skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even remember the last time I had a productive meeting for work.

Everything that meetings at the places I've worked at, my entire life, should have been sent out in advance in /some/ format (today it'd be email) for review.

When you do that, you can also have a deadline for rounds of comments... 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc, up to a decision deadline where whomever's allowed to make the decision can make their choice with all the views and objections/opinions laid out.

There's literally no reason to ever /actually/ have a meeting of the kind that I've been a part of.
Google gives Wikimedia millions
> That specific example is less readable, but I do like being able to do this:

> diff <(prog1) <(prog2)

> and get a sensible result.

That is called process substitution and is exactly the kind of use case that it's designed for. So yes, process substitution does make sense there.

> input | recalcitrant_program /dev/stdin

> ... but it's a bit of a tossup as to which one's more readable at this point. They're both relying on advanced shell functionality.

There's no tossup at all. Process substitution is easily more readable than your second example because you're honouring the normal syntax of that particular command's parameters rather than kludging around it's lack of STDIN support.

Also I wouldn't say either example is using advanced shell functionalities either. Process substitution (your first example) is a pretty easy thing to learn and your second example is just using regular anonymous pipes (/dev/stdin isn't a shell function, it's a proper pseudo-device like /dev/random and /dev/null) thus the only thing the shell is doing is the same pipe described in this threads article (with UNIX / Linux then doing the clever stuff outside of the shell).
It's quite memory hungry. Not saying leaking per-se, but my 16GB machine at work started swapping heavily mostly due to Firefox today.

Only had about 15 active tabs (though a number of dormant ones since last FF restart). Between the various processes, FF was using about 6-7GB of memory. Closing almost all of the tabs reclaimed about 2GB, so still a lot left over.

That said I'm not too bothered, I can restart FF every other week or so.
I think there is no chart because, if you go find one, it shows EU growth in the last ten years has been going up and down in a pretty similar fashion to Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, and other non-EU advanced economies. This would indicate that being in the EU hasn't really helped them all that much, but it also hasn't hurt that much (in aggregate). So, not much of a story, which feeds right back to your point.
If I was a slightly less calm person I’d have already beaten the shit out of my partners boss, he is making her absolutely fucking miserable though his ineptness.

I keep telling her to quit, we can live on my salary indefinitely while she finds another job but she won’t.

What makes it doubly annoying is that she is conscientious and has a work ethic.

I fucking hate it to be honest, you’d think by now large companies would have figured out the trickle down effects of bad management and have better systems in place to weed it out.

The first thing I’d look at as the boss of a large company is a) department sickness rates, b) department turnover rates
Show HN: PJON v11.2 an independent, decentralized, open-source protocol
You should make a quick landing page and post this as a "Show HN".
> Moreover I have got nothing to hide

Don't mean to insult you, and some people just have an easier time opening up about everything, but a life with nothing whatsoever to hide sounds limited, uninventive and uninteresting.
It also just came out, and for years this device did not exist / was woefully outdated. Glad to see that change.
Meanwhile, every other country in the World is smooth sailing.
I didn't see it, but a couple of people in chat on the live PBS feed mentioned it. IIRC it was about half-way between peak and going back to partial.
A software tweak is a lot easier to change than hardware accelerated encryption.
California's Paper Receipt Ban Won't Save the Environment
Your thinking is absolutely correct and i feel the same way that you do. The world in general likes to reward those who already have in an exponential fashion. This is why no matter what type of system we adopt, there will always be a 1% and a 99% (In sports, wealth, academia, whatever... with the top .01% having an even more mind boggling share of resources or whatever). I don't mind being part of the 99% if my basic necessities are met, after all the cause of revolutions and the like is because they necessities are not met. I think the efficiency in production and all the technological advances should ultimately at least allow common people their basic necessities without requiring something of them in return. I think a universal basic income will have to be adopted at some point.
But the design document only mentions retaining the old API for features that aren't possible with the new API, such as onAuthRequired. So it would still cripple uBlock
presumably they are capable of putting in the engineering work to restore the old feature

then they'd be able to sell their browser as having ad blocking when chrome doesn't

the market would take care of the rest
> I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities.

Chrome used to be very lightweight, fast and basically unseated IE as the top browser. It got that love because at the time Firefox was bloated and IE had a stranglehold. Chrome was also safer with a process per tab. Chrome made web browsing/dev pleasant like Firefox/Firebug did and it really took off being based on Webkit like Safari which also worked well on mobile. Chrome (and Safari) or Webkit pushed HTML5/Canvas/WebGL/SVG into real world use which changed the landscape of browsers.

Nowadays Chrome is bloated like Firefox was, has a stranglehold like IE did, is now pushing its own market standards and breaking existing open/market standards and generally being a forceful, non respecting to standards, web browser. It sure is unfortunate and another sign that bizdev/marketing/executives rule over engineers at Google now.
> It would now be silly of me to use Firefox in place of Chrome.

Why? In what ways is Chrome more useful than Firefox on Chrome OS?
04:41:43 UTC https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ai79zy/possible_mete... and https://twitter.com/chrfrde/status/1087532344909676545
> The Hindi should be "Their destination was secret", and the Bulgarian should be "Nobody knew where they went".

Those aren't good translations of each other (barring a helpful context); to me, "their destination was secret" states that the goal was for nobody to know where they went (with a weak implication that the goal was achieved), whereas "nobody knew where they went" states that, in reality, nobody knew where they went (and says nothing about whether that was intentional).
If you prefer chrome but don't want to deal with the privacy issues, definitely try out brave-browser. It's a custom build of chromium with privacy and ad blocking enabled by default, and is fully open source.
What does performance on a Linux distro has anything to do with Mozilla being better/not better than Google?
I doubt that a typical large company would give up even ~1.7% of its revenue just out of principle. It can also say that "obeying Australian law" is a perfectly good principle. The Australian government has also kindly offered to reimburse the financial costs of complying.
Netflix understand market elasticity, but that doesn't mean they didn't up the price so they could create more content.
Plus Chrome just works better for a lot of sites. That might be because the site isn't properly coded, but users don't care. They just want something that works and more often than not, that's Chrome.

My main browser is Firefox, but I have to switch over to Chrome more often than I would like. Electron is also based on Chromium, isn't it? IMHO, the rise of Electron just reinforces Chromium's status and I think Microsoft is going to accelerate that trend (I'm guessing MS adopted Chromium because of Electron).
Yeah, the Vega 64 (like most high end gear) is probably not worth the expense. I had a surplus of money at the time and I do GPU programming research, so I could justify it. I also hear that while it has nice compute performance, it's not as impressive for games.
“I know this defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law!” Bugs Bunny
> The main issue isn't the support and maintenance of a such distributed network,

Running a permissioned blockchain is nontrivial. "Just fork XYZ and call it a day" doesn't quite describe the amount of work involved. There's read latency at scale. There's merging things to maintain vendor strings,

> but its integration with current solutions

- Verify issuee identity

- Update (domain/CN/subjectAltName, date) index

- Update cached cert and CRL bundles

- Propagate changes to all clients

> and avoiding centralized middleware services that will weaken the schema described in the documents.

Eventually, a CDN will look desireable. IPFS may fit the bill, IDK?
I wish the quiz had a fake url bar, that one I got right just out of a pure guess. Without the url bar and just assuming the html is legit, theres no way of really knowing.
They mean people in the uk say that the eu hobbled the uk's ability to trade with the eu.

But actually, the uk hobbled the eu. So the example is wrong.
Chrome------------------64.15%

Internet Explorer--------10.83%

Firefox-------------------9.89%

Edge---------------------4.30%

Safari--------------------3.80%

Opera--------------------1.58%

Safari will survive since Apple is their patron. Obviously Internet Explorer is only a lumbering undead husk at this point, and it's pretty shameful that it's still outgunning Firefox by a small amount. Even more sad that it's got over twice as many users as Edge, lol.
What are the advantages of Chrome over Firefox?
Netflix Joins the MPAA: Here’s What It Means
How are the data pipes to EU? HTTPS + no device caching

Complying would violate EU law where the data is stored or compromise the entire system and all devices.
Can Drones Be Good?
I understand approaching this with an abundance of caution, but the drones were reportedly 17 miles away near a different airport, so this looks like quite an overreaction.
My wife always comes to sit in the couch when I turn on something from him just to hear the dialect.

His way of saying Mun is the best ever and I'm not sure if it's his dialect or if it comes from playing Kerbal Space Program too much :)
These things are quite obviously very different and I can’t find a way to read this in good faith (except perhaps from an extreme libertarian point of view), let alone in a good light.

One is a law requiring phones to try to alert people whose privacy is being invaded in some circumstances.

The other is a law requiring phones to invade people’s privacy in some circumstances.

I think it is quite reasonable to follow the former, just as it could be reasonable for laws to require phones to broadcast tsunami warnings or meet various antitrust requirements.
Not at all. It convey's minute commitment; both brief and trivial.
Russian sleeper cells armed with dozens of DJI drones and diplomatic passports so all the police can do is deport them if caught . . .
A fish rots from the head down, and Trump's avowed preference would be to attack companies for spite if they haven't been nice to him personally. Those kind of regulations are probably not productive.
I’m not even convinced “don’t click links” is the best guidance. That message has been pushed so hard that people immediately think their machine has been compromised once they have clicked a shady link. That is nearly never the case. Clicking links isn’t something that should cause fear. Nobody is burning a modern browser vuln in a spam email. I think the message should be more focused on not manually entering credentials into a site. Lean on your browser to validate domains and know which sites are associated with which credential. I say that somewhat aspirationaly , as I still think there is lots of room for how well browsers and password managers work for novice users.
Google's Shady Adwords Sales Techniques
Phoenix can easily give you thousands of requests per second on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet. Rails and several C# and Java frameworks cannot.

Phoenix doesn't hold a candle to anything JVM or Golang though: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
It would depend on the effort to do the methodology vs. the expected return (savings of finding a failed drive times the probability).
Investors already voted against pound (look at the exchange rate). Brexit shown them that U.K. is no longer predictable and stable. And since after Brexit it will be equally expensive to move funds from Eurozone to U.K. or to any other country - there are likely to choose somewhere else.
Maths is dangerous, and Australia is a nanny state. We must put a curfew on maths. Once the clock strikes 3am you may only continue a maths problem, no new maths can be commenced until 11am the next day.

You see, both terrorists and sex offenders are known to use maths. We must control maths for your own good. If you oppose us, you are supporting terrorism.

(This is just the latest episode of anti-science politicians nerfing the Australian knowledge economy. See also their mishandling of the national broadband network, the latest cybersec laws destroying remote work, and the gutting of the CSIRO.)
Well there's a difference between holding a gun to someone's head to force them to tell you their secret, and baking secret selling backdoors into the secrets themselves.
Well, the peg only lasted for three years.
Since 2007 - broadly the great recession time frame forward - Lithuania has had by far the best GDP per capita growth among Euro members at nearly 40% (nominal, USD terms). Estonia is second, at around 19-20%. Latvia is third at about 11%. Slovakia is up 10%.

A distant fifth is Germany at around 7%. Ireland is up a couple percent.

Everyone else in the Eurozone is either near flat or negative on growth over the last ~11-12 years.

Greece is down 35%, Italy is down 15%, Spain is down 14%, Portugal is down 7%, France is down 7%, Finland and the Netherlands are down about 5%.

While the article is criticizing the Euro, Denmark and Sweden have also seen essentially zero per capita growth since 2007. The UK is down 20% over that time.

Outside that group and the Euro, you've got Romania up 30%, Poland up around 23%, Czech up 11% and Russia up 18%. I've excluded Norway, just because their figures swing wildly with oil.

There's definitely a sustained, serious growth problem in most of the Eurozone, however the baltics are doing quite well. The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Germany and Austria are starting from quite high per capita figures, it's not a trivial task to keep pushing those higher.

The real issue isn't growth generally, it's that the next slide backwards in terms of recession, is going to badly damage the bunch that hasn't held their ground or seen enough recovery yet: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece. I'm not sure how the Euro survives if those sink lower in a recession and see another lost decade. Which would then actually be a lost two decades - a 1/3 to 1/2 real contraction for all of them, inflation adjusted over time. Losing that much of your purchasing power over 20 years is brutal, people won't sit idly by and absorb that forever, they'll rebel against the institutions.

France has pretty considerable exports, equivalent to nearly 20% of their GDP (the US is closer to 11% by comparison). If I'm them, I'd be seriously contemplating that I'd be better off controlling my own currency, so as to undercut the Germany export juggernaut rather than suffer from a currency that is too expensive (while simultaneously being artificially cheap for the German economy, spurring their exports and trade imbalance). Spain, Italy, Portual and Greece are all similarly suffering from a Euro that is too expensive for their situations (to varying degrees) and is harming their export potential.
Most young devs use a mac. And from what I understand Firefox is slow on macOS.
Costly signaling.
You are correct that companies' direct incentive is to optimize their ratings.

Don't you think that's correlated with improving actual employee experiences, though? I agree they're not the same thing. But if they spend HR effort to improve the ratings, that means they're looking at the feedback, and presumably they will try to address some or part of it where possible.

Essentially, the fact that people optimize metrics doesn't mean that the whole process is hopeless. Anyone who has built metrics systems will agree that you can rarely measure the exact thing you're looking for -- the ideal is to get as close as you can.
the precautionary principle is not a "noble point."

we don't know what we are doing. we have repeatedly - over and over - done things that do grievous damage, some of which (the dumping of megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere) are ongoing and some of which (Diethylstilbestrol, for example) did insane and long-lasting harm to generations of human beings.
It's tempting to fall into the trap of feeling smug that you've made the right decision so no action should be taken against a company abusing their market position in a manner that's harmful to the public. Try to resist that temptation, like I have. I too have been using Firefox this entire time, but I don't let that tempt me into apathy towards the state of the industry.

You may as well question the purpose of the FDA regulating slaughterhouses since vegetarians have been found a way to avoid doing business with them. That's a nonsense position. A vegetarian should demand that the FDA regulate the meat industry, and a firefox user should demand regulation for corporations they've avoided.
If uBlock stops working... I stop using Chrome. Simple as that.
There's still a feature of Chrome that keeps me from switching - Chrome will show a lot more tabs open. I tend to leave a lot of inactive tabs to come back to later, but that means I need to see them all.
I was laughing as well, software people (the HN and open source community in particular) are so stupidly opinionated sometimes, it makes me just cringe whenever its impossible to ignore their dribble.

There really is no excuse not to use HTTPS in 2019, period.
Also good to start with a fresh profile[1], lots of times you may have some cruft built up in an old profile.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
I got 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000 on my command line after running those commands.
Make Robot Motions Natural
How do you arrive at 120? I guess that makes sense if the biggest packages is within 92709x (1.1^120) the size of the smallest. But that doesn't seem like enough range, just eyeballing it. If you have a 1kB package at the low end, I'd be surprised if Debian didn't have a package bigger than 92 MB.

Presenting it as 120 from 43,000 is a bit of an oversimplification, because the average isn't meaningful. The long tail is going to have the worst privacy and the small packages will (probably) have the most.

A scheme like this might be workable but requires being really careful about the security properties you're claiming (i.e., of those 120, probably half are unique, large packages). And obviously, this scheme requires up to 10% additional bandwidth, in the case of the chosen 10% threshold. If buckets change over time, packages moving between buckets may leak a lot of information.
But I mean, if their kids found spouses in the religious group, and had families, I find it difficult to classify them as socially stunted. Perhaps they would be socially stunted in mainstream culture, but one is forced to think they did just fine in their own.
The word 'allocate' presupposes a fixed pie that we're expected to split in a zero-sum game. That works for redistributing the fraction of wealth captured in taxes. But the parent's argument is about the process of accumulating wealth itself being zero-sum somehow.

Thinking "someone earned money which would have gone to me otherwise" is like thinking "someone got in shape and that physical fitness would have gone to me otherwise".
Wouldn't all of that be true for my island society too, as long as the population was stable?

Such a society would nonetheless face much difficult if the worker/retiree ratio changed from 100:0 to 20:80. That's true regardless of individual productivity level: case two is harder than case 1. Regardless of capital stock such as ports, rail lines, buildings, etc
LOL One of the phishing examples is a page hosted on Google AMP Cache.
Chrome is deeply integrated in ChromeOS devices (should be obvious from the naming), of which the Pixel Slate is what I own. A bunch of PWAs (arguably the future of android apps) also require Chrome.

Moreover I use Chrome to sync my Google account, including passwords (which I can't live without) and browsing history.
I recently set up pi-hole in a couple of hours on a raspberry pi I have at home. Works fairly well - it can't block as many things as ublock origin can, but it gets the job mostly done while still providing some sort of revenue to content creators.

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
That's fine; I've already phased google out of nearly every aspect of my personal life including what browser I use. Eat shit in hell forever, Evil Company.
Medium feels like it's dying to me. I used to end up there many times a week. Now I find myself there a couple times a month.
Recovering legal fees is not automatic just because you're innocent.
I don't think companies should ever get the benefit of the doubt. If they are doing something people think it's bad, they are bad until they have their defense. That's why big companies have PR people. People may have the benefit, but companies shouldn't.
The problems with implementation inheritance are quite a bit deeper than "ontology is overrated", though - even where ontologies are appropriate, it's still bad!

It's "sold" as enabling extensibility and code reuse, but the only feature it adds to good old-fashioned composition is 'open recursion' a.k.a. late binding, which inherently leads to the "fragile base class" problem-- making behavior of base-class implementations dependent on preserving complex and generally unspecified invariants in the derived classes - so it's basically never what you actually want!

Full-blown OOP (including implementation inheritance and polymorphism) doesn't work. It's a terrible idea that only ever became popular because we didn't quite grok its implications.
Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland
In my experience Firefox on Mac got a good amount faster in the last year.
Host Protein Mimics Viral Protein to Hinder Infection by Ebola Virus
People who feel that they have “nothing to hide” don’t quite understand the extent to which they’re being mined for personal data. Google offers all of this amazingly polished software for free so naive people like you will feed them your browsing history, email, location and search queries. They will then monetize that data by targeting ads to you, which generates over 80% of their revenue.

If you are ok with that and still think you have nothing to hide, ask yourself if you’d be ok with this trove of data ever being exposed publicly.

Ever googled something embarrassing? Perhaps a medical condition or symptom?
Sent a very personal email?
Visited a less than savory location, or lied to an employer about your whereabouts?

I’d be willing to bet most people have some data that could be weaponized for blackmail.

Surely many people (especially the ignorant) will find Google’s products and services “worth using” but privacy concerns are anything but overblown.
On the ground it's looking like the answer to that is protest. I'm sharing posts like these with as many as I can to show how negatively the sentiment towards us is becoming as a result. The next step is to protest.