skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's reading too much into it. They're ditching Edge/IE because they lost the browser wars. Switching to Firefox, who did worse than Edge/IE in that war doesn't make sense. You're just trading one loser for a worse loser.
>by 2021
Give operating authority to another person.. social media/PR type person.
As far as I am concerned, yes but who knows with scientists now a days. I feel like their all just flying by the seat of their pants.
The Human Cost of Higher Education's Adjunct Shift
I particularly liked the top comment on the article (not mine):

> In the early seventies, the sport fishing Mecca of choice turned from the warm southern states where fish grew all year long, to oddly, some of the finger lakes in upstate New York. Record size fish were being taken almost daily. A sportsfisherman’s dream from lakes that unbeknownst to them had died ten yeas earlier from acid rain. With no new fish being born, the bottom of the food chain had already collapsed. With no small fish left for anglers to catch and release, eventually only the largest were left. Within a few years, the collapse was finally evident, and brutal for anyone who invested in a fishing lodge industry in the region.
To a very close approximation, the only place I’ve ever seen a nuclear family with kids in New York is Trump Tower.
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In the US, legislation always goes to the highest bidder.

Keep that in mind when reading stories about the US government, and it all makes a lot more sense.
I think your comment has little to do with the fragmentation of the Linux kernel (which the GP was referring to), and more with the ecosystem around it.
Agreed. Setting up blacklists is just whack-a-mole. I'd be more interested in detection of actual fingerprinting techniques, such as system font enumeration using canvas, or WebGL GPU fingerprinting. It would be technically possible to detect the creation of WebGL or canvas contexts that aren't actually rendered in the layout and prevent data gathered from those contexts from being sent in any XHR payload. I'm sure that's a lot of work.

Maybe it would be better to find the worst offending JS APIs and demand a user consent step similar to webcam or notifications in order for the scripts to run at all.
I'm sure you're an adult and can make your own choices, so don't take what I said as meaning "Don't eat this!". Just an observation that fruits are delicious _because_ they are so high in sugar.

I have to avoid all fruits since I am on the keto diet. My mouth waters thinking about a cantaloupe drink, but if I drank even 4oz I'd be undoing a lot of work.

I wouldn't eat fruits if I needed fiber, for that I would just add some psyllium husk to a drink.
Well then it's not because of technology is it?
That guideline is based on the evidence of what happens when people don't follow it. That's the opposite of arbitrary. You're effectively calling the rule "no fires in a dry forest" arbitrary because it doesn't apply to all forests.

Uncivil comments about divisive topics lead to flamewars. Flamebait comments don't "disrupt groupthink";
they reinforce it, because what flamewars do is reinforce pre-existing opinions with jacked-up intensity. If you want to change other people's minds, you need to actually reach those people. Verbally tasing the other side makes them go rigid and think whatever they thought before, just more angrily.
That's a smart take. Even today when I'm learning something new I try to do as much physical typing as possible from the example because I feel like I learn it better.
Why am I being downvoted? Is my question not valid? Is there this much hate towards ethereum from the bitcoin community?
What you describe in your point number 3 is not for apps, but for kexts (Kernel Extensions). Upon installation they won't run by default, but the user is allowed to go to System Preferences > Security and give it permission to run.
When I was a bank teller I was paid $10/hour. This is a dream.

That said - the teller is an endangered position.
I wasn't downvoted, and surely Chinese tactics will evolve over time to match those of the Soviets, but the majority of the Chinese espionage cases that I've seen so far have involved ethnic Chinese.

For example, Walter Liew stealing the titanium dioxide formula (with help from paid off non-Chinese), or the engineering student in Chicago sending off recruiting profiles...all Chinese or Taiwanese.
Except that in certain areas (e.g. US domestic flights) most/all airlines reduce average flight speed on purpose to save fuel, knowing that no other airline will compete with them. This is precisely what a functioning Antitrust should fight.
Congratulations, that makes you a ML expert! Put that on your resume and rake in that sweet west-coast VC cash! :)
I'm from the south, lived all over in urban and rural areas. Urban areas were the most racist (seemingly out of fear in most instances) by far. It's not overt either; the passive-aggressive stuff is real. Rural area racists seemed to be just uneducated/full of bad info on the most part, but also more vocal. I've also encountered more racists in the northeast than anywhere else (maybe they think I am too because of my accent?; regularly approached to ask about my level of "southern pride")

I will say that the majority of racists I've actually met have been middle- to upper-class. I've always thought this was kinda weird.

I'm not an expert either, just sharing my experiences.
Nice! My Commodore PET had a tape cassette drive. It was SOO unreliable.
Can you name a few such protocols?

Your statement makes me very curious because as far as I'm aware, key distribution is the core problem of asymmetric cryptography. I can generate a private key and say I'm you, and there's nothing stopping me from doing that.

The only solution I'm aware of so far is DNSSec which starts from the operating system level.
I vehemently disagree on the too complex front. If there is any inability to X going on in the FAA it is because of a culture of continual budget cuts hamstringing the ability of the agency to acquire and keep talent.

The current incarnation of the FAA is a joke. This is not some bureaucratic paper pusher organization. This is the agency responsible for the overall architecture and requirements that historically made the American Aerospace industry a force to be reckoned with when they weren't being blindsided or hamstrung by excessive political pressure by industry.

My proof?

There is nothing complicated, about the trim system of a 737 MAX. I've sat down and done a bit of research, reverse engineered the basic mechanical components of the system, and I'm just some bloke who had a few hours to kill on the weekend.

It's a highly geared mechanical gear train, with a secondary set of electrical motors, connected to a jackscrew, which drives the horizontal stabilizers while feeding back electrical actuation information back to the pilot's via the mechanical gear train. At some point, they wired in extra electrical connections from whatever black box MCAS is implemented in into the command circuit for the electric trim motor, and called it a day.

There is nothing complicated there. It's a basic composition of simple machines. The complicated part is the implementation and logistics details, in addition to making sure at some point, all those pesky details are written down, all those integrated systems are tested/verified to be of sufficient quality, and that each component has an audit trail to be referenced should investigation be necessary.

All that extra information is required specifically because it has been found to lead to increased safety over time. The FAA's duty is to ensure at a minimum, every player is living up to and respecting that standard. Something the history of budget cuts and delegation of authority to manufacturers has very clearly jeopardized.

I don't like the FAA. I'll never even be able to take the physical pilot training to fly because of the draconian nature of their medical certification regulations, but I can't even argue that they are unjustified in terms of the catastrophic outcomes that are prevented by having them there.

It is possible to hold a manufacturer to standards via external impartial audit.

It is difficult to do so if you can't even support the billets for a set of Subject Matter Experts who don't need to resort to alternative revenue streams so they can concentrate on doing one thing and doing it well.

There just needs to be the realization that at some point there must be a figure in the relationship between operator and manufacturer with the capacity, nay, responsibility to stop something which has not met the minimum standards of airworthyness.

It ain't physics that's the problem, it's the people. Machines don't lie. Even when malfunctioning, they're telling the truth in as much as the physical principles they are subject to will allow.
95% of transaction data is fake. We have no idea what adoption actually looks like. [1] The bitcoin price is "based on a true story" in true Hollywood fashion. Its design makes it impossible to stop the rampant and obvious manipulation. The game is rigged. No amount of technical analysis or philosophy is going to help you predict the outcome of a rigged game.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/03/22/95-of-repor...
Had great times with this one and the "More Basic Computer Games" book.

My favorites were the Eliza clone, and ICBM, where you are trying to intercept an incoming ICBM with a anti-ballistic missle. My first use of trig functions, which really helped solidify the concepts to me. I also converted the 2-D version to 3-D (with altitude) for even more fun.

I was originally using a TRS-80 Color Computer, with a slightly different dialect of BASIC, so I was usually having to make modifications. Which also helped me learn programming.

Great, great times.
The responsibility put on tellers is pretty high as well. $10/hr is not enough.
Replacing an oppressive apparatus that is relying on proof of military/police power to establish trust in banking with some form of an algorithm that is relying on proof of work/energy may be energy saving at the end. Just compare how much police/military has to be maintained and related resources spent to the naked energy for mining/transactions.
I am not trying to diminishing this post, just want to point out that a great way to increase adoption would be to make a better and simpler-looking UI. A great deal of users prefer Chrome for this reason.
Oh man, Spec Ops is one of my top games, but I've only played it once. Same feeling as watching Requiem for a Dream--once is enough. It's difficult to recommend it to people without giving away the experience of walking in to it thinking "it's just another mideast shooter".
The problem with what you choose and how you weigh it is exactly why I listed more than one index. And btw: I did not skip over any index because it lists the US as number one, I only skipped indices that require registration to get the PDF and such. Literally NONE of the indices I found has the US as number one.
Having read these books I think there are two ways to look at it. On one hand, in Means of Ascent you see how LBJ became a congressman against terrific odds by sheer force of will, brains, and excellent advisors / supporters. On the other hand, you see that later in life he either takes fewer risks or is more complacent by the time of the 1960 presidential campaign. The democratic nomination was his to lose, and if he had pushed for it he would have gotten it, not Kennedy.

So if LBJ had lost that Senate race in 1948, which aspect of his character would dominate? What is so great about those books is how they reveal the complexity of an individual's character.
I appreciate it when my browser takes the position that it acts as the user's agent, and not the advertising network's agent.
bah, delete this - misleading, didn't realize was from 2015
If everyone was racist we'd be living in apartheid.
Frankly, there is no political coalition willing to push apartheid because a plurality of people aren't as racist as some people in this thread seem to think.
> The best option is, of course, to upgrade to the current JDK (12), and keep getting free updates forever.

That option wasn't mentioned by the updater. :)
> To be fair the article doesn't critique using 1990s (or earlier) hardware/software. It's merely a clickbait headline.

The "1990s home computers" power was simply an illustration of Boeing just trying to do the minimum work to move forward. Other examples that, while not bad per se, seem to indicate shortcuts:

> If one of two sensors malfunctioned, the system could struggle to know which was right. Airbus addressed this potential problem on some of its planes by installing three or more such sensors.

> Most new Boeing jets have electronic systems that take pilots through their preflight checklists, ensuring they don’t skip a step and potentially miss a malfunctioning part. On the Max, pilots still complete those checklists manually in a book.

> A second electronic system found on other Boeing jets also alerts pilots to unusual or hazardous situations during flight and lays out recommended steps to resolve them. On 737s, a light typically indicates the problem and pilots have to flip through their paper manuals to find next steps. [...] Boeing decided against adding it to the Max because it could have prompted regulators to require new pilot training, according to two former Boeing employees involved in the decision.

All of these things still get the job done, but they seem to indicate that Boeing simply wanted to do one last turn of the crank with the 737 design to compete with the A320neo, and may have rushed thing too much.
A large number (possibly all, but I didn't check) of those companies are global. Here are a few examples of how revenue breaks down for some (randomly chosen big) movies from some of the firms on the list.

AT&T owns Warner Bros, and makes things like Harry Potter. Picking one of the movies, I see that the US box office is only about 1/4 of the worldwide gross. [0]. Not to mention that AT&T is itself a global firm for upwards of a century.

Disney owns Marvel, which made Avengers Infinity War. A whopping 2/3 of that revenue came from outside the US [1].

Comcast owns Universal, which made Jurassic World. That movie had 61% of its revenue from outside the US [2].

CBS owns Paramount, which made Titanic. More than 2/3 of that revenue came from outside the US [3]. Of course, that was a massive movie - what about something like Shrek the 3rd? Interestingly, roughly 60% of that revenue came from outside the use as well [4]. Take a look at What Women Want, almost 20 years ago, and 1/2 of that revenue came from overseas [5].

Netflix is in over 190 countries, with more than 70 million subscribers outside the US. This is even more impressive when you realize that Netflix was US-only as recently as 2010 [6].

Obviously I could go on, but I think I made my point - US media companies dominate the globe for movies. I could also nitpick and note that they left off video games entirely, even though they are bigger than some of the companies on this list. But no matter how I slice it, it is not a local market, and hasn't been for years. Hence my strong disagreement with your position.

[0] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=harrypotter72.htm

[1] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel0518.htm

[2] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jurassicpark4.htm

[3] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=titanic.htm

[4] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shrek3.htm

[5] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=whatwomenwant.htm

[6] - https://hbr.org/2018/10/how-netflix-expanded-to-190-countrie...
Baudelaire, Maistre, and Original Sin
Why aren’t they “freedoms”? Increased financial security due to eliminating the possibility of medical bankruptcy increases an individuals’ options/choices in life, does it not?
Nearly all of the subway lines were built many decades ago when construction costs were much cheaper. It’s basically impossible for San Francisco to ever build such a comprehensive system at this point. Consider that they just spent $2 billion on a train station that doesn’t have any train tracks serving it and was only open for six weeks before it was closed because it was found to be structurally unsound. If they do ever build the train tracks (estimated to take ten years and cost $6 billion), they didn’t build enough platforms for the number of trains they want to run.
this is a really good, and short-ish book on housing generally, and lots of good content about the bay area

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten...

Long story short:

Richmond grew during WWII because it was a large ship building yard for the pacific fleet. Lots of white and black people moved to Richmond from the South and East during this time. After the war, the ship building stopped, and the workers needed to get new jobs. There was a large auto plant that opened up in Milpitas (near San Jose), that hired a lot of the workers, both black and white. There were a lot of "whites only" suburbs built near the Milpitas plant and a lot of the white ship workers moved there, bought houses, had short commutes to work, and built wealth through housing appreciation. As white folks left the Richmond community and black folks remained, the lack of political power held by black folks at the time (Jim Crow laws, discrimination, etc) lead to disinvestment in the richmond community (poorer schools, roads didn't get repaired, leading to lower property values etc). The disinvestment and community decline made it more difficult for the black community to move away, because they didn't have any housing wealth compared to neighboring communities (and many communities at the time were "white only"). Additionally, the black workers commuting to Milpitas to work spent 2.5 hrs/day commuting, while the white workers spent like 15 minutes, so thats 2 hours and 15 minutes every day for 25 years that white fathers could spend at home teaching their kids to read/focusing on their education, improving their house, building social connections/capital etc that the black fathers didn't have. That impact on the next generation compounds over time and makes a material impact on the potential of the next generation.
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delete them too :) /s

this is an increasing problem with facebook -- it became a de-facto internet, to some people it became pretty much indistinguishable. I understand desire for customer engagement and other things that platform like fb provides, but given the current state of social media and (alleged) increasing distrust[1] I think businesses will start looking for something else anyway. I'm hoping for the best.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/trust-facebook-has...
You hit the nail on the head.

This brings up a side philosophical discussion here about abstraction in general -- because two abstractions don't appear compatible at the surface (e.g., WiFi & Bluetooth) doesn't mean that if you go far enough down the abstraction hierarchy (i.e., RF) - that you can't get them to be.

This is true about Computers, Law, Language, Math, Systems, really any subject that deals in abstractions... find the "Lowest Common Denominator" and work from there... (Apples and Oranges, while different things, share the lowest common denominator of both being fruit, for example...)
If email is your only communication path to other employees and customers, then I would expect it to be quite a bit.

I scan through email maybe twice a day and might open an email if it looks to be directed at me. If something is urgent, people will bug me on the distract-o-slack or do a warm hand-off in person.
Opera Web Browser Is Reborn
If new developing is happening, as it was in this case, that doesn't really matter. This problem was amplified by maintaining old technology, not mitigated by it.
I was just reading the below when you posted this.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/middle-class-budget-S...

Sounds insane
Both of those will remain. Even if we fully adopted Bitcoin there's no world in which we tell the army and the police to go home and thank them for their service. They do other things. It's not particularly effective to tell ISIS "you can't hurt me -- I've got Bitcoins!" You can't double-spend this energy budget.
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Do you believe that the Linux Kernel is fragmented?

I do.
"The weather this spring in the midwest" is exactly the type of logical fallacy I'm talking about. Floods have always occurred, are they occurring more frequently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods

Here is Mississippi. This isn't "unprecedented" at all in spite of headlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_floods

What I'd like to see is a plot of frequency of extreme events. Not sensational news articles. That really might convince me. Because I might be wrong, but what I see now looks like hype.
Will People Born Today Have a Better Life Than Their Parents?

> Respondents in China are the most optimistic, and those in regions like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East are especially hopeful compared to those in Western Europe. This is especially notable in countries like France and Germany, which are the 4th and 7th largest economies in the world, respectively.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-pro...

The bottom fifteen countries in this question are all European countries + Turkey + North America + Australia.

(France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, UK, Canada, Turkey, Austria, US, Sweden, Australia, Denmark).

Yikes. Didn't realize so many people around here do think that things are going downhill.
Google Analytics is not free.

You are selling out the privacy of your users so you can save ten bucks on analytics.
> The licensing change was not given with nearly enough heads up for companies to properly assess their options and migrate to OpenJDK if they choose.

I don't know what enough would be. This has been discussed and explained for at least a year.

> it sure does seem like this was carefully planned to make it too difficult to move off the JDK that just got a lot more expensive to use.

What? The change was that as of JDK 11, Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are the same software[1]. The same software that used to contain both free and commercial features, and that had field of use restriction is now 100% free and 100% open. If this is making it harder, I don't know what making it easier would be. If free is more expensive, I don't know what less expensive is.

> My company is dropping Oracle JDK entirely and moving to Open JDK, and over time transitioning off of java wherever possible directly due of this change.

Good, because that's what Oracle has been asking you to do[2]. Oracle JDK is now the name given to the same software sold with a commercial support subscription. If you don't want to buy support, don't use the package that includes it.

> The general consensus of the Java leaders in our company is that this is a last ditch effort money grab by Oracle to leech money from Java, which was feared from the day that Sun was acquired.

I am a bit concerned that the Java leaders in your company think that a money grab is taking a commerical offering and making it free. Oracle has now made the JDK 100% open source and free for the first time ever. To fund its development, it is also selling support for those who want it.

[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/oracle-jdk-rele...

[2]: https://youtu.be/MFfTqUQxFTs?t=883
This will also attract more people to want to work for BoA, right now their average teller salary is $13/hr so this is probably an amazing improvement.

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/new-york-city-teller-salar...
Thank you, that is interesting, but what is the reason for providing these incentives?
You can try clion/idea plugin for xmake.

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-idea
We shouldn’t confuse trading for fiat money with on-chain transactions.
Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Crony Capitalism and Big Tech [video]