skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I offer this advice to Amazon -- ditch the marketplace. No more third party sellers.

But for many things I shop for, that would be extremely inconvenient for me. For example, I needed to buy replacement fuses for a Fluke multimeter. Amazon itself didn't sell it but a 3rd-party marketplace seller did. If the marketplace was shut down, I'd have to go through the hassle of registering a new account on yet another ecommerce website just to buy that fuse. In this day and age of customer databases getting hacked, I'd rather not create any new accounts unless absolutely necessary.

Yes, I get the danger of counterfeit items. I did get bit by that with fake eclipse glasses from China last year but nevertheless, the 3rd-party marketplace has been a net positive for my shopping experience. I just pay attention to the seller ratings and make sure they're better than 98%.
Really? Why on Earth would someone request such a thing!?
'Reload All Tabs' is gone - looks like you have to do a 'Select All Tabs' and then reload

Progress?

Edit: if you don't unselect and close a tab you lose all your pins...
> because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

Don't most mice have scrolling as well? It's not about trackpads.
Agencies always have official spokespeople and anyone making comments to the press about things they shouldn't be talking about (like an active investigation) can get in a lot of trouble if that agency finds out it was them who leaked to the press.
The journalists should lose whatever credibility they have as well as their news org that shamelessly supported the "story". I sure as hell don't trust Bloomberg nearly as much as I used to.
So I already have a protonmail account for more sensitive emails, but I would like a cheaper "primary" email account.

Mailbox.org and tutanoa seems to be the current leaders after fastmail?
A strong (and sometimes conflicting) opinion on Edge switching to Chromium
Thanks! Agreed it feels like a good fit for Ruby as well!

RE the pattern matching stuff I think the destructuring concept could be applied to look something like:

def div(*args)
case args
when Pattern{[a, 0]} then [:error, "can't divide by 0"]
when Pattern{[a, 1]} then [:ok, Pattern.last.a]
when Pattern{[0, b]} then [:ok, 0]
when Pattern{[a, b]} then [:ok, Pattern.last.a / Pattern.last.b]
end
end

def something(object)
case object
when Pattern{a[b, c]} then [:ok, Pattern.last.b + Pattern.last.c]
else [:error, "a didn't contain b and c"]
end
end

Some shorthand to access `Pattern.last` e.g. "$~" for regex would make things even nicer!
I suspect that the spammers are also starting to do things to not get flagged by Fakespot, especially since FS lists out a lot of the criteria that they use.
From your source. Combined average is 13,476 miles per year. If you look at only men, or more specifically only men from 20-64 do you get to 15,000 miles in less than an average year of driving.
To me, at least, this assertion requires some substantiation.

Taxis used to be smelly and dirty. Drivers were quite cavalier in their attitudes towards customers. Hailing a taxi was difficult and chancy. I was scammed by drivers who would take me on indirect routes for more money.

It seems to me that what Uber has been better at than traditional taxi services is solely the technology.

That is precisely the point.

I don't see how ride-sharing services are doing anything to regulate the market, and "cleaning up" is pretty hard to measure.

There are now rapid and technologically mediated consequences for both drivers and riders for behaving badly. Uber drivers are always polite, and riders are always polite. Riders are now strongly motivated to never keep their drivers waiting, which was not the case for taxis. The vehicles smell better! Drivers never scam you by driving a circuitous route.

It's pretty obvious to me that the market is much better regulated through the technology.

Also, while taxi regulation is pretty corrupt, well, Uber is maybe not the poster child we want for how unregulated companies are gonna do better on that front.

The point is that while Uber is far from a poster child -- no argument there -- the technology (read: the rapid flow of accurate information in the market) still has them doing a better job than regulatory mechanisms from the 20th century.
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Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
Raymond Chen's excellent blog The Old New Thing has spent much time cataloging the weird permutation of English that has grown up among people at Microsoft, which he calls "Microspeak": https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/microspeak

I'm guessing "turned down" is an emergent example of a new dialect, "Googlespeak."
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All for avoiding Panini's, but we're a Content Collaboration Platform - and Nextcloud Social fits certainly well in that.

WRT server-side encryption, it gets work all the time, though it is mostly an enterprise feature that gets love when enterprises pay for that. Very few volunteers work on it, if any. Help is of course welcome, in the end - either somebody pays for it, or somebody puts in free time.

This is true for every open source project, of course.

WRT MediaGoblin, no worries, it isn't like Nextcloud Social has all our attention. I guestimate it is at most 5% of our engineering time, if that. That is enough to make it work and improve it release over release, and we'll put in more if there is customer interest or lots of community contributions, but we always start such new things small. Talk started as a night-long-hacking-to-prove-it-could-be-done and now has 3-4 engineers on it full-time, because customers want to pay for it. Which also means it doesn't take away from other things - if we didn't do it, we simply couldn't afford these engineers in the first place. It isn't like they would work on server-side encryption ;-)
Try https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com
It's a serverless db (and API builder), with structured types and full sql support, also provide a cool UI, Visual SQL, an API and can be shared to co-workers.

You get 500 records for free and 50k records for $10/month (unlimited users)
Half of all tech workers surveyed their their workplace is 'unhealthy'
arrrr... what they don't realize when they review their telemetry data is that most people that use this feature have turned off sharing telemetry data. Combine that with the fact that they haven't advertised the feature in the past decade and it leads to devs thinking nobody uses it.
I doubt they have a deal. The only place I've seen it used is HN, so they might not have noticed yet.
This isn't limited to Godaddy. A friend of mine tried to register a domain name on Network Solutions way back when they were still called that. He typed in his credit card number wrong. By the time he got an e-mail stating the transaction failed, someone else had already registered his domain.
Double speak at a company that does no evil. Color me surprised. I prefer the verb kill. Google gives life to certain services and then kills them.
Ask HN: Should I play hardball when it comes to salary negotiations?
I should have a review, along with a large raise, coming up soon. The company that I am at has made it clear that they are really happy with my work (React/RN dev) and that I am valued. That being said, I feel as though I should be making much, much more. I like the environment I am in, I like the people and I like the work. Yet I am getting paid ~50% below market average. I do not want to be insulting by asking for too much but if they say no to a reasonable ask, how should I handle it? I am by far the most capable dev, before I got here no one even used git. Due to a past criminal record I have had issues in the past with employment (drugs). Would you just keep walking to prove a point?
Yup. Also, VC funding? Heck no, we started Nextcloud because VC funding had bankrupted and blown up ownCloud... I mean, seriously. It is now owned by a German real estate agent...
>If Bloomberg's story was false, they shouldn't just walk away like that because "it's the free press".

So failure is fine, as long as it's Silicon Valley.

Imagine what the world would be like if journalists investigating stories had to be 110% certain of their work? That if someone said, "that's not true" they'd have to ditch the story altogether?

This controversy, and the aftermath (which isn't over, hence it's in the news today) sounds like "working as intended".

>This had real implications on stock prices of so many companies

Can you provide some references of the "so many" companies that were effected by this? What do you suggest as punishment?
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I seriously doubt that reading modern science fiction would have the same effect on anyone. Unfortunately. Unfortunately.
Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch
Thanks for the feedback - that's really helpful! I totally agree that chord chart is more accurate than tab at the moment. I'm working out the messaging still and trying to balance its current state with my vision for it (which will include single-note features)!
Are the axes in the second chart swapped? It looks like it should say "Return" on the horizontal one and "Frequency" on the vertical.
You can get really far on Scala just by following a couple of principles.

1) Aim towards your functions depending only on the function inputs, to calculate a return value, with no side effects

2) Aim towards your functions having a return type that exactly describes the possible outputs of your inputs.

A lot of the magic after that is clever composition that, while having the benefit of making your code shorter and smaller and more "expressive", is also obfuscating to people that are less experienced.
Electrical Pulses Stem Blood Loss from a Hemorrhaging Artery
> That makes human drivers 16 times safer than Uber self-driving cars.

While that's a difference large enough to make wide scale deployment of those cars irresponsible, it is not large enough to make one pessimist on self-driving cars existing soon. It's the kind of difference that often enough go away with a few years of engineering.

And I expect those to be the worse stats for all the self-driving car companies around, since others seem to be doing things in a less "move fast and break things" way.
They do provide sources sometimes - even when their stories are false - which makes credulity without proof that much more surprising.

They're not inviting anyone into Langley, and if this were a claim about e.g. cyberattacks on Ukraine we might not expect evidence. But for something evaluated domestically, especially with physical evidence like SuperMicro, it's relatively common for intelligence sources to point to people who can confirm key elements. That might be a non-government firm which examined the physical evidence, a non-intelligence researcher who can assess the context of a factual claim, or an affected business which can verify what they experienced.

When a CIA source told Judy Miller that Iraq was buying aluminum tubes to centrifuge uranium, they claimed that Oak Ridge nuclear scientists had confirmed their assessment of what the tubes were for. They hadn't, but she apparently didn't bother to check.

When "U.S. officials" told the Washington Post that Russian Grizzly Steppe malware had infected the US electric grid, they provided the name of the utility company which had been attacked - Burlington Electric. Again, this was untrue (the code was found on one laptop unconnected to 'the grid'), but the reporter involved didn't check.

In the SuperMicro case, there doesn't seem to have even been a name given to check, just vague assertions that some company had performed an audit. That ought to have been a warning sign, but it looks like Bloomberg accepted source diversity in place of concrete or verifiable details - we're told of six national security officials, three Apple insiders, two AWS sources (and a partridge in a pear tree).
The first thing that clicked in my mind.
To play Tetris via telnet with VT100-like terminal, connect to milek7.pl.

It is also playable on IPv6 traceroute, though controls are inconvenient: https://milek7.pl/tracehack/
To be clear, this is not an actual 'effect' that anyone has done any research on to demonstrate it exists or has real implications. It's just something that some pop-science writer idly speculated about once, so I question why you would introduce it into this discussion.
Right now it's closed, but I plan to open source at least some of the cooler pieces of it :) Likely some of the recommendation and audio stuff. Haven't had much time to think about that yet though!
is it the same reason Mitch McConnell's face comes up when I search for:

senator turtle
Sure it is, they're still raising venture capital, and they haven't exited yet. It's a startup, just in its later stages.
ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
The Tetris IOCCC entry since moved to http://tromp.github.io/tetris.html
The Ultimate Contributor's Guide to Xfce
The premium renewal thing blew my mind when I first saw it. I couldn't believe they were so bold as to say that one .com is more expensive to renew than another.
This is why I tend to leave telemetry data on. :)

.. now if only Google had used that to notice the things I like about Inbox and keep them :-(
Earth's Mysterious 'Deep Biosphere' Is Home to Millions of Undiscovered Species
You look down your nose at day laborers in front of Home Depot (and their digital counterparts) like they don't deserve to make a living.

Should an Uber driver just starve to death because he doesn't fit your specific model of what a worker looks like?

That's a pretty classist elitism viewpoint, and it's completely unwarranted.
Man, that video makes me appreciate my old TI-83 so much more, even with its lower resolution...
Has the code for this been released at all? I've gone through the paper and can't seem to find it.
NodeJS didn't exist, Python is slow and Go scales fine on ONE server but doesn't scale horizontally very well... while PHP scales perfectly that way. It has downsides, which is why we pick other languages for some components (our Spreed High Performance Back-end for Nextcloud Talk is written in Go, our app store in Ruby).

But talk was initially written in Go, which made it harder to install, so we actually rewrote it in PHP... There's a lot of value in having a built-in app store that is easy to use from the web UI. There is a reason why the web runs on PHP. And it isn't because it is perfect, but it has some neath advantages that just help in many scenarios.
I worked at Google for almost 10 years. In my experience, these end-of-life projects often get shutdown because nobody wants to work on them.

There are a ton of interesting projects at Google for people to work on, so people select for interesting things with potential high-impact. If a team can't be formed to own the product, maybe someone will volunteer to take care of it in their 20% time. But there are these company-wide mandates to move production systems from a storage system to a newer one, and a part-timer doesn't see the point of doing such thankless job.

Management can also play a role. If a VP wanted to support the product, it would get supported. But they use the basic heuristic as above ("is this an interesting project with high potential impact"). In this analysis a VP is just a proxy for 100 engineers making the same decision.
> but that means he could have arbitrarily results.

Well, he could have, if he understood the simulation well enough; even in the overt simulation, which he was coached on, he had more constrained apparent ability. He clearly goes through an awakening over a period about the nature of the “real” world and his ability within it, that in some way parallels (without the coaching) his earlier awakening to the Matrix, but at it's most advanced point (as far as his externalized use of abilities, at least) it is still obviously less complete than the point he reaches with the Matrix at the end of the first movie.

> But, you see this stuff much earlier, take ‘residual self image’ and consider what that’s supposed to mean

That everything the humans “know” about the Matrix is curated material that is part of the system of control revealed later in the series, and is often misleading, and frequently incoherent under careful examination, which is discouraged by the quasi-religious framework of belief that is itself part of the system of control.
I don’t recall Sony marketing the PS2 that heavily compared to the DC (nor even the Xbox). But memory can be fallible.

The argument I was proposing was that the mindshare was in anticipation of the PS2 because of how the PS1 vs Saturn war panned out. Gamers can be loyal pack animals and Sega had already lost their fan base before the DC was even released thanks to the success of the PS1.

> Dreamcast with ridiculous promises that really didn't pan out.

I don’t get your point there. Everything the DC promised to do it delivered on. Technically speaking it was a success - very much ahead of its time in a great many ways. It just didn’t sell.
I agree that there is an interesting and potentially informative symmetry between the custody gap and the wage gap. They both describe situations that different groups find deeply unfair, but can be ascribed in large part to "different choices". It might be fruitful to take a more holistic view to understand why the "individual choice" explanation is so unsatisfying to many.
Pure functions are great, regardless of threading / concurrency problems.

I know you don't _need_ immutability enforced at the object level to write pure functions, but I could understand the argument in its favor.
> 5.8 Standard Tetris "lines completed" T: 2

Some variations include T-spin and allow T-shapes to rotate in place and allow clearing 3 rows simultaneously, which in my humble opinion, make the game a bit more fun.
At least it looks like the claquers are paid.

The NFL one the other hand doesn't generally pay the people who it signs up to be "enthusiastic" about the half-time performance.

http://www.espn.com/espnmag/story?id=3883771

Sometimes the half-time show can be a dud, but it looks good on TV due to them focusing on the "enthusiastic" volunteers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/crowd-quiet-justin-timberlak...
Yeah, how dare a company do two things at once!
Side note:

How's this for serendipity? A comment about Doom brought me to 666 karma.
I think you can argue the idea was out there.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-a-new-frea...
Windows: New Experimental Console Features
Figma is definitely not a native app. It's a WebGL app that has been heavily optimized for performance, but it relies on a browser or browser-technology to do its job.

https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
They do, but they don't eliminate the need for scrollbars that can actually be used.
Whelp, there goes my laboratory updates repository. We were using each Google Fusion Table cell as a pre-formatted text-box which we could then sort and search. Does anyone know of any alternatives for this purpose? I made [a post](https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/49546/2134) describing the requirements for what is essentially a "sortable and searchable pre-formatted text post publisher" and I keep running into related use cases.
Ask HN: What can Sears build with their data?
Sears is slowing going to go out of business but in the meantime, they have data about customers (offline, online), marketing, supply chain, etc.

Is there anything they can build utilizing their proprietary data to generate revenue, new product, etc?
Our of curiosity, how long did it take for your team to build this?
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Then perhaps you can see why telemetry is useful to responsible companies like Firefox, and maybe people who disable it have no right to complain about decisions based off telemetry data?
>...The common rule of thumb is you can live off of an investment at 4% indefinitely

Your general point is right, but the situation is even worse than you say since you are misinterpreting the 4% rule. It isn’t that you can live “ indefinitely” - it is that using historical returns, you could live about 30 years taking 4% (allowing for increases due to inflation) off an investment before it is zero. People seem to think that taking 4% means you won’t have to touch your capital - that isn’t the case.

>...What we now call the 4% rule comes out of research by financial planner William Bengen in the early 1990s. Essentially, Bengen tested a variety of withdrawal rates on several different allocations of stocks and bonds using inflation data and investment returns going back to 1926. After crunching the numbers, he concluded: "Assuming a minimum requirement of 30 years of portfolio longevity, a first-year withdrawal of 4%, followed by inflation-adjusted withdrawals in subsequent years, should be safe.”

https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/retirement/4-percent-rule/i...
I have a trackpoint with no 3rd button. Many trackballs don't have scroll wheels. Many folks use arrow keys and space, shiftspace, pgup/down to navigate too and those require nice visible scroll bars that move the whole document to navigate effectively.

Long story short, stop fscking with accessibility. If your js code or libraries handles ANY input events, you'd better watch yourself because you're venturing into specialized-interface-by-and-for-assholes-land.
> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power

This is pretty neat, now I'm wondering why the webex extension is having "Medium" impact when it should be doing nothing.
Same for me. And two finger scrolling. Just feels wrong in Firefox on macOS.
Author here! Happy to answer any questions that folks have.
Does WebRender ship enabled in this release?
If I can put on my tin-foil hat for a minute:

Perhaps the long play is to intentionally reduce trust in competitors brands (read: anyone who isn't amazon) to push people towards an ever expanding amazon basics line, which are presumably more profitable.
Soon Wayland support is coming in Firefox 65 (works in beta/nightly already¹)! But have to wait until next month² for that.

¹ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

² https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
It's read-only access.
Need a gift idea? alexa can help what do you think about this idea?
I don't think that's a good thing. I don't want web designers to be able to alter the look of the browser itself.
Quite a bit, it seems. https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
Yeah it's going to be a long draw down period if they're going to try to control this without tanking themselves. Think about all the warehouse capacity that is devoted to these third party products. Not to mention the backlash if they start to block 3rd party sellers. I was reading the other day that companies (Popsockets for example) were mad that Amazon was making them switch from 3rd party vendors to direct vendors--for reasons like control on assortment, promos, and pricing.
That site lists smartphones like the Nexus One. Do they expect Google to support every smartphone forever?
yeah, but your configs aren't fully portable between cloud providers when you look at things like LBs, storage, etc..
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I don't know how the system could / should interface with stupid trends sucking resources (high complexity projects, smart individuals, long term).
>Let's say the Bloomberg article incurred 50% loss of revenues after it was published for Super Micro.

Except none of this happened, so it's a straw man.

And if it did, and SM were damaged, they would sue. That's how the justice system works.