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I must disagree with the rose colored view of the Ivy Leagues always requiring hard work (it has long been about connections and making excuses for old money and supersonic goal posts for any upstarts who threaten their demographics by making it an actual meritocracy)

But it is true that there are real incentive issues. GPA as a metric especially in High School is problematic in that it encourages students going with what they are already good at instead of where they may have room to grow and explore. I could see a case for keeping GPA "internal only" but that puts more emphasis on standardized tests which are already a teach to test black hole.
Technical correction. Edge had its own engine: Spartan

> The Spartan rendering engine (edgehtml.dll) is a new component and separate from Trident (mshtml.dll). The new engine began as a fork of Trident, but has since diverged rapidly over the past many months, similar to how several other browser engines have started as forks prior to diverging. The new rendering engine is also being built with a very different set of principles than Trident - for example: a focus on interoperability and the removal of document modes.

https://www.neowin.net/news/whats-powering-spartan-internet-...
“If I went as a contactor in the UK id expect 2x to 3x when compared to a FTE at a similar grade.”

At least in the US that’s often not how it works. The agency takes a big cut and the contractor probably makes less than an FTE. In my company must contractors are super eager to go full time given the opportunity.
In fairness, no one needs to be convinced that nuclear plants are better than coal plants. The problem is the renewables.

In Iowa, they are in the process of shuttering their nuclear plants. Now no one in Iowa was out protesting the plants or anything, but here's the issue. Windmills have reached a level of practicality and low cost that encouraged Iowans to slap them up almost everywhere. (Seriously, drive through Iowa sometime and you'll see what I mean.) Even relatively small investors can get together, slap up some windmills, and start making some money.

Now imagine you're in Iowa and deciding on which electric bill you want to pay. Do you want to pay the 2 to 3 cents per kWh for wind? Or do you want to pay the 5x cost for coal or nuclear? Not surprisingly, Iowans, who are more poor than most of you on the coasts, have switched to wind in a big way.

It's a money problem. If we want nuclear, we have to convince the government to subsidize it. You're not going to find a lot of people out there who will just agree to sign up and pay 5 to 10 times the electricity bill just for the pleasure of saying they're using carbon free nuclear.

It's like organic food. Sure, maybe it is better for them.

But a lot of the masses only see the price tag.
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It most definitely does include all blue collar jobs that are contracted out, including janitors, receptionists, cafe staff, security guards, movers, and more.
If I recall correctly, this is actually due to a security restriction that Google has circumvented since it built both the browser and the application.

If you could right click to paste, that would mean it would be possible for Javascript to access your clipboard on any site you go to. Firefox enforces the appropriate security setting here, Chrome simply has some sort of workaround built in by Google to allow them to make the UX slightly better on their own site.
Heh. While I was at Google I was surprised to gradually realized how many the technical teams we worked with were actually non-employee contractor teams. It might vary by division.
> user-agent check ... don't assume any ill intent.

A user-agent check is ill intent for exactly the reasons you state:

> we've known for years that feature detection is preferable to user-agent detection

Wasn't Google the company that pushed this in the early days of Chrome?
Delta chat will never take off because every single mail provider throttles the number of emails going through its servers to prevent spam.
Thanks, that's encouraging to hear!

Although I still worry about the case where fixing the deviance would break production apps. Potentially break them, since people won't complain until you release the breaking browser version. That's what's usually kept browsers from hewing to standards.
Supposing they were held in contempt, what does that mean?

I’ve seen this story a couple of times now and both sources had the quote, “Nobody is going to come with some handcuffs and arrest them, but to be held in contempt by an entire country would not serve any platform well.”

I would assume that there would be some punishment though, otherwise what power does a summons really have? Or is it just assumed that the market will punish Facebook because users won’t want to use the service of a founder who has been held in contempt of parliament?
Ok but how do you know which perspective/interpretation of things is the 'correct' one? Or are all correct and you just have to hold them all in your mind at the same time?

(This is a question I'm struggling with for real right now so if I could get some kind of answer to this it would ease a lot of my brain pressure. I never used to have this problem before I learned how to 'generate' new perspectives by 'thinking with words'. It always used to be just one perspective, just one identity.)
What was your role/job title?
I think its trying to point out that companies are increasingly relying on non-FTE positions. Why they are doing it is obviously about benefits. I don't work for Google but I do work for a massive international company and on my team there are three FTE positions and over twenty contractors. For daily work there is no difference. However as an FTE I get the usual benefits along with a pretty nice training budget for personal development, very generous PTO and extra time off. Most of the contractors will have their contracts renewed until they move on somewhere else or an FTE position opens and they get that. So essentially companies are using temp and contract resources to avoid the cost of having what they need as FTE positions.
For sure! August is a great time to visit FWIW, Parisians flee the city for vacation (and the tourist load is always high here any time of the year anyway), so more quiet and calm.

The catacombs are constant temperature, so a great way to escape the heatwave ;)
I'm arguing that it's suspicious to me that someone would say that things only started getting bad around the time where black people were allowed into white-only instutitions and had access to white-only environmnents, and before that time it was completely fair and should be returned to. That that was the point where I paused and decided maybe this person doesn't actually have much of merit to say and queried HN as to if the author has any actual, substantial points.
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> A lot of what happens in someone like Chrome implements something not yet standardized, then it gets standardized in a different way

This. The Chrome team is hopelessly optimistic when making assumptions about how standards evolve. See Web Bluetooth which was heavily advertised to developers before other browser eventually chimed in and said, "yeah, we're not doing that."

Still turned on by default in modern Chrome without a flag, probably because the Chrome team is still assuming that eventually the API will be standardized to Chrome's specification.
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I'd like to point out that nuclear generates power via steam that spins a turbine. It's how you create the steam that's different.

As far as for profit reactors vs. non-profit, do you have any examples of this? The ones I'm aware of (in the U.S.) are utility owned but tightly regulated.
I'm so glad to see you bring this up. In my graduate physics training, I was taught to be extremely cautious about statistical significance, error propagation, and error bars. I remain skeptical of our conclusions about AGW, not because I have a political view on the subject, but because I'm skeptical that our temperature measurements from 120 years ago have a precision of less than 1 degree C.

But I (sincerely) assume that the climate scientists working in this space have compensated for this lack of precision in their conclusions. Right?
What "meat industry"? From the quoted link:

> These organizations are dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of science-based knowledge concerning animal agriculture.

This is a scientific magazine on a particular domain (animal agriculture).

Even so, this article should be discussed on its own. And its author, Dr. David M Klurfeld, is not associated with the meat industry.

If you just want to suppress discussion of health benefits of meat why not just honestly say so? After all, that's likely the motive behind this submission getting flagged.
>“We managed to find quite a lot of data on individual people, which would include sensitive information,” Biteniece says. “Like a serviceman having a wife and also being on dating apps.”

I wonder if you could play it the other way like a double agent.

Have a target do those things that you know the opposition is going to look for. Have them jump on a dating app, have them wear a fit bit and visit some sites of interest, and see how quickly someone contacts them / how / what they eventually ask for / offer?

It seems logical to do that already, and to some extent easier to possibly play the double agent role?
But I expressly wouldn't include a 30-100k library just to wrap a couple of repeated functions.

I happily write them myself. It's a few seconds of work, really.
Ask HN: What job is both technical and functional?
Hello HN,

I am graduating soon and I don't want to be a full-time dev but I don't want to be fully business-oriented either.

What kind of jobs would be good for a profile like mine ?

I have both a good technical (lots of projects in multiple languages/frameworks) and a good functional background (PM internships for about 1 year).
I am afraid that my profile is too much of a jack-of-all-trades master of none type of thing.

Thank you.
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Let me know if you're open to a non-sales call so that we can be sure to get your input document and understand your issues. Feel free to contact feedback@codeship.com if you'd like to set something up or send us some notes.
This is kind of why I'm a little concerned with how well HBO's Chernobyl is being received...I really hope it doesn't lead to widespread fears of nuclear plants.
> how much effort should Google be expected to expend supporting other browsers?

Given that Chrome is dominant, the answer is "a lot of effort". Anything less, and it looks like abuse of dominant position.
Upon skim, the study appears to be about the relationship between meat consumption and colon cancer, not the more general question of what role it plays in a healthy diet.

Everything I have ever read seems to indicate that people who are strict vegetarians, especially strict vegans, have trouble getting enough B vitamins. If you consume some animal products, such as seafood but not beef or chicken ("pescatarian"), this is not an issue.

I think there is an argument to be made that eating a low meat diet is generally wiser for most people. It's also easier on the earth -- which is a not insignificant detail these days, what with there being 7 billion people on the planet.
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And it’s cheaper to dump it in the ocean than to dispose of it safely.
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In my experience, while many people don't like to admit it, useragent detection is still one of the best ways to handle many bugs and edge cases in large applications.

Feature detection works well for new features or well documented failures, but it quickly begins to break down in many edge cases.

For example, mobile Safari shipped a broken implementation of IndexedDB for a while and detecting that was a big pain, but swapping the known bad versions to use websql or localstorage worked great. Edge (pre chromium) had some really weird bug with the JIT and the javascript `.call` function for a bit, but there was no realistic way that I could detect just that bug, so I fell back to useragent detection.

There are tons of bugs that I've found over just the last few years that are due to one bad version, or some specific OS/browser/hardware combo, or are just flakey and hard to trigger with code in the page, therefore they are hard to "feature detect".

I have a feeling the amount of those kinds of bugs that you see and their frequency only gets worse when you have monumentally huge amounts of traffic and users as someone like Youtube does, and while I think we should still hold them to a good standard, I can see why they would fallback to UA detection.

After all, it's better to have a well working experience for most users (even with a subset of the features) than one which breaks 1% of the time (and every time it breaks, like it or not, the users are going to blame the site not the browser).

What we really need (in my opinion anyway) is a way of doing UA detection that is much more scoped to specific versions, and remove the ability for those feature detections to accidentally impact new versions or other browsers (either accidentally or on purpose).

Something like setting the browser name/version to a hash of the version number and a secret for each version, and possibly doing the same with other parts of the UA (like hardware/device name and OS name/version).

Then people like youtube could block known broken or bad useragents from getting some features to avoid serving code that breaks to those users, and then the onus is on them to update their lists every time a new version comes out. There are obviously ways around it (UA checker as a service?), but it at least makes it harder for lazyness to take over.
The problem is when one friend demands Signal, another WhatsApp, another Matrix, another Telegram, another Threema. These are all closed platforms and having loads of different apps installed which perform similar functions，to satisfy various people's dogmatic views is annoying.
> Have they already forgotten the dumb "best viewed in IE" banners that magically vanished as soon as the user-agent changed?

They have not. It's just that Google is the top tog now, and doesn't care.

While Microsoft is the underdog, and linux is not a cancer and they love open source.

And in 20 years this may very well reverse again.

The bottom line is to not expect share holders driven multinationals to do what you think is right. They are nor good or bad, just without the need for moral, and only constrain by the market and the law (if enforced).
I think what really hurt the W3C was its obsession with "semantic web" features (RDF, XHTML 2, etc.) that nobody wanted and few people used.
They don’t dump it there. People from Malaysia are buying it.
I think most of us accept that democracy is imperfect. There’s a reason for the popularity of the quote that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

The main, perhaps only, advantage of democracy is that it is resilient. A dictatorship can easily decide to plant a ton of trees and shut down dirty factories. It can just as easily decide to dump toxic waste into the rivers and shoot anyone who complains. A benevolent dictatorship is much better than democracy, this is pretty widely accepted. It’s better until the dictator dies or is overthrown, then you don’t know what you’ll get.

To quote Scott Alexander, “If you remember nothing else about the superiority of democracies to other forms of government, remember the fact that in three years, we will have a change of leadership and almost no one is stocking up on canned goods to prepare for the inevitable civil war.”
The simple answer is that San Diego has a great amount of Sun exposure, not every state does.

Also, you may be on to something with smaller distributions of power generation, but know that a large amount of solar fields are owned by utilities and this may be happening already to some degree.
If they're anything like the UK parliament (which I would expect), they do actually have the power of arrest.
> The prime numbers would also be irreducible if there weren't mathematicians, though.

This is a lot more philosophically fraught. If you believe that mathematical entities exist in some acausal, nonphysical realm separate from the activity of beings doing math, you need to explain how those beings can access them. If you take Brouwer’s position that mathematics is the free languageless creation of the mind, then it’s no longer true that prime numbers would be irreducible if not for mathematicians.
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Well you can, permaculture advocates do that but it's not viable for industrial agriculture yet, if ever.

Of course, by random I mean specific crops chosen for their compability to each other...

[0] https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/permaculture/permaculture-... (I really like that image of corns, beans, and squash together from traditional Mesoamerican farming)
I agree in general terms, but the solution would be to pass stricter laws requiring more benefits to full-time workers. These contractors are full-time workers, they're just full-time workers of staffing firms that contract with Google and that themselves don't have benefits that are nearly as good. So either require them to offer better benefits, or preferably, decouple benefits from employment entirely. Everyone should get healthcare, retirement accounts, etc.; it shouldn't be tied to your employer.

It's unreasonable to expect one company to make big strides in this area when all it does it put them at a competitive disadvantage to their peers. Google is already mandating a $15/hour minimum wage on all contracted-out workers, plus some minimums for sick days, which is much better than most other companies (which tend not to have requirements on contracted out employees in their contracts with staffing firms at all).
Yes I agree, concerning that I have been following this debate for a couple of years now. And you just don't find independent studies that claim that meat is healthy.

The WHO and similar organizations are extremely conservative, so if they adopted this stance concerning meat its because there was some solid science to back it up.

I mean, they knew how people would react, and probably delayed this recommendation for a long time.

Every credible study that I see coming out, they all point in the same direction.

Check Dr Fhurman books, he is not vegan and even gives non-vegan recipes in his books. He is looking for the best human diet from a point of view of longevity and health, without ethical claims.

Here is his current food pyramid, he recommends less than 10% of calories from animal products https://www.drfuhrman.com/get-started/eat-to-live-blog/90/dr...
I've spent time in Bangkok for several weeks now, and although it seems like it is safe to drink, I've talked to a lot of locals that are buying bottled water too.

Also, the smell of chlorine, when you turn the tap on, is enough for me not wanting to try it.
I have heard that APAP is better than CPAP.
Wishful dreaming. Bad habits never die.
But what do you do with our personal information entered?
Because there's no site (that I know of) that organizes books this way so you really can't browse related titles like you used to be able to. In the library shelves, you might find books which were related to what you searched -- even though their titles might not make that obvious.
I miss blind, dumb enthusiasm for new tech
That is the problem with metrics. Once there is a metric, a grade or a citation count or an impact factor, people will use it for doing comparisons.

For example in my home country, a relatively big EU member, CS and other technical schools used to give pretty poor grades. Each year, the best CS student among all schools would graduate with a GPA only slightly over 3 (B).

If you applied to a PhD program say at MIT or Cambridge, this would put you in a pretty bad position unless the committee had a lot of insight on local grading policies or you had exceptional achievements to compensate. Not fun.
I actually don’t think it sucks for us. We’re better equipped to recycle or properly dispose of the waste. It will definitely cost more but I think it’s something that most people are willing to accept.

Even now I’m hesitant to put things like plastic bags and straws into the recycling rather than trash. Only by placing it in the trash can I be more sure it doesn’t end up floating near some reef.
This is what Google is counting on, former Mozilla exec has a strong take on Google's constant use of "Oops": https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

To me, this story (and the previous ones about all of the other Google apps breaking for new Edge, despite being Chromium, and not an issue for almost any other company on the web), is going to show Microsoft what happens when they get in bed with a scorpion.

Switching to Google technologies is almost always a mistake.
malaysian recyclers, as far as i know, were fairly profitable despite paying a much lower rate compared to chinese recyclers. there are companies out there squeezing a fortune out of rubbish. the visual impact on the landscape is notable, although not much more can be said about the sime-darby fields of palm trees and container housing that dominate the rest of the rural countryside.

while i feel bad for them, the reality of business in malaysia is that you are at the mercy of politicians and their policies. these change like the squalls at sea.
Terence Parr's 'bookish' is worth a look too, for those wanting to stick to markdown + embedded LaTeX

https://github.com/parrt/bookish
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Would this waste have been moved to Sequoia Mountain had Obama not torpedoed it to get support from Harry Reid?
"They are already here among us – they just call themselves Hungarians."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
In many cases, store it in concrete casks on site.

Google the fuel pellets used and understand that the waste from refueling is actually quite small.
Next time you have a cold, I recommend sleeping all day. It's worked great for me!
Could you try the faulty operation and see if it failed?
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If nothing else it is symbolic gesture. Other countries are watching Facebook's behaviour. (It's also worth noting that they aren't merely being asked to meet with Canada, but an international committee of which a number of nations are a part, and whose combined populations are roughly half a billion people.)
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No personal data is captured or stored. The form fields are pure front-end (VueJS), immediately outputting the values you enter into the preview box. There is no backend that stores anything. The only tracker currently installed is GA, which doesn't capture inputs either.