skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've got nothing to hide.

I'm sure you believe that's true, but I suggest that your belief is based on a certain confidence that the people pouring through your data are fundamentally acting in good, or at worse neutral faith.

However, if this data ever gets into the hands of someone acting in bad faith, even the most innocent behaviour can be weaponized against you. Let's say, for example, that you are wrongly suspected of committing a crime, and the investigating police are more interested in cooking up a conviction than determining if you actually did it.

All sorts of details about your life can be leaked and "spun" to make you look very, very bad. You went to a bar on a certain evening? So did these known crime figures. Were you meeting them?

You spend time on Hacker News. HACKER NEWS. You could find yourself the target of a smear campaign designed to turn public sentiment against you.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."—Cardinal Richelieu

If you hand over your data without hesitation to a nation-state or to powerful and unscrupulous corporations, I believe you will discover that there is no such thing as "nothing to hide."
Any message? Or a specific one?

I mean, at my work, a lot of our customers don't even know what our program needs to send to some other program until months after the change needs to be live...
Tensorflow has a working AMD fork:

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/tensorflow-upstream

See following links for more discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/85iwyj/d_t...

https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37892784/using-keras-ten...
Because the state is responsible for the well-being of its constituents. It's the reason Australia had a Royal Commission into the banking and finance sectors - they were screwing over people who weren't well-versed in finance, people who took the word of a financial advisor (because financial advisor's are sought out by people who need help with finance) were being screwed over with loans they couldn't actually afford.

It's not possible for people to be well educated in everything and, as hard as it is to swallow for us techy types, a fair percentage of people don't have the time or inclination to even realise the potential down sides of using the Internet. They're too busy with whatever their own areas of expertise are.

Maintaining this shit is hard for a pro. The amateurs don't deserve to get shafted.
Based on personal experience temperature monitoring on Coffee Lake worked just fine with 4.14. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a breaking change in Intel's interface for this since at least Sandy Bridge.
>abusing their market position in a manner that's harmful to the public.

Why is it abuse? No one is being forced to use chromium. Are you abusing your market position when you buy the cheapest toothbrush in a manner that's harmful to other toothbrush companies?
FYI, here's a video of a drone striking an airplane wing in a test environment:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QH0V7kp-xg0
I use Emacs, and I played around with Pharo, Squeak, and Cuis. I would go so far as to say the Emacs is an acceptable Smalltalk, but the Smalltalk environment’s defaults are far better. It’s worth playing with it to experience it (see just how good TDD can be)
I don't know about "a lot of sites". Very few, I'd say.

Other web developers may want to chime in but I rarely have cross-browser problems between Firefox and Chrome. I can't recall the last one.

The only time I encounter a problem with Firefox is looking at people's codepens where they're using webkit only prefixes or a draft API.
Note that the WebRender can only be enabled in the Firefox Nightly channel. To confirm that it's working, flip the pref, restart Firefox Nightly, and then search for "WebRender" in about:support.

WebRender does work on macOS (and Android and maybe Linux), but Mozilla is prioritizing a Windows MVP first (because something like 90% of Firefox users are on Windows). Work on macOS, Linux, and Android will then resume.
Google proposed changes to chromium that makes many people not use chromium. Or chrome.

I will focus on Firefox for compatibility, if it works on chrome that's great but I will consider it ie6, I don't care about crippled browsers.

Depending on the project and leeway I might even block it outright. I did that with ie6 on one system.
I've always wondered how Chrome and Firefox password storage fare in safety. Are they both equality trustworthy? Are the encryption technologies comparable?
Try adjusting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth in about:config.
Where does the dollar come from? A printer in a U.S. mint building. Every single one. No dollar can come into existance without being printed in one of these buildings. This is not like working out or singing a song, you can’t will money into existance and into your pocket, ultimately someone in charge of a larger pile of money wrote you a check. There is a finite amount of money in the world.
Yes on Gogs + Drone.
A huge issue is the stagnating population growth in European countries. Over the last 10 years Germany, Italy, Spain have only barely risen in population. Of course that means lots more retirees and fewer workers. Maybe flat economy is actually a good outcome as can be expected.

One of my favorite stats is that 100 years ago the population of Europe was nearly 30% of the world's total. Now its <10% and falling quickly.

Finally Yes I dont think its necessarily a bad thing, but you can't expect strong economic growth will falling working age population.
Its not a free market
You do start to wade into anti-trust areas when you start down this track, however...
> While privacy is an ever growing concern, it isn’t a strong enough feature for most people.

At the end of the day, this is the end-all-be-all argument to the Facebook and Google duopoly. People just don't give a goddamn (excuse the language) about their data - they simply do.not.care.

I believe my generation (Y), and possibly a few after us (X, etc), will be known as the generation(s) who didn't think privacy/data was that big of a deal - until one day it was.

We are the guinea pig.
Light travels in perfectly straight lines (geodesics in spacetime). The trip takes 0 time and 0 distance for the photon, from emission til absorption.
Pi-hole and similar solutions are crude compared to uMatrix. I wish that weren't the case. If we didn't have to rely on browser extensions for fine-grained control then alternative browsers like qutebrowser could become more than just toys.
Dual N-back is reported to improve working memory, which can help improve IQ.
A excellent report is here https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ
icons, text, bookmarks bar, all seem unpolished, to the point it prevents me from using it.
It needs to archive individual files to be able to reconstruct the layers. They also don't want to build squashfs into the interface specification.
> does not load all the restored session tabs at once either

As someone who always has too many tabs open, I consider this a plus.

I do however think you can disable this in about:config : browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand
Yeah, I had to double check to make sure I was actually reading the Economist. Felt weird to be getting a perspective like that from them. Why the shift?
Particularly bad: some objects will be fixed by removing them from a socket and then being put back in. Loose connections, wrong orientation, dirty contacts...
The linguistic way to say that is to note that mathematics is an "uncountable noun", just like "water". It's plural, just you can't have just "one mathematic".
You appear to be forgetting that a huge part of the story was government action to limit the power of the company that made that browser, both in the US and especially in the EU.
It's not impossible to have a drive appear unreliable in one machine and reliable in another (if you physically move it). There could be something electrically or mechanically wrong with the machine which causes a particular drive to malfunction more frequently.

If you see this repeatedly with one machine, I would definitely consider that it is the machine which is bad rather than the drives. A power supply may be insufficient to support the peak requirements of the drives, for example. A poor mounting structure might resonate or transfer vibration or shock into one or more drive slots from the environment.
Sounds Scottish.
This is an excellent point. There is absolutely no way a browser which loads and executes ad-loading and tracking script can be possibly be faster than one that doesn't.
It's bad, but compared to SV, for example, it's a breeze. Manhattan's worse, too, and let's not talk about what Boston drivers are called...
ruthless pursuit of profit risks alienation of its customers? good point though. I'd be shocked if >10% of Chrome users use uBlock Origin, in which case it's probably worth it (for their shareholders). Remember that advertisers are Google's customers, not us
Oh but it does. And even when it’s not great, it’s usually a less horrendous task to refactor into something better.
The flipside here is that we're talking about a highly experimental technology that is not trivial to evaluate for consumers, and even likely snake oil (see luminosity)

So the argument to "nobody would take that deal" would be: nobody would make that investment. Lots of tax payer and government money goes to projects that would otherwise not exist, as such their rights and access to information should go beyond what a usual private investor would expect.

This obviously extends to academic freedom as well. If we're going down the road of treating the government as an investor in a 'university entreprise', then the government should obviously have shareholder control over a public university.
A web search turns up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtqgaJzJP4
Turns out, using something other than Windows doesn't equate to using something that requires no support. And support is not free.
He is from Scotland, and if I recall correctly, currently a greencardholder living in San Fransisco.
> Any abuse of a monopoly is harmful to the public.

So you disagree with google deplatforming alex jones?
Ask Equifax why this is such a terrible idea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/equifax-fake-web...
The press around Apple products has been concerned about them disappearing with the push for AirPods. Some articles chose to make the distinction that it wouldn't happen unless they added a Lightning port to the MacBooks, but the latest iPad Pro went from both a Lightning port and a headphone jack to neither one.
auto-fill of CC/billing information is the feature I wish FF had.
Well, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Netherlands, it shows Dutch GDP per capita (in EUR, nominal) up by >14% since 2007. You used GDP in USD, but to me that seems somewhat misleading: just because the EUR dropped relative to USD, doesn't mean that the economy suddenly shrank.

> I'm not sure how the Euro survives if those sink lower in a recession and see another lost decade.

This seems like a non sequitur to me. Why wouldn't the Euro survive? If Japan had a lost decade, would you speculate about the survival of the yen?
Chess is not a good analogy I think because there is perfect information in Chess.
Some major games seems to not be working because of the anti-cheat system: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41670 (PUBG, Fortnite, etc.)
Proprietary drivers are the worst kind of propreitary software. If the vendor goes bankrupt or simply chooses to stop supporting your product, you have no path forward to update your operating system. Why use a Canon printer when HP has open source drivers? Why use Nvidia when AMD has drivers in the kernel that will never be removed. Old Nvidia cards like a GTX 8800 have only poor reverse engineered support on recent kernels. By contrast, if Microsoft abandons Word, I could easily get it working with Virtualization or possibly through shims like Wine. Nvidia knows that there stance is problematic, and for the embedded auto industry they actually support the open source drivers for their Tegra hardware.
Tesla Sentry Mode coming soon for all cars with Enhanced Autopilot
You're supposed to use whatever information you wanted the example phishing e-mails do be directed to. I used "Bob" and "bob@example.com".
I agree - Go has issues, but they're not related to readability. Perhaps if you include "familiarity with the standard interfaces" (like using io.Reader) which is different to other languages, and took a while for me to get used to.
Browser choice is most certainly a free market. Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple all develop their own, and their browsers are not beholden to the same pressures as Google (i.e. to not block ads).
It was visible from all of North and South America, and Western Europe, so most people couldn't see it.
I didn't live in a very dense part of New York; I lived on the border between Queens and Long Island, and pretty much my entire neighborhood, and all the neighborhoods for miles, basically consisted of single-family detached homes with small yards and backyards.

The main ingredient that you need for carfree kids to work is usable transit. And by usable, I mean it was frequent; if I missed my bus I would only ever be waiting 10-15 minutes for the next one. Everything I could want to go to would be reachable by bus in 40 minutes or less.

If you were to take a map of most American cities' bus networks and only showed routes that ran every 10-15 or better throughout the middle of the day on weekdays, an awful lot of them would be mostly blank. Even more if you were to require that for Saturdays as well, and pretty much all of them for the entire week. Provide the transit and people will ride; it's how Seattle managed to buck a national trend of declining bus ridership.
I think the point is somebody, somewhere, started the ball rolling with the various governments. Everyone in the government didn’t all wake up one morning and simultaneously decide to oppose the Nazis.
It does not have an app store.

On the other hand, it monitors my step count, heart rate, and exercise sessions. It lets me set alarms that trigger during the lightest part of my sleep cycle, and it displays notifications from my phone.

It's certainly at least a smarter watch.

EDIT: And given how poorly optimised smart watches are for glancing at the time, and the constant need to charge them, I'd argue you can barely call those a "watch" :P
Yup, it's all about the trade off. Space, cheap rent, 2 hr commutes vs high rent, 20 min commutes, walkability. I'd imagine it changes over time.
Ask HN: Why is Firefox for Android market share low compared to Chrome?
Firefox For Android is a great browser with add-on support (including uBlock, uMatrix and many others), why aren't more people using it?
Don't threaten, don't wait, do it now.
But once you pass the rising costs to customers, you’re in the bracket of the high end restaurants.
They even had a legitimate example, of Dropbox sending an email from dropboxemail.com.

I honestly think this should never be done because users shouldn't be expected to know which domains you do and don't own.
Add 'export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1' to ~/.xsessionrc and disable “Use smooth scrolling” to get the real smooth scrolling.
That's not an unreasonable point, but with that alarmist logic why are you then not living off the grid?
I thought Apple's approach with DMGs weird, but that's basically what they've been doing for forever.
Ask HN: How do you and your other half manage the family tasks?
Is there a "JIRA for family"?
It's a catch-all term for "learning to solve a task without seeing any specific training examples for that task."

In this context, it's learning to translate from (say) Czech to Urdu, without ever having been explicitly provided Czech-Urdu sentence pairs.
Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome
Camera shutter sounds aren’t a moral issue apple has staked a position on.
The "game support" they're talking about is not what you're probably thinking of - Wine has been able to run Solitaire and Minesweeper for quite a while already.
Oh, goodie! More stuff for cops! 'Cause gumment and surveillance and cops are gonna save everyone!
The reality doesn't agree with you. In SF, for example, fine dining is doing well, while the mid range is slowly failing and being replaced by fast casual, where they focus on fast turnover. The only way to pay the bills seems to be to either be super high end (fewer customers overall, but at a much higher service level and price point), or just above fast food, where you serve a reasonable-quality menu, but items that can be prepared quickly, and served without waitstaff.

Restaurants that try to charge "too much for their station" don't last here.
I love AMD's innovation in this space, but for high-end gaming Nvidia is still destroying them in raw performance. RTX and G-Sync are definitely stupid, though they are adding limited Freesync compatibility to recent cards now.

If AMD made something that'd beat my 1080 Ti for a reasonable price, I'd definitely buy it. I certainly don't like Nvidia's Linux drivers, but the majority of my non-IGPU needs are Windows-based, so it's not as much of an issue. If I exclusively used Linux on my high-end PCs, I'd likely be more willing to lose some raw performance to go with AMD.
They go on Glassdoor, write up a bad review for the company, and mention me, specifically.

I mean, it's not affecting me in any real way but I have to admit, it bugs me.
Use an extension instead. It's more portable, you have control over it, and don't have to feed Google more data.
I'm replying to all the answers here.

It seems that everyone has a different experience on the subject! Just a precision: I had an ATI card (laptop) from 2005 to 2010, then an ATI (desktop) from 2010 to 2017.
The downside of objects is performance due to the e.g. increased overhead a file object carries. Plus the exact same can be argued with everything being bytes/text on Unix, in that it make everything simple but versatile.

> get some field out of `ls`

If you're parsing the output of ls, you're doing it wrong. Filenames can contain characters such as newlines, etc, and so you generally want to use globbing/other shell builtins, or utils like find with null as the separator instead of newline.
Thanks! You guys rock.
Thanks for the feedback! I love the point about getting out of the way and starting on a gold plan. I'll discuss with our CMO.
RTX isn't crap. It's an innovation. Yes, it's at its early stages, but nevertheless. True reflections alone will result in new game mechanics. It will accelerate traditional 3D rendering.
Agreed that clicking links is usually safe.

My point is, as a broad-based message, as soon as you start saying complicated words like "browser" and "validate domains" and "credential" and "password managers," nontechnical eyes immediately glaze over. I think your advice works for the most technically inclined 25% of users. It just confuses the rest.

"Don't click links," despite having more false positives when used as an individual's safety heuristic, resonates more and thus will result in many fewer false negatives when applied to the general public. The cost of a false positive is relatively low, while the cost of a false negative is high.
> I realize that we can label all of this as free markets doing their thing; maybe mid-tier restaurants with lots of staff are just an inefficient use of valuable urban space.

That would assume that the real estate market is a free market, which in many cities is a laughable idea.
(As people use forests, others will notice and start making tree farms.)

I don't see how it's inherently wrong for a CEO to take 10% of revenue and employees split 10%. And why do companies have a fixed pile: shouldn't an effective CEO grow top-line revenue? What if employees are splitting twice the revenue compared to a year ago? (If the company isn't growing, replace the CEO for someone who earns their 10%.)

Money-making inequality, on its face, doesn't seem different than artistic inequality. Should I be angry that Warren Buffet gets 20% annual return on his investments while index funds only do 8%?
[2017] Also previously on HN, 70 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548162

Still impressive.

Also, one of the comments there, from bluedino:

"I remember you could do this with DOS Doom using the -left and -right parameters: you just needed three PC's that could run Doom AND a local area network."
I think this highlights exactly the dangers of social media and communities centered around fixated niches.

I've been thinking lately of how to remedy that and this post came up at just the right time to get the mind juices flowing. At a high level I see a decentralized community that doesn't rely on forums/tribes/subreddits and incentivizes tagging like old school del.iciou.us. This enables higher chance of cross pollination and less group think. I could really see it working well with some flavor of ethereum/ipfs/incentives.

Something something, everything is in cycles? Hah.
I remember first trying Wine - I actually installed (well, compiled) XFree86 just to try it - I was proper cli-only in those days. After a long weekend of compiling, I was finally able to run a very slow instance of mIRC - for less than a minute, then it crashed. I was amazed.

2 decades later, my Wife + kids are now able to enjoy The Sims 4 and SimCity on their Linux machines, thanks to the hard work of the Wine team!

And with the additional work of Crossover, Word & Excel too.

These four non-trivial applications, built without any portability in mind, work flawlessly.
What are your HW specs? Gmail is fast as ever for me, the UI works just fine on both Mac and PC.
You can do OOP without inheritance. I do it all the time, including in Java. It works extremely well alongside dependency injection. You still get all of the other parts of OOP, like encapsulation and polymorphism.

The only real trick is to use delegation patterns instead of inheritance, i.e. dispatch requests to class members rather than super/subclasses.

It doesn't feel awkward or unnatural.
It's Chrome devtools really
It's still slower than other platforms but it's much faster than it used to be. I've been using Firefox exclusively on OS X / macOS for a year. The only problem I've seen is that it sometimes uses more CPU than is reasonable, which often appears to be due to Gmail's terrible implementation.
Thanks a lot - absolutely interesting/fascinating.

You guys should think about writing a short eBook about e.g. general recommendations about setups/analysis/projections & stories about past failures/chain-of-events/etc - I might buy it :)
Colleges shouldn't be in the business of training people for jobs - that is what tech schools are for. If you just want to get a job, go to a tech school, don't go to college. College is (or should be) about expanding your mind, your horizons.

I keep seeing this on HN. Only the privileged can afford to go to college to “expand their minds”. The middle class and even the upper middle class are not spending tens of thousands of dollars a year to go to college to “expand their minds”. They are doing it so they can get a job.

Where are all of these students with “expanded minds” going to get a job? I specifically told both of my sons that I would not support them in getting a degree that didn’t have an outlook for a decent paying job. I specifically had them look at the starting salaries of graduates, the placement rates, and the five year salary averages for the school and the degree they choose.
I'll look into it thx
So anyone who implemented a PPI in the MHS is a fascist? Great way to devalue the term.
Except for the Microsoft part, yes:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
Yes, he violated the specific rule that limits drone activity to below 400 feet. It was flying at 3,500 feet.

The operator is either dangerously ignorant, or reckless.