skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that one of the primary differentiators between serfs and lords was that lords were able to own land.

Since many (most?) people in the US cannot afford the land and other resources necessary to provide for themselves (e.g. via farming or craftsmanship), I'm not sure that it's unfair to draw a parallel between them and serfs.
See, it's weird, but I feel the opposite. The high-rise of mech keyboards forces me to put my wrists in an awkward position. The long distance of the keys makes my fingers tired quickly and type slower. With low profile keyboards my hands flow over the keys very quickly, with mech keyboard I find myself having to delay myself a bit with each key to make sure it's pressed.

Unpopular opinion: I really like the new MacBook keyboards. I can't speak for their durability, but I like the typing experience on them.
You’re getting downvoted because you clearly didn’t read the article.
Buying OSS related, and incorporating/wrapping existing OSS projects, is not leading. Is taking a hike on the backs of others successful work.

Microsoft only releases the source on products they create when they clearly can't compete, and they have no other option. In terms of open source leading and inovation ms is worth 0.

Although they have a good R&D. There isn't anything new they contributed to OSS community.
Don't forget Compiz Fusion, which was eventually merged into Compiz, but that's the one I remember being the hot one. I thought it funny at the time cause KDE could do all the same things too. But I agree with the parent comment, this isn't "little known" if you were using Linux in the mid to late 2000's you were possibly so mesmerized learning the damn thing you looked up ways to make it look and behave in cool ways.
Then capitalism has failed humanity.
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EdgeHTML, to be precise.

I couldn't care less for the Edge UI (IMHO it is a poor clone of Chrome) but seeing MS's browser engine open-sourced would've been far more interesting --- even if it's only IE6.
I still use Firefox 99% of the time, i guess most people haven't heard about the Quantum update and got burned by the slower, older version.
AlphaGo Documentary (2017)
The Implication of Secular Increases in SaaS CAC
U know why Trump hate U? play with the language.
Misguide readers. It is not free speech.

Disapear: If something disappears, it stops existing or happening.

Liar always says other ones should not tell the truth!
Lawyers typically don't make all that much money until they a bunch of years and experience under their belt.

You're not paying for legal representation. You're paying for all the time and effort the lawyer spend establishing their professional reputation.

You or I would get laughed out of court. A professional lawyer could show up, say the same things and get taken seriously.
The Indiscreet Charm of the Gilets Jaunes
Satoshi's last message was today, 8 years ago. What did Satoshi say?
"chaff was released by a military C130 [sic] northwest of Evansville."

Not exactly a mystery.
Ah yes, I forgot the inscription on the architrave of the Reichstag actually said "Der deutschen Industrie".

The amount of lobbying involved in keeping the german automotive industry going despite them mostly missing out on recent developments is staggering.
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unless your branch name matches the jira/story id
200 words is great for people doing it on the side of a full-time job so I think it really depends on your situation.
I used to have the content hidden before the javascript styled it, but people on this very site complained that they couldn't read my pages without javascript enabled.
Here's the last one I read

Sylvain Tesson & Alexandre Poussin: The walk in the sky

In the 90s, the two authors decided to cross the Himalaya from East to the West, travelling light and relying on the hospitality of the people they were meeting along the way.
So insanely arrogant.
Every Windows Server release following 2016 RTM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...
In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence
The simple act itself is not corrupt. Illinois' budget is also in a financial hardship, from what I have read. In my own reasoning to answer the question of, what is behind making a change to legal addresses like that. The only answer I have come up with based on the opinions I have heard of corruption in the government, is that it would be nessecary to fabricate entire MBS or parts of MBS, that then could have been sold to the treasury at par value. The address changes happened while they were accepting the 4 trillion plus, in mortgage backed securities that they now hold.
Er, what? Are you thinking of "$30k" in today's terms. $30,000 in 1980 was a lot of money! That's more than $90k in today's dollars...
Wait, does the Red gui work under linux now?
According to their Roadmap it doesn't yet - but maybe it just hasn't been updated for the last half year...
>Outside the Microsoft Edge browser, users of other browsers on Windows PCs sometimes face inconsistent feature-sets and performance/battery-life across device types. Some browsers have had slower-progress to embrace new Windows capabilities like touch and ARM processors. As you know, we’ve recently started making contributions that provide these types of hardware support to Chromium-based browsers, and we believe that this approach can be generalized: we think we can help to accelerate the web and users’ experience of it by contributing new capabilities to Chromium open source for the benefit of all these browsers and users.

Disappointing that all big players want to contribute to Chromium code base but not Gecko, which is left solely in the hands of Mozilla and presumably is going to find it tougher and tougher to simply keep up with Chromium/Skia/Blink etc.
This is the reason why some people called it state capitalism, since the only difference for the workers is who's the boss.
I thought of migrating birds, as they sometimes show up on radar, but there does not appear to be anything here[1] corresponding to this event.

[1] http://birdcast.info/live-migration-maps/

Update: I got the date wrong, this would have been Dec 10... Data is missing from 10:40 to 16:10 CT, and the spatial resolution is not high, but the map is showing medium rates of migration in that area at the later time.
This reminds me of a story that a lecturer told us at University. That at one point they distributed computations to the drive controllers of the connected (fridge sized) disk drives because they could do so much processing while waiting for the platters to spin into place.

So the whole story of a disk being a computer has been true for a long time.
The "Reason" party (used to be called the "Sex Party" (heh)) seem pretty sensible these days:

https://reasonvic.org.au/policy/
In addition to the bookmarks and history searched, "%" searches open tabs.

Also, note that you need a space after the character (so "% search query", not "%search query").
BSDs have significantly better documentation and are far more consistent because the base system is developed with the kernel as part of a complete whole. Administering FreeBSD is quite refreshing by comparison to administering GNU/Linux.
Tiny beautiful things by cheryl strayed.

Fascinating book and must read particularly if you are feeling little down in life. I was initially skeptical of the genre, but one of the great books I have read.
Fiio's devices are almost there but not quite. I do generally suggest the dx3 because it's a single expense, there's no actual hearable upgrade from it. It measures well and provides enough power for everything short of special cases (such as STAX).
Most people don't use search bar these days. Why have two fields when you can use one?

Also - too many actions in your example vs. very simple and effective tab-to-search or keyword search available in Firefox.
Uterine cancer, getting to know about the causes
Uh... Microsoft can't really win against Google with tactics like this.

Google is the one creating a web essentially bound to whatever Chrome does, supports, or doesn't support.
Mm, I'm really not an expert and don't have anything constructive to add except to simplify what I said:

IMO the key thing is that the work is done in open mode, and the results are observed critically.

This means that the constraints, implicit or explicit, should be as unlimiting as possible, because all constraints will limit the space of solutions that people can think of. This includes such limits as performance metrics and various financial incentives. Which means if you want creative output, you should generally fund peoples and projects, and not milestones. And then when they deliver something, gauge that critically, and if the thing they make sells well, give them a bonus so they will feel fairly treated. But don't incentivize the innovation process itself and don't hold the bonus up as a promised gift they will wait for.

This is of course completely different way than you would incentivize sales people or people doing linear repetitive tasks where performance based incentives are shown to work pretty well.

Dan Pink's TED lecture is pretty good.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?language=en...
No, a just response would exactly be to go after the people responsible (that is, the criminals), instead of a fine just paid by shareholders. Executives only fear personal consequences. But you are proposing retaliation against individuals who had no involvement in criminality.

There is only one basis to complain about Meng, which is the extra-territoriality of US sanctions law. But it isn't even about sanctions, it is about fraud committed by lying to lending banks. When executives set up structures to achieve deception they can't expect to escape consequences.
pretty sure lawyers don't work for raffle tickets.
I think the gist is that Mozilla and Firefox are in peril. This worsens that peril at a time when MS could become a patron of Mozilla and Firefox and have a chance at launching a shot across Google’s bow.

All that said, I’m surprised nobody is talking about Apple in all of this as they have a huge portion of the mobile browser share.
let me guess, you don't have any experience in ops?

1) Scaling doesn't really require more work. It needs a bigger investment because a hardware hypervisor costs significantly more than a vm... after all, that hard metal can host tens of VMs

2) you still need to manage your linux system and OS if you're buying a VM...
the only thing you don't need to worry about is hardware. So, a faulty hard drive, hypervisor failover and similar stuff is taken care of. That doesn't mean that it works, however. It just means that somebody else will take care of it... though it might not work and you're entirely on their mercy to fix it

3) containers don't inherently give you better scaling either. creating images from VMs has been done for ages before docker was a thing, and provisioning a new Node from a VM Image is pretty easy if you're already using Terraform or similar.

you're just able to utilize a higher percentage of your hardware with containers, as you don't need to virtualize the kernel... so its a cost-cutting issue, not scaling
> Google is the one creating a web essentially bound to whatever Chrome does, supports, or doesn't support.

Why do you think this? What is stopping Microsoft from changing the code?
1. The Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa - fast paced, fictionalized account of the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic

2. 100 years of solitude - currently 70% through but the writing and story is superb.

3. Death in the Andes — another Vargas Llosa book. Not as good as Feast of the Goat in my opinion, but gives a good idea of the situation in Peru in the 1980s during the Shining Path insurrection, written after the author’s participation in a government investigation of the murder of several journalists in a remote Peruvian village.

EDIT: spelling
A Better Way to Prepare Retrospectives with Votum for Slack
We are not morally obligated to ensure that every single entry-level, unskilled job pays enough for a middle class lifestyle, regardless of mistakes made prior.

The solution is to not work long-term in an entry-level, unskilled job.
In peril how? Google is the one giving Mozilla money. What is perilous about more people adopting an open source Google project?

I really do not get it, Edge moving to Chromium changes absolutely nothing wrt Mozilla's "peril".
Viruses can't replicate themselves either. Cells replicate viruses. And prions replicate by deforming healthy proteins.

Whether that replication can be incorrect and produce a different kind of prion, I don't know. If it can, evolution will do its work.
Huge blaze erupts at tower that houses Google's offices in Bejing
Hell yeah we're going to fight over it. Whenever something that works is turned into something that sucks, we gotta point it out until it's no longer sucky.
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Lots of dystopian and alternate world sci-fi (most recently read first):

1) The Handmaid’s Tale

2) Off to be the Wizard

3) The Three-Body Problem

4) Good Omens

5) We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

6) American Gods

7) Ready Player One

I really enjoyed all of these, though the Neil Gaiman books are rather long-winded. Ready Player One in particular is something I’d recommend to any geek or 80s movies and music fan. I found myself watching lots of old movies and listening to old music so I’d understand those references I didn’t know.

I’m now quite eager to not read any more about virtual worlds though.

Graphic Novels / comics:

8) Monstress

9) Rat Queens

10) Saga

Monstress and Saga develop really amazing worlds with engaging stories. Read them both. Rat Queens is just good fun.

Coding:

11) Code

Still working my way through, but it’s pretty cool. It goes from Morse code and electrical circuits to more complex code as conceptual fundamentals.

I’m sure I’ve missed a few, but these are the ones that stand out.
it would be better if MS instead chose Firefox to contribute back to. This way there would be better useage share distribution in implementations.

They made the obvious choice (for them) based on market share
At the same time I see they are doing a lot of experimentation with Rust and Servo - the way I see it - it would be harder to do that kind of experimentation across companies. They have the chance to do radical stuff and show that Rust/Servo investments actually pay off in the real world.
I, for one, I welcome our new ad tech corporate overlords!
What a terrible, clickbaity title for this submission.
the new york times has addressed this. the short answer is: apparently yes.

"[Amazon] is conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable"

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
Agree. Most folks, especially outside of tech circles fail to realize the exponential strides Firefox has made in terms of being a robust competitor to Chrome.
or just use it as a bookmarklet ?
I think it's becoming clear that chromium is the future.

https://xkcd.com/1726/
...until you open a website in Firefox [0] and you're greeted by the message "This website requires Chrome" or some such.

Except if the website doesn't even warn visitors, and just breaks silently.

[0] Or Safari and minor Webkit browsers. I hate Apple's stubbornness sometimes, but here's where their focus on resource usage puts an obstacle to browser monopoly, for now.
The ignorant West is responsible for building up the global network of the Chinese autocratic regime. We hand them hard earned technology on a silver platter, we talk about China coming over from the dark side once they taste the other side, and the West bends over to allow China into the WTO for reasons that are still elusive. A communist regime should never be allowed to prosper in the way it has at the expense of Western ideals, rights and future opportunities. The beast exists because we feed it and allow it to prosper.
Before reading the article: I think that it doesn't make any sense to use a blockchain for a GPS-like system.

After reading the article: Yep. It doesn't make any sense to use a blockchain for a GPS-like system. The article has too few details. Are they using a chain? Why are they using a chain? Perhaps they are using some cryptography for security and to verify the integrity of the information? Why a chain?

Are they giving some (worthless) token to anyone that share their position calculated by the GPS and the relative position of other nodes in their network?
Microsoft has already adopted Chromium for e.g. VS Code. They made the obvious choice based on what software they've already been writing.
Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
A few years ago in Tromso I had the pleasure of talking with a Norwegian infantry soldier. Having served in Israeli infantry it was very interesting to both of us to share what we could. Note that this was 2013, before Russia invaded Ukraine.

From what I gathered, the Norwegian army (don't know about navy) is on constant alert for a Russian attack. Norway is very oil rich, and sits right at Russia's border. Russia outguns and outnumbers Norway, and they have experience in similar climates. From what I gathered, the Norwegian military is about as vigilant as I felt the Israeli military is. They may not be attacked constantly as we are, but they know that a single attack could end their way of life in minutes.
>>1. tuition money goes in escrow. It's refunded if the college goes under. It's paid out otherwise.

2. buy insurance. You get a payout of your tuition if the college fails.<<

Adding 2 or more opportunities for the leech types to latch on and suck fees etc out of the system... Yeah... OK
We should make the legislative branch exercise more direct control over the alphabet soup of administrative agencies.

I thought that was obvious but I guess not.
> Google is the one giving Mozilla money.

because they want Mozilla's users to use google search / services, not out of the goodness of their hearts. what if mozilla had 5000 users left tomorrow? think big G would still write that check?
If it's thin aluminium foil, then it'll probably decompose fairly quickly. I'm more concerned about what will try eating it before it does so.
Great article, even though I don't really care about surfing.

One thing that struck me is how he describes the physical attraction of the wave, the need for it. After spending every surf session in your entire life waiting for a good wave, yearning for it, scrutinizing each swell to see if this is finally the right one, to have this perfect wave available whenever you want... It must be like handing the keys of the prescription drugs cabinet to an opioid addict.

I wonder if a good parallel for the wave machine is the advent of climbing walls in the 80s. I would say, 40 years on, that indoor climbing walls have indubitably been a Good Thing for climbing in general. Yet I'm pretty sure they sparked the same debates about the nature of the sport, its democratization and professionalization, etc. when they made their first appearance.
"our unique web-platform codebase still faces occasional compatibility problems as web developers focus less on HTML standards and rationally focus on widely used platforms like Chrome to develop and validate experiences for their customers."

IMO, it was quite opposite in my experience. Website following HTML standards worked as intended on other browsers.
No, but those fears weren't rational to begin with.
I wonder if they will be able to put AI into missiles to detect Infrared decoys (flares, IR laser) or radar countermeasures (chaff, jamming).

Military countermeasures are really cool, if you can get past the whole moral dilemmas in working with technology like that.
'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
Don't forget the Americans with the Patriot act
It's a shame that Smalltalk never gained traction as a system language, and the C/Unix approach took over enterprise-grade development.

I wonder what software engineering would look like if all the decades-long advancement of tools for stabilization and deployment of code had been researched over platforms that combined system and application code, like Smalltalk did. Instead, we consider both layers as isolated from each other. A lot of work over virtualization and containers seem to be used as a workaround for not having this integrated approach as part of the platform design.
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> We are not morally obligated to ensure that every single entry-level, unskilled job pays enough for a middle class lifestyle, regardless of mistakes made prior.

> The solution is to not work long-term in an entry-level, unskilled job

That is _not_ a solution, and this is an incredibly naive and classist take on why people people work in unskilled positions.

A society absolutely does have a moral obligation to its citizenry, otherwise what is the point of it? A man must bend his knee to the oligarchs and the state and get crumbs in return?

This is what I meant by classist conspiracy theories and capitalist bootlicking. HN needs to wake the fuck up.
I recently switched to Firefox Quantum and am really, really trying to love it because I want Mozilla to succeed, but it’s still infuriatingly slow on Mac.
Guess I’m off to gaol soon because I’m certainly not implementing a software backdoor for the Australian Government. Nor will I approve any pull request that does so. I expect I should do well in prison, definitely got the skills & personality to succeed in there (hint: mild sarcasm).
It's in the works for some time now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410548
We started using commitizen at my workplace. It really seems to push the idea of good commit logs. Combined with jira ID hooks to keep people from pushing without a story/ticket.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/commitizen

Edit: doh, didn't scroll to the bottom!
If we are really talking about organized state sponsored hacking, then the variable of human error is usually minimized trough redundancies and oversight.

Unless you want to suggest that on one hand they are sophisticated enough to infiltrate all kinds of hardened systems, but still dumb enough to let themselves get caught in the act while doing so/leaving evidence behind pointing straight back at them.

That's why the vast majority of cyber attribution is rarely based on actual technical evidence, but rather on cui bono assumptions and by ascribing certain tools as exclusively used by certain actors. And because none of this a secret, it's a pretty easy to exploit methodology [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/wikil...
Unions are mandatory to join it's not a free market you can't negotiate your own pay.
- Complete Hyperion Cantos (incl. Endymion series)
- Bad Blood (Still churning through)

Hyperion is a 2500 page behemoth and took most of my year, however most of the things written in the book are not sci-fi, and overall the book is very enlightening. Still digesting the stuff in my brain.

Bad Blood is a fascinating read. I'm still in the first quarter, and with this density, the events are well simply amazing to put it lightly.
I thought my college education was fantastic, I know chem engineering and became very good at math.

However, due to my college being lazy and never getting ABET accredited in my Chem engineering degree, I cant become a P.E. despite passing the PE and FE tests. Stupid college I suppose. I make tons of money as a degreed engineer though...