skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Firefox will also allow muted video to play back automatically.

Good lord, they didn't go far enough with this. IME, muted video is almost always a waste of bandwidth that I don't care to see anyway. Local news sites seem to be the worst with this, where they will autoplay the video muted on the same page as the article. As someone who occasionally operates off of a limited-bandwith connection, I get more-and-more frustrated with the modern web every day. If I'm clicking on a local news site's article, I expect to just read the article. 9 times out of 10, I scroll past a muted video that has tried to play advertisements, and I will be finished reading the article where the video is 30% finished. I'm sure this option is changeable in about:config (which, besides preventing chrome monopoly is why I use FireFox), but most users will never adjust any of those settings. How much power globally is wasted burning CPU cycles to render this garbage content?
I think it sends MS every keypress in search fields - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
From a legal perspective? You can probably construct a decent definition in terms of how much of an employee's compensation is in equity.
QR codes and a handful of cheap smartphones are a fairly easy and low cost method of doing this. You can even make an android app to streamline the process even farther.

Of course, I'm still trying to find a good solution for printing those QR codes. Printers suck and printing labels is it's own special kind of hell.
It is also extremely slow on big files. Try opening a file, seeking out to 10GB, and writing 4KB. Instant, on any Unix. Better have something else planned for the afternoon, on Windows.
Does anyone know what the theoretical limitations of trying to use Bash as a Web Server are?

How many requests per second could it serve?
What about HTTP/2 support?
That's a bunch of really strange claims.

> If the government can't grow the economy long term

Governments generally decide policies, and it's private businesses that actually grow the economy. Unless you're talking about socialism, your statement doesn't make sense.

> if you're in a country where there's not even food to buy?

The only country I'm aware with real food shortages at the moment is Venezuela, and the situation is entirely created by the socialist idiots in charge. Thankfully most countries are not going that route.

> and hoarded BTC, did the shopkeeper?

Well, they still can. Nobody is stopping them. Cryptocurrencies are just starting, in my opinion.

> having 10 years of BTC saved up is going to do much

It will do much. They would have more money saved. Which they can use to get out of a shitty country, for example.

> if you didn't have enough to leave maybe you're even worse off when the power goes out and the mobile networks start flaking and you don't even have loose leaf

Maybe. But then your credit/debit cards or ATMs won't work either. Are you advocating holding your money in paper dollars with that argument?

Some cryptocurrencies work over SMS, which doesn't require a data network.

> Inflationary currency is designed to "lose value" as the entire country "gains value", hard to call it "losing money" at that point.

That statement doesn't make any sense. If you made $100, and saved it 100 years ago, it's worth only $3 now. You would be losing money by not investing it. And not necessarily in cryptocurrencies, you can invest into ETF or mutual funds or stocks - almost anything is better than a traditional currency.
Check out the newly announced data fusion
I’m not denying that different people have different goals. But if you already are living a life free from worry, can work part of the year, doing what you enjoy, paid off house, what’s really the difference between 2 million and 15 million? (not saying I am there yet).

It’s not like I go to work everyday hating software development and hating what I have been doing since I was 12 years old. My wife works for the government and we have guaranteed access to health care whether she works or quits tomorrow.

I can have technical challenges and jump from opportunity to opportunity in two years once my youngest graduates.

Outside of the west coast/HN bubble, people retire comfortably all the time with a million in the bank, I paid off house, and social security.
Pierre Valade, the creator, stated on ProductHunt that they will monetize via a premium version in the near future.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jumbo
> In setting monetary policy, the Committee seeks to mitigate deviations of inflation from its longer-run goal and deviations of employment from the Committee's assessments of its maximum level. These objectives are generally complementary. However, under circumstances in which the Committee judges that the objectives are not complementary, it follows a balanced approach in promoting them, taking into account the magnitude of the deviations and the potentially different time horizons over which employment and inflation are projected to return to levels judged consistent with its mandate. [1]

Employment is maximized within the limitations of excessive inflation and vice versa. It is well established that a scarcity of workers has a direct, measurable effect on inflation. Therefore, one could conclude that it would be impossible for the Fedral Reserve to allow for a significant scarcity of workers, which is required for low wage workers to have meaningful leverage in negotiations, as it would voilate the mandate to maintain stable prices(inflation) as set forth in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 [2]

To elaborate on this a bit. This it not so much a direct action of the Federal Reserve to create a scarcity of workers, as much as it is a result of a scarcity of workers causing inflation. That inflation would force the Fed to raise interest rates. Those rate hikes would slow the economy and would result in there no longer being a scarcity of workers.

The balance of the Federal Reserves two manadates, maximum employment and stable prices, results in about 4.25% unemployment(a slight scarcity) and 2% inflation(stable enough prices).[3] That is our current comporomise between stable prices and maximum employment.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act

[3] https://www.chicagofed.org/research/dual-mandate/dual-mandat...
Google "florida man".
Firefox already does this better than Chrome, tabs that are playing sound have a speaker icon next to them, and can be muted without switching to the tab by clicking the speaker. However, this looks like a great extension, since I normally have 6-10 windows open across desktops, and have definitely played the "hunt the tab" game to find the offending window. A central place to find this is great, but I really wish Chrome by default had some sort of indicator for sound.
That’s a bold claim. If the tool is made more useful for majority of the people using it is necessarily not a bad thing.
Surveys.
The real innovation is making files content-addressable.
I wonder if that's what Peter Drucker meant when he said "Culture eats strategy for breakfast"
Yes, but you can run it in a VM. Microsoft could make it run in a container, instead, if they cared about your time. They might do it to make their Azure servers faster, but have little incentive to tell you.
Both my kids had acid reflux. We put a few towels under the bassinet pad on one end to create an incline and it helped.
One could be totally uncritical about the current or future intentions of Microsoft and still prefer a version with no telemetry. Data breaches are very common. Employees, hackers, or governments could all gain access to the data.

The data could be accidentally broadcast or left in a vulnerable place. Even the payroll data for the national security establishment was once reported to be compromised. Everything is vulnerable. Computer science is in such an abysmal state.

Even with properly configured servers, OSes, and databases that are up to date, they are still vulnerable to zero-day attacks because they are not formally verified and have enormous and largely unnecessary complexity. Then throw in the crazy complexity of processor instruction sets, creative side-channel attacks, and stuff which exploits the physical properties of the hardware (rowhammer).

It is reasons like these why we should never really trust transmission of sensitive data over the internet. The concept of secure voting systems, for instance, is literally a joke. insert obligatory xkcd here
There aren’t that many malware that are worse than antivirus.

What I don’t understand is why antivirus has to second guess the user.
> tabs that are playing sound have a speaker icon next to them, and can be muted without switching to the tab by clicking the speaker.

Chrome has that, too, but you need to right-click->mute to mute. Mentioned my extension since it should make it easier to find the noisy tab because of the centralization, but haven't ported it to Firefox.
Data should never be deleted. Ever.

Start by accepting that, and everything starts to make sense.
How is coming up with regulation around non-compete clauses (and then further regulation attempting to close loopholes such as the ones mentioned by sibling comments) simpler than just outlawing them?
you could tailor it as appropriate, but also there should be legislation that limits the ability to call "bonuses" bonuses rather than regular income - if nothing else I believe withholding on bonuses is 50% vs. a sane rate that is closer to what you'd be paying if you're on a minimum-is wage job.
I derive immense value from MSFT's VSCode. I don't think the telemetry in VSCode is similar to cookie tracking by Facebook et al. Frankly, I do not understand the fiscal benefit the Microsoft from VSCode, but I'd like to continue supporting Microsoft's version, as the telemetry from an IDE don't seem to be all encompassing privacy wise, like web tracking
did you read the article you linked?

"Logic and critical thinking textbooks typically discuss slippery slope arguments as a form of fallacy but usually acknowledge that "slippery slope arguments can be good ones if the slope is real—that is, if there is good evidence that the consequences of the initial action are highly likely to occur. The strength of the argument depends on two factors. The first is the strength of each link in the causal chain; the argument cannot be stronger than its weakest link. The second is the number of links; the more links there are, the more likely it is that other factors could alter the consequences.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...
In addition to apt and npm, I would like to see docker image distribution powered by IPFS. It really feels stupid to pull images from a central registry sitting on the other side of the globe when the image is already present in the next node in your kubernetes cluster.
Google and Firefox ban dissenter extension
You're not buying the same thing. Comparing AWS to DO is like comparing your home printer-scanner with the Hubble telescope.

Yes, one of them is more expensive.
http://lite.cnn.com/en
Facebook accidentally shipped thousands of VR controllers with hidden messages
Remember to terminate every line with a semicolon, and enjoy quirks like true printing boolean(true) and false printing nothing at all.
On the topic of "why would you write that with that", this is worth a mention:
https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
> I'm sure this option is changeable in about:config

media.autoplay.allow-muted = false

and most users probably like their not-gifs to stay animated. webm playback is also more energy-efficient than gif playback, especially when hardware-acelerated.
>>It's not a fallacy.

By itself no, but it is often used fallaciously. Such as in this case, when someone is opposing some good thing on the basis that that good thing might, some day, lead to bad things.
I'd rather them go all the way then offer us a whitelist.
The fallacy is to assume, without evidence, that the slope is slippery. There are plenty of slopes that aren't. Probably most, just you don't think about those because you know they aren't slippery already.

For example, I slept in 'til 8:30 today. OMG, a slippery slope. Next thing you know, I'll be sleeping until 3PM. Til midnight! I will never wake up again. But as it happens, sleeping in isn't a slippery slope. I don't think there's any solid evidence that telemetry is either.
Chrome also has a speaker icon in the tab. You can mute it with right clicking => Mute site.
That's mighty dissonant and hypocritical of them to use and benefit from Microsoft's work and investment, and claim that their telemetry is the part they don't trust.
Lex Fridman Interview with Elon Musk on the Tesla Autopilot
The telemetry source code is not secret. In fact, it is annotated thought the code, in order to comply with certain GDPR requirements. Try searching "GDPR" globally in the vscode source.
So they have you install a binary that you can't inspect the source to or build on your own? I'm confused.
Check the sibling comment
Are they just compiling the source code and adding their own logo or have they actually modified it?
File operations. Corralling vendors to code reliable, non-crashy drivers. Input device event handling. Thread scheduling. I/O scheduling. Anything where tuning would have involved work by more than one product group.
12G to use VS Code? LOL.
Can you describe your experience with it (how resistant your depression was, how effective ket is, what the short and long term effects you’re noticing are)?
> When someone says HTML & CSS is terrible I ask them to design something better that lets you represent user interfaces that can adapt across multiple screen sizes, and allow complex layouts that Flexbox and CSS Grid makes possible.

How do mac devs do this? Mac apps are some of the best around and both designers and developers appear to really like designing and developing mac apps.
https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreement_descriptions.htm...
Others have pointed to PHP REPLs. Perl 5 also has a REPL : https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::REPL. Perl 6 comes with a REPL built-in. Unlike Python/Ruby, Perl does not have a GIL and with some discipline it can be used in large programs.
Can you explain what you think is correct slack etiquette?

Never @ someone unless you want their immediate attention?
If you had actually read that issue,

> Lol, probably just an oversight because they made the search a lot better.

> So I think it only does this on the settings file and not on other files ;)

> https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/04/25/bing-settings...
Regardless of your thoughts on what military spending should be, the above poster's claim that military spending is a greater cause of economic burden than entitlements is patently false. The economic burden of the United States military spending has been diminishing, not increasing.
This is absolutely untrue. Trade secrets are hugely important to many businesses, hence the widespread existence of corporate espionage. It is not unheard of for a particular manufacturing process (or part thereof) to have a commercial value of hundreds of millions of dollars; the example that springs to mind is Dupont vs Kolon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_v._Kolon_Industries

If a junior employee on low wages has access to trade secrets then you're doing something terribly wrong, but it is entirely normal for e.g. industrial chemists, food technologists and manufacturing engineers to know extremely valuable secrets about the companies they work for. It is similarly normal for them to be offered extremely generous severance packages tied to a strict NDA.

The software industry is far from unique in the use of (largely legitimate) NDAs and non-competes for senior employees with extensive access to proprietary knowledge. Conneticut's concerns are about non-compete clauses being used illegitimately as a means of reducing churn for junior employees, which is a very different matter.
It seems likely that she would be eligible for Canadian benefits.

https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreement_descriptions.htm...
Most people don’t know whether they’re enforceable. Businesses will do anything they can to intimidate people and simple unenforcement doesn’t really do much.
It's something from npr.org; may as well be quoting form the Onion.
9 times out of 10, news websites don't require javascript enabled at all to read the text of the article. I strongly recommend blocking all javascript (including first party) by default then building up a whitelist over time. uMatrix is what I use for this.

Not only does this approach kill auto-play videos, but it eliminates ads as well as "disable your adblocker" nagging.
Other employees can liquidate shares in the secondary market too, fairly easily.
Why would the employer still choose to hire you after you refuse to sign? Everyone else signed with no complaint. Clearly you plan to learn our secrets then hand them to our competitors.
That's true about a few languages actually. Javascript being one, C++ being another.
But you trust these random people?
Business analysts, attorneys, finance people and IT turned PM/administrative all manage to rise to high technical positions due to business savvy and political ability.

I worked in a place with a CIO who didn’t know how to operate a TV. If you aren’t a tech company, it’s often a liability to have too much tech domain knowledge.
http://emacs.sexy/ points to a bunch of useful resources,
including an Awesome Emacs which points to a bunch more.
Tuhdo's tutorials feature a bunch of animated gifs about his use/setup, which is quite nice.

I haven't tried distributions like spacemacs or doom-emacs (which is lighter-weight than spacemacs, with fewer abstractions above emacs). I think emacs is software which benefits from being well understood by the user, to the extent of "if something breaks I can fix it".
Why should a gif begin playing if you can't see it?
Forget about the hacking.

U.S. business walked into China and handed over all of their technology and Intellectual Property, just to have it used against them by the Chinese government. China has only resorted to hacking lately in order to get more technology and IP.
How do we know the build of VSCodium is what they say it is? Aren't we in the exact same situation as with using the MS version, except we know even LESS about the maintainers?
UK Online Harms white paper misses the mark
To block all video (both noisy and silent) from autoplaying on Firefox 66 or later:

1) Go to about:config

2) Set media.autoplay.default to 1

3) Set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false

4) Set media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed to false

This works on both the desktop and Android versions.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU
From your Twitter:

"I have other torrents in gists, and I used to have blocked repository for which Github contacted me prior to blocking this exact repository, asking to remove some files from it. This time I've got no notifications and got my account (not a repo/gist/etc) shadowed."
(Last comment didn't post??) To be fair js gets the same bad rap.
I respect that they recalled it amid the pressure, but I feel for all the families, including mine, who would be SOL without the rock n play. It was the only thing that worked until 4 months.

I also really feel for the families who lost their babies this way. What an unfathomable horror.
Cross-Browser NoScript Hits the Chrome Store
> The difference I tried to explain is the difference between dumb and unskilled. We as a society don't value the skills of information and media literacy and those skills are withering in the population at large. We could easily address this problem if we chose to do so.

I understand the distinction you were trying to explain, but I don't see how it's relevant. You're still saying "we as a society" can't do the critical democratic task of making good choices based on available information, because we're "unskilled" at information or something.

To repeat noego's original question: If that's how you feel about the average person, why do you still favor democracy?

> It is winning, hate crime rates are climbing

That's a pretty broad definition of "winning". Antisemitic ideas and actions have gone from a small minority far from the mainstream, to a slightly less small minority far from the mainstream. This is the catastrophe that you're willing to sacrifice freedom of speech to avert?
Socrates, Spinoza, Hobbes, Rosseau, Kant, Nietzche, J.S. Mill, Camus, de Beauvoir, Arendt.
Oddly, my chrome install (win 10,very seldom used) does not do this. Just tested with both YouTube & NPR playing audio, I get no indication of audio playing. I guess it's time to play sysadmin.
Many republican politicians have demonstrated contempt for low income workers, so this would not mean "regulating employment contracts" but rather saying that you have to pay for the full extent of a contract.

This framing makes it easier to maintain the image of hating unions/perks/whatever, but is also simpler to implement: there are legitimate reasons that you may not want high level/executive members to not work for your competitors. Whether or not you agree with that is moot: there are enough lawyers in the legislative branches to believe that it's necessary. A law like this would not be an outright ban, but rather would result in companies reducing their use of NCs to just those employees where the information that had was actually valuable.

Currently NCs have no downside for a company, so there is no reason you would ever not use one: They allow suppression of fair market wages, and literally have no associated cost. This would mean that there is: You want to put a 12 month NC on your janitors? Well you now have to pay for a 12 month vacation. Immediately - NC clauses don't say you have to work for X months for the NC to come into effect. If you work for a company for a week, you are bound to an N month NC, and so a law like this would require a company pay for that time - again, making a company actually think about whether an NC is actually necessary.
Proper safety engineering accounts for human factors. Blaming the parents is improper.

Safety-critical fields like aviation assume that trained, certified pilots are fallible and design their systems to be resilient against human error. This is a product design to be sold to and used by not just laypeople, but laypeople who have probably only gotten four hours of sleep in the last four weeks.
First question: “Is this a nice-to-have or a must-have?”

What? Are we taking about the idea, the company, the product? Who has it, the owner, the investor, the user?

When you were writing these questions did you do the thing or have that there?
> SELECT * FROM AAA

Can't think of a realistic use case where such a query would be appropriate, even from just the performance standpoint. In fact, for a very long time the internal counterpart of BigQuery didn't even support "SELECT star", and nobody complained too badly. If you'd like to give Google a gift, however, sure "SELECT star" all you want. :-)

> "SELECT field1, field2 FROM AAA" you'll pay only for the total size of field1 and field2 rows.

Moreover, if you also use a WHERE clause, you'll pay even less.
The short answer is that no one knows. It's likely we won't know for a long time.

As for this study, a side-effect of naltrexone is depression. That would seem to me to make it unsuitable to use in a study with ketamine.

Relevant:

Caution Against Overinterpreting Opiate Receptor Stimulation as Mediating Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30818991
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18091061r
On mobile, I'd much rather save my data and have to click before a "GIF" starts playing than waste data. At least on Verizon, data is expensive AF.
Generally, yes, throw.

Sometimes an optional is better, such as when downstream already takes one.

Occasionally, checking whether the operation (and a bunch of others) would succeed is best, particularly in high-rel/high-av systems. There, you are probably also logging, first, what you are about to attempt.