skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox needs to be the browser OF something, something super simple: privacy, security, convenience, etc. "Reduce Your Online Annoyances" is a bit of a mouthful. Being the browser of "Support Us Or Google Will Own Everything" is likewise not compelling for the vast majority of users.

Firefox has the functionality, now it needs to cement its narrative.
Web Workers for 3D Physics
It's a service ffs.
A company can ban users from their platform for any reason, though.
In case someone is curious what it looks like with the new -> form:

switch (day) {
case MONDAY, FRIDAY, SUNDAY -> System.out.println(6);
case TUESDAY -> System.out.println(7);
case THURSDAY, SATURDAY -> System.out.println(8);
case WEDNESDAY -> System.out.println(9);
}
> It’s unfortunate that you forgot to mention that these indie oss developers are highly sought after for independent contract work or direct hire positions.

At a miniscule fraction of the value they created.

These people deserve to have so much money that they can simply work on open source for free, forever. I haven't seen anybody in that position yet.

This isn't even like a musician wherein some record company fronted capital, the companies benefiting from open source didn't front anything for these developers.
The topic and answers are on why it's unfortunate that Cloud Monopolies are reaping most of the wealth from OSS and why they're happy to keep the status quo which grows their monopolies bigger each passing year.

Never that there were no benefits - that was addressed in my initial statement. OSS does bring benefits to everyone using it where its made some products and services financially possible.

But it still stands that the majority of the wealth being created from OSS is going towards building Cloud Monopolies and a fraction of that wealth being used to finance their own proprietary and OSS efforts that will outspend and out compete Indie OSS efforts - the trend of which will go towards most people switching to use commercially-backed Cloud OSS software where it exists.
I work under a union (though not this one). Every comment here is almost exactly backwards from my experience. In particular:

- You don't have to be a union member to get nearly all the benefits of the union -- including the pay scale from its collective bargaining, access to legal representation, health insurance benefits, and being able to attend regular union meetings. Basically, the only thing a non-member can't do is vote. (I see on our worker list today that fewer than half of our workforce today are actually union members.)

- Legally, they can't even require members to pay dues, though I imagine everyone here does, because it's inexpensive, and benefits all workers, including yourself. That's why one would vote to unionize in the first place!

These rules can and almost certainly do differ according to your union, local, contract, and state and federal law.

Unless someone responding here has specific knowledge of OPEIU, Local 153, their Kickstarter contract, or New York labor law, I would not place any trust in it. Many of these answers sound more like anti-union FUD than facts from the Kickstarter United contract.
I think NetworkManager only exists because wpa supplicant is difficult to use. I loathe networkmanager.
Full asset cook on our (big) UE4 project can use up ~150GB of RAM
It’s Google, which is notorious for smothering virtually everything unrelated to search or ads in the crib, and especially when it’s something they made in-house. Add to that streaming games; problematic for the (by far) most popular two genres: huge multiplayer shooters, and sports. I see almost no chance of this succeeding long-term, and I’d put the odds of it going EOL within 5 years at over 80%.

These huge companies will keep throwing money at streaming because they see gold at the end of the rainbow, but I’ve seen no indication that they have a plan without giant question marks before the “profit” step. Look at YouTube, something Google acquired in 2006, is dominant in its space, and still doesn’t make them money. Yet somehow games, which are more finicky and reliant on universally good internet connections is going to work for them?

This is trend-chasing, once again without any real new ideas to overcome existing challenges.
GCP uses Nvidia but Stadia uses AMD GPUs so they're not sharing hardware.
It's astonising to see what lengths people will go to in order to dispute something they simply don't comprehend because of pre-existing bias.

It's a bit like trying to explain what being in love is like or what you feel when your child is born and he grabs your finger for the first time. You could just as easily dismiss those two, despite the fact that they are some of the most beautiful life experiences for any human.

It doesn't really matter if one writes a sentence or a novel about a psychedelic experience, you won't be that much closer to understanding it either way.
I think this is an area where we will violently agree. There is a 'dead zone' of profitable, small companies that could exist but don't because of the pathologies of VC funding.
“Firefox, the browser without shitware”?
>and lower quality (thanks to unions).

You sure it's the unions and not the fact that private schools get to cream-skim children from families with means who want to prioritize their education rather than being forced to take all comers?
Good point - I guess I've just been working on trying to be employable, so trying to do something purely enjoyable never occurred to me, honestly. Are there any languages or stacks you find particularly enjoyable to use?
When you're talking to someone on Skype and you notice the other person has stopped moving, you stop talking.

They may already be doing something similar (halt rendering on congestion) but when this kind of lag happened to me it felt like the rendering had continued without pause on their end.
Drinking on Hungary
According to this logic Russia should be more similar to US in results while India and China should be more distant. Do test results show that?
It might be inferred that the Police suspect this person knew of the attack or was in some way involved, and are using this route to prosecute and/or pressure the person.

That doesn't necessarily make it okay, but obviously a lot of Kiwi's have downloaded and shared and watched this video, but this is the only case I know of where someone was arrested for it.
> This article put the gender graph at the end and moved on without discussion

The deltas between genders are quite a bit smaller than those between nationalities, though!

I mean, sure, I guess you could trigger the proverbial SJWs by pointing out the fact that a US woman is about a third of a standard deviation worse than her male classmates. But it's hard to draw firm conclusions about gender when Chinese and Indian men are at an even larger handicap relative to her.

I mean, I gotta flip this around here: why do you feel like we should be focusing on a small subsignal when the data supports a clearer, more defensible, and more hypothesis-rich conclusion about something else?
If you pick a bunch of standalone libraries you can be fairly confident they're not going to interfere with each other - which version of your web templating engine you use has nothing to do with which version of your ORM you use, and you can upgrade each independently. When they're both part of a big overarching framework it's more likely that a subtle interaction has slipped in and not been noticed.
This Resume Doesnot Exist
Agreed. Enthusiast gamers fret/obsess over a small difference in FPS, refresh rate and lag especially when it comes to competitive gaming. Until Google can deliver a service that is indistinguishable, it’s DOA in my view.
The most interesting new feature I think is the Shenandoah GC. The summary from [1]:

"Add a new garbage collection (GC) algorithm named Shenandoah which reduces GC pause times by doing evacuation work concurrently with the running Java threads. Pause times with Shenandoah are independent of heap size, meaning you will have the same consistent pause times whether your heap is 200 MB or 200 GB."

The original algorithm was published in 2016 [2]. It consists of 4 phases: initial marking, concurrent marking, final marking, and concurrent compaction.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189

[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2972210
China has a population (and thus potential audience) more than 20 times bigger than France; I think it's a weak argument to claim the two economies would do similarly without further evidence. Similarly, I have trouble believing the talent is there, having talked to entrepreneurs in France and comparing my experiences there and in Silicon Valley.

We might then think to look at companies like VK in Russia, but VK is order of magnitudes away from the success of Tencent.
I should add that ratings don't directly correspond, but there is some joint process
>It's going to end badly, unlike factories where a walkout would but a strain on production. A walkout necessarily doesn't put a strain on tech.

Certain types of work-to-rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule) would bring most tech companies to their knees in a matter of minutes. It wouldn't just gum up the works as it would in industry, it could literally put systems into failure states.
> I'm more interested in something tangible and (hopefully) universifiable than "delete Facebook".

I am as well, believe me. I just don't think any are available, at least at the moment.
They run ads on the front page and install addons remotely into their users' computers. They are everything but "without shitware".
> This is a bit like being forced to buy health insurance and complaining when you don't get ill.

You're right, it is a bit like that. And similarly, many people don't want to be forced to buy health insurance. Especially if they don't think they'll get sick.
120-MPH Twike 5 adds exercise to even the fastest commute
Maybe you should have more candid discussions about where you want to be with whoever it is you report to...

I think the first step would be making sure you know what you want, they know what you want, and everyone is on the same page to get there.

I mean, are you okay just being another engineer or do you want to a key technical leader as the organization grows? Those can be two very different roles.
Oh, that is definitely not true.

Internal OS code was ‘tweaked’ to cause problems for certain 3rd party applications.

[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#Competition_from_Micros...

Taken from child reply.
The GPUs are custom for Google.
Reminds me of Kotlin's "when" statement
That 5% was on top of the fees to the payment processor.

When I went to Patrecon and asked Conte "so what happens if the VC decides it wants a return on its investment" and I think the tl;dr of his reply was "our VC is a bunch of wonderful supporters of the arts who are perfectly fine with not making big bucks off us". I felt like he was blowing sunshine up my ass then and I kinda feel like that even more now.

I wonder what's going on with Kickstarter, Drip, and KS's handing Drip off to XOXO. I would be a lot more comfortable using a membership site that's run by a Public Benefit Corporation instead of a corporation that's got VC to pay back.
Damn, Elm looks really interesting, I'll be sure to give that a go - the fact it generates to pure JavaScript too seems cool, thanks
That's not at all how the film industry's unions formed or any of its history, and blackballing a statistically small number of writers was wrong, but completely unrelated to what we're talking about...
No, it's not like that at all. You are legally allowed to opt out of paying union dues.
> The censor operates independently under strict legislation and decisions can (I believe based on memory of previous instances) be challenged in court

Meaningless political theater. This is like trying to divorce the king in a country with lese majeste. If you cannot know what's in the video, how could you possibly ask for it in court, without admitting that you illegally watched the video?

The best word to describe New Zealand right now is Kafka-esque.
Been a few posts about the foreign legion here recently. Are people thinking about alternatives to sitting at a desk? It seems like the most extreme counter.
Labor movement != film industry union movement. A lot of the issues other labor movements experienced simply didn't happen nearly to the extent in film.
IIRC the content is illegal in New Zealand - remember reading a mention of it's possession being banned due to the video being objectionable content or something
There's no line after, there will only ever be the 3 multi-billion dollar cloud monopolies at the end of the food chain, the toll booth collecting rent for hosting others OSS efforts.
I dunno, I was thinking about making a bot that could beat Hyperdimension Neptunia...
I stand corrected. I stopped reading after that statement, while I should have read further. Thank you for correcting me.
Plenty of CRUD like apps can be done as mobile web sites.
Everything from mandatory trainings, registration to insurance requirements.

People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars on their homes. It's the single largest transaction of most people's lives. I certainly hope the individuals hired to negotiate and manage these transactions are trained and insured...
I wouldn't say they treat you like an adult if they reject unions. They pay you well and treat you with politeness because they understand the value they can extract from you. That is much different than a unionized environment where you as an employee have a much more real kind of safety that goes beyond the good will of people in management.
There's an awful lot of less-critical stuff that users have tracked down themselves. A few random highlights:

- The mobile and desktop sites are completely separate products with vastly different behavior. Some privacy features (relevant to both) can only be accessed on one, some on the other. Tags are rendered in all-lowercase on mobile, but as written on desktop. Block quotes on desktop render as enlarged-font cursive on mobile, for some awful reason.

- Tumblr support(s/ed) font coloring, with no documentation of that fact. You enable it by using the HTML editor and picking among color tags with Friends-themed names like "Monica Pizazz Orange". Oh, and the preview feature won't honor the tags, but actually posting will.

- NSFW content is flagged even in drafts, but if that content is reviewed and approved, it's automatically posted publicly, not returned to drafts where it started.

- Tumblr's desktop sign up page use(s/d) semi-random images from the site as backgrounds. Yes, they did serve cartoon porn to people trying to make accounts.

- Certain posts were impossible to view. Tumblr accounts can have their own themed pages, or simply be popup sidebars over the main news feed. Tumblr "read more" content hiders took users from the news feed to the poster's account - if that account was in popup format, a readmore opened from the wrong location would simply force a circular redirect.

- All Tumblr links are actually pushed through a site-specific forwarding system to track users. As a result, Twitter and many other sites are inaccessible because they view all link clicks as bot traffic from a "single source".
There needs to be a complete overhaul of "how i got here, back/forward, where i want to go, things i want to read, things i want to flip between, things i want cached so when i click they dont load, i want to purge the tab from my current workspace, i want to purge this site from the history."

Navigation (forward/back), history, tabs, bookmarks et all are all trying to do various forms of the same thing, and their overall relationship to each other is fundamentally broken, because each individual component is too rigidly defined and isolated.

I should be able to click between a couple buttons to see how tabs are 1) related to each other from a time/clicked/navigation history perspective 2) workspace perspective 3) topic perspective
"A lot" is not nearly as many as there are competent programmers who want to break into the games industry.

The concept is similar, the volume of people is vastly different, however.
The whining about cloud vendors making money off OSS is sour grapes, plain and simple.

OSS exists in the spectrum of a gift economy. Once you give it away, you don't get to expect something in return, or expect them to use it in a particular way. You gifted it away. In fact, the original OSS definition explicitly stated you could not discriminate against fields of endeavor. But I guess envy is stronger than idealism.
That's worse because you lose the ability to "tree-shake".
It would go back to importing all of Underscore on a CDN versus bundling the few functions you need into the main bundle.
They specifically said they are looking into making the client browser/platform-agnostic, which they'll have to do anyway if they want it on iOS since you aren't allowed to run anything but the Safari engine for web browsers (of course, they could build a native client).
The synthesis of plants with electronic components -- a plant singularity? -- would be very interesting. Any current research or developments in this area? Also, genetically modified plants to grow into specific structures would be very interesting too.
We're not talking about legal compulsion - we're talking about doing what's right.

In the grand scheme of things, the murder of 49 people is objectively worse than the rape of a single child.

Facebook shouldn't have a problem getting rid of people who upload this, as anyone who would do so is not the kind of person that Facebook should want as users.

But at the end of the day, Facebook only cares about money.
Glitch in new Presto app can shut down systems, Toronto man warns
Why the College Degree Is a Signal – and Why That Should Worry You
Do you have any pointers as to where one might learn more about the topics you mentioned? I'd be interested in reading more about #5 in particular
> It’s Google, which is notorious for smothering virtually everything unrelated to search or ads in the crib.

It's apparently deeply tied to YouTube, and particularly to help provide an onramp for more (often ad-opportunity-generating) gaming content on YouTube a service that is both an ad-platform and the venue for at least two distinct revenue generating premium services (the older of which is ad free) that Google has not strangled in the crib.
So you'll pay 'fees' instead of 'dues'. Pretty meaningless difference isn't it?
or using the switch as an expression

System.out.println(switch(day) {
case MONDAY, FRIDAY, SUNDAY -> 6;
case TUESDAY -> 7;
case THURSDAY, SATURDAY -> 8;
case WEDNESDAY -> 9;
});
Opera's tab groups and save browsing sessions made the interface a lot more convenient for me... I tend towards the high end of open tabs.
Phone spam turned our favorite devices against us
This story is making round a lot. I usually file it in the urban legends folder.
...what else is there that a laborer can bring to the table other than their own labor?

It's as if we're rediscovering the stated purpose of unions, right here in this thread! The union can negotiate with everyone's labor, not just that of an individual worker.
PGHero is great, and as someone who's reported (minor) issues and made feature requests on the issue tracker, the author is quite open to improvements too.
I share the conclusion of the other statically typed JVM languages (Scala, Kotlin): checked exceptions are bad.
Do you host your own k8s for multi-cloud? Rancher?
#GoFundMy Benefits
Well that's a recipe for success!
I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".
Isn't consuming human breastmilk and being vegan/animal-free a contradiction?

Thanks for sharing & best wishes for your family's health. I hope you have allowed for proper vaccinations.
A lot of computer-related words in Russian are borrowed with small modifications from English (or from where English took them). Nobody says "electronnaya vychislitel'naya mashina" anymore, they say "computer". Same for file, register, class, object, compiler (kompilyator), algorithm... It happens that tutorials for some computer-related subjects - especially some niche ones - are available only in English. It sometimes help that programming languages use English language base for keywords, so there is less confusion with Russian words.
Can We Conserve Endangered Parrots by Keeping Them in Cities?
So basically the same issues as onlive then? I remember thinking that it was pretty good for a while. Then I tried the same game on a decent PC immediately after using the service.

It was night and day, both in terms of latency and graphics quality. I don't have high hopes for this service.
Back in the Symbian and J2ME store days, there was actual support to talk to.
My friend was a temporary part time cheese monger at a QFC (Kroger). He had no prior cheese mongering experience and was trained over the course of a few months. He could have taken any part-time job but we lived close to a QFC and they had a cheese monger opening, which sounded interesting to him, as far as part time jobs go. If they spontaneously laid him off, he would have had little trouble finding another part-time job opening elsewhere, but within driving distance instead of walking distance. As I said elsewhere in the thread, he was not receiving benefits because he did not work there long enough to do so. When you put all of these things together, and factor in the costs of paycheckly union dues and the up front "union join" fee, the union did more for its own existence than it did for him by taking money from his minimum-wage paycheck.

I posted a link elsewhere in the thread but apparently the SCOTUS has ruled that mandatory union membership and/or fee paying is not constitutional, so perhaps the situation has improved for temporary, part-time employees of WA state QFCs, but at the time it was pretty shocking to see my friend lose hundreds of dollars to a union that did nothing for him at all.
Where did you get that idea? That is so very far from true about either Ford or the 40-hour-week.

Are you of the opinion that more than a century of labor fighting for reasonable working hours and conditions meant nothing, or are you just wanting to give Ford all the credit, despite him drawing on decades of increased movement toward an 8-hour workday before he ever decided to try it as a company policy?
I like the experiment Chrome is running with "switch to tab" [0]. For most content, I would say it's probably faster to find the content again than search for it in a hay of tabs. I also like extensions like SimpleUndoClose [1] which let you search your recently closed tabs. This way, use my closed tabs as a way of "storing" tabs I may want to access in the near future again, rather than keeping them open.

I would definitely love to see more experimentation around this area.

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/07/24/chrome-experimentin...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simpleundoclose/em...
Yes. Smaller inter connected sustainable cities with self governance and cooperative strategies to share commons and resources
Unions are not just about wages. They give you an advocate in cases where you would otherwise be on your own.
It's a first-person video of someone slaughtering dozens of unarmed civilians for fun, and it was streamed live.

There is no other video like this one in the world. There's plenty of gory videos out there, but this one crosses a line nothing else I have ever seen has.
> at least in the good times

Exactly.
At this point it's hard to quantify the likelihood of being ruined by Google arbitrarily banning you, but at some point that needs to factor into the calculation just like an SLA or major disaster insurance. If there's a 0.01% chance you'll get screwed by Google, but the service is 10% better/cheaper, maybe that's a worthwhile risk? But the numbers are not moving in the right direction.