skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Australia is often used as a testing ground for this kind of legislation.

I didn't know that. Can you mention any notable examples?
Yes, there is a place for end user programming, among the end users that want to be programmers. History has shown time and time again that's a minuscule part of end users. Even Excel formulas are out of reach for most end users.
"when people no longer own cars" -that phrase assumes a lot of things will happen, none of which will obviously happen. The "sharing economy" in general parses to non Bay Area people as "deal with owning less, peasants." Imagining the idea of this being pitched to yellow vests in France...
Lots of tech companies do require diversity/bias training for managers and interviewers. It's often counterproductive. In my experience people either don't take the training seriously or strongly object to being forced to go through it. I'm not sure it'd be effective even if everyone embraced it since shifting attitudes and behaviors takes time and effort even when you're highly motivated to do so.
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Quantifying Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
I wonder if URLs like /.well-known/login and /.well-known/logout would be a good idea, and should belong to a similar spec. Maybe even /.well-known/register, too.
So it paid for itself in 1.65 years, which comes out to an ROI of ~52%.

Why is this not more widespread? There must be some barriers.
Please explain why identifying the work of white supremacists and similar pustules as their work, and suggesting that decent people should not help them make that work A Thing, is "Orwellian". And to be clear: we know that white supremacists insert these phrases into the public discourse to help strengthen their position through normalization. We know that because they say so. We have the receipts, from Lee Atwater to 4chan galaxy-brain chatter.

If you don't want to be thought of as a white supremacist, it's remarkably easy not to parrot their phrases. And nobody's even saying you can't do it if you want to die on that hill. But actions have consequences, don't they?
This is a great discussion. The initial article is good too.

I have been consulting on my own for about 3 years - though the first was more during a transition out of full time employment. A couple thoughts on what HAS worked for me:
-I have been very focused on a specific and limited scope, product/market strategy for smart building/real estate tech firms (mostly startups who do not have their on product mgmt resources). I know folks who have been much more broad in focus and it doesn't seem to work. If you find a good gap in the market, you may find a consistent stream of work with enough flexibility on timelines to balance the days/weeks out so it's not so lumpy.
-much of the marketing I do (free newsletter, articles in trade journals) do generate leads but it takes ~6 months for a particular article or effort to generate leads. I'm not sure why this is, but most people who reach out to me for help cite something from months ago as "how they heard about me"
-pricing is difficult and the best response I have is that once you get a couple projects that are similar, you can use that average price as your list price - and you will have some confidence that it's a fair price based on the market.

Also, I have thought the easiest move into a product, for me, would be syndicated research. Instead of charging clients for consulting engagements, could I write reports that are of interest and then sell them. A few firms in my space do this, and I think it would be the most organic product I could deploy. I've been brainstorming ways to test this, as I don't really want to spend a long time writing a long report only to find that it does not sell...
By "that quickly" I was thinking orders of magnitude per year. This would have been competitive at 4 times the price.
Depending on the details it might have been competitive at 10 times the (battery) price.

Was the decision taken years ago? This is the 100 days or free battery. But yes I accept the power companies may have been slow. But still it isn't just Australia that was slow, its the US, Germany, Denmark, the world.
Have you considered you might be glossing over some of the complexity involved in running operations like these?
That's actually really interesting; I don't tend to have a ton of tabs, but coworkers always told me Firefox did a terrible job with 100+ tabs and that Chrome worked better. This always made sense to me because of the multi-process architecture of Chrome, but I've never seen it myself.

So you're suggesting that Firefox actually performs better now? Maybe all my coworkers complaining about it are just repeating lore that no longer exists?

Many tabs aside though, I still have a lot of performance problems with Firefox (although it's getting better; Quantum was fantastic, I was getting really fed up with Firefox for a while before that).
And if your "Only One Messaging App" is a monoculture proprietary product with dubious profit goals than you can count me, and large swaths of tech minded people, out.

The only way forward is either Matrix or something like it. And even then you need enough momentum to bend all the walled gardens of Google / MS / FB / etc to have to play ball with a common federated protocol. Good luck getting that without the ludicrous budgets the market leaders have to throw at trying to force everyone into their own proprietary chat bubble.

We almost had that in the mid 2000s and the Google jumped ship first to Hangouts. They basically started this whole mess by going from a time where MSN Messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Google Talk were all speaking the same XMPP language. Since then all three have gone total proprietary with design decisions around locking people in than providing a useful product.

Some things are fine to have proprietary giants trying to fight for your eyeballs over, such as entertainment. But communication should be something we can agree on, as a society. This is the kind of thing we should have international interoperable standards on. Email was a lucky break that SMTP and IMAP ended up being mandatory, because even today Google is trying their damn hardest to implement Gmail in anything other but an interoperable way but know it would destroy their product to ever turn the compatibility off.
Comparing default Chrome vs default FireFox it's easy to think they're similar, and say "Chrome is ok."

But FireFox-with-blockers is in a class by itself in terms of speed and usability on both desktop and mobile.

Most of the things that work on Chrome but not Firefox end up being blocked and I don't even notice they're gone.

The recent change to make tracker blocking default in FireFox gives me hope.
I think Facebook is benefiting from everyone having learned their lesson.

The saw their trust woefully violated by Facebook, and they'll never give another network the same access to their data again. And, thus, stay on Facebook.
Everyone overestimates how big gravitational potential energy is. That why we get companies peddling nonsense like energy harvesting pavements and speed bumps.
Very cool, will definitely keep this in my favorites.

However there is an issue with the pagination/navigation. I can't see the next items if there is more than 20.
I don't mean to be smug. It's just kind of sad to see what's happened to a country with enormous soft power. Same goes for the US.

I wish I knew more western countries who were defending privacy, and the environment for that matter. For a period it kind of looked like Germany _might_ but that hasn't stood up (Who knows, maybe the Pirate Party will get a chancellor someday). The Nordics don't seem amazing either.

What does that leave us with? Some rocky archipelago in the middle of the Pacific? Developing nations that simply don't care or lack the ability to have meaningful enforcement? I'm really struggling to think of something.
I'm not sure why the downvotes, you're basically correct. I really don't care much whether it's a person or a computer driving me around. What I care about is the price.

People seem to implicitly assume that autonomous driving will make getting driven around really cheap. But all you're really doing is taking a ~minimum wage driver out of the loop. A good starting point for costs is the $0.50ish/mile IRS mileage deduction which is maybe about half Lyft/Uber pricing today. That's a significant difference but I'm not sure it's a radically alter everyone's behavior difference.
jq is a C program, yes, but jq programs are interpreted. Because jq is a dynamically-typed language, it wouldn't be easy to compile it to object code that would run too much faster than the byte-interpreted version (though it would still run faster).

As you say, jq's power is that it is an expressive language, and it's much much easier to write jq programs that work than it is to write C/C++ programs as needed that do the same or similar work.
LastPass had a similar feature when I used it. It often broke and was overall unreliable, as all scrapers are wont to be. Worse - when it failed, you couldn't be sure at what point of the process it had done so, leaving your accounts potentially inaccessible.
What about the good qualities that websites have, like the ability to link (and deep link) people to specific parts of it?

The re-trending of the local application is a step back in this regard. And "when will this internet fad die off so we can return to native applications" throws a lot of baby out.
I agree, two completely different types of suppression, each quite scary.
> as a populous is armed it can strike fear in the government.

Or it can shoot up a pre-school.

Only one of these things actually happens outside of adolescent power fantasies.
It'll be something you don't expect. Maybe an iMessage plugin.
See also https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/queenslan...

https://mobile.twitter.com/1EarthMedia/status/96365636438716...
Yes. If well-written anyways.
First I'm told that YouTube won't pay me for my 400 videos because my subscriber count is too low.

Now I'm told my porn Tumblr with 5,000 posts and 45,000 subscribers will be made private (i.e. deactivated).

The internet is dying, man.

Sad.
Based on many conversations over the years. Anecdotal evidence to be sure but quite a lot of it.
Ontario has one of the best and cleanest grids in North America, if not the world. Coal was completely phased out years ago, and dependence on gas-fired peakers is low.

South Australia has the cleanest grid in Australia (except Tasmania), with extensive wind generation, but does not have the nuclear and hydro resources that somewhere like Ontario can call on. Thus it depends, at times, on dirty, lignite-fired imports from neighbouring Victoria for balancing. By building more solar and battery storage over time, SA can reduce the need for imports (and expensive gas-fired peakers), making their grid even cleaner.
Not far from where I live is a completely overgrown path/road known as the "Old North Road" - looking at the landscape it takes a route that was probably the easiest way through the hills before more modern roads of recent centuries.

Maybe Agricola's armies marched that way from their camp on a nearby hill to help rescue the 9th Legion... who knows?
It is not insulting what so ever. Every single agreement that two parties enter is a temporary agreement that will be broken. The only question is when. The history is littered with the agreements/treaties between countries that were tossed.

Every single diplomat knows it, which is why diplomacy is about horse trading. Parties want to "sort of" maintain the status quo, even if it means giving up some of what is "rightfully their" by the agreement.
> There is no perceptible difference in speed of the browser

No difference that maybe you can perceive, but I for one find the scrolling a lot more sluggish on FF than on Chrome, and that's on a SD 845 device, which is the latest and supposedly greatest Qualcomm chip. I just can't use FF on Android, and that's a shame because the desktop version is very good.
> If they have the capability to effectively ban all porn, they have the capability to fight child porn.

Why do people insist on spreading their uneducated unsubstantiated opinions? Do you know this is true? Why don't you link some papers showing how porn detection neural nets can accurately detect age as well.
I'm not sure how this made it to the front page. It mashes up several things about passwords, some of which are dangerous, some of which are smart. It acknowledges the strength of a system like diceware. Then it concludes 'Don't use words in passwords. Ever.' while failing to distinguish between passphases based on words (like diceware generates) and having a password that is "benisgreat".
Use a password manager! The transition takes some time/effort, but once you have one fully set up (I adore 1password) it's both easier and far more secure than any scheme you keep in your head.

Re: losing access - a 1password family plan allows your family members to recover your account. Or just write your master password down on paper and store it somewhere secure - like a safe or safety deposit box.
WebFinger, a key underlying tech of the Fediverse and used for bootstrapping OpenID Connect, ActivityPub, and many other standards uses .well-known.

https://webfinger.net/
People are bitching and moaning about Mozilla pulling an extension that works around paywalls from addons.mozilla.org, so do you honestly think that people are willing to "financially support the sites they visited"?

Without hitting a paywall that can't be worked around, hell will freeze over before that happens ;-)
Ancient developer here:

This is totally portable. Compose on Kubernetes provides a new type in your cluster: Stack. It's backed by a regular API server and controller like any other Kubernetes resources.
> I also think it's disingenuous to claim what "equity" is.

The definition I gave is the one widely used in academic disciplines such as "black studies", "gender studies", "women studies" and "whiteness studies". I did not invent it. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada)

> Some groups are making hard stands for calling for equity

I'm not sure which groups are calling for what, but the 20th century experience is clear: Marxism doesn't work. So identity politics should be resisted as much as possible, irrespective of who's calling for it.

> And bringing Marxism is guaranteed for a shitstorm..

If I didn't do a very good job of arguing why I consider it Marxism, perhaps Jordan Peterson explains it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqcRVmOpIbY

As to causing a shitstorm - I believe that's inevitable when you have an honest discussion on such an important and divisive topic. That doesn't mean such a discussion should be avoided, on the contrary - the more difficult and divisive the topic is, the more important it is to discuss it openly, so that each side may argue their positions as best as they can and hopefully advance towards solution that works for everyone involved.
Or, alternatively, my comment reflects a radically different value system than you, which you have chosen to be offended by, and thus consider to be in bad faith.

From my point of view, our society should not be catering to the whims of everyone who claims harm, in this case, a niche porn community on a website that wants to change its business model. Another example, the dutch mohammed cartoon competition being shut down, which I would consider to be a failing of society. That you actually refer to this is “harm” is the basis for my comment.
Sell at ~$18k, pay $3.6k for the call, outperforms hodling in worlds where Bitcoin ends the year below ~$14.4k.
I think most of extensions that are not listed as compatible with Android version of Firefox is due the developer's lazyness to test it on Android and check the additional checkbox submitting it to the store. There are some differences in API, but they are minor https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Surrealism Meets Sci-Fi in 'Parallel Lives'
Take a trip to Jersey (the island) and you will be well taken care of. Another place is Marbella/ Puerto Banus Spain, good place to park money and make some while parked.
You can also, add irregular punctuation & capitalization, throw in some numbers within words, include words from other languages that you know or look up. Or use near words of other languages.

I have always thought of "3 random words" as a starting point for randomizing a password not literal advice to follow.
The Quantum change introduced multi-process to Firefox too. With a proper adblocker, hundreds of tabs are not a problem in my experience ( Chrome needs one too: in hundreds of random pages it's just too likely some crazy ads stress the system by playing video, constantly loading data, ...).
Moving parts are a big downside.
Because it takes very little effort and adds convenience for your users, that's why.

The alternative of doing a full API takes much more effort and therefore has little chance of adoption.
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IMO the actual state of web browsers is: "there is NO browsers.", we have labeled as browsers awful monsters that are a sort of OS-cancer that try to reduce OS itself as a mere kernel and basic userland needed to run that monster.

Actual size of those project is so big that practically no one, their devs included, can know the entire big picture, there are so any day new critical security vulnerabilities and a constant refrain, repeated following the nazi Goebbels principles of "repeat a lie enough and it became reality", that desktop is dead and the sole possible evolution are those monsters and, of course, "the cloud", because "we need integration and the sole really integrated platforms are cloud and mobile" and other classic marketing phrases.

Unfortunately, as with physical cancers, he are in the process of succumb. And even worse there are many people happy with that, like few crazy individual happy to have AIDS "so they know that they can get nothing worse STM and they feel free"... Or like south Koreans that pay a "prison hotel" to "free them for daily life"...

I think a ~60g rifle cartridge charged with salt and a small forest can be a good playground, only I fear we may run out of salt...
If Uber and Lyft prices go up 1.5x to 2x, that suddenly means that in cities, taxis undercut them.

I'll let someone chime in who understands the taxi business financials better. But in my observations, Uber and Lyft are only slightly cheaper than taxis. If prices go up, taxi companies will cut into their profits.

I'll also say we (as a society) are very lucky that Lyft emerged as a real competitor to Uber. If one of Lyft or Uber had failed a few years ago, we'd be in a total monopoly situation by now, and "Uber" would have similar meaning as "Kleenex" or "Scotch tape" -- that is, there's only one kind of smartphone ride hailing service and everyone uses it. Maybe that was the play of both Uber and Lyft all along -- stay alive long enough to force the other out and get to monopoly well before autonomous vehicles enter. And they failed. Both are still alive. There is no one firm with a monopoly.
I don't doubt that's true today. So they either adapt or new entrants displace them. (This is actually a pretty good example of how all companies are needing to increasingly become tech companies to at least some degree.)
> Because that's a Marxist way of taking care of problems

This is so ill-defined as to be useless. If by Marxist we are speaking of what mark (and Engels) wrote, then it must be pointed out Marx was against equality as a metric or measure. And that, contrary to popular belief, he did not originate collectivism and egalitarianism, but heavily critiqued the proponents and thinkers of such that existed in his time.

https://anarchopac.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/marx-and-engels-...

> equality of opportunity

Interestingly enough, this is another way of saying no equality at all. That is, the outcome of the competition is, by and large, predetermined. Children born into affluent homes will be sent to better schools, have better tutors, have parents who understand such social systems, and even posses such (seemingly minor, unless we of course want to talk about brain development) advantages as being fed enough nutritious food as to not be hungry. The athlete with access to experts and money and training (and time to spend otherwise not having to earn a living while they train) will outperform the runner who gets in a couple miles after work. (This, of course, extends to everything aspect of business and life. I'm sure there are many people who, if they're parents had had a few extra hundred thousand or million dollars to invest in their child't first few failed businesses, there are a lot of people who could be "successful".) So if we want "equality of opportunity" the first thing we have to do is divorce parents and children in something like Plato's creche. Otherwise we must admit that the system is built not on allowing the meritorious to rise (with whatever definition of meritorious we employ) but instituted by a power class to maintain that same power class.

> plays the game

When survival is on the line, how is it rational to 'play by the rules'. If someone existed in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, would it be rational to to hand over their family's stock of food on the outcome of a chess game?
Export your passwords on occasion & store somewhere safe is one method.

You can export passwords in Chrome. Type chrome://settings/passwords into the URL & click the 3 icon settings to the right of Saved Passwords.

Another option is to test the forgot password of your chosen password manager. See what options are & how comfortable they make you.
OP here— good point! We actually use Athena to query these exports in S3 to debug data drift of specific export objects over time. It's quite a useful tool, I was able to go knowing basically nothing about Athena to querying gzipped newline-delimited JSON files in S3 using SQL in about an hour.
According to XKCD[0] you need a fourth random word.

[0]https://xkcd.com/936/
It seems you are either intimating that you knowingly kowtowed to someone's racist choice, or that team-fit should be given different priority depending on the race of the applicant?

The latter would sound like "I'm racist; but it's against non- blacks!".

The former seems like something you could call out?

But, are you sure you didn't just assume it was racism; perhaps because you dislike the people involved.
Important glaring factual error here.

Under securities law, ALMOST ANY kind of deal to trade money for an intangible where the buyer expects to profit from others’ work is a security. Exchange listings having nothing to do with it.

Nothing is new under the sun and since the Securities Act of 1933 innumerable schemes to sell paper to rubes have been tried using different names, labels, or tweaks to avoid the regs. Universally the shenanigans get slapped.

Pretty much, the thing that ICO promoters want to do (get money or pseudo-money from people looking to profit) is tautologically securities sales under our current US regulatory regime.

Source: business partner and I burned a lot of lawyers’ time in late 2012 seeing what was going to come of the equity crowdfunding/JOBS Act stuff for a startup, and ultimately decided to wave off (you’ll note that essentially nothing new has come from that; most all the issuers in that space still rely upon traditional SEC exemptions etc.)
What's the main advantage of Ko over Go and Pony[1]? I never coded in any of them, but looks interesting.

[1] https://www.ponylang.io/discover/