skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just FYI, audio autoplay is being actively worked on in the current Firefox development version, precisely to solve the problem you describe. There are some issues with coming up with a UX that doesn't privilege a small set of sites out of the box over everyone else [1] and also doesn't prompt the user on every single site that tries to play video (the current Firefox Nightly behavior; it's rather annoying).

So for this specific case, the reason it hasn't happened yet is not some nefarious conflict of interest but actual hard problems that need to be solved (and are being solved), coupled with resource constraints.

As far as containers go, I agree they are great if you understand the model. I use them. Most users find them terribly confusing in their current form. Again, a UX issue. That said, the idea of having things in a private container by default is somewhat interesting. The hard part in some way would be the discoverability of the whitelisting flow and user confusion about why their customization information is not being remembered like in every other browser. I'll try to shop this around to people a bit and see if they can figure out a way to make this work sanely.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox, but not in UX.

[1] Google's solution in Chrome; it suppresses new startups by making the experience suck there, which is good for incumbents like YouTube but maybe less good for the web as a whole in the long term.
For production code well,
If (p then q) = (NOT p or q)
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Yes this is why

> Mozilla is still the better browser when it comes to privacy
To only begin to scrape at the trouble with this argument:

- it is not actually defensible to abort fetuses based on sex.

- genetic engineering might make populations more susceptible to epidemics

- it would increase pressure on others, or other nations, to follow suit so as not to fall behind in the “race race” of eugenics

- it would seem to devalue non-engineered life, directly threatening the universal dignity of all human beings

- your tired meme is tired
I happened to be looking at my school reports/work from the late 80s/early 90s recently.

Some of the sheets seem to be copied. They are from hand written originals, and are in blue ink. I don't think they're carbon copies as they don't have that tell tale haze of ink where pressure was applied, although there is certainly that distinct hue that carbon copies have. Paper seems to be standard.

Could that be from a mimeograph?
Webrender is exactly what I was thinking of when I said

> [Firefox] ... likely will continue to get better.
> whose identity was known (but closely guarded)

I can't find any resources online to confirm this - everything seems to indicate several unknown soldiers were exhumed and one was selected (from each conflict). Do you have any pointers to references where I could learn more?
Not yet available on Mac it seems.
>But then where do people without cars keep all of these necessary items?

They just don't carry them. If it starts raining and you didn't bring an umbrella then oh well, you get wet.
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I think we are ditching WordPress...
Meh, it's better than wordpress for sure but it has many warts. There is no i18n story and "modelcluster" is just a bad idea.
First Soviet Politburo was between 80 and 85% Jewish. Jewish population was no more than 4% in Russia at the time.

Commissars (the political office) and Cheka officials had similar numbers in terms of representation.

Underlying reason included the suspicion that anyone Orthodox was tainted by secret sympathy for the Tsar or the Orthodox church.

Jews were therefore seen as trustworthy, having no alliance or sympathy for the Tsar, or for the Orthodox beliefs.
No, it's all frontend as far as I can tell.
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For editing, one thing that has helped me is learning sales copywriting and direct response.

Copywriting forces you to trim the cruft and makes you take the reader's perspective. Their time is valuable so you need to be entertaining and engaging, AND you need to get to the point fast.

Tested Advertising Methods & Scientific Advertising are just some of the classic books about sales copy.

I don't know what topic you're writing about, but sometimes you really just need to get your work out there, despite it not being perfect.

I spent too much time writing and re-writing this article on procrastination (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/procrastination-sucks-so-her...) till I finally said "f--- it, I'm going to write this last section about finishing and shipping, then hit the publish button"
When it becomes possible to have genetically modified babies in a relatively practical and economical way it will happen.

Legal restrictions and ethical concerns will not prevent it.

Then what?
How some countries use Interpol to go after dissidents and debtors
I'm afraid that this is not an alternative. What you are suggesting is a browser that just won't let you browse the web (because it will be obsolete after a few months) and that nobody will care about.

> I don't think Mozilla can change. They're too comfortably corporate. Having lost sight of their mission, I think it would be better if it disappeared and was replaced by something else.

I understand how you can see it like this. However, from Mozilla's point of view, what you call "los[ing] sight of their mission" is "caring for as many users as possible" – rather than only for the most tech-literate fringe to which HN readers tend to belong.
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If you wanted to introduce a gene into a population without it being identified as intentional, and by whom.

Here's an example for your next scifi thriller: a docility bomb. Identify a few dominant genes that intensify the social conformity bias--it's already hardwired into humans to varying degrees--and make 1000 babies with those adjustments. Leave them on 1000 doorsteps across your opponent's country. If each baby grows and has two children, that's about 3000 in one generation, 9000 in the next, etc. At some point you're affecting the population's voting, working, and revolting tendencies.

After what we've seen in long-game US politics lately, this kind of thing is more plausible than reality.
I have a Comp sci. degree which opened doors to big firms, specifically it meant my CV didn't automatically get binned by recruitment agencies.

But if you have the experience and some kind of portfolio to show it off, especially in web and mobile development, you can get jobs without a degree. These technologies are still changing faster than colleges can track.
That makes more sense. Cheers :)
I know it might sound like a wild concept, but let's consider. Is it possible that there are multiple people, who have different opinions, even though they are expressing them on the same forum?
I really like the Chinese approach to space exploration. They go slow but steady and focus on interesting stuff.
Apache Spark troubleshooting from the trenches
It's in use by in-house software still in development as a prototype/proof-of-concept configuration language.
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> It creates a paralel, private justice system

Can't you just bring the traditional justice system back into it, for instance, by suing them in small claims court demanding the release of your money? The judiciary supersedes whatever internal mechanisms the bank has; if the court tells the bank to give back your money corrected for inflation plus moral damages, they have no choice but to comply.
This is the sort of claim for which I'd like to see some support.
> 2018 is the first year the volume of spam calls surpassed legitimate calls

Do you have a source on this?
How is improving a handful of people tantamount to poisoning everyone?
What's the difference between having zero power and having some power but always caving when it's important for the open web with the excuse that if you hadn't you would lose users and have no say the standards committees?
As opposed to Quantum? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mozilla-and-qualcomm-un...
Keepass2 runs on Mono.
Given that Microsoft used IE to push Netscape out of business, Microsoft adopting Chromium over their own rendering engine that they themselves had written to replace IE's old engine, the irony is so delicious I will feed off it for the rest of the year.

Personally, though, I've been a Firefox person since the times when it was still called Firebird, so I'll stick with my favorite browser mostly through inertia. Nobody has given me a good reason to use another browser, except when I want to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime Video on GNU/Linux, that seems to work better with Chromium.

And let us not forget the outliers like dillo, which has a terrible rendering engine and no Javascript[1], but it is FAST as lightning, and you can keep 50 tabs open, the browser still just uses about 100MB of RAM. Whereas Firefox, on my work laptop, can easily top 2GB of RAM.

[1] Some may consider this a feature - it certainly means you do not need an ad blocker in dillo. ;-)
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Given the future doesn't look very bright for Intel, given ARM at one hand and AMD at the other (with their 10 nm and 7 nm having multiple setbacks) I wouldn't count on Intel doing well in the future. It might end up like Nokia or Microsoft. I wouldn't invest in Intel...
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/international-space-station-...
Have you looked at wagtail.io ?
Payback is a prerequisite to people to actually buying your less earth sucking technology so while it might not be the end goal it's a goal nonetheless.
So what differentiates an unpaid bill from a debt?
Which audio issues do you experience? I regularly watch videos sped up on YouTube and InfoQ and never noticed any problems.
Iirc, his prices were irs-trouble insane
I suppose it can be called a theory, just not a scientific theory.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to find any theory for consciousness, but in fact people are still trying to find one.
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By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings!
There is also another blog post (link to white paper inside) that talks about different memory safety issues with WebAssembly if using a memory-unsafe language: https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/security-labs/new-whitepaper...
> Mr. Jiankui

He is his family name, Jiankui is his first name. That'd be like calling Dennis Ritchie "Mr. Dennis" throughout an article.
How does the existence of more notable dissidents make his critique of the regime invalid or less true?
If you found out that Newton was a thief, would that invalidate his laws of physics for you?
I almost know zero about FPGA market but it seems that it's infinitely harder to port programs between FPGAs than from CPUs.

Other than that thanks for the insights, interesting facts.
Well, the rhetoric about Id, Ego and Super-ego is Freudian, so it probably doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

Strictly, what I mean is that some things which seem impossible are in fact possible if only barely. E.g. With advances in genetic engineering, the term 'transgender' might have a very different meaning in 100 years, but those advances appear to come at great cost. Perhaps then one will not need to be as brave as you to undergo vast psychosexual changes to the self.

I see accountability as something I have to myself. - I am very reluctant to lie to myself since I realized there are things which I only have myself to blame for. Furthermore I don't believe there is a purpose to life since that would contradict free will. Instead of purpose, I have the freedom to make whatever I want of my life.
I think the key difference is the audience. For a lot of food bloggers that share their recipes, the initial group of readers is loyal fans. They want to hear the stories and the recipe is almost secondary.

When you find a recipe through search, you want the recipe and have to wade through the story and the photos to get to it and that's frustrating. Oddly enough, it's also what may help that article rank higher in search too.
I highly recommended reading some Hemingway. He has a very beautiful writing style. It's a masterclass in efficiency.

I have to write academic work in a rigid format, but I try to mimic much of his style in my other writing (reflective pieces, opinion pieces, formal communications at work...).

There's also an app/webpage called the Hemingway editor I would recommend.
> it would seem to devalue non-engineered life

Non-engineered life, in comparison to (hypothetical) well-engineered life ... is indeed less valuable, because it has lesser affordances. Same as any tool or machine, and same as today; insofar as e.g. medics differ from thieves, officers from enlisted, ambulatories from cripples, etc.

Why is the mere "seeming" part, important?

And why lament the devaluation of cottage industry instead of noticing the large net-increase-in-value being delivered by factories?

> it would increase pressure on others, or other nations, to follow suit so as not to fall behind in the “race race” of eugenics

Good; then the transition from non-engineered to well-engineered life will have that much less room for pointless and expensive violence.

> genetic engineering might make populations more susceptible to epidemics

This hypothetical does not merit the kind of absolute opposition that I am seeing in this thread and this article.
There are a lot of companies with a proprietary CMS in the general publishing space (TownNews, GTXcel are both popular), but you can bet that their customers and prospects are always considering a switch to WordPress for various reasons. Financial, extensibility, the fact that most people just know how to use it, not being tied into a 3 year contract, feature list, great reputation, existing users, etc.

It's not easy doing what WordPress did. Other major CMSs like Drupal and Joomla came and mostly went because maintaining the level of product quality and community is harder than it looks.
You'd like my website.

I did my entire 'human framing' in a single paragraph on a single "Its January 2017, next steps" article.

It was my worst performing article, now I only release studies.
I mean it already gives such power, there's no one stopping someone adding couple of zeroes next to their account.
Can someone expand on this?

> There’s a three-way tradeoff between establishing credibility, being honest when you aren’t an expert, and sounding like a douche. For example: “No, I didn’t go to writing school. I learned my trade at the University of Life, the School of Hard Knocks, and the physics department at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University.”

Is the example meant to be douchey or not?
Why can't it be impossible to find any theory of consciousness? Unless you define the word theory to mean something it doesn't mean to scientists, it is impossible to have a theory of consciousness. At best there could be speculation about consciousness.
Weirdly, android has nailed text selection + navigation in 9.0
You can do it more cheaply using a radioactive source on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
there is nothing wrong with jordan peterson afaik
I too struggle to like AMP. The rhetoric seems a little absent imagination in regard to offline. Are you really saying your handheld computer can't be useful without a worldwide network connection?
I use this extension called SessionBox on Chrome to do exactly this. It gives me different sessions side by side in the same window.
What would happen if you let AlphaZero compete against AlphaZero?
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Interesting. I guess it may be possible to use it to be logged into and use different email accounts, e.g. foo@emailservice.com and bar@emailservice.com from the same browser instance. That would be helpful.
I am much the same. I have stickers for IntelliJ (as a stand in for all JetBrains IDEs), Emacs and Vim on my laptop because each has a different use case and preferred language. I even have Atom, Sublime and others installed and use them on rare occasions when they have plugins that are useful for a task at hand.

I also exclusively use the command line for source control (of which I use at least four, but mostly git and hg). I just do not trust IDEs to do the right thing, although JetBrains does get close (but my colleague devs hate the properly pruned .idea in the repos).
I think you meant time in the market is better than timing the market. However your advice rings true.
Why house prices in global cities are falling
No, obviously ocean waters can't be stopped from rising. The question is all about how much they're going to rise. It really annoys me when people treat global warming as an all or nothing quantitative affair.

Yes, every climate model overshot air warming leading up to 2014. But they also all undershot ocean warming. That's because, for some reason nobody understands, from 1998 to 2014 all the extra thermal energy caused by CO2 forcing went into the ocean. But since 2014 air temperatures have shot up very rapily and now we're back on the trend-line predicted by models.[1] But really, you could just as easily have argued that models were undershooting because they all predicted cooler oceans than we got. And Ocean warming is the important part for determining sea levels. Christy was dishonestly cherry picking stats to make it look like errors only go in one direction when really they go in both.

If all you know about the global warming debate is what was in that video I can see how you found it convincing but it's actually a very shallow treatment of the whole topic. It's really hard to get into depth in a video, that why so many of us are reluctant to watch them when someone links to one.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

EDIT: And in the future, can you try summarizing things from a video like this you found persuasive rather than just telling people to watch the video? If you had mentioned the "Overshot for the last 30 years" thing it should have been immediately obvious to people who follow climate science what was happening and how you'd been mislead. Then I wouldn't have had to wade through an hour long video trying to figure out what you found persuasive in it. I'm generally reluctant to watch videos linked off of Hacker News because they usually aren't worth it and after this I think people are going to find it even harder to persuade me to do so without better evidence.
It's only a supreme being when surrounded by 2.2GHz laptops in sync
No updates is another issue. But it is a problem created artificially. Somehow my 10 year old Core 2 Duo I'm using as HTPC is still getting updates and is working perfectly fine.

> Besides, the processors that are in most low end and midrange Android phones are so horrible compared to 4 year old iPhones, I can’t imagine them keeping up with new software.

Again - it's mostly software problem.
I have Motorola Moto E LTE(2015 - 2nd gen) with 1GB of RAM and it's working perfectly fine with Lineage OS [without google services] + F-Droid. I'm using it for Jabber communication (Conversations), podcasts (AntennaPod), GPS (Osmand), e-mail checking (mostly notifications from my bank ;)), calendar (DAVDroid), searching web (Firefox) when I want to check something on the go (bus/train timetable, address etc.) and everything works fine.

My friend had same model and he replaced it because everything was slow with "official" android.

I also have to change my phone. Reason? Battery. Changing it is difficult(https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Motorola+Moto+E+2nd+Generation+...) and paying someone to do it doesn't make any sense (labor + new battery would cost more than this phone is worth...).
Almost everything fails, you just remember the few that succeeded. There were thousands of Linux distributions, thousands of movies, millions of songs. Most of them failed and were forgotten.
Look for the Thinkpad 25th anniversary edition, it has a 7 row keyboard with more modern (t470) guts but expensive af
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Hi, check out Ghost.

https://ghost.org/

- It's a blog engine with support for static pages.

- It's open source (NodeJS)

- It's self-hostable.

- It's beautiful out of the box.

- It's entirely customizable.

- It's markdown-powered with a great WYSIWYG editor.

- There's no data lock in; excellent import/export support.

I could go on. Just give it a shot. "Ghost Pro" (https://ghost.org/pricing/) from the official team is a bit pricy if you're saying you want something cheap, but Digital Ocean has a two-click-setup droplet for a self-hosted version (seriously, I tried it, it's ridiculously simple). Referral link with $100 DO credit if you are interested: https://m.do.co/c/ea4165209ae0

Some examples of small customizations of the default "Casper" theme:

https://articles.hsreplay.net/

https://spreadprivacy.com/

https://blog.mozvr.com/

More of their customers: https://ghost.org/customers/
The US are at war with China. Trade is just one aspect.

The issue is that they cannot 'win' that war. They can only delay the rise of China.

At the moment US' actions are uniting the Chinese people behind their government so the Chinese might actually be able to (or forced to) take a harder line on some issues.
Why do you say none, then immediately list a few advantages of Rust? To build on your points:

- it might be a easier language to target with a compiler because it's a higher-level intermediate language

- there would be fewer undefined behavior shenanigans

- successfully writing a compiler that targets Rust without using unsafe (too much) would mean getting (some of) the safety benefits as a side-effect. Could especially be relevant for languages aiming to introduce zero-overhead safety to the embedded environment themselves

- regarding previous point: discovering bugs in the process of porting to Rust

- because Rust plays relatively nicely with C and C++, one wouldn't have to lose existing libraries along the way
I use SessionBox ext in chrome to achieve this.
> What is more secure - Venmo behind face ID on an apple phone...

Anything broadcasting transactions, by default, with no way to turn off egregious abuses strikes me as a personal security risk. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/whats-...
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