on my mobile device either so I'm not sure I could even use the scooters.
I've had to fix friends' computers who had their user profiles corrupted by an update so they can't log in.
You should explain to him that whatever you publish on the Internet is forever and whether he'd like someone in his adult life to be able to find that content.
As a photographer who does not care much for using nudity in my photos, this is no problem to me. But yeah, I think you’re right.
Personally I have learned most of the stuff I want to do as a boss from experiencing them first hand from the great bosses I had. But missing these things while working with a mediocre boss, just emphasized how good these things felt for me. E.g. a 30 minute regularly scheduled weekly/bi-weekly 1:1 in a private environment is something I found great and really missed when non longer having it.
KYC for Crypto [infographic]
I think that I am simply working in better place. The one where people can but does not have to socialize at Fridays and the one where if they want you to do something, they say it.

That means that fathers don't have to drinking Friday evening and can be with their families. It means that parents who pick up kids after work are not disadvantaged by it. It means primary caregivers (women) have smaller hit on their career then they would otherwise. It means that people can so sport on Fridays, abstinents do well, anyone can use Friday evening to travel.

It is not merely mildly manipulative. It is literally bad office politics framed as "being social". Peers being passive aggressive is no different from management being manipulative or passive aggressive.

Lastly, it also means that I can make open transparent agreements about my work and preferences and salary compensation. Because in your setup, such things are not talked about openly and conflicts are not solved directly.
Few things to note:

- Edge is (kindof) available on Android. It uses the Chromium engine, but includes bookmark and password syncing with the desktop version.

- Firefox will (depending on platform support) update in the background and notify you to restart (Windows), or it will apply the update at app start (macOS).
Microsoft partnered with BrowserStack a while ago to allow free testing of Edge - https://www.browserstack.com/test-on-microsoft-edge-browser#...
> Meanwhile, the idea of ML models fundamentally being differentiable algorithms – often called differentiable programming – has caught on.

> We need a language to write differentiable algorithms, and Flux takes Julia to be this language.

Recently on HN there was some discussion of this paper by Conal Elliott on automatic differentiation in a pure functional language (Haskell): https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00746

This is a rather large and vague question but I'm curious whether people have comments on the relative merits of Julia vs a pure functional language for supporting "differentiable programming" for ML?
Almost nobody implements the API for password managers. It's either apples password store or bust. I use 1password and frequently have to switch to the app to grab a password. Although, with face ID enabled this is relatively painless.
Given the shady things people have found their smart TVs doing, I'd feel about as safe typing a password into a smart TV as I would changing the password to "hunter2".

The TV should display (or maybe email) a link that I would visit with my primary web browser and grant it permissions - or ask for a password as a very last resort for users who have no computer/phone but somehow have Netflix.
Why is KYC essential in today's world? [infographic]
Nvidia open sources its PhysX physics simulation engine
One action that people tend to miss is on greatly reduce flying yourself, while governments must greatly increase taxation on air travel. Air travel is one of the biggest contributors.
The Truth About Algorithms
Ripley: Project management tool for G Suite
I've got this meta schadenfreude seeing things succeed that HNers hate. The new MacBook Pro and any unicorn startup that posted a Show HN. It's cute how HNers actually think that they're relevant.
More monoculture :(

I'm just waiting for the day Microsoft announces that they are dropping their own compiler in favor of Clang/LLVM.
Do you use Safari for private browsing because each private window is sandboxed between each other unlike Chrome?

I find it intriguing that each incognito window in Chrome is not sandboxed between each other. Am I missing anything here?
Privacy.com allows you to create virtual credit cards once you connect a source of payment to your account. Can be bank or debit card. I personally create one credit card for every paid subscription I have with the limit set on the amount that's supposed to be debited (eg. Monthly limit on Tidal charging $20).

Privacy is a game changer for online transaction security imo. An additional benefit is the ability to subscribe to "try free for a month but oh wait we need your credit card info first so when you forget to cancel we'll keep charging you". Simply create a virtual card with single time spend limit $1 less than the monthly subscription charge, and you can rest assured that your one month trial is a one month trial.
Nice to see some exotic countries joining in!
Australian government making new legislation to undermine end-to-end encryption
Some extra links:

https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-sdk

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/12/04/nvidia-open-sources-its...

https://youtu.be/K1rotbzekf0
Good questions. Two differences to consider vis a vis past late cycle moments: US corporate profits haven't peaked, and the politicians could have a better claim on being part of the problem than on being part of the solution. I was tempted to add "leverage" but that's too slippery for a concise discussion.

Profits: it took about two years peak-to-trough for profits/GDP to correct during the past two recessions. Unless you see sudden stop risk, this suggests the US corprorate sector isn't staring down the barrel of a massive deleveraging...yet.

Politics: public support for legislative non-compromise does not speak to the kinds of policy fixes applied in 2008-9. Executive belligerence toward the Fed doesn't seem helpful either. As much as markets may have appeared to ignore US political risks while momentum was positive, it seems credulous to think this more of a divorce than a separation.

There are other quantitative arguments that the turn in the cycle is not here yet (e.g. employment, notwithstanding participation rate). But the prospect of a return to political gridlock is, to me, the most important risk contrast with recent past cycles.
Chrome has adblocker too and I's say the number of people using them there is similar or even bigger. On the other side is the number of peiple actually using privacy-related addon very small. Even on Firefox it seems to be something around 5%.

Though, Firefox now has some blocking-mechanisms on it's own. Not sure if they are activated by default, but it would be interessting to see how they influence such usage-collecting scripts.
Bruce's write-ups are just great, sheer joy of reading.
'Persona' is the mask you put on, originally from the masks worn in ancient graeco-roman theater: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/persona#Etymology
You'll find yourself at a big company and the people up the ladder do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here.
At least the Chromium base is open source and usable by anyone.

If I had my way I'd test on Chromium and Firefox only. And only the latest versions.

I already don't bother with Egde. Safari is the only pain I still have to bother with. Apple should just make a Chromium browser as well.
What? Your system doesn't handle running at max CPU and GPU usahe even for what I presume is seconds before thermal shutdown? That seems like an extremely serious issue with your system.
Their stunts are impressive. Always was surprised by their religious tones though http://dudeperfect.com/about/
It's impressive and super super cool, because now any function you can write in Julia, the AD can differentiate.

You don't have to hope that your AD/ML package has that function, you can just write it or find it in a package and punch it straight in. That's awesome.
Seeing what they did to the electron on VSCode, I'm really hopeful about their version of Chromium.
FirefoxOS never had a snowball's chance in hell against Android and iOS. I wish it were otherwise, but it's not, and never was.

But yes, I agree that FF market share problems are not due to problems with the product itself.
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Well, at one point 'all they could do' is take Apple's. And later iterated on it, which MS just might do in the future.
This is very sad, and a huge, terminal fail on the part of WHATWG to steer HTML, by making it so fscking complicated that it's infeasible to develop new browsers ever again. But maybe a monoculture was what they were heading for all the time.