skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hi, I'm the author. Agree with your point when you read it like that, so I'll clarify what I meant.

"Compatible with the web" in the context of this article means compatible with the web that is primarily built to work on Chromium/Webkit. Because at this point of time, the web is Chromium.

You're right that Edge is compatible with web standards, albeit that they are lagging a bit behind in implementing newer standards. By that logic, IE11 is also compatible with web standards.
> Does it work on macOS or Windows yet?

It runs fine on macOS. It works on WSL if you disable SQLite's write-ahead log (`echo "use-sqlite-wal = false" > /etc/nix/nix.conf` before installing), but it's much slower than running it on native Linux.

> What's the oldest Linux distro upon which it will run?

It brings its own libraries, so the primary question would be what kernel you use. I haven't verified any specific version, but you'll probably be fine. You might need to disable sandboxing though, since that makes pretty elaborate use of the various namespace systems.
It's not column mode in Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_multip...
The Windows Phone app only works well with Android devices. Messaging sync with iOS is not supported yet according to their website, and I doubt the Windows can ever get the iOS API access needed to make it work.
Or they'll have the carriers in Australia push an OS update that specifically exfiltrates your Signal session keys to the government.

Then it won't matter what Signal does or doesn't do, they can still get what they want.
Technically, yes, as I understand the legislation.
I would assume contractors are first to go. Work moves in house. In house staff gets cut. The remaining staff gets to work on what the contractor did and what the employees that left did. The company is not beholden to contractors as much as they are to their left over employees. Everybody has got to pay bill. The company will usually look out for their employees.
Energy density has a fixed upper bound for any given battery chemistry: the amount of energy that would be bound/released if all of the material in the battery would participate in a cycle by turning from one state to the other and back. The amount of energy per reacting molecule/mol/kilogram is fixed and well known. Someone who is not as terrible at chemistry as me won't find or hard to come up with concrete numbers. And those numbers are hard constants, you can only come closer to them (within a given battery chemistry), they are impossible to exceed.

And another angle: our perception of energy density increase is heavily disturbed by the much faster reduction in cost, we are just not very good at telling those two apart.
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Don't love it, don't care
I'm stoked on gutenburg and all. When it gets there with a11y, I'll be happy to endorse it for our users.

But it's also been fun to try and come up with some tooling so we can automatically install the classic editor plugin on the 300 or so sites that we manage on a variety of hosts, with a variety of methods of managing them.

What's been extra fun is that one of our main hosts is finally forcing everyone from PHP5.6 to PHP7.2 this month, so I've been having to go in and hand test every site and install shims for stuff like mysql_real_escape_string.

To be clear, I think that both GB and PHP7.2 are necessary advancements. I just wish that I had better testing strategies in place... but that is my own fault. I've been lighting candles for the folks who have fewer technical skills and resources than my small company has.
Ignorance of facts that any reasonable exploration of best practices in the area you are working in would reveal, in a commercial venture, is a product of laziness (or hubris) bordering on (or crossing into) negligence.
At a certain price point (% of income), people stop buying insurance. You can buy a lot of healthcare services for $20K a year.

To your point, the meltdown is more on the insurance side. The normal, every day providers will just charge patients directly.

The issue is the people who get "left behind"--ones who have large numbers of issues. All our insurance money right now goes to provide for them. If insurance collapses, what happens to them?
The Guardian didn't make that claim; Mark S Luckie made the claim.
And with this mindset most people will not take any action until the big guys have taken an action. The timing could be the predicted time frame. But it is only too late by then and middle and lower class suffer. Top 1% controls around 40% of America's wealth.
AlphaZero: A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess
If you don't know how to short, you should NOT be shorting. Shorting is incredibly risky with limited upside and unlimited downside.
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JB Straubel's Redwood Materials is another interesting piece of that picture.
The typeclass approach can be just as surprising. Possibly more so, because it means that a type's implementation of a class can come from literally anywhere. So the universe of surprises still includes "Surprise! It's not hashable!", but now also includes, "Surprise! It was hashable, but now isn't, because you stopped importing this seemingly unrelated package."

If you do get surprised that X doesn't support Y, though, you have ability to provide your own implementation without resorting to monkey patching.
Just because one government chooses to not regulate it as a utility does not mean it is not a utility.

It can be argued that internet access is more of a utility today than it was in the past, and is likely to become increasingly more crucial for folks to have. Many local, state, and national communications are over the internet, more and more jobs require it to some degree (and having internet helps find new jobs more than not having it). donald's 'official' communication mechanism is twitter, which requires internet access.

> The term utilities can also refer to the set of services provided by these organizations consumed by the public: Coal, electricity, natural gas, water, sewage, telephone, and transportation. Broadband internet services (both fixed-line and mobile) are increasingly being included within the definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility
What scares me is how everything nowadays is available to purchase through financing.

A toaster form BestBuy.com? Finance it for $4/month. New iPhone for $1000? How about monthly installments instead? It's not even the exception anymore, it's the norm.

Even without exorbitant interest rates, the idea that there is supply or demand for financing all aspects of life does not bode well for people's long-term wealth...
Indeed. Fastmail is no longer secure by law as it is now illegal to have a secure service the moment a govt official asks for access.
There are occasional inconsistencies. Just this week I fixed a small styling issue that differed between Firefox and Chrome.

I develop for Firefox first as well.
I don’t think it matters much - it’ll be just another Chrome-based browser. As long as it renders as well and as fast as Chrome, no big deal.

Sure, there may be other features, but those are User features and hardly important since they come and go and most browsers cover the basics of bookmarking.

Aside from the rendering and JS engines, browsers aren’t even interesting anymore.
Correct, at the current price.

I saw elsewhere that battery price is going down 15% per year. So, over time, more grid topologies will be able to leverage this technology.
A detailed look at backpropagation in feedforward neural networks
And not all of those are represented in rural areas. And "slow broadband" feels hilariously out of place in that list.
Occasionally people do discover ways to predict future market behavior in ways others cannot. If they keep it secret than can make huge amounts of money. If they blab about it in articles it stops working. Well, mostly. There's are a couple of regularities that are published but exploiting them takes investment time frames of most of a century for returns not that much more than market average and nobody is willing to do that.
A few tech IPOs does not make a strong stock market. Seems a bit silly to judge market health on tech having a few IPOs next year
There have been multiple account of what happened as several journalists were present.

Here is one of the many articles that have been published, I am linking this testimony by two journalists since liberation is a reputable publication, but you'll find more articles and more witness interviews if you look around.

https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/12/05/la-video-des-...

Everybody present has told that the riot police just waltzed inside and starting beating people up, then let people leave but only going through a tunnel of cops beating them up some more. There are also more videos from different angles.

Assumptions are dangerous, and so are these stormtroopers.
I don't see the point of ditching Notepad++. It's still an excellent text editor and it's more lightweight than VSCode. I use both and I'm very happy with it.
Yesterday I came across a screencast I made in 2009 back when Xcode had separate windows for the console and the editor[8], and Interface Builder was a completely separate program external to Xcode. One of the things that stuck out to me was the silly "SCM" option in the NSOutlineView on the left side[2], which I had absolutely never touched. And I remembered from my more recent experiences using Xcode that its git integration is not very useful and overly simplistic.

So I started wondering why Apple would even want to add such a useless feature into an otherwise really powerful and useful editor, even back then in Xcode 3. And I imagined this scenario where they were brainstorming and someone higher up in the Xcode team was like "ok guys, I got word from above that 'source code' is becoming a big thing now, and we need to add it somewhere" and someone was like "how about the project navigation list?" and someone else maybe piped up "but it doesn't really fit hierarchically in the metaphor" and someone else was like "dude it's 4:30pm some of us have families to get back to can we just forget about the metaphorical inconsistencies?" and they just added it as an expandable item.

I use Xcode and VS Code ever day, and I absolutely never use the Git functionality in either of them. I tried both for a few weeks each, but absolutely nothing compares to Magit[4]. Not even command line. For git, Magit is the same secret weapon that pg claimed Lisp was for programming.

[2] https://i.imgur.com/DYJN12N.png

[4] https://magit.vc

[8] https://i.imgur.com/lXcGpDh.jpg
I'm only guessing here, but the chemistry they use for Teslas battery cells seems to be developed in very close collaboration with Tesla. I wouldn't be surprised if they have an agreement that prevents them from selling the exact same chemistry to others.

The chemistry might also be finely tuned to work with their own battery management units, though I'm less sure of that.
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How many 1980 investments are at fifty percent or better today?
If you want to see a practical working implementation of what this article describes: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy (Java HTTP Server)
Or it could be the other way around: a Chromium shell still calling EdgeHTML render processes?

It's really not clear in this blog post. What does "Chromium-compatible web platform" mean? Which part of Chromium is the "platform" in question? This blog post doesn't have enough answers.
Gabriel Weinberg is a user here. Perhaps he will comment on this.
as battery prices drop - it will be interesting to observe Jevon's paradox in action as demand increases for the batteries and surrounding technology.
Your comment isn't too far away from accusing GP of shilling. I think probably it would be more productive to discuss any of the points he made about platform complexity or technology homo/heteroculture without going full Mozilla v. Google here.
Chinese government has been holding three American citizens for ranson for a few months now. Most likely this the US response.

Canada agreed to the arrest because they have big problems in Vancouver. The city has become the playground of the party elite and local Chinese/Taiwanese are routinely intimidated.
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I would not go to china to do business. I won't do business with Maoists, and I don't care how cheap their labor is. And I don't particularly care that the woman arrested is the daughter of a prominent Chinese man. I don't expect the United States government to look out for the interest of prominent chinese citizens.

> There won’t be a single senior US technology executive going to China for the next week or two, if not longer

Good. Not only is it an environmental disaster to travel to China frequently, continuously producing goods in a state that is the top contributor to global pollution is hardly a good thing. Not to mention the illiberalism.
> Or they'll have the carriers in Australia push an OS update

One of many reasons you should not have your carrier control your OS update channel.
For SQL Server it looks like an index seek on the following so it is evaluated once.

SELECT *
FROM SomeTable
WHERE ID = CAST(Rand() * 1000 as int)

In addition this query: SELECT TOP(100) rand() AS RandData from SomeTable

Returns:
0.940284064056996
0.940284064056996
0.940284064056996
. . . .

A old trick to actually get random data on SQL Server that I think has been replaced with newer functionality is:

SELECT ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))
FROM SomeTable

However if we move the NEWID.... stuff into the WHERE clause we end up switching to an index seek so back to being evaluated once.
Gold isn't as invere to the market as people think. In the last month it is only up 1%[1], while the market has tanked.

[1] https://yhoo.it/2Uptpoy
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Tell that to developers who would be able to get a better paying job working remotely if they had decent broadband.
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The Play store has a preview: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hel6DwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS....
Why office? Imagine such keyloggers under tables in public spaces where people can put their laptops.
> The li-ion externalities is mostly incurred once when mining.

I agree with your comment, but lithium is not mined. This is a common misconception and should be noted since we're chatting about externalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Extraction
hi, author checking in.

Just doubling down on my statement. I've seen hundreds of discussions and flame wars on browser performance, RAM usage, the ability to keep open 200 tabs.

I mean it when I say that I cannot reproduce any of these differences. Perhaps I could if I would actively measure things, but in terms of just experiencing the speed of all major browsers, I really do not see a meaningful difference.

It could be device related, but I'm on a 6 year old PC (a pretty sizable one though), not having any issues on my mediocre work laptop either.

Doesn't mean it doesn't matter in absolute terms, I'm just saying I don't see it. The more important point though is non-technologist do not tend to pick browsers in such rational ways.
I worked for a Mac vendor at the time, and Copland never got beyond slideware for us. It was ridiculously ambitious: an (Apple developed) microkernel that would have a MacOS classic server, a multiuser next gen MacOS, plus even claims it could be possible to have an NT server on it. Complete UI customizability, etc, etc.

Essentially they were promising something comparable to NT 4, from an organization with a fraction of the team Microsoft used to deliver it.
I have n account with Charles Schwab and it's pretty straightforward to short a stock or etf: https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/what...
AT&T/Verizon lobby misunderstands arrow of time, makes impossible claim
Without a large network, the time for a car to arrive is high and unpredictable.

This is bad for customers.
Jawless hagfish forces scientists to rewrite the story of inner ear evolution
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For Lyft: gps and pool directions actually work. Uber fails hard in that category. Uber drivers rarely use the built-in system.
I’ve lived in Boston and Manhattan before and it was super easy to do all those things apart from climbing a mountain (which is hard to do anywhere there’s not a mountain, regardless ofbeing rural or urban) or hunting.

In fact, I would usually just walk or take a train to these activities, and likely could commute to do them faster than people not in a city. Hunting is probably the main exception, but I don’t think it's meaningful for the point of this thread.

One of my primary hobbies in Boston was taking a bus to the Middlesex Fells nature reserve and hiking all day to find geocaches. Most people I knew also primarly engaged in outdoor, physically vigorous activities like kayaking/rowing, long distance jogging and bicycle riding.
Add one onto the early-'90s failure list: IBM Workplace OS. Rarely mentioned these days for some reason, but a hugely hyped and super-expensive complete failure.

From the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS: A University of California case study described the Workplace OS project as "one of the most significant operating systems software investments of all time" and "one of the largest operating system failures in modern times".
Looks a lot more viable than the Eviation Alice[1] that was posted earlier today. (I'm not associated with either, just love aviation and enjoy HN discussions on it.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602771
[2] https://zunum.aero/
A company will usually look out for those generating the most value. Which is the point of a company in the first place.
Here one would read “that is” as something like “specifically”.
Making a BMS is by no means simple or cheap in the range of cents.
It's hard to make good cells, but creating a good BMS, designing an easy way to at fuse wires, creating cooling bands and figuring out how to do so on a huge scale is just as hard
If you want to see a chess grandmaster go through one of the games, Daniel King is always excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFtY7gNRVRI
Compromised version dropped onto phone of a target? Most people are reliant on App Stores for their apps, so that will be a likely vector. We don’t run checksums on desktop software, let alone software from App Stores.
I run a ton of Puppeteer jobs (300k in the last month), currently on EC2 and Digital Ocean VM's, mostly due to the subtle difficulties of running Puppeteer on Lambda.

Will certainly have a look at this project and contribute where possible.

My main concerns are not so much cold start time, as for my use case this is not really a huge issue, but mainly the performance of Chrome on AWS Lambda boxes. The rendering, navigation etc. needs to be snappy.
One of the leaked emails threads related to Vine:

Justin Osofsky (Facebook vice president):

"Twitter launched Vine today which lets you shoot multiple short video segments to make one single, 6-second video... Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today. We've prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana know our decision."

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook chief executive):

"Yup, go for it."
It means mainframes.
Surely wikidata could be used for this?
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I use Emacs mostly for magit.
Because physicists would find it totally unsuitable for their requirements?
Yeah, why offshore your cheap labor when you can get an American non-violent drug offender to build it for less than $1 an hour. Then you can slap that sweet Made In The USA label on your product too. /s
Almost! :

>tl;dr Visual Studio Code usage is rising rapidly! VS Code is now the editor chosen by the majority of engineers during programming interviews, and it appears to be rapidly taking market share from other top editors.
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Buffet himself is currently sitting on $111 bn [1].

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.de/warren-buffett-berkshire-hath...
I think it’s a good idea to list versions at the top of the articles.
Girls 'more likely to face loneliness'
IMO, market is down because of increase discount rate (risk), not a decrease in earnings (fundamentals)
There was a slight inversion but it wasn't on 2-year and 10-year. The recession indicator is from when the 2 and 10-year yield inverts and yes, it's about a year lag.
Ditto, I was pleasantly surprised to see a huge number of people at work / industry acquaintances already on it when I switched it to my default SMS app. I love how SMS/Signal are seamlessly together in one app if you choose to combine them.
It's not really my area of expertise, but from what I understand it will severely limit what policy and demographic research can be done with the data. There's a working paper on the page you linked to which has more information: https://assets.ipums.org/_files/mpc/MPC-Working-Paper-2018-6....
I'd argue that reduction is required for qualitative decisionmaking and so is no barrier to legitimate opinion.

First, because we can never know everything that is going on outside of investigations like this one and public statements by FB.

Second, language is a lossy codec for thought, so the investigations and public statements by FB are themselves reductive. It's turtles all the way down.

This applies to both examples then: thinking FB is good or bad, and being required to eliminate reduction in order to make that decision.
> a scion of global capitalism is now in jail for geopolitical crimes, a first in the modern history of the western hemisphere, as far as I can tell.

That's mostly an indication this doesn't happen often enough. The world just might be a better place if we started actually jailing "scions of global capitalism" for the crimes they commit.

Also, is it only me, or is this rather close to a completely unhinged rant?
This just seems like an assertion. I suspect it is wrong.
Skimmed through this, but I can't make it all the way. It's so jarring and too depressing.

I lump climate change deniers into the same category as flat-earthers. Although I have more respect for the latter, as at least they aren't blindly swallowing self-serving nonsense spewed by ignorant politicians and certain news outlets.
This is a rather low-effort comment, which sets up a false dichotomy.
What kinds of examples are you asking for? Like specific parts of the interview?
I think it speaks of a maturity not common to this industry. Pick your battles and battlefields (mutables) after considering resources and the environment (immutables). Conceding Edge will doubtless let them divert focus and resources to areas that are of greater strategic value.
Reminder this is a direct transfer from your 401k into the pockets of wealthy VCs.
> "We have lost sight of the fact that a recession has cleansing properties, helping to right the wrong of the billions of dollars allocated to bad businesses while getting people refocused on investing in profitable enterprises."

If this were true, loss-making companies would never IPO. There is such a thing as a normal boom and bust cycle. The "bust" portion is the recession, the hangover after the bull market effects of the US tax cuts have petered out.
I guess Acorn inventing the ARM chip might give some credence to the GPs point. Acorn were definitely more important in the UK because of the impact of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project - I sit here as a CTO of a software company because of that project. I suspect a large number of the UK's software companies can trace their routes back to that. For the rest of the world I guess the question is open