skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of Firefox's slowness is intentional on their part. They (as of last time I opened it) still refuse to silently auto-update the browser, and instead insist on telling you about it and making you watch.

So my experience opening Firefox always involves it saying "wait. Before we get to what you wanted to do, I'm going to spend a minute downloading a new version. OK, now I'm going to install it. Almost there. Now here are a bunch of browser tabs full of information about the things we changed. If you still want to do what you wanted to do after reading those, you can open a new tab. Because we filled the starting one with a message saying we updated Firefox, in case you hadn't noticed."

That means I never use Firefox unless I absolutely need to, to test that a new responsive layout works on them or after implementing a semi-cutting edge bit of the html spec. Which, of course means that they're guaranteed to have updated the thing at least once since I used it last, which means I get the whole two-minute sit and spin to load again.

Try the same usage pattern in chrome, and what happens is that Chrome loads up in zero point seven seconds and lets you get on with your life. It may then start updating in the background but you as the end user never need to hear about it.

It's nutty that Firefox still does this, 15 years after everybody else got it right.
Is it a fan-made document or extracted from the vendor (Nintendo)? If it's the former, it is surprising to see how they ended up with writing a chip reference manual-grade document.
Apparently, SCMP is owned by Alibaba. This could be interpreted as a conflict of interest to report anything about Alibaba founder in this context.
After so many decade finally heard someone read the same set of books and feel great about them.

Kuhn is never bad.
Mendhi Dress Collection for Bride and Groom
HTTPS: //Www.fitnesspiratas.es
I assert that there are a great numbers of CEOs who would absolutely love their employees to be working 996 without overtime pay, only most of them won't admit it directly. We cannot expect CEOs to be paragons of virtue - part of the reason they succeed because they discard virtue in favor of profit. Having said that, the solution is not simple. In places like China, it's probably up to the government.
Bitcoin.no Has Released the KaChing APDU Transaction Protocol
I've been working on a GB emulator for awhile.

Step one is to understand the architecture of the system. What are the different hardware components? How do they interact?

A simple emulator boils down to:

While(true)
Emulate_one_cpu_cycle()

For each cycle you have to produce any side effects from the various peripherals (serial comms, update the display, generate audio, etc.), process any external changes (button presses, serial data), and emulate the next CPU instruction (basically a big switch).

I recommend "The Ultimate Gameboy Talk (33c3)" [0], for an overview of the Gameboy and it's internal peripherals.

There are various test ROMs available that you can use to verify the basic functionality. [1][2]

0. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI
1. http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs
2. https://github.com/Gekkio/mooneye-gb
In some way our brains doesn't seem to be wired for getting rich and famous, most people go very wrong. Being a good and intelligent human being is very different from having just a lot of money and luck.
Interesting note on PostgreSQL. I had tried to make it work before but had assumed it was a failure in my setup and I planned on going back to it.

Oh well. :(
Yeah I was surprised how the pictures show bunkers in hillsides, their gleaming concrete dome exposed and very visible.

It would be such a little thing to dump the earth they excavated when building the bunker back on top of the thing and spread it around so grass grew etc, hiding the damn thing.

Imagine being a soldier sat in one. It would give the feeling of 'please shoot at me!' rather than the feeling of security, surely.
Untrained (programming) muscles are prone to atrophy
With these hi-res images I'm always curious which of the stars actually belong to the galaxy and which ones are "noise", i.e., stars that are from our own galaxy "blurring" the view.

I think filtering out "local" stars should be very doable given ML/CV progress.
Way more than that. It's a combination of SEO + PR + social media. So you'd have some content that other sites might be willing to publish or link to (say, in a weekly "best of" roundup). Some other content that would focus purely on keywords supported by a backlinking campaign to rank well in search engines. And some other content that would focus on topics that would resonate with, say, the HN crowd.
Shouldn’t that make them even more likely to express his actual opinion?
> The original mozilla suite had this, no idea why it was separated in Firefox.

Privacy.

Mozilla thought it was a good idea to avoid sending every keystroke you type to Google.

Turns out people don't care or complain loudly that it doesn't work like in Chrome so now it is combined by default AFAIK, but there is a fallback for people like me (and many other HNers).

As for why consider what happens when you type <somethingyouwouldprefergoogledidnotknow>.com

Until the .com this looks like a search.

Examples:

- internal websites with revealing URLs

- support websites for things yoou don't want ads for (mental conditions etc)

- etc

I used to be in the nothing to hide, nothing to fear camp but 2 decades of Internet use have changed my mind (even if I still think I have nothing to hide for police or family.)
Journalists making a story more controversial by tailoring which bits of a speech to quote? How incredibly unusual.

Oh wait, no. The other thing. The thing about never trusting anything you read, especially if it was written by someone who has something to gain by manipulating your emotions.
True, and a big reason why Google effectively removed the address bar. People are now too dumb to type addresses? Let's them fall back to our search engine even more often than they originally did.

Now when I'm typing an URL, I must make sure it has a valid syntax, because otherwise I'm redirected to the search engine right away. Kind of annoying, since one reason I don't go through the search engine is to avoid being tracked.

(Less of a problem now that I use DuckDuckGo by default, though.)
Telcos happily sell this data with even less restrictions. Though it is not as fine a granularity as GPS data, but in dense places it is pretty good.
I actually read Jack Ma's initial memo on this matter in Chinese. His stance was pretty clear that he endorses 996. He later "clarified" that he disagrees with this sentiment after people became enraged by his words.
Billionaire business owner tells poors to see working almost the entirety of their lives for his, and others like him, benefit.

They should have rushed the stage.
You can still do that in Firefox. It's in the settings.
Org Mode is a dayplanner/TODO list + time tracker + notetaking app + spreadsheet + interactive notebook (Jupyter style) + literate programming tool + publishing platform, all glued into one. It stores all its data in plaintext files that are actually human-readable, and is built on one of the most flexible software platforms that ever existed - Emacs.

The awesomeness of Org Mode comes from how all the little pieces come together to support each other, and how the incremental the learning curve is. You can use any subset of features you like, and you don't pay (in terms of noise in your files) for the features you don't need. When you start, it's just a Markdown with superb editor support. Step by step, you may eventually find yourself organizing your life in plain text.

As the documentation says, Org is a toolbox[0]. You use only what you need, but you can do a lot with it, and everything interoperates to create a whole much greater than the sum of parts (which ordinarily would each be a different application). This is a common theme for Emacs itself too, and the reason some people (myself included) increasingly live in it - there are great benefits coming with thorough interoperability, as every small new thing you learn or add improves almost every kind of task you do in Emacs (org mode included).

As for introductions, there are things that'll show up under "introduction to org mode" search query. I guess you could read[1] to get an overview, play around, and then see what interests you. There's plenty of demonstrations and guides for specific use cases of Org Mode on-line[2], and you can always ask Org users to share their workflow (and config files) :).

--

[0] - https://orgmode.org/manual/Summary.html#Summary

[1] - https://orgmode.org/orgguide.pdf

[2] - Some listed here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/.
Working nine to nine: Chinese tech employees push back against long hours
I will chip in as a happy user of PlantText[1]. It allows you to edit PlantUML diagrams, renders them, and you can either download them as PNGs, SVG, or ASCII. I'm pretty sure you can also directly link to an image, although I'm not sure about ToS, so don't do it without fact-checking. Oh, and it saves your content locally.

[1]: https://www.planttext.com/.
IMHO you can't answer this question without knowing what are you developing, like what language, what's the purpose, what's your skill level?
There is a misunderstanding what assertiveness means.
It is not just about defense against touchy grabby hands, it is meant to help people in every situation where a violation of their boundaries can happen, i.e. in every social interaction.

Examples could be a relative that criticizes your physique (e.g. a comment of the belly someone developed over the christmas holidays), mansplaining or a repeatedly interrupting colleague. Any sort of interaction bears the risk of violating someones boundaries (that one does not know because how could one if they didn't communicate them [0]). Assertiveness means that someone both knows where their own boundaries are, so that they actually can tell when they are violated and additionally that they have the skills to deal with it.
This can be as easy as challenging the other with a "Oh? Do you think so?", making clear that there is something one does not agree with and that this is a topic the other would not have an easy time to pursue further. Assertiveness is not about making a scene, it is about clearly communicating that there is a topic that will lead to conflict if pursued further.

Basically it is a tool to make people stronger and more confident so that they do not become victims of other people's transgressions as easily.

[0] This does not mean that people shouldn't be somewhat considerate but being overly considerate is nothing more than social self-censorship. Others have to accept your personality as much as you have to accept theirs. It's an interplay.

Edit: This nice line is from Wikipedia: Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive.
>he was delaying and timing leaks and selectively leaking things to help get Trump elected.

Isn't it also possible, that he was selectively leaking things to ensure that someone he knew to be a war criminal would not gain power in the American presidency?
Whats missed here is that individuals have the choice to get up and look at each others screens, and people also have the right to communicate whether or not its appropriate for them to be shoulder-surfing. These are choices at the individual level - at the group level, yes: we do select for good communicators and people who can work effectively in a team while not taking personally the issue of utter privacy in their workplace.

Which is not to say that members of the team can't have privacy if they really need/want it - just that its expected that they work in a way that keeps others informed about what they're up to and how things are progressing.

Its not stressful - that is the point. Nobody has to hide anything because the expectation is that there is nothing to hide - or, if there is something you need to hide (i.e. you have self-doubt about your own competence and don't want to share that doubt with your colleagues), this is supplanted by the expectation that people will help each other if they notice a problem-solving session going on too long.

It results, thus, in less stress in the environment, more cooperation/collaboration and a more open level of communication among the team members - and we are more productive as a result of it. Also, we help each other: we don't criticise or degrade someone whose work is inaccessible.
So I always thought that 'sugar pie' was a pet name for a loved one.

Apparently not [1], I guess it is also a pet name, else there's a few songs I need to re evaluate.

Ps Does North America not use the word tart. The wikipedia page describes it as a 'single-crust' pie? How do you differentiate those annoying upside down tart 'pies' consisting of a disc of pastry plonked on top?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_pie
>996 is fine if you’re a founder

Is it?

You have production access to the company’s most important relationships. If you’re falling asleep in meetings or just unable to exercise emotional intelligence, that seems pretty bad for the company.

EDIT: falling asleep in meetings is bad, not good.
What does a badly paid Bloomberg reporter have to gain by making me feel like Jack Ma is a mean person?
> Jack Ma will be surprised to find out that it doesn't matter how many hours you spend at the office.

Yes, the richest self-made man in China will soon be lectured by a random commenter on the Internet about how he got it all wrong.
> abstract out the model, networking, persistence, and other services logic from your app into a reusable library,—and then consume that from a native, unshared frontend

Oddly enough, this is what we're going with...
I can't help but think that using the Now framework would have made the author way, way happier. Point now at your Dockerfile, and bam, everything is running in a minute.
I'm pretty sure you can get custom wallpaper printed.
Since then, eBay has generated over $15 billion in profit in auctions

Source? eBay has squashed most of its own auction activity in favor of fixed-price items. Participation in auctions has been spiraling downward for years, resulting in underpriced items, resulting in sellers abandoning auctions altogether.
Competent people don't let mental health issues get in the way of getting stuff done and sharing ones work with ones colleagues...
How to grab a big audience by streaming?
Scum is useful in some ecological niches, after all.
What I noticed a few years ago when I decided to bring myself up to date again on machine learning after a ten years break (and what ten years that was for the domain!) I read a ton and watched several online classes.

I realized that the pace was very different from the classes I had been during my student years: classes were boring, so I had time to think about stuff.

The rhythm that I found worked really well for such information-dense subjects was 1:1 breaks. One hour of classes. One hour to think about it (usually I would go for a walk)

Internet taught us to drink from a firehose, but our brain needs some time to process the information. It can't accumulate information and digest it at the same time.

You just learned about drop-out layers or the drawbacks of softmax? Don't feel bad about switching off the computer and think about it. No one is judging that you are "doing nothing".

I remember that on my last corporate job, I used to go for a break/walk when stuck on a nasty bug and would often come back with the solution. My colleagues frowned a bit upon that but luckily my boss, a former researcher, totally approved of the method.
I am finding it astonishing that they could construct them at all, never mind get them to work and not explode.

There is a great deal of this in modern life that we successfully ignore until management failure makes it unmaintainable any more.
I'm telling you my experience - an open environment that encourages shoulder-surfing and interaction with ones workspace environment has, in my experience, been more productive and a happier place to work than one where everyone hides their screens and don't interact 'because it gives them anxiety'. I, for sure, would not want to work in such a milquetoast environment.
Is there any specific application, that needs 7DOF and cannot be done any other way? I guess, that Igus will give you other price when you ask them directly and 50 pieces. I am not related to them, but I like their approach. Plus I have no problem controlling stepper motors directly.
Have you tried using the new Gmail interface on Firefox?

It's ridiculously slow, to the point of being completely unusable.

A Google engineer claimed here on HN the reason was that the UI framework uses some deprecated API that is polyfilled in Firefox but available on Chrome.

Something like that should never have launched, but may have been a somewhat acceptable reason months ago. Now, after being in production for months, not fixing this is either saying "we don't care about those <10% Firefox users" or straight up intentional to force FF users to switch to Chrome.

Either of those amount to the same thing and classify as malicious to me.
The one trick that helped me quite a bit was to focus on alternating pressure between the tips of your fingers and the base of your wrist.
It is not a noisy, open office. Its a circle of desks where people can easily see what each other are working on and collaborate with each other without having to leave ones own desk...
There are companies that have canvas printers. Look for those that print on work cloth for other companies.
Seriously? A modal pop-up with the video I just finished intentionally scrolling past?

Do you think that disrespecting me by trying to force me to do something will endear me to your product?
The Beam Nebula N11 as per https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Eso1021d...
3 people ain't that much. If I was Musk a good PR would be to visit their funeral. Since kills by autopilot are smaller than by human factor.
The UK government doesn't get enough credit for the work they do on making their information accessible. They publish all kinds of open-source research, the sites are built from the ground-up with accessibility in mind, and they are incredibly lightweight.

Try a few for yourself:

- https://www.nhs.uk/ (833kb)

- https://www.gov.uk/ (428kb)
Ask HN: Languages Worth Relearning?
Programming languages evolve at different speeds. Sometimes there are huge breaking changes, sometimes backwards compatibility keeps things rather stale. And occasionally it's like Python 3.

So tell me about languages that have changed enough to be worth learning new, either because now the language is actually worth it, or because paradigms changed. How does the community deal with it, do we now have two or more different languages subsets in play (C++) or has almost everyone moved on (Javascript)?
Do we have cases where the language (mostly) stayed the same, but the library/tool/community changed enough for it to be considered "new"?

Examples would be Javascript/ES6, C++17 or Java 8+, but if someone wants to go on about Fortran 77 vs Fortran2015, I'm more than okay with that.
The SR-71 used it to cool its skin and keep it around 300°C during Mach-3 flight. It also used it to cool its engines.
Kind of reminds me of the USPS using a picture of the Statue of Liberty in Vegas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/arts/statue-of-liberty-st...
Worked at Alibaba. Not trying to defend the company, just offering my observation.

They do work much longer hour as compared to most American companies (like Google, I worked at too), even longer than the average Chinese ones. However, 9-to-9 doesn't mean people work 12 hour straight and nobody forcing anyone to stay at work until 9. Chinese work schedule includes 30 minutes to 1 hour extra napping time at noon, and Alibaba has on-campus canteens and facilities so employees go gym/game after dinner then back to work a little longer before leaving.

When I was working there I usually leave right after dinner so the actual work hour was around 8.5-9 hours a day. And our team never work on weekends (except for around 11.11 the annual shopping craze). However I do work at night and weekends at home, voluntarily.

They do pay well though.
Yep, https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1089273195281080335
Recently, I have seen multiple Bloomberg articles that were way outside the normal margins of journalistic prose, and far into the territory of clickbait and even misinformation. A while back I thought Bloomberg was a high quality source.

Either Bloomberg got a lot worse; or I was too dumb to realize how bad they were in the past.
Why didn't they just mount the tailplanes higher and join them? (e.g. like the OV-10 Bronco tail)
Show HN: I Built an Illness Prediction System Using Open Medical Data
There is probably some easier way of doing this but if your favourite tool is a hammer, everything starts looking like nails I'm sure :-)
That has been my interpretation of the DMCA notices I've received in the past, its an issue between the host of the content and whoever sent the DMCA notice.
> Also a funny side note: Why do people who seemingly care about public opinion so much always screw up their public opinion?

Its more common than you imagine.

Its incredibly clear that the CEO dude is super insecure person who feels some kind of inadequacy and a constant need to control everything. If you read the daily beast article showing the actual interaction, it shows. If he stopped thinking all about himself for a little while he could have done a much better job. But he has so far not faced consequences for his toxic behavior (his co-founder sounds shady af too and that person actually died of a drug overdose... what a mess).
I’m certainly glad my ancestors put in the hours, but I don’t exactly want to work 14-16 hours a day like they did in the Industrial Revolution.

China has so much excess labour though, compared to the leverage Western workers had back in the day due to lower numbers.

That with Party control leaves it hard to see how anything like unions could form, or someone like a Sam Parnell could emerge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Duncan_Parnell).
Thanks. I will take into account these remarks.
Bloomberg reporters get bonuses for writing stories that affect the market. Seriously.
Unfortunately inflation and wealth inequality is leading to it being called billionaires shortbread.
I have completely shifted away from web UI to native application for the same reason.
"The best diet is the one you follow".
This is preached by many people in the Fitness industry, body builders and profrssionals. I was a chubby teen, although I did a lot of sports. But I ate even more. Now I lost a lot of weight in last few months and I'm the leanest and strongest I've ever been. How?

The thing is, there is no diet required. A diet is nutrition for sick people. What most people need is a more healthy relationship to what they eat. Realizing the discrepancy between what your body needs vs. what you consume on a daily basis is a huge help. Initially I suggest to track their calories for a few weeks and then adjust your intake to serve your specific goals. After a few months you will have great intuition about the things you eat on a regular basis and don't need to track anything.

Weight is a simple game, if you want to loose weight, consume less calories than you burn. Do this over a long time and you will see progress. You always want to play the long-term game, so if you go out for dinner once in a while, enjoy yourself and don't agonize over your "diet". The progress is made in the little things you eat every day, not during a nice evening with friends.

Also, don't banish any macro nutrients, this will make your everyday nutrition harder. Eat lots of greens, some meat and fish, fruits, rice, pasta and potatoes, and an occasional donut or pizza.
Nice story, but Firefox about:preferences has an option like, "Use a background service to install updates".

I never checked it, so I guess it is on by default.