skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can run a WASM-compiled version of it.
I use profiles because I need to test stuff with different extensions.

Before the Quantum release we had a pretty cool extension for managing profiles that is no longer available, sadly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181102210053/https://addons.mo...

I hope it gets implemented again.

I now do the "about:profiles" thing I mentioned. I don't know why they aren't exposing Profiles in the UI in an intuitive manner, makes no sense. For my day to day use, I think Multi-Account Containers are better though.
Two passages from the article:

> Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity – repelling all other material around them. Unlike familiar positive mass matter, if a negative mass was pushed, it would accelerate towards you rather than away from you.

> The gravity from the positive mass galaxy attracts negative masses from all directions

...why aren't these contradictory?

intuitively... wouldn't a negative mass be repelled by positive gravity?

(I am not a physicist of any kind, obviously)

In the author's Twitter thread
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1070302359325151233.html

there is this image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtp7YjWW4AEIvSp.jpg

..which seems to answer my question

If I understood the picture:

- positive mass gravities attract each other and result in acceleration towards each other

- negative mass gravities attract each other, but the negative mass means this attractive force results in an opposite acceleration (they behave as if repelled)

- a positive mass and a negative mass have gravities which repel each other so the positive mass accelerates away from the negative, but the negative mass inverts its gravitation repulsion into an acceleration towards the positive (I find it hard to imagine how this interaction actually plays out, it's a bit counter-intuitive.. I guess they must cancel out rather than chasing each other faster and faster?)
Can you show a language that implements your concept of "integers above N" consistently? I fail to see how such a type would be remotely useful in the context of addition/subtraction operators.

I think Ada comes closest to your definition with allowing modular and derived integer types, but the former does include 0 and I'm not sure if the latter even allows division.
Great profile of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; one of the most important writers of the last century who was prolific up until his death. It's a shame that his last non-fiction work has yet to get a proper English translation even after all these years.
Yes, I meant OpenSSH
Yeah, hamburger menu is weird. Also, it'd be nice to have a column for code (just links to github really).
Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content
We can, just not the Firefox rendering engine. As frustrating as that is, perhaps if more iOS users picked firefox as their "browser" then maybe Apple would take a hint and open up allowing other rendering engines. Although I'm not holding my breath.

I'm an Apple user in as far as I have an iPad Pro and a Macbook Pro, I certainly don't hold Apple in as high regard as I used to do but those two products are superb even with the limitations of the iPad/iOS.
Just so we can avoid rehashing the discussion whenever a post encouraging the use of Firefox is posted.

- Yes, Mozilla is still the better browser when it comes to privacy.

- Yes, Mozilla has made missteps with Pocket and Mr. Robot.

- Yes, it is slow/resource heavy on certain Macs with non-default resolutions. Yes, Mozilla is working on a fix.

- Yes, it has become really fast for most users after Quantum improvements landed, and likely will continue to get better.

- No, you can't just "fork Chromium" if you don't like the way Google is running the project. Web developers will still make their website work well with whatever Google releases, regardless of standards.

- Yes, Firefox doesn't feel native on your platform of choice.

- Yes, neither does Chrome (doesn't support dark mode on macOS)

- Yes, Chrome has better security against malware.

- Yes, Firefox removed the feature that was essential to your workflow, even though most users don't care.

edit, thought of one more

- No, the argument "Chrome will be the new IE if you don't use Firefox" doesn't matter to most users.
I think if the Russians had put a man on Mars in the 70s and America hadn't, we would have a different definition of Winning.

In most wars for example who ever wins the first battle is important, but it's who wins the last battle that really matters.
Slighty off-topic but I find (as a non-native English speaker) the whole deal with ”he/she” to be super annoying when reading. Especially when the gender is basically not important such as when talking about what the dentist said (or w/e). Is there any trick so to speak to avoid such situations?

Also, in Swedish we have ”he/she/* = han/hon/hen”. Which is soo useful and I am still kind of amazed that the term ”hen” is a relative modern invention. I wonder how in earlier days people referred to other people when the gender was not the main focus. Maybe it was always more important before? Or was perhaps the use of titles (the Dentristess..?) a way to denote gender an important communication tool?
They

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
One thing that might help (and certainly won't hurt): read more.

If you read properly written English (I'd exclude from this much of the web and academic writing), you'll start absorbing the patterns.
RF hackers should have their own country:

http://www.zoobab.com/zooland

"Zooland is a new country where there are no regulations on electromagnetic transmissions.

Those regulations are from the past and stifle innovation and development in RF technologies.

They also encourage expensive communications.

Current RF regulations are a pure spacial and economic waste."
The Internet isn't really global
Be the change you want and keep talking about it. I've stuck to Firefox through ups and downs ever since I found out about it back during version 1 point something.

Internet Explorer proved that behemoths can and will fall, given enough time to shoot themselves in the foot. Firefox just needs to retain its 10% somehow.
IBM sells software portfolio including Notes and Domino to HCL for $1.8b
I have to admit I am a little bit disappointed that its not the actual title of the book
I'm sure a lot of people around here won't be able to hear you over the sound of how Firefox somehow doesn't feel quite right on their macs.
Have you been on the NY<->DC amtrak recently? Or NY<->Boston? Everyone has their laptop out. I wish there was a laptop designed to fit neatly in the tray instead of being slightly too big and being tilted due to the lip of the tray.

Separately, have you been to a NYC coffee shop recently? Few folks have 15" displays, but two people can just about fit. The 17"-ers take up the full table, and it feels like they're bringing a "rig".
I wonder why they preferred ~= over =/= ?

I would sympathize with using =/= for "not equal" because it is ASCII art for the traditional mathematical notation of using an equal sign with a line through it. Though it might be better just to permit carefully selected unicode characters such as https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2260/index.htm

=/= is disappointing as art because it is too wide, but it has obvious mnemonic power.

Would you object to =/= as "arbitrary uncommon syntax" because it is poor art? Does its mnemonic power save it from the criticism of being "new for the sake of new"
Even if Firefox were an objectively worse browser than Chrome(which I don't think it is these days) there is still an argument to be made to use it anyways to ensure the freedom of the web.
I know that you have likely shortened the story for reading, making the phone call sound different to how it really went, but if you want to set off alarm bells, ringing around asking about a script for strong pain meds is a way to do it.
Important caveat: cells ≠ batteries
But Ada doesn't restrict its division operators (div, mod and rem) to just "natural number" divisors.
> - Yes, Mozilla has made missteps with Pocket and Mr. Robot.

and the removal of RSS support. So much for the champions of the Free Web!
Think cloud computing. You can potentially run your webserver or database inside an enclave in the cloud such that the cloud provider (e.g. Amazon) has no way of accessing the unencrypted data it processes.
As a long time Firefox user, let me offer a different perspective.

Upgrading any application is a chore, and you never know what will break or whether you lose your data. People don't want to do it, and yet they are forced to do it by companies (and open source is even worse). So if you can avoid it, you avoid it.

I'll leave up to you to decide if Firefox haven't destroyed its own market share by confusing changes to UI and breaking backwards compatibility.
> there is almost no temperature where I say that it's too hot

Did you ever ask a doctor about this? Especially an endocrinologist. One example of many possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism

As for cold showers, I dreaded them but at some point in my life I just relaxed. I would call it "acceptance", in general, life throws bad stuff your way and all you can do is "exist", i.e. nothing, really. So if I want to or have to have a cold shower (e.g. when hot water was out once) I just turn on the cold water and get in and accept that it's uncomfortable, especially at the very beginning. Nothing I can do about it - and, more importantly, since I know it's only uncomfortable but not threatening, nothing I have to do. All I have to do is stand there and do nothing and feel whatever there is to feel. At that point I'm just an observer of my own body, with no active role to play. The conscious part does nothing, the forces at play are all controlled by lower level brain functions.
Guide to Blender 2.8
Calling Nano Carbon with Magnesium "injection molded plastic" is incredibly dishonest.
Not using the Firefox rendering engine means you're effectively using Safari for rendering sites and not helping ecosystem diversity. The renderer is still WebKit controlled by Apple, not a Firefox browser controlled and built by Mozilla.
The IRS is now.. On Instagram
November CryptoCurrency Market Review
I'm toying with the idea of making an Open Source repository of reproducible papers.
How did you get this started? How did you find people to collaborate?

I already bought reproduciblepapers.com
If it's a cohesive dataset, then sure, but csv "the spec", no.
I wish I could upvote this more than once
How is using reskinned Safari with WebKit rendering engine considered adequate move?

That would be like putting a Firefox skin over IE6 engine a few years back - it would not help the ecosystem in the way this article asks for.
Hi 1996 - I used to work at [Cryptopia](https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/), a exchange fairly well known for listing low marketcap coins.

If you ever decide you want to expand to more than top 50 coins, then I'd love to help in any way I can - particularly with their API - feel free to email me: "james" at $my_hackernews_username ".nz"
Until users decide that the businesses interests of the companies that run the websites they use are less important than their own interests these features will never catch on. How about we stop using websites that fail to implement things that are good for us?

In fact, someone could write a browser plugin to put a screen between the user and the website that states "This website fails to implement .well-known link. Are you sure you want to continue?" like Chrome does for sites that have borked DNS. If a reasonably large number of people used that you'd see lots of sites implement this idea without needing regulations. I'd use that.
Switzerland has the most direct democracy and it works really quite well. We can overrule things representatives do with a 50000 signatures and a popular vote. We can introduce new laws with 100000 signatures and a popular vote.

That sort of system has many flaws but I would take it much rather then the US system.

In fact the Swiss system is based on the US, just with more direct democracy and a far less powerful president.

I would actually argue that the removal of presidential powers is the most important thing. Having all your top ministers be selected by the one popular vote for president is pretty insane when you think about it.

In Switzerland the top ministers are from 4-5 different parties and they have to work together every day. The departments are not fixed and switch about between people and parties.
US Satellite May Now Be Controlled by China
Leonard Susskind on Feynman,Holographic Principle, and Physics
Waking up with an alarm has no influence on happiness (based on 1,000 mornings)
> there is still an argument to be made to use [firefox] anyways to ensure the freedom of the web.

Definitely. Remember when Google wanted to buy Wikipedia but promised to keep it a free resource? So happy that didn't happen, it would have been the end of Wikipedia. Services like Firefox and Wikipedia are the last vestiges we have of the original intent of the internet, an place to congregate with the user in mind.

Most of everything else is walled gardens with the hope to create a monopoly via network effects.
The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap
Cool. Something that has been possible with GNU screen for decades.
Do people write (blog) for themselves any more? This blog post frames the whole experience as an extroverted attempt to please the audience that is not yourself. Which is totally fine if you regard blogs as a medium directed primarily outwards, at others. I am just curious whether anyone writes primarily for themselves (in order to better organise their thoughts, or leave a reference for their future self), where any readership is purely accidental, not the raison d'etre? I know that I do.
You can also get all the data you want for free from: https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/documentation
Ask HN: Command line apps running as normal standalone apps
I really love to have a way to make terminal app running as if they where running standalone mostly so I could "cmd+Tab" to activate a window in a specific app instead of bringing to front a bunch of different things that I don't need.

Am I alone in this? Is there anyone aware of ways to make this happen?
I can sympathize with you, as I shared the same woes. Don't torture yourself though. Quite often the ornamental form simply hides the lack of intellectual depth in the content. Free yourself from such thoughts and the rest will follow.

I really recommend "The Economist Style Guide". Please read through it, then read again to see how it was applied to itself (!). Then write a short passage, and revise it to adhere to the recommendations -- don't be surprised if this will need several passes though!

You will be surprised how much this can improve your writing, but also structure your own thoughts.
That’s hard to prove or disprove without having an alternate universe ready for A/B testing.

Although, frankly, I can’t shake the feeling I’ve been living in the B-branch for, say, the last two years. If so, let me just say: if your results are not yet conclusive, please ask your statisticians for what “multi-armed bandit” means to them, then shoot them if the quizzically look at you. You may even skip the question.

Back on point: I know many people who use Firefox for “ideological” reasons. In fact, anybody who still used FF as of 6 months ago arguably fell in that group, save some extreme cases of inertia.

But, even more tittilating: Firefox seems to be once again be competitive wrt performance. That may just be its salvation, and not a moment too early to make it dramatic.
Brendan Eich has moved out to make BAT. Lets support that instead. Firefox can die and new things can take its place
When should you upgrade your hosting plan from shared hosting? Should it be VPS?
Is the misstep with Pocket including it in the browser?
Expired cert Really? #o2down meltdown shows we should fear bungles and bugs…
Start the Hallmark Channel activation
Serve the internal IPs from public hostname DNS records?

Internal DNS I think is largely not a good thing and I'd be happy to see it go.
Are you immersed in the English speaking world everyday ? At work, at home, etc. ? Then it'd make sense things come easier to you verbally. I also believe we express less complex thoughts in oral communication compared to written sentences. Because we are obliged to keep it simple to keep the flow going. YMMV though.
You are making the assumption that a backdoor needs to be active now, not a sleeper backdoor that is a activated on a trigger

What about future firmware upgrade or hardware replacement that isn’t vetted today. What triggered all this was BT found the equipment was too chatty
Then they should update their branding: there's a giant picture of an onion on their download button and they stylize the O in 'Tor' with an onion.

I know HN typically has a harsh response to rebrands such as the Mozi//a rebrand but this is the alternative and shows rebrands are still important to do from time to time.
I also use the "more space" setting. Haven't tried it with the normal scaling though.
> Integrity and professionalism bordering on zero.

Absolutely not. You are considering she's there as a journalist to produce and informative piece of news. She's there as a writer to produce a feature about how does it feel to be in one of these cruises.

By your standards, all gonzo journalism or, for that matter, any piece of new journalism is unprofessional. That is just plain absurd. The reader knows she is writing from a personal point of view and should be capable to understand what that means in the context of the experience.
> Yes, neither does Chrome (doesn't support dark mode on macOS)

Yet, this will change though

https://9to5google.com/2018/09/21/google-chrome-macos-dark-m...
Chrome has better security unless you want to keep yourself secure from prying by Google.
Show HN: ExifShot – A beautiful way to show metadata  of your photo
We need more gas Wells to extract helium from!
As a female computer programmer called Julianne, I chuckled at point 18.
Winter season
That has nothing to do with the substance of my argument. Your suggestion is just to walk into it without trying anything? The “bad people” will have access to AI regardless of who creates it, when they create it or what manner they create it in.
Sometimes there are unpopular decisions that are nevertheless the right decisions. When you elect a representative, you're basically putting your faith in that person, rather than a particular policy.
Well, this is embarrassing.
Mussolini was a better choice then many socialist back then. His power was massively checked and only because of development in Germany did it end up as it did.

The new guy is of course a major asshat, but government before was making lots of really bad choices as well and Brazil was not going in a good direction.

The important thing is to not let anybody get enough power to remove the whole institutional machinery.
As a counterfactual the other hand everyone in China appears to pay by mobile phone without problems using WeChat Pay and Alipay and no one seems to be locked out. Almost no one I know carries cash - it's just for the tourists who can't access that system. In Africa, mobile payments seems to have driven financial inclusion rather than the reverse.

The cashless economy certainly drives de-anonymization, but very little evidence of "locking out poor" exists where this has actually happened
Could you develop ? You think you should answer with internal IPs with external DNS records and everything is addressed at the routing level ?
i don’t think either is better or worse, it’s just different strategies.

a probably somewhat wrong but evocative way to think about it is that what AlphaZero does is closer to “intuition”; it can look at a board and immediately tell very well how good it is. maybe you could argue this is more like how human grandmasters play.

Stockfish, on the other hand, has much simpler guesses for how to evaluate a board, but they can be computed very quickly.

Both of them employ a tree search: “if i do this move then they’ll have three countermoves and i can respond in 16 ways...”. (It’s Monte Carlo because they randomly sample, rather than exploring exhaustively.) But Stockfish is able to explore many more possible outcomes, whereas AlphaZero explores far fewer but is able to focus only on those that really are promising.
Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'
Given that Russia and China can put a man in space, keep him there for a year, and return him to Earth safely, and the US can't, I guess that means Russia and China have won then.
Updated to mention "malware"
> pushed back the date to 1932 for the first helicopter The TSAGI 1-ea with 2 tail rotors.

I spotted that one alright - but the entire shape is quite different from the single-tail rotor versions (eg in the second pic down). Still doesn't explain how they came up with the modern design..

Though it seems Igor Sikorsky, who built the VS-300 built at least two prototype helicopters early in the century. Cant find any pics, perhaps they were of the modern design. Or perhaps he was just the first to successfully put it together but the design was well known.
Well, I heard it's rather... controversial, to say the least.
Okay, I'll switch to Firefox now and give this a try.
The problem is less the form of elections and representations, but how they come about. In representative democracy, you need to bribe just the representative. In direct democracy, you need to bribe/trick some majority.

If the US switched to direct democracy tomorrow, I'd bet the same issues would pop up, just in a different form.
Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find
Robert has an awesome blog! Stuff like this makes me appreciative, but also jealous of people who can have the skill to put concepts and thoughts into simple and eloquent words.

It's been almost two years since I've started my own little corner of the internet and of course, it initially it was somewhat awful, but I'm also happy to see my writing (and that corner) improve gradually. I'd recommend to anyone to do the same!
Why did you block "viviparous"?
Yes. I like Pocket, but I can't see why it shouldn't be an extension that can be removed.
Yeah... I dont quite understand how Firefox does invest into integration with third-party password managers, but not the one built into MacOS.

Arguably Safari usage is comparable to Firefox in terms of staving off a Chromium monoculture. Safari usage on iOS is actually far more important right now to ensurage some semblance of compatibility.
Do x-platform games using mono within Unity count?
I don't live in the United States, and I don't give a damn about the FCC.
Paris riots: Children as young as 12 among 153 arrested at high school
I'm using Firefox on my iPhone too, even if it's just a reskinned Safari.

It has a more convenient UI, plus I get shared history and bookmarks with my desktop. So basically I use it for Firefox Sync.
Why would it be "extreme" inertia to still be using Firefox? If it's never felt like it's failing to do the job of being a web browser, then not switching is inertia, sure, but it's not extreme...
Tor does use onion routing, and always has.
I have a Huawei phone and a ThinkPad, both of which can use USB-C charging. In fact, the Huawei charger does charge the ThinkPad albeit slowly. I love it!
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