skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And who gets to decide what "the objective state of the world" is?

There is real value in reading about the same topic from differing perspectives. Not all writing is or aspires to be purely fact-based journalism, and that's okay.

It's reasonable that The Markup wants to hire group of people with diverse viewpoints on how "powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society". I would be surprised and underwhelmed if they had e.g. only software engineers or only consumer rights activists writing.

The issue is their assumption that only non-white, non-males have interesting things to say about how "powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society".
> The solution to things changing in a way you don't like is to vote with your feet

Or you know, just vote in municipal election or go to cityhall hearings, since that's how cities work, and that's exactly how people do it. It's not super weird for people living in a city to try and dictate how the city they live in work.

Last time I moved cities I ended up having to move 3 times in a row because of unexpected things. Yes, some people can do that without breaking a sweat, but it sure got exhausting. If I lived to 1000, I wouldn't really care, but life is short and there's only so many times you can do life altering changes. If moving was that simple, there wouldn't be so much criticism over people getting displayed by raising housing costs, after all.

> And predicting this isn't really that hard. I can predict with reasonable certainty that twenty years from now Des Moines will still not have the population density of New York City

Except a NIMBY thinks about "their backyard" for a reason: Who cares about the city's population density. The problem is the 10 story building popping up across the super tiny quiet street because a special permit was issued to override zoning.
You have to keep in mind the the expected value of lifetime earnings of both. College students from top schools going into consulting/finance aren’t poor coming out of college, even though they may be deep in debt, because the expected value of their labor potential is in the multi-millions.

Not quite the same as having it in-hand, but it’s real unless conditions change drastically.
Had the chance to live a few years in western Europe and I was shocked at the servility of the European institutions to the American interests.

In Europe nobody dares to criticize clearly and openly the ways of the US, not even the communists. No wonder Obama was a huge hit in Europe. Perhaps this explains why most Americans think of Europeans as a spineless and weak

I'm not leftist at all but I have to admit that Chavez had more balls than the whole western Europe
It's in iTunes, sorry no link.

Search FT Alphachat podcast. It's recent about 'the most complicated debt restructuring ever'. About a month old. They talk about PE companies who buy up distressed debt and then go after it aggressively.
True. Or left-wing, depending on who is downvoting. It's the one thing the authoritarians have in common.
Exactly.

I think the dynamic tooling are things like macros. It seems that JavaScript is being used as the dynamically typed foil, where a better example would be Scheme.
Still beats using Chrome.
Sure, anyone one can make mistake. We have seen big companies make stupid mistakes too. But this is Mozilla we are talking about. How this slipped by is beyond me.
I like the alias name assigned to it: armagadd-on-2.0

Temporary work around till the cert gets fixed:
set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false
People are generally not inclined to be truthful about their mistakes if they expect to be punished for them. Its how problems keep getting covered up until they become catastrophes.
Isn't that the definition of a minority group and the problems with any democracy? And why should the majority bend to the will of a minority?
Yes, I've got a copy of Alfors. And at one time I started a course from a student of Alfors. And I have a book by Hille.

I just never could see much utility in complex variables: Complex valued functions of real variables. Sure. Complex valued measures? Sure. Fourier theory making a lot of use of complex numbers? Of course. A vector space where the field is the complex numbers? Certainly. Hermitian and unitary matrices with complex numbers? About have to like those due to the fundamental theorem of algebra, that is, roots of polynomials and, thus, complex eigenvalues. Functions of a complex variable? Never could see the utility.
I dunno. I’m a typical Firefox user, and I’d rather jump off a bridge than switch to a different browser because of a fuckup like this. People make mistakes, but Mozilla still stands for things that certain other browser vendors don’t, last time I checked.
The obvious answer is that the US prison system is a replacement for our former use of chattel slavery.
It is undisputed that there are a great many legitimate "defensive gun uses" per year.

How many is of great dispute, getting into minutiae all the way down to survey question branching due to an unbridgeable cultural gap, but please don't deny even the lowest estimates of tens of thousands.
Spas, PWAs, SSR and progressive enhancement all over again
If you caught every instance of someone breaking a law then the fines can be pretty low.

Eg If you knew that there was a 99% chance that you'd be fined every time for minor traffic offenses (going 5k over the speed limit, failure to indicate, etc) then the fine could be $20 and nobody would do it. Instead the fine is much higher but only a small proportion are caught.

It also works for major offenses. Longer jail sentences don't deter crime as much as the likelihood of being caught.
Yes, nothing man in the middle can do to detect the final domain being connected to.
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This is why users need to be in control of their own computers. Why can't I tell my copy of Firefox to ignore the certificate? Why can't I sign my own extensions?

Mistakes happen, it's okay. But users should be empowered to work around them.
Yeah, but a full 30 gun safe only has about 10 guns in it.
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That assumes the website actually wants to block abusive traffic. A freedom site won’t.
When valuing a business, you typically look at the discounted future cash flows in addition to assets/debt. Basically, you factor in their profitability and calculate the current value of owning that stream of cash flow. People have cash flows as well. So even though people typically only count assets/debt, Marc effectively has a net worth substantially higher than -$20k if he’s saving more than he’s spending, which jives better with people’s intuition about Marc’s situation.
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It’s not designed to be edited.
that's ... literally what people do with redis and memcache, you just wrote a slower memcache with fewer features.

that's on one server and the data is all in process memory?
It looks like rounded corners are coming back to Windows – TechSpot
So fundamentally it sounds like Lyft will need to increase how much they pay drivers with ADA vehicles to incentivize them drive? Lyft would probably take a consistent loss on that, right?
Amazon is proud that they never break backwards compatibility like this. Quotes like the container you are running on Fargate will keep running 10 years from now.

Something weird is going on if they don’t keep path style domains working for existing buckets.
So, this comment is getting upvoted quite a bit, and in hindsight I don't feel great about it.

I'd really like the takeaway to be less "stop supporting the New York Times" and more "start supporting Propublica". The latter is doing great work!
If it failed open, anyone unlucky enough to update their extensions could end up having a malicious version installed. It also would have taken longer to notice.
Again, my point is that for a given data set, an auto ml system is much more efficient and radically cheaper than human modeler.

You are pointing to an area outside the realm of automl (feature engineering/generation) , which is domain specific. But this was not my original question.
I just ran into this. All my extensions were immediately turned off in the middle of a browsing session, from UI conveniences to important safeguards, with no apparent option to turn them back on again.

Warning about something that can't be verified is one thing, but automatically shutting things off -- particularly things that could affect security and privacy -- is a Windows 10 level of unacceptable interference.
What do you think the meaning of the quote is I guess? One point of the quote is that protection of the concept of private property is a function of the police. It's more of a piece of (I think accurate) neutral analysis with how I've used it, but I think you have a different perspective on what this means if you think it "stops making sense."
Socially killed. It was turned into a joke quickly, and most people seem to roll their eyes and mumble something about tinfoil hats whenever astroturfing is brought up.
We are also not using your 90s encoder. The amount of research done in this area is remarkable. Check Mozjpeg and Guetzli if you haven’t yet.

On the MP3 side, current LAME is a lot better than the encoders we used back then.
That claim is solely based on survey data, and there has been a undeniable trend towards false responses as people become more discreet. It goes hand-in-hand with the move towards home manufacturing.
There was also an issue last year where every single Oculus Rift was essentially bricked because they forgot to renew a cert (apparently, what with the chaos of the Rift launch and the Facebook acquisition between the cert issuance and expiration, they just kind of ... lost track).

It took like two days before there was any kind of fix available, and they couldn't even roll it out automatically because the expiration had also disabled the auto-updating.
Men are toxic and evil, and women are noble and put-upon —- what a fresh and interesting idea, why haven’t I heard about it before!
How about asking someone from Amazon to give you more perspective on this, too? You only seem interested in immediately accusing Amazon of not caring about freedom of speech and schooling them about it, without considering if there are legitimate technical reasons that might justify the tradeoff. I can think of many such reasons off the top of my head.
Talking about vertical tabs, I was in the middle of studying for an upcoming exam, then when I alt-tabbed back into Firefox, all of my tabs are missing with that unsupported addon error. Fortunately refreshing Firefox gave me back normal tabs, at a cost of uninstalling all of my addons.

The problem is that Tree Style Tabs relies on userchrome.css edit to hide the tab bar, and when TST is forcibly removed there is no way to access the tabs, because that edited userchrome.css is still there. This is very disruptive. At least with the pre WebExtension addon TST itself hides the tab bar, so if TST is removed then the original tab bar comes back on automatically
Newbie question: why can't they just renew the certificate, like in 5 minutes?
Objectivity is a bias.
That's what I meant, yes. (I didn't even know that KeePass could be integrated with the browser, I've just been manually copy-pasting)
This false equivalence is incredibly, incredibly dangerous.
It's always felt somewhat unsettling that, although the Internet is decentralised, a small number of large organisations have a surprisingly large amount of control over the software which the majority of users view sites with. I don't like this concentration of power --- even if you think Mozilla is benevolent, it's not immune to making mistakes; and the more power it has, the bigger the consequences.

Before the forced code signing, before the automatic updates, Mozilla or any other organisation's mistakes would not have such dramatic effects; now, they have the power to basically break almost all their userbase nearly instantly, and that is what worries me the most.
> Why can't I tell my copy of Firefox to ignore the certificate? Why can't I sign my own extensions?

The issue is that if you leave any sort of lever that reduces security, it will be abused by bad actors. This is why browsers are having ever decreasing ways to bypass security and have full access. It is annoying, but at the end of the day, protecting 99.999% of the users trumps what us power users want.
We could give them money for that (just to take it away again), but they probably won't produce $50 of value without getting someone else to stay home who also has debts to pay.

So I guess this is more of a belief in the value of work thing. Which is OK, but I think this would have more value if we could then offer offenders a chance to continue to clean and then earn money, but we don't have jobs to offer them after we made up this cleaning one as a punishment.
It is possible, according to another post by bitbang [1]:

> Temporary work around till the cert gets fixed: set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823879
Nothing is impossible, but it's certainly more difficult.

If charging time is twenty minutes and the bus needs to be out in ten, you need two additional buses on standby to maintain the current schedule (one for each direction.) Except you need more than two, because transit agencies keep a "spare factor" of buses in case a bus breaks down or is otherwise unexpectedly available, and so you probably need ~2.2 buses for this single route.

Scale this up across an entire bus network and that could easily be a hundred or two additional buses. And when you're talking about increasing the fleet by that much, you need to consider storage space for said buses. It's incredibly hard to site bus depots, because you want to minimize the distance from the depot to the start of the line, but you also have to consider the price of land and whether or not a land parcel's best use is a parking lot for buses. And this is before you consider that very few people want a parking lot they can't use as a neighbor.

And so what seems to be a small problem can very quickly snowball into a large one. Public transit agencies aren't exactly flush with cash to buy a larger fleet than otherwise necessary, or land to store said larger fleet. And even if they had this money, is it best spent going electric? Money that is spent going electric is money not being used to keep the fare down or boost services.
In a healthy, actually competitive market, I think that would work, but there are so few insurance operators in each market, it's really easy for them to quietly collude with each other rather than compete. Additionally, everyone else in the industry wants higher prices and more profit. They are not limited to a 20% cost margin. The insurance companies are supposed to be the downward drivers on price. However, here, it's just easier to not fight the price increases, take your 20% of the increase, and move on, rather than fight hard to push prices down, and gain market share.
Why does someone need to be fired? Does some blood spilled really make it better? Have some compassion.
I mean, I'd argue that journalism as it should be is focused on truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability - all standards one would assume are important given The Markup's stated mission - but your point about not all writing aspiring to be fact-based is well taken.
There is exactly one person who isn't going to do that again.
There's a workaround that involves going to about:config and setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false.

However, if you're running the Stable or Beta version, it will only work under Linux. On Windows and MacOS you'll need to download Nightly or the Developer Edition.

To fix this on MacOS I did the following:

1. Downloaded and installed Firefox Nightly

2. Ran /Applications/Firefox\ Nightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager

3. Changed the profile to "default" so my normal Firefox profile would be used

4. Started up Firefox Nightly, opened about:config, then set xpinstall.signatures.required to false

Not sure if it's a good idea to use my default profile in Nightly. It might be a wiser idea to copy it instead.
I think you’re responding to the wrong person. I didn’t say anything that remotely resembles this...
I think it's clear to most readers, separately from their leftness or rightness, how badly your comment broke the site guidelines. Why not just take them to heart and follow them? It's mostly not that hard, and will have the nice side effect of making your posts more persuasive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it's not equal exposure at all, it's equal opportunity for exposure.

i can post a comment on FB and get 0 likes, that doesn't give me equal exposure to the latest nike video on their page.

denying opportunity for exposure is giving that platform the ultimate authority on what shouldn't be able to be exposed in society, if society is reliant on that platform.

i don't want alex jones to have exposure, but i don't want an exec deciding what's next on the chopping block. a page suggesting publicly available employee salaries? they shouldn't have that power
Medicare in the US does this. "This is what we are paying for this drug".

That is definitely not true. Part of the prescription drug coverage that was added during the Bush administration was that Medicare could not negotiate drug prices.

https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/jan/17/...
can’t scroll that long an article on mobile, sorry!
isn't this how Spitzer's enemies took him down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_9:_The_Rise_and_Fall_of...
This same behavior is how certs usually work. Stuff with expired certs just does not run after the expiration date; that's because the cert tells you what server to ask for authentication, and if you have an old cert, there's no way to be sure that the original issuer is still the one in control of that domain.
Most of the charges you list are mostly fixed (with time) rather than variable (with distance driven). Yearly service and yearly tire swapping: doesn't change by miles. Batteries and wipers: mostly fixed. Depreciation: probably 80% fixed. Insurance: mostly fixed. Registration: totally fixed.

On a marginal basis ("what does it cost me to drive one extra mile?"), I think my cost is about 7-9 US cents on my electric and about 12-15 US cents on my wife's CR-V. On an overall basis ("what does it cost me in total for the cars divided by how many miles I drove?"), the figures are more like $1/mile for the electric (still have a car payment, full insurance, and only drive 4500 miles/year) and $0.30-$0.40/mile for the Honda (paid off, so just carrying insurance, registration, taxes, and some timed maintenance items)

If we moved farther away, our fixed costs stay about the same, and it's only the variable costs that go up.
The internet forum comment, as a genre, can't bear this level of rhetorical weight and fire. It's too trivial.
...which, it should be mentioned, is a consequence of this mailing list - and most similar ones - culturally preferring plain text formatting of emails rather than HTML.
Using my Apple and Orange analogy, I would note that your first paragraph can be summarized as follows:
“But what if the Apple someday turned into an Orange? Wouldn’t you then concede it is an Orange?”
That’s not a helpful question as it glosses over the crux of the matter; namely, there is no mechanisms described or suggested whereby an Apple is ever capable of becoming an Orange.

Your second paragraph states the converse: “An Orange, after all, is really just a sophisticate Apple... they’re basically the same.”
Once again, it is obvious and not fairly deniable that they are not. No machine is alive.

>Given that a person is composed of proteins, enzymes and other such relatively simple parts which function in a mechanistic fashion...

Here you are equating living creatures to machines to support your notion that machines are equivalent to living creatures. You’re not getting anywhwhere. Moreover, an honest rereading of the comment, particularly the bit about “relatively simple parts”, should be a red-flag. Transistors and dioses and resistors are “relatively simple parts.” There is nothing simple about the components of living creatures... the scale of complexity of a protein is so far beyond any machine ever made that the analogy is just, well, laughable.

That being said, how would I personally define the categories between animate and inanimate? Like this: living systems are characetriZed by becoming MORE complex at lower scales. The opposite is true of inanimate systems.

Example: The behavior of an ant is easy to model. The behavior of one of the systems that make up the ant — say his brain — is more difficult to model. And, a single cell? far more complex than the ant en toto. And the molecular machinery in the cell? Even more complex. The deeper down you go, the more complicated.

Inanimate objects are different. A computer is complex. An IC less so. A single transistor even less so. Etc. It gets simpler as you take it apart.
I have to zoom and scroll back and forth to read them..

Even in landscape?

Do you have a problem with text in landscape for this particular URL, or you find that you frequently do? Are you on an iPhone? If no, yes, and yes, this may shed some light: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2710764/preserve-html-fo...
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Is it perhaps a good time to remind folks that the same thing could happen to all your "secure" HTTPS websites that are completely unavailable via HTTP, where the only thing served over HTTP are the 301 Moved redirects, even for sites that don't collect any user information at all, and only serve static and public content, which really hardly benefit from the mandatory encryption?

Or is HTTPS / LetsEncrypt too big to fail? HTTPS still always a good choice? I see…
+1 also, kindle != web.
Yes, that number is very real. Especially if you start including non obvious costs like insurance, on top of ones like gas, maintainence, license and and registration, etc. I’m near $.90/in my current car. (That number is skewed high because It’s paid off early and I now have a 2 mile commute to work, so there was a lot of money upfront and I don’t pack on the miles anymore) but I would wager $.50 is right near the mean. But buying cheap used and running it 200k miles will bring your costs down for sure, but $.10? At 30mpg and $3.00/gallon you’re looking at $.10 cents a mile already!
I use firefox and am probably affected by this but don't even really notice atm. This doesn't even register on my user trust spectrum when the only other option is the browser that defines surveillance capitalism.

I think we'll all live. No need for the chicken little act.
> You don't negotiate with terrorists.

So you think the slaveowners were terrorists? You think the British in Colonial times were terrorists? On what basis?

> do you think we should have paid the British?

I answered this in another part of this subthread: yes, if the British would have accepted payment in exchange for our independence, and we could have afforded the payment, we should have paid them.
Just Launched Social Fitness Challenge App for iOS. Short on Feedback
Hello everyone.

My team just launched our social fitness challenge app, Fit User: Fitness Challenges for iOS.

The goal of the app is to provide a space and community for those that like to create, join and share fitness challenges. I always found it easier to commit to fitness when you engage with those around you, friends and family (maybe even strangers). We been trying to get more activity and feedback from our sign ups but no luck.

We would really appreciate any solid feedback to better gauge further product development and next steps.

Here's a link to the app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fit-user-fitness-challenges/id1459708132?mt=8