skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows starts to have something but it is only available in last versions of Windows 10, probably not enabled by default, and the model might not be exactly what is needed anyway.

I don't even remember what it is supposed to protect against precisely -- and MS does not do a lot of communication about it. They maybe don't officially consider it a security boundary (same as UAC). Mozilla seems to be concerned about attackers having admin privileges (but that are still shy of just plainly hacking the Firefox binary or something crazy like that): quite hard to defend against that... and if you can, that means the user actually has lost some control over its own computer, which is a situation which has its own issues.
> which is proven to get people around dense cities more efficiently

Only for specific definitions of "efficient". You get higher throughput, and with that higher latency.

Not everyone needs a whole car, though. Motorcycles, for example, would be a more efficient use of roads, increasing throughput without sacrificing latency, and also decreasing the parking footprint necessary per capita (these are, in fact, the two primary reasons why I'm strongly considering getting an M-class endorsement and buying a motorcycle, or at the very least getting a motorized scooter that doesn't require said M-class endorsement; the tertiary reason of "motorcycles are fucking badass" certainly doesn't hurt the former option, either). Should be no surprise that in most dense cities you see outside the US, motorcycles and scooters compose a significant portion of road traffic.
Sure! Lets all leave to make room for the homeless inbound and let the city figure our how to fund their failing experiments.
Having come from nuclear engineering, I'd say it's pretty typical for people speaking of large conceptual engineering designs. Paper reactors, paper spaceships, etc. are often spoken of in present tense. The design exists now and it has a name - that's the way I interpret it.
I can throw in my 2 cents here as a Schwab customer.

Schwab will let you buy CDs at any bank via a brokerage account linked to your checking or savings. Basically, they'll transfer the money to whatever bank has the CD you want, and transfer it back to you with the interest at expiration. Ditto for T bills. It's an excellent product to increase yield without taking on default risk
Haha why?
I’m not downvoting you but I’m skeptical that the problems with homelessness can be fixed by putting more money toward mental health care. Are there a lot of skilled mental health practitioners who aren’t working due to a lack of demand?
> Is it true that plotters were the first graphical device to be controlled by computers?

Do you count differential analyzers as computers?

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

If so, then yes.

IIRC, some of the input devices to such machines were x/y "pointer" tables - imagine a flatbed plotter, where you moved the part where the pen would go, in order to input cartesian coordinates (or a continuous value I suppose, composed of x/y values?)...

Prior to oscilloscopes (but after differential analysers) - the Williams Tube was used as a memory system. It could be considered a form of bitmap display, except you'd have to only use it in a dark room (and no camera flashes, dammit!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
Tesla is also just a battery company. They're not specialized in A.I. or even scalable car manufacturing, as they've struggled to hit quotas.

The final computer vision product they're trying to build isn't something you can just bootstrap your way into. Or even will, because building fleets of self driving cars means less car owners and customers for your main business.
> The companies don't bear the tax burden, the employee does.

When employees increasingly leave the SF Bay Area or refuse to relocate to the SF Bay Area, driving up the cost of acquiring talent, the companies most certainly are bearing the burden.
The global economy is denominated in currencies without any resource backing.

Sooner or later the world will wake up and realize that the global economy, driven by fiat currency, doesnt actually reward anything other than growth.

The closer you are to the federal reserve on the economic ladder, the cheaper your cost of capital.
Thanks for your response.

An update being deactivated doesn't trigger an update check for said addon? Well, complexity of a graceful update attempt for a not loadable addon probably outweighs the benefit of such rare cases.

But the main reason I had a hard time with you guys discarding this path is probably addon stats like [0]. The spike in downloads made me think it could have helped at least some users. But on second thought, it might also have been caused by extensions getting re-enabled post fix. 2m downloads at 4m DAU makes me guess this was caused by something automatic.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Sort of related: popOS is the most beautiful Linux desktop I’ve used. And the Gnome extensions make for very easy customization.
> Nobody talks like this about traffic. More lanes, same slow traffic speed. Yep, that's newly satisfied demand. It's also widely considered undesirable and self-defeating.

It’s only considered undesirable by urbanists. Building more lanes allows more people to travel without making commute times longer. That’s a win. (Here in DC, we are moving from six car trains to eight car trains. That doesn’t make the trips any faster, but allows meeting unmet demand. Nobody disputes that’s a win.) There may be a downside if you’re just encouraging people to move out of the city into suburbs, but in many cases living in the city isn’t an option for those people to begin with. In any case, no equivalent downside exists for housing—the new houses will generally be sold to people who weren’t living in your city and paying taxes there to begin with.
Sorry to nitpick, but I think you might have confused 10k feet vs 10k meters (10kms). The grandparent was using feet. 10k feet is about 3kms, the height of a medium sized mountain. 10kms is about the height of Everest, whose peak does not have trees at all. I don't know at what elevation trees stop appearing, but it would be well under 10kms.
> The notion that this was a deliberate ploy to get more people to turn on Studies is surely conspiracy-theorist mumbo-jumbo, but nonsense like this makes me wonder.

This is not the case. Please see my response downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872490
Zuckerberg Smile
The naming is a bit annoying, but they are completely different kinds of thing: AVI is a container format (which can contain a variety of different codecs, e.g. mpeg-4), and AV1 is a codec (which can be put in a variety of different container formats, e.g. mp4). We don't seem to get confused between mpeg-4 and mp4, which have the same kind of similarity.
A-bomb is rather hard to make in your backyard and materials are relatively easy to detect and control. Lots of cooperation and time is needed. Imagine though a technology more lethal and easier to produce, available to everyone. For example bioengineering advanced to the point every script kiddie with a cheap biofabricator from aliexpress can design a contagion on their holodeck.

Sure, serious people will have orders of magnitude more advanced techniques to fight it, but could they be deployed fast enough to save half of the megapolis attack was released in?

See Nick Bostrom's Vulnerable World Hypothesis for other examples. Summary and link here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Tx6dGzYLtfzzkuGtF/the-vulner...
I used to work for Splunk. Querying Splunk with SQL is completely plausible, and something that Splunk has made a number of attempts at over the years.

The problem isn't SQL. It's that Splunk's query engine is tied up internally with a "grammar" that is a direct port of a shell pipeline into C++ with no intermediate representation or anything a compiler guy would recognize as a grammar. There was no design, no mathematical underpinning to it.

Splunk's unstructured log capabilities are really domain knowledge about making them semistructured as fast as possible: token indexing, a lot of effort on recognizing character encodings and timestamps intelligently, looking for key=value pairs, and letting people write regexes to extract fields themselves. The query language isn't somehow designed for a different data model.

In EWD1123, Dijkstra showed that the relational calculus and the regularity calculus (which governs regexes) are basically the same thing. My takeaway from that is that the relational model can be reinterpreted as a model over anything you want to match and manipulate with regexes by just changing the field selectors.
Blue origin can't build a moon rocket by 2024, so maybe they can settle for the lander. Here's the vision I bet they're aiming for: a Spacex rocket, a United Launch Alliance capsule, a Blue Origin lander, and a round of pork barrel in every Congressional district.
https://draw.io
Yes, it's different in the Adobe Software case, because they chose to attach a license to it. They could have just as well sold, not licensed, individual copies, the same way that books are sold.

Books and software don't differ intrinsically - the business practices of software vendors differ from those of book vendors.

What bothers me is the pretense that the only possibilities are licensing software, with all of the zero rights that usually entails, or buying the entire copyright to the software, for, as you said, millions of dollars. It borders on a lie of omission - it's perfectly possible to sell copies of software - vendors just choose not to.
>I am holding myself legally liable for that decision

Yes that's one of the key things I was taught during my engineering degree here is Australia. If you certify something as fit for purpose while acting in the role of a professional engineer you can be held legally liable if you were found to be negligent in performing your duties.

In short we were taught if you are going to sign off on something as being safe and fit for purpose you had better make damn sure of it.

Ethics in general was a big part of my degree (I was at uni in the mid 2000's) there were mandatory course on social responsibility and ethics every year from second year through to fourth year. These included topics on subjects like liability, whistle-blowing and disclosure.

In general I think the large focus engineers have on ethics is a big reason the public has a lot of trust in engineers and engineers regularly rank highly in list of most trusted professions (For example here: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ranked-australias-20-most...)
Much of SF's homeless population is not local to SF. Part of the problem with spending money on the homeless is that it draws more homeless seeking those services. And in many cases, other states and cities have "solved" their homeless problem by shipping their homeless to CA. (Texas, especially, is notorious for this.)

Not saying that SF is well-run or not, merely that the homeless problem isn't simply due to the city's response.
The {} construct seems awfully close to NULL. Not sure I understand the fundamental difference -- having a third value in boolean contexts still introduces 3VL.

Why not just use an Option/Maybe type?
Planet Money, Invest Like the Best, the Knowledge Project.....I mostly just look for episodes with people and topics I like featured
Speaking as someone who has bypassed the interview/wizard mode since it was invented...

The advantage of TurboTax is that it incorporates the relationships between different lines of all the forms.

So your workflow doesn't have to involve reading and understanding all of them up front. Rather, you can enter numbers and see how they change, and deduce the rules from that.

To some people, this is a much easier way of understanding a complex system. It may be partly personal preference, but I think also that instructions everywhere, are getting worse and worse, and so it's becoming more practical to take an experimental approach in a variety of situations.
The fun part of the "I'm mad at those wealthy people over there" movement is that the industry the disdain is directed at is hotswappable.

I travel a lot. Pointing at "tech" is a red herring that ensures the most vulnerable people won't figure it out. I would say "tech" is the most inclusive of all the wealthy gentrifiers.

There is no specific university you have to go to, there is no specific fraternity you need to be part of, there is no degree you actually need, very different than high finance or upper class Chinese estate planners.
https://humanetech.com/

Attention economy unintentionally promotes "human downgrading"

Great opportunity to innovate on apps and services that promotes reversal of human downgrading.
Good. UWP sucks.
I'm pretty sure it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_(Mozilla) says quantum shipped in 57.
That's not what he said. You can pass a law to remove/consolidate/correct regulations, which is what they should be doing if they want more affordable housing...
I know full well it's not actually the case, but that doesn't make it not feel like it could be the case. It feels scummy, and I'd expect Mozilla to be above that scumminess.

Like, just link to the XPI. Not that hard. The unexplained reluctance to do so is suspicious.
Frankly, I'm really, really tired of this being brought up in every single Wolfram-related thread.

Mathematica is used by a lot in academia, and you'll find it cited in Methods section often. I personally know a lot of incredibly talented and prolific physicists who swear by it, and have used it to get very good work done.
Yep, shelling out to ffmpeg on your production network is probably not particularly scalable nor safe.
Can someone explain why they are raising taxes specifically for stock-based-compensation and not for all high-income-compensation? What's so special about lawyers and bankers making hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash-compensation, that they deserve an exemption from these tax increases?
That would only solve part of the problem. There’s still the influx of homeless from outside the city and state to deal with.
The API is very stable. Any Win32 app from the last 24 years will still run. 16 bit apps will still run on the 32 bit version of Windows. They promote the cool new thing every so often, but all the old stuff still works and eventually gets the access to the new features.
What politicians do is just narrowly target a proposed tax to apply to a small group of people that they can paint in an unsympathetic light.

So rephrasing the question, "what exactly stops a city from enacting a 100 year retroactive income tax on those in the 1%?"

Those with the most to lose are the least likely to burn down city hall.
I'm a relatively recent Firefox user (within the past few months), so that was far before I switched over.
Probably the same reason Volkswagen doesn't spend its billions lobbying the German government to change its stance on refugees?
LoL has the esports aspect and Riot is careful about pay-to-win therefore, and keeps it interesting for competitions. It is indeed probably one of the least exploitative companies in that field. Its competition aspect is extremely addictive and easy to fall for though, and may ultimately leave you unsatisfied from thousands of repetitive gaming hours if you don't become engaged in real life esports / hobbyist communities in parallel. Not sure whether it is engineered to hook players so much though (Fortnite probably is).

With "Mario Kart multiplayer" I mean the experience of 4-player couch multiplayer, not online multiplayer.
Which is sad because webm in browsers already passes the right click test but websites have started a trend of blocking users from saving content so they choose to share a link instead which brings in more ad views.

When I want to copy an image from Instagram I have to use the dev tools to find it.
I use Firefox Nightly as my primary browser on Android. It works fine. You can get it on the Play Store right alongside where you'd get non-Nightly Firefox for Android. I'd hardly call that a "barrier to entry" at all (certainly no more than there would be for, you know, normal Firefox).
Apple is already doing this. They've recently required that ALL software run on Mac is signed by them, even apps from outside of the App Store.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=04102019a

Not much longer until we can't run software Apple doesn't like at all.

Because I shouldn't get a say in what I run on my four thousand dollar computer, of course.
> If you build more housing and prices don’t go down, that means your satisfying unmet demand.

That's not in dispute.

> And that’s a good thing too

It's a good thing if the tax revenue plus positive externalities created by the additional residents outweighs the public service cost and negative externalities.

It is by no means given that this is the case.

> If you keep building, then at some point the unmet demand will be met

Assuming that the unmet demand doesn't expand faster than you build, sure. And since if you build fast enough you adversely impact living conditions and decrease demand, that's actually quite easy to guarantee. OTOH, no one in the existing population wants that, and no in government wants that on their resume.

Can you realistically meet unmet demand in a small city with high global demand other than by crushing demand by making the city unattractive to live in? It is not obvious that the answer is yes, and it's not really an attractive experiment to run.
This isn't as bad as it seems on Desktop. If you build to the old old api (win32), it has enough support to basically work forever. Longer if you stick around to release updates.

If you build to the new release, there's a good chance it's not going to work well on the next one though. This is part of why Windows Mobile failed. There weren't that many apps to begin with, but you needed to build differently for WP7, WP8, and WM10 if you wanted things to really work. And WM10 never got any users.
Indeed. There's much more symmetry outside of the criminal law. Not sure if applicable to the US, but in my home country you can sue people if you want money from them (as one would expect), but you can also sue "to determine whether a payment is needed", which means you initiate a lawsuit that can result in you paying the money. This may make sense if you deny the claim and are wealthy (i.e. you could pay up) and want to speed up clearing the air. Otherwise the claimant can wait a few years and use the court approved interest rate (high) to hit you over the head a few years down the line.
My mind just bounces off these sort of scales, once we're into the billions.
Does the current user have rights to write to the Firefox install location? If not then elevation is required to overwrite the files.
Ah, the "North Korea" strategy to make San Francisco affordable. Yeah, that would probably work. Kind of a roundabout way of doing things with a lot of other bad consequences, though.
Mozilla is already packaging the executable inside an archive. That archive contains the executable, manifest, and any other needed files. The signer can add a timestamp, either as a new file or as a part of the manifest. Then the timestamp is signed along with everything else, and can be checked for validity.
How to make housing more affordable: 1) cut red tape 2) relax zoning requirements. Both are politically unpalatable, so around and around we go appropriating money that governments don’t even know what to do with.
Yeah! Let’s turn this (and other cities) back to the crime ridden shitholes they were in prior glory!
Something like this can be (and is) done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
Well of course everything you said is kinda true. Go is not going replace Java in one-to-one replacement type projects. It is going to be in a way like Cloud vendors have creamed traditional IT/outsourcing vendors or IPhones crushed blackberry.

At some point existing Java systems will stop delivering value compared to their maintenance cost in lot of situations. This is where Go as replacement will come in handy.
Having moved from San Francisco to Champaign, IL myself. There’s something to be said for a 5 min commute, lower taxes, a yard. There’s still a fairly large tech community here. Wolfram has its headquarters here, and there’s tons of tech companies, albeit mostly remote offices.

Honestly, I’d have trouble moving back to a large city. It doesn’t have much more to offer, and what I’d have to give up is significant.
I have software product that only about 200 companies in United States need - the internet has made discovering, selling, iterating and supporting those companies significantly easier than it would have been 20 years ago in a software world of boxed retail software, mail-order catalogs, trade shows, and phone calls.
All developer-ID signed software downloaded from the internet with the quarantine bit set.
I really don't get why everyone thought putting dead-man-switches ON EVERYTHING was a good idea. Boils my blood thinking about it. So wasteful. Such disrespect for the future. But hey, security. Can't argue with that!
I mean... that's how the cookie crumbles unfortunately. California is the most survivable climate for the homeless and for some reason people applaud local governments busing the homeless to California - as long as those two factors remain in place it's up to California to fix it.

With that understanding there should be more national funding going toward the homeless issue - and if there's one local economy that could actually afford to fix the problem it's SF.
Elon Musk is a meme.
I read your comment as suggesting that certain actions aren't a good use of time or that they shouldn't be done because they don't fully solve the problem.

I understand the dissatisfaction with half-measures. But I would argue as long as the actions have a meaningful impact and there isn't a promising alternative, it is still worthwhile.
>This new printer was based on a small, stack-based Turing-complete language called Forth, and they named it… the Interpress!

Xerox's laser printers were never "based on Forth".
JAM and Interpress were only conceptually related to Forth, in that they used postfix semantics.

That's like saying that because Java byte code uses a stack, your Android phone is based on Forth. It's not. Stack based architectures (like the Burroughs B5500 and B6500, developed in 1962, which directly inspired Design System => JAM => Interpress => PostScript) have been around a lot longer than Forth (developed in 1970), and simply using a stack doesn't make a language Forth.

Here's a much more accurate and detailed historical account of the history of Interpress, written by Brian Reid:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fa.laser-lovers/H3us...

Gaffney came to E&S from graduate school at the University of
Illinois, where he had used the Burroughs B5500 and B6500 computers.
Their stack-oriented architectures made a big impression on him. He
combined the execution semantics of the Burroughs machines with the
evolving Evans and Sutherland imaging models, to produce the Design
System. Like all successful software systems, the Design System slowly
evolved as it was used, and many people contributed to that evolution.

John Warnock joined Xerox PARC in 1978 to work for Chuck Geschke.
There he teamed up with Martin Newell in producing an interpreted
graphics system called JAM. "JAM" stands for "John And Martin". JAM
had the same postfix execution semantics as Gaffney's Design System,
and was based on the Evans and Sutherland imaging model, but
augmented the E&S imaging model by providing a much more extensive
set of graphics primitives. Like the later versions of the Design
System, JAM was "token based" rather than "command line based", which
means that the JAM interpreter reads a stream of input tokens and
processes each token completely before moving to the next. Newell and
Warnock implemented JAM on various Xerox workstations; by 1981 JAM
was available at Stanford on the Xerox Alto computers, where I first
saw it.