skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Poland has one of the highest percentages of ad blocking users in the world.

Historically it was also a bastion of Firefox - in pre-Chrome days it has had >50% market penetration, and Opera was also widely popular compared to other countries, AFAIR peaking at ~15% (ironically, even when it had a paid and ad-supported versions, many users were using the ad-supported Opera). Even now Firefox has 15% market share in Poland vs ~5% globally. I don't know if it's related or has a common cause, but this just higlights that some local markets can be very specific.

Edit:
January stats for desktop browsers: Chrome 50.52%, Firefox 31.02%, Opera 7.30%, Edge 4.66%, IE 4.15%

Overall stats (incl. mobile devices): Mobile Chrome 33.69%, Desktop Chrome 26.16%, Firefox 14.94%, Safari Mobile 5.80%, Samsung Browser 4.87%
I'm a big fan of making this transparent, but "every location visited" is inaccurate clickbait. The article would be more useful if it explored how the selection of locations was performed.
Plans rarely survive contact with reality. Target KPIs are just that. They are a planning-estimating-organizing tool.

And KPIs are actually benchmark indicators [hence the name], not explicit targets. Sure, you can try to make goals, even have certain contractual rights or obligations pegged to them, and CEOs can even communicate these to employees, but demanding to meet those goals, to place these goals above personal well-being is a very short sighted strategy.
I would be very surprised if VS Code isn't replaced in five to ten years. Simply because people get tired of editors and want the next thing to be different, not necessarily better.
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He must have changed since then. He sees the effects of climate change quantitatively and worries a lot about them. I've discussed this with him several times. At this point he's extremely tired of writing quantitative facts and seeing the world basically ignore the magnitude of the challenge of the energy transformation we're up against. He's skeptical that we'll be able to get our act together for the thing we need. Here are some of my shorthand notes from last time I spoke with him. It's clear that he believes in climate change.

We've detached ourselves totally from the material world. Everyone is
a money massager or investment banker. But point is that everything
has been made by someone somewhere. Primary iron (electric arc
furnace, in US is recycled) 1 billion tonnes of coke per year to make
primary iron in China. 1.6 B tonnes of steel. Cement: 4.2 B tonnes/year
with the worst possible fuel. 300 M t plastics. And ammonia.
Without these there are no roads and buildings and metal. These
are fundamental pillars of civilization that have no non-fossil
sources. Carnegie melon made 5 g of iron by reducing with hydrogen.
So how do you replace 4 pillars of civilization in scale with something
non-carbon? DR Congo have lots of hydro. There could be a lot of
hydro building there. India has some coal, they will burn all of it.
Indian coal is low quality. Until at least 2047 coal will be
primary source of India energy. You don't want to think about
future of energy in Africa. If you have 0.5 Billion in Nigeria.
If you want sleepless nights, think about Nigeria. Cleave it
any way and it will have half a billion. No reliable electricity in the capital. To answer your question he has no idea, it's a nightmare. Lots of cleavages.
One big river is drying out. Sunshine isn't going to carry the
civilization.
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Meditations gave me nothing that I didn't get from reading a few of Aurelius' quotes. One of those books that you expect to be great and it disappoints.

The problem with stoicism is the same problem as the problems with Buddhism's eight-fold path; avoiding suffering is not living to the fullest. If that's your philosophy, what's the point of being alive?

Stoicism/Buddhism works well in situations for which it was designed by Siddhartha - enduring your crappy slave existence. It makes sense to learn not to feel when all you feel is disappointment and lack of control. A bit defeatist, really. Enduring, while valuable, is not being proactive.

It's effective, but it's no way to live long term.
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Sure, but that's one city out of thousands. Revolut is an awesome card for travelling, comissionless exchanges at the interbank rate and is available throughout europe, and it's winning there. Where it counts.
I guess the point is you just can't defeat life. Just like in the Rocky movies, life will hit you eventually. It's easy to forget that while we are young and dreaming of being the next billionaire, but it's better to be prepared. You can be a Stoic and still achieve things, as long as you accept that you are not entitled to any achievements.
Open Letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos
I didn't know that thanks.

I wonder how many folks using w3schools.com really know who w3.org really is ;)
Australia's hottest summer beats previous record by 'large margin'
Is that weird? I’ve opened savings accounts from traditional banks that way
That's ridiculous and it's not a stretch to take what you're saying and turn it into:

"People, by proxy, are agents of the government. Anything a person collects and saves can come to be held by the government"

While the government can strong-arm entities (fictitious or natural), it doesn't make its victims "agents".
“Kubernetes-Ize Your Java Application”
Does a blade server with hot swappable blades implement Hot KARL?
> but in that case you shouldn't be using their OS. To borrow a phrase: They have root. If you don't trust them then you don't trust your PC.

Is this really an option? I'd posit that even many hardcore Linux folk keep a Windows partition, VM, or secondary PC around.
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It depends: if they tried to pull this off in Europe, they would face trouble as it's illegal to exploit people whether they agree to it or not.
Go pro:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf
Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”
> I can't think of any reason on why it would be more difficult to optimise.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

The main reason a language like SML or Haskell is difficult to optimize is because it is incredibly difficult to canonicalize for the purpose of making peephole optimizations and abstract interpretation effective.
https://sunfishcode.github.io/blog/2018/10/22/Canonicalizati...
But...unless the government is intervening, isn't this just capitalism at work?
Top comment on the blog post : “I hope your KPI isn't tied to effectively running the company because I'd say your performance rating is "significantly below expectations" and we both know what that means.“

Let’s see if the PR damage people delete it.

VCs should observe this kind of behavior as a serious risk to company morale and productivity. In the modern age of social activists, we really can’t have another Larry Ollisen escape through extortion of their employees. This issue needs to be exposed and put up as an example: your company’s most important asset are the people. Treat them professionally and with respect or you’re doomed to die. We are neither in a 80’s regimented business era nor this is a military organization.

There are times when social media does good - exposing deep habitual issues of extortion and exploitation. I don’t know how many other startups have this kind of toxic environment. It’s legal but shouldn’t be ok and should be met with the decline and demise of the company.
Not unlikely, if we are talking about creating a system that should still be useful/useable in at least 100 years.
At least in Europe using Win10 as an attorney (or physician for that matter) may bring you into hot waters.
I don't believe users will lose this arms race. I don't have hard data, but from what I observe in various circles is that the Zeitgeist is that the user/consumer attention is valuable, content is cheap, so put up barriers and the user will bounce

The sad part is that this commoditization of content ends up affecting the quality content, that will probably end up becoming a niche market. Charge per content and the user will bounce, charge per month and you have to be the biggest because of network effects (try recommending a series from Amazon Prime to someone who subscribes to Netflix)

There is a trend to use ads disguised as content ("People are using this secret trick to earn mad $$ in [oddly specific location, close to you]"), or intertwined with content that is yet immune to ad blocking(like ads in the middle of youtube videos/podcasts), but that has a higher production and negotiation cost, it will probably not be a market as big as ad networks.

EDIT: Just remembered about ads on smartphone apps which are a viable option due to the lack of user control over hardware and software. There are some solutions, but these are much harder than installing a browser extension and thus not as widely adopted.
I'm not judging if the author did something right or wrong, but that he got "ridiculed" for doing something his coworkers judged wrong, and that he insults them back.
I had not heard that term, but oh my, wouldn't it be hilarious if some congress critters tried to get that written up as an actual law?
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"Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn's wild rise"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...

CEO Nikolay Storonsky gave an interview to Business Insider where he said Revolut’s philosophy was to “get shit done”, a slogan that is emblazoned on the company's London office walls in bright neon lights. In an echo to what was going on in these calls, Storonsky would go on to say in the interview that the company attracted people that want to grow and “growing is always through pain”.

Sources say at least one former head of HR resigned after failing to convince Storonsky that the company had to change its dogmatic approach to performance targets. In the last two years a total of three different people have headed the HR department, the last one leaving two months before Revolut's use of the controversial home task was revealed. At the time of writing, Revolut has more than 200 vacancies listed on its website.
And you know, for a car/technology company I find it odd they don't do any sort of active noise cancellation. Especially when they pin themselves on making luxury electric cars.
A common example undertaken in research studies uses this foot-in-the-door technique: two groups are asked to place a large, very unsightly sign in their front yard reading "Drive Carefully". The members of one group have previously been approached to put a small sign in their front window reading "Be a Safe Driver", and almost all agreed. In one study, in response to the "Drive Carefully" request 76 percent of those who were initially asked to display the small sign complied, in comparison with only 17 percent of those in the other group not exposed to the earlier, less onerous, request.
Bill mentions it at the 15 minute mark [1]. He says he's the biggest funder of various carbon capture technologies, liquids, solids, you name it. He then explains that it's 2 orders of magnitude non-economic and will have to be 10x the size of the current fossil industry to succeed at the rate people are saying is needed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EB1zsxW0k&t=900s
I’ve been windows-free for 10 years. It’s really not so hard if you use a common distro like Ubuntu. Yes there are occasional glitches but, I’ve had to install windows 8 for my mom recently, and windows update was broken out of the box...
That's not a war, that's one battle for one city.
"Income was weighed down by decreases in dividend, farm proprietors’ and interest income. Wages increased 0.3 percent in January after rising 0.5 percent in December."

I have no education in economics, but does this imply that it is becoming less lucrative to invest money? (Also, later in the article, it says that purchasing dropped sharply in December. How is it that wages are growing, job market is hungry for more labor, but consuming is dropping?)
> The only reason their outbound prices are so high is to keep people from getting out in a cost effective manner.

This doesn't make any sense. Getting out is a one time operation, vs paying a higher recurring fee.
Look, if you have a totally radical reanalysis of English syntax according to which "is...to" can function as some kind of discontinuous inflectional affix, I wish you luck developing that.

It's clearly thousands of miles away from being a generally accepted analysis of English syntax. So unless you've written up your analysis in detail somewhere, there's not much further to discuss.
You think the people this slack message was aimed at are getting stock? Sorry but that's not the case at all.
The paper describing these dies might help then:

http://www2.oberlin.edu/math/faculty/bosch/nbd.pdf Bosch, Robert; Fathauer, Robert, Segerman, Henry - Numerically Balanced Dice (2016)

(btw., here's the about page for The Die Lab: https://www.mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/DiceDesign.html)

More various stuff on fair dice:

On fair but irregular plyhedral dice:

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/fairdice.pd... Diaconis, Persi; Keller, Joseph B. - Fair Dice (1989)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/46684/fair-but-irregular-...

https://pp.bme.hu/ar/article/download/7607/6570/ - Várkonyi, Péter L. - The Secret of Gambling with Irregular Dice: Estimating the Face Statistics of Polyhedra (2014)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110925191300/http://blog.eqnet...

Note: The link to http://maths.dur.ac.uk:80/~dma0cvj/mathphys/supplements/supp... in the comments there is broken and the archived version doesn't have the images, but the PDF copy survives in the archive. (One can find the other PDFs from that page here, by filtering: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~dm...)

"Polyisohedral" dices:
* http://loki3.com/poly/polyisohedra.html
* http://loki3.com/poly/fair-dice.html

http://www.mathpuzzle.com/MAA/37-Fair%20Dice/mathgames_05_16...

https://web.archive.org/web/20050602020925/http://www.geocit...

https://savevsdragon.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-history-of-p...

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.03... How random is dice tossing?
Do you know how your brain recognizes objects in images? Not superficially, but truly understand how it works at a deep fundamental level?

I'll wait.

Until then, when it comes to the state of the art in things like reading license plates, it's the old algorithmic approaches (like described in the article) that result in convoluted, brittle, easily broken approaches - far closer to the "convoluted web 3.0 frameworks and Babel-esque dependency structures" you seem to despise.

DL may not be fundamentally understandable (yet), but it works a hell of a lot better than stringing together image processing algorithms.
Anyone who uses Apple Maps occassionally knows that "Significant Locations" have been there forever.
If you eat what our ancestors ate, then you don't need to brush your teeth.[1]

[1] https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/the-inv...
I can give you a link to download my build if you want (which is a pristine unofficial build with Android security patches till February 5, 2019), but in the end, it depends on whether you'll trust a binary build from some random person: https://mukund.org/tmp/lineage-15.1-20190214-UNOFFICIAL-whyr...

It is neither difficult nor very slow to build it from source, but it can do with a fast internet link (~fiber speeds) as the build process initially clones from several git repositories (but later syncs just fetch the changes which is very fast). Unfortunately not everyone has access to fiber.

With fiber, the clone and build ought to complete in about a day depending on your machine's performance. I recommend that you build your own (let the initial build run in the background even if it takes more than a day to finish). If you do it once and use the built OS, you'll not search again.
What are the desktop GUI environments or window managers available on OpenBSD that are comparable to those on Linux? I see a mention of running X as a user, but nothing more.

What about desktop hardware support? Does it have working drivers for different WiFi chipsets, video cards, trackpad, etc. (referring only to x86 based systems)?
I remember the NSA refusing to send a core file for us to debug a FrameMaker crash they ran into, since they knew that their document could be extracted from it. Perhaps this is the sense in which the .doc files are being sent; in the trivial case, they may simply be mapped into memory, which is then part of the dump that gets sent.
Good thing there's an "inactive exhaust" function.
Wages up, investment income down?

This sounds like cause for average people to celebrate. Wonder why the headline is focused on the negative aspect...
Use DuckDuckGo and !mdn, e.g.:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!mdn+regexp
Does this also happen with Office on MacOS?
Latin has similar issues. Thankfully we have Whittaker's Words and the Perseus Word Study tool to help. I'm surprised that Latin is (apparently) better off than Finnish in this respect.
Yeah, unless the extension is used by a significant portion of the users, this a probably pushing numbers up a bit for networks.
Note that w3schools.com does not.
Yeah, real blessing for travelling it seems - for last 2 years, every time we travel somewhere, we meet somebody (young, from Europe) who has some issues withdrawing money/paying with Revolut. Wasting hours running around town finding which ATM/branch would work with some obscure semi-bank account.

It has its benefits, but travelling around the world currently doesn't seem like one.
This thread opened my eyes a bit... I assumed most people understood desert !== a sterile sand landscape.

Here's a photo I snapped from my backyard just now. This is the Sonoran Desert in Phoenix, but much of the southwest is like this. Not exactly a dead ecosystem.

https://i.imgur.com/fBkMHBA.jpg
I don’t see Stoicism as advocating avoidance of suffering or becoming numb to it, but rather being able to wisely take the suffering in context so as to avoid letting it irrationally overwhelm you.
I prefer w3schools. Their site is easier to search than MDN and I get the information I need more quickly. MDN is more valuable if I need to check browser support or figure out an edge case.

People who have a hate hardon for w3schools are the kind of people who will judge you for the kind of dish soap you use.

I'm certain w3schools will claim the domain in short order.
Revolut FYI has a 4.2 rating on Glassdoor.

One of the problems with Glassdoor is availability bias - it selects in the people who have been around at companies like this for a while and/or thrive in this kind of culture and selects out people who take one look at a company culture like this and leave within a week.
Also I wish I could just exclude any given site from my search results.

Google insists on having my information so they can "serve me content tailored to my wishes". Well, Google ... drop the w3schools already!
They don't have to stated it out blatantly.

Beside making other platform, what are other alternative though?
I think DuckDuckGo does this already
I bet the last two aren't mutually exclusive... (i'm not a UI expert either)
MAGA, not working?
Increasing cost was the thought, yes. I admit I'm not totally up-to-speed on what adblock and ublock do, but I was under the impression that they don't load the ads. So while you wouldn't see them, there's also no cost to serving them.

Edit: But are the advertisers really paying for those clicks? Reading through the thread, it seems like these get flagged as fraud pretty easily. So while there's still a cost to create/serve the ads, to the point of my question, it would seem they don't pay the websites for the clicks.
The operative word being ‘Google’.
Revolut is the only bank I know of that does free fx conversions, it's a huge feature and money saver for people that have bank accounts in different countries and currencies.
I'm okay with not running an ad blocker but what I really wish somebody would do is block the obnoxious clickbait "<insert your town here> guy in his thirties found this one weird way to make < insert the last thing you bought on Amazon>!!!" and it has a picture of some some heavily photoshopped model.
i use transferwise which i trust more to be around in 10 years and not doing anything idiotic with my money and bank account details

any company with roots/ties in the cryptocurrency scene is waving a giant red flag to users, as confirmed by the latest money laundering mess revolut is going through
Out of interest, do you feel so strongly that money laundering should be prevented that you are unwilling to do business with a company that might be not doing enough to prevent it?

If not, what is it that Revolut has done according to this article that makes you want to quit?
I disliked this book. Just go to the original classical sources, instead of this watered down derivative.

Reading this one felt to me like having a sequence of funny jokes explained pedantically, without ever getting to hear the original jokes.
I use Prolog in production. :-)

I know many people that do too and don't talk about it unless you move in the Prolog world.

Here's a stock broker using it https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/files/Elston_SecuritEase.pdf

Java Virtual Machine specifiction is verified using prolog ", implemented the Prolog verifier that formed the basis for the specification in both Java ME and Java SE." https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-0-pr...
Prolog code -> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-4.ht...

https://kylecordes.com/2010/the-prolog-story

IBM Watson was written in C++ and Prolog
Note I said "many", I know there are exceptions! It also largely depends on what you use your computer for. If you need even occasional access to Photoshop, for example, you're going to need Windows or macOS (or maybe iOS, I guess). GIMP might work sometimes, but not always.
Sounds like I'd prefer a way to get my IP designated as corporate... Mediacom, wanna help? (haha)
The difference is energy density. You can propel a large ship much faster on fossil fuels. This is why every Navy rapidly switched to coal and then oil and then to nuclear. For cargo, economies of scale in shipbuilding want big fast ships. And international commerce likes things to be delivered quickly. Sure you can go back to sails and solar, but it will be many orders of magnitude less powerful than fossil fuel or nuclear powered shipping.
Why would I want to celebrate someone else making less money?
That would be me if I wasn't married. In college, I'd do just like you did because I'm lazy and don't like eating out (waste of time and money). In high school, when my parents left town in my teens, I would often go an entire weekend without eating because I didn't want to bother even using the microwave and instead played video games or worked on projects.

Now I'm married with kids, and my wife loves food, so I eat regularly. When she left for a month to visit far away family, I reverted to my old self and ate one meal a day, if that. I just don't see food as being as important as other things, so I neglect it unless providing it for someone else (kids or wife).

And my wife is still surprised when I have no preference for a meal (I usually default to fried eggs or cereal, occasionally with a spinach smoothie when she's gone because they're cheap, easy, and reasonably healthy).
It's the HiRes 90k, so 16, IIRC. They bury the information pretty deep under lots of marketing talk about "virtual channels" and such.