skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting article. It shows both the benefits and the downside of this type of policy.

> He tried recruiting workers from small villages, with scant success. So last year, he began to recruit deaf employees. He refitted his machines with blinking lights and retrained managers to work with deaf people. Mr. Katona has streamlined operations to improve efficiency, including adding more robotic machines.

In a counterfactual situation where immigration continued, it seems like these Deaf people wouldn’t have been able to get jobs. On the other hand, the immigrants who couldn’t come are just as human and now lose the opportunity for the jobs.

It makes it feel like a zero-sum situation, although I know that according to economic theory freedom including the freedom to migrate would allow greater efficiency and wealth for all.
And mutton
Anger is such an interesting experience in that (if this study is correct) we tend to actually lose agency while angry, but internally I think we actually believe we have dramatically increased agency in the moment. That's part of what makes anger so dangerous. We're basically at maximum stupid while angry. Do you ever get angry and suddenly feel a loss for words? Difficulty articulating arguments? Resorting to less effective and more hurtful strategies? Regretting it later? Anger, for the most part, is useless in most modern human interactions. I think it's the sort of thing that's good at convincing a brain that horrible acts are justifiable in the moment, such was killing in war or serious altercations. Anger and fear both seem like tools for survival in a world most of us no longer live in.

As for the ethical aspect... I've dealt with an ill temper my entire life, although not many people who know me would think so. As a kid I was bullied a lot (both of these are likely direct products of me having ADD), and I used to get in a lot of trouble because my reaction was to let my rage boil over and fight these bullies. The best advice anyone ever gave me (Thanks Mr. McAneny) was that we aren't a tool of our anger, but instead, it's a tool of our creation. We're responsible for what we do with our anger, even if we're not the instigators. Anger typically leads to brutal solutions, both emotionally and physically, and it's so rare that this is necessary or remotely helpful. That really stuck with me.

I grew up with so many people telling me to use my anger against the bullies, and I think that reflects our cultural belief (or desire to believe) that our anger is justified, and what we do when we're angry is as well. I believe the truth is that it's almost never the correct response. The adults and peers around me who told me to embrace my anger probably didn't have a good understanding of why they believed that or perpetuated that belief.

All that is to say: We should stop believing in our anger so much, and start being responsible for what we do when we're angry. That seems like the most ethical solution.
Until you are out there trying to find another job in two years and people start looking at you like an old VB6 or PowerBuilder developer.....
A feature, if you will.
Isn't it likely every Huawei is backdoored by the Chinese government?
My cousin bought a Xiaomi Pocophone for $250 and I was blown away by specs and smooth experience.

8 cores, 6GB ram, 64GB internal storage, 4000 mAh battery, good cameras and screen. The list goes on.

It's not hard to imagine this type of product eating higher end's breakfast.
No, the mozilla fix should have wiped out everything this did.

Edit: I.e. you're good to go.
One of their biggest 'selling points' is that they protect your privacy. It's really, really off brand for them to be distributing a critical bugfix through a telemetry collection channel.
You could setup an alert where if the signal is lost for greater then x amount of time or the gps tracker moves more than 10ft set off an alert. You don’t necessarily need to track the boxes once the theft occurs if it’s enough to prevent it.
bad behavior isn't a function of mode of transportation. i live in central LA, but never been hit by a scooter yet have been hit by a car. i recently had to yell at some teens who were being bad while on foot. so why single out scooters?
I am curious why you're convinced that Karma is a "universal" law. Your ideaology is interesting and good-willed but I don't think the universe gives a shit about karma.
> The concept’s not unique to Ventura County, which has been using goats to trim vegetation for about five years.

In areas where fires haven't historically been as bad, it hasn't been necessary. A decade-long drought and environmental changes make things done elsewhere (Bay Area, for example) appealing in a new region.
But that's the point. Either the installer does something malicious or it doesn't. If it does you lost the game. If it doesn't then a simple check is sufficient. Everything else is security theater which makes life worse for everyone.

Also, they could still run the verification and prompt the user instead of just forcing the decision.
It's bizarre and misleading that the author didn't take the shifts in the Chinese market in the last year or two into account. The article starts out with a statement about smartphone sales being down in America across the board, but then slips into analyzing worldwide sales numbers per vendor, leading to the conclusion from the headline.

My understanding is that the majority of those shifts are from changing patterns of sales within China itself. Looking at changes in worldwide shipments without singling out how the market is changing amongst Chinese consumers is really weird given that people who follow this stuff closely have been talking about exactly that for a long time now.

If you treat the numbers within China separately from the numbers outside of China (which makes sense because completely different forces are driving those numbers inside and outside of China), then in the non-Chinese market, we would see similar patterns (Apple and Samsung down, Huawei up) but on a much smaller scale, and for different reasons. The author should've picked up on the influence of the Chinese market and focused on why it's been changing so dramatically of late. That would've been a far more insightful and interesting article. This is just a bunch of numbers graphed for maximum drama without context.
Years ago I saw paper go by, a NATO long-term "sky survey" - a color-calibrated camera watching the full hemisphere of the daytime sky somewhere in Spain(?) for year or so. As I recall it, the chromaticity of the Sun, when more than a couple of tens of degrees above the horizon, regardless of cloud cover, was nothing but white.
I might be wrong, I don't have data, but, as far as I can tell most users either use the installed browser or chrome (or whatever their tech savvy friends/relatives install for them).
Then it's misleading that the site prominently says "Latest release — Luakit 2017-08-10"
Cloudflare returns a proper response for me.

nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: archive.is
Address: 134.119.220.26
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say Electron is “wonderful”. Unless you like running battery draining, memory hogging, non native apps.

Running Electron apps anywhere is like running iTunes on Windows.
I bet there would be no shortages of workers if wages went up. But of course when the free market favors the workers, it must be regulated away. When the market favors employers, it's working as expected. The situation is the same here in the US. Idiot leader, massive corruption, economy growing, and labor "shortages." I wonder how long this condition will last before it collapses due to stupid, hateful policies. It won't be long now.
Why is the conclusion that the operator is padding its schedule instead of simply that the busses run on time? I understand that in the real world the former seems more likely, but I don’t see how that conclusion is supported by the data presented. (Caveat lector: my prob & stats is weaker than it should be; there’s a good chance I’m missing something obvious.)
I'm shocked and suprised to find out that mozilla is using EXPIRING certificates for this. It requires them to continuously take action to prevent all addons from breaking, which will eventually fail (like it did).

Firefox has a pretty robust update system and everyone is used to frequent updates. Why don't they instead have a revocation system built into updates? That way they would have to take action to disable malicious addons, and the good ones could go on working forever.

Is there something about this idea that is so much worse than what happened today?
So, I left Chrome for all the b's they were doing with/to the web. Now Mozilla is fcking it up, too. Which browser to choose now?
I remember reading this a while back. It sounded more that archive.is was blocking Cloudflare (or at least not supporting it): https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
Yea...you have a V^2 term as well from the voltage magnitudes I think...thought about adding that to my answer below afterwards, but didn't.
Maybe related to https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2792? There seems to be a workaround in that issue.
Are you using the ANKI method like what was suggested in the article?

Also, what kind of problems are you putting into the cards? Are there any "must-know" interview questions that we should all study and memorize?

Please share an example card.
Trust isn't a single static Boolean value. It depends on the situation, reputation, and many other factors. Trust is continuously re-evaluated; just because someone's coding ability was trusted in the past does not imply that their current or future actions will also be trusted.

However, the current problem people are criticizing is not about Mozilla's choices for default preferences. The specific changes they ship with the browser or update with Normandy are not (currently) particularly interesting. The problem is that a new way to remotely control the browser was added unannounced that bypassed existing update methods.

If you want to change other people's property, you get permissio9n first. If someone doesn't want to give you permission and you change their property anyway, we usually call that something like "trespassing", "vandalism". It doesn't matter if you think it's an important change or if you don't understand (or even know) their reason for not granting permission; their computer is their property, and they don't have to justify why they want to use it in any particular way.
Robot Jockey
Just curious, what is / was ICV?
He has moved to Lynx.
Apple shipments were down, but the IDC numbers reported here by Forbes are way off as noted by Xiaomi and other analysts:

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/03/ihs-markit...
Rafel • 10 hours ago
If they add a MacDonald's upstairs, it would be perfect. I would go with my children.
yes, but i also don't have the fix, since i turned off studies. i'm guessing the cert check was blocked. what url does the check attempt to connect to?
Looks like it's a known issue https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182..., yet not been fixed for at least a year
I'll reply. Firstly to the parent poster:

I'm a native English speaker who learned French to a conversational level (~B2 in the European Language Framework) before I left my home country. That language skill helped me get a job where I am now. The country I am in is multilingual, so the ability to learn languages and a willingness to make an effort with other languages is very important.

I can however understand this attitude, especially if you don't travel enough to warrant it and don't really need to use it. I feel sad typing this, because I am personally very interested in languages, but language skills in my home country aren't particularly valuable or desired and English dominates. If you decide to dedicate that time to learning a different skill, well I can't really fault that.

However I'd make some observations. Firstly, knowing some words even if you travel infrequently can be helpful. Secondly, according to wikipedia, 12% of the US speak Spanish, 29% in California. That's not nothing.

As to the benefits, I personally think there are numerous. People say you "understand the culture" or something but I'm not sure you get this unless you immerse in a native-speaking country. What you get on a purely linguistic level is an understanding of grammar, an understanding of some word roots (especially if you learn French, which had a significant influence on English as a result of the Normal invasion, or Latin. Similar benefits probably exist if you learn other romance languages or maybe German/Dutch), and an understanding of how that language influences how the speakers approach the world. Also, if you ever want to help a non-native speaker improve their English, it very much helps to appreciate the struggles they're going through.

Since this is HN, I don't think my language skills have improved my programming at all. I don't like duolingo.
Thank you for sharing this. It worked fine.

Couple of questions, where does this fix appear? I can't see it under addons or studies.

Will we be able to uninstall once a proper general fix has been released?
One screwup is enough for you to jump ship? Or have there been others? (I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be aggressive.)

I personally don't think all this talk of "Bye-bye firefox" is quite fair (I'm referring to a number of comments on this page, not yours specifically). In my opinion (you may disagree), Mozilla is one of our best and strongest allies in the fight for a fair internet. Their values matter because they still have the user base to back them up. If all of us technical-minded folk jump ship to smaller, boutique browsers at every bug and gaffe, leading to a sort of browser balkanization, then Firefox loses its strength and those smaller browsers aren't impactful enough to be able to resist Chrome/Chromium.

But, maybe your choice of browser is purely utilitarian, and that's totally fine of course.
Harvesting goat milk leaves you with two resources, goat milk and a goat. Harvesting mutton is more difficult, because you're now subtracting from your brush-eating (so, 'breating') stock. If you have too many goats, there are millions of acres of forest waiting to feed them and make more milk. If you harvest them instead of use them, you'll run out of goats.
Writing Testable Code
> I bet there would be no shortages of workers if wages went up.

Indeed. The fact that there are so many high-wage countries around Hungary is one of the reasons why it has this problem anyway.
I genuinely wonder how it is that Forbes is so consistently an anti-Apple propaganda rag.

It's not subtle, is shockinly consistent, and I wonder how they can think their implausible bias serves their purpose as a "news" outlet.
Yea, I just use the types of problems that you’d see on Leetcode or any of the other code practice sites.

The one that I did this morning was:

If given the root of a binary tree, calculate the number of unival subtrees contained in the tree.

The back is usually either blank, or has a space and time complexity that I should get if I did it correctly.

It’s important to make sure you solve it at least once, and understand the solution well before you make a card of it.
Weren't there also beavers being introduced at one point as well (beaver dams slow the outflow of water, allowing it to actually soak into the ground rather than just running straight to the ocean)
There is smoke everywhere already when a big operation is underway. And it tends to be out in the middle of nowhere.
The lack of objective, conclusive evidence.

The lack of a cohesive and consistent narrative.

The current geopolitical climate.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17742457
If the GPLv2 GRUB ZFS code[1] wasn't enough to get someone started then I doubt this will make any different in porting ZFS to GPL given there would be more work involved in turning this into a usable kernel driver.

Not taking anything away from the work that the author has done though. It's a nice project. I just think a little pragmatism is needed before we get carried away with the ZFS GPL comments.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/zfs-under-gplv2-already-exi...
For some (a minority, undoubtedly), Apple's ecosystem is exactly what keeps them away. I don't want to be told what I can and can't do with my devices and have Apple pull the strings of vendor lock-in under the guise of security.
Those workers have yet to show up. And hundreds of thousands of young Hungarians who left in recent years for better-paying jobs in Europe’s big cities are not heeding Mr. Orban’s call to return and serve their homeland.

The labor shortage has grown so acute that the government recently pushed through a contentious bill to address it. Widely referred to as the slave law, it allows employers to require up to 400 hours of overtime annually from its workers, while delaying compensation for up to three years. Mr. Orban’s Fidesz party promoted the measure as good for workers, saying it would let “those who want to work more earn more.”

In America, we call these "right-to-work" laws. To my knowledge, none have gone this far yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
Slightly off topic, but if you are multilingual, teach your kids. My parents are fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Kekchi, ASL, and English between the two of them. But they didn't bother to teach me or my siblings, so we only speak American English.
IDC estimate of iPhone sales 'highly inaccurate' to the point of 'embarrassing'
He should have just invented another word for his interpretation of what he defines as free will. Otherwise it creates confusion for people who assume they're making their own choice and without understanding the choice was derived from all the external forces upon oneself; where nobody has any control in what the future experiences shall be.
It depends on their source. If they’re washed they need to be refrigerated, and if they’re not they can just hang out at room temp.
Lynx, Midori, Safari, IE6. Maybe Palemoon, Samsung browser is another possibility. Maxthon was popular for a bit. Maybe you're super 1337 and run in only curl or wget.
> Yes, you did:

>> "So you think [..]"

Um, I ended that sentence with a question mark. Implying a question. But you conveniently left that out of your quote, so amusingly now you're putting words in my mouth. (Although who cares? I don't!) Maybe I should have phrased it "So do you think" but it would have essentially been the same sentence and typing on my ipad is annoying. I was asking you if you thought this was a good thing for Mozilla. Which you dodged to turn this into a debate about proper etiquette instead of answering the question directly. It was a leading question, sure, but I was making a point.
it's to share work with others, i believe. nothing more really.
I still think the epitome of 80's "engineering" belonged to Tomy. Their engineers and product designers were mechanical engineering wizards.

I personally think they showed absolute mastery of the subject with the release of the Tomy Armatron.

It may not seem possible, but that 5 axis robot arm was completely mechanical. The entire drive system was powered by a single 3 volt DC motor that ran on two D-cells.

It had two joysticks for control; each had, IIRC, 4-way directional control, along with stick rotation mechanically coupled to a complex transmission system that controlled each axis (I believe the rotation of the stick controlled on one side the jaws of the gripper, while the other controlled rotation of the wrist).

It really is the most complex manual transmission control scheme you can imagine.

It was built upon years of similarly complex systems for various tabletop "games" (Atomic Pinball, for instance), as well as weird mechanical and electronic systems for their various entertainment robots they created (culminating in the Omnibot robot line).

Check it all out if you ever have the chance. Most of these robots have become collectors items (and should be treated as such for the most part), but the Armatron was mass produced and licensed all over the place, with Radio Shack being the main outlet in the day; you can find used RS-licensed Armatrons all over Ebay cheaply. In fact, there's so many RS Armatrons available, you hardly ever see an actual Tomy branded one (if you ever find one, especially NIB, and it's cheap - grab it and hold onto it).

There are more than a few articles on the internet detailing how to modify the Armatron to connect it to a computer (back in the day, the common machine to do this with was an Apple or Commodore). Many of these articles have tear-down images showing the inner workings of the Armatron.
I can report a connection failure while being on a unrestricted connection (University internet in the UK).
What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?
This is awesome! Do you plan on blogging anything about how you went about reverse-engineering?
>> Classes with other students are just about the least effective way to learn a foreign language.
> Well, sure a private tutor is better, but that's a lot more expensive.

In my experience, a private tutor really is not any more expensive than an classroom environment when you factor in the reduced number of hours needed. I have been taking language lessons online with 1-on-1 tutors (via Skype) through italki. You can easily find good native speakers with teaching qualifications for under $15 / hour. I find that I get more out of a dedicated hour with a tutor than half-day course in a classroom.
Confirmed working with 66.0.3 (64-bit) on macOS 10.14.4 (18E226). After installation all plugins immediately came back.

This should really be one of the official ways to apply the patch instead of only telling users "it can take up to 6 hours for the fix to be installed" after enabling Shield studies. I can only imagine what kind of havoc this creates in businesses using Firefox working weekends.
Asyncio for PHP. You learn something new every day.
In response to that "unfixed" issue, they noted - in a timely manner, last year - that archive.is is returning bad IPs to them, which is preventing them from serving good IPs:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

> Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor.

And indicate that anyone who knows how to contact archive.is can ask them to resolve the issue:

> If you have a contact on the domain owner, you can ask them to fix this.

EDIT: This is knowingly blocked by archive.is. Reasoning and discussion elsewhere in post comments. No need to contact archive.is about it, they’re clearly aware.
It’s usually just a problem and sometimes a simple example I can write as a test case for correctness.

Some cards I’ve put in lately are:

Calculate the level of a binary tree with the minimal sum of its elements.

Reconstruct a binary tree given an inorder and preorder list of the nodes.

The backs are usually blank or space and time complexities that I should be able to achieve.
I was wondering about those valuations. $1000 per hive is a lot. A top condition Manuka hive here in New Zealand wouldn’t get particularly close to half that.
"allow greater efficiency and wealth for all."

As far as I'm aware, migration increases wealth, I don't think its necessarily distributed evenly. That's where govt policy's should be stepping in.