skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two kids and have worked remotely since before they were born.

1. Try to take as much parental leave as possible initially. The baby stages are so much fun and no matter how much time you spend with them before going back to work, you'll wish there was more.

2. Don't expect to be able to watch your child and work simultaneously. I have done it in limited fashion (kid is sick/daycare closed etc) and it can be very hard. This mainly goes for the younger years (< 5).

3. When you travel, dedicate time to Skype/Facetime with your child.

Congrats on becoming a parent! It's seriously a blast and I wish you and your wife the best of luck!
If you read each story I think it’s pretty clear that they’re valid and notable on their own merits.
I'll confess that hearing MS is giving up on their own browser engine is incredibly surprising to me. I also share Mozilla's concern, but I think I'm past the despair point in feeling there is anything we can do about it. If anything, I'm more convinced that the writing is on the wall for most sites supporting Firefox.
> Cost would be something like $1 per 100 words.

A quick googling suggests that voice acting rates (pay to the voice actor alone) tend to be in the range of $1/second for short, small-market bits (short bits with larger markets tend to have higher use fees on top), so it sounds like this service relies on getting people willing to work on-demand for about 1/100 of market rates with a much faster turnaround time than is typical to have any room for profit

Sure, if you’ve got quality voice talent there's a huge demand for that. OTOH, if you don't have quality voice talent, why would people pay for this instead of today's commercially available machine TTS, which is much lower latency and much cheaper (e.g., Google with their premium WaveNet voices at $16/million characters, or something on the order of $1/8000 words.)
It makes me wonder if at any point in the process Microsoft approached Firefox over integrating their rendering engine vs. Chromium and if so, what the factors were in making their final decision.

I also wonder if instead of "ceding" control to Google, Microsoft intends to start being a major contributor to Chromium, so much so that it almost becomes a joint effort vs. Google dominance.
The BBC is awesome in many ways but this 'travel' show is such bollocks it's amazing. They tourist like a MF instead of doing the Bourdain and actually speaking to people who live there.
EDIT: actually rather than interview I would like to stress
The difference is that the Windows and Office are (or were) stand alone products that used no MS resources after the sale.

A free online service running on hardware you don't control isn't obligated to provide free service for everyone indefinitely. Same as "No shirt, no shoes, no service". A proprietor can refuse dealings with toxic customers.
Chrome deserves to die. It is responsible for the Second Middle Ages of Internet in the 2010s. Many webscale system still work solely on Chrome 167 or Chrome 168.
You have to add in a flag to get those new changes, so it is backwards compatible. All existing code compiles and will continue to compile with no changes into the future.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02643 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376 (as does the choice to drop the checkpoints & historical self-plays in general from the training) indicate that AlphaGo versions, at least up until then, tend to be transitive:

> What is worthwhile to observe from the AlphaGo dataset, and illustrated as a series in Figures 3 and 4, is that there is clearly an incremental increase in the strength of the AlphaGo algorithm going from version αr to αrvp, building on previous strengths, without any intransitive behaviour occurring, when only considering a strategy space formed by the AlphaGo versions.
That might be true, but the article is about the Edge browser, not IE.
Ignoring letting it expire in the first place.

The surprising part is it took over 24 hours to restore service. I currently still have 3G only, and that's struggling (apparently 4G will follow).
Behavior of #[repr(C)] enum doesn't match behavior of the C enum, so it's bug for #[repr(C)] enum's.
Source?

Edit: One reason I doubt this is, China emits half of US per capita emissions while manufacturing more(steel, concrete, most high volume products) per capita.
Serious question: How is it possible for AP reporter to know the nationality of the shooter? To be honest "AP cameraman shot during Gaza protest" is a more accurate and correct reporting by the reporter. Isn't it?

I have no bias in this conflict, I'm neither pro/anti palestenians/israelis, because I just cant wrap my head around it, and I refuse to believe what any major news media tries to feed people about this conflict.

If all of AP reports are this unbiased, then probably I'll have to start subscribing to them.
I agree with you, but I suspect the intention is to prevent another type of timebomb. One where one day the system works and everything is considered secure, and then 25 years later nobody has given it a second thought.
Coworking space was impossible for me. I work with lots of confidential stuff, nobody can hear my phone calls nor see my screen, etc.

I considered renting a super tiny apartment 1 block away from home.

I moved to the office when he was almost 2 years old.

Thinking about that whole situation still makes me stressed.
> It hurts my back. I've actually gotten up in the middle of the night to sleep on the floor before when the bed's been too soft.

I have an old memory foam mattress that is getting less and less firm. After waking up with a sore back at 3am 2 nights in a row I flipped it over and slept on the bottom, much firmer side. Has been working perfectly for the past week while I wait for my new mattress.
Bypassing paralysis: Using brain-computer interfaces to control robotic limbs
Yes, I totally agree that for young children nurturing curiosity is far more important thsn mastering any particular skill. Only reading has the same impact on the development of children.
But programming can be a lot of fun, too. When I introduced my son to programming, I started with something visual and has direct feedback like Scratch. Such environment frees children from the tyranny of the syntax so they can focus more on the problem at hand and have fun. Nevertheless, you can teach them a lot of computational thinking using such visual environment. And I think the key issue is computational thinking, not learning some particular languages or knowing how to solve a specific problem using some specific features. I would not buy coding books for my son when they present problem solving like a recipe book, even though one can get inspired from some of the problems in such books. In my experience, combining programming activity with other fields like maths, gaming or robotics can be very rewarding. Children will understand that programming is only a tool and not a purpose for itself and they will start looking for connection between different subjects. Once they start to reflect on their activities, they will learn a lot more than just doing it.
If anyone told me a decade ago that a day will come when I will feel sorry for Microsoft browser technology going away...
It's a good thing that theories are superseeded, as they are supposed to be testable and falsifiable. Our understanding of climate change is being superseeded literally on a daily basis. That's what the ~97% represents.
It's like Newtonian physics.

The people who say that climate change is a hoax either don't follow the scientific method or make predictions that are being falsified over and over by the ~97%.

It's not the consensus that matters, it's the testability.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he saw himself
I'm wondering the same, and naively, it seems likely.

But on the other hand, Google forked Blink away from Webkit specifically so it wouldn't have to share control of the codebase with Apple.

Do you think Google is willing to share control over Blink with Microsoft?
It's never too late to start anything.
From what I understand, used-up lithium batteries are fairly non-toxic and can be safely dumped in a landfill. Still not zero-cost, but probably about as low as you can get. And they can probably recover some of that cost by recycling some of the other metals from them.
American rights aren't presented as rights that the people explicitly have (other than right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness). Most Americans don't even realize that out Bill of Rights outlines implicit rights for citizens. That is, the laws say "government can make no law regarding this subject". This is important because if the government "gives you rights" then they're not actual rights, they're only temporary privileges that can be removed.

No offense, but if the government of Australia is "giving" you your rights, then you don't actually have them.
Edge is a completely different product based on a new rendering engine which is as spec compliant as Firefox.
> You also don't have a right to not be arrested in America.

That's a given, mate. The commentor made the ridiculous claim that he had a right not to be arrested in China for breaking Chinese laws. No individual has that right.

The passage I responded to was

> How sure can I be if my company is not breaking any Chinese laws? Would it by fine if I get arrested for breaking those when I'm on a trip to Asia?

The answer is that you cannot be sure. The chinese government has every ability to arrest you for crimes committed elsewhere. They have every ability to change their laws at any time to enable their arrest. No one will even blink if they abandoned their legal system entirely to arrest just you for nothing at all in particular. There is no 'rule' saying they can only arrest you for things done on their soil; or that arrests of a non-citizen must be just; or really anything.

This is true of America as well. Why wouldn't it be? We're speaking on the level of sovereign nations.

> If you're outside America, you don't have a right not to be blown to pieces by a killer robot (aka "drone"). Why would you think that? They can blow you to pieces for any reason at any time no matter where you are.

This is another topic entirely and completely non-germaine to the thread.
Next up, "I won't teach my kids arithmetic, and neither should you." Because arithmetic is useless without problem solving.
My pet theory: Cities foster loneliness. The bigger the city, the worse it gets. You avoid eye contact with people. You assume anyone trying to talk to you wants money from you or sell you something. You are on your way somewhere, in a hurry, and have no time to chat. You want to chat but don’t want to bother anyone.
> This writing is so pretentious.

What is it pretending?
How can anyone say VSCode is fast, and then compare it to Sublime Text ? They are not even in the same order of magnitude.

VSCode is definitely fast enough for most uses cases, but I still wish it was as fast as Sublime Text, from Scrolling Frame-rate to response time.
I own a house in a rural area with no internet options other than cellular (not in Mississippi though) and gigabit up/down fiber is coming from my electricity company next year. I could do anything via internet then and the houses and cost of living are incredibly cheap.
This is one of the side-effects of products having enormous hype in this industry.

Far too many people are adopting Docker/Kubernetes as they have been the hot new product for the last couple of years, often regardless of whether they are actually the best
or most appropriate tool for the job.

A lot of the people who get sucked into the hype are often inexperienced programmers, devops or admin types who are in positions of power or influence in companies that they probably shouldn't be, IMHO.

As a result, they don't have the Linux or networking experience to be able to know when they are deploying these complex products securely or not, and they are putting their employers businesses at risk.
You can also get HackRF clones, for about $100:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HackRF-One-1MHz-to-6GHz-SDR-...
The Classic Editor Plugin is a life saver for small freelance Wordpress Developers.
The big problem with Gutenberg is not the editor itself, but the many ways in which it breaks largely used solutions like Advanced Custom Fields.
Building the new Blocks is an infinitely more convoluted and complex way to extend the editor than custom fields.
I wish Gutenbger just had a better support for that.
I got crushed in 2008-2010 when I was freelancer. There simply was no budget for anything in the companies I had worked with.

I am sure there is some business angle for freelancers to do well in a recession but I can't come up with one.
Notably practically all 90s RISC operating systems were gone by the time the dot-com bubble burst.
I would love to but: "Not Available For Sale in Sweden"
Right, but my point is that since the cracker doesn't know which you're going to use, they'll need to stick to broad schemas that will take a long time. It doesn't matter if you only use 1 symbol, if the cracker needs to try every combination of up to 5 symbols. And even a broad schema like you suggest—which would take a long time to complete—will have holes that would be easy to squeak through, which means even those broad schemas have minimal value.

Ultimately, even a schema like "sym? word sym? word sym? word sym? word sym?" is useless. They'll have to use brute force, and that means the difficulty of cracking your password is back to being based on the length.
You know why I don't use Firefox? There is only one reason, and its lack of integrated translation. Chrome has it, Firefox does not, and if you travel, or live in a place where you don't fully understand the language, then this tool is a lifesaver. The thing is, I don't see how Moz could even start to build this feature. It's an example of synergy with Google's other products, especially search and communication service, that would be impossible to reproduce without exploding Mozilla's portfolio far beyond it's budget. Maybe Google will open-source it's translation software and data corpus, LOL?
Did you read my comment? I never said having children is the highest purpose in life, or that it’s the highest good. Your comment bears zero relation to mine

I said that abandoning children is contemptible and all child abandoners including bourdain deserve vilification.
So obviously this means the bans on the likes of huawei should also apply to any products that have australian parts or code, correct?
Well, I'm kind of saddened that even more control is going to Google, but realistically Edge was never really competitive in terms of support for standards[1].

EDIT: typo: Microsoft -> Google. Not sure what happened there :).

[1] Yes, this is a very vague concept these days. Google has, what 80%+ market share? They have a lot of people who can influence standards, and the cognitive biases of those people could mean that we end up in a new MSIE6 situation[2]. Anyway, I can certainly understand their fast growth when the browser came out, but these days I don't see much difference between Chromium and Firefox and it seems likely that Firefox is on my side when it comes to privacy. (I realize that I'm a very atypical user, perhaps not in this venue, but certainly in terms of general browser markets.)

[2] Through no fault of their own! It's just a combination of institutional/organizational pressure, market forces, etc. This is why I think it's also unfair to foist "securing the freedom of the web" upon Firefox. Firefox is an important piece of the puzzle, but ultimately they are in the market and that's not an objective place to evaluate strategy from.
This is getting worse and worse though as browsers expose more and more of their host operating system's functionality. The benefits of using a website instead of a native app are quickly disappearing, while the drawbacks have only been somewhat mitigated. And this leads back to my original post.

Additionally, it promotes the software as a service milking of fees and online only access. It prevents end users from ever being able to tell what code is going to be run on this computer since it changes on a whim. No hash checking of binaries is going to help you here.

There's no doubt browsers are supremely complex, amazing things. But that isn't good.
It also doesn't really address the question, why Copland failed, which likely had a lot to do with Apple's management culture rather than the technology they were attempting to build.
There's an emulator that was written to run just a/ux:

https://github.com/pruten/shoebill

You need to track down roms and install media.
Provocatively worded... but intriguing from an engineering POV: if it is too late to limit CO2 levels and return to pre-industrial levels, what levers do we have to control water vapor levels?
How Does Email Marketing Work and the Big Danger
The Guy Behind Steam Spy Has Been Working on Epic's Store for Years
It's more about budgets and survival politics. The people who are setting the budgets have no idea who is generating most value.
This is fascinating. I, too, had a weird experience with Indiegogo.

I was raising funds for a project, it was going OK (not great but OK... I had two or three backers after a few days), it was climbing the ranks of active projects, and then suddenly it disappeared from the search results entirely. It wasn't a slow descent into irrelevance; it was sudden and total.

Multiple emails and phone calls to Indiegogo resulted in zero response from them. The project close, the funding was sent to me, and I had to manually refund my few backers because I couldn't possibly fulfill their expectation with so few supporters and so little money.

I suspected foul play but had no proof. Now I'm thinking this is much more wide spread than I ever realized.

Lesson learned.
One additional thing I've found that I needed (in Windows) is

(setq omnisharp-server-executable-path "C:\\path\\to\\OmniSharp.exe")

So it can actually start the OmniSharp server (EDIT: Possibly because I haven't installed OmniSharp so much as just unzip it)
I like this type of application for this technology. A good tightrope rabbit hole is: what if "the unknown soldier" is identified writ large?

Personally, I would love to have some folks in Ye Olde Family Photographs identified.
I mean, in all honesty, EdgeHTML wasn't ever really an engine that had much hope. IE has always been loathed, Edge just continued that trend. Their marketshare wasn't great, and tying browser updates to the OS as they did with IE was irresponsible for how browsers are shipped these days.

If Edge had 35% marketshare I'd be more concerned, but nobody was using it, and web developers hated trying to make their sites compatible.

Good riddance to IE/Edge of old :)
We're not talking about 'toxic customers' who don't obey universal rules.

So that's not a good example.

We're talking about a store arbitrarily discriminating between customers on terms of it's own choosing.

... which is what makes it harder.

As for your 'software sold after the fact' ... welcome to iOS / AppStore to see who 'controls' what :)
If the world was composed of countries living at the quality of life of Western Europe or America and with that level of technical and economic expertise this would I think be reasonable, but in fact billions of people are living hand to mouth. Look at the effect that Syrian migration to Europe or indeed Mexican migration to the USA has had on Western politics. Now imagine instead of 5 million people from Syria 100 million or 500 million are on the move? Is the population of Bangladesh going to gradually relocate, and if so where to? Its nuclear armed neighbour on one side, with their own hundred million to be displaced from subsistence agriculture, or the country conducting ethnic cleansing on the other? You have assumed a greater degree of stablity than is reasonable.
I can't imagine those taking off without legislation. Making it easier to change passwords is more or less in the interest of the companies who make web sites; making it easier to delete accounts or export all of your data, by comparison, is not.
Will Amazon pay for their expensive hospital stays?
NeurIPS 2018 – Test of Time Award and Invited Talk
yes. reviews take a lot of time
Hey OP! This is really cool. Would there be a way to add a column that explains the uninitiated what each column means?
Except Uber still works.. fastest tap to ride time I’ve seen across all the apps.
I still see zero benefit to me, today, to use Firefox.
Why do you assume that other platforms are not at similar risk?

VMs also have zero-days that have been exploited for cryptomining.
Microsoft also has world-class translation services. Mozilla could partner with them just for this. That would be a good idea, I think. Surprised they haven't come up with something.

There's also various open source projects tackling this problem, which aren't as advanced, but are always improving.
The main reason semiconductors scaled the way the did, was due to economies of scale. The more refined the process, the more R&D money had to be put behind the next node to make it work, the more production you needed to justify the investment. The end result being that we currently only have 3 (?) companies that are actively working on bringing out the next-gen semi-conductor node.

The same principally applies to almost anything. In fact, for typical physical products the saying is that double the production will halve the cost. This is no different. Moore's law was much the same, just that it's scaling was much faster than anything seen before, such that every 18 months we were able to halve the costs. And of course semiconductors revolutionized almost everything.

For li-ion batteries, this seems to be every 4-5 years and has been for the past 20 years or so. Rumors have it that Tesla is even beating this...

Call it "Ric's law": every 4-5 years li-ion battery prices will halve ;)
Lyft's fare is predictable, and rises little even at peak hours. The fares are mostly in the same ballpark as Uber's.

Lyft's Android app just works, and is reasonably usable. I've been burned by Uber's app crashing after an update.

I keep using Lyft over Uber; most drivers I see in my area (NYC and Brooklyn) have both apps installed. But many seem to have the Lyft-specific sign under the windhshield, but rarely an explicit Uber sign.

As a corporation, Lyft seems to be much less showy, and does not seem to be losing gargantuan sums on pie-in-the-sky projects. They project a nicer, if understated, image; this is also somehow attractive, and likely says something about the way the company is run.
As mentioned in the article, the main reason for failure was trying to put more modern tech into an operating system that had to support non 32 bit processors like the 68020 which weren't fully 32 bit. Also, I don't believe that the older 68k processors supported virtual memory. Maybe if they had just targeted PowerPC CPU's Apple may have a chance with Copland.
And an intermediate step to ultimate recycling is that car batteries still have usefulness after they lose half their capacity (but not as a car battery). They can be used in say a storage system for home power. And this kind of recyling is already happening. Tesla has discussed this, and I believe other ev car companies are doing it already too.