skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s a financial angle to this too, America’s system encouraged entrepreneurship a lot more than other countries. Niall Ferguson put it best when he said:

> The ability to walk away from unsustainable debts and start all over again is one of the distinctive quirks of American capitalism. Since 1898, it has been every American’s right to file for Chapter VII (liquidation) or XIII (voluntary personal reorganization). Rich and poor alike, people in the United States appear to regard bankruptcy as an ‘unalienable right’ almost on a par with ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.
Ascent of money, p61

Giving people a second chance created a better environment for risk takers, using trial and error until they perfect their business model.
Firefox never unseated IE as the dominant browser.

It managed to get to around 20% marketshare[1] before Chrome surpassed it[2] and then also surpassed IE.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#W3...
Is it so weird that websites for restaurants would literally have the word “restaurant” on it somewhere? Eg

> Foobar Canteen is a 2 Michelin star restaurant located in the heart of Soho.

This used to be how search engines knew what was a page about restaurants and what wasn’t.

But in any case, the problem with not returning exact strings is those times when you do need exact strings. Like researching a famous quote, passage of text or software error message.
> World War II. In WWII, the only country that had the means to meaningfully fund longer-term military research projects was the US

This is true not only for tech but also for everything else. Being poor in the USA was better than to be middle class anywhere else. Also, European scientists left to the USA.

> The development of a strong education and research system.

Yes. Education is the base for the knowledge economy.

> Market size.

Sweden is a good example of a country in a similar situation to the one in the USA. But, it is very small. Sweden has been very successful in IT but its impact is very small.

I completely agree with you.
It's something like "Go to Resource" in code editors. Tries to navigate to methods / things based on what you type
Yup. This is why people are taught not to click links in emails for things like banking. It's a dangerous world out there, even for seemingly innocuous things.
Same here, once I started using Firefox in the late 2000s I never needed anything else. Even when Chrome was the new hotness, I never considered their speed benefits beneficial enough to abandon the privacy-conscious, open-source player I grew to love. Admittedly, I even contributed to their Fire Stick project on Kickstarter and don't feel even a little disappointed that they couldn't deliver.

I never needed anything more than a kick-ass web browser.
All the more reason to use Pi-Hole. Works with any browser, incurs less overhead than an extension, and Google can't stop it.
>> I like to do minor refactoring as part of any given new feature (even if unrelated). It helps take bites out of the larger pieces over time.

This hits the mark.

I don't think developers should even necessarily explain that this is what they are doing, because then they have to ask permission to do it.

I'm constantly thanking "myself from the past" when I go to implement some new feature and find that the surrounding code is clean and well organised and ready for that new feature to be easily implemented.
Imagine a paradigm our local coffee shop isn't legally allowed to operate and Tim Hortons is ran by the government.
Thank you, it really wasn’t clear.
Civil war was eighty years earlier and didn’t result in complete destruction due to lack of technology.

In other threads mention the British tech giveaway, German scientists, and booming infrastructure compared to Europe and Asia in ruins. The can-do attitude was a multiplier.

WWII was a hundred year boost.
It’s not hypocritical to cover your ass in markets where it’s not legal, it’s just good business sense.
Even if the trade-off was real, which it isn't, reputational damage due to software issues is hard to fix, once blame is assigned correctly.

E.g. would it matter to Apple if "holding it wrong" issue was software or hardware?
It's even more damning to purely software companies.
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Neither does chromium unfortunately, although Fedora now incorporates the out of tree va-api patches for chromium by default. This is one of the biggest things keeping me on chromium, video acceleration in the browser significantly improves battery life.
+1

This seems to be pattern with all services that got infected with "Clippy" syndrome and keep stepping on your toes trying to predict/help/correct without being asked for. Then they pimp themselves on how advanced they are in leveraging AI.

I find myself learning to make explicit "wrong" choices so they're auto-correct me in the actual direction I want to go.
PG's essay from nearly 15 years ago is still very relevant and IMO sums up best why America is so dominant in tech (and ohh btw also in entertainment and a bunch of other areas)
http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
The fake clicks that this generates is one of the most trivial to filter out for even the most simple ad systems. It’s costing ad companies and advertisers approximately zero dollars.

It’s a nice additional data point to identify and track the users running it, though.
Waterfox does not
I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.
Research: Indian Coder is better than Chinese, but far from American coder
http://www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/
https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Intro

There's zero hope of implementing something like the unfortunately named Scrapbook Plus & Scrapbook X research addons. In-browser editing & powerful manipulation, full text search within saved pages, direct access to the saved archives, the sidebar, the specialized capture options and quite a bit more require features (XUL-based and otherwise) that Mozilla won't implement. It's the biggest thing keeping me on Waterfox beyond Mozilla continual slide into sleaziness on privacy and afaik no browser not based on pre-quantum firefox supports anything like it.

Beyond research or archiving pages I think will disappear If I want to yank the content from posts across five sites, clean it up quickly, merge it into a single document and export it for conversion with calibre it's trivial with Scrapbook X and a pain with anything else I've tried. If I want to archive everything that I look at while digging into a topic or site I just turn on auto-save and start browsing. I'm fairly certain having no replacement for a major part of my workflow & browsing habits doesn't mean that I'm anti-security* or I'm scared, but that Mozilla no longer supports the tools I need. I'm grateful that Waterfox does.

*It's almost a hobby: Firejail, uMatrix & NoScript in paranoid mode, rejecting all cookies by default & extensive use of containers, different vpn connections and separate profiles for different kinds of browsing, etc.
Someone started one in Australia recently, but wound up pivoting. I think % of companies in fundraising state at any time is too tiny to present an easily addressable target market.
Private property and decentralisation are good ideas.

50%+1 liking the way someone talks doesn't mean that the person is fit to manage the whole economy for four years.
Mark Zuckerberg set to face leadership vote at Annual Meet. Will he step Down?
XHTML was a step too far. It was rejected in favour of HTML4 & 5, ultimately.
This is a matter of geographic laws conflicting with worldwide applicability and something we're seeing more and more of, both with things like GDPR but also certain states having much tighter regulations around things like biometrics. In that light, it's interesting to see what Google has done with things like their Arts and Culture app, which has a "take a selfie and see what artwork you most resemble" feature. That feature (but not the whole app) is disabled if they detect that you're within the bounds of Illinois which has some of the strictest regulations about personal data.
Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.
Date-Filtersjs
The entire web fronted, and most site “business logic” is implemented in Hack (sort of PHP, statically typed)
Honestly, I didn’t feel any insight from the article. As far as I can see, the point was that they found Americans who admitted to having been duped, and since they didn’t also profile Britains who had been duped, clearly the American system is backwards.

Articles in the 1980s about televangelists at least mentioned the use of television. Articles about nondenominational megachurches make some effort to show that they’re different from other large churches. Articles about the Holy See can discuss the history of when the Vatican became an official country (more recently than I thought). This article amounts to “religious Americans are idiots.”
There's others ways to restrict access that aren't pricing. you can't marry more than one person, you can't take up all the space on a beach or a public park. it's not about price, is just laws and enforcement.

I wasn't trolling on the rest, just brave. I don't expect you to be able to respond without name calling tho, as I think you'll see free energy as topic you can't seriously touch lest it taint your reputation.
One word: baseball. Love of the sport is what makes Americans different from other nations. One man facing the opposing team. With one swing of the bat you can win it all, overcoming limits imposed by the playing field itself. Making technological innovations is very much like that.
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Reminds me of the old Schaum's Outlines, I still have a couple of them on the book shelf from college days, saved my bacon many times.
Have an example?
> Even the course instructors are likely to have comparable salaries

Why is this? Isn't there a glut of qualified liberal arts post-grads and post-docs, compared to engineering?
These things are not birds. To call them birds is insane, except if you're using the euphemism for "aircraft". Otherwise you and the other so-called "debunkers" with their convoluted logic are saying "I sitting at my computer am right, but all these government officials, scientific instruments, military personnel and civilians, they're wrong". Definition of crazy.

They're craft from unknown origins reported by multiple highly credible witnesses and systems and now being revealed to the public in a concerted way from the Navy, and former DoD and intelligence officials.

The narrative on this topic has changed, it's time to get up to date on the new perspective which is not ridicule but curiosity.

Take a look at these recent articles:

https://www.foxnews.com/science/christopher-mellon-official-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/28/ufos-exist...

https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/ufos-have-come-out-of-the-frin...
> Is it not like this already in the US?

Wasn't the case at Georgia Tech. I assume it's similar everywhere.
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
Same way you trust current compilers.
FreeCodeCamp has moved off of medium
Average salary for 7.5years exp in UK
Average salary for 7.5years exp in UK
This makes sense from the viewpoint that google is entirely beholden to their shareholders and has to maintain their insane growth. That doesn't make it ok.

It's a shame all these companies follow such a predictable pattern. Any resources to help actively ungoogle? I've switched search, email, and browser so far, and will be pushing everyone I know to avoid. Long time coming.
What we know so far about Samsung Galaxy M40?
It's dumb, but all they have to do is put the shopping cart on a responsive website instead, minor inconvenience.
You know you're in for a head banging when the Table of Contents is 25 pages long! :o
A while ago the story went around of an Uber driver who hooked up a Nintendo Switch with Mario Kart in the back seat.

That guy probably deserved a "true" 5-star rating.
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Secure destruction of customer data in the event of bankruptcy is one of the many things we need in a digital rights package.
e^iτ = 1 + 0

Fixed^2
I'm no native speaker. I've learned something new today, thank you!
There's no magical new technology that will entirely subvert the political expense of this project, but they make it explicitly clear on the Boring Company website that they have vastly improved the mostly old and uninspired technology of the tunnel boring machine itself, which will save millions at least. So like, that answers your question.
I can see Arcturus right now and the galaxy still seems to exist so I'm gonna guess b)
I believe that this sort of collection of tables is commonly called an “almanac”—but maybe only when the subject is of practical use.
By that standard, there really isn't deterministic execution. You'll always want something that simply must be recorded, such as the current time.

A better distinction: deterministic execution is when you rerun the executed instructions, depending on predictable execution to avoid needing full snapshots for all possible stopping points.

By my definition, I've been on a team that has had it working for more than a decade. We built our own hypervisor in fact, purely for internal use. It has been a neat project, providing a lot of benefit to us. Along the way we have frequently had to fight CPU errata, and Intel flat out refuses to officially support the technology.

We're hiring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601

Overall, I think that deterministic execution is going to become important to many software developers.

An interesting issue is that the typical RISC CPU can not support this. RISC CPUs tend to use nondeterministic locking sequences, generally some variation of "load locked" and "store conditional". This design error is found in all instruction sets supported by ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and RISC-V. Aside from the occasional errata glitch, Intel works fine. CISC wins.
Can you fix this issue by not hijacking keyboard shortcuts needlessly?
Linux is a third-class citizen for Firefox and its very obvious. Not only is the rendering performance and responsiveness subpar compared to Chromium, but even very basic things like XDG spec support have still not been implemented after sitting on bugzilla for more than a decade.

To me, its incredibly ironic. On one hand, it makes sense for Firefox to focus on Windows because that's where most of its users are. On the other hand, what's the point of using Firefox in such a privacy-hostile OS filled with ads, telemetry, and tracking?
I like everything else about AdNauseam but that number is kind of like the percent daily value number on food packaging. It requires making so many assumptions that you can be pretty sure that number is not useful for any meaningful decisionmaking. It's probably within 1-2 orders of magnitude of the truth, depending on where the ads were, how they were bought, what middleware was involved, etc.
Most folks wouldn't, but some on Hacker News certainly can't lose.
1. If it's so trivial and costs ad companies nothing, then why would Google go out of their way to ban the extension when it's essentially just an ad blocker that clicks on the ads in the background?

2. How would you filter out AdNauseam ad clicks with genuine ad clicks?
US energy department rebrands gas exports 'molecules of freedom'
It seems like both projects have their own raisons d'être along with trade-offs.

TS is pretty well-integrated with JS ecosystem and supported by a large player, but has an imperfect type system; Reason is more “puristic” with pattern matching and all, but you have to keep your eyes peeled for impedance mismatch.

(The docs for Reason, or BuckleScript to be exact, have warnings like “If you come from JavaScript, a Reason object doesn't compile to a JS object” sprinkled here and there.)

I personally encountered the case you described a couple of times but generally using TS still saved me a lot of time I’d have wasted debugging, with minimal time spent on getting into the ecosystem.
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SE is fluff, students need to learn the hard stuff and learn practical skills on their own. Students are hired based on theoretical knowledge and basic coding ability anyways, not practical skills.

I sat in several classes learning about the development lifecycle and it was a waste of time and money. A class where students sat on LeetCode would be much more productive and lead to better jobs.
AFAIK Tesla founders where adviced to go to Elon for venture capital because he may be interested in it.
That's bullshit, people (and other animals) are conscious even without culture.
We overestimate what we can do in a month and under estimate what we can do in a year. Love that.
Is it? I'd buy weed but not sell it. I'll watch porn but not produce it. I'll read a book but not write one.
Could ask for a three month leave from current job. To travel the world or what not.
Probably... but in any case TypeScript also supports naked (edit: I just made up the name) unions, where you don't need to declare them upfront, and where values of different types can be included directly. Such as:

let a = random() ? 'a' : 1

TypeScript infers type

string | number
Cold fusion eventually being demonstrated wouldn't surprise me, since it's not terribly hard to create fusion in relatively mild environments such as a fusor. What's difficult is getting more energy out of it than you put in to generate the reaction.
If by “student outcomes essentially boil down to parents and the students themselves” what you mean is “largely boil down to structural societal factors out of individuals’ hands, such as poverty, pollution, homelessness, unemployment, neighborhood crime, state-supported violence, lack of access to nutritious food, ...

Then sure.
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Find a bug in page 39: y' is Lagrange's notation while dx/dy is Leibniz's.
In general, sure. In reality... not necessarily. Just think about everything else that goes into providing the service and getting (and retaining) users.

After you’ve included marketing and all the business people who are guiding the direction of the product you’ve got the HR and internal IT people and systems supporting all of that.

Having 100 customers paying $10 and 1000 paying $1 are very different things. Customer service costs are going to be (likely disproportionately) higher for the latter group simply because you’ve got a different pool - they are no longer your business users and power users, they’re grandma and grandpa who have no idea what they’re doing or how to explore and figure out how to use your service. Even if you build better tools and guides for self service that’s an engineering investment.

Credit card transaction fees will also be higher. Due to the type of user you’re also going to have a much higher rate of failures, which means more retries, follow-ups (Sendgrid is charging per email after all), and more users who are in the grace period whose data you have to retain but who aren’t actually paying for it. You’ll also have more people calling in or emailing trying to resolve this, which brings us back to higher customer service costs.

So while storage seems like what you’re selling and that there should be a linear correlation between 100gb and 1tb in reality what you’re selling is the service around that storage and that’s why things will never scale the way you’d expect.
Yes, in current and recent economic regimes, the primary way of providing more value is simply by doing more of the similar valuable work. Instead of manual production of a shirt, a factory worker makes orders of magnitude more.

Increasingly though, modern economies are shifting away from this sort of work. Instead of the energy-constrained primary and secondary sectors, more things are being done on the knowledge and attention-constrained tertiary sectors.

Like, economic growth through giving people better advice is much less energy constrained than you're suggesting. There's still some limits, but overall it's not something that needs anything as drastic as economic growth limits for their own sake.
I wonder how much you'd have to pay someone in severance to make it worth it. If there's typically a 20% yearly salary piece for a recruiter, paying 10% direct to the employee in severance if their 3 months doesn't work out might make it work for a subset of people.
Ask HN: Why is tracking/advertising so bad?
I'm from a developing country, where even people working as devs/engineer prefer apps with ads over paid apps.
I think the privacy argument is looked at from a wrong angle. Not everyone can afford to pay for a subscription or even a one-time fee.
Especially, if you're from developing parts of the world.
If there are a couple of ads which subsidizes something that is otherwise unattainable for someone, I don't see why that is bad.

What's the worst thing that could happen from Google tracking me across the web could? Show me a couple of ads that it thinks is relevant from history? I don't see why that's the end of the world.

While I do believe that there should be transparency in what's collected and how it is used to prevent misuse, some of the pro-privacy arguments seem too extreme.
I'm open to other views, of course
I call it allergies
I think another big part of it is down to the lack of regulation.

Other countries with similar socioeconomic conditions tend to regulate things quicker plus have social programmes (healthcare, workers rights etc)

The US does neither.

I think this makes it easier to start in the first place.

The other part, as others have pointed out, is the extreme development the US achieved on the back of WWII that provided capital which has snowballed since.
It's been a long time since humans were far enough from Earth that their spacecraft didn't experience significant atmospheric drag.
Some of those already allowed.
Comparing pay directly like that is not very fair.

Many other things need to be taken into account including cost of living and services.
Are you looking for wisdom to apply to your day to day work? In that case, keep in mind that Facebook/Google practices are tailored for Facebook/Google problems, so their practices might not fit your situation.
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Legitimate interests are a potential backdoor to keep/sell customer data in the event of bankruptcy or ownership transfer. Provided legitimate interest can be argued, this would still be GDPR compliant. Given the potential value of the data, it's extremely unlikely that noone would try that in court, and before a final decision is made (which could take years), nothing would be deleted.
FYI I'm quoting the email list, that might not have been clear.
Her billboard only focuses on big tech. Her priority is, at best, dubious.
Nice touch:
4.15 FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM:
...
General case when n>2 was proved by Andrew Wiles (1994). The proof is too long to be
written here. See: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~anindya/fermat.pdf
Just start with one small section :P
nice work. I would have removed

most of 'PART 1: PHYSICAL CONSTANTS',
'PART 8: APPLIED FIELDS',
'PART 18: ELECTRICAL',
and some of 'PART 99: CONVERSIONS'.

"all-in-one" math seems enough :). Other stuff seems arbitrary and leaning towards physics (which could have its own giant book).
It’s already available in Singapore.
Which is a shame because JavaScript is constrained due needing backwards-compatibility above all (among other issues) but TypeScript isn't