skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's good again

No it's not. It's frequently hanging certain tabs which I'm forced to close and reopen because I get the grey spinner and my 8 core machine grinds down to a halt.

On Android when opening the embedded webview powered by Firefox, whether the page will load without being forced to open it in the full browser is a coin toss.

It doesn't help that Mozilla has lost most of my goodwill by being such a mixed bag when it comes to politics and decision making the past few years.

I still use it, because I like that a part of the company is trying to move the needle forward in browser tech, I find container tabs better than Chromium profiles and up until recently I could get bypass paywalls without workarounds, but unless things improve by the time Brave moves the Chromium fork out of beta, I'm moving to Brave.
It comes down to management. Management needs to understand how SEO/Marketing/Digital Marketing works and they need to know how to scale it properly. It takes a lot of internal training and knowledge of that industry. There are a lot of meaningless tasks that digital marketing companies do that aren't moving the needle for clients.

I'd look at client retention rates, as well. A good agency should have high client retention rates. If they're just bringing in new clients for a few months and then the client leaves, then there's something seriously wrong.
You can write comments at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/
Presumably Microsoft have only one motivation at all for even having a web browser, and that is to control the default search engine. This seems like a commercially sensible move.
That isn't really true. The cells are not standard cells. They have their protection removed to give them more volume and also the blend of electrolytes used is also proprietary.
Richest 1,000 families in Britain have doubled their wealth since the recession
Yes, I am the same gumby at the MIT AI lab from late 70s to mid 80s. Never saw the SNL thing though have heard about it.
Doubtful. Cultural practices are subject to the same selection dynamics that genes are. A cultural group that doesn't create its own children will eventually die out unless they have some other group producing new members for them at a very high and stable rate. See shakers for instance. Dead. Gone.

Contrast that with homosexuals, who haven't until recently been having children en masse. But where there is a certain percentage of the population born with a tendency to be gay. So they can always count on having new members.

Unlike being gay, people aren't born with "Amazing Grace" so ... it's a bad strategy that will be weeded out over time. Just like with the Shakers.

This isn't to say that some highly fecund cultural group, like Mormons, can't get away with adopting children here and there. But if they start going too far with it their numbers will start to dwindle.
Heading continued: “... thieves make off with $4.50”
Poor kids, bear mace is strong. I've definitely heard of people using it in that way though.
From what I remember, when children are born, they're born with a very underdeveloped brain. The prefrontal cortex to I believe isn't present but I could be wrong, otherwise it's very small.

The self conscious emotions, pride, shame, guilt, envy, remorse, embarrassment, hubris, and many more come from the prefrontal cortex. As it develops over a very long period of time, so do the emotions. I remember that embarrassment doesn't typically develop until you're approximately 7-years-old.
Typically not - but for an outstanding candidate we'd certainly consider it!
What is O2? It's not mentioned in the article but it's in the title.
Think Eastern Europe Is Authoritarian? Try Germany and France
EU seems to be pretty concerned with data privacy, and they even have laws protecting it.
I don't remember many models besides: here's a brain, here's how it developed, and here's what is and isn't able to get done given approximate ages.
It seems they're not joking, Firefox feels faster than it was some months ago when I've last tried it.
Heh. Me too! I haven't found anything good yet.

I've started to spec out what I want, and have been looking at APIs (or scraping) for the various information I want to track. Some of it is fairly easy (the web/server monitoring), some of it hard (bank access).

I was sorta surprised I couldn't find an established solution, honestly.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in as I'm waiting for FIDO U2F support as well but I think CTAP2 is the browser-to-user layer of FIDO.

edit: just tested it on Mojave with gmail and fastmail and it doesn't recognize that the Yubikey has been inserted, so looks like support is not there out-of-the-box
This is it. Even more specifically: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/10708221567313223...

Getting WebRTC means Teams can replace Skype for Buisness
Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags
O2 is one of the major telecommunications service providers in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_(UK)
I think that the number of people in Google contributing to Chromium is much smaller, than the number of people in MS working on Edge.

Many Chromium contributors are enthusiasts, who don't get paid for it. They would not mind working on Microsoft's fork instead of Google's fork.
The simple design of Chrome on Mac is nice, I'm not a fan of all the lines and shadows in Firefox, I wish they would change it. But I'm still giving it try for the next days. On Android Firefox looks pretty sexy.
Whistleblowing attracts up to a 25-year sentence, so yes this is terrible for journalists.

What's the maximum sentence for copyright infringement?
They always make sure to put a TON of "citations” in their comments too lmao.
Hurd was a microkernel that was a genuine attempt at something new. Linux’s monolithic design was very safe, very 70’s/80’s, and was criticized by everyone for not being a serious 90’s microkernel design.
Indeed it's 2018. The shit already hit the fan. We suffer unsustainable ecosystem losses on a daily basis.
One of the best criticisms for the rushing through of this POS legislation was "if it's such a rush to get this done, why hasn't Australia's threat level been increased?"

The answer from the intelligence agencies is that there must be a known specific threat in order for the threat level to be increased (from "Probable" to "Expected")[0]

So, they're saying that it's important for this legislation to be passed for the sake of the safety of Australian citizens despite the fact there's no specific threat that's worth raising Australia's threat level for.

Add this to the huge list of WTF's surrounding this situation.

[0] https://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/securityandyourcommunity...
I don't know about Mozilla licensing terms... Could Microsoft forked Firefox instead of building its new browser based on Chromium project?
Been watching this project for a while (via 68kmla), haven't seen any updates recently but excited to about any progress you make!
This line of argument is not helpful. What are you going to do if/when somebody shows up with a scheme that shows you're wrong, and the laws of mathematics do in fact permit such schemes?
Before m-x commands you'd type a couple of altmodes to type raw TECO for Emacs to execute (like typing a string of ed commands into vi when not in insert mode).

altmode was a special key on the TK TV displays we used. On an ASCII terminal the escape key would also send an altmode, which was printed as a dollar sign.

I sometimes absentmindedly try to press meta-escape to do something in Emacs.
Ντέρμπι σε Serie a και Γαλλία την Παρασκευή
I can't tell if you're sitting on a gold mine or about to get very, very depressed very, very quickly.

I am, however, pretty sure there's no middle ground.

Wish you all the best but I would never trade my job for yours, I value my sanity way more than that.
You're so lucky you never had Thomas Hardy as the author of a set book in English Literature.
HallowPin
HallowPin is an IOS app that captures the location of where a user's memories happen. Never forget where your favorite ice cream ship is or where the best view for the sunset is. In a little as two taps Hallowpin pins the location on the map and users can also search for a location and HallowPin pins those. In the app, there is HallowPin Connect, a virtual map where users can perform the functions but on a map seen by everyone. It is a new form of social media where people can share where their experiences happen so that others can also create memories that last a lifetime.
Probably 10% off some ticketing scam they have running.
1. This is actually discouraged for many projects (e.g. LLVM), because of the possibility that someone does a lot of work and then their results are not accepted.

2. The issues here don't have to do with whether the technology "works" (it does), but rather "developer velocity" and other more social/political concerns.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play with a new battle royale mode
most of the really bad issues were things that were broken in OS7 running VM too - mostly it was people messing with the upper 8 bits of pointers directly rathyer than using the standard handle APIs, but expecting to be able to write directly to hardware devices or 'knowing' about undocumented stuff inside the ROMs was also an issue
I agree that this being reposted in any Facebook-related thread is old and tired.

But I wouldn't dismiss the episode itself as irrelevant to assessing how Zuckerberg thinks. If anything, it should be a well known bit of history and already long baked into people's opinions.

And therefore it will always be "in context" when updating your opinion on Zuckerberg's (specifically) and Facebook's (broadly) trustworthiness.
Damn that’s amazing. Thanks for the link.

I can’t wait never to touch VSTO again.
Since always but it depends on what you actually take into account.

More LOC means more opportunities for error, and more resources needed to review that code and more time required for a new developer to get familiar with the code base.

That said if you have 85 LOC vs 1000 it usually means that the 85 LOC “app” used a metric ton of external dependencies which are on their own a good source for problems.

When comparing apples to apples (as in both apps use dependencies equally) I don’t see how such delta can be caused by using a different language, even using assembly would likely not cause this much inflation.
And some major major emergency ass pulling I was told by insiders.
OK I see what you mean now, but that is the combination of type erasure and allowing method overloading that is causing the issue, not the erasure itself. For example, look at a language that doesn't allow overloads, like OCaml. Its types are fully erased, allowing very efficient compiled or transpiled code, e.g. https://reasonml.github.io/en/try?rrjsx=false&reason=LYewJgr...
Nope, wasn't me.
How is this implemented?
The point of posting things on a site with comments is so people can comment on them. Even if we knew for a fact that the poster wasn't the creator, it would still be appropriate to comment on an annoying aspect of the project.
That was a room on the 8th floor of tech square (almost the entire 9th floor, the top of that building, was machine room).

Tech square was an office complex built in anticipation of the space program. Then JFK was assassinated and LBJ moved mission control and all that stuff to Texas. NE43 was the name of 545 Main st. MIT had a bunch of floors, first 8&9, then 3 (CIA had the other half for a long time), then 7. I think Honeywell had an office there too, perhaps in one of the other buildings, because of the Multics project.
Yep, and meanwhile Mojave would be really familiar to an original Macintosh user from 35 years ago. So much has changed yet so little.
Bureau of Industry and Security issues recommendations for technology blockade
> While the scalability behind silicon was perhaps easier and faster, there are similar effects at work for batteries ... The thinner the layers, the higher the capacity as you have a smaller distance between positive and negative layers.

I'm arguing it's not at all all similar. The capacity of a lithium ion battery is fundamentally limited by the amount cathode material it contains, along with sufficient electrolyte to support it, just like any other battery. Making other materials thinner, allows you to stuff in more of this stuff, and other changes in the arrangement may make the process more efficient, but up to a limit. There is hard cap to usefulness of all of these processes, at the "theoretical efficiency" and in principle softer caps before that point long before you approach the theoretical caps.

If you have a chance, ask the battery chemists you know what the best-case storage is for a particular chemistry and cathode material, compared to what is available today. I don't think it is more than 10x aware and is probably much less.

That's very different than CPU scaling where you started out many billions of times away from the physical limits of the computational capacity of the material, and many trillions away from the theoretical physical limits of computation.

So no, thinner stuff isn't going to sustain a 15% annual increase in efficiency [1]. In fact, I don't think think it will even sustain a single 15% increase from today until the end of time.

Of course, there are many other vectors along which battery efficiency can increase when the denominator is "cost", even if the storage/size doesn't increase much. You can increase manufacturing efficiency. You can introduce new form factors. You can tweak the chemistry. You can carefully match the required discharge characteristics to the application. Outside of the battery itself, you can improve charging and discharging algorithms, you can use finer-grained control over smaller groups of batteries, you can improve thermal management. However, these are just in the range of normal industrial optimizations that apply to any product. You can replace "batteries" with "lettuce" in the above and come with a similar list.

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[1] To be clear, there is no 15% increase in battery efficiency per year, when measured by volume, weight or other physical characteristics: that stat must involve "price". Panasonic, the best and biggest Li-on player out there, has barely budged in efficiency on their headline battery, the 18650.
See my original comment.
Surely you can use that quote to dismiss absolutely everything? If you see it, it's confirmation bias. If you don't, it doesn't exist.
As far as I understand it, it is. That said, I tried to use this for a WebAuthn Django library I'm trying to write and it wouldn't work, as pages wouldn't render at all.
AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical 'turning point' for AI
It wasn't actually proceeded by Pink. Copland and Pink were going on in parallel, and the competition between them (and the original MacOS folks as well) was intense. Pink was the first to lose that battle, and got spun out as a result.

Source: I worked on Pink/Taligent for six years. Prior to that I supported A/UX and MPW in MacDTS.
Absolutely fascinating.

I have been practicing cold immersion for several years as part of sauna hot/cold cycles since I first discovered experimentally that it measurably improved my symptoms of acute and complex PTSD. Extremely heartened to see some initial scientific results in line with my anecdata.

“Our results provide compelling evidence for the primacy of the brain (CNS) rather than the body (peripheral mechanisms) in mediating the Iceman's responses to cold exposure. They also suggest the compelling possibility that the WHM might allow practitioners to develop higher level of control over key components of the autonomous system, with implications for lifestyle interventions that might ameliorate multiple clinical syndromes.”
Certificate monitoring would be a good idea.
TiDB (a NewSQL DB) gets deployed in Meituan-Dianping (290M monthly users)
Yet, does the lower class shrink?

Why does the poverty level continue to rise?

Yet, there are more millionaires, this is a fact.

Does it have to be one or the other?

No.

Is there an answer that satisfies both sets of facts?

Yes.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/america-is-r...
Google of Domain Names
I'm not sure if I misunderstand what you are getting at but if you are talking about the .well-known/change-password thing that in this post, its just a well known _redirect_ to the regular change password page for that particular website, you cant PUT to it, it requires a human to navigate the page and fill out the password change form.

Unfortunately its not a well-known api endpoint.
“open source” is the new “developers”.
I work on VS Code. You can disable VS Code telemetry and even disable all built-in online services if you like. This is documented on the website [1]

However VS Code cannot block the extensions that you install from collecting their own telemetry. Even if use a version of VS Code built from source, an extension that you install could still collect telemetry of its own. Same applies to most software that allows third party plugins (unless they do some serious sandboxing/capability restriction, or only allow installing specifically vetted plugins)

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
Minor notes:

* BeOS was evaluated by Apple as a Copland replacement (along with Solaris, NT, and NeXTSTEP).

* MacOS X discarded DPS for Quartz so it didn't turn out to be much of a feature. But very few applications touched that directly so it wasn't much of a porting issue.

* There was more UNIX and AppKit-based software available for NeXTSTEP than for BeOS but nobody in the Mac world cared about that. Quark were the only company that really blew the transition, but they blew it badly.
>It's striking how many academics admit (usually anonymously, online) to using Sci-Hub for content they do have legitimate access to. Sci-Hub appears to be pretty much flawless at looking up articles across all publishers by ID or even title, and quickly returning the right thing if it's available.

It's funny how absolutely useless Google scholar is for finding papers. You can specifically put in authors and the exact title in quotes and it will still be on like the third page.
Sometimes I feel, when papers that have grand speculations contained in them, should be made available to the public without the author(s) name tacked on it, and only be released after the public comes to a consensus. Why? science is about science not the people involved, high credential folks low credential folks don't matter. Just because someone is a high-cred scientist doesn't make his speculation any more worthy than a jackass's just because his credentials somehow factor in, it leads to more often than not, utter bs. Case in point: Linus Pauling and Vitamin C
> rumor has it that Chrome's marketing spend is comparable to Mozilla's total revenue

Google advertises Chrome on the Google start page, literally on google.com. I wonder how much that web real estate would go for if Google were to auction it off?
I think like this is a theory that has a bit of truth to it, but the stories themselves should not be brushed aside. Society hasn’t yet come to grips with the amount of surveillance these ad platforms are inserting into every aspect of their lives.
- Search more than 350 million registered domain names in seconds.

- Use 15+ magical filters to find what you look for.

- Explore curiously every registered domain name on its special page.

- Find 40 million domain names on sale with the power of 15+ marketplace partners.

- Follow domain names to catch every update about a domain name.
Major problem i had with bitcoin is that no subscription management product supports it.

Neither servicebot, nor killbill (the plugin doesn't work anymore)

So how can i add bitcoin in SaaS products?

There is no Opensource Subscription management product which supports most of the gateways including bitcoin.

Customers request that they want to pay for our VPN SaaS through bitcoin but we didn't find anything like chargify, recurly, chargebee supporting bitcoin.

When accepting bitcoin is soo difficult, no idea how it will grow.

I don't know why SaaS developers don't gangup and roll out Opensource self hosted chargebee like subscription management product with ability to support any gateway.

Then we'll not have to reinvent the wheel again and again while creating any new SaaS products.

We can solve it once for all.

It seems everyone implements their own billing flow which is often difficult for user to understand as every product uses it's own billing flow.

Why not a unified flow?

Some developers simply add stripe and are done with it.

I think this is leaving 20% on the money on the table which comes through other payment methods like cryptos, wire transfer (manual), skrill, western union, yandexpay, webmoney which is very popular in Soviet block countries.
I learned emacs in the late 1980's -- it is now an ingrained part of my brain. I hate when I have to use an IDE w a different editor -- at least most editors (and GUI components like browser textfields) respond to common emacs key-sequences.
In the U.S. and apparently also in Australia, it's all politicized by the right wing climate science deniers, who have swallowed petrol industry propaganda, who view the embrace of basic science by anyone, regardless of their actual place on the political spectrum, as an Obama/Clinton/"libtard" hoax aimed at taxing their precious wallets and taking away their freedom. You can see it in the comments here denying climate science and making false claims about the existence of "many scientists" who disagree with the consensus and think there are other causes of climate change, ignorant nonsense about coming ice ages, and so on.
Partisan Conflict Index (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
I never fully understood the primary differences between Chrome and Chromium. One is open source and supported by Google and the other owned by Google, there are other small differences that I’m aware of, but can someone please list the significant differences and why it’s not a good argument (if not) to support Chromium without fear of Google’s monopoly? Or is it the case that Google has enough influence on Chromium’s direction to render that an unviable alternative?
Well, what they hiring for, their questions in a specific language, how and who is evaluating the answers, the fact that a person is looking to work for them vs other companies are all biases. Nobody should try to extrapolate their results to the whole population of software engineers.

That said, Visual Studio is really on the rise. I used to think VSCode was late and could have never catch up with the Sublime's and Atom's ecosystem. So after trying it, I went back to my editor of choice. Lately though I went back to VSCode and I think it is pretty good out of the box and very good when you install the right plugins.
Rocket release 0.4.0
You know we didn't have this problem back in the early 1900s. It would be helpful if regulation didn't completely eliminate the ability of unions to pool together funds and create their own mini-insurance collectives. Regulation killed that by forcing all doctors to be licensed, a very expensive process that limits the supply of doctors and nurses.
Sadly there are also 'secret prefs' that are considered so potent that they're not exposed by default in about:config

If you know about them, for example from reading the code, you can create them. So at present about:config is a strange sort of place with lots of knobs but not all of them.
This appears to be the meat of it:

https://github.com/keystone-enclave/riscv-pk

with apps:

https://github.com/keystone-enclave/keystone-demo

... there's not much there.

(For the same application, Apple uses L4).